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YouTube's parent company, is facing a landmark claim over the use of children's data in the UK.", "The group of about 50 young people left the beach in St Andrews when asked to by police officers.", "Firms face challenges preparing for a potential no-deal Brexit because of debt dealing with Covid-19, say leaders.", "The head of the Trades Union Congress is warning that time is running out to prevent job losses.", "Taoiseach Micheál Martin cautioned the UK government over \"playing politics\" with negotiations.", "Lewis Hamilton takes his 90th career victory by beating Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in a chaotic, incident-strewn Tuscan Grand Prix.", "A new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving is also being proposed under new legislation.", "Mohamed Salah completes his hat-trick with a late penalty as Premier League champions Liverpool just about see off Leeds on their long-awaited return.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday.", "The find shows the wealth of the Iceni tribe in the centuries after Boudicca's rebellion.", "Video of the incident shows a figure approach their vehicle, before opening fire and running away.", "Manchester United's Mason Greenwood says it was \"poor judgement\" to inhale nitrous oxide, after \"historical pictures\" of him doing so were published by the Sun.", "Bosses of firms including Deliveroo call on Boris Johnson to extend the commercial rent moratorium.", "The new owner of the Cambridge-based chip designer has promised to keep its headquarters in the UK.", "England claim an astonishing 24-run victory as Australia crumble in the second one-day international at Old Trafford.", "Naomi Osaka fights back against Victoria Azarenka in a gripping US Open final to claim her third Grand Slam title with a 1-6 6-3 6-3 victory.", "A man, 19, is issued with a fixed penalty notice after allowing more than 50 people into his home.", "The British-Iranian woman was expecting fresh charges in court 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"Demonstrators say a government-selected board will ruin the autonomy of a top arts university.", "Queues for the beach and free drinks from struggling restaurants - what are holidays like now?", "Novak Djokovic apologises for hitting a line judge with a ball at the US Open, saying he is \"extremely sorry for creating her such stress\".", "The spate of stabbings in the city centre has sparked a massive police manhunt.", "Owner AB Foods says the High Street chain's sales since reopening have been stronger than expected.", "New travel restrictions sow confusion as Wales and Scotland differ from England and Northern Ireland.", "The venues have 48 hours to comply with Covid guidelines or risk being ordered to close.", "The government says returning travellers can be treated differently from those from the mainland.", "The vice-president of the IOC said the Tokyo Olympics would be the \"Games that conquered Covid\".", "A 27-year-old man is arrested in the early hours in the Selly Oak suburb of the city.", "The weekly mass participation Parkrun events are set to resume England by the end of October.", "With 4.2 million infections, India is now only second to the United States.", "Founder Reed Hastings says working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder.", "Jacob Billington, 23, dies and seven others are injured in city centre attacks.", "Pierre Gasly takes a stunning upset win in the Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team in one of the most remarkable races in history.", "India's largest rapid transport system resumes services even as case numbers increase.", "Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood are to leave the England camp after breaking Covid-19 quarantine guidelines in Iceland, says manager Gareth Southgate.", "Call for action amid claims first-time buyers in the Hebrides and Skye can no longer afford properties there.", "Staff at Burton's Biscuits' Edinburgh plant, which also makes Wagon Wheels, are threatening strikes.", "About 30 horses have been attacked in France in recent months, prompting public outcry.", "More than 1.1 million people are affected by the measures after the inclusion of two more areas.", "A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the shooting of the Year 11 student.", "The first minister says a continued rise in coronavirus cases in Scotland must be taken \"really seriously\".", "India, which has been adding record daily totals, now has the world's second-highest tally.", "Train operators bring back 90% of pre-Covid service but safety measures mean a different look.", "Barristers warn thousands may wait until 2022 for justice despite a pledge to speed up the Crown Courts.", "EU diplomats wake up with a sore head after a number of political grenades from Westminster.", "Ethan Peters, also known as Ethan Is Supreme, was a makeup influencer and YouTuber from the US.", "Jacob Billington's family say he was \"such a special person\" and they are \"devastated by his loss\".", "Kieran Amos \"ballooned\" to 21st before a weight loss challenge and had not played for seven years.", "Restrictions on homes visits are extended to cover people living in Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire.", "The 49-year-old faces 18 charges, including an alleged plot to hack computers and obtain US documents.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning.", "It comes after he and the Duchess of Sussex agreed a production deal with media company Netflix.", "Kevin Hollinrake wrote on social media it was a \"parent's job to feed their children\".", "England's deputy chief medical officer says the UK must start taking Covid-19 \"seriously again\".", "Lord Frost says there is \"still time\" to do a trade deal with the bloc as the latest talks begin.", "Colleagues, mourners and well-wishers pay their respects to a police officer shot dead in Croydon.", "Maj Robert Campbell says he has \"finally been exonerated\" after 17 years of repeated investigations.", "Public borrowing hit £35.9bn last month as the pandemic forces the government to borrow more money.", "Tariffs could add £3bn to the cost of importing food and drink from the EU, a leading retail body warns.", "Three times as many children under nine were tested in early September as in the previous two weeks.", "Scotland's first minister writes to Boris Johnson saying further action is needed urgently.", "Margot Dukes-Eddy dived into the water to save her husband \"without hesitation\", police say.", "The fatal shooting of a police officer at the Croydon Custody Centre has left colleagues stunned.", "The star's soul-searching, self-titled album is named the best British record of the past 12 months.", "Lord Wolfson says hundreds of thousands of jobs may not survive in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.", "The new jobs support scheme is \"a fraction of what we have seen\", writes the BBC's Faisal Islam.", "The pop star says he deleted his account after \"hateful videos\" affected his mental health.", "The impact of lockdown on visitors to the Queen's official residences contributes to a fall in income.", "Climate change is behind the scale and impact of recent wildfires in the western US, scientists say.", "Academy leader Steve Chalke says the government must act before poor children suffer \"irrevocable damage\".", "British Asian weddings are traditionally lavish affairs that tend to have hundreds of guests.", "The long-serving sergeant was an \"inspiration to all who knew him\", says one colleague.", "Students should be able to cancel accommodation and study from home, says lecturers' union.", "Minister Matt Warman says memorials which \"teach us about the past\" should not be removed from view.", "The Bafta Film Awards will have an overhaul after this year's event had an all-white acting line-up.", "Students at a Manchester university said \"police and security were outside\" and morale was low.", "Met Commissioner Cressida Dick says all police \"are mourning a great loss\" after an officer was shot dead.", "Indecision over civil servants coming into the office has wasted time and goodwill, a union says.", "Every case is estimated to result in between 1.2 and 1.5 further infections, government estimates find.", "Local authorities sound alarm as restrictions are extended in several cities in England and Wales.", "The supermarket chain restricts sales of some ranges, including toilet rolls and disinfectants.", "The broadcaster will help launch rival GB News after 25 years at the heart of the BBC's political coverage.", "The broadcaster gains a million followers within five hours of joining the platform.", "It capitalised from lockdown but took no responsibility for those making its clothes, a report says.", "Caroline Nokes calls for extra support for the beauty sector and others with large female workforces.", "Jeffrey Plevey died when a derelict church collapsed in Cardiff in 2017.", "It is only the second vaccine to enter large scale trials in the UK and early signs suggest it can trigger an immune response.", "The bus tour employee used Kat Kingsley's personal details to contact her without good cause.", "City council leader Huw Thomas warns of restrictions on travel and households mixing.", "More officers are deployed this weekend to ensure the 22:00 closure of hospitality law is upheld.", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick at New Scotland Yard.", "Alexandra Wilson says she was challenged by court staff who assumed she was there to face charges.", "Police said enforcement in the form of fixed penalty notices was only used as a \"last resort\".", "Two suspects are arrested after the incident near the scene of the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine.", "Magawa the African giant pouched rat has won a PDSA Gold Medal for his work detecting landmines.", "Latest figures show 6,634 new coronavirus cases across the UK, taking the total to 416,363.", "Students 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other drugs have been seized as well as guns.", "The PM resists taking more draconian steps against coronavirus - at least for now.", "China's surprise announcement of a long-term goal to curb emissions boosts UN climate talks.", "The prime minister says coronavirus is \"the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime\".", "Leyton Orient's chairman says they \"can't be punished\" after their EFL Cup tie against Tottenham was called off because of Covid-19 cases.", "Deaths remain low - but government advisers warn they are set to rise again.", "A round up of reaction to Wales' new coronavirus rules announced by the first minister.", "Drivers and unions raise concerns about a lack of social distancing on school services.", "The British Geological Survey says there was a 3.0-magnitude tremor followed by a 2.1-magnitude one.", "Boris Johnson calls for unity in a TV address but says too many people have breached the rules.", "One in four people in the UK is currently subject to local interventions to prevent the spread of Covid.", "Additional measures will \"almost certainly\" be announced in the next 48 hours, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says.", "Some 93 of its properties have such connections, a new report commissioned by the charity shows.", "President Trump blames China for the Covid-19 outbreak amid warnings of a Cold War between the two.", "More than 100 sports bodies write to the prime minister to ask for emergency funding amid the Covid-19 crisis, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\".", "The Belfast-born author is best known for the children's classic book about two nutbrown hares.", "An inspection at HMP Erlestoke found cases of violence and self-harm and bad discipline being rewarded.", "The former PM argues the legislation will \"damage trust\", but ministers say it will protect the UK.", "Three funeral directors reflect on the human toll of the pandemic, as the US hits a milestone.", "Labour leader tells his party “it’s time to get serious about winning”.", "One in five species of maple is threatened in their natural habitats, an extinction study says.", "An earlier last orders in pubs and restaurants will be brought in and the visiting ban in the west of Scotland will be extended to all parts of the country.", "The US space agency (Nasa) formally outlines its $28bn plan to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024.", "The appetite inside the Conservative party for sweeping new Covid-19 restrictions has dimmed.", "People and businesses react to lockdown for Newport, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "School attendance figures for England show big rise in pupils sent home because of Covid-19 incidents.", "Sports are told not to expect fans to be able to return to watch live events in England until the end of March at the earliest.", "Gold from a refiner used by criminals to launder drug money has entered supply chains for smartphones and cars.", "City firms SocGen and Lloyd's of London also tell staff to stop coming into the office after new guidance.", "A barrister questions whether the retailer has any checks in place after spotting the racist hats.", "Ministers decide existing laws are adequate to help trans people have their gender legally recognised.", "The driver of the lorry which crashed into a house in Kidbrooke is pronounced dead at the scene.", "The new restrictions on gatherings have public support, the Cabinet Office minister insists.", "People are drinking more during the pandemic and addiction services may not cope, experts warn.", "The deal concludes a four-year investigation of the firm in the United States.", "The firm dismisses claims pubs are \"dangerous\" after some workers contract the virus after reopening.", "Motorists face a 59-mile (95km) diversion after the A83 is closed for the second time in six weeks.", "Big families react as they are told gatherings of more than six will be banned in England from Monday.", "A big chunk of ice breaks away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden.", "Roderick Walker was a passenger in a car pulled over for a broken rear light in Atlanta, Georgia.", "Frank Lampard says Chelsea \"have to have intentions to be up there\" with champions Liverpool after they begin their season with victory at Brighton.", "Bernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough on 21 July.", "The daily statistics show that 244 people tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours.", "At least 400 people are arrested, as the latest of several weeks of mass rallies takes place.", "Jo Malone London reshot a John Boyega advert he made for them with a Chinese actor for the Chinese market.", "Relatives share a \"moving\" personal insight into those who died in the Manchester bombing.", "Over 307,000 new cases are reported in 24 hours, with the biggest rises in India, the US and Brazil.", "Full PPE, 'red zones' and cleaning the room between patients are now part of everyday practice.", "More than 1.75m people are covered by the tougher lockdown restrictions in Glasgow and the surrounding area.", "The American database specialist says a tie-up plan has been submitted to the US government.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening.", "But a GPs' body responds, saying it is an \"insult\" to suggest they haven't been doing their jobs.", "Lewis Hamilton faces the possibility of an FIA investigation after he wore a T-shirt which displayed a message about the shooting of Breonna Taylor.", "The Labour leader will not speak in the Commons Brexit debate as he follows coronavirus guidelines.", "The Chain Home Tower at Great Baddow is the only one of its kind surviving in the British Isles.", "A consultant warns new rules and lockdowns are \"shutting the door after the horse has bolted\".", "An email exchange uncovered by the BBC reveals disharmony in the top ranks of decision makers.", "What Health Minister Vaughan Gething said at today's government briefing on the new restrictions.", "Stay 2m from the blowing of the shofar, the government advises UK Jews.", "The West Midlands car parts firm blames conditions in the automotive sector and Covid-19.", "He was driving a lorry on the M5 that crashed into another lorry that had stopped to protect a car.", "Don Fear became the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years.", "But Labour accuses PM of \"trashing\" the UK's international reputation as MPs debate post-Brexit bill.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The group of about 50 young people left the beach in St Andrews when asked to by police officers.", "Firms face challenges preparing for a potential no-deal Brexit because of debt dealing with Covid-19, say leaders.", "Google, YouTube's parent company, is facing a landmark claim over the use of children's data in the UK.", "The head of the Trades Union Congress is warning that time is running out to prevent job losses.", "Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Six will be the first musicals back in the West End in November.", "A new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving is also being proposed under new legislation.", "Scotland's first minister says she has \"very serious concerns\" about an apparent delay in processing tests.", "The new owner of the Cambridge-based chip designer has promised to keep its headquarters in the UK.", "Dominic Thiem clinches his first Grand Slam title after fighting back from two sets down to beat Alexander Zverev in the US Open final.", "England claim an astonishing 24-run victory as Australia crumble in the second one-day international at Old Trafford.", "The ship has been surveying energy drilling prospects in disputed waters, sparking a diplomatic row.", "MPs back the Internal Market Bill by 77 votes despite criticism it risks breaching international law.", "The Labour leader also warns of the \"scarring effect\" of \"mass unemployment\" on communities.", "The British Geological Survey says the 2.1-magnitude quake was felt just after midnight on Monday.", "Schools will face staff shortages and disruption unless Covid testing is improved, say head teachers.", "David Cameron says he has \"misgivings\" about the proposed law to override the withdrawal agreement.", "With interest in the possibility of life at Venus, there's an imperative to get more spacecraft to the planet.", "The head of the industry body is urging government to create new green jobs to lift productivity.", "Southampton's BOATS2020 and another show were expected to attract 20,000 visitors over 10 days.", "The leader of the House of Commons was absent from business questions on Thursday.", "Medical experts raise doubts about plans to have \"millions\" of coronavirus tests processed every day.", "Six-year-old Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq have been raising money to help people in Yemen.", "An inquiry hears how suicide bomber Salman Abedi discussed martyrdom in messages found by police.", "Drop plans to rewrite withdrawal agreement by end of month or risk scuppering trade deal, UK is told.", "After weeks trying to roll back measures, the 'rule of six' marks quite the change in tone.", "Some children in care are being groomed to sell drugs, the children’s commissioner for England says.", "British boxing legend Alan Minter, who won a world title and an Olympic bronze medal, dies at the age of 69.", "The EU is furious about the UK's latest Brexit move - but there is no chance of the government backing down.", "Only 8% of home tests in Wales were processed within a day in the final week of August.", "The parents of the 19-year-old are told prosecutors were \"actively considering\" a virtual trial.", "The pandemic has left a 43,000-backlog of defendants awaiting trial, with many on remand.", "Plans to reopen theatres and live music venues are pushed back to October after a rise in coronavirus cases.", "The firm's Maybelline brand has set up recycling points in shops including Tesco and Superdrug.", "The housing secretary says evictions will not be permitted over the festive period.", "Lawyers for Anne Sacoolas say the American was \"otherwise driving cautiously\".", "Serena Williams keeps alive her hopes of a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title by fighting back to beat Tsvetana Pironkova in the US Open quarter-finals.", "The Chinese UK ambassador's account liked an adult clip as well as posts critical of Beijing.", "Councils in two areas have issued the voluntary advice in a bid to avoid a local lockdown.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "More than 32,000 tonnes of the chemicals were approved for export by the UK in 2018, says Greenpeace.", "Storm Francis uncovers evidence of a further petrified forest off the coast of Cardigan Bay.", "Two health board areas in the south Wales valleys see a rise in Covid-19 hospital admissions.", "Plans for spectators to attend sporting events in England from 1 October will be reviewed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirms.", "The government publishes a bill which overwrites key parts of the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.", "Faithless musician and DJ Sister Bliss says the dormant dance music scene needs more protection.", "Restrictions to curb Covid-19 affect Belfast, Ballymena and parts of Glenavy, Lisburn and Crumlin.", "Travellers arriving in England from mainland Portugal must self-isolate for two weeks from Saturday.", "Pupils say they started screaming when the double-decker hit a railway bridge in Winchester.", "The company's director says he made a \"wrong\" assumption about what materials were approved for use.", "Shipping a coronavirus vaccine will be \"largest transport challenge ever\" says the airline industry.", "The government hopes to process millions of daily tests, but is criticised for not meeting demand sooner.", "Kellogg's redesigns the snackfood container that was dubbed the \"number one villain\" for recycling.", "The health secretary says 'inappropriate' use was making it harder for people to get tested.", "New guidance requires universities to do all they can to limit the risk of outbreaks among students.", "The exercise bike firm's revenues jumped 172% amid gym closures due to the pandemic.", "He started the soul band that had hits like Celebration and Jungle Boogie with his brother Robert.", "A Health and Safety Executive inspection found staff congregating around a desk at the Leeds office.", "The US secretary of state declines to say how the Trump administration will respond.", "The scheme should be targeted to avoid mass unemployment, the Treasury Select Committee says.", "BA has also reached the outline of a deal with the Unite union to end a bitter row over pay and job cuts.", "A rise in infection rates sees the city added to Public Heath England's coronavirus watchlist.", "The Sputnik V vaccine produced antibodies in patients taking part in early trials, the Lancet reports.", "Researchers say the \"Caliphate Cache\" is used to continually replenish extremist content on the net.", "Britain's Johanna Konta is knocked out of the US Open in three sets by Romanian Sorana Cirstea.", "A quadcopter was seen releasing small bags, believed to contain illegal drugs, over Tel Aviv, Israel.", "The pop star \"welcomes and appreciates the informed support of her many fans\", says her lawyer.", "Grocery chain the Co-op is opening 50 new stores and creating 1,000 new jobs this year", "Christopher Killick filmed Emily Hunt while she was naked and unconscious in a London hotel room.", "Most of the passengers onboard and waiting at the terminal returned to the mainland last night.", "Work on the controversial rail line formally starts on Friday, with Boris Johnson saying it will \"fire up growth\".", "England pull off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 international at the Ageas Bowl.", "New travel restrictions sow confusion as Wales and Scotland differ from England and Northern Ireland.", "It comes after specialists said a Novichok nerve agent was used on the Russian opposition figure.", "Travellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal and French Polynesia will have to isolate for 14 days.", "Some Covid-19 restrictions will ease next week in Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire.", "Ten wagons containing diesel derailed and spilled oil into the Loughor Estuary.", "Those travellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal or French Polynesia must now self-isolate.", "The paddle steamer was damaged as it collided with the pier at Brodick with more than 200 passengers on board.", "Nato cites \"proof beyond doubt\" that Mr Navalny was poisoned, but Russia has dismissed the claim.", "The transport secretary admits varying approaches to international travel restrictions are frustrating.", "Caerphilly has recorded 56 coronavirus cases over the past week, the highest total in Wales.", "TV presenter Emily Hartridge was thrown under a lorry and killed in the accident, a coroner says.", "Britain's Andy Murray is beaten in straight sets in the US Open second round by Felix Auger-Aliassime.", "The loss of an appeal by a man who filmed sex workers will have a wider impact, campaigners say.", "UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also claims adding Portugal to the self-isolation list did not take all data into account.", "Scottish Opera is beginning live performances again with a string of pop-up shows across the country.", "Songs that went viral on TikTok dominate the Top 10, alongside hits by Lady Gaga and Harry Styles.", "Lionel Messi says he is staying at Barcelona as it is \"impossible\" for any team to pay his release clause and he does not want to go to court.", "Police say they are investigating a crime in the city of Solingen and the mother is a suspect.", "The bodies of Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa were discovered at Zahid Younis's flat.", "Restaurants. pubs and cafes claimed £522m under the discount scheme in August, Treasury figures show.", "The former politician will join the likes of Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY on this year's show.", "The airline, which has just completed a rescue deal, says it has to make cuts in order to survive.", "The ex-Australian PM has faced criticism over past comments about women and LGBT people.", "Brett Savage, who had served in Afghanistan, was found dead at his home in Newtownards.", "Lead actor Robert Pattinson has tested positive for coronavirus, according to US media reports.", "Other experts say more research is needed now all children are back at school in England and Wales.", "Boris Johnson says testing travellers arriving in the UK would only identify 7% of coronavirus cases.", "Despite local outbreaks, household tests suggest the level of the virus was stable during August.", "Scientists say a positive coronavirus result does not guarantee that someone is infectious.", "The government tells Whitehall bosses to get more staff to come in, but unions say this focus is wrong.", "Hundreds of mammals will go extinct if we do not act now to address biodiversity loss, say scientists.", "Daniel Prude died in March after suffocating while in police custody.", "Dan Evans succumbs to Corentin Moutet in four sets as British interest in the US Open singles ends.", "About 200 people are evacuated from the area and residents say they heard \"two massive bangs\".", "The ex-PM said coronavirus vaccination records kept by government would help \"restore confidence\".", "Pret a Manager will allow customers to buy up to five drinks each day for a £20 monthly subscription.", "The County Fermanagh man is the first person in NI to be penalised under Covid-19 travel rules.", "Emily Hunt is seeking what is thought to be the UK's first crowdfunded private rape prosecution.", "A Council of Europe committee also wants to know how the UK intends to deal with other NI legacy cases.", "Former Undertones front man Feargal Sharkey hit out at Thames Water on Twitter.", "After Silvio Berlusconi tests positive for coronavirus he is taken to hospital for checks.", "Colleagues, mourners and well-wishers pay their respects to a police officer shot dead in Croydon.", "A quarter of people had vouchers that expired when shops were shut, a survey by Which? suggests.", "Students should be able to cancel accommodation and study from home, says lecturers' union.", "The head of the Confederation of British Industry urges a \"spirit of compromise\" as trade talks resume.", "An investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive.", "The PM will call on world leaders to set aside differences as he sets out plans to prevent future pandemics.", "Protesters and counter-protesters demonstrate outside a centre which could house 230 asylum seekers.", "Sir David presented Prince George with a fossilised shark tooth at a screening of his new programme.", "Thousands of students are made to isolate following outbreaks, amid a \"shambolic\" return to university.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the UK will give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme.", "The story of the chemist and the crofter who tackled some of Britain's toughest climbing.", "The bus tour employee used Kat Kingsley's personal details to contact her without good cause.", "A deputy went down the stairs head first trying to catch the defendant as he made a run for it.", "Students at a Manchester university said \"police and security were outside\" and morale was low.", "Three times as many children under nine were tested in early September as in the previous two weeks.", "You might have heard of drive-in cinemas, but how about watching opera from your car?", "Llanelli has had 85 Covid cases in a week, compared to 24 across the rest of Carmarthenshire.", "Met Commissioner Cressida Dick says all police \"are mourning a great loss\" after an officer was shot dead.", "Officers were called to the University of Edinburgh's main halls of residence complex on Friday.", "It means 1.5m people - almost half of Wales' population - are now living under tighter restrictions.", "More tributes are paid to Sgt Matiu Ratana as police continue their investigation into his death.", "More officers are deployed this weekend to ensure the 22:00 closure of hospitality law is upheld.", "Every case is estimated to result in between 1.2 and 1.5 further infections, government estimates find.", "Many users in England who booked a test outside of the app had been unable to share a positive test result.", "Students at Manchester Metropolitan University are isolating after more than 100 tested positive for Covid-19.", "The 14-year-old killed herself in 2017 after viewing graphic images on social media.", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick at New Scotland Yard.", "Problems getting to an away game were down to a safety device on the club's bus, the head coach says.", "It comes as the number of new cases in the UK topped 6,000 for the fourth consecutive day.", "A song about the ex-MP has topped the best-seller charts ahead of Kylie Minogue and Bruce Springsteen.", "Tributes are paid to the \"much-loved\" and \"talented officer\" who was killed in a London custody centre.", "The broadcaster gains a million followers within five hours of joining the platform.", "Police said enforcement in the form of fixed penalty notices was only used as a \"last resort\".", "At least three protesters and nine officers are injured in London, while 16 people are arrested.", "The airline disputes the claims made in a leaked recording obtained by the BBC.", "The Scottish government confirms 714 more people have tested positive in the past 24 hours.", "A Scottish sailor's boat is badly damaged after being targeted by orcas off the coast of Spain.", "Academy leader Steve Chalke says the government must act before poor children suffer \"irrevocable damage\".", "The British perfumer says removing actor John Boyega from his own advert was \"utterly despicable\".", "The amount of retail sales continued to climb in August, but some sectors are still struggling.", "Control of certain struggling franchises could be handed back to the government, sources say.", "A man is found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence for sending the fruit to a black man.", "NI Health Minister Robin Swann says the Belfast-born artist should sing songs about saving lives.", "One of Wales' biggest schools sends home most of its sixth form.", "The European Union's highest court rules in favour of the footballer after a nine-year legal battle.", "Prosecutors say Jerry Harris enticed an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 11 and 18 September", "Woman dies being transferred from German hospital which is hit by hackers.", "Faced with a large drop, some people re-entered the smoke-filled cabin to find another escape route.", "The device is already being used in some hospitals to identify Covid patients.", "No further action will be taken against the boyfriend of Louella Fletcher-Michie, the CPS says.", "\"Saying thank you to all Admiral staff in this way is the right thing to do,\" says David Stevens.", "Mayor Sadiq Khan says \"we simply can't afford to have numbers of people congregating\".", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Early pub closures and restrictions on households mixing came into force at midnight.", "The first minister says some \"hard but necessary\" decisions will need to be taken in the coming days.", "The musician attacks the government and \"scientists making up crooked facts\" in his latest music.", "Public health official warns older people are being infected in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf.", "Some 62% reported commuting to work last week, according to the Office for National Statistics.", "But those coming from Slovenia and Guadeloupe to England and Scotland will now have to quarantine.", "Boris Johnson believes it is 'inevitable' that a second wave would reach the UK at some stage.", "His book was made into the hugely successful Oscar-winning 1994 film starring Tom Hanks.", "Schools in disadvantaged areas could be \"badly placed\" for funding, says Institute for Fiscal Studies.", "Torrential rains could bring damaging floods to the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia.", "St Andrews University's principal has asked students to stay in their rooms as much as possible this weekend.", "One victim was duped into sending nude photographs to someone she later found out was an adult.", "The government's winter plan says staff should watch to ensure visitors maintain social distancing.", "A judge says officers did not breach a woman's rights when they put her in clean, dry clothes.", "People from England are being directed to the centre in locked-down Rhondda Cynon Taf, an MP says.", "Scientists are warning about the consequences of vast swathes of ground thawing in Siberia.", "The department does not know what its £400m-a-year immigration enforcement unit achieves, MPs warn.", "German club Ripdorf stepped onto the pitch, kicked the ball away and then stood on the sidelines.", "People in the city have been warned to look out for symptoms if they visited certain pubs and bars.", "A rule change means about 100 more of those who served with British forces will be able to live in the UK.", "A few weeks of nationwide restrictions to slow a second coronavirus surge could be introduced.", "Adnan Ahmed was jailed last October for targeting young women in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The number of under-17s seeking Covid-19 tests has doubled, the head of NHS Test and Trace tells MPs.", "Canadian police said both front seats were fully reclined as the car drove at 150km/h.", "Woolton Picture House says the outpouring in response to its closure was \"beyond expectation\".", "The 2020 Ig Nobel prizes honour crocodilian vocalisations, narcissistic eyebrows and vibrating worms.", "The CDC caused controversy in August by saying that anyone without symptoms should not be tested.", "The human rights lawyer says she is \"dismayed\" by the UK being prepared to break international law.", "Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale nears a return to Tottenham after visit to the club's training ground.", "The actor's lawyer dismisses the charges as politically motivated at a court hearing in Los Angeles.", "A 15-year-old is charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.", "Kim Darroch quit his Washington post last year after being branded \"stupid\" by the US president.", "Salman Abedi was reported as acting suspiciously to police before the blast, an inquiry hears.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says three people who tested positive for the virus have died in the last 24 hours.", "Lord Frost says there is \"still time\" to do a trade deal with the bloc as the latest talks begin.", "England labour their way to an uninspiring Nations League draw in Denmark.", "The latest figures include the deaths of three more people who had tested positive - the highest since 30 June.", "The firm's director accuses the supplier of the material of misleading his company about its safety.", "Brandon Lewis says a new post-Brexit law will go against agreements in a \"specific and limited way\".", "Kirsty Coy-Martin says teaching her therapy dog, Scooter, to surf has helped her deal with PTSD.", "Doctors say people are having to travel for miles to get tests.", "Maria Kolesnikova was driven by officials to the border with Ukraine but managed to halt her expulsion.", "It would be the first time in 45 years shots were fired, breaking an agreement barring firearm use.", "A Freedom of Information request shows a sixfold increase in the number of firms planning job cuts.", "The health secretary is among those warning the virus is on the increase, especially amongst the young.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The film credits thank a Chinese state agency linked to camps where human rights abuses are alleged", "A director of the government's test and trace scheme in England says lab capacity is the issue.", "The famous composer and theatre owner says socially distanced audiences are not financially viable.", "Trump accuses Biden of \"reckless rhetoric\" while the Democrat questions whether the president can be trusted.", "The government says it's taking a sharp rise in confirmed cases \"extremely seriously\".", "The government says returning travellers can be treated differently from those from the mainland.", "The supermarkets say the staff are needed as demand for online shopping continues to rise.", "The weekly mass participation Parkrun events are set to resume England by the end of October.", "Tracy Higginbottom says she has never experienced such aggression in more than 20 years of service.", "All hospitality venues will close between 22:00 BST and 05:00 in the Greater Manchester town.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The fires have burned through more than two million acres in California so far this year, fire officials say.", "England forward Mason Greenwood says he \"only has himself to blame\" after being dropped for breaching Covid-19 guidelines in Iceland.", "Westminster says it is replacing EU funds but Welsh ministers accuse it of \"stealing powers\".", "Students are finding out their course this term will be online but many have already paid for rent.", "There's deep concern in Number 10 that the statistics could flag the start of a second wave.", "The airline expects to fly fewer passengers because it says consumer confidence has been dented.", "What the health minister said at the weekly Covid briefing about the first local lockdown in Wales.", "More than 1.1 million people are affected by the measures after the inclusion of two more areas.", "A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the shooting of the Year 11 student.", "Seven patients remain \"very unwell\" at Craigavon Area Hospital, with more than 50 staff self-isolating.", "The Merseyside salon said masks were not worn by staff as \"you can't catch what doesn't exist\".", "Fifty-seven experts write a letter to the health minister raising their worries about patient safety.", "Harry Harvey spent three nights wild camping after getting lost in the Yorkshire Dales on Saturday.", "Jacob Billington's family say he was \"such a special person\" and they are \"devastated by his loss\".", "The tech giant said its dispute with the firm behind the game was a \"basic disagreement over money\".", "The Manchester attack inquiry hears victims were taken from the venue on makeshift stretchers.", "Police say a \"long-barrelled\" gun was recovered in connection with the shooting of a schoolboy.", "HMRC is reviewing 27,000 \"high risk\" cases that could have been paid out wrongly or fraudulently.", "Only allowing takeaways and curtailing nightlife are among the new rules for the Greater Manchester town.", "It comes after he and the Duchess of Sussex agreed a production deal with media company Netflix.", "Zephaniah McLeod is charged with the murder of 23-year-old Jacob Billington.", "England's deputy chief medical officer says the UK must start taking Covid-19 \"seriously again\".", "The government faces a backlash from senior Tories after admitting the bill breaks international law.", "The British Geological Survey says a 3.3 magnitude quake hits the Leighton Buzzard area.", "Sir Jonathan Jones is understood to have been unhappy with plans which could modify the UK's Brexit deal.", "The British-Iranian woman is nearing the end of her five-year jail sentence for spying, which she denies.", "Former Roadchef workers and their families have been fighting for their money for 25 years.", "A quadcopter was seen releasing small bags, believed to contain illegal drugs, over Tel Aviv, Israel.", "Raheem Sterling scores a 90th-minute penalty as 10-man England earn a late Nations League win at Iceland, who also finish the game a man down.", "The firm, which manages London's congestion charge, is attempting to simplify its business.", "England pull off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 international at the Ageas Bowl.", "Groups wanting tighter immigration restrictions and those supporting migrants gather in Dover.", "Alain Cocq wanted to start Facebook livestreaming his final days on Saturday morning.", "Capacity levels at the venue had been \"continually exceeded\" according to the council.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Those travellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal or French Polynesia must now self-isolate.", "The vehicle belonging to goalkeeper Allan McGregor was deliberately set on fire whilst parked on his driveway.", "A hospital in Jerusalem is recruiting recovered Covid-19 patients to visit people who would otherwise be in isolation.", "The restaurant on Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow is shut for two weeks after the outbreak of Covid-19.", "Local businesses and jobs will suffer if workers do not return to the office, says the head of the CBI.", "The president says any training sessions for government staff on \"white privilege\" are propaganda.", "The ex-Australian PM has faced criticism over past comments about women and LGBT people.", "Other experts say more research is needed now all children are back at school in England and Wales.", "Despite local outbreaks, household tests suggest the level of the virus was stable during August.", "Protesters opposed to Covid restrictions gather in Edinburgh as figures show the highest weekly rise in cases since May.", "People are asked to reduce public transport use and avoid mixing outside their social bubble.", "The John Cage piece, As Slow As Possible, began 19 years ago and is to last 639 years.", "Scientists say a positive coronavirus result does not guarantee that someone is infectious.", "Eighty people are arrested in protests targeting printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch.", "The ex-Australian PM says he is \"only too keen\" to help the UK, after criticism of his appointment.", "A Covid test centre opens following a spike in cases in a county, as care homes close to visitors.", "The government tells Whitehall bosses to get more staff to come in, but unions say this focus is wrong.", "Hundreds of mammals will go extinct if we do not act now to address biodiversity loss, say scientists.", "Daniel Prude died in March after suffocating while in police custody.", "Dan Evans succumbs to Corentin Moutet in four sets as British interest in the US Open singles ends.", "Figures show the number of newly detected coronavirus infections is highest among young adults.", "A top Bank of England official casts doubt on government moves to get workers back to the office faster.", "Last weekend seven £10,000 fines were handed out to the organisers of illegal raves in Leeds.", "Protests are held for a seventh straight weekend, days after Alexander Lukashenko's secret inauguration.", "Students should be able to cancel accommodation and study from home, says lecturers' union.", "Prince Charles led a national service days after the death of Sgt Matiu Ratana in south London.", "The former quarterback and his wife stopped a home intruder from kidnapping their grandchild.", "Shadow justice secretary David Lammy says drinkers are likely to continue their night together at home.", "Customs officials said hospital material and plastic was found in the shipment, in breach of rules.", "The head of the Confederation of British Industry urges a \"spirit of compromise\" as trade talks resume.", "New grants are being offered to businesses as three more counties are placed under local lockdown measures.", "An investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive.", "Andy Murray loses in straight sets to Stan Wawrinka in the French Open first round, following Dan Evans out of the tournament.", "John Swinney says it is appropriate to look at what would happen if the May vote is \"not practical\".", "Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan will all have extra restrictions imposed on Monday.", "Sir David presented Prince George with a fossilised shark tooth at a screening of his new programme.", "Thousands of students are made to isolate following outbreaks, amid a \"shambolic\" return to university.", "Manny Pacquiao's special assistant says that the eight-weight world champion hopes to fight Conor McGregor in 2021.", "At least 150 specialists will target child sexual abuse, fraud, and the sharing of indecent images.", "Students at a Manchester university said \"police and security were outside\" and morale was low.", "Llanelli has had 85 Covid cases in a week, compared to 24 across the rest of Carmarthenshire.", "First-year halls were known to be at risk and outbreaks were \"inevitable\", top scientist says.", "They are a response to the Covid crisis and can deal with up to 500 people each day.", "A statue will honour Solitude, a black woman involved in a 1802 uprising in the French West Indies.", "Officers were called to the University of Edinburgh's main halls of residence complex on Friday.", "Labour hints it could back Conservatives trying to increase MP scrutiny over lockdown restrictions.", "It means 1.5m people - almost half of Wales' population - are now living under tighter restrictions.", "A look back on more than 50 years of BBC Wales broadcasting from Llandaff.", "More tributes are paid to Sgt Matiu Ratana as police continue their investigation into his death.", "Andy Murray says he will not \"just brush aside\" a comprehensive defeat by Stan Wawrinka in the French Open first round.", "Students at Manchester Metropolitan University are isolating after more than 100 tested positive for Covid-19.", "Jamie Vardy's hat-trick inspires visitors Leicester City to a stunning 5-2 victory over Manchester City at Etihad Stadium.", "Louis De Zoysa remains critically ill in hospital after the fatal shooting of Sgt Matiu Ratana.", "Problems getting to an away game were down to a safety device on the club's bus, the head coach says.", "A deal for the Premier League to support lower-league clubs during the coronavirus pandemic \"could be reached this week\", says Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden.", "It comes as the number of new cases in the UK topped 6,000 for the fourth consecutive day.", "Countries must act now to reverse biodiversity loss, Boris Johnson tells a UN event.", "The coronavirus pandemic means it is a \"particularly difficult time to be young\", says Prince Charles.", "Silvana Tenreyro said evidence from countries that have introduced the policy was “encouraging”.", "World champion Josh Taylor knocks out Apinun Khongsong in an incredible first round to defend his WBA and IBF light welterweight titles.", "At least three protesters and nine officers are injured in London, while 16 people are arrested.", "The coronavirus crisis is changing the dynamic in the UK housing market, researchers suggest.", "People in Lake Jackson, Texas, are urged to take precautionary measures amid contamination concerns.", "Plastic pollution experts say the pandemic is making it hard for people to cut down on single use plastics.", "The award-winning actress and mother of two is believed to have taken her own life at the age of 40.", "Southampton's BOATS2020 and another show were expected to attract 20,000 visitors over 10 days.", "Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is seen leaving court after a pre-trial hearing.", "Households in the city and nearby Sandwell and Solihull are banned from mixing as cases rise.", "The naturalist warns that a million species are at risk but says it is not too late to save them.", "Drop plans to rewrite withdrawal agreement by end of month or risk scuppering trade deal, UK is told.", "Jean-Sébastien Jacques and other top executives will step down after the miner blew up sacred sites.", "The 26-year-old's aunt says she is worried about a \"cover-up\" in the case of her killing by police.", "A BBC investigation finds scammers on social media claiming to sell full driving licences.", "The EU is furious about the UK's latest Brexit move - but there is no chance of the government backing down.", "The actor and wrestler appeared in Johnny Knoxville's 2010 reality comedy film Jackass 3D.", "Donald Fear is the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years.", "Matt Hancock describes it as a \"defining moment\" in the effort to control the spread of Covid-19.", "How the first minister explained the reasons for new rules on face masks and indoor gatherings.", "The pandemic has left a 43,000-backlog of defendants awaiting trial, with many on remand.", "The housing secretary says evictions will not be permitted over the festive period.", "After years of denial, former King Albert accepted he was the father of artist Delphine Boël.", "Lawyers for Anne Sacoolas say the American was \"otherwise driving cautiously\".", "The PM calls for no return to \"squabbling\", but the EU ramps up opposition to UK government plans.", "Last-minute agreements have been reached before, but right now it feels like a long shot.", "The US president and his political rival both visit the Flight 93 memorial, but at different times.", "More than 1.75 million people in the west of Scotland are now covered by the curbs on home visits.", "It comes as the reproduction number, or R value, of coronavirus transmission across the UK rises above 1.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The tech firms are ramping up measures ahead of the US elections to block false or misleading content.", "Some male voice choirs fear they will never sing again amid safety concerns and social distancing.", "Drone footage shows streets of houses destroyed by fires in the US state of Oregon.", "The 37-year-old man was detained in Cookstown after the footage was shared on social media.", "There are now worrying signs of infections in older as well as younger people, officials say.", "Eighteen people have been jailed for their part in a group that flooded north Wales with drugs.", "Police say the alleged attack happened in a villa during a party in southern Italy.", "But Ben Wallace admits a security review will mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment.", "A scammer explains to Kafui Okpattah how the fake licence scheme works.", "Scientists are investigating the role played by schoolchildren in spreading the virus.", "Kellogg's redesigns the snackfood container that was dubbed the \"number one villain\" for recycling.", "Hajar Al Fahad learned the victim was wealthy after striking up a conversation with her on a train.", "The exercise bike firm's revenues jumped 172% amid gym closures due to the pandemic.", "A 30-year-old man from Newquay is arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a police officer.", "A Health and Safety Executive inspection found staff congregating around a desk at the Leeds office.", "The scheme should be targeted to avoid mass unemployment, the Treasury Select Committee says.", "Serbia's president was furious over a Facebook post that likened him to Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.", "Symbolic trade deal will cover 99% of UK exports to Japan but boost economy by just 0.07%.", "One ex-minister says it was \"outrageous\" new rules were made \"without consultation\" of Parliament.", "Grants will promote ideas to detect, characterise and track the millions of objects moving overhead.", "The defendants were paid $22,000 by one victim for the illegal journey to Britain, state media report.", "Families share a personal insight into the lives of those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.", "Charlie Elphicke, the ex-Tory MP for Dover, was convicted of sexually assaulting two women.", "One centre told people with appointments to come back later as there were no tests available.", "People are drinking more during the pandemic and addiction services may not cope, experts warn.", "The deal concludes a four-year investigation of the firm in the United States.", "Japan's Hitachi is suspending work on the Wylfa Newydd plant in Wales amid concerns over rising costs.", "Despite cancelled orders, the online grocer says its move to delivering M&S goods is going well.", "An advert asking for information on the star's ex-husband was shown during Dancing With The Stars.", "He was not told for nearly four weeks his stalker - a former patient - had been freed from custody.", "The health worker was fatally shot by police, leading to widespread protests against police violence.", "The tech firm also showed off new smartwatches with blood-oxygen sensors and new iPads.", "Junior staff told what to do if they are uncomfortable with ministers' demands, BBC Newsnight learns.", "Frank Lampard says Chelsea \"have to have intentions to be up there\" with champions Liverpool after they begin their season with victory at Brighton.", "The justice secretary hails changes to criminal tariffs as a \"fundamental shift\" to punish offenders.", "Overwhelming demand has meant many workers - including NHS staff - have had to go without a test.", "All the adults in the Coombes family from Liverpool have lost jobs due to coronavirus.", "Jo Malone London reshot a John Boyega advert he made for them with a Chinese actor for the Chinese market.", "Stephen Donnelly reported feeling unwell, leading to disruption at the Irish parliament.", "After a court case awarded home carers more than £100,000, a union has called for intervention.", "Ukraine's coronavirus restrictions thwart a pilgrimage of Hasidic Jews, with hundreds stuck.", "Dozens of celebrities announce they will freeze their accounts to protest against hate speech.", "The scheme should be targeted to avoid mass unemployment, the Treasury Select Committee says.", "A 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman are arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.", "Stay 2m from the blowing of the shofar, the government advises UK Jews.", "Campaigners say women born in the 1950s have been treated unfairly by rapid pension age changes.", "The West Midlands car parts firm blames conditions in the automotive sector and Covid-19.", "Don Fear became the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years.", "But Labour accuses PM of \"trashing\" the UK's international reputation as MPs debate post-Brexit bill.", "Plaid Cymru's request came ahead of an NHS plan on how to deal with coronavirus in the winter.", "The firm is pulling out of what would have been Wales' biggest energy project, a council says.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said delays in testing for the public are \"unacceptable\".", "The health secretary says testing policy will be updated to prioritise the most urgent cases.", "Most parents sent their children back to school but now Covid test shortages threaten attendance.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Official figures undercount the real numbers waiting for social housing by 500,000, a study claims.", "Ministers face a 'classic government problem' of supply and demand.", "Schools will face staff shortages and disruption unless Covid testing is improved, say head teachers.", "Travel restrictions have cut down maritime travel, bringing vulnerable dolphins back to the waters around Hong Kong.", "Even stopping to talk in the street could breach the rules, the home secretary says.", "The pop star is also co-writing the script with Oscar-winner Diablo Cody.", "The £13bn nuclear project on Anglesey was put on hold last year because of rising costs.", "Securing the future of energy: What happens next after the Wylfa decision?", "Some mobile testing units will be transferred to the Welsh NHS after issues with Lighthouse labs.", "The Labour leader also warns of the \"scarring effect\" of \"mass unemployment\" on communities.", "Many workers can expect a \"miserable Christmas\" without targeted support for employers, Unite says.", "MPs back the Internal Market Bill by 77 votes despite criticism it risks breaching international law.", "The sportswear giant has seen digital sales soar and says few customers will revert back to stores.", "\"Now is not the right time to outline long-term plans,\" the Treasury says.", "Governor Andrew Bailey suggests that some sectors may benefit from further targeted help.", "But the Labour leader says another \"divisive\" vote on Scotland's position in the near future is \"not needed\".", "Her career spanned eight decades and she charmed audiences in France and beyond.", "Liverpool v Arsenal on Monday is brought forward by 15 minutes, with all future midweek Premier League games to finish before the new UK pub curfew.", "Boris Johnson was questioned on coronavirus testing and the government's furlough scheme", "China's surprise announcement of a long-term goal to curb emissions boosts UN climate talks.", "A further 486 test positive for coronavirus - the biggest single day's number since mass testing began.", "Sean Ono Lennon will interview Sir Paul McCartney and his half-brother Julian Lennon for Radio 2.", "The prime minister says coronavirus is \"the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime\".", "Owners in areas under lockdown fear they will not be able to travel to a hibernation facility.", null, "Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds believed to be involved in a takeover bid of National League side, the club says.", "The appetite inside the Conservative party for sweeping new Covid-19 restrictions has dimmed.", "The government plans to create an internal border to prevent gridlock on the county's motorways.", "Products will be labelled Ben's Original and will no longer show the bow-tied black man on packaging.", "Olivia Campbell-Hardy's family say the 15-year-old lived for music and was a keen singer and dancer.", "President Trump blames China for the Covid-19 outbreak amid warnings of a Cold War between the two.", "Newsbeat followed young people from the moment life changed back in March.", "The government has clarified new guidelines designed to slow the spread of coronavirus.", "The idea is one of a number being trialled to help improve access to cash in remote areas.", "School attendance figures for England show big rise in pupils sent home because of Covid-19 incidents.", "Inspectors say CCTV footage appeared to show episodes of \"physical and emotional abuse\".", "The British Geological Survey says there was a 3.0-magnitude tremor followed by a 2.1-magnitude one.", "Dave Clark was an \"enormous character\" and \"the heart and soul\" of Richmond School.", "It's not just the flings with colleagues, BlackRock wants to know who you are dating outside the office too.", "All 500 residents at Parker House in Dundee are asked to self-isolate until contact tracing is completed.", "Stella Moris gave birth to the couple's two sons while he was in hiding in the Ecuadorean embassy.", "The cases involve 17 victims, the majority of whom were children when the offences occurred.", "The UK hospitality industry is \"losing thousands upon thousands\" of jobs, the founder of Pret a Manger warns.", "The Law Commission recommends treating misogyny like other forms of discrimination.", "Pascale Ferrier, a Canadian computer programmer, is also accused of mailing poison to Texas authorities.", "Instead of inventing a job support scheme for the pandemic, Germany already had one oven-ready.", "Plans for lower-cost batteries and a $25,000 car failed to excite investors and firm's value fell by $50bn.", "Three funeral directors reflect on the human toll of the pandemic, as the US hits a milestone.", "Watchdog rejects claims helicopters fanned the flames and led people to think they would be rescued.", "One police officer was charged but not directly for the death of the young black woman in her home.", "The trust that runs the venue did not want it to remain as a monument to slave trader Edward Colston.", "City firms SocGen and Lloyd's of London also tell staff to stop coming into the office after new guidance.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "Exactly six months since Scotland's first lockdown, tougher restrictions apply to every household in the country.", "A group of officers involved in a drugs raid in Barnet, north London, are taken to hospital.", "Ministers decide existing laws are adequate to help trans people have their gender legally recognised.", "Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were alarmed by questions over the controversial concept, emails show.", "The pair had been embracing near a seafront wall when they toppled on to the beach in Alicante.", "Six men, including two princes, are arrested as part of the country's latest anti-corruption drive.", "A major operation continues after the derailment spilled oil into a nearby estuary.", "Formal identification has yet to take place but police believe the body to be that of Seesha Dack.", "With the furlough support scheme now starting to unwind, many firms are poised for job cuts.", "Schools are preparing to reopen but uncertainty remains over breakfast clubs and after-school care.", "The foreign secretary dismisses claims money will be diverted to defence spending as \"tittle tattle\".", "The tech firm has created a way to spot computer-manipulated videos and photos.", "Workers renovating a fountain in the Belgian city of Verviers find the organ preserved in a casket.", "The festivals' organisers said it was their \"most epic plan yet\" to help ensure they can go ahead.", "First Minister Arlene Foster pays tribute to Samantha Gamble, from Loughbrickland, County Down.", "Education Minister Kirsty Williams says talks are taking place about 2021's timetable.", "Critics say the free Covid-19 programme is ineffective and could be misused for surveillance.", "Fourteen alleged accomplices to the deadly 2015 attack on the French magazine go on trial on Wednesday.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says residents in three of the country's biggest council areas will be unable to make indoor visits to other households.", "The tragedy comes amid rising anger in Mauritius at the government's handling of the July spill.", "Thousands more people in England will be encouraged to try the weight loss plan.", "Two carpet pythons found slithering about a house in Queensland, Australia, may have been love rivals.", "The popular video conferencing app has seen a 458% jump in customer growth compared with last year.", "The social media giant is preparing for a new law that would force it to pay publishers for news articles.", "The film, Boseman's last screened performance, is due out later this year.", "As schools in England return, researchers warn pupils had fallen behind by the end of last term.", "Emily Lewis was one of 12 people taken to hospital after a boat collided with a buoy.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Andy Murray stages a remarkable comeback to beat Yoshihito Nishioka in the US Open on his long-awaited return to Grand Slam singles tennis.", "More than 100,000 pupils are not in class - mostly for non-Covid reasons, official figures show.", "Richard Morris, the British High Commissioner to Fiji, was last seen running in Hampshire in May.", "Scotland's first minister voices concerns about a fresh increase in coronavirus cases.", "University students in Minsk were protesting against Belarus's long-time leader, Alexander Lukashenko.", "But Labour attacks a summer of \"chaos, incompetence and confusion\" for England's schools.", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce Prince William's former aide as cabinet secretary on Tuesday.", "The singer tells fans his wife has given birth to daughter Lyra, their first child.", "The former politician will join the likes of Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY on this year's show.", "Bosses in Bolton and Trafford say local measures should remain in place after a rise in cases.", "The 67-year-old, one of the biggest pornography stars, is accused of attacking a total of 17 women.", "Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford speaks to BBC Breakfast about forming a taskforce with some of the UK's biggest food brands in a bid to help reduce child food poverty.", "The internationally acclaimed DJ was facing charges of sexually assaulting a woman in Miami.", "Ministers say there has been a \"significant rise\" in Covid cases being brought into Scotland from Greece.", "The first minister reintroduces restrictions on visiting other households in the Glasgow area after an increase in coronavirus cases.", "Britain's Cameron Norrie fights back to beat ninth seed Diego Schwartzman, while Kyle Edmund also wins on day one of the US Open.", "The lone man had been trying to swim to Calais but was eventually found 500m off the coast of Dover.", "Protesters block a road near Parliament and are planning a \"walk of shame\" near the Bank of England.", "One reveller admitted being taken aback by the scale of the event, likening it to a festival.", "The move comes after 66 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.", "Ministers are deciding whether to reimpose measures for people returning from Portugal, sources say.", "The BBC newsreader and presenter visits the remains of the German POW camp where his grandfather was held.", "A 15-year-old is charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.", "Firm wants £20m to boost performance in global online games Fortnite, CS:GO, Rocket League and Fifa.", "England labour their way to an uninspiring Nations League draw in Denmark.", "Brandon Lewis says a new post-Brexit law will go against agreements in a \"specific and limited way\".", "Passengers have been told they had accepted vouchers for cancellations so cannot get their cash back.", "Emily Bendell argues men-only membership rules are a breach of equality legislation.", "Annie Besala Ekofo and her nephew Bervil Kalikaka-Ekofo were shot dead in East Finchley in 2016.", "Zephaniah McLeod is charged with the murder of 23-year-old Jacob Billington.", "The British Geological Survey says a 3.3 magnitude quake hits the Leighton Buzzard area.", "Harry Harvey spent three nights wild camping after getting lost in the Yorkshire Dales on Saturday.", "The number of people who died in Scotland at the height of the coronavirus outbreak was a third higher than usual.", "The problem is worsening for some and strategies have been too sluggish to keep up, a report warns.", "An inquiry hears how suicide bomber Salman Abedi discussed martyrdom in messages found by police.", "Golda Barton called Salt Lake City police to help with her 13-year-old son's mental health crisis.", "Doctors say people are having to travel for miles to get tests.", "Kirsty Coy-Martin says teaching her therapy dog, Scooter, to surf has helped her deal with PTSD.", "The parents of the 19-year-old are told prosecutors were \"actively considering\" a virtual trial.", "Surfer Nick Slater is the first victim of a fatal shark attack on the city's beaches in 62 years.", "The Chinese UK ambassador's account liked an adult clip as well as posts critical of Beijing.", "The prime minister said the public needs to remember to take preventative measures to stop the spread of Covid-19.", "Plans for spectators to attend sporting events in England from 1 October will be reviewed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirms.", "The government publishes a bill which overwrites key parts of the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.", "The Women's Prize for Fiction judges say Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet is an \"exceptional\" winner.", "EasyJet apologises after one of its pilots was filmed threatening to remove the passenger from the flight.", "The company's director says he made a \"wrong\" assumption about what materials were approved for use.", "Keeping Up With The Kardashians, which ran for 14 years, made the family global mega-stars.", "Scottish and UK ministers clash over whether Holyrood will gain or lose powers after Brexit.", "The Manchester attack inquiry hears victims were taken from the venue on makeshift stretchers.", "The government faces a backlash from senior Tories after admitting the bill breaks international law.", "Kim Darroch quit his Washington post last year after being branded \"stupid\" by the US president.", "After weeks trying to roll back measures, the 'rule of six' marks quite the change in tone.", "Some children in care are being groomed to sell drugs, the children’s commissioner for England says.", "Zephaniah McLeod, 27, is charged with murder and seven counts of attempted murder.", "Boris Johnson says it will be a \"giant collaborative effort\" and hopes it will be widespread by spring.", "Radio 1 Newsbeat speaks to young people after the health secretary's \"don't kill your gran\" warning.", "The app has been piloted at Network Rail and is now ready for use in other workplaces.", "Westminster says it is replacing EU funds but Welsh ministers accuse it of \"stealing powers\".", "There's deep concern in Number 10 that the statistics could flag the start of a second wave.", "The health secretary says 'inappropriate' use was making it harder for people to get tested.", "The tech giant said its dispute with the firm behind the game was a \"basic disagreement over money\".", "Boris Johnson has been pushed on problems with availability of coronavirus testing", "The British-Iranian woman in jail in Iran is facing a new trial as she nears the end of her sentence.", "Regarded as one of Britain's great post-war dramatists, he died of natural causes, his agent says.", "The tech giant has faced scrutiny over its UK tax bill, but says it pays \"all taxes required\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "A rise in cases has been blamed on house parties and people failing to social distance.", "Doncaster Racecourse is told by local health officials to stop spectators attending its St Leger meeting after Wednesday's opening day.", "The first minster leads the daily Scottish government coronavirus briefing.", "A union urges Labour's leader not to \"retreat\" on the environment and workers' rights promises.", "Tadej Pogacar is poised to win the Tour de France ahead of strong favourite Primoz Roglic in one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history.", "Deputy Leader Angela Rayner says thousands of staff deserve a \"real living wage\" to get by.", "A rule change means about 100 more of those who served with British forces will be able to live in the UK.", "Fraser Cameron calls the claims \"ridiculous\" and says he has no access to sensitive information.", "The US Supreme Court justice talks to the BBC about impeachment, impartiality and presidential tweets.", "The unidentified woman was caught while attempting to cross the US-Canada border and is awaiting charges.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Wales forward Gareth Bale returns to Tottenham from Spanish champions Real Madrid on a season-long loan.", "The measures are brought in due to concern over rising cases of Covid-19 in parts of south Wales.", "Indoor dining at restaurants is barred as part of new measures to curb the spread of the virus.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The foreign secretary was returning to London when the incident is reported to have happened.", "The actor's lawyer dismisses the charges as politically motivated at a court hearing in Los Angeles.", "People were going to A&E for virus testing as they could not get into test centres, a trust says.", "It is \"only by luck\" the passenger wasn't seriously injured or killed, police say.", "Thousands of devices are being distributed to vulnerable groups such as the elderly.", "A passenger is told she had accepted vouchers but BA's website did not list them as an option.", "The government's winter plan says staff should watch to ensure visitors maintain social distancing.", "US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer to women of all stripes.", "The ex-prime minister, who has died aged 91, famously led his Liberal Party to a big defeat in 1984.", "The CDC caused controversy in August by saying that anyone without symptoms should not be tested.", "The human rights lawyer says she is \"dismayed\" by the UK being prepared to break international law.", "First ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland call for a task force to help the industry.", "People enjoying the sun yards from No 10 say there's a feeling of resignation about new virus measures.", "Energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.", "According to Scottish government figures, a further three people who tested positive for the virus have died.", "A trader says he had one customer in four hours amid new Covid-19 measures in Newcastle.", "A US official says the move sends a \"signal to Russia\" to avoid \"provocative actions\" in Syria.", "A holidaymaker who did not self-isolate and went on a night out spread the virus, a councillor says.", "The city has been under pressure over the death of Daniel Prude, a black man restrained by police.", "Top seed Novak Djokovic is disqualified from his US Open fourth-round match after accidentally hitting a ball at a line judge.", "The incident happened in Sousse, where 38 people, mostly Britons, were killed in a 2015 attack.", "Raheem Sterling scores a 90th-minute penalty as 10-man England earn a late Nations League win at Iceland, who also finish the game a man down.", "Austrian Josef Koeberl lasted over two hours in a box of ice, wearing only swimming trunks.", "The largest daily number of positive tests since 22 May is \"concerning\", the health secretary says.", "The jury will decide whether to bring charges against officers who used a hood to restrain Daniel Prude.", "The spate of stabbings in the city centre has sparked a massive police manhunt.", "Ruling out masks, Sir Lindsay Hoyle calls for daily tests so packed Parliamentary scenes can return.", "Groups wanting tighter immigration restrictions and those supporting migrants gather in Dover.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Thousands of Americans have received unsolicited packets of seeds this year, mostly from China.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "A staff member has tested positive for Covid-19, prompting a class to self-isolate.", "Jacob Billington, 23, dies and seven others are injured in city centre attacks.", "Travel rules should be reviewed in light of \"dire warnings\" from the industry, the opposition says.", "Matthew Robson's quirky collection of presents is now worth £40,000.", "Pierre Gasly takes a stunning upset win in the Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team in one of the most remarkable races in history.", "Some of the people trapped at a reservoir in California's Sierra National Forest have suffered burns.", "A hospital in Jerusalem is recruiting recovered Covid-19 patients to visit people who would otherwise be in isolation.", "The parents of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack on their quest for answers.", "Jos Buttler guides England to a six-wicket victory over Australia in the second Twenty20 international to clinch the three-match series.", "Police believe victims were chosen at random and there is no suggestion the attacks are terror related.", "About 30 horses have been attacked in France in recent months, prompting public outcry.", "Protesters opposed to Covid restrictions gather in Edinburgh as figures show the highest weekly rise in cases since May.", "The John Cage piece, As Slow As Possible, began 19 years ago and is to last 639 years.", "Train operators bring back 90% of pre-Covid service but safety measures mean a different look.", "Video posted on social media shows emergency service vehicles, and parts of the city centre have now been cordoned off.", "People are asked to reduce public transport use and avoid mixing outside their social bubble.", "Eighty people are arrested in protests targeting printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch.", "Barristers warn thousands may wait until 2022 for justice despite a pledge to speed up the Crown Courts.", "Gunner Sgt Leonard Shrubsall's son Richard thought his father's plane had been lost over the sea.", "One person suffers life-threatening injuries in an attack in Bexley, south-east London, police say.", "Figures show the number of newly detected coronavirus infections is highest among young adults.", "Olympian Elinor Barker says some people are turned off by team sports like football and rugby.", "Britain will leave the transition arrangement in December \"come what may\", says David Frost.", "Kevin Hollinrake wrote on social media it was a \"parent's job to feed their children\".", "Maj Robert Campbell says he has \"finally been exonerated\" after 17 years of repeated investigations.", "Boris Johnson will urge leaders to \"look ahead to how we will rebuild\" after the global pandemic.", "A further 486 test positive for coronavirus - the biggest single day's number since mass testing began.", "The government plans to create an internal border to prevent gridlock on the county's motorways.", "The ex-One Direction singer shares a picture with the couple's \"healthy and beautiful\" daughter.", "Scotland's first minister writes to Boris Johnson saying further action is needed urgently.", "The renowned journalist, who has died aged 92, was best-known for his campaigns against injustice.", "World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is knocked out of the European Masters by Irish teenager Aaron Hill.", "Spotify, Epic Games and others unite to campaign against the tech giant's app policies.", "A large number of the workforce at the Bridgend engine plant are expected to finish on Thursday.", "Margot Dukes-Eddy dived into the water to save her husband \"without hesitation\", police say.", "It's the part of the UK that is most reliant on EU exports. So why are businesses there so underprepared?", "Rules in Wales are different to England, where pubs and restaurants must close at 22:00.", "A leading chain, facing unprecedented demand, suspends its appointment booking system.", "Parks Australia had requested user-generated images from the sacred site be immediately removed.", "The star's soul-searching, self-titled album is named the best British record of the past 12 months.", "The new jobs support scheme is \"a fraction of what we have seen\", writes the BBC's Faisal Islam.", "A group of officers involved in a drugs raid in Barnet, north London, are taken to hospital.", "Former Australia batsman Dean Jones dies in India, where he has been working as a television commentator, at the age of 59.", "Fourteen coronavirus cases were linked to an awards ceremony at Drefach Cricket and Football Club.", "But the Labour leader says another \"divisive\" vote on Scotland's position in the near future is \"not needed\".", "Thousands of British expats living in the EU have been told their bank accounts are being closed.", "The Bafta Film Awards will have an overhaul after this year's event had an all-white acting line-up.", "The shadow chancellor says half of her 40 requests for targeted wage support for workers were “rebuffed” by the government.", "Police had been pursuing a speeding car when it crashed with two other vehicles in Salford.", "Banham Poultry, based in Attleborough in Norfolk, had to close on 27 August, but reopened last week.", "The UK chancellor said the Job Support Scheme would start in November and last for six months.", "The cinema chain warns it may need to raise more money in the event of further coronavirus restrictions.", "The supermarket chain restricts sales of some ranges, including toilet rolls and disinfectants.", "Opposition parties press Nicola Sturgeon on why she was not better prepared for outbreaks at universities.", "Some viewers of Britain's Got Talent were unhappy with the judge's reference to Black Lives Matter.", "The chancellor says it is \"impossible\" to predict the jobs market due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "Products will be labelled Ben's Original and will no longer show the bow-tied black man on packaging.", "Rishi Sunak has announced a six-month scheme, beginning in November, which will see the government pay part of workers' wages who have lost hours.", "Demonstrations have continued in Belarus since the president declared victory in last month's election.", "City council leader Huw Thomas warns of restrictions on travel and households mixing.", "Plans to resume weekly mass participation Parkrun events in October have been scrapped due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "Zhong Shanshan’s net worth reached $58.7bn thanks to his water and vaccine firms.", "KitKats and Babybel are among other big brands that did badly in the Which? recycling test.", "Alexandra Wilson says she was challenged by court staff who assumed she was there to face charges.", "The 54-year-old construction worker ate a bag-and-a-half of black liquorice every day, doctors say.", "Latest figures show 6,634 new coronavirus cases across the UK, taking the total to 416,363.", "The broadcaster gained more than 200,000 followers within an hour of posting his first video.", "The company's oversight board - which can overrule Mark Zuckerberg - begins work in mid-October.", "A health charity wants to know how well England and Wales' contact-tracing app fared in tests.", "\"Now is not the right time to outline long-term plans,\" the Treasury says.", "Matt Hancock refuses to rule out stopping students returning home, to limit spread of coronavirus.", "Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds believed to be involved in a takeover bid of National League side, the club says.", "The British-American journalist, publisher and author was best-known for his campaigns against injustice.", "The UK prime minister says the UK holds extraordinary potential for wind power.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Under a third of tests done in community testing centres in England are processed within 24 hours.", "One privacy campaign group says it is Amazon's \"most chilling home surveillance product\" yet.", "Ministers have \"over-promised and under-delivered\", former civil service head Lord O'Donnell says.", "Instead of inventing a job support scheme for the pandemic, Germany already had one oven-ready.", "A charity helping male victims of domestic abuse receives 60% more pleas for help than a year ago.", "The pair had been embracing near a seafront wall when they toppled on to the beach in Alicante.", "Blagovest Hadjigueorguiev has appeared before magistrates in Truro.", "Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is seen leaving court after a pre-trial hearing.", "The new restrictions on gatherings have public support, the Cabinet Office minister insists.", "The National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected NI crime group was supported by the PSNI.", "The naturalist warns that a million species are at risk but says it is not too late to save them.", "The marine working for the CIA had weapons and large amounts of cash, the Venezuelan president says.", "Contestants will not physically go to Blackpool but they will \"celebrate\" the venue, the BBC says.", "Michael Gove backs the PM over the Internal Market Bill as the EU ramps up opposition to it.", "The late-stage trials were paused due to a reported side effect in a patient in the UK.", "The EU is furious about the UK's latest Brexit move - but there is no chance of the government backing down.", "Donald Fear is the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years.", "The warning comes as a scientist says the UK is \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.", "Debutants Callum Wilson and Jeff Hendrick both score as Newcastle make a winning start to the 2020-21 Premier League season against an uninspiring West Ham.", "The Department of Education and Ofqual will face public scrutiny to explain the exam confusion, the colossal U-turn and resignations. What went wrong?", "More than 200 people are arrested as anti-government demonstrators clash with police in the French capital.", "Warning that some surgeries are struggling, and patients will have \"nowhere to go\" if they close.", "The latest statistics show there were 221 confirmed cases in the last 24 hours - but there were no Covid deaths.", "Last-minute agreements have been reached before, but right now it feels like a long shot.", "The 22-year-old Slovenian woman was found guilty of cutting off her hand to make an insurance claim.", "The US president and his political rival both visit the Flight 93 memorial, but at different times.", "The PM calls for no return to \"squabbling\", but the EU ramps up opposition to UK government plans.", "Boris Johnson calls for no return to \"squabbling\", but the EU ramps up opposition to UK plans.", "Navid Afkari, 27, was accused of murder but he said he was tortured into confessing.", "Counter-terrorism police arrest a man after a suspicious package was posted to a London property.", "There are now worrying signs of infections in older as well as younger people, officials say.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murder after a fatal stabbing at a flat in Wembley.", "Several MSPs had called on Richard Leonard to quit, warning the party faced \"disaster\" at the Holyrood election.", "Police say the alleged attack happened in a villa during a party in southern Italy.", "But Ben Wallace admits a security review will mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment.", "The find shows the wealth of the Iceni tribe in the centuries after Boudicca's rebellion.", "Frederick Nathaniel \"Toots\" Hibbert was the front man of reggae band Toots & the Maytals.", "Naomi Osaka fights back against Victoria Azarenka in a gripping US Open final to claim her third Grand Slam title with a 1-6 6-3 6-3 victory.", "Bernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough by her parents in July.", "The speed limit will be reduced in Witton, Rotherham, Eccles and Oldbury.", "Police said they had been made aware of small gathering but were told it was for a wedding party.", "The founder of Habitat \"revolutionised the way we live in Britain\", his family say in a statement.", "The charity supporting wounded veterans says its income dropped by a third as demand for support rose.", "Grants will promote ideas to detect, characterise and track the millions of objects moving overhead.", "The safety driver of an Uber autonomous car is charged with negligent homicide.", "The prime minister answered MPs' questions at PMQs and a committee of senior MPs.", "The health worker was fatally shot by police, leading to widespread protests against police violence.", "The health minister says people must not enter or leave the county without good reason.", "Boris Johnson defends the UK's testing system as people struggle to get tests and results are delayed.", "Lego is investing £310m to make its products more sustainable after letters from young customers.", "Schools in England can now order testing kits from the NHS directly, says the education secretary.", "The government of Barbados says the time has come to leave the colonial past behind.", "The move comes after North East local authorities reported \"extremely worrying\" spikes in new cases.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "Many patients are at the risk of suffering from PTSD, but India lacks infrastructure to treat them.", "A 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman are arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.", "People were going to A&E for virus testing as they could not get into test centres, a trust says.", "The health secretary says testing policy will be updated to prioritise the most urgent cases.", "The National Cyber Security Centre warns that universities face a rising wave of cyber-attacks.", "Ministers face a 'classic government problem' of supply and demand.", "Normal coughs and fevers alone will lead to high demand for coronavirus tests over winter, it says.", "Richard Morris, the British High Commissioner to Fiji, was last seen running in Hampshire in May.", "The leaders of seven local authorities issue a statement as positive cases increase.", "Details and reaction as extra restrictions are announced for Rhondda Cynon Taf.", "Doctors say people are having to travel for miles to get tests.", "The justice secretary hails changes to criminal tariffs as a \"fundamental shift\" to punish offenders.", "Stephen Donnelly reported feeling unwell, leading to disruption at the Irish parliament.", "The firm has confirmed it is pulling out of what would have been Wales' biggest energy project.", "Two officers posted clips of themselves \"shouting offensive language\" and dancing \"inappropriately\".", "British Airways boss Alex Cruz says cabin crew should not have to move onto inferior contracts.", "Up to 300 people who attended a football match are told to self-isolate after 28 tested positive.", "Many workers can expect a \"miserable Christmas\" without targeted support for employers, Unite says.", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the rescue mission was \"the right thing to do\".", "The tech firm also showed off new smartwatches with blood-oxygen sensors and new iPads.", "Junior staff told what to do if they are uncomfortable with ministers' demands, BBC Newsnight learns.", "A fresh round of violence between Palestinian militants and Israel follows a ceremony in Washington.", "The slow-moving storm has hovered over the US Gulf coast, dumping \"four months of rain in four hours\".", "Education secretary tells MPs replacement grades was right idea, but system had too many errors.", "The former transport secretary's part-time job is with the owner of Harwich and Felixstowe terminals.", "Measures to stop households mixing and early pub closures are expected to be introduced on Friday.", "Introducing Covid marshals across England is \"unlikely\" and \"almost impossible\", some authorities say.", "Richard Burns stops physical contact with family because of his 'extreme vulnerability' to Covid-19.", "Boris Johnson says the government is doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another lockdown.", "Families share a personal insight into the lives of those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.", "Logistics trade body says the smart freight system is 'unlikely to be ready' by year end.", "Sony opts not to undercut its rival this time round but instead will rely on exclusives to woo gamers.", "A bus, a van, a large goods vehicle and several cars are all involved in the crash.", "Officers in North Rhine-Westphalia sent Hitler photos and a depiction of a refugee in a gas chamber.", "Glenn Maxwell and Alex Carey lead Australia to a three-wicket win over England to claim the one-day series 2-1.", "The pilots aim to help hospitals cope with winter pressures, including coronavirus and flu.", "A council has urged people only to turn up at the walk-through facility if they have an appointment.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Dozens of celebrities announce they will freeze their accounts to protest against hate speech.", "Moorfields Eye Hospital quadruples operations in week-long \"cataract drive\".", "Cases of \"revenge porn\" have risen by a fifth this year, with lockdown to blame, say campaigners.", "Although marketed as a green option, the cars cause more polluting than is claimed, campaigners say.", "Child protection referrals will rise now schools are back, police chiefs tell BBC Newsnight.", "Diego Méntrida realised the athlete ahead had made a mistake and slowed as he approached the finish.", "The shadow chancellor repeats calls for more targeted support for firms in an online speech.", "Covid-19 provides an opportunity to \"reset\" the economy for a more sustainable future, he says.", "That would be tricky, despite the UK government's new spending power plans.", "The holiday camp firm expects workers to take paid or unpaid leave once the government scheme ends.", "People reported queues for attractions and traffic was gridlocked in Blackpool on Saturday.", "A union urges Labour's leader not to \"retreat\" on the environment and workers' rights promises.", "The coin, bearing the head of a Scottish king and turned into jewellery, was found in a field.", "Tadej Pogacar is poised to win the Tour de France ahead of strong favourite Primoz Roglic in one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history.", "What have been the major financial disclosures and what action has been taken?", "Hopes are rising after the badly-hit state of Victoria reports just 14 new infections in 24 hours.", "Fraser Cameron calls the claims \"ridiculous\" and says he has no access to sensitive information.", "Janusz Walus killed anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993, sparking fears of a racial civil war.", "The unidentified woman was caught while attempting to 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Anneliese Dodds says the government should be “focussed on job, job, jobs” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds has accused the government of mismanaging billions of pounds spent in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn a speech to party members on Monday, she accused ministers of a \"cavalier\" approach to public spending during the crisis.\n\nBut she called for firms in struggling sectors to get extra support to retain workers, or provide training.\n\nMs Dodds called for a change in approach to managing the economic downturn during a speech to Labour's online conference, which ends on Tuesday.\n\nShe unveiled proposals for a jobs recovery scheme targeted at sectors that have been closed or on reduced capacity because of social distancing rules.\n\nThe party's annual four-day gathering looks a lot different this year.\n\nThe event, rebranded as Labour Connected, is taking place entirely online rather than in a conference venue.\n\nAs a result, there will be no scenes of packed halls and delegates hoping to speak waving items of clothing and other props to try and get themselves noticed.\n\nPolicy won't be decided on the floor of the conference but there are members' discussions and policy panels - on issues such as the future of work, communities, support for young people and the green economy.\n\nThere is the usual packed fringe programme and there will also be speeches, which will be streamed online.\n\nAs well as Anneliese Dodds, we'll also be hearing later on Monday from shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds. Each speaker is expected to use Labour's recently unveiled New Leadership slogan as their backdrop.\n\nYou'll have to wait to hear more about leader Sir Keir Starmer's keynote speech on Tuesday, although - unlike his address to the TUC last week when he was self-isolating - he won't be speaking from his own home.\n\nIn a bid to stem job losses, she also called for £3bn in funding to be brought forward to retrain the unemployed or those at risk of losing their jobs.\n\nShe urged ministers to provide additional support to viable but indebted firms due to start repaying government loans from next spring.\n\nAnd she vowed to \"restore trust\" with the private sector, adding that she understands the \"critical role business plays in creating jobs\".\n\n\"Recover jobs, retrain workers and rebuild business. Three steps to a better, more secure future,\" she said.\n\n\"This is an ambitious Labour vision - where security and fairness aren't just aspirations, but where they are a reality for families and communities across our country.\"\n\nLabour has called for the furlough scheme to be extended in sectors such as hospitality.\n\nIn her first conference speech since being appointed shadow chancellor in April, Ms Dodds also accused the Conservatives of mismanaging public funds in response to the crisis.\n\nShe pointed to actions, including the recall of unused testing kits and a decision not to use 50m face masks bought for the NHS, as examples of waste.\n\nShe also unveiled party analysis which claims the government's job retention bonus scheme will hand £2.6bn to firms who would have retained staff anyway.\n\n\"You're only as cavalier with public money as our current chancellor, if you don't know the value of it,\" she said.\n\n\"As chancellor, I would ensure that public money was always spent wisely. Targeted where it's needed most. Not splurged where it isn't.\"\n\nLabour has previously called for the scheme, which will pay firms £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough and employed until January, to be reviewed.\n\nThe CBI said it agreed that a more targeted approach was needed but it could not be overly bureaucratic as firms needed \"simple and quick\" solutions.\n\n\"Labour clearly recognise the unrelenting pressure firms are facing,\" the employer group's chief economist Rain Newton-Smith said.\n\n\"All parties agree that saving good jobs today is far better than picking up the pieces tomorrow. That needs bold action as the UK heads into a challenging autumn.\"\n\nFor the government, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said Labour was offering nothing more than former leader Jeremy Corbyn's \"recycled economic plans\".\n\nHe said they would hold the UK back and \"hinder our recovery from coronavirus\".\n\n\"This Conservative government is getting on with delivering its plan for jobs - creating, supporting and protecting employment across every corner of our country,\" he said.", "The financial secrets of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and celebrities has been exposed in another huge leak of financial documents.\n\nDubbed the Pandora Papers it features almost 12 million files from companies providing offshore services in tax havens around the world.\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has organised the biggest ever global investigation, spanning 117 countries and involving more than 600 journalists. In the UK the investigation has been led by BBC Panorama and the Guardian.\n\nThe files are the latest in a series of whistleblower-led investigations that have rocked the world of finance in recent years.\n\nSo let's round up the other major leaks of the past decade.\n\nIn September 2020 the FinCEN Files exposed the failure of major global banks to stop money laundering and financial crime. They also revealed how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files included more than 2,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs), filed by financial institutions to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, or FinCEN, a part of the US Treasury Department. They also include 17,641 records obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and other sources.\n\nThey were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the ICIJ and 400 journalists around the world, including BBC Panorama, which led the investigation in the UK.\n\nA huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which revealed the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nWho leaked the data? The BBC does not know the identity of the source. The 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the ICIJ. Panorama led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries.\n\nA confidential settlement was later reached between the BBC, the Guardian and Appleby over the reporting of the leaked documents, which Appleby said were taken by hackers. The Guardian and BBC said the reports were in the public interest but did not give more detail about the settlement.\n\nUntil Pandora this leak was seen as the daddy of them all in data size. If you thought the Wikileaks dump of sensitive diplomatic cables in 2010 was a big deal, this carried 1,500 times more data.\n\nSüddeutsche Zeitung's \"brothers\". Despite surnames that sound exactly the same, these two leading lights of the Panama Papers investigation, Frederik Obermaier (L) and Bastian Obermayer, are not related\n\nThe Panama Papers came about after an anonymous source contacted reporters at German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2015 and supplied encrypted documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. It sells anonymous offshore companies that help the owners hide their business dealings.\n\nOverwhelmed by the scale of the dump, which eventually grew to 2.6 terabytes of data, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called in the ICIJ, which led to the involvement of about 100 other partner news organisations, including the BBC's Panorama.\n\nAfter more than a year of scrutiny, the ICIJ and its partners jointly published the Panama Papers on 3 April 2016, with the database of documents going online a month later.\n\nWho was named? Where do we start? A few of the news partners focused on how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin shuffled cash around the globe. Not that the Russians cared much. The prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan came to far stickier ends, the former quitting and the latter being thrown out of office by the Supreme Court. Overall the financial dealings of a dozen current and former world leaders, more than 120 politicians and public officials and countless billionaires, celebrities and sports stars were exposed.\n\nWho leaked the data? John Doe. Yes, we know. It's not a real name. In US crime series it is mostly used to label anonymous victims but Mr (or Ms) Doe's manifesto, released a month after publication, reveals a self-styled revolutionary. The real identity is still unknown.\n\nFive months after the Panama Papers, the ICIJ published revelations from the Bahamas corporate registry. The 38GB cache revealed the offshore activities of \"prime ministers, ministers, princes and convicted felons\", it said. Former EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes admitted an \"oversight\" in failing to disclose her interest in an offshore company.\n\nThis ICIJ investigation, involving hundreds of journalists from 45 countries, including BBC Panorama, went public in February 2015.\n\nIt focused on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse), a subsidiary of the banking giant, and so lifted the lid on dealings in a country where banking secrecy is taken for granted.\n\nThe leaked files covered accounts up to the year 2007, linked with more than 100,000 individuals and legal entities from more than 200 countries.\n\nThe ICIJ said the subsidiary had served \"those close to discredited regimes\" and \"clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations\".\n\nHSBC admitted that the \"compliance culture and standards of due diligence\" at the subsidiary at the time were \"lower than they are today\".\n\nWho was named? The ICIJ said HSBC had profited from \"arms dealers, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws\".\n\nIt also cited those close to the regimes of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian President Ben Ali and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.\n\nWho leaked the data? Actually, we know this one. The ICIJ investigation was based on data originally leaked by the French-Italian software engineer and whistleblower Hervé Falciani, though the ICIJ got it later from another source. From 2008 onwards he passed information on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) to French authorities, who in turn passed them to other relevant governments. Mr Falciani was indicted in Switzerland. He was held in detention in Spain but was later released and now lives in France.\n\nOr LuxLeaks for short. Another extensive ICIJ investigation, which revealed its findings in November 2014.\n\nIt centred on how professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers helped multinational companies gain hundreds of favourable tax rulings in Luxembourg between 2002 and 2010.\n\nThe ICIJ said multinationals had saved billions by channelling money through Luxembourg, sometimes at tax rates of less than 1%. One address in Luxembourg was home to more than 1,600 companies, it said.\n\nThe leak of documents was first exposed in 2012 after a joint investigation between Panorama and France2 which lifted the lid on the tax agreements of UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and media company Northern & Shell.\n\nWho was named? Pepsi, IKEA, AIG and Deutsche Bank were among those named.\n\nA second tranche of leaked documents said the Walt Disney Co and Skype had funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars in profits through Luxembourg subsidiaries. They and the other firms denied any wrongdoing.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker had been PM of Luxembourg when it enacted many of its tax avoidance rules. He had been appointed president of the European Commission just a few days before the leak came out. He said he had not encouraged avoidance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Claude Juncker says he is \"politically responsible for what happened\"\n\nEurosceptics went to town and pushed a censure motion against him and his commission. It was rejected. But the EU did investigate, and by 2016 had proposed a yet-to-be realised common tax scheme for the EU.\n\nWho leaked the data? Frenchman Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee, was the main man, saying he had acted in the public interest. Another PwC employee, Raphael Halet, helped him.\n\nThe pair, along with journalist Edouard Perrin, were all charged in Luxembourg after a PwC complaint. A first verdict was later revisited, watering down sentences, with Deltour given a six-month suspended jail term which was later quashed. Halet received a small fine and Mr Perrin was acquitted.\n\nThis was about a tenth of the size of the Panama Papers but was seen as the biggest exposé of international tax fraud ever when the ICIJ and its news partners went public in November 2012 and April 2013.\n\nSome 2.5 million files revealed the names of more than 120,000 companies and trusts in hideaways such as the British Virgin Islands and the Cook Islands.\n\nBBC Panorama exposed a flourishing tax evasion industry in the UK in an undercover investigation based on the files.\n\nWho was named? The usual suspects. A mix of politicians, government officials and their families, with the Russians notable, but also those in China, Azerbaijan, Canada, Thailand, Mongolia and Pakistan. The Philippines - in the form of the family of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos - get a dishonourable mention. To be fair, the ICIJ does point out that the leaks are not necessarily evidence of illegal actions.\n\nWho leaked the data? The ICIJ cites \"two financial service providers, a private bank in Jersey and the Bahamas corporate registry\" as the sources, but says nothing more other than it was \"data obtained\".\n\nThe Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents and files exposing the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC and has led to one of the biggest ever global investigations.\n\nMore than 600 journalists from 117 countries have looked at the hidden fortunes of some of the most powerful people on the planet. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nPandora Papers coverage: follow reaction on Twitter using #PandoraPapers, in the BBC News app, or watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "The government has scrapped rail franchising and announced plans to extend support for train firms.\n\nAfter passenger numbers fell during lockdown, taxpayer money was used to plug the shortfall in ticket revenues.\n\nSo far, the bill has run to more than £3.5bn and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support will still be needed.\n\nAlthough passenger numbers have edged up since lockdown, they are still less than half pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAs a result, emergency measures to cover the losses of train firms have been extended by 18 months. They reduce the fees that can be earned by the companies but will mean that trains are still able to run, even with fewer passengers.\n\nThroughout that period ministers hope to carry out broader reforms to Britain's railways.\n\nThey will consider adopting a concessions-based system in the longer term, whereby train companies are paid a fixed fee to run services.\n\nIt marks the end of rail franchises, which have been in place since the 1990s.\n\nIn a statement, Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps said: \"The model of privatisation adopted 25 years ago has seen significant rises in passenger numbers, but this pandemic has proven that it is no longer working.\"\n\nHe said the move to a new system would end \"uncertainty and confusion about whether you are using the right ticket or the right train company\".\n\nThe government and the train companies are painting this as a good deal. But in reality, because of Covid, it's a fairly unsatisfactory scenario for all those concerned.\n\nThe taxpayer will be liable for the losses on the railways for a much longer period of time. And with the virus spreading, passenger levels might remain suppressed - so the losses could continue for some time to come.\n\nMeanwhile, train companies who operated franchises that were losing money before the pandemic, still owe money to the Department for Transport from those contracts. Although that thorny issue has been kicked down the road and the negotiations over past payments now need to be resolved by December.\n\nThe emergency deals keep them in the game but they're a metaphorical straitjacket, which make them commercially un-enticing.\n\nFor now, no train company has \"handed back the keys\", which would force the government to take on the running of a route. Doing so carries financial penalties and does nothing for a firm's reputation.\n\nInstead, all of them have, in the short-term, opted for the least bad option there is.\n\nAnd there is still no consensus within government over what the railways will look like after the pandemic so the detail on that is pretty thin.\n\nTrain companies have welcomed the plans to replace Britain's often-criticised system of rail franchising.\n\nPaul Plummer, the boss of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train firms, called for a simpler-to-use fare system.\n\nHe said: \"These transitional contracts should be a stepping-stone to a better railway.\"\n\nBut rail expert Sir Michael Holden, who used to run South West Trains, said: The big issue is, what is that something else to look like?\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that the current emergency measures were \"the worst possible arrangement to run the railways\".\n\n\"We've got the dead hand of the government on the helm... controlling all of the detailed decisions of the railway.\"\n\n\"And yet, they're still paying for public sector operators to run the railway for them.\"\n\nLabour said the government was trying to \"paper over the cracks of a broken rail system\".\n\nShadow rail minister Tan Dhesi said: \"Today's agreements mean taxpayers are set to continue paying hundreds of millions of pounds in profit to private rail companies to run the network. This is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nBut Royal Mail chairman Keith Williams, who was commissioned to carry out a review of the railways, said the companies would have to give more value under the new agreements, which represented the end of the \"complicated\" franchising arrangement.\n\nHe said they demanded \"more from the expertise and skills of the private sector\" and \"ensure passengers return to a more punctual and co-ordinated railway\".\n\nHowever, Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash claimed \"private rail companies are a waste of time and a waste of money\". He insisted that \"public ownership is the only model that works\".\n\nAnd Unite's national officer for rail Harish Patel said: \"Instead of the proposed new model which will allow privateers a renewed opportunity to feed off the taxpayer and passengers, the government should be permanently re-nationalising rail services to increase services, improve punctuality and reduce tickets prices.\"", "Ellen: \"The truth is that I am the person that you see on your TV. I am also a lot of other things.\"\n\nEllen DeGeneres has opened the new series of her talk show with an apology and an admission that \"things happened here that never should have happened\".\n\nOn Monday, The Ellen DeGeneres Show returned to US screens for the first time since allegations emerged about a toxic work environment on set.\n\n\"I take this very seriously and I want to say I'm so sorry to the people it affected,\" the host said.\n\nShe said an investigation had led to \"the necessary changes\" being made.\n\nThree top show producers were recently fired amid claims of misconduct.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ellen DeGeneres This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeGeneres opened with a typically deadpan comedic tone, saying to the camera: \"If you're watching because you love me, thank you. If you're watching because you don't love me, welcome.\"\n\nThrough gritted teeth, she said she had had a \"great summer - super terrific\".\n\nBut she soon turned serious as she addressed the misconduct and sexual harassment allegations that emerged earlier this year.\n\n\"I learned that things happened that should never have happened,\" she said.\n\n\"If I've ever let someone down, if I've ever hurt their feelings, I am sorry for that.\"\n\nShe added that as a person in a position of power and privilege, the show and what happened within it was her responsibility.\n\n\"We have made the necessary changes and today we're starting a new chapter,\" she told viewers.\n\nThat included announcing that studio DJ Twitch had been promoted to co-executive producer.\n\nShe joked that becoming known as the \"be kind lady\", from the show's sign-off quote, was \"a tricky position to be in\".\n\n\"If you want to give yourself a new nickname or title, don't go with the 'be kind' lady. Don't do it.\"\n\nBut she said that contrary to reports in \"the press and social media... the truth is that I am the person that you see on your TV\". She continued: \"I am also a lot of other things. Sometimes I am sad, I get mad, I get anxious, I get frustrated, I get impatient and I am working on all of that. I am a work in progress.\"\n\nShe said she wanted \"every single one\" of the 270 staff working on her show to \"be happy and proud to work here\".\n\nDeGeneres already apologised in an email to staff back in July, saying she was \"committed to ensuring this does not happen again\", and made a further apology in a video meeting with her team in August.\n\nA spokesperson for Warner Brothers confirmed the show \"parted ways\" with executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman, and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman, in August.\n\nIn a story published earlier this year, several former employees told Buzzfeed News they had experienced racism while working on the show and some said they had been fired for taking bereavement days.\n\nThe show has won over 60 Emmy Awards since it first aired in 2003.", "The new exemption allows grandparents, for example, to look after their grandchildren\n\nPeople subject to tighter coronavirus regulations will be allowed to look after children from other households.\n\nThe restrictions prohibit people in affected areas from meeting other households.\n\nBut after complaints from parents, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people looking after children under 14 or vulnerable adults would be exempt.\n\nThe rules apply to 11 million people in England, in the North East, North West and West Midlands.\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons: \"I've heard the concerns about the impact of local action on childcare arrangements. For many, informal childcare arrangements are a lifeline, without which they couldn't do their jobs.\n\n\"So, today I'm able to announce a new exemption for looking after children under the age of 14 or vulnerable adults where that is necessary for caring purposes.\n\n\"This covers both formal and informal arrangements. It does not allow for play-dates or parties, but it does mean that a consistent childcare relationship that is vital for somebody to get to work is allowed.\n\n\"I hope this change will provide clarity and comfort to many people who are living with these local restrictions.\"\n\nPeople in the following areas are currently banned from mixing with other households at private homes:\n\nThe new restrictions will come into force in the following places on Tuesday:\n\nKieron and Michelle McDaid said the exemption would allow Mrs McDaid's parents to look after the couple's children while they work\n\nThe move has been welcomed by families with one mother, Michelle McDaid, from Solihull, saying she was \"over the moon\".\n\nShe relies on her parents Angela and Fred Dale to care for her two year-old son Alfred while she works two days a week as an accounts assistant.\n\nShe also said her parents would have missed seeing Alfred and her eight-year-old son Finley.\n\nMrs McDaid said: \"It is amazing, it will make my life so much easier.\n\n\"It has been a juggling act this past week trying to fit work in where I can.\n\n\"My parents have missed them incredibly because they see them so often, it has just been really sad for them.\"\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\nAnne-Marie Trevelyan, the Conservative MP for Berwick who was name-checked by Mr Hancock as being one of the North East MPs who contacted him over the issue, said she was \"delighted\" and the exemption was \"vital for working parents\".\n\nNewcastle City Council's Labour leader Nick Forbes said: \"This is a victory for common sense.\n\n\"I know parents and carers will be breathing a huge sigh of relief.\"\n• None UK 'could see 50,000 cases a day by mid-October'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's coronavirus alert level is being upgraded from 3 to 4, meaning transmission is \"high or rising exponentially\", its chief medical officers have said.\n\nIt comes after the government's scientific adviser warned there could be 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action.\n\nOn Monday, a further 4,368 daily cases were reported in the UK, up from 3,899.\n\nThe prime minister will make a statement in the Commons on Tuesday.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it sounded \"very likely\" that pubs and other venues in England will be forced to have 22:00 closing times, alongside other measures.\n\nIn a statement confirming their recommendation on moving to level 4, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said cases were now \"rising rapidly and probably exponentially in significant parts of all four nations\".\n\nThey urged people to follow government guidelines \"to avoid significant excess deaths and exceptional pressure in the NHS\" over the autumn and winter.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the move reflected \"the significant shift in the current threat posed by coronavirus\".\n\n\"This country now faces a tipping point in its response and it is vital everybody plays their part now to stop the spread of the virus and protect lives,\" he said.\n\nThe alert level, which is recommended by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, was reduced from level 4 to 3 on 19 June - which indicated the virus was \"in general circulation\" but there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nThe proposed upgrading comes as the PM prepares to chair a Cobra emergency meeting on Tuesday morning - which will be attended by the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAmid data showing London was \"catching up\" with Covid-19 hotspots in northern England, the capital's Mayor Sadiq Khan said he believed acting early, \"rather than having to impose more stringent measures later\", was the right thing to do both for public health and the economy.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street earlier, alongside chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, Sir Patrick Vallance said: \"At the moment we think the epidemic is doubling roughly every seven days.\n\n\"If, and that's quite a big if, but if that continues unabated, and this grows, doubling every seven days... if that continued you would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of October per day.\n\n\"Fifty-thousand cases per day would be expected to lead a month later, so the middle of November say, to 200-plus deaths per day.\n\n\"The challenge, therefore, is to make sure the doubling time does not stay at seven days.\n\n\"That requires speed, it requires action and it requires enough in order to be able to bring that down.\"\n\nThe move to level 4 should not come as a surprise given the warning from the UK's two most senior pandemic advisers this morning.\n\nInfections are rising - although some experts question whether the situation is as dire as Prof Chris Witty and Sir Patrick Vallance set out when they raised the prospect of 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nCases were always expected to increase at this time of year when respiratory viruses tend to circulate more coupled with the continued re-opening of society.\n\nCertainly the trajectory of countries like France and Spain is not as sharp as the worst-case scenario put forward.\n\nBut it is clear the government wants to act early this time - one of the big criticisms is that they were slow to introduce lockdown in March, which resulted in more deaths.\n\nLevel 4 paves the way for extra restrictions to be introduced with an announcement expected on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials are very aware a fine balance needs to be navigated, which is why a full lockdown is not on the cards.\n\nSchools will certainly be protected.\n\nBut any restrictions have a cost to society. Go too far and the risk is the cure becomes worse than the disease.\n\nProf Whitty and Sir Patrick also said:\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister held a meeting in Downing Street with Prof Whitty, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock to discuss possible further measures for England, ahead of an expected announcement on Tuesday.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said Labour did not want to see another lockdown but it would be understandable if new measures were introduced as the \"exponential growth of the virus cannot be ignored\".\n\nIt is not a question of \"if\".\n\nDowning Street will have to introduce extra restrictions to try to slow down the dramatic resurgence of coronavirus.\n\nYou would only have to have dipped into a minute or two of the sober briefing from the government's most senior doctor and scientist on Monday morning to see why.\n\nWhat is not yet settled however, is exactly what, exactly when, and indeed, exactly where these restrictions will be.\n\nHere's what it is important to know:\n\nThe government is not considering a new lockdown across the country right now.\n\nThe prime minister is not about to tell everyone to stay at home as he did from the Downing Street desk in March.\n\nMinisters have no intention at all to close schools again.\n\nNor, right now, are they planning to tell every business, other than the essential, to close again.\n\nWhat is likely is some kind of extra limits on our huge hospitality sector.\n\nRestrictions on households mixing indoors will be extended to all of Northern Ireland from 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAreas in north-west England, West Yorkshire, the Midlands and four more counties in south Wales will also face further local restrictions from Tuesday.\n\nAnd additional lockdown restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland in the next couple of days, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be with four-nations alignment, but if necessary it will have to happen without that,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"It may be the case that UK-wide measures will be taken but that will require all four governments to exercise our varying share of power and responsibility to do so.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with leaders of the devolved administrations on Monday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the health secretary announced a new exemption to local restrictions in England for formal and informal childcare arrangements, covering those looking after children under the age of 14 or vulnerable adults.", "Artwork: GHGSat is aiming for a constellation of greenhouse-gas monitors in the sky\n\nThere is a powerful new satellite in the sky to monitor emissions of methane (CH4), one of the key gases driving human-induced climate change.\n\nKnown as Iris, the spacecraft can map plumes of CH4 in the atmosphere down to a resolution of just 25m.\n\nThis makes it possible to identify individual sources, such as specific oil and gas facilities.\n\nIris was launched by the Montreal, Canada-based GHGSat company on 2 September.\n\nIt's the pathfinder in what the firm hopes will be a 10-spacecraft constellation by the end of 2022.\n\nThe image at the top of this page is Iris's \"first light\" - its first attempt to sense a significant emission of methane.\n\nThe observation was made over Turkmenistan, in a region where large plumes from oil and gas infrastructure have been noted before.\n\nThe detection, overlaid on a standard aerial image, shows the concentration of methane in the air in excess of normal background levels.\n\n\"Let me tell you there was a big hurrah from the team when the data came down because we could see the spectroscopy was there, the resolution was there - everything was as it should be,\" recalled GHGSat CEO Stéphane Germain.\n\n\"We still need to work on the calibration, which will then allow us to verify the detection threshold and the final performance of the satellite. But as a first-light image - by any standard it's phenomenal,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMethane's global warming potential is 30 times that of carbon dioxide, so it's imperative any unnecessary releases are constrained or curtailed.\n\nHuman-produced sources are many and varied, including not only oil and gas facilities, but agriculture, landfills, coal mines and hydro-electric dams.\n\nAlready, GHGSat is working with operators, regulators and other interested parties to characterise these emissions using a prototype satellite called Claire that it launched in 2016. The presence in orbit of Iris provides an additional stream of data for the company that it now intends to interpret at a brand new British analytics hub, to be set up in Edinburgh and London in the coming weeks.\n\n\"There's world-class capability in what we do in the UK,\" Dr Germain said, \"not only in analytics but also in the spacecraft systems that we're interested in.\n\n\"The UK is a jurisdiction where climate change is important to people, and we want to be where people are willing to participate in the growth of an enterprise that wants to address that worldwide.\"\n\nArtwork: Sentinel-5P makes daily global maps of specific gases in the atmosphere\n\nGHGSat has recently been strengthening its ties with the European Space Agency, which operates the EU's Sentinel-5P satellite.\n\nThis also monitors methane, taking a global daily snapshot of the gas. But at a resolution of 7km, its data is much less resolved than that of Iris, or indeed Claire which senses the atmosphere at scales of 50m.\n\nPut them all together, however, and they form something of a dream team for investigating CH4.\n\n\"They (Sentinel-5P) can see the whole world every day. We can't do that. But we can see individual facilities. They can't do that. So, really, it's a fantastic combination, and it's making for a very good relationship with the European Space Agency that I think we're just at the beginning of growing into something much, much bigger.\"\n\nGHG's next satellite, Hugo, is in testing and is expected to launch at the end of this year.\n\nThe company recently secured $30m (£23m) in extra financing, which enables it to build the three spacecraft that will follow Hugo into orbit.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer says he will support any new measures, but warned failings in the test and trace system are undermining efforts to combat the surge. His shadow chancellor will use a speech to party members later to call for a jobs recovery scheme targeted at hardest-hit sectors, like hospitality. Anneliese Dodds will also accuse the Conservatives of mismanaging public funds in response to the crisis - for example, paying furlough money to firms who would have retained staff anyway. According to HMRC this morning, UK firms have voluntarily returned more than £215m paid out by the scheme.\n\nAbout one in every 20 children in England is out of school because of issues linked to the pandemic, according to the children's commissioner. Anne Longfield said the number of schools who'd sent pupils home because of a Covid-19 case was still very small, but there were many other children, including those with special needs or emotional problems, who had not yet returned. She praised the heroic efforts of teachers and other staff who made reopening possible, but warned there was a danger their goodwill - and that of parents - would be lost if testing troubles meant separating colds from Covid couldn't be done quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cold, flu or coronavirus - which one do I have?\n\nThe government has agreed new emergency deals with train companies, meaning the taxpayer will continue to cover any losses on the railways, caused by low passenger numbers, for another 18 months. So far, those losses have run to about £3.5bn. During that 18-month period, ministers hope to carry out broader reforms to Britain's railways, including potentially a shift to a concessions-based system. Under that, train companies are paid a fixed fee to run services, rather than face the risk of big wins or losses under a franchise model.\n\nThe Taj Mahal has reopened its doors to visitors after six months. The 17th-Century marble mausoleum was closed when India went into a stringent lockdown, having previously welcomed as many as 70,000 people every day. It will now allow only 5,000 visitors daily and enforce Covid-19 safety measures. The country has the second-highest confirmed case count in the world, but the government is opening up - workplaces, public transport, eateries, gyms - to try to repair the battered economy.\n\nThe Taj Mahal is located in the northern Indian city of Agra\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nMore than two million students are about to go off to UK universities, but who can they socialise with when they get there? Find out the rules.\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 pandemic this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe UK is upgrading its Covid alert level, amid a rising number of cases, the country's chief medical officers have said. They are moving the level from 3 - meaning an epidemic is in general circulation - to 4, to signify an \"epidemic is in general circulation; transmission is high or rising exponentially\". It comes after Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance warned the UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance says measures must be taken to stop the spread of Covid-19\n\nTighter restrictions are to be extended to all of Northern Ireland from 18:00 BST on Tuesday. Health Minister Robin Swann said there would be no mixing of households indoors, with some exceptions. Four more areas in Wales are also to face local lockdowns. Meanwhile, additional restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland this week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nLocal lockdown restrictions in England will be eased to allow people to look after children under the age of 14, or vulnerable adults, from outside their household. Announcing the change, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"For many, informal childcare arrangements are a lifeline without which they couldn't do their jobs.\" The move will, for example, allow grandparents to look after grandchildren, even in areas where households can't mix.\n\nEuropean and US stock markets have fallen sharply amid growing concerns about the continuing impact of the pandemic. Share prices in London, Paris and Frankfurt all dropped by about 3%, while the Dow Jones in the US was trading lower. In London, airlines, travel firms, hotel groups and pubs all suffered.\n\nMost big events have been held virtually this year - and the Emmy Awards for TV shows were no exception. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony from an empty Staples Centre in Los Angeles - and most winners accepted their awards by dialling in from home. Entertainment reporter Steven McIntosh has picked out seven highlights from the \"Pandemmys\".\n\nKimmel announced many of the winners as the nominees stayed at home\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nThe reproduction number, or R value, for Covid-19 is now officially averaging above one across the UK once again. But what does that mean?\n\nColds, flu and Covid-19 are caused by different viruses, but can have similar symptoms. It can be hard to judge which one you may have.\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.", "Xbox-owner Microsoft has acquired the games company behind blockbuster titles including Doom, Fallout, Skyrim and Wolfenstein.\n\nIt is paying $7.5bn (£5.85bn) for Bethesda's parent ZeniMax Media.\n\nXbox has said that the publisher's franchises would be added to its Game Pass subscription package for consoles and PCs.\n\nThis could help make the forthcoming Xbox Series X more attractive than the PlayStation 5 to some players.\n\nBoth machines are due to launch in November.\n\nGame Pass already gives players access to more than 200 games. Microsoft includes first-party titles at point of launch to those signed up to its \"ultimate\" package without further cost.\n\nBy contrast, Sony has opted to charge players up to £70 for its own major releases and does not intend to include new titles in its PlayStation Plus Collection service.\n\nIt is not yet clear how the takeover affects Bethesda's plans to create The Elder Scrolls 6, Starfield and other unfinished games as cross-platform titles.\n\nIn a statement, Xbox chief Phil Spencer said the two firms \"shared similar visions for the opportunities for creators and their games to reach more players in more ways\".\n\nPete Hynes, senior vice president at Bethesda Softworks, said the deal offered \"access to resources that will make us a better publisher and developer\".\n\n\"We're still working on the same games we were yesterday, made by the same studios we've worked with for years, and those games will be published by us,\" he wrote in a blog.\n\nIn addition to the games titles, Microsoft will now also own the id Tech games engine, developed by Bethesda's sister firm id Software.\n\nDoom Eternal, which was released this year and received praise for the quality of its graphics, was built using the most recent version of id Tech.\n\nPiers Harding-Rolls, research director from Ampere Analysis, described the deal as \"a major coup\".\n\n\"Microsoft has often been criticised for its lack of heavy-hitting first-party games franchises when compared to Sony and Nintendo. This deal catapults Microsoft's games portfolio into a much stronger position,\" he told the BBC.\n\nLegendary games developer John Carmack - who pioneered some of the technologies behind the original Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake games - has also suggested the acquisition could bring him back to some of those franchises.\n\nUntil recently, he had served as the chief technology officer of Facebook's Oculus virtual reality division.\n\nHis return would build further excitement for future Xbox games, and thus benefit the brand.", "If Boris Johnson had decreed a year ago that he was going to call last orders on the pub at 10pm, the ravens might have left the Tower.\n\nBut given the terrible warnings from the government's top scientists on Monday, the kind of strict measures that ministers had been discussing - and the extent of restrictions that many people are already living with in some of our towns and cities - you might wonder if what the prime minister has ended up deciding is less stringent than it might have been.\n\nAs we have talked about many times, Downing Street is all too aware of the economic havoc the restrictions around the pandemic have caused.\n\nLogically, therefore, it has always only wanted to take action when it has felt absolutely urgent. It is also the case that, as we enter a second surge, more is understood about the virus itself.\n\nThat means the government ought to be able to take a more sophisticated approach to managing the spread, rather than blunt, blunderbuss nationwide measures.\n\nAt least for now, the prime minister has concluded there is a narrow but real chance to put the brakes on the outbreak before taking more draconian steps.\n\nSomething else has changed, though. There were strong voices in government arguing for more immediate action, wondering whether it was right to take steps rather than strides towards tougher controls.\n\nBut the political mood has shifted. It's not just that the chancellor worked to persuade Mr Johnson to stop short of full closures of anything yet, evidently with some success.\n\nNot just that, as one cabinet minister worried, dramatic restrictions would be \"hellishly unpopular\".\n\nAnd the atmosphere among Conservative MPs has changed too, with prominent backbenchers urging more caution, and complaining fiercely about how decisions have been made.\n\nFrom the broad smile of one of them, strolling in the sunshine outside Parliament on Monday, \"they seem to have started to listen\", confident that after a bumpy few weeks, MPs' pushing had started to have an effect.\n\nYet the prime minister, by his own admission, accepts the government did not understand enough, quickly enough at the start.\n\nUltimately the results of the decisions taken at the start of this second surge will be chalked up by his name.", "Anglo-French actor Michael Lonsdale, who played the villain opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in the 1979 film Moonraker, has died at the age of 89.\n\nIn the film, he played Hugo Drax, an industrialist planning to poison all humans on Earth then repopulate the planet from his space station.\n\nIt was one of more than 200 roles he played in both English and French over a career that spanned six decades.\n\nHis other film credits included The Day of the Jackal, Ronin and Munich.\n\nBond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli called Lonsdale an \"extraordinarily talented actor and a very dear friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Bond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 official Twitter account for the late Sir Roger Moore described his character as \"a smooth-tongued and cultured adversary to 007\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sir Roger Moore (Legacy) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an interview with Mi6 HQ in 2012, Lonsdale was asked whether he had been concerned that playing a Bond villain might have a negative impact on his career.\n\n\"On the contrary!\" he replied. \"Because, I made so many films that were not really very popular or didn't make much money, and I only made poor films, so I thought I might like to be in a rich film.\"\n\nIn the same interview, he said: \"My teacher, when I was at school for the theatre, told me that 'One day you will have to play someone very nasty.'\n\n\"But really, he is such a terrible character, a sort of Nazi. I mean, Drax is like Hitler. He wanted to destroy everybody and rain down a new order of very athletic, young people... He was mad completely.\"\n\nLonsdale had a varied career on film, TV, radio and stage. Before becoming a Bond villain, he played the Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel in 1973 political thriller The Day of the Jackal.\n\nHe later appeared as Jean-Pierre in 1998 US action film Ronin, alongside Robert De Niro, and as Papa in Steven Spielberg's 2005 historical thriller Munich.\n\nWriter and film-maker Jesse Hawken was among those paying tribute, writing on Twitter: \"RIP to one of my favs, the great Michael Lonsdale, one of the best Bond villains.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Richard Brody This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by JONATHAN SOTHCOTT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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. Prince Charles says millions of people are desperate for more action, rather than words\n\nThe Prince of Wales has warned the climate crisis will \"dwarf\" the impact of coronavirus.\n\nIn a recorded message, to be played at the virtual opening of Climate Week on Monday, Prince Charles said \"swift and immediate action\" was needed.\n\nThe prince said Covid-19 provided a \"window of opportunity\" to reset the economy for a more \"sustainable and inclusive future\".\n\nHe added that the pandemic was \"a wake-up call we cannot ignore\".\n\nIn his message, recorded from Birkhall in the grounds of Balmoral, Prince Charles said: \"Without swift and immediate action, at an unprecedented pace and scale, we will miss the window of opportunity to 'reset' for... a more sustainable and inclusive future.\"\n\n\"[The environmental] crisis has been with us for far too many years - decried, denigrated and denied,\" he said.\n\n\"It is now rapidly becoming a comprehensive catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nHis comments come as a new poll suggests there is growing concern among citizens all over the world about climate change, although there are big differences about the level of urgency required to tackle the issue.\n\nCharles, 71, tested positive for coronavirus in March after displaying mild symptoms.\n\nHe has been championing environmental causes for decades and has previously called for members of the Commonwealth to work together to tackle climate change.\n\nIn January, he urged business and political leaders to embrace a sustainable future at the Davos summit, where he also met teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.\n\nThe global lockdown led to a dramatic drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants but a study last month suggested this would have a \"negligible\" impact on rising temperatures.\n\nThe analysis suggested that by 2030, global temperatures would only be 0.01C lower than expected.\n\nBut the researchers, led by the University of Leeds, stressed that a green recovery could significantly alter the long term outlook and keep the world from exceeding 1.5C of warming by the middle of this century.", "The bomb blast occurred in the capital Honiara\n\nTwo men working for an aid agency which helps dispose of unexploded bombs have been killed in an explosion in the Solomon Islands.\n\nBriton Stephen Atkinson and Australian Trent Lee were employees of Norwegian People's Aid.\n\nThe blast took place in a residential part of the capital Honiara on Sunday.\n\nThe Solomon Islands, a WW2 battleground in the South Pacific, are littered with thousands of unexploded bombs.\n\nThe Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) described the explosion as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nIts Deputy Secretary General Per Nergaard said an \"investigation needs to be completed before there can be a conclusion on the cause of events\".\n\nThe organisation's Secretary General Henriette Killi Westhrin added that it was \"devastated by what has happened\".\n\nLee had described himself as a Chemical Weapons Advisor on his Facebook page, adding that his role was \"to survey and locate the items, then hand information over [to] the Solomon Islands Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal team\".\n\nThis was confirmed by a statement from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force who said that the survey team typically goes out first to confirm the location of unexploded ordnances before relaying the information to them.\n\nAccording to the NPA, they were assisting the government in developing a centralised database \"that gives an overview of the extensive amounts of explosive remnants of war contamination dating from the Second World War\".\n\nWorkers had been in the capital Honiara clearing sites of bombs ahead of the 2023 Pacific Games.", "Suite 2B is on floor two of this building in Potters Bar\n\nLeaked banking documents have given a glimpse into international money-laundering. They show that it happens in some unlikely places.\n\nNo one answers the door when you press the buzzer for suite 2B on the second floor of 175 Darkes Lane.\n\nIt is a red brick building, just off the High Street in the Hertfordshire commuter town of Potters Bar.\n\nAnd suite 2B is the official home of more than 1,000 UK-registered companies. Many were set up to move billions of dollars' worth of ill-gotten gains around the globe in such a way as to make them near-impossible to trace.\n\nThe firms are part of what has been described as a \"global money-laundering conveyor belt\". Criminals' money passes through a labyrinthine network of tax havens and bank accounts en route from being \"dirty\" to \"clean\". It ends up in financial centres such as New York, where the crooks can spend it without fear of prosecution.\n\nThe banks make money from the transactions and often not enough questions are asked about who owns and runs the companies, or where the money has come from.\n\nOn Friday, the UK government announced reforms designed to clamp down on this type of fraud and money laundering.\n\nA leak of more than 2,000 \"suspicious activity reports\" sent by banks to the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) names more than 100 companies registered to suite 2B. Unbeknown to the shoppers frequenting the nearby Superdrug or buying a pasty at Greggs, the room is a virtual thoroughfare for international financial crime.\n\nThe US Treasury, which houses FinCEN, believes it is one of the dodgiest addresses in the world.\n\n\"If I were in charge of money laundering [detection] at a UK bank, all systems would be instructed that we do not process any payments to or from companies registered at that address,\" said financial crime consultant Martin Woods.\n\nThe way the schemes work is intentionally complex. Criminals in Russia and other countries who want to launder their money take advantage of limited partnerships (LPs) and limited-liability partnerships (LLPs). These are UK companies, used perfectly legitimately by thousands of businesses, that require the owners to file very limited information about their operations.\n\nCriminals can use them to move large amounts of money anonymously.\n\nThey pay \"formation agents\" as little as £50 to register the LPs and LLPs with Companies House, where all UK firms are registered on their behalf. Doing so gives a UK address through which to move their money - such as suite 2B, floor two, 175 Darkes Lane.\n\nBut LPs and LLPs can be managed from abroad, with the criminals' details very difficult to detect. Often information given about the person setting up the company is not checked, so criminals can hide behind false names and aliases.\n\nUsing businesses registered in the UK helps legitimise the money on its way to being \"clean\".\n\nLPs and LLPs have hugely multiplied in number. In 2004 there were 20,000 in the UK. By 2017 there were 100,000.\n\nTwo of the firms registered at suite 2B were Ergoinvest and Chadborg Trade. Both had accounts with Danske Bank in Estonia, which was involved in one of the world's biggest money-laundering scandals between 2005 and 2017. Ergoinvest and Chadborg Trade reported identical income of just £21,353 for one year. They also reported the same figures as each other for operating expenses and profit.\n\nThese were fictitious figures. The difference between these accounts and reality is revealed in documents seen by the BBC's Panorama, showing that $700m (£535m) went through Ergoinvest and $2.6bn (£1.99bn) went through Chadborg.\n\nAleksej Strukov, who runs suite 2B, said he had no access to companies' financial records and could not verify the information filed with Companies House.\n\n\"Our only role is the provision of the Darkes Lane address as their nominated registered office address, and in doing so, ensure we comply with the AML [anti-money laundering] regulations for that service,\" he said.\n\nMr Strukov also said he conducted standard due diligence checks to verify the identities of company directors, shareholders and beneficial owners.\n\nWhat happens in suite 2B is just one particularly large-scale example of the part the UK plays in global money laundering.\n\nA total of 3,282 British companies were named in the leaked suspicious activity reports - that's more than any other country in the world. And the flood of dirty money is damaging the UK's international reputation. A leaked US Treasury report describes Britain as a \"higher-risk jurisdiction\" and compares it to notorious financial centres \"such as Cyprus\" in its role.\n\nBanks around the world are supposed to ask the \"source of funds\" handled by them. But in recent years, they have been criticised for not doing so properly and governments, their resources stretched, have struggled to detect wrongdoing.\n\n\"Money-laundering schemes are put together to make that difficult,\" said Graham Barrow, author of Dark Money. \"Money launderers know this, and complexity is their friend.\n\n\"If it's gone through 17 bank accounts before you see it, it's hard [to track]. And that's what they do: they have multiple companies in multiple countries with multiple accounts and move the money backwards and forwards between them.\"\n\nThe United Nations estimates the annual value of international money laundering to be between $800bn (£607bn) and $1trillion (£760bn). That is between 2% and 5% of everything produced in every economy in the world.\n\nFacing these revelations last week, the UK announced reforms to Companies House. Under the plans, directors will not be able to be appointed until their identity has been verified. Companies House will also be given greater powers to query, investigate and remove false information, with the aim of increasing the reliability of the data showing who is behind each company.\n\nThe changes will give \"law enforcement and the private sector more accurate information to crack down on dirty money and financial exploitation\", said Security Minister James Brokenshire. In 2018, the UK government promised to bring in stronger controls over registering LPs and to give officials powers to ask for more information while they are operating.\n\nBut the use of these companies in money laundering is \"vanishingly difficult to investigate\", said Mr Barrow.\n\nAnd much of it happens in places like suite 2B in leafy Potters Bar.\n\nThe FinCen Files is a leak of secret documents which reveal how major banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world. They also show how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 400 journalists around the world. Panorama has led research for the BBC.\n\nFinCEN Files: full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #FinCENFiles; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"FinCEN Files; Watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only).", "For some of those sunning themselves in London's St James's Park on Saturday afternoon, discussions ongoing just yards away at Downing Street on the tightening of national restrictions in England are at once both \"worrying\" and \"inevitable\".\n\nCouples and friends meeting for picnics and catch-ups told BBC News conflicting and confusing advice on what they can and cannot do during the pandemic runs alongside a general feeling of resignation over the prospect of national measures being tightened.\n\nRuth and Chris Parker, from Wigan but on a week's holiday after working non-stop since March, think the difference between social distancing in the north and south of England has been \"stark\".\n\n\"We were queuing for a pub in Putney last night and we had to just leave it,\" Chris, 48, says.\n\n\"There was no social distancing at all,\" Ruth, 49, adds. \"We ended up in Wagamamas, which was pretty well organised.\"\n\nThe couple say they think there has been a change in attitudes in the North West since a marked rise in coronavirus cases led to tighter local restrictions.\n\nWigan is one of the few areas in Greater Manchester to see local restrictions on households and movement lifted.\n\n\"People are now taking it pretty seriously there,\" says Chris, who conducted much of his work as a church minister virtually during the first lockdown.\n\n\"We do seem a bit better at social distancing,\" Ruth, a former music teacher, adds.\n\nA second lockdown has them worried, but Chris believes \"if it has to happen, it has to happen\".\n\n\"I think a national two-week lockdown is coming but not quite the full lockdown we had.\"\n\nRuth and Chris Parker described a \"stark\" difference in social distancing between the north and south of England\n\n\"It's not ideal,\" is Tom Duncan's view as he enjoys a meal deal with his partner Aisha.\n\nThe 21-year-old finance workers say they do not want to see another full lockdown with just a few permitted reasons for leaving home.\n\n\"Closing pubs and bars early seems fine,\" Tom says, \"But not being unable to see anyone again.\"\n\n\"It's going to have to happen as people don't care - people don't see it as a threat,\" Aisha adds.\n\n\"You can see when people have had a drink they don't socially distance.\"\n\nThe pair say they are now able to go back to their offices if they book a slot - but working from home has its advantages.\n\nIt also means a second lockdown \"doesn't really affect us,\" Aisha says. \"There's pros and cons to it.\"\n\nFinance workers Tom and Aisha said closing pubs and bars seemed reasonable but not a return to full restrictions on daily life\n\nNicola Evans, 24, who works for an engineering firm, says a second lockdown might not be the worst thing if it helps protect vulnerable people.\n\n\"I feel like, why not? If it's keeping people safe,\" she says.\n\n\"It's the way it is. Though I'd rather be able to see people.\n\n\"I'm working from home so it doesn't really affect me - as long as I'm able to get out of the house during the day.\n\n\"I've not gone back to the office yet, it keeps being postponed.\"\n\nBut for her friend Emmelia Georgio, 24, from Cyprus, the prospect of a second lockdown would throw a spanner into the final year of her Masters in dance movement psychotherapy.\n\n\"This year is already going to be very different,\" she says of her studies.\n\n\"It's a mix of online and in-person learning now, but I worry what would happen in a second lockdown.\n\n\"If there is a second lockdown it's hard to see how it is managed.\"\n\n\"We still have to pay fees and rent - and you think, 'what's the point in paying' if a lockdown happens,\" she adds.\n\nEmmelia, left, said a second lockdown would heavily impact her studies but Nicola said it would be worth it to keep people safe\n\nThere is little doubt about what will happen next for Antonia Brown and Ioanna Gkoutna - a second lockdown is \"inevitable\".\n\nIoanna, 21, arrived a week ago from her native Greece to begin a Masters at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"Compared to home, nobody here is taking things seriously,\" she says. \"I was really surprised when I came here. You're in Tescos, say, and so many people are not wearing masks and nobody is challenging them. The staff are not wearing masks.\"\n\nIoanna - from a part of Greece not covered by quarantine rules - thinks enforcement is crucial to any future lockdown.\n\n\"In Greece there is lots of enforcement of the rules,\" she says. \"I myself phoned the police when a man refused to wear a mask at the beach - if I did that here, what would even happen?\"\n\nAntonia, 22, from London, says \"London needs to wake up\" to the coronavirus once more.\n\n\"We're now talking about locking down harder but they had the audacity to say 'get back to work'.\"\n\nIoanna, left, said she felt lockdown was better enforced in her native Greece and Antonia said London needed to \"wake up\"\n\n\"We're running before we can walk,\" she adds.\n\n\"They're telling us to get out and spend money, and now the rates are going back up.\"\n\n\"Unless they enforce it, it won't make a difference,\" Ioanna adds, \"I've been [in the UK] for a week and haven't seen the police once.\"\n\nJust as Ioanna finishes speaking, a police officer passes on a bicycle taking a keen interest in those gathered for picnics in the park.\n\n\"Well, he's here now I guess.\"", "Bridgend has been warned it could follow Caerphilly and RCT in adopting stricter measures\n\nThe leader of Bridgend council has warned that the county is facing its \"last chance\" to avoid further measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIt follows a sharp rise in positive cases - up from 17% to 37.4% in less than a week.\n\nCouncil leader Huw David said cases \"appear to be down to community transmission\", rather than any specific event or day trips.\n\nThe sudden increase was \"of huge concern\", he added.\n\n\"In areas where lockdowns are already in place such as Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf, the vast majority of cases could be traced back to specific events, but that's not what is happening in Bridgend County Borough,\" he said.\n\n\"The data is currently being analysed carefully, and people should make no mistake that it is very possible further action may now be required in Bridgend County Borough to keep people safe and reverse the trend in rising cases.\n\n\"If we want to prevent further action from being taken, this is our last chance.\"\n\nThe council said it was \"monitoring events very closely\" alongside the Welsh Government, South Wales Police, Public Health Wales and Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board.\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. Witnesses capture the moments that followed the explosion\n\nA man has suffered serious injuries after an explosion in a house in Monmouthshire.\n\nGwent Police said homes had been evacuated following the incident on Lower Church Street, Chepstow.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent a large number of resources to a property after being called just before 18:30 BST on Monday.\n\nGwent Police said the man, who was inside the house, was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said an air ambulance, two rapid response vehicles, an emergency ambulance and the hazardous area response team - a group of paramedics trained to go into the \"hot zone\" of incidents - had also been sent to the scene.\n\nA cordon is in place, with police advising people to stay away from the area.\n\nSmoke could be seen rising from the area\n\nFootage, filmed from Tutshill Cliff, showed fire engines either side of the house spraying jets of water on the building to try and put the fire out.\n\nBen Powell lives opposite and was wearing headphones when he heard \"a massive bang\".\n\n\"It shook my flat,\" said the 27-year-old chef.\n\n\"I looked out my window and there were literally bits of the house opposite everywhere and people were screaming.\n\n\"The house looked like a bomb had gone off inside but then there was a little flame - and within two minutes the whole house had caught fire.\n\n\"It's dreadful. I just hope everyone is OK.\"\n\nWales and West Utilities said it attended the house following the explosion and was working with the emergency services to make the area safe and to investigate the cause.\n\nFirefighters were on the scene at Lower Church Street\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent a large number of resources to tackle the blaze", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: FM says tighter restrictions expected 'within days'\n\nAdditional lockdown restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland in the next couple of days, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing, the first minister said \"fast and urgent action\" was needed to tackle the growth of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon indicated that a package of new restrictions would be announced within the next 48 hours.\n\nA total of 255 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nThat represented 6.3% of those tested, the third day running the \"positivity rate\" has exceeded 5% - which the World Health Organization has said is a key benchmark for a virus to be considered under control.\n\nWhile no new deaths were reported, the number of people treated in hospital rose to 73, an increase of 10.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I need to be absolutely straight with people across Scotland, that additional restrictions will almost certainly be put in place in Scotland over the next couple of days.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be with four-nations alignment, but if necessary it will have to happen without that.\"\n\nShe said a meeting of the UK government's Cobra emergency committee would take place, and that she would be speaking to Prime Minister Boris Johnson directly after the briefing.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"In that call, I will impress upon the prime minister my view that we need decisive, urgent and, as far as possible given our individual responsibilities, co-ordinated action across the UK.\n\n\"I will be clear that I am willing to allow a bit more time for four-nations discussions to take place before making final decisions for Scotland, but I will be equally clear that the urgency of this situation will mean that we cannot, must not and will not wait too long.\"\n\nLater on Monday the UK's chief medical officers said the coronavirus alert level should move to Level 4, meaning that transmission of the virus was \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nDowning Street confirmed Boris Johnson had spoken on the phone to the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and that they would be taking part in a Cobra meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"They all agreed to act with a united approach, as much as possible, in the days and weeks ahead.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted that she would make a statement to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is indeed a critical time in the trajectory of this virus. Cases are going up at a time when we are heading towards winter and the NHS will also have to deal with seasonal flu.\n\nThe first minister says \"difficult decisions\" are to be made in this trade-off. We are being told to prepare for further restrictions on daily life.\n\nThe government says keeping schools open and protecting the NHS are priorities, so what else will have to give?\n\nOne of the government's own advisers has said travel restrictions and pub curfews could feature.\n\nWe are in uncharted waters and no-one can predict what the winter will bring.\n\nWhat is clear is that we are all going to have to find ways to live with this virus for much longer than the next six months.\n\nMs Sturgeon gave no detail of what new restrictions would be introduced, but said the government was \"very close to a point of decision\".\n\n\"At the heart of this decision is a simple truth - the longer we wait to introduce new measures, the longer these measures are likely to be in place,\" she said.\n\n\"If we move sharply now to get the virus back under control we can minimise the time we all spend under any new restrictions.\"\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld said the likely options could include travel restrictions and curfews or restrictions on hospitality.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that there would be financial support for people required to self-isolate, particularly those on low incomes.\n\nWhile larger fines for non-compliance were under consideration, she said a better approach was to \"remove barriers\" to self-isolation.\n\nShe said: \"Nobody should be forced to choose between self-isolating for the collective good and paying their rent and feeding their families.\n\n\"If that is the choice people face, then it shouldn't be a surprise to us that compliance levels will be lower than we need them to be.\"\n\nThe first minister added that the \"collective action\" of the summer months had not been in vain, and without it the number of deaths would have been \"significantly higher\".\n\n\"We are in a much stronger position now than we would have been without that - but none of it was a magic wand that made the virus go away,\" she said.\n\n\"So as we face winter, as we face an acceleration of cases again, we must act to keep that under control.\"\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance earlier warned that without further restrictions there could be 50,000 new coronavirus a day by mid-October. This could lead to about 200 deaths a day UK-wide by the middle of November.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Gregor Smith, said cases in Scotland were roughly doubling every seven to nine days.\n\nAsked about suggestions that new restrictions might last for six months, Mr Sturgeon said this was \"the length of time we all likely to be living with some restrictions, but it is not necessarily going to be the same restrictions, of the same severity, for that period\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said people needed to heed the \"stark warnings\" about the virus.\n\n\"It is right that our governments work together to tackle this, because this is an issue that we need to get on top of,\" he said.", "Aerospace giant Airbus has unveiled plans for what it hailed as the first commercial zero-emission aircraft.\n\nThe company said its hydrogen-fuelled passenger planes could be in service by 2035.\n\nAirbus chief executive Guillaume Faury said the three ZEROe concept designs marked \"a historic moment for the commercial aviation sector\".\n\nThe use of hydrogen had \"the potential to significantly reduce aviation's climate impact\", he added.\n\nThe concept of emissions-free aviation relies heavily on finding ways to produce large quantities of hydrogen from renewable or low-carbon sources.\n\nMost large-scale production at the moment relies on fossil fuels, particularly methane, and is not considered to be low-carbon.\n\nAnalysts point out that it is not the first time that hydrogen has been touted as the saviour of modern air travel..\n\nIts use in aviation goes back to the days of airships in the early 20th Century, but the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 brought that era to an end.\n\nMore recently, from 2000 to 2002, Airbus was involved in the EU-funded Cryoplane project, which studied the feasibility of a liquid hydrogen-fuelled aircraft.\n\nAfter that, the idea fell out of favour again - until now.\n\nUnveiling its latest blueprints, Airbus said its turbofan design could carry up to 200 passengers more than 2,000 miles, while a turboprop concept would have a 50% lower capacity and range.\n\nA third, \"blended-wing body\" aircraft was the most eye-catching of the three designs.\n\nAll three planes would be powered by gas-turbine engines modified to burn liquid hydrogen, and through hydrogen fuel cells to create electrical power.\n\nHowever, Airbus admitted that for the idea to work, airports would have to invest large sums of money in refuelling infrastructure.\n\n\"The transition to hydrogen, as the primary power source for these concept planes, will require decisive action from the entire aviation ecosystem,\" said Mr Faury.\n\n\"Together with the support from government and industrial partners, we can rise up to this challenge to scale up renewable energy and hydrogen for the sustainable future of the aviation industry.\"\n\nThe new Airbus designs are the fruit of a joint research project that Airbus launched with EasyJet last year to consider hybrid and electric aircraft.\n\nThe airline's chief executive, Johan Lundgren, said: \"EasyJet remains absolutely committed to more sustainable flying and we know that technology is where the answer lies for the industry.\"", "People reported queues for attractions, gridlocked traffic and little social distancing in Blackpool on Saturday\n\nVisitors have flocked to Blackpool despite police warning against having a \"last blast\" in the resort before tighter restrictions come into force.\n\nPeople reported queues for attractions, heavy traffic, little social distancing and few people wearing masks indoors.\n\nLancashire will be subject to tighter restrictions from Tuesday after significant increases in Covid-19 cases, but Blackpool is exempt.\n\nPolice had said they were preparing for large crowds over the weekend.\n\nGem Concannon, 36, from Northwich, Cheshire, said she had visited the resort on Saturday with her family.\n\nShe said: \"It was heaving, hardly anyone was wearing masks or social distancing. It was shocking.\n\n\"I've never seen it that busy before.\"\n\nPolice had said they were preparing for large crowds in Blackpool over the weekend\n\nOn Friday, Lancashire Police deputy chief constable Terry Woods appealed for people not to have one \"last blast\" before the restrictions come into place.\n\nHe said: \"Going to Blackpool this weekend if you're not from [there] and mingling in any large crowds - that wouldn't be looking after your family.\n\n\"Make sensible decisions to protect yourselves, going to Blackpool in mass numbers is quite the opposite of protecting yourselves.\"\n\nBlackpool's director of public health Dr Arif Rajpura said: \"It is absolutely critical that residents and businesses adhere to the new 'rule of six' restrictions and follow all Covid guidelines around social distancing and wearing of face coverings.\n\n\"The same advice goes to those visiting our resort. The only way to stop the spread of the virus is to respect the rules which are there for a reason.\"\n\nThe new restrictions across other parts of Lancashire ban households from meeting each other at home or in private gardens.\n\nPubs and restaurants must also shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nInfection rates in Blackpool are lower than in some parts of the county but the area has seen an increase in positive cases.\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 New Covid-19 rules for North West and Midlands", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Schitt's Creek wins first of six awards at the Emmys\n\nSchitt's Creek, Succession and Watchmen were the big winners at this year's Emmy Awards, which were held virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSchitt's Creek won nine prizes - breaking the Emmys record for most wins in a single season for a comedy.\n\nIt was a glowing send-off for the Canadian series, which broadcast its sixth and final season this year.\n\nSuccession took home the night's top prize, best drama series, as well as best actor for Jeremy Strong.\n\nThe HBO series also won prizes in the drama categories for best writing and best directing during the virtual ceremony.\n\n\"This is such a very nice moment,\" said the show's British creator Jesse Armstrong from London. \"But it's sad not to be with the cast and crew to share it.\"\n\nArmstrong listed a number of \"un-thank yous\" during his acceptance speech, criticising President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Boris Johnson for their respective responses to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEugene Levy received his best comedy actor award from a presenter in a hazmat suit\n\nAnother HBO series, Watchmen, won best limited series, as well as acting gongs for its stars Regina King and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.\n\nZendaya, 24, became the youngest ever winner of best drama actress for her performance in Euphoria, a teen drama which follows a group high school students as they grapple with issues of love, sex, drugs and identity.\n\nIt was a significantly lower-key event this year, with most winners dialling in to make their acceptance speeches from home.\n\nJimmy Kimmel hosted the show, with the nominees dialling in from home\n\nThe ceremony was presented from an eerily empty Staples Center in Los Angeles by comedian Jimmy Kimmel, with only a few guest presenters joining him in the studio.\n\nSchitt's Creek won the best comedy series prize, with the show's creators, father and son Eugene and Daniel Levy, picking up best comedy actor and best supporting comedy actor respectively.\n\nCatherine O'Hara was named best comedy actress, with Annie Murphy winning best supporting actress in a comedy series.\n\nThe show, which is on Netflix in the UK, follows the wealthy Rose family, who are forced to move to a motel in a small town after losing their fortune.\n\nIt launched on CBC in 2015 but developed a strong fan following around the world after later being added to Netflix.\n\nIts wins also included outstanding directing for a comedy series for Andrew Cividino and Daniel Levy, with the latter also winning outstanding writing for the finale episode Happy Ending.\n\n\"Our show, at its core, is about the transformational effects of love and acceptance, and that is something we need more of now than we've ever needed before,\" said Dan Levy as he accepted the prize for best comedy series.\n\nPaying tribute to his son, Eugene Levy added: \"I want to thank this young man who took our fish-out-of-water story and transformed it into a story of inclusivity, a castigation of homophobia, and a declaration of the power of love, so thank you Daniel.\"\n\nZendaya beat stiff competition from the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Laura Linney and Olivia Colman in her category.\n\nRegina King was named best actress in a limited series for her performance in Watchmen.\n\n\"This is freakin' weird!\" joked the star as the Emmy was presented to her at her home.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, she paid tribute to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died over the weekend, and encouraged viewers to register vote in the forthcoming presidential election.\n\nKing wore a T-shirt bearing the image of Breonna Taylor, a black woman shot and killed by police in Kentucky in March.\n\nUzo Aduba, who won best supporting actress in a limited series for Mrs America, also wore a shirt displaying Taylor's name during her speech.\n\nKing's co-star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was also named best supporting actor for his performance in the show.\n\nWatchmen, an innovative reimagining of a superhero graphic novel that tackled racism in America, scored the most nominations this year.\n\nIt won a loyal following and critical acclaim last year during its nine-episode run.\n\nElsewhere, Ozark's Julia Garner won best supporting drama actress while Billy Crudup won in the male category for his portrayal of a conniving network executive in Apple TV's The Morning Show.\n\nSuccession's Jeremy Strong was named best drama actor for his portrayal of Kendall Roy\n\nSuccession's creator Jesse Armstrong also won best writing for a drama, while Andrij Parekh won best directing.\n\n\"I want to dedicate this award to all the kids whose names, like mine, are difficult to pronounce,\" Parekh said in his acceptance speech.\n\n\"To those who don't look like their classmates, and are defined as outsiders... This is proof that you belong, and this Emmy is ours.\"\n\nSeveral winners used their acceptance speeches to encourage Americans to register to vote in November's election, including Mark Ruffalo, who won best actor in a limited series for I Know This Much Is True.\n\n\"Get out and vote, and vote for love and compassion and kindness,\" the Hollywood star said.\n\nAfter the huge success of Fleabag in 2019, this year's ceremony was a disappointing night for British and Irish talent.\n\nOlivia Colman, Jodie Comer, Brian Cox, Jeremy Irons, Helena Bonham Carter and Paul Mescal all ended up empty handed in their respective acting categories.\n\nThis year marked Kimmel's third time hosting the Emmys, after he fronted the ceremony in 2012 and 2016.\n\nThe in memoriam section honoured stars including Chadwick Boseman, Naya Rivera, Caroll Spinney, Kirk Douglas, Sir Ian Holm and Dame Diana Rigg.\n\nThe Creative Arts Emmys took place earlier this week, with winners announced in categories such as casting, hair, make-up, lighting and sound design.\n\nMore than 25,000 members of the Television Academy vote for the awards, which were first presented in 1949.\n\nThe name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube - or the Immy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sir Graham said any new measures must be directly approved by Parliament\n\nParliament must directly approve any new coronavirus restrictions before they come into force, a leading Conservative MP has told the BBC.\n\nSir Graham Brady said ministers had \"got into the habit of ruling by decree\", citing the \"imposition\" of the rule of six limit on social gatherings\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today public opinion was \"moving\" and the government could not take its backing for granted.\n\nHis warning comes as further measures are considered to address rising cases.\n\nIn a televised briefing, the UK government's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said the number of new infections was doubling roughly every seven days and risked \"taking off\" in all adult age groups.\n\nUnless the UK \"changed course\" soon, he warned there could potentially be 50,000 new cases a day by the middle of next month, resulting in about 200 deaths every day by the middle of November.\n\nMPs will vote next week on whether to continue to allow the government to use powers contained in the Coronavirus Act, an emergency piece of legislation fast-tracked through Parliament in late March.\n\nIt gives the government a wide range of emergency powers, although most of the Covid lockdown laws have been imposed using regulations under the 1984 Public Health Act, which take effect prior to a parliamentary vote.\n\nThe PM is due to make a statement to MPs on Tuesday, in which he is expected to announce a tightening of the rules on social interaction and leisure activities.\n\nSir Graham, who is chair of the powerful 1922 committee of Conservative backbenchers, said the six-month review of March's Act was welcome but Parliament needed to be much more involved in scrutinising and approving what he said were \"really quite extreme emergency powers\".\n\nWhile he accepted the current situation was \"serious\", he said this did not absolve government from acting without recourse to Parliament - as he suggested had happened when it \"imposed\" the rule of six limit in England.\n\nIf there had been a debate on the measures, he said ministers would have been forced to justify why children were included in the maximum number, unlike in Scotland, and what the criteria would be for relaxing the strictures.\n\n\"The government has got into the habit, in respect of the coronavirus issue, of ruling by decree without the usual, debate, discussion and votes in Parliament that we would expect on any other matter,\" he said.\n\n\"The British people aren't used to being treated as children.\n\n\"We expect in this country to have a parliamentary democracy where our elected representatives on our behalf can require proper answers to these not just have some imposed.\"\n\nMany MPs are concerned Parliament has been marginalised during the pandemic while the UK's most senior former judge, Lady Hale, has suggested it had \"surrendered its role\" when it allowed \"sweeping and draconian\" laws to be passed with only a few hours of debate.\n\nIn an essay published on Monday, the former president of the Supreme Court said she hoped the UK could return \"to a properly functioning constitution as soon as we possibly can\".\n\nSir Graham said there was no excuse for lack of Parliamentary debate, adding that \"governments find it entirely possible to put things to Parliament quickly when it is convenient for them to do so\".\n\nHis comments were echoed by a number of Conservative MPs during a statement in the Commons.\n\nFormer Cabinet minister Chris Grayling said the \"case had not been made\" for more stringent nationwide measures while Sir Edward Leigh suggested the government's increasingly \"authoritarian\" approach was un-Conservative.\n\nBut Health Secretary Matt Hancock rejected this, saying the government was following the \"Conservative principle\" of protecting people from harm.\n\nHowever, he said he agreed with Sir Graham that the more scrutiny of government decisions, the better.\n\nLabour has signalled it would back further restrictions in the coming days, shadow minister Wes Streeting telling BBC Politics Live it was not the time to \"muck about\".\n\nMeanwhile, MPs are urging the government not to repeat some of the \"mistakes\" it made when the pandemic first struck at the start of the year.\n\nThe Commons Human Rights Committee said \"confusion over what is law and what is merely guidance has left citizens open to disproportionate and unequal levels of punishment for breaking the rules\".\n\n\"Unfortunately it seems that once again, this is overtly affecting BAME individuals,\" it said in a new report.\n\n\"The government must learn from these mistakes to ensure that any additional lockdowns do not unfairly impact specific groups.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe leaders of more than 100 sports bodies have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask for emergency funding, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\" because of coronavirus.\n\nThe coalition of organisations says they are \"united in our concern that at a time when our role should be central to the nation's recovery, the future of the sector is perilous\".\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Sport, the group urges the government to provide a \"sports recovery fund\" so the sector can \"survive and stabilise\".\n\nThe government announced on Tuesday that plans for spectators to be allowed to return to stadiums and venues from 1 October will not go ahead.\n\nThe letter written by the organisations, which include the Football Association, Premier League, Rugby Football Union, England and Wales Cricket Board and Lawn Tennis Association, adds: \"We require a comprehensive support package for the sport and physical sector to aid its recovery.\n\n\"This package must combine investment, tax incentives, and regulatory reform.\n\n\"Covid-19 has undermined our commercial revenue streams with both stadiums and leisure facilities closed or greatly reduced in capacity.\n\n\"The impact of this will potentially lead to a lost generation of sport and activity.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the impact on those whose participation has been limited during the pandemic. Physical activity levels, especially in the most vulnerable groups, are significantly below where they were tracking pre-Covid-19.\"\n\nThe arts industry was given a £1.57bn support package by the government in July.\n\nAlthough Sport England has handed out £200m for emergency cases, many in the sector believe more is needed.\n\nA series of sports bodies have announced job losses in recent weeks and warned they face major mounting losses if turnstiles are not opened soon.\n\nThe government is to ask sports bodies to assess the financial impact of several more months without paying spectators, and is understood to be preparing to work with organisations on what support might be needed to help them survive.\n\nIn the letter, the prime minister is told that sport and physical activity contributes more than £16bn and 600,000 jobs to the UK economy.\n\n\"Our sector will be at the forefront of your plans to improve the health and wellbeing of all communities…to solving societal issues…including reducing health inequalities, tackling obesity, cutting crime, easing loneliness, and enhancing social cohesion,\" the group adds.\n\n\"But to do so effectively, we require your government's backing.\"\n\nLisa Wainwight, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance, said: \"The strength of this coalition from the sports, recreation and activity sector cannot be ignored in its public call to the prime minister.\n\n\"The pandemic has put an incredible strain on our sector, which was forced to close for a prolonged period.\n\n\"It is imperative that our sector gets the support it requires from the government to get back to business, in order to ease the pressures on the NHS and play a central role in our nation's recovery.\"\n\nSwim England has reported that 22% of public pools remain closed and all those that are open have reduced capacity. Some 36% of clubs remain without access to pools.\n\nIndustry bodies Community Leisure UK and UK Active estimate leisure centres, swimming pools and community services face a shortfall of more than £800m this year.\n\nFormer sports minister Tracey Crouch added: \"This isn't just about the number of people on a pitch, field, court or in a pool or gym.\n\n\"This is about the whole ecosystem that supports sport, fitness and leisure and, if we're not careful, historic clubs and the jobs that support them will be lost, potentially for good. If government is going to shut sport down then it needs to provide a package of support to stop its decimation.\"\n• None Has cancel culture gone too far?", "Pupils are back in schools but they face safety measures against the spread of Covid-19\n\nAround one in 20 children in England are out of school due to issues linked to the pandemic and lockdown, the Children's Commissioner has suggested.\n\nAnne Longfield stressed the number of schools who have sent pupils home due to a Covid-19 case was very small.\n\nThere were many others, she said, with special needs or emotional problems, who had not yet returned from lockdown.\n\nBut getting Covid tests to schools quickly was a test the government could not afford to fail, she added.\n\nSome eight million children attend England's schools and colleges, so 5% is about 400,000 pupils.\n\nMs Longfield told BBC News that the number of children back in school was good, thanks to the heroic efforts of teachers and school staff.\n\nAnd the number of schools forced to close due to an outbreak, or having to send pupils or class groups home, was very small, she said.\n\nThis is despite numerous reports of schools sending children home.\n\nShe urged parents and schools to \"hold their nerve\".\n\nHowever, quoting official figures, she added: \"We know that 10% of children are away from the classroom, not necessarily with Coronavirus,\n\n\"We think 5% of children are out of the classroom on average on a regular day - outside of the pandemic.\n\n\"But there will be children with SEND [Special Educational Needs and Disabilities], and there will be children, often troubled teens, who haven't been in school over this period of time who will need extra help to get them back into school.\"\n\n\"We also know there are a lot of the children that aren't in school don't have symptoms themselves, but are in year groups with children who might.\"\n\nShe stressed: \"So there needs to be extra clarity from the government in terms of who does need to not be in school if there are symptoms.\n\n\"Also teachers need that help from public health officials locally, to be able to make those really difficult decisions, and really difficult risk assessments of how they can keep their schools going.\n\n\"This is a test for government that they cannot afford not to pass,\" she said.\n\nThere was a danger that the goodwill of parents and teachers that had seen a successful return to school would be lost by the lack of access to testing, she warned.\n\n\"A lot of problems come because teachers are showing symptoms and therefore need to be tested and this affects the schools, especially small ones, because there comes a point when you can't run a school because there aren't enough staff.\"\n\nTeachers and schools needed to be prioritised for testing along with health care professionals, she said.\n\nShe warned that the situation with suspected Covid cases would worsen when children get the usual rounds of seasonal colds and flu.\n\n\"That's going to be really difficult for teachers to be able to manage if they don't have the test and don't have the back-up they need to make those really difficult decisions.\"\n\nHer comments come after a snapshot survey of heads, mainly in primary schools in England, painted a worrying picture of schools struggling to get tests for pupils or staff.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers survey, which had 736 responses from its 30,000 members, suggested that, where a suspected Covid case had hit a school, the system of public health support was not working well.\n\nOf those who replied, 82% had children not attending because they could not get a test, while 87% had children not attending while waiting for results.\n\nThis compared to 14% with confirmed cases of Covid-19.\n\nNAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"Tests for Covid-19 need to be readily available for everyone so that pupils and staff who get negative results can get back into school quickly.\n\n\"But we are hearing the same thing repeatedly from our members across the country. Chaos is being caused by the inability of staff and families to successfully get tested when they display symptoms.\n\n\"This means schools are struggling with staffing, have children missing school, and ultimately that children's education is being needlessly disrupted.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said 99.9% of schools were open with the vast majority of pupils attending.\n\n\"Where staff or children have symptoms of Covid-19, testing capacity is the highest it has ever been, and we are working to provide further priority access for teachers.\n\n\"Schools only need to identify close contacts and ask them to self-isolate if and when a case is confirmed from a positive test result.\n\n\"Close contacts of confirmed cases must follow the full 14 day self-isolation period and should only seek a test if they have symptoms.\"", "The musician had been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.\n\nHe is best known for his performances on the Black Sabbath frontman's critically-acclaimed debut album, Blizzard of Ozz, and was also the drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep.\n\nOsbourne wrote on Facebook: \"It's been 39 years since I've seen Lee but he lives for ever on the records he played on for me.\"\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 Ozzy Osbourne This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a tribute posted on the band's Twitter page, fellow Uriah Heep member Mick Box wrote: \"Lee was one of the kindest men on earth, as well as being a brother he was an incredible drummer, singer and song writer!\n\n\"He had a passion for life bar none and was much loved by the fans, as well as anyone who crossed his path! Rock in peace my friend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Uriah Heep This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Bournemouth in 1947, Kerslake joined Uriah Heep in 1971.\n\nIn the early 1980s he recorded Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman with Ozzy Osbourne.\n\nLee Kerslake (second left) was a drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep\n\nIn 2004, alongside bassist Robert Daisley, Kerslake lost a US Supreme Court appeal to claim royalties for their work on the two albums.\n\nIn December 2018 Kerslake revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer but the same month joined Uriah Heep on stage for a performance in London.", "Guess How Much I Love You was translated into 57 languages and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide\n\nSam McBratney, author of the children's classic book Guess How Much I Love You, has died at the age of 77.\n\nThe author, who was born in Belfast, died on 18 September, his publisher Walker Books announced on Monday.\n\nThe tale of two nutbrown hares, who try to express their affection for each other, became a children's classic.\n\nThe book is best remembered for ending with the now well-known phrase \"I love you to the moon and back\".\n\nThe illustrated children's book, which was first published in 1994, was translated into 57 languages and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.\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\nKaren Lotz, managing director of Walker Books Group, described McBratney as a \"profoundly lovely human being\".\n\n\"You could recognise his voice in a moment, he was an exceptionally talented wordsmith and always knew exactly what children would enjoy hearing the most,\" Ms Lotz said.\n\n\"His legacy of kindness and humour will burn bright and carry on through his stories,\" she added.\n• None Why is a children's book about rabbits being read at weddings?", "The prison, near Devizes, was inspected in August\n\nA prison's response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to it being \"less safe\" and \"less purposeful\", a report found.\n\nInspectors found \"troubling\" conditions at HMP Erlestoke, including violence, indiscipline and cases of self-harm.\n\nA scrutiny visit took place last month to assess how conditions had changed, since heavy restrictions were imposed at the start of the pandemic.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said it had taken \"immediate action\" to address the issues identified in the report.\n\nSome inmates in the segregation unit were held in cells without running water or toilets for weeks at a time, the report found.\n\n\"We are urgently working to identify additional improvements we can make to prisoner safety, and Erlestoke will receive additional staff training and specialist support to help drive down violence,\" the Prison Service spokesman added.\n\nHM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, said the response to the pandemic at the category C prison, near Devizes in Wiltshire, had \"led to a less safe, less decent and less purposeful prison\".\n\n\"Although the amount of time prisoners could spend out of their cells had been increased in the early stages of lockdown, during our visit... most prisoners still only received 45-minute sessions in the morning and the afternoon, and an additional half an hour one evening a week,\" he said.\n\n\"Prisoners reported being frustrated about daily delays in the delivery of this limited regime, and about the lack of activity.\"\n\nThe chief inspector of prisons has received a response which is \"in effect\" an action plan to address the issues\n\nOther concerns raised in the report included:\n\nMr Clarke said it was \"a very troubling visit\" with some issues \"systemic, arising from the apparent inflexibility of the recovery programme\".\n\n\"Well-led and properly supported local innovation and flexibility are now urgently needed to restore the acceptable treatment and conditions of the prisoners held there,\" he added.\n\nHe said he had raised concerns in a letter to Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland, and had received a response which was \"in effect\" an action plan to address the issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This summer's Arctic sea-ice shrank to its second lowest ever extent in the era of satellite observation.\n\nThe floes withdrew to just under 3.74 million sq km (1.44 million sq miles) last week, preliminary data indicates.\n\nThe only time this minimum has been beaten in the 42-year spacecraft record was 2012 when the pack ice was reduced to 3.41 million sq km.\n\nShorter autumn days and encroaching cold mean the floes are now starting to regrow.\n\nIt's normal for Arctic sea-ice to expand through the winter each year and then melt back again in the summer, but the September minima, accounting for some variability, are getting deeper and deeper as the polar north warms.\n\nThe downward trend since satellites started routinely monitoring the floes is about 13% per decade, averaged across the month.\n\nComputer models project the summer sea-ice will regularly be below one million sq km later this century.\n\nThat's bad news for the climate. Extensive sea-ice helps cool the Arctic and the rest of the planet. In its absence, more sunlight will be absorbed by the darker surface waters of the ocean, which will promote further warming and further loss of ice.\n\nProf Stroeve was in the Arctic when it was at its coldest and darkest\n\n\"The way I look at it now is that we're always going to have low sea-ice; it's never going to go back to the way it was in the 1980s or 1990s,\" said Prof Julienne Stroeve from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at University College London (UCL), UK.\n\n\"But whether or not we get a new record low from one year to the next - that really depends a lot on whatever happens in the summer weather patterns,\" she told BBC News.\n\nTwenty-twelve was notable for some late storms that helped break up diffuse ice going into its September low. Twenty-twenty didn't have that, but there were some very warm conditions, especially on the Siberian side of the ocean, that drove much of the early season melting.\n\nProf Stroeve spent four-and-a-half months working on the ice this past winter, studying conditions with an international team based on the German research vessel Polarstern.\n\nThe ship had set itself the task last October of drifting with the floes for an entire year, although resupply and crew-exchange difficulties as a consequence of the Covid-19 crisis interrupted this plan somewhat.\n\nThe CPOM-UCL scientist used the Polarstern's Mosaic expedition to investigate how accurately spacecraft sensors see the ice.\n\nArtwork: The plan is to fly the Cristal satellite system towards the end of this decade\n\nOf particular interest to her are the radar altimeters that gauge the thickness of the floes by measuring the difference in height between the top surface of the sea-ice and the surface of the ocean - the ice freeboard.\n\nSatellites, such as the European Space Agency's Cryosat-2 platform, can use this observation to infer the depth of the submerged portion of a floe - the ice draft - and thus get a 3D view of the pack ice, not just its 2D extent.\n\nThe complication in this approach is taking account of any snow that might be sitting on the ice. This will change the horizon from which radar measurement signals bounce back to the satellite.\n\nFrom Prof Stroeve's winter experiments, it appears Esa's Cryosat mission has a tendency to gauge the sea-ice as being thicker than it really is.\n\nThe space agency, in collaboration with the European Union, is now developing a new spacecraft called Cristal that would operate with two different radar frequencies.\n\n\"This would give you the opportunity then to retrieve both ice thickness and snow depth on the same satellite system. Snow depth on top of the ice has always been one of those big unknowns that has contributed to our inability to really map sea-ice thickness as well as we'd like,\" said Prof Stroeve.\n\nEsa announced the award on Monday of a €300m (£275m) contract to the aerospace manufacturer Airbus to begin development of Cristal.\n\nInvestigations on the ice should improve the measurements made from space\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Former Prime Minister Theresa May has said she \"cannot support\" the government's plan to override parts of its Brexit agreement with the EU.\n\nShe told MPs the move, which breaks international law, would damage \"trust in the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will be voted on in the Commons on Tuesday, having passed its first hurdle last week.\n\nMinisters say it contains vital safeguards to protect Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union on 1 January.\n\nBut it gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally binding deal governing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say this is a failsafe mechanism in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the section on Northern Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way. The section - know as the protocol - is designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland,\n\nAs well as Mrs May, the other four living former prime ministers - Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron - have spoken out against the bill.\n\nLabour is opposing it and some Conservative MPs have raised concerns over its legal implications.\n\nAmid all this, Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week agreed to amend the bill so that the Commons would get a vote before he could use the powers involved in breaking international law.\n\nBut Mrs May, whose own withdrawal agreement with the EU was repeatedly rejected by the Commons when she was prime minister, told MPs: \"Frankly, my view is to the outside world it makes no difference as to whether a decision to break international law is taken by a minister or by this Parliament - it is still a decision to break international law.\n\n\"This can only weaken the UK in the eyes of the world.\"\n\nShe added that, if the Internal Market Bill were passed, \"our reputation as a country that sticks by its word will have been tarnished\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Maidenhead added that governments around the world had \"trust in the United Kingdom\", asking: \"Where will that trust be in future if they see a United Kingdom willing to break its word and break international law?\"\n\nMrs May also said there would be \"untold damage to the United Kingdom's reputation\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Minister Robin Walker said the government still hoped to reach a trade agreement with the EU.\n\nHe added: \"Through this bill, we are acting to uphold those priorities and deliver commitments we made in our election manifesto that we will provide unfettered access between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and maintain and strengthen the integrity and smooth operation of our internal market.\"\n\nMr Walker also said there were \"harmful legal defaults in some interpretations\" of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"The consequences of this for Northern Ireland in that scenario would be very damaging,\" he told MPs. \"We cannot and will not run that risk.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Paul Blomfield said giving MPs the power to decide whether to use measures in the bill the Commons did not \"resolve the issue\", which was \"the breach of international law\".\n\nSNP Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald called the legislation \"a grubby power-grab which we cannot and will not support\" and that sections of it hung \"like a badge of dishonour around this prime minister's term of office\".", "Toxins made by microscopic algae in water caused the previously unexplained deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana, wildlife officials say.\n\nBotswana is home to a third of Africa's declining elephant population.\n\nThe alarm was raised when elephant carcasses were spotted in the country's Okavango Delta between May and June.\n\nOfficials say a total of 330 elephants are now known to have died from ingesting cyanobacteria. Poaching has been ruled out as a cause of death.\n\nCyanobacteria are toxic bacteria which can occur naturally in standing water and sometimes grow into large blooms known as blue-green algae.\n\nScientists warn that climate change may be making these incidents - known as toxic blooms - more likely, because they favour warm water.\n\nWarning: Some people may find an image below upsetting\n\nThe findings follow months of tests in specialist laboratories in South Africa, Canada, Zimbabwe and the US.\n\nMany of the dead elephants were found near watering holes, but until now the wildlife authorities had doubted that the bacteria were to blame because the blooms appear on the edges of ponds and elephants tend to drink from the middle.\n\n\"Our latest tests have detected cyanobacterial neurotoxins to be the cause of deaths. These are bacteria found in water,\" the Department of Wildlife and National Parks' Principal Veterinary Officer Mmadi Reuben told a press conference on Monday.\n\nThe deaths \"stopped towards the end of June 2020, coinciding with the drying of [water] pans\", AFP quotes him as saying.\n\nReports in June noted that tusks had not been removed, meaning poaching was not seen as a likely explanation.\n\nAnthrax poisoning has also been ruled out, according to senior wildlife department official Cyril Taolo.\n\nBut questions still remain about the deaths, Mr Reuben told reporters.\n\n\"We have many questions still to be answered such as why the elephants only and why that area only. We have a number of hypotheses we are investigating.\"\n\nHundreds of carcasses were spotted with the help of aerial surveys earlier this year.\n\nDr Niall McCann, of the UK-based charity National Park Rescue, previously told the BBC that 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\nTwenty-five elephants recently died in a group in neighbouring Zimbabwe. Test samples have been sent to the UK for analysis.", "Maples are known by the scientific name, Acer\n\nOne in five maple species is threatened in the wild, according to the first full assessment of extinction risks.\n\nKnown for the vivid colour of their autumn leaves, the trees are popular in parks and gardens.\n\nBut in their natural habitats, they face a myriad of threats, including unsustainable logging, climate change, deforestation and forest fires.\n\nBotanists are calling for urgent action to protect rare maple trees.\n\nAnd they say seeds should be stored as an insurance policy against extinction.\n\nThe assessment of all 158 species of maple is part of an effort to map the conservation status of all tree species by the end of 2020. It was carried out by the group, Botanic Gardens Conservation International.\n\nConservation manager Dan Crowley told BBC News: \"Maples are some of our most familiar trees, particularly in autumn when they give us those wonderful displays of yellow, orange, red and purple colours.\n\n\"And whilst they are common in some of our open spaces, spaces where they are highly valued, several species are also highly threatened in the wild.\"\n\nMost wild maple species are found in China\n\nThe scientists say action is needed to ensure there is active conservation in protected forests where maples grow.\n\nAnd as a back-up, rare seeds should be collected and stored in botanic gardens.\n\nWhat we see in gardens and parks is just a small selection of the vast number found in the wild.\n\nAnd many of the specimens seen in urban spaces are grown from a small number of seeds collected by early plant hunters, with only limited genetic diversity.\n\nCurrently, 14 species of maple tree, including four that are critically endangered, are missing from arboretums and botanical gardens.\n\nDan Crowley added: \"We're highly responsible for the threats that some of these species face including urban development, agriculture and timber harvesting and we have the capabilities to conserve the species in the wild and also in our living collections, and we should act to do. \"\n\nThe paperbark maple has ornamental leaves and bark\n\nChina holds the greatest diversity of maple trees, with a total of 92 species. But threatened species also occur in other parts of Asia and the Americas.\n\nThe North American sugar maple is famous for giving us maple syrup, a favourite pancake topping for many.\n\nTwo little-known close relatives of the tree can be found in Mexico, where they are threatened by grazing, logging and forest fires.\n\nCommenting on the study, Kathy Willis, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, said: \"These trees provide a number of important ecosystem services and their loss is not just a loss of a pretty iconic tree but also all the important benefits they provide to humans - maple syrup being but one of them.\"", "The UK is at a \"critical point\" in the coronavirus pandemic and \"heading in the wrong direction\", the government's chief medical adviser will warn.\n\nProf Chris Whitty believes the country is facing a \"very challenging winter period\" and is to hold a televised briefing at 11:00 BST.\n\nIt comes after the prime minister spent the weekend considering whether to introduce further measures in England.\n\nOn Sunday, a further 3,899 daily cases and 18 deaths were reported in the UK.\n\nThe prime minister is understood to be considering a two-week mini lockdown in England - being referred to as a \"circuit breaker\" - in an effort to stem widespread growth of the virus.\n\nHe held a meeting at Downing Street on Sunday, along with Prof Whitty, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, to discuss possible measures.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the view from No 10 was that while doing nothing \"was not an option\", neither was a full national lockdown, and that whatever measures are imposed could be turned \"off and on\" throughout the winter.\n\nAsked about reports of disagreements among cabinet ministers about whether or not to impose a second lockdown, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"A conversation, a debate, is quite proper and that is exactly what you'd expect.\n\n\"Everyone recognises there is a tension between... the virus and the measures we need to take, and the economy and ensuring people's livelihoods are protected.\"\n\nHe added it was \"very clear when you follow the data\" that the UK is \"at this tipping point where we may need to go further\".\n\nAt the briefing later, Prof Whitty will be joined by the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, to present the latest data.\n\nProf Whitty is expected to say: \"The trend in the UK is heading in the wrong direction and we are at a critical point in the pandemic.\n\n\"We are looking at the data to see how to manage the spread of the virus ahead of a very challenging winter period.\"\n\nThe two scientists are expected to explain how the virus is spreading and the potential scenarios as the winter approaches.\n\nThey are also expected to share data on other countries who are experiencing a second wave, and explain how the UK could face similar situations.\n\nCommenting on the upcoming announcement, Mr Shapps said: \"I've heard their briefing and it is very stark.\"\n\nProf Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were the mainstays of the Downing Street press conferences when the virus was at its peak.\n\nSo you can assume that their briefing on the latest data will not convey good news.\n\nThe two men spent much of Sunday afternoon behind Downing Street's black door, poring over the data with the health secretary, the chancellor, senior officials and the prime minister himself.\n\nWhat has been concerning some of those inside No 10 are predictions that there could be a significant number of deaths a day from Covid by the end of next month unless further action is taken.\n\nMinisters agree that there should not be a full national lockdown, but there are tensions around the cabinet table over precisely which, more limited measures, to take.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Hancock said that with hospital admissions for the disease doubling \"every eight days or so\", further action was needed to prevent more deaths.\n\nHe warned the country was facing a \"tipping point\", as the government considers further restrictions.\n\n\"If everybody follows the rules then we can avoid further national lockdown,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would support any new measures but warned that a second national lockdown was becoming more likely because the Test and Trace programme was in a state of \"near collapse\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he would meet council leaders on Monday and then recommend any London-specific measures to ministers.\n\nHe believes the capital city may be just \"two or three days\" behind the hotspots of the North West and North East of England.\n\nMore areas in north-west England, West Yorkshire and the Midlands, will face further local restrictions from Tuesday, taking the number of people affected by increased local measures in the UK to around 13.5 million.\n\nThe development comes as, nationally, daily case numbers approach the 5,000 new cases a day the UK saw in April, at the peak of the epidemic.\n\nHowever, back then, there was no mass testing so it is not known exactly how many cases there really were. Best estimates suggest there were actually around 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March.\n\nOver the weekend the government announced that people in England who refuse an order to self-isolate could be fined up to £10,000 from 28 September.\n\nHowever, the government is facing resistance from some senior Conservative MPs who are concerned that ministers are imposing new coronavirus restrictions without giving Parliament a say.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act 2020, which became law in March, gave the government wide-ranging powers in order to manage the pandemic.\n\nBut Sir Graham Brady, who represents Tory backbenchers, said he would table an amendment which would require the government to put any new measures to a vote of MPs.\n\nSir Graham said ministers had \"got into the habit of ruling by decree\" on the issue, citing the \"imposition\" of the rule of six limit on social gatherings.\n\nMeanwhile, Lady Hale, the former president of the Supreme Court, said Parliament had \"surrendered\" control to ministers during the pandemic, in an essay seen by the Guardian.", "The incident happened in the Santander Triathalon last weekend\n\nA Spanish athlete is being applauded on social media after he sacrificed a top tier win in the 2020 Santander Triathlon to give it to a competitor who took a wrong turn on the course.\n\nBritish athlete James Teagle was on course to win third place in the competition in Spain last weekend when he made a mistake metres from the finish.\n\nDiego Méntrida overtook him but noticed the error and stopped to allow Teagle to cross first.\n\n\"He deserved it,\" Méntrida said later.\n\nThe race took place on 13 September but footage from the race has spread on social media in the past day, as many congratulate 21-year-old Méntrida for his show of sportsmanship.\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 diegomentrida 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\nOn Friday Méntrida was awarded honorary third place by the organisers and the same €300 (£274) prize money as Teagle, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.\n\n\"This is something my parents and my club taught me since I was a child. In my view it should be a normal thing to do,\" Méntrida wrote on Instagram on Saturday where he thanked followers for applauding him.\n\nTeagle's wrong turn happened less than 100m from the end of the race when he mistakenly ran towards spectators in a fenced area.\n\n\"He didn't notice the signs or they were misaligned,\" Méntrida told Eurosport after the race.\n\nMéntrida had been behind Teagle and overtook him to continue on the final stretch - but then slowed his pace to allow his competitor to catch up.\n\nTeagle shook hands with Méntrida in gratitude and stepped over the finishing line.\n\n\"When I saw that he had missed the route, I just stopped. James deserved this medal,\" Méntrida told Eurosport, adding that he would do the same a second time.\n\nThe race winner Javier Gomez Noya described his gesture as \"the best in history\".\n\nFootballer Adrián San Miguel said on Twitter that it demonstrated \"the real values of sport\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adrián San Miguel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The move to level 4 should not come as a surprise given the warning from the UK's two most senior pandemic advisers this morning.\n\nInfections are rising - although some experts question whether the situation is as dire as Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance set out when they raised the prospect of 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nCases were always expected to increase at this time of year when respiratory viruses tend to circulate more coupled with the continued re-opening of society.\n\nCertainly the trajectory of countries like France and Spain is not as sharp as the worst-case scenario put forward.\n\nBut it is clear the government wants to act early this time - one of the big criticisms is that they were slow to introduce lockdown in March, which resulted in more deaths.\n\nLevel 4 paves the way for extra restrictions to be introduced with an announcement expected on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials are very aware a fine balance needs to be navigated, which is why a full lockdown is not on the cards.\n\nSchools will certainly be protected.\n\nBut any restrictions have a cost to society. Go too far and the risk is the cure becomes worse than the disease.", "The Emotions in 1977 (left-right): Pamela, Wanda and Sheila Hutchinson\n\nPamela Hutchinson, a member of the Grammy-winning R&B group The Emotions, has died at the age of 61.\n\nShe was the youngest sister of the band's core members Sheila, Wanda and Jeanette Hutchinson, and sang on their biggest hit single Best Of My Love.\n\nNews of her death was confirmed on The Emotions' Facebook page.\n\n\"In loving memory, we are saddened to announce the passing of our sister, Pamela Rose Hutchinson, on Friday, September 18, 2020,\" a statement read.\n\n\"Pam succumbed to health challenges that she'd been battling for several years. Now our beautiful sister will sing amongst the angels in heaven in perfect peace.\n\n\"Thank you and as always, You Got The Best of Our Love. The Emotions.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by The Emotions This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by The Emotions\n\nThe band emerged from Chicago in the 1960s, where the sisters had been gospel singers as children.\n\nAfter achieving local success, they signed with the legendary R&B label Stax, working with the likes of Isaac Hayes and David Porter.\n\nWhen Stax folded, the group were taken under the wing of Maurice White from Earth, Wind & Fire, who produced two of their albums and co-wrote Best Of My Love.\n\nThe Emotions returned the favour by lending their harmonies to Earth, Wind & Fire's disco anthem Boogie Wonderland in 1979.\n\nPamela joined her sisters just in time for their crossover pop success - although she only appeared on one album, before becoming a permanent member in the early 2000s.\n\nThat incarnation of the band collaborated with rapper Snoop Dogg on a song called Life, from the 2006 album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment.\n\nIn their statement, The Emotions added: \"We appreciate all kind words, photos, and videos you may want to post for our beloved Pamela and of course your loving prayers.\n\n\"A life so beautifully lived deserves to be beautifully remembered. We love you, Pamela!\"\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.", "Two theatres in The Lowry arts centre in Salford are being converted into makeshift courtrooms to help clear the current backlog of cases.\n\nIt's one of the latest venues to be taken over as a so-called Nightingale Court by the Ministry of Justice.\n\nThe arts venue will host trials in three temporary courtrooms during the daytimes from Monday to Fridays.\n\nIn the evenings and weekends, the venue will stage shows and open its galleries again using funds from the court deal.\n\nThe Lowry saw about 95% of its income disappear overnight when it shut in March, and has now lost £16m income, chief executive Julia Fawcett told BBC News.\n\nThe Lowry will be a courthouse during weekdays, and an arts centre in the evenings and weekends\n\nThe real-life courtroom drama will subsidise socially-distanced performances, which wouldn't be otherwise financially viable, she said.\n\nTwo shows - Six, the musical about Henry VIII's wives, and The Gruffalo - will be on the main stage at evenings over Christmas. During the day, trials will take place in the building's two smaller auditoria, the Quays and the Studio, as well as a conference suite.\n\n\"We won't be having everyone sitting in the stalls and the judge being up on stage, it won't be like that,\" Fawcett said. The building also houses art galleries dedicated to LS Lowry.\n\n\"Being able to enter into this partnership with the courts is absolutely key to us being able to begin the engagement with our audiences, to be able to put work back on the stages, to open up our galleries,\" Fawcett said.\n\n\"That would not be possible without this partnership at this point in time.\"\n\nFrom 28 September, The Lowry's temporary courts will host non-custodial criminal cases plus civil, family and tribunal hearings. Pre-lockdown, the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000. It is now over 46,000.\n\nThe venue approached the Ministry of Justice several months ago after realising full audiences would not be able to return for some time, meaning \"we had to consider very seriously the financial sustainability of our organisation\", Fawcett said.\n\n\"Although it sounds unlikely at first pass, it seemed to us that the courts have a need for capacity because of social distancing, we have a desire to get our buildings and programmes open, and taking the two challenges together allows us to begin to see the building reopened.\"\n\nThe first 10 Nightingale Courts were announced in July. The Lowry is one of a further eight revealed on Monday. The others are:\n\nMeanwhile, The Lowry is planning its own job retention scheme after furlough ends at the end of October, under which staff will have the option to stay on in a reduced capacity, working only 20% of their contracts on 20% of their pre-pandemic pay. That will avoid mass redundancies, Fawcett said.", "One user found that Twitter seemed to favour showing Mitch McConnell's face over Barack Obama's\n\nTwitter is investigating after users discovered its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to black ones.\n\nUsers noticed when two photos - one of a black face the other of a white one - were in the same post, Twitter often showed only the white face on mobile.\n\nTwitter said it had tested for racial and gender bias during the algorithm's development.\n\nBut it added: \"It's clear that we've got more analysis to do.\"\n\nTwitter's chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal, tweeted: \"We did analysis on our model when we shipped it - but [it] needs continuous improvement.\n\n\"Love this public, open, and rigorous test - and eager to learn from this.\"\n\nThe latest controversy began when university manager Colin Madland, from Vancouver, was troubleshooting a colleague's head vanishing when using videoconference app Zoom.\n\nThe software was apparently mistakenly identifying the black man's head as part of the background and removing it.\n\nBut when Mr Madland posted about the topic on Twitter, he found his face - and not his colleague's - was consistently chosen as the preview on mobile apps, even if he flipped the order of the images.\n\nHis discovery prompted a range of other experiments by users, which, for example, suggested:\n\nTwitter's chief design officer, Dantley Davis, found editing out Mr Madland's facial hair and glasses seemed to correct the problem - \"because of the contrast with his skin\".\n\nResponding to criticism, he tweeted: \"I know you think it's fun to dunk on me - but I'm as irritated about this as everyone else. However, I'm in a position to fix it and I will.\n\n\"It's 100% our fault. No-one should say otherwise.\"\n\nZehan Wang, a research engineering lead and co-founder of the neural networks company Magic Pony, which has been acquired by Twitter, said tests on the algorithm in 2017, using pairs of faces belonging to different ethnicities, had found \"no significant bias between ethnicities (or genders)\" - but Twitter would now review that study.\n\n\"There are many questions that will need time to dig into,\" he said.\n\n\"More details will be shared after internal teams have had a chance to look at it.\"\n\nLate last year, a US government study suggested facial-recognition algorithms were much less accurate at identifying black and Asian faces than white ones.\n\nIn the UK, police officers last year raised concerns about algorithms \"amplifying\" prejudices and called for clearer guidelines on using the technology.\n\nAnd, in June this year, similar concerns led IBM to announce it would no longer offer facial-recognition software for \"mass surveillance or racial profiling\".", "American Bryson DeChambeau produced a wonderful final-round display to win the US Open by six shots and claim the first major title of his career.\n\nThe 27-year-old was the only player to break par at the notoriously difficult Winged Foot, in New York.\n\nRenowned for his big-hitting approach, the world number nine showed maturity and composure to card an impressive three-under 67 to win on six under par.\n\nMatthew Wolff faded on the back nine, shooting 75 to finish second at level.\n\nSouth Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who finished third at two over, and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy were the only non-Americans to place inside the top 10.\n\nWorld number four McIlroy ended joint eighth at six over after a final-day 75 that included two double bogeys, while England's Lee Westwood was a stroke further back.\n\nDeChambeau dedicated the win to his parents, who he said had \"given up so much for me\".\n\nHe began the day two behind 21-year-old overnight leader Wolff and was the only player to shoot an under par round on Sunday.\n\nDeChambeau was firmly in control by the time they hit the final stretch after playing the front nine in 33 shots - two under par - and he then had one birdie and eight pars in his final nine holes.\n\nWolff, who was hoping to become the first debutant to win the championship since Francis Ouimet in 1907, dropped four shots on the run-in as the pressure built.\n\nDeChambeau becomes only the second player to win the men's US Open at Winged Foot with a score under par, joining 1984 champion Fuzzy Zoeller.\n\n\"It's just an honour, it has been a lot of hard work,\" he said\n\n\"At nine, that was when I first thought this could be a reality. I made an eagle, I had shocked myself to do that, and I thought 'I can do it'.\n\n\"Then I said 'no, you have to focus on each and every hole'. Throughout the back nine I kept saying 'no, you still have three, four, five holes to go', whatever it was.\n\n\"I had to keep focused and make sure I executed each shot the best I could do.\"\n• None How DeChambeau bulked up in major hunt\n\nDeChambeau's unique methods have divided opinion since he turned professional in 2016. Fans find them innovative, critics call them irritating.\n\nThe former physics student's experiments have seen him dubbed 'The Scientist', tinkering with oversized grips, cutting all his clubs to the same length and most recently piling on more than 40lbs in the past year.\n\nThat helped turn him into the longest average driver on the PGA Tour last season and he said in the build-up to the US Open he would look to overpower the difficult West Course at Winged Foot.\n\nDeChambeau claims to have been fuelling his muscle growth with a 3,000-3,500 calorie daily diet that packs in 400g of protein, and his length off the tee has helped fuel the debate around whether tournament balls should be introduced.\n\nBut for all the tinkering, chuntering and pursuit of power, the American showed great composure and an air of calmness to execute his game plan on a superb final day at Mamaroneck.\n\nThe obsessive DeChambeau, who makes extensive calculations before each shot, was at the practice range under the floodlights on Saturday night after only hitting three fairways during a third-round 70, and the work paid off.\n\nHe wiped out Wolff's two-shot lead within four holes. Wolff bogeyed the par-three third before DeChambeau rolled in his opening birdie of the day at the fourth.\n\nWhen Wolff dropped another shot at five, DeChambeau was the sole leader.\n\nBoth then bogeyed the eighth to give the rest of the field a sniff, only to card a pair of eagles on the par-five ninth to turn it into a two-horse race.\n\nIt soon became a DeChambeau procession.\n\nA frustrated Wolff, who carded a superb 65 on Saturday to lead on five under, fell away with bogeys at 10 and 14, before a double bogey at 16 ended any slim hopes he held of victory in only his second major appearance.\n\n\"I battled hard. Things just didn't go my way,\" said Wolff. \"But first US Open, second place is something to be proud of.\"\n\nDeChambeau, who finished tied fourth with Wolff at last month's US PGA Championship, rolled in another birdie at 11 and proceeded to complete a bogey-free back nine.\n\nIt meant, as he headed to the 18th tee with a six-shot lead, there would be none of the drama that accompanied the last US Open to be staged at Winged Foot, when Geoff Ogilvy won by one stroke at five over after Phil Mickelson and Colin Montgomerie double-bogeyed the last.\n\nInstead, DeChambeau was able to look into the camera and send love to his family as he walked up the final fairway, before rolling in a par putt and throwing his arms in the air in delight.\n\nHe becomes just the third player after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods to win an NCAA individual title, the US Amateur title and a US Open.\n\n\"There were times that I went to school without any lunch money, and we had to make baloney sandwiches and didn't have anything to eat,\" DeChambeau added.\n\n\"We had some very, very difficult times, but every single day they always wanted the best for me, and they always gave me the opportunity to go golf, go practise, and go get better.\n\n\"This one's for my parents, it's for my whole team. All the work, all the blood, sweat, and tears we put into it, it just means the world to me.\"\n\nMcIlroy's hopes over on the first\n\nFour-time major champion McIlroy said he felt he had a chance if he was within six shots heading into the final day.\n\nThat was the gap to leader Wolff when he teed off on Sunday, but his hopes of winning a second US Open title and first major in six years quickly unravelled with a double bogey at the first.\n\nMcIlroy's tee shot found the fairway and he was on the green in two, only to four-putt from 90 feet after his first attempt failed to get over a ridge in the putting surface and rolled back towards him.\n\nThe 31-year-old added two more bogeys before clawing shots back at the ninth and 11th but a bogey on the 15th and a second double bogey at the 16th saw him fade again.\n\nMcIlroy's was not the only drama on the first, as Harris English, who started the day at level par, lost his ball in the rough to the left of the opening fairway and had to return to the tee.\n\nClub members had been employed as spotters throughout the week, but despite their efforts and those of English and playing partner Xander Schauffele, the ball could not be found within the three-minute time limit.\n\nEnglish recovered to finish in fourth place at three over with Schauffele, one of the favourites before the tournament, a stroke further back.\n\nWorld number one Dustin Johnson, who came into the week with two wins and two second-placed finishes in his past four events, carded a final-round 70 to climb into a tie for sixth on five over par.\n• None Delicious recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank\n• None How well do you know your coffee?", "UK firms have voluntarily returned more than £215m to the government in furlough scheme payments they did not need or took in error.\n\nAccording to HMRC figures, some 80,433 employers have returned cash they were given to help cover workers' salaries.\n\nThe money returned is a tiny part of the £35.4bn claimed under the scheme up until 16 August, the latest date for which statistics are available.\n\nOfficials believe £3.5bn may have been paid out in error or to fraudsters.\n\nHMRC said it welcomed employers who have voluntarily returned grants.\n\nUnder the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) - or furlough scheme - workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first this was all paid for by the government, but firms are now having to make a contribution to wages as well.\n\nAs of 15 September, companies and other bodies had returned £215,756,121 in grants, according to data obtained by the PA news agency through a freedom of information request.\n\nSome of the money was returned, while other firms simply claimed smaller payouts the next time they were given furlough cash.\n\nHMRC said: \"HMRC welcomes those employers who have voluntarily returned CJRS grants to HMRC because they no longer need the grant, or have realised they've made errors and followed our guidance on putting things right.\"\n\nThe CJRS was launched in April to support businesses that could not operate, or had to cut staffing levels, during lockdown. But companies have been urged to repay the taxpayer cash they receive if they feel they can afford to do so.\n\nHousebuilders Redrow, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey have both returned all the furlough money they have claimed. So too have Games Workshop, distribution giant Bunzl and the Spectator magazine.\n\nOthers such as Primark and John Lewis have said they will not claim money under the Jobs Retention Bonus, which pays firms £1,000 for every employee they bring back from furlough and keep employed until the end of January.\n\nThe government has rejected calls to extend the furlough scheme when it ends on 31 October, despite warnings that it could trigger a wave of job cuts.\n\nHMRC said: \"To tackle the impact the pandemic had on people's jobs, businesses and livelihoods, the government introduced one of the most generous and comprehensive packages of support in the world, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\n\"So far, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has helped 1.2 million employers across the UK furlough 9.6 million jobs, protecting people's livelihoods.\"\n• None Rightmove and Compass say no to job retention bonus", "Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething said a regional approach to lockdowns could be considered\n\nA second national coronavirus lockdown in Wales is \"not imminent, but always possible,\" Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said.\n\nIt comes as the UK government has warned of tougher restrictions after a sharp rise in cases across all four nations.\n\nTwo counties in Wales - Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf - have been placed under local lockdowns.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, he said: \"I don't think that's [national lockdown] imminent, but it's always possible.\n\n\"We have to make choices each and every day about whether local restrictions are required.\n\n\"If we get to the point where we have a significant group of local restrictions we need to think about whether a regional approach is needed or whether actually we need to take a national approach.\"\n\nCaerphilly was the first Welsh county to go under a local lockdown\n\nMr Gething added there was an \"increasing tide\" of cases and most were in the south-eastern part of Wales.\n\nHe said: \"Every day we have to consider the picture across Wales, comparing where we start this week to where we started last week and the week before.\n\n\"We'll have to make more choices this morning, there'll be more figures available and I'll have to take on board the advice and make a decision, together with the first minister, but it's entirely possible more restrictions could happen this week.\"\n\nMr Gething also criticised a lack of communication between the UK and Welsh governments after England's health secretary Matt Hancock announced people there could be fined up to £10,000 if they failed to self-isolate.\n\nHe said: \"I'm really disappointed that announcement didn't come after a proper four-nation engagement around it.\n\n\"I'd seen briefings in the papers but that's not the same as having a proper grown-up conversation with ministers across all four nations of the UK. That's the way I think business should be done.\"\n\nThe UK government said: \"We have confronted this virus as one United Kingdom, working with the devolved administrations and local partners to get through the pandemic.\n\n\"There have been hundreds of meetings and calls with the devolved administrations and local partners since the pandemic began. This has included Cobr meetings, committees and dozens of other meetings involving UK government ministers and officials. This will continue to be a key part of the planning and communication of the overall response.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock warned of more stringent rules in England on The Andrew Marr Show\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government would \"consider\" imposing similar fines, but would also look at ways to support people to self-isolate.\n\nLater on Monday, Chris Whitty, the UK government's chief medical adviser, is expected to say the trend of coronavirus cases in the UK is \"heading in the wrong direction\".\n\nMr Gething said on Monday morning he had not seen a copy of what Prof Whitty would be saying.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance says measures must be taken to stop the spread of Covid-19\n\nThe UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action, the government's chief scientific adviser has warned.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance said that would be expected to lead to about \"200-plus deaths per day\" a month after that.\n\nIt comes as the PM prepares to chair a Cobra emergency committee meeting on Tuesday morning, then make a statement in the House of Commons.\n\nOn Monday, a further 4,368 daily cases were reported in the UK, up from 3,899.\n\nA further 11 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test, although these figures tend to be lower over the weekend and on Mondays due to reporting delays.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street alongside chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, Sir Patrick stressed the figures given were not a prediction, but added: \"At the moment we think the epidemic is doubling roughly every seven days.\n\n\"If, and that's quite a big if, but if that continues unabated, and this grows, doubling every seven days... if that continued you would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of October per day.\n\n\"Fifty-thousand cases per day would be expected to lead a month later, so the middle of November say, to 200-plus deaths per day.\n\n\"The challenge, therefore, is to make sure the doubling time does not stay at seven days.\n\n\"That requires speed, it requires action and it requires enough in order to be able to bring that down.\"\n\nProf Whitty added that if cases continued to double every seven days as Sir Patrick had set out, then the UK could \"quickly move from really quite small numbers to really very large numbers because of that exponential process\".\n\n\"So we have, in a bad sense, literally turned a corner, although only relatively recently,\" he said.\n\nProf Whitty and Sir Patrick also said:\n\nThe government's most senior science and medical advisers are clearly concerned about the rise in cases that have been seen in recent weeks.\n\nThe warning about 50,000 cases a day by mid-October is stark. We don't know for sure how many cases there were at the peak in spring (as there was very limited testing in place) although some estimates put it at 100,000.\n\nHowever, they were also at pains to point out it was not a prediction - for one thing the 'rule of six' which came in just a week ago has not had time to have an impact.\n\nEven among the government's own advisers there is disagreement over whether what we are seeing is the start of an exponential rise or just a gradual increase in cases, which is what you would expect at this time of year as respiratory viruses tend to circulate more with the reopening of society.\n\nSpain and France, which both started seeing rises earlier than the UK, have not seen the sort of rapid trajectory that was presented by the advisers.\n\nInstead, what was quite telling was the clear social messaging. Even those who are not at a high risk of complications should, they say, play their part in curbing the spread of the virus - because if it spreads then difficult decisions will be needed that have profound societal consequences.\n\nBut the big unanswered question is what ministers will do next. There is talk of further restrictions being introduced.\n\nA couple of things are in our favour that were not in the spring. Better treatments for those who get very sick are now available, while the government is in a stronger position to protect the vulnerable groups.\n\nShould ministers wait and see what happens? Or should they crack down early, knowing that will have a negative impact in other ways?\n\nProf Whitty also said that even though different parts of the UK were seeing cases rising at different rates, and even though some age groups were affected more than others, the evolving situation was \"all of our problem\".\n\nHe added that evidence from other countries showed infections were \"not staying just in the younger age groups\" but were \"moving up the age bands\".\n\nHe said mortality rates from Covid-19 were \"significantly greater\" than seasonal flu, which killed around 7,000 annually or 20,000 in a bad year.\n\nMeanwhile, restrictions on households mixing indoors will be extended to all of Northern Ireland from 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAreas in north-west England, West Yorkshire, the Midlands and four more counties in south Wales will also face further local restrictions from Tuesday.\n\nAnd additional lockdown restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland in the next couple of days, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be with four-nations alignment, but if necessary it will have to happen without that,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"It may be the case that UK-wide measures will be taken but that will require all four governments to exercise our varying share of power and responsibility to do so.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with leaders of the devolved administrations on Monday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a new exemption to local restrictions in England for formal and informal childcare arrangements, covering those looking after children under the age of 14 or vulnerable adults.\n\n\"It does not allow for play-dates or parties, but it does mean that a consistent childcare relationship that is vital for somebody to get to work is allowed,\" he told the Commons.\n\nIt is not a question of \"if\".\n\nDowning Street will have to introduce extra restrictions to try to slow down the dramatic resurgence of coronavirus.\n\nYou would only have to have dipped into a minute or two of the sober briefing from the government's most senior doctor and scientist on Monday morning to see why.\n\nWhat is not yet settled however, is exactly what, exactly when, and indeed, exactly where these restrictions will be.\n\nHere's what it is important to know:\n\nThe government is not considering a new lockdown across the country right now.\n\nThe prime minister is not about to tell everyone to stay at home as he did from the Downing Street desk in March.\n\nMinisters have no intention at all to close schools again.\n\nNor, right now, are they planning to tell every business, other than the non-essential, to close again.\n\nWhat is likely is some kind of extra limits on our huge hospitality sector.\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister held a meeting in Downing Street with Prof Whitty, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock to discuss possible further measures for England.\n\nAsked about reports of disagreements among cabinet ministers about whether or not to impose a second lockdown, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"A conversation, a debate, is quite proper and that is exactly what you'd expect.\n\n\"Everyone recognises there is a tension between... the virus and the measures we need to take, and the economy and ensuring people's livelihoods are protected.\"\n\nProf Peter Horby, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said there was a risk the UK could face a repeat of the \"catastrophic events\" around the world early this year, with intensive care units \"rammed full of very sick patients\".\n\n\"I really don't buy that argument that we should slow down... the mistakes that were made in March were nearly all being too cautious and too slow,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nHowever, Prof Karol Sikora, from the University of Buckinghamshire and former director of the World Health Organization's cancer programme, said blanket restrictions were \"not the way forward\".\n\n\"The most important thing is to target the groups that we need to protect and to let everybody else get on with their business - schools, shops and so on,\" he told the programme.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, has also urged the government to avoid a second national lockdown.\n\n\"This rapid spike in infections was not inevitable, but a consequence of the government's incompetence and failure to put in place an adequate testing system,\" shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said.\n\n\"The government must do what it takes to prevent another lockdown, which would cause unimaginable damage to our economy and people's wellbeing.\"", "Vladimir Putin and Arkady Rotenberg have been friends since childhood\n\nOne of Vladimir Putin's closest friends may have used Barclays Bank in London to launder money and dodge sanctions, leaked documents suggest.\n\nBillionaire Arkady Rotenberg has known the Russian president since childhood.\n\nFinancial restrictions, or sanctions, were imposed on Mr Rotenberg by the US and the EU in 2014, which means Western banks could face serious consequences for doing business with him.\n\nBarclays says it met all its legal and regulatory duties.\n\nA leak of confidential files - banks' \"suspicious activity reports\" - reveal how companies believed to be controlled by Mr Rotenberg kept the secret accounts.\n\nThe documents, known as the FinCEN Files, have been seen by the BBC's Panorama programme.\n\nIn March 2014 the US hit Russia with economic sanctions following the annexation of Crimea in Ukraine.\n\nThe Treasury Department designated Mr Rotenberg, 68, and his brother Boris, 63, \"members of the Russian leadership's inner circle\".\n\nThe pair had sparred and trained in the same judo gym as Putin when they were young.\n\nThe businessman and Russian president attending judo training in Sochi last year\n\nIn recent years, Arkady Rotenberg's companies built roads, a gas pipeline and a power station through contracts awarded by the Russian state.\n\nThe US Treasury said the brothers \"provided support to Putin's pet projects\" and \"made billions of dollars in contracts for Gazprom and the Sochi Winter Olympics awarded to them by Putin\".\n\nIn 2018, the US added Arkady Rotenberg's son Igor to its list of sanctioned individuals.\n\nThe aim of the sanctions is to cut off named people from the entire Western financial system.\n\nYet the Rotenbergs appear to have continued moving cash through the UK and US.\n\nIn 2008, Barclays opened an account for a company called Advantage Alliance.\n\nThe leaked documents show the company moved £60m between 2012 and 2016. Many of the transactions occurred after the Rotenberg brothers had been sanctioned.\n\nIn July this year, an investigation by the US Senate accused the Rotenbergs of using secretive purchases of expensive art to evade sanctions - one of the companies involved in the scheme was Advantage Alliance.\n\nUS investigators concluded there was strong evidence that Advantage Alliance was owned by Arkady Rotenberg, and that the company had used its Barclays account in London to buy millions of dollars of art for him.\n\nA report noted how \"secrecy, anonymity, and a lack of regulation create an environment ripe for laundering money and evading sanctions\". Auction houses in the US and UK \"failed to ask basic questions\" about the buyers of the art.\n\nDespite the sanctions, Arkady appears to have paid $7.5m to acquire the René Magritte painting La Poitrine.\n\nIn 17 June 2014 a company linked to Arkady sent the cash from Moscow to Alliance's Barclays account in London. The following day Barclays sent the cash to the seller in New York.\n\nIn April 2016, Barclays began an internal investigation of multiple accounts it suspected of being linked to the Rotenbergs.\n\nSix months later, the bank closed Advantage's account after becoming concerned that it was being used to move suspect funds.\n\nBut the leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs) show that other Barclays accounts with suspected links to the Rotenbergs remained open until 2017.\n\nOne such company was Ayrton Development Limited.\n\nAccording to the files, Barclays were suspicious of Ayrton's activities and concluded that \"[Arkady] Rotenberg is the true owner of Ayrton\".\n\nBarclays did not comment when asked by Panorama about how many accounts it suspects were owned by the Rotenbergs.\n\nA spokesperson for Barclays said: \"We believe that we have complied with all our legal and regulatory obligations including in relation to US sanctions.\"\n\n\"Given the filing of a SAR is not itself evidence of any actual wrongdoing, we would only terminate a client relationship after careful and objective investigation and analysis of the evidence, balancing potential financial crime suspicions with the risk of 'de-banking' an innocent customer.\"\n\nThe FinCen Files is a leak of secret documents which reveal how major banks have allowed dirty money around the world. They also show how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 400 journalists around the world. Panorama has led research for the BBC.\n\nFinCEN Files: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #FinCENfiles; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"FinCEN Files\" Watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only).", "Alexei Navalny was flown to Berlin for treatment in August after falling ill\n\nThe German government's announcement on Wednesday that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been poisoned by a sophisticated nerve agent known as a Novichok makes this case even more serious than it already was.\n\nMost importantly, it will increase suspicions that, despite its denials, the Russian state was behind his poisoning.\n\nNovichok - meaning \"newcomer\" in Russian - applies to a group of synthetically produced nerve agents originally developed by the Soviet Union in a laboratory in Uzbekistan before the USSR disintegrated in 1991.\n\nWestern intelligence agencies believe that Novichok has since been refined into a hard-to-detect assassination weapon in covert techniques practised by operatives of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, including being smeared on to door handles.\n\nNovichok can be deployed in both liquid and solid forms.\n\nTwo of those operatives were widely believed to have poisoned the Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018 using Novichok. A local Wiltshire resident, Dawn Sturgess, subsequently died after handling the contents of the discarded perfume bottle used to disguise the nerve agent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the trail of Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who UK police believe carried out a nerve agent attack in Salisbury in March 2018\n\nWestern governments reacted forcefully to this failed assassination attempt on British soil. In a co-ordinated move, 20 countries expelled more than a hundred Russian diplomats and spies, dealing a huge blow to Moscow's intelligence-gathering networks in the West.\n\nEven covert agents in deep cover inside Britain, whom Moscow believed were operating undetected by MI5, the security service, were ordered to leave.\n\nThis was all in marked contrast to the mild British government response - since criticised - to the poisoning of former KGB officer and defector Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. After the agonising death in a London hospital by radioactive Polonium poisoning of this former Russian colonel, branded as a traitor by the Kremlin, an investigation dragged on for years while the two Russian suspects remained at large in Russia.\n\nCritics believe the lack of a forceful response by the West encouraged hardliners in the Kremlin to sanction the targeting abroad of those considered traitors to the Russian state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: 'Putin is the tsar of corruption'\n\nToday, Alexei Navalny has no shortage of enemies. As a vigorous campaigner against corruption, he has amassed millions of young followers but also angered those people whose nefarious activities have been exposed in his popular videos. There are plenty of people both in government and in business circles who would like to see him removed from the public sphere.\n\nBut Novichok, unlike naturally occurring toxins that can be refined from natural products found in the countryside, is not something casually cooked up by amateurs. It is a military-grade chemical weapon that tends to point the finger of suspicion towards the Russian state.\n\nAlthough Mr Navalny appeared to be poisoned on Russian soil, rather than in a Nato member country, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said \"there were now very serious questions which only the Russian government could and must answer\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab echoed that comment, saying that the Russian government had a clear case to answer about what happened to Mr Navalny. He said Britain would now work closely with Germany and other allies to show there were consequences for using banned chemical weapons. In Washington, the White House National Security Council issued a statement saying it would work with allies to hold those in Russia accountable.\n\nThe former British Army officer and chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, has been warning for years that the unchecked use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians alike in populated areas by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria sends a dangerous signal.\n\nHow governments now react to this latest use of a Novichok nerve agent against a public political figure will be influenced in part by the findings of the global chemical watchdog, the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW.\n\nThe chairman of Britain's Parliamentary Defence Committee, Tobias Ellwood MP, tweeted: \"Russia/Novichok - again. A test for the West on how we collectively respond.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Coffee chain Costa Coffee has said that up to 1,650 roles are at risk of being cut, as it is forced to reduce costs because of the impact of coronavirus.\n\nIt says there are still \"high levels of uncertainty\" as to when trade will regain pre-pandemic volumes.\n\nThe firm is consulting with staff to try to find roles in other parts of the business for those facing redundancy.\n\nCosta Coffee said the decision to cut jobs was an \"extremely difficult\" one to make.\n\n\"Our baristas are the heart of the Costa business and I am truly sorry that many now face uncertainty following today's news,\" said Neil Lake, managing director for Costa Coffee UK and Ireland.\n\nThe company is suggesting the role of assistant store manager will be removed in branches across the UK.\n\nMost of its UK coffee shops that were closed during lockdown have now reopened, but the impact of Covid-19 remains \"challenging\", the company said in a statement.\n\nDespite benefiting from measures such as the government's cut in VAT for the hospitality industry and the \"eat out to help out\" scheme, the company said, \"there remain high levels of uncertainty as to when trade will recover to pre-Covid levels\".\n\nIt added that it had already frozen all pay increases within its support centre and cut all non-essential expenditure.\n\nCosta employs 16,000 people in its wholly owned coffee shops, and there are a further 10,500 people working in its franchise network.\n\n\"We have had to make these difficult decisions to protect the business and ensure we safeguard as many jobs as possible for our 16,000 team members, whilst emerging stronger, ready for future growth\", the company said.\n\nIt is the latest food and drink company to make cuts following the lockdown and the resulting lack of shoppers and office workers in town centres.\n\nBusinesses that rely on lunchtime or after-work trade from offices have been particularly hard hit.\n\nLast week, sandwich chain Pret A Manger announced it would be cutting 3,000 jobs, a third of its workforce.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at the business recovery firm, Begbies Traynor, said many firms were currently trying to cut costs.\n\n\"Attempts are being made by some businesses to work with local councils in order to utilise outside spaces where consumers feel more comfortable, but with winter approaching, they are running out of time\", she commented.\n\n\"It's likely that as businesses try to recoup their losses from the past few months, many others will follow a similar suit to Costa Coffee.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBriton's Kyle Edmund lost to US Open top seed Novak Djokovic, while compatriot Cameron Norrie advanced to the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time.\n\nEdmund, 25, unexpectedly won the first set but ultimately struggled to keep up with the world number one's intensity.\n\nThe 33-year-old maintained the level that has helped him stay unbeaten in 2020 and won 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4 6-2.\n\nThe world number 76 upset ninth seed Diego Schwartzman in the first round and will face Spanish world number 99 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina next.\n\nDjokovic is seeking his 18th Grand Slam title and plays German 28th seed Jan-Lennard Struff in the third round.\n\nDjokovic has looked imperious all year, winning January's Australian Open, February's Dubai Tennis Championships, and, more recently, the Western & Southern Open on Saturday.\n\nBut British number two Edmund looked unfazed and used his characteristically powerful forehand on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nDjokovic repeatedly turned to drop-shots, but the tactic was fruitless as the Briton saw them coming every time in a high-quality first set.\n\nA 100mph forehand winner and an ace down the middle were two highlights for the world number 44 en route to winning the set with compatriots Andy Murray and Dan Evans watching from the stands.\n\nDjokovic handles the heat to turn the tide\n\nThe world number one did not look as commanding as usual, perhaps due to fatigue from just one day of rest after the previous tournament or distraction from plans to front a new association aiming to increase the power of the players.\n\nBut Edmund looked increasingly uncomfortable in the heat, changing between games as his kit had become soaked because of the humidity in New York.\n\n\"You could see how much both of us were sweating.,\" Djokovic said. \"That's Grand Slam, best-of-five matches.\"\n\nThe top seed kept his cool nevertheless. A double fault put him a break up and he went on to serve for the set, sealing it with an ace out wide.\n\nBoth players' levels dropped in an error-strewn third set. Edmund fought to save one break point early on, but his backhand sailed long to give Djokovic a 2-1 lead.\n\nDjokovic won 11 points in a row to break a second time, though Edmund took advantage of a short second serve to claw a game back.\n\nThe top seed ran forward to pick up a drop-shot and tapped it past Edmund to go 5-2 up and eventually held to love to win a second set.\n\nWorld number one 'brings the energy' to seal victory\n\nLooking increasingly like the player who has now won 25 matches in a row this year, Djokovic roared as Edmund sent the ball into the net to lose his first service game in the fourth set.\n\nThe eight-time Australian Open winner's volume continued to increase as he shouted \"there's so much energy in here\" to an empty stadium after holding serve to take a 3-1 lead.\n\n\"We miss the fans. We miss the noise and the energy,\" Djokovic explained. \"I like to bring the energy on court.\"\n\nA backhand wide gave Djokovic another break and he served two aces and landed an easy smash for yet another hold to love and victory.\n\nEdmund's exit leaves three British men in the draw, with Murray and Evans in second-round action on Thursday.\n\nNorrie will face Davidovich Fokina, an easier prospect than expected in the third round after the Spaniard claimed a shock win against 24th seed Hubert Hurkacz.\n\nThe British number three will be glad to have come through in straight sets after a five-set epic against Schwartzman on Monday.\n\nAfter swiftly taking the first two sets, Coria briefly looked as though he would make things more challenging with a string of break points in the third.\n\nBut Norrie held his nerve and eventually broke to take a 5-4 lead as Coria's forehand flew into the net before the Briton served out the match.\n\n\"I'm pleased to be through to the third round,\" Norrie told Amazon Prime. \"I felt great. I had a lot of time over lockdown to prepare and get myself physically ready.\n\n\"To get through that match today was good, especially having such a big win against Schwartzman - I was pleased to back it up.\"\n\nIn the men's doubles, Britain's Joe Salisbury - seeded third alongside American Rajeev Ram - reached the second round with a 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 win against Austin Krajicek and Franko Skugor.\n\nFellow Briton Luke Bambridge lost in the first round with Japanese partner Ben McLachlan, as did Ken Skupski, who was playing with Mexico's Santiago Gonzalez.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Should we be concerned?", "Earlier this week Apple's value reached $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined worth of the FTSE 100\n\nUS and Asian stock markets have gone into reverse after shares in America's biggest technology firms tumbled.\n\nCompanies that have powered US markets to record highs - Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook - fell between 4% and 8%.\n\nAnalysts said fears about the economic shock of coronavirus and a possible second wave prompted the sell-off.\n\nThe tech-heavy Nasdaq closed down 5%, the Dow Jones fell almost 3%, and the broad-based S&P 500 lost 3.5%.\n\nIn Asian trading Tokyo's Nikkei index was 1% lower, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down by 1.4%.\n\nCarmaker Tesla, whose shares have soared this year, tumbled 9% on Thursday after falling sharply in the previous two sessions. Another tech heavyweight, Nvidia, ended 9.3% down. Apple's 8% fall meant $150bn (£113bn) was wiped off the value of the iPhone maker.\n\nThe sell-off came after mixed US economic data on Thursday that included a report showing slower services sector growth in August, bigger-than-expected drop in new jobless claims, record job cuts this year and an unexpectedly big trade deficit for July.\n\nWhile the latest weekly initial jobless claims fell more than anticipated, they remain high amid growing worries that employment growth could stall without further economic stimulus.\n\nChicago Federal Reserve president Charles Evans said on Thursday that Congress would need to deliver more fiscal aid. And he indicated that US monetary policy would be eased further and interest rates kept at ultra-low levels for years to help the economy recover its pre-pandemic strength.\n\nGrowing worries about US economic health were underlined by the Vix index, also known as the \"fear gauge\". This reached its highest since mid-July.\n\nSentiment wasn't helped by a warning from US infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci who said there is doubt a Covid-19 vaccine will be developed by the end of October.\n\nThe downturn in the US hit European markets. London's FTSE 100 ended down 1.5% at 5,850 points, and Germany's Dax fell 1.4%.\n\nWall Street had reached fresh highs this week on what Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex, called \"a combination of relatively unfounded vaccine and stimulus speculation\". Markets were now seeing a \"sharp turnaround\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Despite the economy shrinking, US stocks had rallied\n\nOn Wednesday, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed at record levels, and the Dow came within 1.5% of its February peak.\n\nEmily Roland, co-chief investment strategist at John Hancock Investment Management, said markets were due a reality check.\n\n\"Think about the mounting number of risks the market has been shrugging off over the last couple of months. We're 60 days away from the election. That may be an area where investors are getting a bit spooked,\" she said.", "Two-year-old Grace tested negative for coronavirus after attending a centre in Cardiff\n\nA father says he was asked to travel more than 200 miles to get a Covid-19 test for his unwell toddler.\n\nTV presenter Will Millard used the UK government website on 27 August after his daughter Grace, two, developed a high temperature.\n\nMr Millard, from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, was offered a test in Blackburn, Lancashire, before his health board booked a test in Cardiff.\n\nThe UK government has said areas with outbreaks are being made a priority.\n\nThe 37-year-old said: \"I didn't think she had coronavirus but the rules are dead clear - if someone has a temperature then you get a test.\"\n\nHe added he was keen for her to be tested as his father, who had been shielding, was due to visit and health visitors were also due to visit his new baby son.\n\nHe was surprised when told the closest available test was so far away: \"I thought it was a mistake,\" he said.\n\n\"I assumed there was something wrong with the website so I rang 111, who directed me to 119 but they said they were getting the same.\n\n\"I said 'can you post me one' and they said there were no postal tests available.\"\n\nWill Millard says he found the experience had \"frustrating\"\n\nHe decided to tweet Public Health Wales about his predicament.\n\n\"I noticed on Twitter there were people from Bristol complaining they had been sent to Cardiff for their test,\" he said.\n\nHe continued searching and at 17:00 was offered a test in Nottingham, and at about 20:00 he found a test in Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset, which he booked.\n\nThen Fiona Kinghorn, executive director of Cardiff and Vale health board, contacted him on Twitter and arranged for him to go to one of the community testing centres in Cardiff the next day.\n\n\"We turned up at 09:05 and had test result by 16:50 that night. It couldn't have been easier.\"\n\nTesting in priority areas has led to shortages elsewhere\n\n\"The government are putting a lot of pressure on people to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"People can go to do the right thing but if the government aren't keeping up their end of the bargain - you can't expect people to get in the car with a sick child and drive to Manchester.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"The UK government experienced a spike in demand for testing through their lighthouse labs over the weekend, which led to reduced capacity for processing tests across the UK.\n\n\"The UK government has assured us they are working on increasing capacity and expect these issues to be resolved shortly.\"\n\nThe UK government has said prioritising coronavirus testing in high-risk areas has led to shortages in other places, leading to some people with symptoms being asked to drive more than 100 miles for a swab.\n\nIt said areas with fewer Covid-19 cases have had their testing capacity reduced to cope with outbreaks elsewhere.\n\nBut Paul Hunter, a public health expert at the University of East Anglia, said these issues could act as \"big disincentive to being tested\" and result in missing local increases \"early enough to maybe stop more widespread infection\".\n\nPeople in Wales, like the rest of the UK, can make a booking for a coronavirus test at a drive-through centre or a mobile unit.\n\nWales also has community testing units, which are operated by the local health boards, where health care workers have priority\n\nThere are also eight mobile units in Wales operated by the military.", "Leading figures in UK aviation have expressed frustration that the government has still not given backing for Covid-19 testing at airports.\n\nThe head of Southampton, Aberdeen and Glasgow airports accused ministers of \"overseeing the demise of UK aviation\".\n\nAnd the bosses of Virgin Atlantic and Heathrow Airport said \"leadership\" was needed on the testing issue, warning of the huge number of jobs at stake.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had given huge support to the sector.\n\nThe aviation industry sees airport testing as a way for passengers to leave quarantine early, and also help the travel industry get back on its feet after lockdown.\n\nForeign travel was paralysed for several months by the pandemic, with airlines, airports and tour firms shedding thousands of jobs.\n\nDerek Provan, chief executive of AGS Airports, which runs Southampton, Aberdeen and Glasgow, said the sector was seeing more job losses than the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s.\n\n\"That's surely not an accolade any government would like to have,\" he said.\n\nMr Provan said the government was \"overseeing the demise of UK aviation\".\n\nFrance and Germany are already using testing at airports for passengers arriving from countries with a higher infection rate.\n\nMinisters in the UK have for months been considering whether to back testing at UK airports.\n\nThey are said to be looking at a two-test system to reduce the risk of someone who recently contracted the virus giving a \"false negative\" result.\n\nUnder that system two negative results, several days apart, would mean someone would not have to quarantine for the full 14-day period.\n\nShai Weiss, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, said testing was \"essential\" to help kick-start the economy.\n\n\"Without free and fast travel with the US, we won't see a rebound of aviation and this will stall the economic recovery of the UK, which of course is already in recession,\" he said.\n\nA pilot project was set up at Heathrow to trial coronavirus testing but it is currently not in operation because the tests have not been endorsed by the government.\n\nWith the list of countries on the UK's quarantine list changing every week, the boss of Heathrow said travellers to and from Britain were facing \"quarantine roulette\".\n\nHolidaymakers returning from countries on the UK's quarantine list are required to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nCountries are normally added to the list when they record more than 20 cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nLast week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and a number of others on the list.\n\nMinisters are expected to decide later whether Portugal and Greece should be added.\n\nScotland put Greece on its quarantine list following reports of people in the UK testing positive after holidaying on the island of Zakynthos.\n\nJohn Holland-Kaye said the government needed to change its approach. \"I think the government has been very cautious, really focusing on the health crisis and yet we have an unemployment crisis looming.\n\n\"The UK government needs to get behind testing as an alternative to quarantine to save millions of jobs in this country,\" he said.\n\nThe impact of air travel crisis was underlined on Wednesday when Heathrow said it was in talks with unions about pay cuts for about 2,500 staff. The move was needed to protect jobs, the airport said.\n\nAviation bosses also want \"regional travel corridors\" when certain parts of a country have a low infection rate.\n\nMr Provan said calls for regional travel corridors and testing at airports were falling on deaf ears. \"We are not getting any response back from the government.\"\n\nAnd he said that this was causing \"huge frustration\" across an industry that was already having to shed tens of thousands of jobs.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We provided unprecedented support to the aviation industry - taking early action on airport slots, loans, tax deferrals, and paying people's wages through the furlough scheme.\n\n\"While protecting public health remains our priority, we are working closely with experts to keep our approach to quarantine under constant review,\" the spokesman said.", "Online retail giant Amazon has said it will create a further 7,000 UK jobs this year to meet growing demand.\n\nAmazon said it had already added 3,000 roles so far in 2020, and so by the end of the year it will have created a total of 10,000 new jobs.\n\nThis will take its total permanent UK workforce to more than 40,000.\n\nAmazon says the new jobs will be permanent and pay a minimum of £9.50 an hour. It is also recruiting 20,000 seasonal posts for the festive period.\n\nThe company has faced criticism in the past from unions over the way it treats staff and health and safety.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis and lockdowns, which saw many High Street shops temporarily closed, prompted massive growth in online shopping, benefiting online giants such as Amazon.\n\nThe latest retail sales figures showed that UK online sales in July were more than 50% higher than pre-pandemic levels in February.\n\nOnline sales as a proportion of all UK retail sales hit a record high of more than 30% in May, before falling back to more than 28% in July.\n\nAmazon took on thousands of temporary workers during the pandemic, and it says many of them will now be able to move into these new permanent roles.\n\nThe company is recruiting at more than 50 sites. It said the creation of the new roles, which will include engineers, graduates, human resources, IT, health and safety and finance specialists, as well as the teams who will pick, pack and ship customer orders, was in response to growing customer demand.\n\n\"At the centre of the job creation programme are three new, state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in Darlington, Durham and Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, each fitted out with advanced Amazon Robotics technology and each creating more than 1,000 new permanent roles,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\n\"Construction of these new fulfilment centres began last year. Darlington started operations in May and the sites in Durham and Sutton-in-Ashfield will launch later this autumn.\"\n\nAmazon's \"huge expansion\" in the UK \"comes as little surprise, given the massive surge in sales the tech giant has experienced, as the e-commerce sector boomed during the pandemic,\" said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"Despite spending billions of dollars gearing itself up to operate through the coronavirus crisis, Amazon still delivered a huge increase in profits during the second quarter.\n\n\"With expansion planned right across the UK, High Street retailers are going to have to deliver some dramatic changes if they're to compete with the king of e-commerce,\" she added.\n\nThe news that Amazon is creating another 7,000 permanent jobs should perhaps come as no surprise. Amazon has now quadrupled its workforce from 10,000 to 40,000 in the last five years and the onset of COVID-19 has accelerated a very clear trend towards online rather than physical retail.\n\nJust last week, Tesco announced it was creating 16,000 new permanent posts as they reported that online sales which had taken 20 years to reach 9% of their sales took just 20 weeks to nearly double to 16%.\n\nBoth Amazon and Tesco had hired thousands of temporary workers to cope with that demand - both clearly feel this shift is permanent.\n\nAt a time when many people are losing their jobs - announcements of thousands of new jobs are welcome. But the rise and rise of Amazon has been mirrored by the decline and recent fall in overall retail employment.\n\nAs Amazon has added 30,000 jobs in five years, The Office for National Statistics says there are 106,000 fewer total retail jobs over the same period which doesn't even include the COVID impact.\n\nAmazon is often criticised for paying too little tax but taxes are levied on profits and Amazon's retail business works on close to zero profit margins. That is very hard to compete with.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said the pandemic had been a \"challenging time for many businesses\" but that the new Amazon jobs were \"hugely encouraging\".\n\nMany firms - especially High Street retailers - have been cutting jobs in recent months, due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and as the government's jobs retention scheme starts to wind down.\n\nThe number of employees on UK payrolls fell by 730,000 between March to July, according to the most recent figures.\n\nHowever, while many sectors have been hit hard, some companies have been recruiting.\n\nCourier firm DPD and B&Q owner Kingfisher said in June that they would be hiring thousands more staff.\n\nSupermarkets, which saw a surge in demand for online deliveries due to the pandemic, have also been hiring.\n\nTesco said in August that it would create 16,000 permanent jobs after lockdown led to \"exceptional growth\" in its online business.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French authorities are \"just as committed\" as the UK to stopping migrants crossing the Channel in small boats, MPs have been told.\n\nThe Home Affairs Select Committee heard evidence from Dan O'Mahoney, the Home Office's clandestine Channel threat commander, who said France had stopped 3,000 people crossing in 2020.\n\nOn Wednesday, a record 416 migrants crossed the Channel from France.\n\nMr O'Mahoney said almost 200 were stopped by the French on the same day.\n\nCiting one example from Wednesday, he told the committee: \"[They] stopped a very large Rib [rigid inflatable boat] with unbelievably 63 people on it from leaving the beach.\n\n\"There is a lot of joint working and it is delivering results.\"\n\nHowever, the former Royal Marine who reports directly to the Home Secretary, conceded: \"It's nowhere near the level we'd like it to be and that is frustrating.\"\n\n\"Their professionalism and skill is notable and the humanity with which they treat migrants is genuinely impressive,\" he said.\n\nThe committee was also told many migrants are forced on to small boats and some who arrive in England \"don't even want to come to the UK\".\n\nMr O'Mahoney said: \"We hear a lot of stories about migrants who are literally forced on to boats, have no idea where they are when they get to the UK, because the facilitators don't get paid until they've done that last leg of the journey.\"\n\nTravel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, better security at the Channel Tunnel and recent good weather \"has had a significant impact in the increase in crossings [in small boats],\" he added.\n\nMore than 7,400 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since January 2019.\n\nAbi Tierney, director general of UK visas and immigration at the Home Office, said the numbers of those seeking asylum had dropped from more than 10,000 in the first three months of the year to 5,789 in the second three months.\n\n\"France, Germany, Italy and Greece accept a much larger proportion of asylum seekers - they stay there, and a small number come to us,\" she said.\n\nShe said of the 5,000 migrants arriving so far this year, 98% had claimed asylum.\n\nAbout half of those applications have been considered so far, she said, with 71% rejected because the UK was not the responsible country - the migrants had travelled through a safe country before arriving in the UK.\n\nFrench authorities have stopped 3,000 people making the crossing this year, Mr O'Mahoney said\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owners of Millers of Speyside took the decision to close the factory for 14 days\n\nAn abattoir in the Highlands has been shut down after an increase in cases in a Covid-19 cluster.\n\nTwenty-nine of the 31 cases in the Grantown on Spey area are linked to the town's Millers of Speyside meat processing factory.\n\nA nursery in Boat of Garten has closed and visiting to local care homes has also been suspended due to the rise from five cases earlier in the week.\n\nNHS Highland said its health protection team was carrying out contact tracing.\n\nHighland Council has offered support to people who are having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said an investigation was ongoing to find any \"themes\" to the outbreak and whether any additional measures were required to tackle it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Highland Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Highland Council\n\nNHS Highland said the owners of Millers of Speyside had taken the decision to shut for two weeks, and were assisting in an investigation of the outbreak.\n\nHighland Council said Deshars Primary's nursery was closed until 8 September on the advice of NHS Highland's public health team as part of its test and protect investigation. The primary school remains open.\n\nA council spokeswoman said: \"All Highland Council educational settings are following rigorous controls including enhanced cleaning, and hand hygiene, and the wearing of face coverings in secondary schools in corridors and at break-out times.\"\n\nThe cluster in the Grantown on Spey area has increased from five earlier this week\n\nNHS Highland said there was currently no evidence that food was a source of Covid-19, and it was \"very unlikely\" it could be transmitted through the consumption of food.\n\nDr Tim Allison, director of public health at NHS Highland, said: \"NHS Highland and partners are working together to manage this community outbreak.\n\n\"Our health protection team is following up with contacts and the appropriate advice is being given to those identified.\n\n\"We would also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that 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\nSandy Milne, managing director at Millers of Speyside said the company had \"worked tirelessly\" through the pandemic to ensure continued food production.\n\nHe said: \"To prevent further spread of the virus among both our employees and the local community, we have opted to close our facility for 14 days.\"\n\nAlan Clarke, chief executive at Quality Meat Scotland, said the red meat industry had taken precautions to tackle Covid-19.\n\nShe said: \"Millers of Speyside, like other Scottish food businesses, has whole-heartedly embraced these measures and has followed all guidelines, to isolate the spread of infection, protecting the health and wellbeing of their workforce and the local community.\"\n\n\"We wish those who have been infected a speedy recovery.\"", "[L-R] Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, HRVY and Jacqui Smith will all hit the dancefloor\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has been confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThe 2020 series will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe contestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nThe BBC also confirmed they will be able to rehearse, perform and go home to their family each night - following government guidelines.\n\nJacqui Smith was confirmed as the final celebrity dancer on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe former Labour politician became the UK's first female home secretary in 2007 - under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - and has since worked as a political broadcaster.\n\n\"I was speechless with excitement at being asked to join Strictly - and that's very rare for me,\" said Smith.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, I got a bronze medal for Scottish Highland Dancing and it feels about time to return to dancing.\"\n\n\"I couldn't be in better hands with the Strictly team and I'm going to throw myself into the challenge. Watch out!\" she added.\n\nSmith is now the chair of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Children's Trust. She also has a podast, called For the Many, that she presents with broadcaster Iain Dale.\n\nHRVY has a social media following of more than 10 million\n\nHRVY was revealed as a contestant on the Kiss breakfast show and said he was \"so thankful to be taking part\".\n\nThe pop singer, whose real name is Harvey Leigh Cantwell, has more than a billion combined streams to his name.\n\nHe has a social media following of more than 10 million and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to fame after uploading his music videos to Facebook. He has since sold out UK and European tours and his debut album will be out later this year.\n\n\"Being on Strictly is going to be such an amazing experience and I'm so thankful to be taking part this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I think my mum is more excited that she'll be able to see me every Saturday night now!\"\n\nMaisie Smith is an actress and singer is best known for playing Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders.\n\n\"Get me in those sequins,\" she said, reacting to the news of her announcement.\n\n\"I can't wait to dive into the Strictly fancy dress box this winter!\"\n\nBefore storming into Albert Square as Bianca's daughter, Tiffany, Smith made her acting debut in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl - alongside Scarlett Johansson and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHer role in the long-running BBC soap saw her scoop the award for best dramatic performance from a young actress, at the 2009 British Soap Awards.\n\nJamie Laing returns to the show this year, after having to pull out of last year's series before it began due to an injury.\n\nHe became a household name in 2011 on the Channel 4 reality show, Made in Chelsea, and this year launched his own podcast, 6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer, alongside Spencer Matthews.\n\nHe also founded the sweets brand, Candy Kittens, in 2012.\n\n\"Here we go again, hopefully this time I can last long enough so my mum can see me dance,\" said Laing.\n\nHe added: \"The reason I'm doing it, is to make my mum proud but all I did last year was make her even more disappointed. Let's change that this year, can't wait!!\"\n\nJJ Chalmers' career as a Royal Marine Commando was cut short after he suffered life-changing injuries following an IED explosion in Afghanistan.\n\nThe blast crushed an eye socket, burst his eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, blew off two fingers on his left hand and left holes in his legs.\n\nAfter years of rehabilitation, including more than 30 operations, he went on to compete in the 2014 Invictus Games where he captained the Trike Cycling team and took home three medals.\n\nHe later embarked on a career in broadcasting, presenting coverage of the Rio Paralympics and anchoring BBC One's coverage of the Invictus Games.\n\nComparing Strictly to his military experience, he told ITV's Lorraine: \"I'm always looking for a challenge, I'm always looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone.\"\n\nDespite his injuries, Chalmers said he wanted to be treated like \"any other contestant\" and didn't want any \"special treatment\".\n\n\"Whoever I partner with they've got their work cut out,\" he added.\n\nBill Bailey is an comedian, actor and musician is known for appearances on TV shows like QI, Black Books and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.\n\n\"In these strange times we're living through, it feels right to do something different and take on a new challenge,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I haven't been to stage school and learnt to dance. I haven't lived for the dance... I'm not really Lord of the Dance. I'm caretaker of the dance,\" he joked. \"It's going to be quite a challenge but then that's what this is about, taking on a new skill.\"\n\nBailey, 55, made his name on the stand-up circuit before becoming a regular panel show guest, TV and film actor, documentary presenter, and host of the BBC sketch show Is It Bill Bailey?\n\nHe is also a classically-trained musician and has published a guide to British birds. On Wednesday, in a review of his first live gig for six months, The Daily Telegraph said he \"remains one of the funniest, most brilliantly original comedians in the UK\".\n\nClara Amfo, who hosts BBC Radio 1's late morning slot, aid she \"couldn't wait to fully embrace\" the experience of Strictly.\n\nIn recent years, Amfo has presented coverage of Glastonbury, the Brit Awards, Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Bafta TV Awards and The Proms.\n\n\"As we know this year has been a real challenge and escapism through dancing is something I know we all enjoy,\" she said.\n\n\"So to be taught by a pro and live a fantasy is something that I can't wait to fully embrace, see you on the dancefloor!\"\n\nRanvir Singh is Good Morning Britain's political editor and occasional host, and also appears on other ITV programmes including Loose Women, Tonight and Eat, Shop, Save. She is about to start co-hosting a new Sunday morning show, All Around Britain.\n\nSingh said she felt \"complete terror\" at the idea of taking part, likening it to \"embarking on a rollercoaster\".\n\nShe previously worked as a producer and reporter for the BBC for 12 years, and presented BBC North West Tonight.\n\nSingh said: \"The initial feeling of being confirmed for Strictly is one of complete terror - feels like embarking on a rollercoaster, where you really want to do it but you are equally scared.\n\n\"Hopefully after the first dance I will feel exhilarated rather than sick!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAward-winning actress and presenter Caroline Quentin is known for a range of acting roles, including Maddie in Jonathan Creek and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.\n\nShe has also starred in Kiss Me Kate, Life Begins and Life of Riley.\n\nHowever, arguably her most famous role was playing Dorothy in the hit 90s sitcom Men Behaving Badly.\n\nShe recently presented the documentary series Extraordinary Homes for BBC Two.\n\nQuentin said she was \"thrilled and terrified in equal measure to be taking part\" in this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe played as a cornerback/safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.\n\nBell then played for the Houston Texans, where he was named a recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, one of the league's highest honours. He finished his professional career with the New York Giants.\n\nBell now co-hosts The Jason & Osi Podcast with another former NFL star, Osi Umenyiora, and the pair appear as pundits on the NFL Show on the BBC.\n\n\"Strictly is the epitome of British television and this year, more than ever, I'm so proud and humbled to be participating,\" he said.\n\n\"Strictly was the first show I ever watched when I moved to the UK and I'm a massive fan. My six-year-old daughter never got the chance to see me run out on the field at an NFL game but she is very excited about me taking to the dance floor. I hope I can do her proud.\"\n\nSinger and actor Max George shot to fame as a member of boy band The Wanted.\n\nHis former bandmate, Jay McGuiness, previously won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.\n\nGeorge said he was \"buzzing to be on Strictly this year\", joking: \"I'm not really one for the dance floor, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Jay McGuiness set The Wanted's bar so low.\"\n\nThe Wanted had two number one singles in the UK - All Time Low and Glad You Came - with the latter reaching the top three in the US Billboard chart.\n\nAfter The Wanted took a break, Max moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and starred in the sixth season of Glee as Clint. He recently returned to music as a solo artist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Cheap steroids can save the lives of patients who are critically ill with Covid-19, studies show.\n\nThe findings confirm the results of an earlier trial, which has already led to steroids being used widely for Covid patients in intensive care.\n\nThe new results, published in JAMA, show eight lives would be saved for every 100 patients treated.\n\nThe researchers said the findings were impressive, but stressed steroids were not a coronavirus cure.\n\nIn June, the UK's Recovery trial found the first drug - a steroid called dexamethasone - that could save the lives of people with severe Covid.\n\nThe latest study brings together all clinical trials involving steroids on coronavirus patients around the world.\n\nIt confirms dexamethasone works and that another steroid, hydrocortisone, is equally effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was part of the Recovery trial\n\n\"At the beginning of the year, at times it felt almost hopeless knowing that we had no specific treatments,\" said Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"It was a very worrying time, yet less than six months later we've found clear, reliable evidence in high quality clinical trials of how we can tackle this devastating disease.\"\n\nThe studies were on only the sickest hospital patients. Most people recover having only experienced mild symptoms.\n\nSteroids calm down inflammation and the immune system, which is why they are already used in conditions like arthritis and asthma, as well as in some severe infections.\n\nThe drugs are not thought to be helpful in the early stages of a coronavirus infection - when symptoms include a cough, fever or a sudden loss of taste or smell.\n\nBut as the disease develops, the immune system can go into overdrive, damaging the lungs and other organs.\n\nIt is this stage of Covid that steroids are thought to help with.\n\n\"At the point at which you reach for an oxygen cylinder for a patient with Covid, you probably should be reaching for the prescription for corticosteroids,\" said Prof Martin Landray, from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"These results are instantly useable; they are widely available, cheap, well-understood drugs that reduce mortality.\"\n\nDoctors are already using dexamethasone after the results earlier in the year, but the hope is that having the choice of different drugs will increase access to the treatment around the world.\n\nThe drugs can either be swallowed as tablets or given via intravenous drip.\n\nThe research so far has focused on low doses of steroids. There is no evidence that higher doses would be more effective.\n\nNew guidelines for doctors are expected to be released by the World Health Organization.\n\nIn the UK, NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said: \"Just as we did with dexamethasone, the NHS will now take immediate action to ensure that patients who could benefit from treatment with hydrocortisone do so, adding a further weapon in the armoury in the worldwide fight against Covid-19.\"", "This Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Star Trek on CBS All Access This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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 by Star Trek on CBS All Access\n\nSci-fi franchise Star Trek is set to introduce its first transgender and non-binary characters.\n\nThe characters are to appear in the third series of Star Trek: Discovery, producers said on Wednesday.\n\nThe trans character, Gray, will be played by trans actor Ian Alexander, and likewise non-binary Adira will be portrayed by Blu del Barrio.\n\n\"Star Trek has always made a mission of giving visibility to underrepresented communities,\" said a producer.\n\nThe show's co-runner and executive producer Michelle Paradise added: \"It believes in showing people that a future without division on the basis of race, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation is entirely within our reach.\"\n\nThe programme, which will begin again next month on US TV network CBS, previously featured the first married gay characters in the franchise's history; while Sonequa Martin-Green also became the first Black woman to lead a Star Trek TV series.\n\nIn an interview with GLAAD del Barrio said: \"When I got the call that I'd been cast as Adira, I hadn't yet told the majority of my friends and family that I was non-binary.\n\n\"So when this happened, it felt like the universe saying 'go ahead'.\"\n\nAnthony Rapp, one of the show's stars, tweeted: \"I cannot wait for you all to meet these beautiful souls and wonderful artists. I am so so so proud of them and happy that they are a part of our show\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The Prime Minister visited an HS2 construction site on Friday\n\nConstruction work on HS2 officially begins on Friday, with companies behind the controversial high-speed rail project expecting to create 22,000 jobs in the next few years.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said HS2 would \"fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity\".\n\nHe endorsed the rail link in February, with formal government approval granted in April despite lockdown.\n\nBut critics said HS2 will also cost jobs, and vowed to continue protesting.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce passenger overcrowding and help rebalance the UK's economy through investment in transport links outside London.\n\nHS2 Ltd chief executive Mark Thurston said the reality of high-speed journeys between Britain's biggest cities had moved a step closer.\n\nWhen the project was mooted in 2009, it was expected to cost an estimated £37.5bn and when the official price tag was set out in the 2015 Budget it came in at just under £56bn.\n\nBut an official government report has since warned that it could cost more than £100bn and be up to five years behind schedule.\n\nSome critics of HS2 describe it as a \"vanity project\" and say the money would be better spent on better connections between different parts of northern England. Others, such as the Stop HS2 pressure group, say it will cause considerable environmental damage.\n\nThe prime minister said HS2 was at the heart of government plans to \"build back better\" and would form \"the spine of our country's transport network\".\n\n\"But HS2's transformational potential goes even further,\" he added. \"By creating hundreds of apprenticeships and thousands of skilled jobs, HS2 will fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity across this country for years to come.\"\n\nHS2's main works contractor for the West Midlands, the Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture, has said it expects to be one of the biggest recruiters in the West Midlands over the next two years.\n\nUp to 7,000 skilled jobs would be required to complete its section of the HS2 route, it said, with women and under-25s the core focus for recruitment and skills investment.\n\nHS2 Ltd's Mr Thurston said the railway would be \"transformative\" for the UK.\n\n\"With the start of construction, the reality of high speed journeys joining up Britain's biggest cities in the North and Midlands and using that connectivity to help level up the country has just moved a step closer,\" he added.\n\nSpecial tunnelling machines will be needed for sections of the line\n\nCampaign group Stop HS2 said Boris Johnson and others who hail the creation of 22,000 jobs are \"rather less keen to mention that HS2 is projected to permanently displace almost that many jobs\".\n\nStop HS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin said: \"Trying to spin HS2 as a job creation scheme is beyond desperate. Creating 22,000 jobs works out at almost £2m just to create a single job.\"\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Breakfast programme, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps disputed those figures.\n\n\"I can't see how there's an argument that making it easier to get about this country is somehow going to destroy jobs, quite the opposite in fact. It's clearly going to make the economy level up\", he said.\n\n\"Find those left behind areas, that have found themselves too disconnected before and join it together.\"\n\nStop HS2 chairwoman Penny Gaines called the project \"environmentally destructive\" to wildlife: \"This is why there are currently hundreds of activists camped out along the HS2 route. We don't expect them to go away any time soon.\"\n\nHowever, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP), which fights for investment in the regional economy, said such major infrastructure projects are transformative and called for the planned extensions of HS2 to be started as soon as possible.\n\n\"Increasing capacity on the North's rail network and better connecting our towns and cities will be vital in the economic regeneration of the Northern Powerhouse - both now and long in the future,\" said Henri Murison, director of the NPP.\n\nThis is an important symbolic move for HS2, but in the real world it changes very little.\n\nWork preparing for the new line - demolishing buildings and clearing sites for example - has already been going on for the past three years. And in some areas, construction work has also begun.\n\nBut the arguments over whether or not the railway should actually be built are continuing to rage.\n\nThe government has long insisted that it will help re-balance the country's economy, by promoting investment outside London. It now says the jobs created by the scheme will support the post-Covid recovery.\n\nBut opponents claim that lockdown has undermined the case for HS2 - by showing how easily people can work remotely, and how little business travel is really needed.\n\nSame dispute, new arguments. But now shovels are - officially - in the ground.\n\nThe government has also defended itself against criticism that the new line will no longer be needed, as people travel less as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Shapps acknowledged more people are working at home, but said the government was looking at the country's long term transport needs:\n\n\"We're not building this for what happens over the next couple of years or even the next 10 years, whilst we're building it. We're building this, as with the west coast and the east coast main lines, for 150 years and still going strong.\n\n\"I think it actually shows a lot of faith in the future of this country,\" he added.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by a knifeman who had been released from jail on licence\n\nA catalogue of failings have been found in the way people convicted of terror-related offences are monitored by the authorities in England and Wales.\n\nAn independent review found \"gaps\" in the powers used to check up on such offenders.\n\nAnd it highlighted an \"unreliable\" flow of information about their behaviour, such as remarks \"glorifying\" terrorism.\n\nThe review was launched after convicted terrorist Usman Khan killed two people in an attack in London in November.\n\nKhan had been on licence from prison when he fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nJustice Minister Chris Philp said the government was legislating to require terrorism offenders to take lie detector tests - a measure the report endorses - and said other proposals were being considered.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, who conducted the review, said the authorities tended to \"over-focus\" on the impact of restrictions on offenders when they were let out - rather than considering the \"overall risk\" they posed.\n\nHe said meetings involving different public protection agencies, such as the police, the prison service and probation officers, were \"dominated by information exchange rather than active management\", with a single case taking two hours to discuss.\n\nMr Hall criticised a risk assessment tool used by the Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales, which he said \"seriously minimised\" the severity of terrorism offences and \"accepted the offender's characterisation (and in some cases denials)\" of their crimes.\n\n\"It was suggested to me that one possible reason was that [the risk assessment tool] is often completed by a prison psychologist, in a therapeutic context in which the offender's 'buy-in' to the process is deemed to be particularly important,\" he said.\n\nAmong other problems the report found a \"significant gap\" in the authorities' ability to monitor the risk of terrorism posed by \"dangerous\" offenders convicted of non-terror related offences.\n\nIt also said opportunities to reduce the risk offenders posed was \"lost\" because of an \"unreliable\" flow of information about their behaviour in prison, such as comments \"glorifying\" terrorism, overheard by jail staff.\n\nMr Hall added that there was a \"surprisingly limited\" circle of knowledge about terrorism offenders in the community, with police borough commanders in London \"not always aware\" of the identity of such individuals in their area.\n\nHe called for a \"cultural shift\" so that information was shared more widely.\n\nThe report, which makes 45 recommendations, was completed in May - three months after a second attack involving a released terrorism prisoner.\n\nSudesh Amman, had recently been freed from prison when he stabbed two people on Streatham High Road, in south London in February.", "Nicola Sturgeon has warned that coronavirus is spreading again in Scotland as she defended restrictions that have been imposed in the Glasgow area.\n\nA further 101 cases have been confirmed in Scotland - 53 of them in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the transmission rate of the virus had increased slightly over the past week.\n\nAnd she said doing nothing to stop the spread was not an option.\n\nThe first minister warned that the recent increase in cases \"should be a wakeup call for all of us\" in sticking to rules and helping to suppress the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households were reintroduced in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire earlier this week in response to concerns about a rising number of cases in the area.\n\nHowever, the 53 new cases in Greater Glasgow and Clyde on Thursday was lower than the previous day's figure of 86.\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said the \"R number\" - effectively the reproduction rate of the virus - was now above one, and potentially as high as 1.4.\n\nShe said this \"is of slightly less concern when the overall prevalence of the virus is low\".\n\nBut she added: \"Nevertheless, this is a reminder that the virus is spreading again just as it is elsewhere in the UK and Europe and across the world.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the recent rise in cases should be a wake-up call for the country\n\nThe first minister said: \"The situation in these parts of Greater Glasgow and Clyde I really think should be a wake up call for all of us.\n\n\"Numbers of new cases are high in those areas and that's why we've had to impose some restrictions, but new cases have been increasing in many parts of Scotland in the past fortnight.\n\n\"All of us, wherever we live, have to be more careful than ever about sticking to all of the rules and guidance and trying to minimise the chances we're giving the virus to spread.\"\n\nThere has been some criticism of the decision to impose restrictions on household meetings in the Glasgow area while leaving hospitality venues like bars and restaurants open.\n\nPubs across Aberdeen were closed last month and travel restrictions imposed in response to an outbreak in the city - leading to claims of a \"west coast bias\".\n\nPubs in Aberdeen were closed in response to a cluster of cases in the city - but have remained open in Glasgow\n\nThe first minster said she knew it could appear \"counter-intuitive and difficult for people to understand\" why similar measures had not been introduced in Glasgow.\n\nBut said she was now able to pursue a \"much more targeted and much more proportionate\" response to local clusters.\n\nShe said: \"What we know from the analysis so far is that there is not - as there was in Aberdeen - an obvious connection between positive cases and pubs and clubs. It appears that it is more household transmission.\n\n\"I want to be clear that it is not just house parties. There might be an element of that, but it is also family transmission in smaller gatherings, where the virus spread from one household to another but it might just be an extended family coming in.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was this information that led to the decision to impose household restrictions but not close pubs.\n\nThe first minister added: \"The analysis we now get through test and protect enables us to be much more targeted and proportionate rather than what we were faced with earlier in the year of simply imposing a blanket lockdown everywhere that really meant everybody had to stay at home.\n\n\"Because these decisions have been guided by the analysis that has been done, hopefully these measures are effective - but of course we can't know that for sure.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted that \"nobody is being punished\" by the measures, and said she has had to cancel a visit to her own parents as a result of the new restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"I wish we could say we have a cluster here that was caused definitively by one person, and we put them under restrictions, but that's not how a virus operates.\n\n\"The risk is that it spreads in all sorts of different ways and unfortunately it is population-based measures we have to use to stop that happening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says Boris Johnson must extend the job retention scheme as it was “desperately needed”.\n\nBoris Johnson was accused of \"governing in hindsight\" over a series of U-turns, as he appeared before MPs at PMQs for the first time since July.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed the prime minister was \"making it up as he goes along\".\n\nAnd he said even Mr Johnson's own MPs had \"run out of patience\" after what he claimed was 12 U-turns over the summer.\n\nThe PM hit back by calling Sir Keir \"captain hindsight\" over the exam results debacle.\n\nHe accused the Labour leader of \"leaping on a bandwagon, opposing a policy that he supported two weeks ago\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford claimed Mr Johnson had made eight U-turns this year - and he called for a ninth to extend the government's job retention scheme, which ends next month, echoing a call made by Sir Keir.\n\nThe PM insisted \"indefinite furlough\" was not the answer to help the economy through the pandemic.\n\nWith grumblings on the Tory benches about the government's recent performance Boris Johnson needed a good PMQs to mark the return to parliament.\n\nHis political opponents - perhaps unsurprisingly - criticised the number of policy U-turns in recent months.\n\nWhile ministers have repeatedly said they're responding to changing science as the pandemic progresses, the speed and frequency of policy shifts is the crux of concern among some Conservative backbenchers.\n\nKeir Starmer returned to what some supporters have called a \"forensic\" style of questioning in pushing the prime minister for detail on the exam results crisis.\n\nBoris Johnson responded with a wide-ranging attack on the Labour leader which led to a tetchy exchange.\n\nBut with another shift in policy - this time on local lockdowns in Trafford and Bolton - taking place as the prime minister was at the dispatch box, it seems unlikely his performance was enough to silence critics - including those within his own party.\n\nIn heated exchanges, Sir Keir told the PM: \"This has been a wasted summer. The government should have spent it preparing for the autumn and winter.\n\n\"Instead, they have lurched from crisis to crisis, U-turn to U-turn.\"\n\nHe accused the government of \"serial incompetence\", and asked: \"Will the prime minister take responsibility and finally get a grip?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford calls on the government to “change tack for a ninth time” and extend the job retention scheme.\n\nMr Johnson hit back by citing a series of alleged U-turns made by Sir Keir in the past and - in a reference to his predecessor as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - accusing him of supporting \"an IRA-condoning politician who wanted to get out of Nato\".\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsey Hoyle intervened to warn the prime minster \"to answer the questions that have been put\" to him.\n\nA clearly angry Sir Keir said: \"As Director of Public Prosecutions, I prosecuted serious terrorists for five years, working with the intelligence and security forces and with the police in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I ask the prime minister to have the decency to withdraw that comment.\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Labour sources said they would not be taking the matter further, but added that the PM had supported a peerage for former Brexit Party MEP, Claire Fox, who had once been a member of a far left party which defended an IRA attack,", "Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the election would not \"be business as usual\"\n\nFacebook has announced that it will not take on any new political ads in the seven days prior to the US election on 3 November.\n\nHowever, the firm will still allow existing ads to continue to be promoted and targeted at different users.\n\nHe said that he was \"worried\" about divisions in the country potentially leading to civil unrest.\n\nHe added that Facebook would also label posts from candidates attempting to declare victory before the votes had been counted.\n\nThe social network has faced criticism for allowing political ads to be \"micro-targeted\" on its platform so that they are only seen by small communities rather than debated more widely in the days after they appear.\n\nThe Mozilla Foundation has claimed that this makes it easier for politicians and their supporters to parade fiction as fact and avoid being called out on it until it is too late, particularly as Facebook has previously said ads placed by candidates would not be fact-checked.\n\nThe new steps could serve as a precedent for how the firm handles elections elsewhere in the future.\n\nFacebook also revealed that it would remove videos of President Trump encouraging voters in North Carolina to vote twice, which is illegal.\n\nAny videos of Mr Trump's comments without contextualising information would be taken down, the firm said in a statement: \"This video violates our policies prohibiting voter fraud and we will remove it unless it is shared to correct the record.\"\n\nPresident Trump has repeatedly claimed the election could be \"rigged\" due to voter fraud.\n\nHowever, there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in previous polls.\n\n\"This election is not going to be business as usual,\" Mr Zuckerberg wrote.\n\n\"With our nation so divided and election results potentially taking days or even weeks to be finalised, there could be an increased risk of civil unrest across the country,\" he added.\n\nIn an effort to stymie the spread of rumours and deliberate falsehoods on Facebook, the firm has said it will implement a series of measures:\n\nMr Zuckerberg also said that Facebook had also \"strengthened\" its enforcement policies against movements known to spread conspiracy theories, such as QAnon.\n\nThousands of Facebook groups associated with these movements had already been removed, he said.\n\nThe moves have, however, attracted criticism.\n\nThe chief of Media Matters for America - a liberal media monitoring body - described it as being a pointless PR stunt.\n\n\"They will still let political ads be rerun and targeted to new groups during [the last] week so long as the ad was run and had one impression before 27 October,\" tweeted Angelo Carusone.\n\n\"So, you can run a bad ad now, pause it and then reuse it that week.\"\n\nAn academic who specialises in how tech and politics interact made a related point.\n\n\"Campaigns will produce and run thousands of pieces of creative in the days before the cut off so they can run the final week,\" said Daniel Kreiss, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\n\nWhat Mark Zuckerberg is really concerned about here is system lag.\n\nHe knows the period before - and after - the US elections are likely to be toxic on Facebook.\n\nPaid political adverts usually take time to analyse. Decisions around placing warnings on ads, or even taking them down, can take days.\n\nAnd close to election day that could cause an enormous headache for Facebook, as the heat ratchets up.\n\nWe already knew of his worries about fake news and voter suppression.\n\nBut what's also interesting here is the period he's flagged between voting and the declared result. As he acknowledges, it could take days for a winner to be announced.\n\nZuckerberg has identified this potential legitimacy vacuum as a great danger for the US. He believes it could be the setting for civil unrest in America.\n\nThat's why he's flagging up early that anyone looking to delegitimise the vote will be targeted by Facebook moderators.\n\nConsidering Trump is already questioning the legitimacy of the election that could get very, very messy.", "Eyewitnesses say the paddle steamer struck the pier\n\nA total of 24 people have been injured after the paddle steamer Waverley collided with Brodick Pier in Arran.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said \"a number have been taken to hospital\" following the incident.\n\nPeople stranded in Arran were later due to be returned to the mainland by an emergency sailing of a CalMac ferry.\n\nPolice, paramedics, coastguards and rescue helicopters were scrambled to the scene after the alarm was raised at about 17:15 on Thursday.\n\nMCA said 213 passengers and 26 crew were on board the vessel when it struck the pier.\n\nOne passenger, Graham McWilliams, told BBC Scotland's The Nine about the moment of collision.\n\nHe said: \"As we came into the pier, everything seemed quite normal.\n\n\"Then there was a sudden crash, a loud bang, and the boat stopped very quickly. I saw people falling and it was quite distressing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Waverley crash: 'I saw one lady fly past the window'\n\nHe added: \"There was a lady that I saw who literally flew past the window.\"\n\nMr McWilliams said that, several hours after the accident, passengers were still milling about the ferry terminal at Brodick.\n\nHe said it was unclear if they would be able to leave the island or whether accommodation could be found for them.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson later tweeted to say arrangements had been made for CalMac to operate an emergency sailing to take the Waverley passengers back to the mainland.\n\nRita McLeod, who was waiting to board the Waverley, said she saw people being taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We were actually queued up waiting to get in when it crashed,\" she said. \"It came in bow first. It came in far too fast.\"\n\n\"We saw a lot of people falling, a few people fell over. There were people taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We saw a lot of people, pretty badly shaken, coming off.\"\n\nThe ship was due to into Brodick at about 17.00 after leaving Greenock in the morning.\n\nA fire engine and other emergency services were visible from the terminal building\n\nAnother eyewitness saw the crash from the departure terminal as she waited to board.\n\nAnne Cochrane from Bishopbriggs near Glasgow, said: \"It just crashed into the pier when it was coming back from the Holy Isle. We're just stuck in the departure terminal. We've had no information.\"\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch has been informed of the incident.\n\nThe Waverley has just returned to service after undergoing repairs\n\nThe Waverley set sail for the first time in two years less than two weeks ago, an event which was itself delayed due to an \"unexpected technical and administration issue\".\n\nThe ship, described as the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, missed the 2019 season as it waited for urgent repairs.\n\nA funding appeal was launched in June 2019 and it hit its target in December after receiving a £1m grant from the Scottish government to help with the restoration.\n\nThis paddle steamer, built by A & J Inglis of Glasgow and first launched in October 1946, has been involved in accidents before.\n\nIt struck the breakwater at Dunoon with 700 passengers on board, 12 of whom suffered minor injuries, in June 2009\n\nIn July 1977 it was badly damaged when it struck rocks near Dunoon.\n\nIn 2017, it was involved in another incident when it crashed into the pier at Rothesay.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"swift and decisive action\" had been needed\n\nParts of Greater Manchester will not have lockdown restrictions eased as planned following a government U-turn.\n\nMeasures in Bolton and Trafford were due to be eased overnight after a fall in cases earlier in August.\n\nBut they will \"now remain under existing restrictions\" following \"a significant change in the level of infection rates over the last few days\", the government announced.\n\nThe region's mayor Andy Burnham said the U-turn had been \"complete chaos\".\n\nThe boroughs had been due to allow people from different households to meet indoors and businesses to offer close contact services such as facials, but that has now been halted.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said the decision was made \"in collaboration with local leaders after reviewing the latest data\" which showed infection rates had more than trebled in Bolton in under a week and doubled in Trafford since the last review.\n\n\"We have always been clear we will take swift and decisive action where needed to contain outbreaks,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the U-turn as \"utterly chaotic\" and it gave people \"no confidence in the government's approach\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Mr Burnham compared the government's weekly announcements on local coronavirus restrictions as \"like waiting for the white smoke out of the Vatican\".\n\n\"It's not working, it's confusing people, it's causing anger and resentment,\" he added.\n\n\"In my view, it's local councils that need to be in the driving seat here, working then in consultation with the government.\"\n\nTrafford's Labour council leader Andrew Western tweeted: \"We should never have been put in this mess in the first place; this has massively damaged public confidence in measures.\"\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\nBolton Council leader David Greenhalgh said it would have been \"irresponsible not to recognise the unpredicted spike we have seen in Bolton\".\n\nHe said he recognised \"many people will be extremely frustrated and annoyed by this decision\" but the borough had recorded the second highest increase in positive cases in the country.\n\nA Covid-19 spike in Bolton and Trafford prompted council bosses to ask for restrictions to remain in place a day before they were due to be lifted.\n\nBolton currently has one of the highest rates of new virus cases per 100,000 residents in England.\n\nChris Green, Conservative MP for Bolton West, had argued that restrictions should be eased in his constituency.\n\nBut, following the U-turn, he said the government had based its decision on recent data which he hadn't seen.\n\nHe has since tweeted to say he was \"disappointed at how this important decision has been communicated because of the impact this will have on people's lives\".\n\nLockdown restrictions were eased on Wednesday in Stockport, Burnley, Hyndburn, parts of Bradford, excluding Bradford city and Keighley town, parts of Calderdale, excluding Halifax, and parts of Kirklees, excluding Dewsbury and Batley.\n\nAccording to government rules, people living in these areas can now:\n\nMeasures were imposed at the end of July amid a rise in cases.\n\nStockport has joined Wigan in being allowed to have two households socialise indoors.\n\nBut in Bolton, Trafford, Manchester, Salford, Rochdale, Bury and Tameside it is still banned. In Oldham people are advised not to meet up with other households outdoors as well.\n\nThe rise in cases in Trafford and Bolton shows how quickly the situation with coronavirus can change.\n\nOn Friday the government announced it was easing the localised lockdown restrictions in parts of Greater Manchester from Wednesday - a decision it has now reversed in those two areas.\n\nPointing to data for the week to 20 August, it said \"cases in Bolton and Stockport fell from 25.6 (per 100,000 residents) to 18.9, and 23 to 15.1 respectively, and Trafford fell from 27.1 to 17.8.\"\n\nYet even then, there was concern that the rate was rising. The Labour leader of Trafford Council, Andrew Western, said the more recent data had shown a \"slight increase\".\n\nBy Tuesday, the spike in Bolton had also become apparent and council leaders in both areas were calling for the easing of restrictions to not go ahead.\n\nAccording to data released on Tuesday evening, Trafford's rate for the week to 29 August was more than 35 cases per 100,000.\n\nIn Bolton it was 59 cases per 100,000, driven in particular by high numbers of cases on 27, 28 and 29 August.\n\nCatalina Sastra, who runs the Party and Play, funhouse in Bolton was planning to re-open next week but said the changes were confusing.\n\n\"We're teetering on the edge... we are due to open with an online booking system, temperature reading, we've had all the screens put up... but it's just if it's on or if it's off\", she said.\n\n\"It's a bit like playing hokey-cokey. Are we in or are we out?\"\n\nBolton has had its highest seven-day rate since late May\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "California state legislator Buffy Wicks was denied a request to vote by proxy after giving birth to her daughter on 26 July.\n\nAssembly members at risk for Covid-19 were given the choice to vote remotely during the pandemic, but Ms Wicks was denied the option because maternity leave was deemed not to be a high-risk category.\n\nAssembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who denied the request, has apologised.", "Ministers have defended former Australian PM Tony Abbott amid reports that he is being lined up for a role in post-Brexit trade talks.\n\nTrade Minister Greg Hands told MPs he welcomed Mr Abbott's desire to \"help this country out\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he had \"real concerns\" and \"wouldn't appoint\" Mr Abbott if he were PM.\n\nMr Abbott says he has had talks with UK ministers about a role but it has yet to be officially confirmed.\n\nOpposition and some Tory MPs say he is unfit to represent the UK due to his views on climate change and past \"misogynist\" and \"homophobic\" comments.\n\nA group of equality activists - including actor Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies - have also written an open letter against Mr Abbott's appointment, saying: \"This man is not fit to be representing the UK as our trade envoy.\"\n\nMr Abbott's position would be as a member of the UK board of trade, a panel of experts that is being put together to advise International Trade Secretary Liz Truss.\n\nAsked about the potential appointment in the Commons, Mr Hands said: \"No appointments have been confirmed, but personally I welcome the fact that a former prime minister of Australia is willing to help this country out.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock was asked on Sky News about concerns surrounding Mr Abbott's attitude towards women and homosexuality.\n\nMr Hancock said he did not believe Mr Abbott is homophobic or misogynistic, and when pushed, he added: \"He is also an expert on trade.\"\n\nReports that Mr Abbott, who was Australia's prime minister between 2013 and 2015 is being lined up to work alongside Liz Truss have been met with anger from UK opposition parties and some Conservative MPs.\n\nLabour MPs Chris Bryant and Wes Streeting, who are both gay, accused Mr Hancock of hypocrisy after the health secretary tweeted about the \"fantastic\" new LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education programme introduced in schools.\n\nMr Bryant said: \"So why on earth would you countenance Tony Abbott as a trade envoy?\"\n\nMr Streeting tweeted: \"Matt, we know you're a social liberal with a decent voting record on LGBT equality. That's why your defence of Tony Abbott was even more nauseating.\"\n\nSir Keir said: \"I have real concerns about Tony Abbott, I don't think he's the right person for the job. If I was prime minister, I wouldn't appoint him.\"\n\nLabour MP Marie Rimmer added: \"Surely there's trade experts who aren't homophobic and misogynists? Britain deserves better than Tony Abbott representing us on the world stage.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Abbott's coronavirus views were \"deeply offensive and wrong\" and he was not fit to be a trade envoy.\n\n\"But Tony Abbott, before these comments, is a misogynist, he's a sexist, he's a climate change denier,\" she told Sky News.\n\n\"Trade, in many respects, should reflect our values - there should be ethics attached to any country's trading profile.\"\n\nLiz Truss is in charge of negotiating trade deals with other countries\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss was later asked in the Commons about the possible appointment.\n\nFollowing criticism from Labour MP Ruth Cadbury, Ms Truss said: \"I think it's absolute hypocrisy to hear this type of argument from the Labour Party.\n\n\"This is a party that has never elected a female leader despite having the opportunity time and time again.\n\n\"The reality is they'd rather virtue signal and indulge in tokenism rather than take real action to improve the lives of women.\"\n\nLabour's Christian Matheson said: \"The appointment of the sexist and homophobic Tony Abbott is also the appointment of a climate change denier.\n\n\"So does this indicate the government is moving away from any commitment in trade deals to maintain environmental protection? And if not, why have you put him in the job?\"\n\nMs Truss replied: \"The reality is that those on the left of politics are always intolerant of anyone who doesn't agree with them but are prepared to defend anything from their own friends.\"\n\nConservative MP and chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat was asked about the criticism of Mr Abbott.\n\nSpeaking on BBC News, he said: \"I would like to see people from the United Kingdom representing the regions and nations.\n\n\"Businessmen, politicians and industry leaders from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the different regions from Cornwall and Kent and wherever else in between, making the case that isn't simply trade based on a few narrow industries.\"\n\nMr Abbott who led Australia's Liberal Party between 2009 and 2015, was challenged about some of his past comments at a hearing of Mr Tugendhat's select committee on Tuesday.\n\nLabour MP Claudia Webbe quoted remarks attributed to him in 2012, that men were by physiology or temperament, more adapted than women to exercise authority and issue commands, and asked if, in the light of that opinion, he would have difficulty accepting the authority of Liz Truss.\n\nMr Abbott said he \"wasn't sure\" he had ever used those words, and that it \"doesn't sound like anything I've said\".\n\nThe former Australian prime minister is said to have struck up a friendship with Boris Johnson when he was foreign secretary.", "An emergency airlift to Berlin from Omsk was organised for Mr Navalny\n\nSeveral prominent critics of Kremlin policies - ex-spies, journalists and politicians - have been poisoned in the past two decades.\n\nIn the UK, two Russian ex-secret service agents were targeted: Alexander Litvinenko fatally with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, and Sergei Skripal with the toxic nerve agent Novichok in 2018. The Kremlin denied any involvement.\n\nAlexei Navalny, who has been physically attacked before, appears to be the latest victim. Yet much remains unclear.\n\nMysterious poisonings involving Russians often remain mysterious - a distinct advantage for assassins, compared with say an old-fashioned shooting in the street.\n\nProf Mark Galeotti, a Russia expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC that \"poison has two characteristics: subtlety and theatricality\".\n\n\"It's so subtle that you can deny it, or make it harder to prove. And it takes time to work, there's all kinds of agony, and the poisoner can deny it with a sly wink, so everyone gets the hint.\"\n\nAlexei Navalny is Russia's best-known anti-corruption campaigner and opposition activist. His slick, hard-hitting videos on social media have drawn many millions of views, and made him a thorn in the side of the Kremlin.\n\nFor years Mr Navalny has rallied his supporters across Russia\n\nA victim poisoned before a long flight can be stuck in the air long enough for the assassin to make an easy getaway. Mr Navalny, 44, fell acutely ill on a flight from Tomsk in Siberia on 20 August - so ill that it had to be diverted to Omsk.\n\nRussian investigative reporter and Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead in 2006, claimed to have been poisoned on a flight to the North Caucasus in 2004, when she felt sick and fainted.\n\nSimilarly, a slow-acting poison - polonium-210 - killed Litvinenko excruciatingly and it was weeks before the rare toxin was identified. As an alpha-particle emitter its radiation was not detected by a Geiger counter.\n\nThe two alleged Russian killers - state agents, according to the subsequent UK inquiry - had plenty of time to fly home unsuspected.\n\nMr Navalny has accumulated many enemies in Russia, not just among supporters of President Vladimir Putin, whose United Russia party he labels \"the party of crooks and thieves\". Mr Putin was a secret service officer in the Soviet KGB before becoming president in 2000.\n\nMr Galeotti says that in this case \"the Russian state seems to have been caught off-balance, which implies it wasn't a centrally planned operation\". \"This suggests it was the act of a powerful Russian, but not necessarily the state.\"\n\nNow fighting for his life in Berlin's Charité hospital, Mr Navalny is in an induced coma, being treated for \"poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors\".\n\nThe hospital says the specific toxin remains unknown - tests are being done to identify it. But the poison's effect - inhibition of the enzyme cholinesterase in the body - \"was confirmed by multiple tests in independent laboratories\".\n\nThat is the effect of military nerve agents, such as sarin, VX or the even more toxic Novichok. They interfere with the brain's chemical signals to the muscles, causing spasms, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and collapse.\n\nMr Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh suspects that poison was slipped into the cup of black tea he drank at a Tomsk airport cafe. He had not eaten anything before the flight, she says.\n\nThat ominously echoes the case of Litvinenko, who drank poisoned tea in a London hotel.\n\nA prominent anti-Putin activist based in the US, Vladimir Kara-Murza, says he suffered similar symptoms to Mr Navalny's in 2015 and 2017. His alleged poisoning remains a mystery.\n\nPoison, he told the BBC, \"is becoming sort of a favoured tool of Russian security services\" and \"a sadistic tool\".\n\n\"It is excruciating to go through this... I had to learn to walk again after the first poisoning and coma.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vladimir Kara-Murza on the dangers to President Putin's critics\n\nWhen the plane landed in Omsk on 20 August medics rushed Mr Navalny into intensive care already comatose, and put him on a ventilator.\n\nMr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the Berlin doctors' diagnosis of poisoning is not yet conclusive, so it is too early to launch an official investigation. Earlier he said the Kremlin wished Mr Navalny well, when permission was granted to fly him to Berlin.\n\nThere is speculation that the delay in Omsk, before Mr Navalny's transfer to Berlin, could have helped erase traces of the poison.\n\nThe Omsk doctors have also been criticised for suggesting that the problem was a \"low blood sugar level\" and apparently failing to spot nerve agent symptoms.\n\nDr Konstantin Balonov, a US-based anaesthesiologist, told BBC Russian that that failure was \"strange, to say the least\". Moscow toxicologists also consulted the Omsk doctors and \"they must have concluded that it was a toxin from that [chemical] group\".\n\nThere are suspicions of a cover-up, as unidentified police were quickly on the scene, blocking access. The doctors insisted that no poison was detected in Mr Navalny's urine.\n\nIt has emerged that atropine - an antidote to nerve agent - was administered in Omsk.\n\nBut Mikhail Fremderman, previously an intensive care specialist in St Petersburg, said that \"in poisoning cases such as this, atropine must be given intravenously, for a long period\". That may not have happened in Omsk, he told BBC Russian, adding that the medical data has not been released.\n\nProf Alastair Hay, a leading British toxicologist and chemical weapons expert, says this type of nerve agent is at the \"extremely toxic\" end of a broad spectrum of organophosphates.\n\nThat large group of possible poisons makes the agent already hard to identify. Some much milder organophosphates are used in insecticide and in medical therapies.\n\n\"It only requires a small dose to kill someone, which can be effectively disguised in a drink,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Work carried out at Porton Down is normally highly classified\n\nThere are yet more advantages, from the assassin's point of view. \"A simple blood test doesn't tell you what the agent is - you need a more sophisticated test, very expensive equipment. Many hospital labs don't have that expertise,\" Prof Hay said.\n\nIn the UK, that capability is restricted to Porton Down, a high-security chemical and biological research centre.\n\nThe UK and Russia are among 190 signatories to the global Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans chemical weapons use and research, beyond small quantities allowed for developing antidotes and protective equipment.\n\nAfter the Cold War Russia destroyed its vast chemical weapons stockpile - about 40,000 tonnes - under international supervision, Prof Hay noted.\n\nA biopsy on Georgi Markov revealed this tiny pellet, believed to have contained ricin\n\nExotic chemicals were also used in some Cold War \"hits\" - for example the notorious umbrella killing of Bulgarian anti-communist journalist Georgi Markov in London in 1978. At the time Bulgaria was an ally of the Soviet Union.\n\nThe suspected poison was ricin, released from a tiny pellet found in the autopsy. The killer had stabbed it straight into Markov's bloodstream with the umbrella - a far more potent delivery method than if he had swallowed it.", "A County Fermanagh man has been fined £1,000 for breaching Covid-19 travel rules - the first person in NI to be sanctioned in this way.\n\nIt is understood he went out socialising in Enniskillen on Sunday after returning from holiday in Spain, before later testing positive.\n\nPolice confirmed the fine was issued on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes as it emerged 23 prohibition notices have been issued to bars since they were allowed to reopen on 3 July.\n\nThe notices are issued if a premises breaks coronavirus regulations, and mean the business must rectify the breaches identified by police.\n\nIt does not necessarily mean a premises has to close.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said the notices were served at premises across all counties in Northern Ireland, and had been issued between 8 July and 2 September.\n\nBars with outside areas are able to serve alcohol on a table-service basis, while inside alcohol has to be served along with a meal, also on a table-service basis.\n\nAt the end of August Health Minister Robin Swann said there had been a \"blatant disregard\" for the regulations by some in the hospitality sector.\n\nThe reopening date for indoor pubs which only serve alcohol, theatres and private members' clubs has been pushed back due to the rise in cases of the virus.\n\nAnyone travelling to Northern Ireland from countries not on the so-called green list of exemptions is required to self-isolate for two weeks on arrival.\n\nIt is understood the man who was fined had recently returned from the Balearic Islands, as first reported by the Belfast Telegraph.\n\nACC Alan Todd said the management of Covid-19 travel rules was a matter for UK Border Force, and police acted on its recommendation about potential breaches.\n\nHe said police would also \"act on any significant concerns raised by members of the public\".\n\n\"As always, our approach remains to engage, explain and encourage and, only where necessary, enforce,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone needs to continue to follow the government's guidance to help suppress the transmission of the virus and support our NHS.\"\n\nHe added it was \"encouraging to see\" that there had been a high level of compliance with the mandatory quarantine on travellers to Northern Ireland.\n• None Could police fine me for exercising?", "Shaun Ennis says there has been an increase in demand from newcomers to caravanning\n\nCaravan dealers in Wales say they have seen an increase in sales since lockdown was eased.\n\nHolidays in self-contained accommodation have been allowed in Wales since 13 July, while shared-facility sites opened two weeks later.\n\nWith quarantine restrictions imposed on several European countries, one caravan park owner said staycations were \"certainly\" up.\n\nDealers said lots of customers were first-time buyers.\n\nShaun Ennis, who runs Ennis Caravans in Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, said he would normally have 100 unsold caravans in his depot at this time of year, but only has 20 left.\n\n\"Sales have trebled in the short time we've been open since the end of June,\" he said.\n\n\"We've made back the lost four months that we had, and the majority of that is from newcomers into the industry, which is lovely to see. It's been terrific, but also hard work and quite stressful.\"\n\nAngharad Rees, who runs the 3As dealership in Carmarthen, said: \"There's just so much demand.\"\n\nA recent survey by the National Caravan Council, the trade association, said caravan registrations in July were up 20% on the previous year across the UK.\n\nAngharad Rees says there has been \"so much demand\" for caravans\n\nA caravan park owner has also reported an increase in bookings.\n\nHywel Davies, who runs Llwynifan Farm South Wales Touring Park in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, said he was much busier than usual in September.\n\nHe said: \"Bookings are certainly up on previous years. More people are renting motor homes and caravans now as well to try them out.\n\n\"We've had quite a few people who originally booked to go abroad but that's been cancelled due to the current situation, and many of them are then looking for places so they come to somebody like us instead. Staycations are certainly on the up from what I can see.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rachel Murray, seven, took part in the trial\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children could be a sign of coronavirus infection, UK researchers say.\n\nThe Queen's University Belfast team have been studying children and say this may be worth adding to the checklist of symptoms.\n\nCurrently, the officially recognised symptoms in the UK are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nAnyone with any of these should isolate and get tested for the virus.\n\nThe US Centers for Disease Control already lists nausea or vomiting and diarrhoea among possible Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nIn the trial, nearly 1,000 children had their blood tested to see if they had recently caught coronavirus.\n\nThe results, published but not yet peer-reviewed at medRxiv, revealed 68 of the 992 children had antibodies to the virus, suggesting they had been infected with Sars-Cov-2 at some point.\n\nHalf of those who tested positive reported having symptoms.\n\nFever was the most common - reported by 21 of the 68 children who tested positive for coronavirus antibodies.\n\nCough was also common but less specific, being reported as commonly by children who tested negative as those who tested positive.\n\nGastrointestinal symptoms - such as diarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps - were reported by 13 of the 68 children who tested positive for antibodies, and appeared to be significantly associated with coronavirus infection.\n\nLoss of smell or taste was less common - reported by six of the children with antibodies.\n\nNone of the children in the study was seriously ill or needed to be admitted to hospital.\n\nLead researcher Dr Tom Waterfield said: \"We know that, thankfully, most children who get the virus will not be very ill with it - but we still do not know how much children may be spreading it.\"\n\nIn the study, testing only those children with fever, cough or changes in smell or taste would have identified 26 out of 34 or 76% of the symptomatic cases.\n\nAdding gastrointestinal symptoms would have identified nearly all - 33 out of 34 or 97% - of the symptomatic cases, he explained.\n\n\"We are finding that diarrhoea and vomiting is a symptom reported by some children and I think adding it to the list of known symptoms is worth considering,\" Dr Waterfield said.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"An expert scientific group keeps the symptoms of Covid-19 under review as we increase our understanding of the virus.\n\n\"Anyone in England experiencing the main symptoms of coronavirus - a high temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change to sense of smell or taste - should get a test as soon as possible.\"", "A dementia charity is seeking a judicial review of the government guidance on care home visits.\n\nJohn's Campaign says many care homes in England are still refusing regular face-to-face visits, often essential for people with severe dementia.\n\nDr Angela McIntyre, a retired doctor backing the campaign, has not seen her 92-year-old mother since March.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"We know limiting visits in care homes has been difficult for many families.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our first priority is to prevent infections in care homes, and this means that visiting policy should still be restricted with alternatives sought wherever possible.\n\n\"Visiting policies should be tailored by the individual care home and take into account local risks in their area.\"\n\nBut John's Campaign believes the guidance does not take into account how important visits from family members are for dementia patients and believes it could be in breach of the law.\n\nIt cites the case of Dr McIntyre's mother, Joan, who is bed-bound and isolated in her top-floor room.\n\nThe charity said: \"Her daughter's visits [were] previously her only comfort. It's now six months since Angela has been allowed to visit Joan despite advising that she would take all infection-control precautions and only enter her room via the fire exit stairs.\n\n\"Instead she has been told that she will only be permitted when her mother is dying.\"\n\nJohn's Campaign co-founder Julia Jones, whose mother June spent the last two-and-a-half years of her life in a care home, said: \"We know we're speaking for thousands who are experiencing extraordinary bewilderment and anguish.\n\n\"We can only hope that the government will waste no more of these people's precious time and will give clear direction and the necessary support for their needs and wishes to be respected.\"\n\nRosie, pictured as a child with her mother, says she used to have visitors every day\n\nWhen Rosie was finally allowed to visit her mother in her care home in June, after months of lockdown, she was shocked to see her dementia had worsened.\n\nDuring the August heatwave, and after a spell of not eating, Rosie's mother had begun refusing liquids - a grim sign which led carers to allow Rosie to spend more time with her mother, as long as she wore PPE.\n\nBeing able to hold her mother's hand in her final days \"felt really important\" and Rosie was \"really grateful I could be there\".\n\n\"But at the same time, 30 minutes and a carer would come and say 'you need to leave now',\" she told BBC Radio 4's Sanchia Berg.\n\nWhile Rosie was grateful to the carers who allowed her longer visits in the last days before her mother's death, Rosie said she felt like the months of lockdown where no visits were allowed had led to her mother's decline.\n\nIn comparison with paid carers on varied shifts, Rosie says her family \"were the constant in understanding my mum's needs\" - and that family members should therefore be \"considered equal to paid care staff\" when it comes to access to care homes.\n\nJohn's Campaign has instructed two legal firms who, it says, are \"in the process of preparing a pre-action letter, the first stage of a legal challenge\" against the government's advice.\n\nIn July, other leading charities, including Dementia UK and the Alzheimer's Society, wrote to the health secretary demanding relatives of care home residents with dementia should be treated as key workers.\n\nThe letter also noted the \"inconsistency\" of the visiting guidance across the UK nations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry and Meghan at the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in March\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reached a deal with streaming giant Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\n\"Our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope,\" said Prince Harry and wife Meghan.\n\n\"As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us,\" they continued.\n\nNetflix chief Ted Sarandos said he was \"incredibly proud\" the royal couple had made the company \"their creative home\".\n\nThe multi-year deal will encompass documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows and children's programming.\n\nIt comes six months on from the couple stepping down from royal life and moving to California to live away from the media spotlight.\n\n\"Our lives, both independent of each other, and as a couple have allowed us to understand the power of the human spirit: of courage, resilience, and the need for connection,\" said the couple in a statement.\n\n\"Through our work with diverse communities and their environments, to shining a light on people and causes around the world, our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry can currently be seen in Paralympics documentary Rising Phoenix\n\n\"As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us, as is powerful storytelling through a truthful and relatable lens.\"\n\nThe pair said they were \"pleased to work with Netflix, saying its \"unprecedented reach\" would \"help us share impactful content that unlocks action\".\n\nSarandos said Netflix was \"excited about telling stories\" with the couple \"that can help build resilience and increase understanding for audiences everywhere\".\n\nAccording to Deadline, projects already in development include \"an innovative nature docu-series and an animated series that celebrates inspiring women\".\n\nThe royal couple will make their shows for Netflix under the banner of an as yet unnamed production company.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex can currently be seen on the streaming service in Rising Phoenix, a documentary about the Paralympic Games.\n\nMeghan previously partnered with Disney to narrate Elephant, a documentary about the species for its Disneynature outlet.\n\nThis week's announcement follows the recent publication of Finding Freedom, a book about the couple's life in the Royal Family.\n\nA spokesman for the Sussexes said they had not been interviewed for the book, which describes a culture of increasing tension between the Sussexes and other family members.\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. Ignition: This solid rocket booster will be used for missions to the Moon\n\nEngineers have fired a booster rocket that will help send Americans back to the Moon in 2024.\n\nAt 20:05 BST (15:05 EDT) the booster, which was secured to the ground, expelled an immense column of flame for two minutes.\n\nTwo of these booster types will form part of Nasa's huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the biggest launcher built since the Saturn V in the 1960s.\n\nWednesday's rocket firing was carried out at a test site in Promontory, Utah.\n\nThe facility is operated by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman.\n\nThe huge Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) provide most of the thrust in the first two minutes of the SLS's ride to space.\n\nThe test was designed to investigate the performance and manufacturing quality of the booster's rocket motor. It will also help teams evaluate potential new materials, processes, and improvements for the boosters beyond the first landing on the Moon in 2024.\n\nMeasuring 54m (177ft) long and 4m (12ft) wide, the SLS booster is the largest and most powerful solid propellant booster ever built.\n\nTwo SRBs sit on either side of the SLS core stage\n\nIt burns around six tonnes of propellant every second, generating more thrust than 14 four-engine jumbo commercial airliners.\n\nCharles Precourt, vice president, propulsion systems at Northrop Grumman and a former Nasa astronaut, said: \"It's important to me to ensure we have what is necessary to establish a presence on the Moon and then go on to Mars.\n\n\"Testing our rocket boosters is how we can help ensure astronauts can explore space safely.\"\n\nThe SLS consists of a huge core stage with four engines at its base. Two SRBs are attached on each side of the core and provide 75% of the thrust during the first two minutes of the ascent to space.\n\nBoth the core and boosters are derived from technology used in the space shuttle, which was retired in 2011.\n\nAble to produce a total thrust of more than eight million pounds, the SLS will supply the power necessary to launch crewed missions to the Moon, and eventually - it is hoped - Mars.\n\nNasa plans to launch the giant rocket on its maiden flight next year. This mission, called Artemis 1, will see an unpiloted Orion capsule sent on a loop around the Moon.\n\nTeams at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center are already assembling the solid rocket boosters for this mission.\n\nFor Artemis 2, four astronauts will travel around the Moon in 2023, followed a year later by the first crewed landing since 1972.\n\nMeanwhile, engineers in Mississippi have resumed their \"Green Run\" testing of the massive SLS core stage, after operations were paused in response to the threat from tropical storms Marco and Laura.\n\nThe B-2 test stand at Nasa's Stennis Space Center, where the SLS core stage is being put through its paces\n\nThe Green Run consists of eight tests, four of which have been completed since the core stage arrived at Nasa's Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis in January. The fifth, which has just started, will aim to check out rocket controls and hydraulics.\n\nNasa's head of human spaceflight Kathy Lueders said she hoped the programme could stay on track for a \"hot fire\" test in October.\n\nDuring the hot fire, all four of the powerful RS-25 engines at the base of the core stage are fired for about eight minutes - the time it takes for the SLS to get from the ground to orbit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oliver Gard, known as Ollie, was born on the day after what would have been his brother Charlie's fourth birthday\n\nThe parents of Charlie Gard, who was at the centre of a legal row over his treatment before he died, have said they have been \"blessed\" by the birth of another son.\n\nOliver Gard was born the day after what would have been Charlie's fourth birthday and has not inherited his brother's rare genetic condition.\n\nCharlie died in 2017 after a legal bid for experimental treatment was refused.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard said: \"We never thought we'd be happy again.\"\n\n\"As soon as I found out I was pregnant I felt happier, like I could smile again,\" Ms Yates told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"I think before, I would plaster a smile on and say 'yeah I am OK' all the time. But now I feel I can smile and mean it.\"\n\nCharlie had encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome - a rare genetic condition - and died in a hospice aged 11 months.\n\nCharlie Gard appeared perfectly healthy at birth but his health soon began to deteriorate\n\nDoctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital said he could not see, hear or move and had irreversible brain damage.\n\nThey argued it was not clear if he could feel pain and said he should be allowed to die with dignity, but Charlie's parents fought for him to be given an experimental treatment in the US.\n\nTheir battle attracted worldwide attention and drew support from Donald Trump and Pope Francis but ended in defeat with a High Court ruling.\n\nMr Gard said: \"After we lost Charlie I just felt like a part of us died with him.\"\n\n\"We will always live the 'what if Charlie was given the treatment?'\n\n\"After I lost Charlie I didn't think I could love another boy like I did him.\n\n\"So when he [Oliver] was born a lot of it was relief, because I felt like I did with Charlie and just this instant rush of love.\"\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nThere was a chance Oliver, who was born on 5 August, might also have Charlie's rare genetic condition but he was born healthy.\n\nMs Yates' contractions began on what would have been Charlie's birthday at about the time Charlie was born, Mr Gard said.\n\n\"I just feel that Charlie has had a massive part to play in making his brother healthy.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.", "Portugal has been added to Scotland's quarantine list\n\nPassengers arriving in Scotland from Portugal after 04:00 on Saturday will have to self-isolate for 14 days, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nFrench Polynesia has also been added to Scotland's quarantine list.\n\nAnd travellers from Gibraltar have been warned that the territory was \"high up our watch list\" by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.\n\nEarlier this week Scotland announced similar quarantine restrictions for travellers from Greece.\n\nMinisters said they considered targeting regions of Portugal with the quarantine rule but ultimately decided a \"whole country approach\" was necessary.\n\nMr Yousaf said people should \"think very hard\" before embarking on non-essential travel during the pandemic.\n\n\"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases is a significant risk to public health,\" he added.\n\n\"I would also encourage people who have returned to Scotland from Portugal or French Polynesia in the last few days to be particularly careful in their social contacts and to ensure they stick to the FACTS.\n\n\"I am also concerned by the level of infections in Gibraltar and we will be monitoring the situation there very carefully.\"\n\nHe said they were in regular discussions with the other three governments in the UK.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation in all parts of the world and base the decisions we make on the scientific evidence available,\" he said.\n\n\"The requirement for travellers to quarantine for 14 days on arrival from a non-exempt country is vital to help prevent transmission of the virus and to suppress it - not doing so poses a significant risk to wider public health across Scotland.\"\n\nWhen Derek Burt's mother was diagnosed with MND six weeks ago, she asked for \"one more trip\" - a holiday with her family.\n\nWith trips to Florida and Croatia already cancelled, when quarantine restrictions were lifted two weeks ago they settled on Portugal.\n\nAlthough the virus rates seemed on the high-side, he \"assumed the government knew what they were doing\" and would not return the country to the quarantine list.\n\n\"How stupid was I to show any faith in our countries' decision-makers?\" he said.\n\nThey have had an amazing week, and his mother was able to fulfil her wish to watch her grandchildren playing in the pool of their villa.\n\nBut now the family from Dunfermline in Fife is racing to get home to beat the new restrictions that come into force at 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nMr Burt said he is \"incredibly frustrated\" by the decision of the Scottish and Welsh governments, describing it as a \"complete shambles\".\n\nThe Scottish government will monitor the situation in Gibraltar carefully\n\nThe decision follows the Welsh government's announcement that travellers to Wales from six Greek islands and mainland Portugal would have to isolate from 04:00 on Friday.\n\nHowever, arrivals to England and Northern Ireland from Portugal and Greece will not be subject to the same restrictions.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast that the different rules across the UK were confusing for travellers, and said it was similar to the way lockdown had been applied across the four nations.\n\nHe added: \"We look at the data and then we do speak - but I'm afraid quite often come to slightly different outcomes which I appreciate is confusing for people\".\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nThe seven-day infection rate in Portugal has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people.\n\nA seven-day rate of 20 per 100,000 is the threshold above which the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nHolidaymakers have only been able to travel from Scotland to Portugal without quarantine restrictions since 22 August, when it was added to the government \"exemptions\" list..\n\nIt follows the addition of Greece to Scotland's quarantine list, which came into force on Thursday;\n\nMinisters blamed the decision on a \"significant rise\" in coronavirus cases being brought into Scotland from people who had been to Greece.\n\nThe moves have been criticised by leading figures in the aviation industry, who have compared job losses in the industry to the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s.\n\nThey want to see Covid-19 testing at airports so passengers can leave quarantine early.", "The Rock made the announcement in an Instagram video\n\nDwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson says he and his family had all contracted Covid-19.\n\nThe former wrestler, who is now the world's highest-paid actor, said he, his wife and two daughters caught the virus despite being \"disciplined\" about health protection.\n\nHe said the positive tests were \"a kick in the gut\".\n\nNow, he added: \"We're on the other end of it and no longer contagious. Thank God, we're healthy.\"\n\nJohnson and his family live in the US, which has recorded more than 6.1 million coronavirus cases and over 185,700 deaths linked to the disease.\n\nThe actor, 48, said he and his wife Lauren, 35, and their daughters Jasmine and Tiana, aged four and two, contracted the virus about two-and-a-half weeks ago.\n\nThe American-Canadian actor said his daughters had exhibited mild symptoms, explaining they \"had a sore throat for the first couple of days, but other than that they bounced back and it's been life as normal\".\n\n\"But it was a little bit different for Lauren and I,\" Johnson said. He said he and his wife \"had a rough go\" - without detailing his exact symptoms - but together they \"got through it as a family\".\n\nJohnson said they caught the virus from \"very close family friends\" who, in turn, had no idea how they had been infected.\n\n\"I can tell you that this has been one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure as a family,\" Johnson said in a video posted to his Instagram account.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by therock This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Testing positive for Covid-19 is much different than overcoming nasty injuries, or being evicted or even being broke, which I have been more than a few times.\n\n\"My number one priority is to always protect my family.\n\n\"We are counting our blessings right now because we're well aware that it isn't always the case that you get on the other end of Covid-19 stronger and healthier.\"\n\nHe suggested several ways his fans could mitigate the risks of coronavirus, including leading a healthy lifestyle and wearing a face mask.\n\n\"It baffles me that some people out there, including some politicians, will take this idea of wearing masks and make it part of a political agenda,\" Johnson said.\n\n\"It has nothing to do with politics. Wear your mask. It is a fact. And it is the right thing to do.\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump, and other conservative politicians in the US, have been criticised for downplaying the need to wear masks and politicising the idea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nJohnson followed his father Rocky to become a professional wrestler and a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star.\n\nHe became a huge success in the sport before turning to acting, starring in blockbuster movies such as The Scorpion King, Fast & Furious 6 and the Jumanji franchise.\n\nLast month, he was named the highest-paid male actor for a second year in a row, earning $87.5m (£67m) between June 2019 and June 2020, including $23.5m for the Netflix thriller Red Notice, according to Forbes magazine.", "Security camera footage from eSalon SF shows Nancy Pelosi without a mask over her face\n\nUS House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said her visit to a San Francisco hair salon in breach of coronavirus rules was a \"setup\".\n\n\"I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighbourhood salon,\" the top Democrat told reporters on Wednesday. \"It turns out it was a setup.\"\n\nShe visited the eSalon SF on 31 August, despite a ban on such services indoors in the Californian city.\n\nMrs Pelosi was also pictured in the salon without a mask over her face.\n\nThe California lawmaker has often criticised President Donald Trump for refusing to wear a mask.\n\n\"I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighbourhood salon that I've been to over the years many times,\" Mrs Pelosi said in a testy press conference in San Francisco when asked about the incident.\n\nShe said eSalon SF had told her they could accommodate one guest at a time.\n\n\"I trusted that - as it turns out it was a setup,\" Mrs Pelosi said. \"So I take responsibility for falling for a setup and that's all I'm going to say on that.\"\n\nMrs Pelosi has herself previously cited US Centers for Disease Control guidelines recommending that Americans wear face masks in public, especially when physical distancing measures are difficult.\n\n\"I think this salon owes me an apology for setting up,\" she added.\n\n\"We have to get our country moving again and I will not let this subject take away from the fact that we have 185,000 plus people who have died from this virus.\"\n\nMrs Pelosi was seen on security camera footage, obtained by Fox News, wearing a face mask around her neck rather than over her mouth and nose.\n\nDuring the pandemic, she has always worn masks in public and has chastised Republicans for not listening to US health agency guidance.\n\nMr Trump weighed in on Twitter, saying Mrs Pelosi was \"being decimated for having a beauty parlour opened when all others are closed and for not wearing a mask - despite constantly lecturing everyone else\".\n\nA spokesman for the speaker earlier issued a statement saying the business told Mrs Pelosi they were allowed to have one customer inside at a time.\n\nThe salon's owner, Erica Kious, told Fox News a stylist informed her Mrs Pelosi wanted to come in for a wash and blow dry.\n\n\"It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no-one else can go in, and I can't work.\"", "Henriett Szucs (left) and Mihrican Mustafa were subjected to \"very significant violence\", the trial heard\n\nA convicted sex offender has been found guilty of murdering two women whose bodies were found in his freezer.\n\nThe remains of Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa were discovered at Zahid Younis's flat in Canning Town, east London, in April 2019.\n\nProsecutors at Southwark Crown Court said Younis preyed on the vulnerable women, subjecting them to \"very significant violence\".\n\nHe received a life sentence, with a minimum jail term of 38 years.\n\nThe four-week trial heard police made the \"grim discovery\" when looking for the defendant at his home following a call about his welfare.\n\nHe was not in but officers gained entry and noticed the lockable freezer, around which flies were gathering.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Younis refused to return from the cells for sentencing, Ms Mustafa's family spoke outside the court\n\nMs Szucs, 32, originally from Hungary, was last seen alive in 2016 and was killed shortly before the defendant bought the freezer in November that year, the court heard.\n\nYounis's second victim, 38-year-old Ms Mustafa, was last heard from in May 2018.\n\nMs Szucs and Ms Mustafa were \"vulnerable women living somewhat chaotic lives\", including periods of homelessness and drug addiction, the court heard.\n\nJurors were told Younis purchased the freezer shortly after killing Ms Szucs \"for the sole purpose\" of concealing her body.\n\nZahid Younis was in an abusive relationship with Henriett Szucs, the court heard\n\nThe nature of the crime scene meant a cause of death could not be established, but the scientific evidence showed that the women had been subjected to serious violence before their deaths.\n\nThey had both suffered numerous rib fractures while Ms Szucs had sustained \"dreadful\" head injuries and Ms Mustafa's sternum and larynx had been fractured.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said the freezer had been forced open by one of the officers on \"an old-fashioned police hunch\" about what was inside it.\n\nHe said: \"He broke open the freezer and discovered what could only be seen, at the time, as only one body.\n\n\"It actually took the freezer being taken away and X-rayed for it to be seen there was another body underneath that. It was a gruesome discovery for the officers.\"\n\nThe Met's missing person inquiry into Mihrican Mustafa - which started in 2018 - did not examine vital phone evidence, which would have shown contact with Younis around the time she vanished\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding described Ms Szucs as someone who had been in abusive relationships before and was preyed upon by Younis.\n\nShe moved in with him - although Younis denied having a long-term relationship with her - and \"we have shown that she was really in love with him in her own way\", the detective said.\n\n\"She wrote him letters that we found. Unfortunately to him, she did not mean anything.\"\n\nThe court heard that Younis has several previous convictions for assaulting partners.\n\nA BBC investigation has identified a series of issues relating to the case:\n\nYounis, known as \"Boxer\", denied murder but did admit putting the women in the freezer, pleading guilty to two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body.\n\nHe claimed he was out when Ms Szucs died at his flat and did not tell police because he was \"panicking\".\n\nThe jury was told he paid a man to help him get Ms Szucs' body into the freezer and that his accomplice later blackmailed him into putting Ms Mustafa's corpse in the same place.\n\nJurors deliberated for over 16 hours before returning majority verdicts.\n\nYounis showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out while members of Ms Mustafa's large family, who attended every day of the three-week trial, said \"yes\" in the public gallery.\n\nHer older sister, Mel Mustafa, said: \"Thank you God, thank you.\"\n\nThe defendant refused to return to court from the cells for sentencing, during which Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb described him as an \"arch deceiver\" who had \"spent a lifetime destroying lives\".\n\nShe added he had shown no remorse about killing \"two beautiful and creative women\" and he might never be released from prison.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n• None How warnings about Heni and Jan's killer were missed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThree Paris St-Germain players have tested positive for coronavirus, the Ligue 1 club said on Wednesday.\n\nThe French champions, who lost in the Champions League final last month, have not revealed the players involved.\n\n\"All of the players and coaching staff will continue to undergo tests in the coming days,\" a club statement said.\n\nThe French league is already under way but PSG are due to start their title defence at Racing Lens on 10 September after being given an extended break.\n\nThe opening game of the Ligue 1 season between Marseille and Saint-Etienne had to be postponed last month after four home players tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe French league told clubs last week its protocol for dealing with coronavirus meant more than three positive cases at a club was likely to lead to a postponement.\n\nThe 2019-20 campaign was curtailed in April because of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Paris St-Germain, 12 points clear at the top, awarded the title.", "Tim Davie took over as director general on Tuesday\n\nThe BBC's new director general has said he doesn't support any switch from the licence fee to a subscription service.\n\nIn his first speech since taking over, Tim Davie said such a change \"would make us just another media company\" that serves only \"the few\".\n\nBut he told staff there must be \"a radical shift in our focus\" so everyone gets value from the licence fee.\n\nHe warned that the BBC currently faces a \"significant risk\" and has \"no inalienable right to exist\".\n\nHe said: \"If current trends continue, we will not feel indispensable enough to all our audience. We must evolve to protect what we cherish.\"\n\nThe licence fee is currently guaranteed until 2027, but there is a debate about the BBC's funding beyond that.\n\nThe Gavin and Stacey Christmas special was the most-watched programme of 2019\n\n\"For the avoidance of doubt, I do not want a subscription BBC that serves the few,\" Davie said during the speech in Cardiff.\n\n\"We could make a decent business out of it, and I suspect it could do quite well in certain postcodes, but it would make us just another media company serving a specific group.\"\n\nDescribing the BBC as \"a brilliant national success\", he said: \"We all recognise when someone says, 'I would pay my licence fee for Radio 4, for Strictly, or for the website'.\n\n\"But this kind of connection is under pressure and cannot be taken for granted. Across the UK, across all political views, across all of society, and across all age groups, people must feel their BBC is here for them, not for us.\"\n\nThat would not be achieved by beating rivals at their own game, but by being \"more rather than less BBC, more distinctive, and committed to our unique public service mission\", he explained.\n\nThe top priority would be to \"renew our commitment to impartiality\", he said.\n\nImpartiality is \"the very essence of who we are\" and is possible to achieve even in polarised times.\n\n\"It is not simply about left or right. This is more about whether people feel we see the world from their point of view. Our research shows that too many perceive us to be shaped by a particular perspective.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you want to be an opinionated columnist or a partisan campaigner on social media then that is a valid choice, but you should not be working at the BBC.\"\n\nNew social media guidelines for presenters and staff will be \"rigorously enforced\", he said.\n\n\"Value for all\", the phrase Tim Davie says will define his tenure as DG, is clever. \"Value\" is a commercial idea, and therefore alludes to his background in the private sector and the ferocious competition the BBC faces globally today. And \"all\" connotes the idea of a universal public service.\n\nIn three words, that phrase captures both Davie's heritage and challenge, and the \"enlightened blend\", to borrow his phrase, of free market and public service sensibilities he embodies.\n\nPrint headlines will likely focus on his warning shot, especially but not exclusively to those on air, about impartiality. He thinks social media activism and column-writing don't mix with working for the BBC. The big, as yet unanswered, question is whether he will clamp down on the tweeting of BBC contributors who don't work for BBC News, such as Gary Lineker.\n\nDavie is undoubtedly energetic and decisive, and of the two dozen staff I've spoken to in the past 24 hours, there was unanimous excitement and positive feeling. But as he himself acknowledged, talking about change is easy. Actually delivering it in a post-pandemic world is very hard. He'll be judged on the latter.\n\nAfter his speech, Davie was interviewed by BBC head of creative diversity June Sarpong, who later described his vision for \"a truly inclusive BBC\" as \"a daunting and difficult task but one he is committed to achieving\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "CCDH says tech firm's failure to act may limit take-up of Covid-19 vaccines when they become available\n\nSocial networks are failing to tackle coronavirus-related anti-vaccination posts containing \"clearly harmful information\" even after the material is brought to their attention, according to a campaign group.\n\nIt flagged more than 900 examples to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube via a team of volunteers.\n\nIt said the firms did not remove or otherwise deal with 95% of the cases.\n\nThe four platforms each have policies designed to restrict such content.\n\nThe Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said UK lawmakers should accelerate existing plans to hold the companies to account as a consequence.\n\nThe US firms were shown a copy of the report ahead of its publication.\n\nIt contains selected examples. But CCDH has yet to disclose the full list of links of the posts involved, although it has pledged to do so on request now that the report is out.\n\nCCDH said many of the posts it flagged had made reference to the philanthropist Bill Gates\n\nThis has limited the US companies' ability to address the specific cases. But the firms have said they have removed and labelled millions of other items since the virus was declared a public health emergency.\n\nNone of the tech firms involved forbid users from posting inaccurate information about vaccinations.\n\nHowever, after a series of measles outbreaks in 2019, Facebook - which owns Instagram - said it would start directing users to reliable information from the World Health Organization (WHO) when they searched or visited relevant content.\n\nTwitter and YouTube also took measures the same year to steer users away from related conspiracy theories.\n\nHowever, the platforms tightened their rules after the outbreak of Covid-19.\n\nFacebook said it would remove posts that could lead to physical harm, and would apply warning labels to other relevant posts debunked by fact-checkers.\n\nTwitter said it would remove coronavirus-related posts that could cause widespread panic and/or social unrest, and add warning messages to other disputed or misleading information about the pandemic.\n\nAnd YouTube said it had banned content about Covid-19 that posed a \"serious risk of egregious harm\" or contradicted medical information given by the WHO and local health authorities.\n\nCCDH said a total of 912 items posted by anti-vaccine protesters that it had judged to have fallen foul of the companies' Covid-19 rules were flagged to the firms between July and August.\n\nAmong the examples of material that CCDH said was not tackled were:\n\nCCDH added that about one in 10 of all examples made reference to conspiracy theories involving Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, including suggestions that he wanted people to be fitted with microchips that would cause them to starve if they refused a vaccine.\n\nFacebook responded by saying it had taken \"aggressive steps to limit the spread of misinformation\" about Covid-19, including the removal of more than seven million items and the addition of warning labels to a further 98 million pieces of misinformation.\n\nCCDH said that a number of posts claimed that Covid was a \"false flag\" or \"plandemic\" created to force mass vaccinations\n\nTwitter said that while it did not take action on every tweet containing disputed information about the virus, it did prioritise those that had a call to action that could cause harm.\n\n\"Our automated systems have challenged millions of accounts which were targeting discussions around Covid-19 with spammy or manipulative behaviours,\" it added.\n\nAnd Google said that it had taken a number of steps to \"combat harmful misinformation\", including banning some clips and displaying fact-checking panels alongside others.\n\nBut CCDH's chief executive said politicians and regulators in the US and UK must now force the firms into tougher action.\n\n\"This is an immediate crisis, with a ticking time bomb about to go off in our societies,\" said Imran Ahmed.\n\n\"Social media companies... do not listen to polite requests for change. Given the acute nature of the coronavirus crisis, their failure to act must now be met with real consequences.\"\n\nLondon-based CCDH is funded by the Pears Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Barrow Cadbury Trust, as well as others the group says do do not want to be named in case they are targeted as a result.\n\nPublic health experts warn that coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theories spread quickly online and pose a grave threat to all of us.\n\nIf a significant number of people decide not to take a safe and approved vaccine, our ability to suppress the disease will be limited.\n\nIt's legitimate to have concerns that a vaccine is safe and properly tested. It's also legitimate to want to discuss this in private chats or online.\n\nBut claims a coronavirus vaccine will be a tool for mass surveillance or genocide only do harm.\n\nThe theories are often spread by popular pseudo-science figures and large Facebook pages notorious for promoting disinformation.\n\nThey then drip into the average person's feeds and are sometimes amplified by celebrities, sowing seeds of doubt.\n\nThe social media firms say they are taking action, but critics say that if they don't do more - whether voluntarily or under compulsion - they could contribute to a public health disaster.", "Breonna Taylor's name has become a rallying cry at anti-racism protests\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has urged charges against police who shot two black Americans, Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor.\n\nSpeaking in Delaware, Mr Biden did not specify what counts should be brought in the cases, which have fuelled racial justice protests nationwide.\n\nThe Democrat spoke after notching up a record fundraising haul in August.\n\nHe has a lead over President Donald Trump, a Republican, in opinion polls ahead of November's election.\n\nDuring a news conference in his hometown of Wilmington on Wednesday, Mr Biden was asked whether he agreed with his running mate, Kamala Harris, that the officers in the Blake and Taylor cases should be charged.\n\n\"I think we should let the judicial system work its way,\" he said. \"I do think at a minimum, they need to be charged, the officers.\"\n\nMr Blake, 29, was shot seven times in the back and paralysed during an arrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on 23 August.\n\nNo action has so far been taken against the officer involved, pending investigations by the Wisconsin and US departments of justice.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, was fatally shot in her home during a drug raid in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March.\n\nOne of the officers is losing his job; two others have been placed on administrative leave as the investigation into their actions proceeds.\n\nMr Biden also mentioned the gunman, identified in US media as a far-left activist, who fatally shot a Trump supporter on the streets of Portland, Oregon, last weekend.\n\nThe Democratic nominee stopped short of calling for charges in that case, but said: \"They should be investigated and it should follow through on what needs to be done.\n\n\"Let the judicial system work. Let's make sure justice is done.\"\n\nMr Biden had been delivering remarks about how to open schools safely in light of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis comments came a day before he travels to Kenosha, where he says he wants to help \"heal\" the city after it was rocked by days of violent protests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nMr Biden said he had received \"overwhelming requests\" to visit this latest flashpoint in America's racial reckoning over law enforcement shootings.\n\nThe Democrat will meet Mr Blake's father and other members of the family during the visit.\n\nPresident Trump, a Republican, did not meet the family during his own visit to Kenosha on Tuesday, saying he decided not to because of plans to have lawyers attend with the relatives.\n\nMr Biden's visit to Wisconsin comes four years after the previous Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, overlooked the Midwestern state during her campaigning, and it turned out to be pivotal in Mr Trump's against-all-odds 2016 election victory.\n\nAt his own event in North Carolina on Wednesday, Mr Trump continued to talk tough about \"violent mobs\" at protests.\n\n\"These people know one thing - strength,\" he said.\n\nThe president also directed his administration to look into stripping federal funding for \"anarchist jurisdictions\" including New York City, Seattle, Washington DC and Portland, Oregon.\n\nEarlier in the day, the Biden campaign announced a $364m (£272m) fundraising haul for August, more than both he and Mr Trump pulled in in the previous month.\n\nThe Democrat will splurge $45m of his war chest on a single ad rebutting opposition claims he will not stand up to rioters and looters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt will splice clips of him condemning violence at protests, which he has done several times since the demonstrations began with the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May.\n\nMr Trump, meanwhile, will air a duelling ad in Minnesota with the message: \"Communities not criminals. Jobs not mobs.\"\n\nMr Biden has a clear single-digit lead in opinion polls nationally and is ahead by a somewhat smaller margin in the handful of swing states that will actually decide this election.\n\nA new survey covering the critical state of Pennsylvania, by Monmouth University on Wednesday, showed Mr Biden's lead over Mr Trump had shrunk from 10 points in July to three points now.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government “cannot carry on doing exactly what we did this year forever”, says the chancellor\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has reassured recently-elected Tory MPs there will not be a \"horror show of tax rises with no end in sight\", as the government deals with the costs of coronavirus.\n\nHe urged the 2019 Conservative intake to show trust to overcome the \"short-term challenges\" the party faces.\n\nSome MPs have expressed fears U-turns are hurting the government's standing.\n\nMr Sunak accidentally revealed the wording of his statement while holding his notes outside 11 Downing Street.\n\nThe Conservative Party, which won an 80-seat majority at December's general election, has seen its opinion poll lead over Labour cut in recent weeks.\n\nThis has led to concerns among some MPs who won seats in traditional Labour heartlands in the Midlands and northern England, known previously as its \"red wall\".\n\nAn unnamed \"red wall\" Conservative told the Press Association MPs in these areas, and others in marginal seats, were \"jittery\" following a series of U-turns on subjects including exam results, the wearing of face coverings and school meal funding. They described the situation as a \"megadisaster\".\n\nAnd Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, warned against \"own goals\", saying: \"We may have a big majority but that still doesn't mean to say that we shouldn't be as competent as possible as a government.\"\n\nA photographer picked up the words in Rishi Sunak's statement\n\nIt was reported at the weekend that substantial corporation tax rises and capital gains tax changes are being considered by the Treasury to deal with the enormous costs of coronavirus. But the government dismissed this as \"speculation\".\n\nThe wording of Mr Sunak's statement, read out during a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday with Tory MPs first elected in 2019, which the prime minister also attended, was revealed when a photographer noticed the chancellor holding a script sheet while leaving 11 Downing Street.\n\nIt read: \"We will need to do some difficult things, but I promise you, if we trust one another we will be able to overcome the short-term challenges.\"\n\nReferring to the reports that there could be tax increases to pay for costs incurred during the pandemic, including the furlough scheme, it added: \"Now this doesn't mean a horror show of tax rises with no end in sight.\"\n\nIt continued: \"But it does mean treating the British people with respect, being honest with them about the challenges we face and showing them how we plan to correct our public finances and give our country the dynamic, low-tax economy we all want to see.\"\n\nWith more MPs back at Westminster, the prime minister and his chancellor took the opportunity to reassure restless Tory backbenchers about the government's strategy.\n\nHow to pay for the huge package of interventions to deal with the pandemic and its effects is at the forefront of Rishi Sunak's mind ahead of the Budget later this autumn.\n\nBorrowing has ballooned and the prime minister has already promised there will be no return to austerity.\n\nBut there is nervousness among Tory MPs about rumours of tax rises and about the government's decision-making and messaging more broadly.\n\nMr Sunak told his Conservative colleagues that ministers needed to show people the plan for correcting public finances. He faces difficult choices while devising it.\n\nGovernment sources denied the revelation of the chancellor's words in this way was \"embarrassing\", adding that they would have become a matter of public record anyway.\n\nDiscussing the coronavirus crisis, Boris Johnson told the MPs: \"I know it's been tough. I've got to warn you, it's about to get tougher. The waters are about to get choppier. But we are going to deal with it.\"\n\nThe prime minister later addressed a meeting of all backbench Conservative MPs, with the 1922 Committee getting together for the first time since Parliament's summer recess.\n\nOne MP present said he had been \"full of beans\", while a minister added that both the day's meetings had been about \"calming the troops\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: “People give a lot more information probably to their supermarkets than they will to the government.”\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it is \"common sense to move in the direction of digital IDs\" as part of efforts to fight coronavirus.\n\nMr Blair said there should be a record kept by the government of those vaccinated against the virus.\n\nThe government recently set out plans to change laws to enable the use of digital identity across the UK.\n\nAs prime minister, Mr Blair launched a compulsory ID card scheme, but it was scrapped by the coalition government.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newscast podcast, he said that once a coronavirus vaccine is in use \"you're going to want a record of the fact you've been vaccinated\".\n\n\"You'll want a record kept by the government of who's been vaccinated - this will be essential, again, to restoring confidence,\" he added.\n\nThe former PM argued that improvements in technology meant privacy issues \"can be dealt with\".\n\n\"You don't need a large amount of information,\" he said adding: \"People give a lot more information to their supermarkets than they do to the government.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Blair's comments, Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch - a civil liberties campaign group - said: \"The idea of digital ID and vaccination checks could easily lead to a health apartheid that few would expect of a democratic country.\n\n\"Digital IDs would lead to sensitive records spanning medical, work, travel, and biometric data about each and every one of us being held at the fingertips of authorities and state bureaucrats.\n\n\"This dangerous plan would normalise identity checks, increase state control over law abiding citizens and create a honey pot for cybercriminals.\"\n\nMr Blair's comments come after the government announced plans to update existing laws on identity checking to allow digital identity \"to be used as widely as possible\".\n\nIt is does not propose resurrecting the ID card scheme, but is \"exploring how secure checks could be made against government data,\" according to the government announcement.\n\nDigital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman said: \"Digital technology is helping us through the pandemic and continues to improve the way we live, work and access vital services.\n\n\"We want to make it easier for people to prove their identity securely online so transactions can become even quicker - it has the potential to add billions to our economy.\"\n\nMr Blair was a keen advocate of ID cards for all UK citizens, as a way of combating terrorism after 9/11, but it was later billed as an \"entitlement card\" to combat benefit fraud and illegal workers.\n\nThe former PM has argued since leaving office that ID cards are the only way to combat illegal immigration.\n\nThe ID card scheme began its rollout in November 2009, under Gordon Brown's premiership, but was scrapped in 2010 by the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government which saw it as an infringement of civil liberties.\n\nDuring his interview with Newscast, Mr Blair also argued that coronavirus quarantine policies were \"killing\" international travel.\n\nHe said he didn't think the 14 day quarantine period for those returning from certain countries abroad was \"necessary\".\n\n\"The question is not how you eliminate the risk, it is how you contain it,\" he added.\n\nMr Blair also said it was a \"mystery\" to him why there hadn't been a more coordinated international effort to tackle the virus. \"I honestly don't understand the reason for that not happening,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking of poorer countries in Africa, he said: \"They can't do lockdown, it's just not possible, but as a result of the global crisis they're facing real food security problems, real supply problems.\"\n\nOn vaccines, he said he hoped we \"do not end up in a situation where wealthy countries get the vaccines and poor countries are scrabbling for them. This wouldn't just be morally wrong, it would be totally against our own interests\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta was knocked out of the US Open in three sets by Sorana Cirstea.\n\nNinth seed Konta led by a set and a break but the Romanian world number 77 fought back to win 2-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 at Flushing Meadows.\n\nIt is a second early exit in a Grand Slam in 2020 for 29-year-old Konta, who lost in the first round of the Australian Open in January.\n\n\"My opponent played better than me, that's really about it,\" said Konta.\n\n\"She obviously raised her level and then we were battling toe-to-toe. She was better in the end.\n\n\"I did the best that I could. I really fought hard.\"\n• None Follow radio and text updates from day four\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta, a quarter-finalist in 2019 at Flushing Meadows, had won their two previous meetings, including a controversial Fed Cup rubber in 2017 when Romania captain Ilie Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and Great Britain captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nKonta was visibly upset and the umpire halted the match for 25 minutes, with Cirstea later claiming the Briton had \"overreacted\".\n\nThere was no hint of controversy about their meeting in New York with Konta seemingly set for a routine win as she broke Cirstea's serve three times in the first set and then again to lead 2-1 in the second set.\n\nHowever, Cirstea broke back immediately and upped her level to turn the match around.\n\nKonta had break points at 4-4 and 5-5 in the second set but could not convert and was taken to a tie-break.\n\nCirstea dominated it and although Konta saved three set points, Cirstea levelled the match with an ace on her fourth opportunity.\n\nPoorly executed drop shots were an issue for Konta in the final set, and one particularly feeble effort helped Cirstea get the first break for 2-1.\n\nKonta levelled immediately but was now routinely having to fight to hold her own service games, winning only 34% of points on her second serve during the match.\n\nShe fought back from 0-30 down to go 3-2 up but a gripping seventh game - which lasted more than 10 minutes - proved pivotal, Cirstea converting her sixth break point by superbly picking up a volley.\n\nKonta had three break-back points in the next game but they were quickly snuffed out as Cirstea held for 5-3. Excellent serving allowed the Briton to stave off two match points in her next service game, but Cirstea was not fazed as she coolly sealed victory with an ace in two hours and 49 minutes.\n\nJohanna Konta does not tend to dwell on missed opportunities, but there will be plenty of frustration this match slipped away from such a promising position.\n\nMuch of that frustration can be directed at Sorana Cirstea for playing so well.\n\nThe Romanian served superbly, and from the middle of the second set onwards was able to sustain a level far above her ranking.\n\nKonta was unable to throw her off course, which will give new coach Thomas Hogstedt some food for thought as they head on to the clay.\n\nJamie Murray and fellow Briton Neal Skupski made an impressive start to their men's doubles campaign, beating fourth seeds Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek 6-3 7-5.\n\nBriton Dom Inglot and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi lost to Americans Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow with all three sets decided by tie-breaks.\n\nJonny O'Mara and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador were beaten in three sets by Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.", "Low-deposit mortgage deals available to borrowers have plummeted in recent months as lenders play safer during the economic fall-out from coronavirus.\n\nBorrowers able to offer 10% of the value of a home as a deposit could have chosen from 779 deals at the start of March, data from Moneyfacts shows.\n\nSix months later, the choice was now down to around 60, the financial information company said.\n\nLenders are being stricter about who they lend to amid fears of defaults.\n\nSome large lenders have already said they would not currently consider applications from people on furlough and who did not have a return to work date.\n\nFirst-time buyers are at particular risk from the squeeze on mortgages, as they usually have less in savings to use as a deposit.\n\nRachel Springall, from Moneyfacts, said the situation was \"hugely frustrating\" for these potential buyers.\n\n\"Product availability has plummeted since March, when there were hundreds of deals to choose from. There are now very few. Those who had expected to get a foot onto the property ladder may now hold their plans, particularly if they only have a 5% deposit,\" she said.\n\nAmy is relocating from Glasgow and had a mortgage agreed in principle, but has now been told she needs to offer more upfront.\n\n\"I now need to make the difference up with another £20,000,\" the 38-year-old said.\n\n\"It was all totally manageable, I don't understand, it just seems ludicrous. I'm employed in social services so my job isn't in threat, I've been working as a key worker throughout this pandemic. I've had a mortgage since I was 21.\n\n\"I've moved my daughter's schools, so I just had to go forward with it. It's not ideal for a five-year-old, it's not very fair.\"\n\nHSBC became the latest lender to temporarily restrict lending on 90% loan-to-value deals in what one mortgage broker described as a \"sign of the times\".\n\nAaron Strutt, of Trinity Financial, said that lenders had to balance the books, and that meant a spread of borrowers ranging from first-time buyers - who might be more risky if house prices fell - to those borrowing a far smaller proportion of the value of a property.\n\nSelf-employed people were also being asked for more information, including bank statements and accounts, when they applied for a mortgage.\n\nMortgage lending has still picked up since lockdown, with many people trying to secure mortgages after a relatively swift agreement to buy a property during a post-lockdown pick-up in house-buying and prices.\n\nHowever, there is an expectation that this mini-boom will not last as job losses mount and finances are stretched as government support schemes are wound down.", "We've been hearing about the long journeys people have been asked to take to access a coronavirus test in the UK.\n\nAfter BBC revelations that some people have been required to drive long distances, there has been renewed debate about whether there is sufficient capacity.\n\nThere has apparently been an increase of more than 60% in demand for tests since June and it appears that laboratories have struggled to keep up in some parts of the country.\n\nThere has been an apology to those who were told to go a hundred miles or more for a test.\n\nOfficials acknowledge that resources are stretched and have to be targeted at areas with local outbreaks.\n\nBut they point out that a new mega lab is set to come on stream in the East Midlands soon.\n\nThey argue that trials of new rapid testing techniques will be expanded, which could prove to be game-changers.\n\nFor now though, the system is stretched, even though the official numbers suggest capacity is running ahead of demand.\n\nQuestions will continue to be asked about whether the system can cope with the challenges ahead as schools return and winter approaches.", "A top ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the EU risks becoming irrelevant if it fails to act against Russia over the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.\n\nNorbert Röttgen said a major gas deal with Russia must now be reconsidered.\n\nThe Russian government has been widely condemned after Germany confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.\n\nHe is gravely ill in intensive care in Berlin's Charité hospital.\n\nMr Navalny was flown to the German capital after collapsing in pain on a flight in Siberia on 20 August. His supporters believe poison was put in his tea at Tomsk airport.\n\nMr Röttgen, chair of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee, demanded a tough EU response in the Navalny case. Novichok is an extremely toxic, military-grade weapon that experts say must have come from a state facility.\n\n\"Now, again, we are brutally confronted with the reality of the Putin regime, which treats people with contempt,\" Mr Röttgen told German public broadcaster ARD.\n\nHe noted that President Vladimir Putin had projected Russian power in Syria, Libya and Belarus, and said: \"The question is, are the Europeans always going to end up doing nothing? If so, then we'll become irrelevant, we won't be taken seriously.\"\n\nMembers of the Nato defence alliance will discuss the poisoning at a special meeting on Friday.\n\nMrs Merkel earlier said Mr Navalny was a victim of attempted murder and the world would look to Russia for answers.\n\nShe said there would be an \"appropriate joint response\" by the EU and Nato, describing the poisoning of Mr Navalny as \"an attack on the fundamental values and basic rights to which we are committed\".\n\nThe Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said poisoning someone with a nerve agent \"is considered a use of chemical weapons\". It called the alleged attack \"a matter of grave concern\" and pledged to help any state that asks for its help.\n\nThe Kremlin has not accepted the diagnosis in Germany, saying it has not seen German data on Mr Navalny's condition.\n\n\"There are no grounds to accuse the Russian state,\" Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Putin, told reporters, adding that Germany and other EU nations should not \"hurry with their assessments\".\n\nMr Röttgen warned that Germany would risk becoming dependent on Russia by completing Nord Stream 2, a controversial 1,225km (760-mile) gas pipeline owned by Russia's Gazprom.\n\nHe also warned that doing so would encourage Mr Putin to ignore Western protestations over the Navalny case and other attacks on his political opponents. Mr Röttgen is a candidate to succeed Mrs Merkel as chancellor next year.\n\nOn Tuesday Mrs Merkel reiterated her wish to see Nord Stream 2 completed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on any firm that helps Gazprom to complete the project.\n\nHowever, his critics are asking why he has not commented on the targeting of Mr Navalny.\n\nHis rival in the presidential race, Joe Biden, accused the Kremlin of \"an outrageous and brazen attempt on Mr Navalny's life\".\n\n\"Donald Trump has refused to confront Putin, calling him a 'terrific person',\" Mr Biden said.\n\nMr Navalny was flown to Berlin on an emergency flight from Omsk in Siberia\n\nMr Navalny was put into a medically induced coma after falling ill. His team says he was poisoned on President Putin's orders. The Kremlin has dismissed the allegation.\n\nA team of German specialists has found \"unequivocal proof\" that a Novichok nerve agent was used.\n\nThe Charité hospital says it expects Mr Navalny's recovery to take a long time and cannot rule out long-term after-effects, but the agent's blockage of his cholinesterase enzyme is declining.\n\nOn Wednesday the Kremlin spokesman called on Germany for a full exchange of information and foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova complained the Novichok allegations were not backed up by evidence.\n\nNovichok has been in the news before. It was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK in 2018. While they survived, a British woman later died in hospital. The UK accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out that attack.\n\nIn a co-ordinated move, 20 countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the latest attack as \"outrageous\". \"The Russian government must now explain what happened to Mr Navalny - we will work with international partners to ensure justice is done,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe EU has demanded a \"transparent\" investigation by the Russian government. \"Those responsible must be brought to justice,\" a statement read.\n\nThe US National Security Council (NSC) said the suspected poisoning was \"completely reprehensible\".\n\n\"We will work with allies and the international community to hold those in Russia accountable, wherever the evidence leads, and restrict funds for their malign activities,\" an NSC spokesman said.\n\nAlexei Navalny is a name President Putin refuses to say out loud.\n\nIt's an attempt to diminish his political significance, but the endless prosecutions, police detentions and giant fines Mr Navalny has faced over the years tell a different story about his impact.\n\nHe's certainly annoyed a lot of people, from those targeted by his anti-corruption investigations to Vladimir Putin himself. So it is possible someone wanted to resolve the \"Navalny problem\" for good.\n\nThe timing is largely irrelevant. Why now? Well, why not. But if whoever did this hoped to contain the fallout - a mysterious collapse, never explained by Russian doctors - the fact Navalny's team got him to Germany has blown that calculation.\n\nThe \"collapse\" is now a deliberate attack, and a major international scandal. The Kremlin response so far is familiar: deny, obfuscate, demand proof. Mr Putin's spokesman has even hinted that if Mr Navalny had been poisoned, then it must have happened in Germany because doctors here detected nothing suspicious.\n\nExpect to hear a lot more along those lines in the days to come.", "People arriving in Wales and Scotland from Portugal must now self-isolate for 14 days, but the rules covering England and Northern Ireland are unchanged.\n\nThe difference between the nations has been criticised as confusing.\n\nThe rules for Wales apply from 04:00 BST on Friday, while in Scotland they begin 24 hours later on Saturday.\n\nCases in Portugal have risen in the past week beyond the threshold at which ministers generally consider imposing 14-day mandatory self-isolation.\n\nThe Department for Transport said decisions around adding or removing countries from the quarantine list \"take into account a range of factors\" - including how many people are being tested.\n\n\"Portugal has drastically increased its testing capacity, as well as taking measures to control the spread of the virus,\" said a spokesperson, adding it would closely monitor the situation.\n\nThe latest quarantine rules introduced in Wales apply to travellers from Portugal, Gibraltar, six Greek islands and French Polynesia.\n\nThe six islands are Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (or Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nScotland has already reintroduced self-isolation measures for arrivals from Greece and has now added Portugal and French Polynesia to its list of countries requiring quarantine.\n\n\"This week's data shows an increase in test positivity and cases per 100k in Portugal,\" said Scottish justice minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nChanges to the rules for arrivals from Greece coming to England have been considered - but Greece will stay on its safe list for now.\n\nIn Portugal, the seven-day infection rate has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people. This is above the threshold of 20 which is when the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nGreece's rate overall is below the threshold at 13.8 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 2 September, down from 14.9 a week earlier.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday: \"There are no English additions or removals today. We continue to keep the travel corridor list under constant review and won't hesitate to remove countries if needed.\"\n\n\"Nonetheless, holidaymakers are reminded - 14-day quarantine countries can and do change at very short notice.\"\n\nHe said the government takes several factors into account, including the prevalence of the virus as well as the level and rate of change, how many tests the country is doing, the extent of the contained outbreak and the government's actions.\n\nNorthern Ireland's department of health also confirmed that NI would not make any further changes at present.\n\nThe changes have drawn criticism from industry experts as well as holidaymakers.\n\n\"The quarantine policy is in tatters and dividing the United Kingdom,\" said Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy firm The PC Agency.\n\n\"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria any more on when to add or remove a country.\n\n\"The current strategy has to change. The weekly reviews have been causing anxiety and financial pain for so many consumers and travel firms,\" he added.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: \"Days of speculation around this announcement meant many people rushed to pay extortionate prices for flights back to England to avoid having to quarantine on their return - only to now find out there was no need.\n\n\"The government knows this and yet it continues to offer no clarity around how these decisions are made.\"\n\nOne aviation boss described travelling abroad right now as \"quarantine roulette\" because the list of destinations which are affected keeps changing.\n\nBut the governments in Westminster, Edinburgh and Cardiff are now clearly at odds over which countries pose a clear risk.\n\nPortugal's infection rate is above the UK government's benchmark of 20 cases of the virus for every 100,000 people.\n\nBut the UK government has surprised us all and not added Portugal to the list for England. It's not clear why.\n\nGreece is even more complicated as the Welsh government is opting for a policy where only people arriving from certain Greek islands have to self-isolate while Scotland has introduced a quarantine for arrivals from across Greece.\n\nFor months the travel industry has been lobbying the UK government for an approach where they consider particular regions in a country but ministers in London are not keen on the idea.\n\nThe quarantine was already hard or impossible to police.\n\nBut discrepancies between different UK nations makes it even harder as someone could, theoretically, fly into Newcastle from Greece and drive into Scotland. That person should self-isolate for 14 days, but no-one will be checking.\n\nSome holidaymakers have told the BBC they have paid as much as £1,000 for flights to get home from Portugal in anticipation of the rules changing.\n\nKelly, from Birmingham, and her family changed their flights home from the Algarve from Saturday to Friday at a cost of £900 to avoid potential quarantine because she did not want her children to miss out on two weeks of school.\n\nThe 45-year-old said the situation was \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\n\"It's cost us a lot more money and it's money we didn't need to spend now. We've lost an extra night in our villa - we won't get that back - we've got a hire car, so we're taking that back a day early.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government just change the goalposts left, right and centre at the moment. It's embarrassing.\"\n\nDamian Martin from Swansea - who is currently on holiday in Lagos, Portugal - said he only arrived earlier on Thursday.\n\n\"Work had been full on so I decided to go,\" said Damian\n\n\"I had already switched my holiday from Spain and I won't be able to come back early,\" he said. \"I will be able to self-isolate, I think, but I work for a supermarket so will have to check in with them.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm supposed to be here eight nights. I might as well try to enjoy it.\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal. Most head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nDuring May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal or Greece? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Simon Johnson from The Telegraph says he spoke to Professor Linda Bauld who said she does not think the elimination strategy is going well, given the rise in cases.\n\nHe says he asked the professor if Scotland had adopted a Wack-A-Mole tactic and she said absolutely.\n\nThe first minister says she thinks a great deal of Linda Bauld who she says is an expert who talks a lot of sense.\n\nMs Sturgeon adds that she is advised by experts on how to keep this virus to the lowest possible level and eliminate it if possible.\n\nWhen outbreaks occur the government will try to hit them hard, but \"elimination is my objective\".", "The Mansion House is available to rent online\n\nPolice have launched an investigation after more than 300 people attended a party at a house in Midlothian.\n\nOfficers were called to The Mansion House of Kirkhill in Gorebridge at 00:20 on Sunday.\n\nThe party was being run as a commercial event, with those attending ordered to leave and a 29-year-old man being issued with a fixed penalty.\n\nOrganisers have been accused of showing \"blatant disregard\" for rules aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the incident as \"utterly irresponsible\" and urged people not to attend house parties.\n\nThe 12-bedroom property is said to be able to sleep up to 34 guests and is advertised on Airbnb for £1,600 a night - although the company said it had not been booked through them.\n\nIn a statement published on Facebook, the owners of the property said the man who made the booking for the entire weekend \"seemed very pleasant\".\n\n\"We were then sadly as owners contacted at 1.30am Sunday morning by our old neighbours to say there was a huge rave and police were in attendance,\" they added.\n\n\"We are seeking legal action against the organisers of this event and are devastated as a family that our trust was broken.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"It is after all our family home and we did not feel safe being there after so many people had been.\"\n\nPolice are now investigating the possibility of bringing culpable and reckless conduct charges against the people behind the party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSocial distancing rules mean indoor gatherings are limited to no more than eight people from three households, and police can issue £60 fines at gatherings of more than 15 people.\n\nRepeat offenders can be fined up to a maximum of £960.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham, said: \"Those attending this organised event showed a blatant disregard for the regulations in place to help save lives and prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"Anyone attempting to hold such an event, or any party in clear breach of the law, should be aware they will be met with a robust response from Police Scotland.\"\n\nThere are still discarded bottles littering the grounds of the house\n\nCouncillor Stephen Curran said: \"Those 300 or so people didn't just put themselves at risk of contracting coronavirus, they put residents across Midlothian and beyond at risk.\n\n\"We realise it can be challenging following the guidance but if the majority of us can do it then so can they.\"\n\nThe Midlothian party was one of about 300 reported to police across the country last weekend, with officers issuing about ten fixed penalties in total.\n\nFive of those were issued after officers were called to a house party in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, at about 20:00 on Saturday.\n\nTwo men were also arrested in connection with a fight at the property.\n\nAlison McCallum, director of public health at NHS Lothian said: \"We must continue to help prevent the spread of coronavirus which is why it is critical we don't socialise in the same way we did in pre-Covid times.\n\n\"This is also why nightclubs are currently closed and larger gatherings such as house parties are not permitted.\"", "DaBaby, Lady Gaga and The Weeknd had some of the summer's biggest-selling songs\n\nDaBaby's Rockstar was the UK's biggest-selling song of the summer, says the Official Charts Company.\n\nNotching up 654,000 combined sales and streams over the summer, the brooding, guitar-driven rap song outsold hits by Lady Gaga and Harry Styles.\n\nIt was one of several best-sellers this summer to be boosted by TikTok, where it triggered a viral dance challenge.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest summer song, Jason Derulo's Savage Love, also started life on the video sharing app.\n\nOriginally an instrumental by New Zealand teenager Joshua Stylah (aka Jawsh 685), it was spotted by Derulo after it took off on TikTok.\n\nThe US star added vocals to the track, initially without crediting Stylah or obtaining permission for the sample. After Stylah signed a record deal with Columbia records, the song was released as a collaboration and climbed to the top of the charts.\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 Jason Derulo 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\nSavage Love achieved 566,000 chart sales over the summer, closely followed by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's Rain On Me, which had 515,000 sales.\n\nThe pop divas were closely followed by The Weeknd, whose hit single Blinding Lights continued to sell over the summer after reaching number one earlier in the year.\n\nAn even longer-standing hit was Harry Styles' mouth-watering Watermelon Sugar, which was the seventh most popular song of the summer, despite making its chart debut last November.\n\nThe Official Charts combined sales and downloads with video and audio streams to compile its list.\n\nDaBaby's Rockstar had previously been named the most-streamed song of the summer by Spotify, while on YouTube, the top performers were Korean pop band Blackpink, whose single How You Like That was played more than 450 million times in June, July and August.\n\nDaBaby, who comes from North Carolina, has proved to be a master of meme-based marketing, achieving early attention by walking around the South by Southwest festival in Texas wearing only jewels and an adult-sized nappy.\n\nInitially, his \"internet presence was definitely bigger than the music,\" he told the New York Times last year, boasting, \"I'm so good at marketing\".\n\n\"Once I knew I had them looking, I turned up with the music,\" he added. \"I knew what I was doing - it was premeditated.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nRockstar was his first UK hit, propelled by a dance craze focusing on the song's hook on TikTok.\n\nThe platform, which allows users to make 15-second videos set to music, has become an increasingly powerful tool for marketing music.\n\nHits like Doja Cat's Say So, Megan Thee Stallion's Savage, and Lil Nas X's Grammy-winning Old Town Road all gained early attention on the app.\n\nTik Tok's music team actively promotes trending songs, scouring submissions for undiscovered talent, and facilitating collaborations among musicians and prominent creators.\n\nFourteen of the UK's top 20 best-selling songs this summer were popular on TikTok before hitting the charts, boosting the profile of lesser-known artists like Gracey, Powfu and Beabadoobee alongside more established acts such as Drake.\n\nHowever, while record companies increasingly look to the app to seed new hits, the Chinese-owned firm has been accused of being a threat to US national security by the Trump administration.\n\nTikTok was given 90 days to be sold to an American firm or face a ban in the US, leading to the resignation of chief executive Kevin Mayer.", "The children, aged between one and eight, were found in a family home\n\nThe bodies of five children have been found in a flat in a large housing block in the western German city of Solingen, police say.\n\nPolice say they suspect the 27-year-old mother of killing the children before attempting to take her own life at a train station in nearby Düsseldorf.\n\nFew details have been provided, with no information about the cause of death.\n\nEmergency services were called to the residential block in the Hasseldelle area of the city on Thursday afternoon.\n\nResponding to call at about 13:45 local time (11:45 GMT), police said they arrived at the building in Solingen, in North Rhine-Westphalia state, to discover the bodies of five children - three girls and two boys - aged from one to eight.\n\nA sixth child, reportedly an 11-year-old boy, was said to have survived.\n\nThe children's grandmother, who lives 60km (37 miles) away in the city of Mönchengladbach, had alerted the emergency services, the German news website Bild reported.\n\nThe entrance to the block of flats has been sealed off and forensic officers are at the scene\n\nPolice spokesman Stefan Weiand said the children's mother had been \"seriously injured\" after throwing herself in front of a train in Düsseldorf and was being treated in hospital under police guard.\n\n\"Background and further details are not known at this point and that is what we are trying to find out,\" Mr Weiand told journalists, adding that police investigators were at the scene \"in full force\".\n\nPolice said they were hoping to learn more about the \"incredibly tragic occurrence\" after speaking with the mother.\n\nThe entrance to the block of flats in Solingen has been sealed off and images show police cars and ambulances lining the streets, with forensic officers also at the scene.\n\nA woman places a candle alongside a teddy at the residential building in Solingen, Germany\n\nThe mayor of Solingen, Tim Kurzbach, wrote on Facebook that he had visited the housing block where \"this terrible act took place\" after hearing the news.\n\n\"For me it is still incomprehensible,\" he wrote in the post, adding: \"Today is a day of mourning for all of Solingen.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, residents began leaving flowers and candles at the entrance to the building as a tribute.", "France has unveiled a 100bn-euro (£89bn) economic stimulus package to help repair the economic damage caused by coronavirus.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron's government said the investment would include big spending on green energy and transport.\n\nDubbed \"France re-launch\", it is aimed at reversing rising unemployment, and includes tax cuts for business.\n\nThe economy shrank by 13.8% between April and June, the biggest quarterly fall since the Second World War.\n\nUnveiling the plan, whose €100bn price tag is the equivalent of 4% of France's annual economic output, Prime Minister Jean Castex said it was almost four times bigger than the rescue strategy implemented after the financial crisis of 2008.\n\nIts goal is to move away from the emergency funding of the coronavirus crisis and to make long-term investments in employment and training, as well as in France's transformation to a green economy.\n\nAbout €40bn of the funding will come from the new European Union recovery fund.\n\nAbout €35bn has been earmarked for projects to make the economy more competitive, and €30bn will be used on greener energy policies. About €6bn is slated for making public buildings and homes better insulated. The hydrogen industry, a sector which is receiving huge investment in Germany, will get €2bn.\n\nThe rest of the investment package will go on supporting jobs, training and broader social initiatives with the aim of creating at least 160,000 jobs next year.\n\nMr Castex said the money would be spent over the next two years, and he hoped the investment would return the economy to its pre-pandemic levels by 2022. The next French presidential election is due to get under way in April 2022.\n\n\"Economically and socially it is infinitely better to temporarily worsen the pubic finances to invest, re-arm the economy and move forward than to sink into austerity and let unemployment and human drama explode,\" Mr Castex told a media briefing.\n\nMathieu Orphelin, who left Mr Macron's party last year to set up a more environmentally-focused party, told Reuters.\"It [the plan] is good, but this can't be limited to two years, we need to keep it up for 10 years.\"\n\nThierry Drilhon, president of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce, told the BBC he thought the stimulus package would help those industries that had suffered \"significantly\" in the coronavirus crisis, as long as the investment was properly implemented.\n\n\"Obviously execution will be key to make sure that investment will be well utilised,\" he said. \"We all know that you can have the right vision, but vision without execution is just hallucination.\"\n\nFrance is on course for one of Europe's worst recessions, with an 11% drop in economic output forecast for 2020 as a whole.\n• None Eurozone recession 'will be deeper than forecast'", "Small children were among those arriving in Dover after crossing the English Channel\n\nMore than 400 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats - a record for a single day.\n\nBorder Force has intercepted 416 people, including young children, on board 28 boats, the Home Office has confirmed.\n\nSome of the migrants were carrying children too young to walk.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier on Wednesday said the UK had become \"a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way\".\n\nMore than 100 migrants arrived in Dover after being picked up by Border Force and RNLI vessels\n\nA further 53 people were rescued by French authorities after getting into difficulties before reaching British waters.\n\nSome 145 people had crossed the Channel in 18 small boats on Tuesday.\n\nRough seas brought on by Storm Francis made crossings impossible at the end of August, but conditions have improved in the first two days of September.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I have a great deal of sympathy with those who are desperate as to put their children in dinghies or in children's paddling pools and try to cross the channel.\n\n\"But I have to say what they're doing is falling prey to criminal gangs and they are breaking the law.\"\n\nHe added: \"It also undermines the legitimate claims of others who seek asylum in this country.\n\n\"We will address the rigidities in our laws that make this country, I'm afraid, a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way.\"\n\nOne group landed at Shakespeare Beach in Dover\n\nMore than 1,468 migrants made the crossing by small boat in August despite a vow from Home Secretary Priti Patel to make the dangerous route \"unviable\".\n\nThe Home Office does not provide information on how many children are making the crossing on small boats.\n\nHome Office minister Chris Philp told the Commons on Wednesday the government was attempting to return 1,000 people who had arrived in the UK, having \"previously claimed asylum in European countries, and under the regulations legally should be returned there\".\n\nMore than 7,400 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since January 2019.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teacher Simon Flynn was described by his former school as a \"firm favourite\"\n\nA man who died after falling from a paddleboard and getting tangled in moorings in a \"freak accident\" has been named as Simon Flynn.\n\nThe 42-year-old teacher from Cheltenham fell into the water near the sailing club at Rock beach in Cornwall at about 13:30 BST on Monday.\n\nHe was rescued by a local boat but died at the scene.\n\nIn a letter to parents, his former school Kingsholm Primary described him as a \"firm favourite\" of the students.\n\nPosting on the Facebook page of Mr Flynn's tutoring service, his family said: \"It is with immeasurable sadness that we, Simon's family must announce that he tragically passed away in a freak accident while having the time of his life in Cornwall.\n\n\"He loved his job, he loved working and developing his students and for this we thank you all for supporting him.\"\n\nMany of the comments on the page are from parents of former pupils, describing him as an \"amazing human being and teacher\", \" a one-off\" and a \"caring and enthusiastic tutor\".\n\nRock beach is a popular spot for locals and visitors\n\nMr Flynn was paddleboarding while on holiday in Cornwall when he fell off and \"got tangled in moorings\" at Rock beach.\n\n\"Despite the best efforts that were put in by paramedics, the lifeboat crew and others, he was declared deceased at the scene,\" James Instance from Falmouth Coastguard said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The charity hopes to reopen Tedworth House in Wiltshire as a recovery centre for wounded, injured and sick service veterans\n\nMilitary charity Help for Heroes says 142 staff roles are at risk, as its income has dropped by nearly a third during the pandemic.\n\nThe charity, which supports wounded veterans and their families, says there are likely to be about 80 redundancies.\n\nIt relies on donations for 97% of its funding, but its fundraisers have been cancelled or postponed since March.\n\nCharity chief Melanie Waters said: \"These tough decisions have been made to protect the future of the charity.\"\n\nThree Help for Heroes recovery centres - in Yorkshire, Devon and Essex - will remain closed indefinitely as Help for Heroes focuses on face-to-face community and online-based support.\n\nThe charity said demand for its services rose by 33% during May and June - compared to the same period last year - as the consequences of the national lockdown impacted on veterans' mental health.\n\nRequests for help with physical conditions also increased by nearly a third over the same period.\n\nMeanwhile, the charity - which furloughed 130 staff at the start of the pandemic - said it anticipates funding will remain down by around a third for the foreseeable future, as the economy struggles to recover.\n\nMs Waters said a major restructure was the only way the charity could continue with its work.\n\n\"In 2007, we made a promise on behalf of the nation to provide lifetime support to wounded veterans, and their families, and we are striving to keep that promise,\" she said in a statement on their website.\n\n\"The crisis has had a devastating impact on the whole UK charity sector, with lasting consequences, and it has hit us hard.\"\n\nThe charity said it was working closely with the Ministry of Defence \"to provide core recovery activities for wounded, injured or sick service personnel\" and hoped to reopen its Tedworth House recovery centre in Wiltshire, with social distancing measures in place - as well as their community office in Wales.\n\nLast year, the charity - which was set up in 2007 by former Army Captain Bryn Parry and wife Emma - raised around £27m.\n\n\"We remain absolutely committed to our wounded and their families and will continue fighting for, and changing the lives of, those we support for as long as they need it,\" said Ms Waters.\n• None BBC apologises to Help for Heroes", "Prosecutors say Jerry Harris could face up to 30 years in prison\n\nJeremiah \"Jerry\" Harris, one of the stars of the Netflix documentary series Cheer, has been arrested and charged with producing child sex images.\n\nMr Harris, 21, allegedly enticed an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos of himself, the US attorney's office said.\n\nAccording to court records, Mr Harris admitted to soliciting and receiving explicit images from the minor.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the star has denied the allegations.\n\nMr Harris was arrested on Thursday morning and later appeared in court in Chicago.\n\nHe did not enter a plea. A judge said a hearing would be held on Monday to determine if he will stay in custody or be released on bail, according to US media reports.\n\nMr Harris featured prominently in the popular series Cheer, which followed a cheerleading team from Navarro College in Texas as they sought a national title.\n\nMr Harris is accused of soliciting images from the minor from December 2018 to March 2020.\n\nThe victim informed Mr Harris during their initial online encounter that he was 13 years old, a criminal complaint says.\n\nIf convicted on the federal child pornography charge, Mr Harris faces up to 30 years in prison.\n\nThe charge comes after a lawsuit was filed earlier this week, in which Mr Harris was accused of child sexual exploitation and abuse of two alleged male victims.\n\nA spokesperson told CNN at the time that \"we categorically dispute the claims\" and \"are confident that when the investigation is completed the true facts will be revealed\".\n\nBut court documents say Mr Harris admitted during an interview with law enforcement officials to soliciting and receiving explicit images from one of the minors and \"at least between 10 to 15 other individuals he knew were minors\".\n\nOfficials say investigations are ongoing and have called for anyone with more information to come forward.\n\nCheer was an instant success when it was released on streaming service Netflix in January, and recently won two Emmy Awards.\n\nMr Harris gained popularity for his enthusiastic \"mat talk\" - when cheerleaders on the sidelines shout encouragement to teammates during difficult stunts.\n\nEarlier this year, he interviewed celebrities on the Oscars red carpet for The Ellen DeGeneres Show.\n• None Inside the world of the UK's student cheerleaders", "Migrants have been sleeping rough for a week since the Moria blaze\n\nPolice on the Greek island of Lesbos are moving thousands of migrants and refugees from the fire-gutted Moria camp to a new tent city nearby.\n\nSeventy female officers in protective suits were flown in to organise the transfer of women and children to the temporary Kara Tepe camp.\n\nOn Wednesday four Afghan asylum seekers were charged with starting the fire that destroyed Moria last week.\n\nA government official said 1,800 had moved into Kara Tepe by early Thursday.\n\nBut many migrants and refugees remain reluctant to stay on Lesbos, as Moria was overcrowded and squalid. They hope to go elsewhere in Europe, especially Germany.\n\nMany migrants are reluctant to enter a new camp on Lesbos\n\nMore than 12,000 people fled the Moria blaze and most have been sleeping rough since then, short of food, water and shelter.\n\nOfficers began waking families early on Thursday to move them to the new camp. Footage from the scene shows female officers dressed in white speaking to the migrants.\n\nThe migrants are being tested for coronavirus before entering Kara Tepe. Reuters news agency reports that 56 have been found Covid-19 positive, and the authorities are striving to keep those infected isolated. A police spokesman told AFP the operation aimed \"to safeguard public health\".\n\nThe fire broke out last week after 35 people tested positive for coronavirus and some objected to being put into isolation after months of lockdown.\n\nDuring the operation to move migrants to the temporary camp, the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) tweeted that it had been denied access to its new clinic in Lesbos by Greek police.\n\nAfter several hours the group said they were finally allowed to reopen their site, but said it was \"highly concerning\" that their medical care was interrupted during the move.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jean Mackenzie spoke to people at the Moria camp months before it was destroyed and reflects on her experiences there\n\nPeople from 70 countries had been sheltered at Moria, most from Afghanistan.\n\nThe German government has now agreed to take in 1,553 migrants from Moria - they are from 408 families who have received refugee status.\n\nEarlier, Germany also said it would take in up to 150 unaccompanied minors. Greece flew 400 children to the mainland last week, and EU countries have agreed to receive them, though the details are not yet clear.\n\nSince the 2015 migrant crisis the numbers arriving on Greek islands near Turkey have fallen considerably, but Greek camps, like those in Italy, remain overcrowded.\n\nGreece and Italy have accused wealthier northern nations in the EU of failing to share the burden, as irregular migrants - including refugees from war zones - continue to seek a new life in Europe.", "A heavily-pregnant woman has told of the \"misery\" of trying to get a coronavirus test for her ill daughter.\n\nVerity Ward from South Shields booked for her three-year-old daughter Romilly to be tested at Doxford Park in Sunderland at 13:30 today after the youngster became ill overnight.\n\nMs Ward is 38 weeks pregnant and due to have a Caesarean operation in the next few days so needs to know if the virus has infected her household.\n\nBut she and her partner got stuck in a queue on the A19 which had backed up from the testing centre.\n\n\"We saw some police cars go up past us, and then eventually a man came down and told each car that the computers at the centre had crashed and they weren't going to be able to do any tests,\" she said.\n\n\"As we did a three-point-turn to leave, we saw police stopping other cars from joining the queue so at least those people didn't have to endure the misery.\n\n\"As for us, I guess we try again tomorrow. I've got a lot of hospital appointments coming up and I really can't be doing 14 days isolation. I want to know if I'm safe.\"", "Ripdorf fielded the minimum number of players needed to avoid paying a fine\n\nA German football team lost 37-0 to their local rivals after fielding only seven players who socially distanced throughout the match.\n\nRipdorf fielded the minimum number of players on Sunday because their opponents SV Holdenstedt II came into contact in a previous game with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nTheir team tested negative but Ripdorf said the conditions were not safe.\n\nIf Ripdorf had not played, they would have faced a €200 (£182) fine.\n\nThey had asked for the match - in the 11th tier of German football - to be postponed but the local association refused.\n\nRipdorf said they did not feel safe as at the time of the game 14 days had not yet passed since Holdenstedt players had come into contact with the person who tested positive.\n\nHoldenstedt's first team did not play in the match and the club fielded their second team.\n\nAt the beginning of the match, one of Ripdorf's players stepped onto the pitch, passed the ball to an opponent and the team then walked to the sidelines.\n\nRipdorf co-chair Patrick Ristow told ESPN: \"The Holdenstedt players did not understand. But we did not want to risk anything.\"\n\nHe added of his players: \"They did not go into direct duels and observed the social distancing rules, keeping two metres between them and Holdenstedt players.\"\n\nHoldenstedt did not hold back, scoring a goal every two or three minutes.\n\n\"There was no reason not to play this game,\" Holdenstedt coach Florian Schierwater said.", "The government says there is high demand for coronavirus tests\n\nPeople are waiting longer for coronavirus test results from England's community testing centres, figures show.\n\nOnly a third of tests carried out in these venues came back in 24 hours in the week up to 9 September.\n\nThat is down from two-thirds the week before, NHS Test and Trace said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock admitted there was \"a challenge in testing\" as he faced criticism in the Commons.\n\nHe also announced new lockdown restrictions for most of the north east of England, where infections are on the rise.\n\nAccess to community testing has had to be rationed because labs are struggling to keep up with demand, but this is the first evidence tests which do happen are taking longer to process.\n\nThere are three types of community testing centres - drive-throughs, walk-in centres and mobile units that are deployed to hotspot areas.\n\nAll three saw rises in turnaround times.\n\nOver the week, 360,000 tests were carried out in these three settings, up from around 320,000 the week before.\n\nThe release of the turnaround times comes as growing numbers of people complain they cannot access tests at all.\n\nBooking slots at testing sites, as well as the availability of kits that are posted out to people's homes, have been restricted across the UK because labs are not able to keep up with demand.\n\nIt has meant tests have had to be prioritised for high-risk areas, including care homes and areas where there are local outbreaks.\n\nShadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth said the government must urgently fix test and trace to \"avoid further restrictions\", adding: \"It's become not so much test and trace, more like trace a test.\"\n\nAnd a succession of MPs raised the cases of constituents who had struggled to access tests.\n\nMr Hancock admitted there was \"a challenge in testing\", but said capacity was \"at record levels\" and had increased week on week but demand had \"gone up faster\".\n\nHe said it was important to prioritise testing in areas where cases are rising, as well as in care homes, saying \"we must do everything in our power to protect residents in social care\".\n\nThe government has announced care homes in England will receive extra funding of £546m to try to reduce transmission of coronavirus this winter.\n\nExperts are warning that testing problems will limit the UK's ability to contain spread of the virus.\n\nHospital labs, which process tests for patients and NHS staff, are not affected by the problems. Nearly nine in 10 tests there are turned around in 24 hours.\n\nThe government said testing capacity would be increasing. Currently 375,000 tests a day can be processed - although only around 160,000 of these are in the labs that process community tests.\n\nFor days software developers have been discussing what they described as a coding error on the government's Covid test booking site.\n\nNow a senior source has confirmed that there is such an error although it is described as small and not a major factor in the issues with booking tests.\n\nThe problem, says the source, is that when the site is overwhelmed by the sheer volume of traffic - and \"the load this week has been way higher than anything seen before\" - users are getting the wrong error message.\n\nIt should read \"the service is busy\" but instead it says \"there are no sites available\".\n\nNow, the reality is that mostly that is true, there are no testing sites free - but some people who might be successful if they tried later when the site traffic was lower may assume they can't get a test at all.\n\nTwo new labs are due to open soon, which would bring overall capacity to 500,000 by the end of October, with another two planned for early in 2021, the government said.\n\nBut NHS Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding said it was important that \"only those with symptoms book tests\".\n\nShe added: \"The service is there for those experiencing a high temperature, new continuous cough or loss or change in sense of taste or smell.\n\n\"If you don't have symptoms but think, or have been told by NHS Test and Trace that you have been in contact with someone with the virus, please stay at home but do not book a test.\n\n\"We need everyone to help make sure that tests are there for people with symptoms who need them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething issues the threat of another national lockdown\n\nA bank holiday weekend party appears to be \"at the heart\" of a rapid rise in cases in Newport, ministers believe.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the party led to 18 new cases of coronavirus, with infected people then visiting other venues on nights out.\n\nPeople in Newport have been warned to look out for symptoms if they visited seven pubs and bars in the city on specific dates in September.\n\nNow health experts have warned people against parties during the hot weather.\n\nA spell of sunny weather has been forecast for the next week to 10 days after highs of 31C (88F) in the UK on Monday - with Wales' hottest spot in Aberystwyth as the temperature hit 27C (80F).\n\nNewport now has the third highest coronavirus rate in Wales after a surge in cases as Wales recorded its highest daily Covid-19 case rate since 19 May.\n\nThe health minister warned Wales could have to go into national lockdown if people's behaviour does not change.\n\nMr Gething said the rise in cases in Newport had been similar to that seen in Caerphilly county, which is now in a local lockdown.\n\n\"At the heart of it appears to be a party over the bank holiday weekend, which led to 18 new cases of coronavirus, many of whom visited other venues on nights out while infectious.\"\n\nThe outbreak in Caerphilly had also been pinned in part on individuals socialising in people's homes.\n\nPeople descended on Cardiff Bay during the sunny spell in August\n\nBarry Island was packed during the last heatwave in Wales\n\nMr Gething said it could be two weeks before a peak is seen in Caerphilly, and more people in their 40s and 50s were testing positive there.\n\nNow Public Health Wales (PHW) has called on people not be \"tempted\" into having a party in the sunshine this week.\n\n\"The warm and sunny weather forecast for this week may be a temptation to throw a party or meet up with friends and acquaintances,\" said Kelechi Nnoaham, chairman of PHW's incident management team.\n\n\"Please, don't be tempted and keep working with us by sticking to social distancing guidelines, so that we can protect older and vulnerable people from coronavirus.\"\n\nPeople in Newport have been warned of a local lockdown if Covid-19 cases continue to rise\n\nPeople in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil have been warned they face a lockdown unless the number of Covid-19 cases start to drop and PHW has revealed it is \"starting to see small numbers of hospital admissions of people with coronavirus\" across the Cwm Taf health board area.\n\nThe wearing of face masks has become compulsory in shops in Wales as the infection rate has surged, while no more than six people from extended households can meet indoors at any one time.\n\nBut rules to curb a rise in the number of coronavirus cases could be \"shutting the door after the horse has bolted\", an intensive care doctor in Newport has warned.\n\nPubs in Newport could be closed or have their opening hours restricted if they are linked to more Covid-19 cases\n\nIt comes after people who attended several bars in the city were told by PHW they should isolate and book a test immediately if they started to feel unwell.\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government could order pubs in Newport to close or restrict opening hours to stamp out transmission of the virus.\n\nHe said the situation in Merthyr Tydfil, which has also seen a rise in cases along with Rhondda Cynon Taff, was \"more complex\".\n\n\"There is a cluster of cases linked to people working in a company, we are also seeing cases linked to Caerphilly borough, as well as those associated with socialising without social distance and imported cases from holiday travel,\" he said.\n\nA lack of social distancing has been blamed for covid clusters in the Rhondda\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taff, the cases are \"largely centred on the lower Rhondda valley and are again linked to people socialising without social distancing and returning from holidays\".\n\nA small cluster of cases have also been linked to a caravan park.\n\nLast week people in the two areas were asked to take extra precautions, including only using public transport for essential purposes.\n\nStaying out of lockdown \"depends on the choices that each one of us is prepared to make\", the health minister said.\n\n\"The challenge is that we've seen some people relaxing too much perhaps and small instances where people know that they're breaking the rules and, in particular, larger social gatherings in people's homes, and a couple of businesses that have not enforced the rules in terms of where their customers behave.\"", "The Bank of England has warned that the rising rate of coronavirus infections and a lack of clarity over the UK's future trade relationship with the EU could threaten the economic recovery.\n\nIt said much of output lost during lockdown had been recovered but the outlook remained \"unusually uncertain\".\n\nThe UK is still in a deep recession, while Covid-19 infections are at their highest level since mid May.\n\nCiting the uncertainty, the Bank held interest rates at 0.1%, a historic low.\n\nIt added that it would continue its monetary support for the economy, but stopped short of increasing its bond-buying programme or reducing interest rates further.\n\nIf you borrow money you usually have to pay a small fee set by the person lending to you. How high that fee - or interest rate - is depends on a \"base rate\" that is set by the Bank of England at meetings throughout the year.\n\nThe rate determines how much banks have to pay to borrow money, and that has a knock-on effect on how much the bank charges consumers to borrow.\n\nWhen the economy is growing quickly the Bank tries to stop it overheating by raising interest rates, making it more expensive to borrow.\n\nWhen the economy is sluggish, cutting the Bank's base rate lowers the cost of borrowing and can encourage businesses and consumers to spend more.\n\nThe Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which sets interest rate policy, said previous projections of economic recovery were \"on the assumption of an immediate, orderly move to a comprehensive free trade agreement with the European Union on 1 January 2021\".\n\nEconomic recovery would also depend on the evolution of the pandemic and measures taken to protect public health, the MPC said.\n\n\"The recent increases in Covid-19 cases in some parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, have the potential to weigh further on economic activity, albeit probably on a lesser scale than seen earlier in the year,\" it said.\n\nNo change from the Bank of England on record low interest rates, nor on its wider support for the economy. On the face of it, the economy is less weak than it expected even last month, but profound uncertainties remain.\n\nThe Bank in particular pointed to \"recent increases in Covid-19\", including in the UK, that \"have the potential to weigh further on economic activity\", as well as a recent fall in sterling partly \"reflecting recent Brexit developments\".\n\nGiven rates are at rock bottom already, sterling was further hit from the fact that the Bank's deliberations over rates included a presentation over how \"negative interest rates\" might work.\n\nThe Bank had been concerned of the impact of, in effect, lenders paying borrowers for the health of parts of the banking system. It is, as it has previously signalled, looking at how this could be achieved in practice. Should the uncertainties visible to all materialise in the coming weeks for the UK, that extraordinary and unprecedented tool is being prepared as an option.\n\nThe government has had to impose new social distancing restrictions across England, as rising cases have forced many areas into local lockdowns.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Prime Minister said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another nationwide lockdown, which could have \"disastrous\" financial consequences for the UK.\n\nThe Bank of England said despite a stronger than expected recovery in the last few months, the economy was still about 7% smaller than at the end of last year.\n\nUsually if the economy is not growing strongly enough, the Bank of England considers lowering interest rates to encourage firms to invest and savers to spend.\n\nHowever, interest rates are already close to zero after two emergency rate cuts in March.\n\nMinutes from this month's meeting show that the MPC discussed the use of negative interest rates to stimulate the economy. Last month, the Bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, appeared to rule that out, though he said negative interest rates remained in the \"tool box\".\n\nIf interest rates are negative the Bank of England charges for any deposits it holds on behalf of the banks. That encourages banks to lend the money to business rather than deposit it.\n\nThe Bank also signalled that it had no intention of raising interest rates until \"significant progress\" had been made in getting inflation back to the Bank's 2% target. It is currently at a five-year low of 0.2%.\n\nThe Bank said it did not expect inflation to return to target levels for another two years.\n\n\"We expect interest rates to be no higher than 0.1% for the next five years,\" said Andrew Wishart, UK economist at Capital Economics.", "Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has said it will not formally investigate a performance by Diversity on Britain's Got Talent.\n\nThe dance troupe's Black Lives Matter routine on 5 September received about 24,500 complaints.\n\nBut the organisation concluded the programme did not raise issues which warranted investigation under its broadcasting rules.\n\n\"Its central message was a call for social cohesion and unity\", it noted.\n\nDiversity's routine included a white performer kneeling on Banjo's neck, a reference to George Floyd's death in police custody, and dancers dressed as riot police. It also featured themes about the coronavirus pandemic, poverty and capitalism.\n\nCritics complained that ITV's prime-time Saturday night entertainment show was an inappropriate platform for a political statement.\n\nAn Ofcom spokeswoman said: \"We carefully considered a large number of complaints about this artistic routine, an area where freedom of expression is particularly important.\n\n\"Diversity's performance referred to challenging and potentially controversial subjects, and in our view, its central message was a call for social cohesion and unity.\n\n\"Any depictions of violence by the performers were highly stylised and symbolic of recent global events, and there was no explicit reference to any particular political organisation - but rather a message that the lives of black people matter,\" she added.\n\nDiversity star and BGT judge Ashley Banjo responded to the Ofcom decision on Instagram, saying: \"Creativity is always a leap of faith.\n\n\"All I did what was what felt right and I'd do it 100 times over... Sending love to everyone that stood by us.\"\n\nEarlier this week he said they had have received \"hundreds of thousands\" of messages of support, after news of the complaints was made public.\n\n\"Trust me. I'm right in the centre of it,\" said Banjo. \"The negativity is the minority...\n\n\"We stand by every single decision we made with that performance.\"\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. Jacob Rees-Mogg: \"endless carping saying\" it's difficult to get a coronavirus test.\n\nSenior Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has been criticised after he described concern over coronavirus testing shortages as \"carping\".\n\nThe Commons leader told MPs people should instead celebrate the \"phenomenal success\" of increasing test capacity.\n\nLabour's shadow health minister Alex Norris said he should \"immediately apologise\" for his comments.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the government was increasing test capacity.\n\nOn Wednesday Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended the coronavirus testing system, saying it is trying to meet a \"colossal spike\" in demand.\n\nAnd on Thursday figures revealed that people using community coronavirus testing centres in England are waiting longer for their results than in previous weeks.\n\nOnly a third of tests carried out in community venues came back in 24 hours in the week up to 9 September - down from two-thirds the week before, NHS Test and Trace said.\n\nAsked about testing by Labour's shadow leader of the House Valerie Vaz, Mr Rees-Mogg said: \"The issue of testing is one where we have gone from a disease that nobody knew about a few months ago to one where nearly a quarter of a million people a day can be tested.\n\n\"And the prime minister is expecting that to go up to half a million people a day by the end of October.\n\n\"And instead of this endless carping saying it's difficult to get them, we should be celebrating this phenomenal success of the British nation in getting up to a quarter of a million tests for a disease that nobody knew about until earlier in the year.\n\n\"That is a success of our scientists or health experts and of our administration.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg acknowledged that demand was exceeding supply but added that supply was growing.\n\n\"What has been done, is really rather remarkable and something we should be proud of,\" he said.\n\nResponding to his comments, Mr Norris said: \"For weeks, people across the country have been struggling to get coronavirus tests but rather than fixing problems, the government have instead resorted to a blizzard of blame shifting and excuses.\n\n\"Now, out-of-touch ministers have got a new message to those who can't get tests: 'stop complaining and praise us'.\n\n\"Jacob Rees-Mogg should immediately apologise - whining about the public not being grateful enough won't sort anything - only his government can fix the testing shambles they are presiding over.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Rees-Mogg's comments, a Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister was clear about the need to increase testing capacity.", "Why the WHO is sticking to 14 days quarantine\n\nThe World Health Organization has repeated its plea for countries not to shorten the quarantine period for people who have been exposed to coronavirus. The global health body recommends anyone who has been in close contact with someone who has definitely got coronavirus or probably has, should stay at home or somewhere similar for two weeks. The idea is simple - to monitor people in case they get ill and spot Covid-19 cases early on, preventing the virus from spreading further. The Centrers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US, for example, says based on the best current studies, it is likely that the time from someone being exposed to getting symptoms is between two and 14 days. It's evidence like this that is behind the WHO's advice. And in the UK if you are told by the Test and Trace system that you have had close contact with someone who has coronavirus, you must isolate for 14 days. But France is reportedly taking a different approach. It is slashing its isolation time from 14 fourteen days to seven. That's because health experts there say the majority of people find it too difficult to isolate for a whole two weeks. They also say this is when people are most likely to be infectious. There are also some small studies that suggest people are most likely to pass on the virus in the first week they have symptoms. But the science is still emerging and scientists across the globe agree there are still many uncertainties. That's why different countries have different approaches - each has to balance the evidence, the unknowns and the chance for citizens to get back to a more normal life.", "People arriving from Singapore and Thailand in England and Scotland will not need to quarantine from Saturday morning, the government has said.\n\nThey have been added to the list of \"travel corridor\" countries.\n\nBut travellers coming from Slovenia and Guadeloupe will have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nBoth have also been added to Wales' quarantine list, while arrivals there from Gibraltar and Thailand will not need to self-isolate.\n\nThe changes come into force at 04:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said there had been \"a significant change in both the level and pace of confirmed cases of coronavirus\" in both Slovenia and Guadeloupe.\n\nData from Slovenia shows that its seven-day rate of cases is 29.1 per 100,000 people, up from 14.4 in the previous seven days.\n\nThe rate for Guadeloupe has risen more than six-fold in the past four weeks, the DfT said.\n\nWhen a country's rate rises above 20, the UK government considers imposing quarantine restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nTravellers who do not self-isolate when they are supposed to can be fined £1,000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, or £480 in Scotland.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps reminded passengers they were required by law to fill in a passenger locator form.\n\nThe form asks travellers to provide their contact details and UK address. Passengers can be fined up to £3,200 in England if they do not provide accurate contact details, or £1,920 in Wales.\n\n\"This is vital in protecting public health and ensuring those who need to are complying with self-isolation rules,\" Mr Shapps said.\n\nThe decision to remove quarantine restrictions for arrivals from Thailand and Singapore is unlikely to lead in a surge of people from England visiting as both countries are only allowing people to enter for a limited number of reasons, such as if they have a work permit or are the spouse or child of a resident.\n\nDenmark retained its quarantine exemption, despite its seven-day case rate being 33.8.\n\nThe DfT urged employers to be \"understanding\" of people returning from Slovenia and Guadeloupe, as they will need to self-isolate.\n\nThe statement gave no update on the possible introduction of testing at airports as a way of reducing quarantine requirements.\n\nThe travel industry has demanded this should take place urgently to avoid further job losses.\n\nEarlier this week, British Airways boss Alex Cruz called for trials to be held for passengers flying between London and New York.\n\nHe said \"this is imperative\", adding that the airline is \"still fighting for our own survival\".\n\nLast week, Sweden was made exempt from quarantine for Wales, England and Scotland.\n\nAt the same time, Portugal was placed back on England's quarantine list after a rise in infections.\n\nIt comes as coronavirus cases in the UK rose by 3,395 on Thursday, government figures showed, while deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test increased by 21.", "Pubs and restaurants could be shut for a few weeks as part of stricter measures across England to slow the surge of coronavirus cases.\n\nThe government is considering a short period of tighter rules which could be announced in the next week, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nSchools and most workplaces would be kept open during those weeks.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC the government is \"prepared to do what it takes\" against Covid-19.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 4,322 confirmed cases of coronavirus - the first time the daily total of positive tests has exceeded 4,000 since 8 May.\n\nAnother 27 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nDescribed by the government as a \"circuit-break\", the measures being considered could involve re-introducing restrictions in public spaces for a period of a few weeks. Schools and workplaces would stay open.\n\nIdeas suggested by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) include closing some parts of the hospitality sector.\n\nNo 10 is also considering limiting the opening hours of pubs and restaurants across the country, as has already happened in some areas.\n\nMr Hancock said there had been an \"acceleration\" in cases in the last couple of weeks, with the number of people admitted to hospital doubling about every eight days.\n\nHe stressed it was \"critical\" that people followed social distancing guidelines and local lockdown rules, where they applied, to \"avoid having to take serious further measures\".\n\nThe Office for National Statistics' weekly infections survey for England and Wales, used by the government to base its decisions, estimates there were about 6,000 new cases a day in England in the week to 10 September.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the next few days will be \"critical\" to avoid another full-scale lockdown in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have all asked Boris Johnson for an emergency Cobra meeting to be called.\n\nAt a meeting on Wednesday night, the UK government's chief scientific adviser and medical adviser said they were forecasting a significant number of deaths by the end of October if there were no further interventions.\n\nBasic maths shows us how quickly coronavirus cases can, theoretically, soar.\n\nAround 4,000 infections a day, doubling every eight days, would be 128,000 new daily cases by the end of October.\n\nThat is not guaranteed to happen, and a change in our behaviour, the \"rule of six\" or restrictions like those in north-east England could improve the situation.\n\nThe point of a national \"circuit-break\" would be to achieve a controlled drop in the levels of coronavirus without needing a full lockdown.\n\nThis does two things, obviously it helps avoid having very high levels of the virus that could overwhelm hospitals.\n\nBut it also gives us more options. Any contact tracing programme or system of local lockdowns is far easier to implement when levels of the virus are low. The higher the number of cases, the fewer targeted measures the government has to use.\n\nThe problem is once the circuit-break is over, cases would begin to rise again and it may take multiple circuit breaks to get us through winter.\n\nMeanwhile, new rules have been announced for north-west England, the Midlands and West Yorkshire, to come into force from Tuesday, in an effort to control the spread of the virus.\n\nSimilar restrictions have already come into force in north-east England, affecting almost two million people, banning them from meeting people from other households and requiring restaurants and pubs to shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nBut it is understood the government turned down down a request from the local council in Leeds to bring in early closing for bars and pubs there.\n\nOther parts of the UK under local lockdown conditions include - including Birmingham, Greater Manchester, Caerphilly, and the Belfast council area.\n\nThe four nations of the UK are in charge of their own lockdown restrictions, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland implementing slightly different rules to England.\n\nThe health secretary said the government's current approach was \"targeted interventions\" and stressed \"a national lockdown was the last line of defence\".\n\n\"The strategy is to keep the virus down as much as is possible whilst protecting education and the economy,\" Mr Hancock added.\n\n\"And throw everything at the science which eventually is the way we're going to spring out of this.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is understood to be deeply reluctant to order another national lockdown, where everyone would be asked to stay at home and businesses to close.\n\nEarlier this week he described the potential impact of this on the economy as \"disastrous\". Chancellor Rishi Sunak is also understood to have warned ministers of the potential damage to the economy.\n\nThe government is also concerned about the impact of more restrictions on daily life on those who need treatment for non-Covid related illnesses.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this article? Do you have any questions? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police, pictured here in Edinburgh in June, now can break up groups larger than six\n\nPeople should speak to those who are breaking the rule of six limits on social gatherings before reporting them to police, the prime minister has said.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun, Boris Johnson said he had \"never much been in favour of sneak culture, myself\".\n\nIt comes after policing minister Kit Malthouse, called on people to report neighbours breaking the coronavirus rules.\n\nThe new measures came into force in England, Scotland and Wales this week.\n\nSpeaking to the Sun, Mr Johnson said: \"What people should do in the first instance is obviously if they are concerned is raise it with their friends and neighbours.\n\n\"But I think what is reasonable for anyone to do is if they think there is a serious threat to public health as a result of their neighbour's activities - if there is some huge kind of Animal House party taking place, as I am sure, hot tubs and so forth - and there is a serious threat to public health then it's reasonable for the authorities to know.\"\n\nThe prime minister was referring to the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House which featured a large toga party.\n\nThe new measures ban social gatherings of more than six people but vary in the different nations - for example in England and Scotland the law applies both indoors and outdoors, but indoors in Wales.\n\nIt applies to all ages in England, but not to those aged 12 and under in Scotland and those under 11 in Wales in those households.\n\nPolice have the power to break up groups larger than six and people who ignore officers could be fined £100 - doubling with each offence to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nMr Johnson's comments differ to what his Conservative colleagues have previously said.\n\nEarlier this week, Home Secretary Priti Patel was asked whether she would alert the police about her neighbours if they broke the rules, replying: \"I don't spend my time looking into people's gardens.\"\n\nBut pressed further on the topic in the BBC Radio 4 Today interview, she said: \"I think anybody would want to take responsibility and ensure we're not spreading this awful disease and therefore if I saw gatherings of more than six people clearly I would report that.\"\n\nShe also said families stopping for a chat in the street was considered \"mingling\" and would also be breaking the rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel explains why \"mingling\" is against the latest Covid-19 restrictions\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Malthouse said the public should ring the non-emergency number 101 and pass on details of suspected law-breakers.\n\nHe was asked whether a person should report a gathering of seven or more in a neighbour's garden, and said: \"It is open to neighbours to do exactly that through the non-emergency number.\n\n\"And if they are concerned and they do see that kind of thing, then absolutely they should think about it.\"\n\nAlso earlier this week, the chairman of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers in England and Wales, called for guidance over how to enforce the measures.\n\nBritish Transport Police officers have been patrolling Tube carriages to check people are wearing masks\n\nA further 3,991 new cases were announced by the government on Wednesday.\n\nTougher lockdown restrictions are expected to be brought in in north-east England in the coming days - but Mr Johnson has told MPs the government would do \"everything in our power\" to avoid a second national lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson also addressed the lockdown in his interview with the Sun, saying: \"The only way to make sure the country is able to enjoy Christmas is to be tough now.\"\n\nHe said ministers \"will be looking at\" the possibility of telling pubs and restaurants to close earlier.\n\nPeople should be \"both confident and cautious\", he added.\n\nThere are several local hotspots in the UK which have seen a spike in cases since the nationwide lockdown ended.\n\nParts of north-west England, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Leicester, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are currently under local lockdown.\n\nPublic Health England also produces a weekly watchlist of areas of concern.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That's my car... submerged\": Video shows flooded streets in Pensacola, Florida\n\nTropical Storm Sally has left more than half a million Americans without power as its torrential rains and storm surges lashed the US Gulf coast.\n\nSally weakened after it made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, but the slow-moving storm continues to batter Florida and Alabama.\n\nOne person was killed and hundreds were rescued from flooded areas.\n\nPensacola, in Florida, was badly hit, with a loose barge bringing down part of the Bay Bridge.\n\n\"Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding continues over portions of the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama,\" the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.\n\nThe wind ripped the roof off this house in Perdido Key, Florida\n\nThe storm has brought \"four months of rain in four hours\" to the city, Pensacola fire chief Ginny Cranor told CNN.\n\nOne person died and another was missing in the town of Orange Beach, Alabama, the mayor said without giving further details.\n\nSally made landfall at Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 04:45 local time on Wednesday, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph (169 km/h).\n\nAccording to the NHC, Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph. The NHC says a Category 2 storm's \"extremely dangerous winds\" usually cause damage to homes and shallowly rooted trees.\n\nThe storm later become a tropical depression with winds decreasing to 35mph, but it has been the torrents of rainfall and high storm surges that have caused most damage.\n\nAs the storm moved north from the coast, some 550,000 residents in affected areas were left in the dark on Wednesday night, according to local reports.\n\nSally is one of several storms in the Atlantic Ocean, with officials running out of letters to name the hurricanes as they near the end of their annual alphabetic list.\n\nRainfall is being measured in feet rather than inches in some places, but 18in (45cm) has been recorded across many areas.\n\nFlooding to a depth of 5ft hit central Pensacola. The storm surge was the third worst ever to hit the city. Police there told people not to go out to look at the damage, saying: \"It's slowing our progress down. Please stay at home!\"\n\nAlthough the winds did not have the devastating power of the deadly Hurricane Laura, which struck last month, they still ripped boats from moorings and sent one barge careering into the under-construction Bay Bridge. They were certainly high enough to topple high-sided vehicles.\n\nOne of the barges that broke free in Pensacola, Florida\n\nAnother barge got loose and headed for the Escambia Bay Bridge but luckily ran ashore.\n\nThe sheriff of Escambia County said it had not been expecting the devastation wrought by Sally.\n\nOverturned vehicle in Mobile, Alabama. Many roads there were hit by falling trees\n\nCavin Hollyhand, 50, who lives in Mobile, Alabama, told Reuters: \"The rain is what stands out with this one: It's unreal.\"\n\nThere remains \"a danger of life-threatening inundation\" on the Florida-Alabama border, the NHC said.\n\nAlabama Governor Kay Ivey said many areas around Mobile were seeing historic flood levels and urged people to heed warnings.\n\nThe pier at Gulf State Park in Alabama suffered significant damage.\n\nGulf Shores in Alabama hosted Sally's landfall and its torrential rain\n\nThe latest on power cuts from the poweroutage.us website lists some 290,000 customers without electricity in Alabama and 253,000 more in Florida.\n\nAs well as pylons being brought down, many trees were uprooted.\n\nRain appeared to fall sideways in Alabama, which led to submerged roads as the storm inched ashore. Other areas along the coast were also affected, with beaches and highways swamped in Mississippi and low-lying properties in Louisiana covered by the rising waters.\n\nAlabama, Florida and Mississippi all declared states of emergency ahead of the storm.\n\nJohn De Block, at the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, told the New York Times that Sally was drifting \"at the speed of a child in a candy shop\".\n\nSally's pace may be linked to climate change, according to experts. A 2018 study in Nature magazine found that the speed at which hurricanes and tropical storms move over an area had decreased by 10% between 1949 and 2016, a drop that was linked to an increase in total rainfall.\n\n\"Sally has a characteristic that isn't often seen, and that's a slow forward speed and that's going to exacerbate the flooding,\" NHC deputy director Ed Rappaport told the Associated Press.\n\nIn addition to Sally, there are four other tropical cyclones - Paulette, Rene, Teddy and Vicky - swirling in the Atlantic Ocean basin.\n\nIf only one more storm is officially named - Wilfred has already been chosen - meteorologists will run out of preselected names for the rest of the year and so will begin naming new storms after the Greek alphabet.\n\nHave you been affected by Hurricane Sally? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Staff working from home for fashion retailer Next have been \"stultified\" by boring online presentations and missed out on office camaraderie, the company said.\n\nNext said that overall, the impact of the pandemic on business had been \"expensive and miserable\".\n\nBut it had also seen some advantages from the upheaval, it added.\n\nNext said it expected some home working to continue and that the balance would \"evolve over time\".\n\nAlong with all \"non-essential\" retailers, Next was forced to close its doors when the pandemic struck. But it continued to meet online orders after overhauling work practices at its warehouses to allow for social distancing.\n\nAnnouncing its financial results for the first six months of the year, including a 34% drop in sales over the worst of the lockdown, the fashion chain said some good had come from the experience.\n\n\"It is remarkable what can be learnt from shutting down your entire operation and slowly, department by department, store by store, warehouse by warehouse, bringing it back to life,\" Next said in a statement.\n\nWarehouses and call centres had become more efficient, while staff in other areas had been forced to make more of new technology, it said.\n\nHowever, it said having staff \"sitting in their spare bedrooms, kitchens and conservatories\" had had pros and cons.\n\nVideo calls for large groups had proved \"unwieldy, frustrating and inefficient\".\n\n\"Worst of all, perhaps, large video calls have encouraged the proliferation of one of the business world's most damaging practices - death by deck,\" it said.\n\nExplaining further, it said this meant \"slideshow presentations that transform meetings from productive exchanges of ideas into boring, one-way lectures, with the 'presenters' rattling through bullet points already visible to their stultified audience\".\n\nOnline sales held up during lockdown, with childrens' wear and sportswear performing strongly\n\nNext said the biggest problem with home working was the lack of spontaneous conversations and the chance to learn from colleagues. On the other hand, it had allowed people to focus more effectively on some solitary tasks, including systems coding and product design.\n\nNext said that had empowered individuals and been liberating.\n\nMillions of UK workers switched to working partly or completely from home when the country went into lockdown in March.\n\nMany welcomed the break from the daily commute and office politics, but the government is keen to encourage workers back into the office to revive city centres.\n\nFirms have taken a mixed approach. Some, such as Twitter, say employees might continue to work from home even after the threat from the virus subsides. Netflix boss Reed Hastings, however, wants staff to return to the office \"12 hours after a vaccine is approved\".\n\nNext's 34% fall in sales saw wedding outfits and work clothes particularly badly hit.\n\nHowever, it said the business had been \"more resilient than we expected\", with pre-tax profit totalling £9m for the first half of the year.\n\nIt said it was fortunate that half of its revenues were already coming from online sales before the onset of the pandemic.\n\nIt has revised its profit forecast for the full year from £195m to £300m.\n\nBut it said that current rules to limit the spread of the virus, including the \"rule of six\", would depress demands for gifts and clothing, if still in force in December.", "Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.\n\nThe Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.\n\nAccording to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year.\n\nThe appointment has been approved by a Whitehall watchdog despite it raising concerns of a \"perceived risk\" that it may give the firm an unfair advantage.\n\nThe Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) said Mr Grayling had reassured them he would not be advising the company on its commercial maritime activities or risks and opportunities associated with Brexit.\n\nThe watchdog said the role would be limited to advising the firm, which also operates London Thamesport, on its environmental strategy and its engagement with local enterprise bodies.\n\nIt said the MP must comply with these and other conditions, including a ban on him lobbying ministers on behalf of the company or giving advice on UK government tenders, until July 2021, two years after he left the cabinet.\n\nMr Grayling stepped down as transport secretary when Boris Johnson became PM in July 2019, having served under his predecessor Theresa May for three years.\n\nMPs are allowed to take on second jobs - and while some have argued that representing constituents should be a full-time occupation, others say working in \"the real world\" keeps members of Parliament grounded in reality.\n\nFor ex-members of the government, however, taking on paid work is slightly trickier - particularly if they have only recently given up their ministerial red boxes.\n\nThere are rules on appointments set by the government, with compliance overseen by ACOBA.\n\nFormer ministers and ex-senior civil servants are are expected to seek advice from the watchdog and follow its advice if they want to start a job less than two years after leaving government.\n\nHowever although the watchdog has the power to put information about appointments into the public domain, it has no formal enforcement powers.\n\nIn 2017, a committee of MPs described ACOBA as \"a toothless regulator\".\n\nAnd in the same year, Labour's then shadow cabinet office minister Jon Trickett said it was \"populated with establishment figures\".\n\nCritics of Mr Grayling say he made a series of poor decisions during his time in the job, including awarding a contract to a group of ferry operators to provide extra capacity after the UK left the EU - one of which had never sailed a vessel.\n\nThe contracts, which Mr Grayling described as an insurance policy, were later cancelled. The National Audit Office estimated that the costs incurred to the taxpayer could be as high as £56.6m.\n\nMr Johnson sought to install the MP for Epsom and Ewell as chair of the powerful Commons Intelligence and Security Committee in July.\n\nBut MPs on the committee voted to back his colleague Julian Lewis instead. Mr Grayling has since quit the committee.", "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.", "People requiring A&E will be urged to book an appointment through NHS 111 under a trial in parts of England.\n\nThe aim is to direct patients to the most clinically-appropriate service and to help reduce pressure on emergency departments as staff battle winter pressures, such as coronavirus and flu.\n\nThe pilots are live in Cornwall, Portsmouth, Hampshire and Blackpool and have just begun in Warrington.\n\nIf they are successful, they could be rolled out to all trusts in December.\n\nHowever, people with a life-threatening condition should still call 999.\n\nUnder the new changes, patients will still be able to seek help at A&E without an appointment, but officials say they are likely to end up waiting longer than those who have gone through 111.\n\nMore NHS 111 call handlers are being brought in to take on the additional workload, alongside extra clinicians, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nA campaign called Help Us Help You will launch later in the year to urge people to use the new service.\n\nThe government has also pledged an extra £150m of funding to expand and upgrade 25 more A&Es to reduce overcrowding and improve infection control ahead of winter. This was in addition to the £300m announced for a number of trusts to upgrade their facilities, it said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"During the peak of the pandemic we saw millions of people using NHS 111 to get the best possible advice on Covid-19, and other urgent NHS services.\n\n\"These pilots will build on this and test whether we can deliver quicker access to the right care, provide a better service for the public and ensure our dedicated NHS staff aren't overwhelmed.\"\n\nThis trial scheme, which seems likely to be adopted at hospitals across England, will see big changes to what people are familiar with at A&E.\n\nPeople who are not seriously ill will be actively discouraged from arriving at emergency departments without an appointment.\n\nThey won't be turned away, but they have been warned there could be even longer waits than before.\n\nOn the other hand, those who have called NHS 111 first and been directed to A&E will get a confirmed time to see an appropriate clinician.\n\nThey could just as easily be directed to an urgent treatment centre or a mental health professional.\n\nThere's the understandable aim of cutting unnecessary visits, so reducing overcrowding in waiting areas at a time when hospitals want to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.\n\nBut for the plan to work, a big public information campaign is required and people will need to have confidence they can get through quickly to an NHS 111 call handler when they need to.\n\nData from the Department for Health and Social Care suggests there are 14.4 million A&E attendances in England that have not gone through NHS 111, a GP or via an ambulance.\n\nIt said 2.1 million attendances do not result in admission or treatment.\n\nChris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, said trusts will welcome the funding, as it will \"enable them to provide better care for their patients this winter\", adding that the 111 proposals were the \"right approach\".\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said the 111 scheme could have advantages for many older people, including avoiding waiting in crowded A&Es.\n\n\"However, it is important to stress that older people who have difficulty using the phone will not be turned away if they go straight to A&E as before,\" she said.\n\nThe government also announced a consultation on new targets for waiting times in A&E is being launched as ministers prepare to scrap the current four-hour target.\n\nDr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: \"Expansion of NHS 111 will help patients to be seen more quickly by the service most appropriate to their needs.\n\n\"We are pleased to have reached the consultation phase of how A&E performance is measured with a focus on the safe, timely care of the very sickest patients, and look forward to the publication of the proposals.\"", "A woman takes a photo of her relative during the lockdown in May, when visits were banned\n\nCare homes in England will receive extra funding of £546m to try to reduce transmission of coronavirus during the winter, the government has announced.\n\nThe money helps to pay workers full wages when they are self-isolating, and ensures carers only work in one care home, reducing the spread of the virus.\n\nThe fund was set up in May and has been extended until March 2021.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun, the PM warned family visits to care homes may also need to be restricted.\n\n\"I'm afraid it's an incredibly difficult thing, but we are going to have to place some restrictions on people - visitors - being able to go into care homes,\" Boris Johnson said.\n\nThe funding allows for money to be made available to help care workers reduce their use of public transport, and stock up on personal protective equipment, according to Mr Johnson.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the government would do \"whatever is humanly possible\" to protect care homes \"so they are a place of sanctuary this winter\".\n\nIn an earlier statement, he said that the extra funding would bring \"peace of mind\" to many in the social care sector.\n\nThe most recent figures show there were 35 homes that were dealing with coronavirus outbreaks - defined as having at least one positive case - during the first week of September. During April, the number of homes with outbreaks was about 20 times that rate.\n\nThe announcement brings the total funding for infection control measures in care homes in England to more than £1.1bn, after the sector received £600m in May.\n\nThe devolved nations were each allocated funding for care homes in May totalling £113m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynn hasn't seen her husband, who has dementia, for six weeks due to care home restrictions\n\nThe announcement comes as new coronavirus restrictions are expected to be announced in north-east England, where cases have been on the rise.\n\nLater in the Commons, Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth asked Mr Hancock to guarantee care homes \"won't face the same shortages\" of personal protective equipment (PPE) and raised concerns about the \"huge harm\" caused to residents by restrictions on family visits.\n\nThe health secretary said the government had a plan to ensure care homes can get PPE, which would be set out in its Adult Social Care Winter Plan this week.\n\nIn July, care homes in England were allowed to reopen again for family visits - as long as local authorities and public health teams said it was safe. There went on to be a similar reopening of homes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, many care homes have not yet fully reopened - including with strict rules over visitors and or banning them completely.\n\nIn Edinburgh, families have protested about \"cruel\" care home visiting rules\n\nMinisters have also promised to make people in care homes a priority for coronavirus tests - along with the NHS - amid ongoing issues with the UK's testing system.\n\nA surge in demand for coronavirus tests has led to local shortages, with many people reporting problems securing online bookings and being directed to test sites hundreds of miles from home.\n\nThe large Lighthouse laboratories, run by the government to analyse test swabs from all the UK nations, have been under strain to process them all.\n\nMr Hancock will announce who will be prioritised for tests in the coming days.\n\nHis government colleague, health minister Edward Argar, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the official guidance \"will prioritise frontline NHS care workers, teachers and similar\".\n\n\"It is possible that there are people with symptoms who apply for a test who have to wait longer because we are prioritising those key frontline workers we need to keep our NHS and care system working,\" he said.\n\nThere has been a sharp decline in test turnaround speed in England, the latest Test and Trace figures show, with only a third of people (33%) getting their results back within 24 hours of taking a test - down from two-thirds last week.\n\nA total of 18,371 new people tested positive for coronavirus in England in the week to 9 September.\n\nCoronavirus swept through UK care homes during the peak of the outbreak, with tens of thousands of deaths.\n\nAlmost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, Office for National Statistics figures published in July show. But only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the figures, there 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Manchester Arena Inquiry: Georgina Callander 'had heart as big as the moon'\n\nThe father of Georgina Callander said she had a \"heart as big as the moon\" while her mother described her as \"one in many millions\".\n\nFor two weeks, the relatives of the 22 people killed in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing will provide a personal insight into the lives of their loved ones and how their lives were changed forever.\n\nIn a moving video Simon Callander, who was at the hearing, described how \"her laughter echoed all over the house\".\n\n\"Every day I hear her laugh,\" he said.\n\nThe 18-year-old's mother Lesley Callander said in separate film played to the inquiry on Wednesday: \"She was like a beautiful melody who lit up the room with her famous smile.\"\n\nShe said she was \"my whole world\".\n\nMr Callander opened his \"pen portrait\" by saying Georgina was born on April Fools' Day \"but I was the fool for not spending more time with her and not telling her he loved her every day\".\n\n\"Compassion was her hallmark. She didn't have a bad bone in her body,\" he said.\n\n\"She had so much love - and so much love to give.\"\n\nHe recalled how the teenager from Tarleton, Lancashire used to \"squeal with excitement\" opening her Christmas presents, kept her brothers Daniel and Harry out of trouble and her talent for art and how she loved taekwondo, ballet and football, playing for Bolton Wanderers Girls Football team.\n\nHe said he still looked out of the window every day to see her walking home from school.\n\n\"I would give anything to see her smiling face again.\"\n\nImages of Georgina growing up were shown to the court accompanied by Lukas Graham's Love Someone, which features the line \"I'd stop the world if it gave us time\".\n\nMr Callander recalled her part-time job at Booths, spending her wages on concerts and her pride at passing her driving test first time.\n\nShe named her first car 'Peggy' which she drove to the concert on \"that horrific day\", he said.\n\nGeorgina had been due to study children's nursing at Edge Hill University, but never got to go, he said.\n\n\"All that potential snatched away.\"\n\nMr Callander said: \"My life is unrecognisable [from] what it was. Ill health. Divorce. A black cloud that follows me constantly.\"\n\nHe said Georgina had been \"the glue that held the family together\".\n\nHis recording ended with more family photographs including one of Georgina with her idol Ariana Grande as Rod Stewart's Love Has No Pride played.\n\nGeorgina's mother Lesley Callander her daughter was \"my whole world\"\n\nGeorgina's mother had earlier described her daughter as was \"one in many millions\" in her powerful tribute.\n\nShe said she would have attended the hearing in person but ever since the attack she \"could not bear\" to be in Manchester.\n\nAlongside a painting of her daughter dressed in her favourite colour yellow, Mrs Callander described her as an \"extremely caring person with a lovely soul\" who offered an \"abundance of hugs for everyone\".\n\n\"She was like a beautiful melody who lit up the room with her famous smile,\" she said.\n\nHer mother said she was passionate about music and Disney films as well as the colour yellow, joking she hardly took her yellow coat off.\n\nGeorgina Callander shared a love of Marvel comics with her older brothers Daniel and Harry\n\nShe spoke of her \"unbearable pain\" as she relived holding Georgina in her arms during her final moments.\n\nShe said it had been a \"daily living nightmare\" since the \"senseless and pointless\" murder of her \"beautiful, innocent daughter\".\n\n\"I find it excruciatingly hard to live without Georgina. I'm nothing without my Georgina. I wish it would have been me and not her.\"\n\nShe added: \"My heart is shattered.\"\n\nHer brothers also paid tribute in a statement to their \"geeky\" sister who shared their interest in Marvel comics.\n\n\"She was like a ray of sunshine on the darkest of days,\" said Daniel.\n\n\"It was infectious how she made you feel.\"\n\nHarry said: \"The one grievance that stains me the most is the life she will never ever get to experience.\"\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. Baroness Harding: It is “quite hard to give you an accurate figure” on the level of demand for coronavirus tests\n\nDemand for coronavirus testing is \"significantly outstripping the capacity we have\", head of NHS Test and Trace Baroness Harding has told MPs.\n\nShe told the science and technology committee that the return to school meant test demand in England from under-17s had doubled.\n\nShe also acknowledged that results were also taking \"slightly longer\".\n\nBut she said she was \"very confident\" of raising capacity to 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\n\"I am certain we will need more as we go beyond the end of October. We have plans to go beyond 500,000 a day,\" Baroness Harding said, before adding there was no formal target beyond the October deadline.\n\nThe test and trace programme has come under increasing pressure in recent days, with reports of people unable to access tests or being directed to test centres many miles away.\n\nFigures published on Thursday also showed the turnaround time for community tests was getting longer. Only a third of these tests came back in 24 hours in the week up to 9 September, compared to two-thirds a week earlier.\n\nIt comes as the UK reported another 3,395 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and a further 21 deaths were recorded within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of people calling 119 and visiting the website to book tests was three to four times the number of available tests, Baroness Harding told the committee - although she said that may exaggerate the problem as some people call repeatedly from different numbers.\n\nCommittee chairman Greg Clark said it was \"dispiriting\" that despite the \"entirely predictable\" circumstances of the return to schools and offices \"we haven't had the right capacity put in place\".\n\nBaroness Harding said they built the testing capacity for this autumn - which is now 242,817 a day - based on modelling from the Sage scientific advisory group.\n\n\"I don't think anybody was expecting to see the really sizable increase in demand that has happened over the last few weeks,\" she said.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, a GP and epidemiologist at Oxford University, told the committee that the testing strategy was \"utter chaos\" at the moment because other illnesses with Covid-like symptoms such as colds and flu had risen by 50% in children in September.\n\nHe said there was only a \"slight increase\" in hospital admissions and deaths, however, and increased testing may explain some of the rise in cases.\n\n\"What's happening at the moment is the language and the rhetoric is making people so fearful and terrorised that they're going beyond the guidance because they're so fearful of what's coming next,\" he said.\n\nAn unpublished study suggested that coughs and fevers from other winter viruses could rise to 445,000 a day in December, overwhelming test capacity.\n\nIn Sunderland, meanwhile, more than 100 people were left waiting at an empty car park where they said they had been booked in for Covid-19 testing, although no staff or equipment was there.\n\nBolton Council, which faces the highest levels of infection nationally, said it was \"incredibly frustrated\" after problems with the national booking system led to long queues and people with appointments being turned away.\n\nSimilar problems were reported in Lewisham, south London, where the approach to the centre was \"gridlocked\".\n\nBaroness Harding said testing was limited by the laboratory processing capacity, and that they had to restrict the number of people at centres because it would be \"very dangerous\" to send too many samples to the laboratory that would then go untested.\n\nAn NHS Test and Trace survey showed 27% of people seeking tests had no symptoms but had only been in contact with an infected person. Tests should only be provided for members of the public with a continuous cough, a high temperature or a change in sense of smell or taste.\n\n\"We don't want to push away people who are scared,\" Baroness Harding said. But she added that they must \"protect the capacity we have for the people who most need it\".\n\nThe current priorities for testing are NHS patients, NHS staff and care home residents and staff. Together these account for 50% of testing, she said.\n\nAfter that, areas with serious outbreaks are given priority. Baroness Harding said they were looking at putting key workers next, particularly teachers, \"but work is still ongoing\".", "Germany has announced plans to take more than 1,500 migrants following the fire at a detention centre on the Greek Island of Lesbos which left thousands without refuge.\n\nThe tragedy was a reminder of the scale of a crisis which has seen vast movements of people fleeing war and poverty.\n\nFive years ago at the height of the migrant crisis the BBC’s Fergal Keane reported the extraordinary story of Nujeen Mustafa, a Syrian refugee, who crossed Europe in a wheelchair.\n\nFive years on, Fergal has met up with Nujeen to hear how her life has changed.", "Almost two million people in north-east England are expected to face restrictions as coronavirus cases rise.\n\nNorthumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham council areas are in discussions to get the measures.\n\nThese may include pubs closing earlier and restrictions on households mixing.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Sun: \"The only way to make sure the country is able to enjoy Christmas is to be tough now.\"\n\nHe previously said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to avoid another nationwide lockdown.\n\nThe PM also told the newspaper the government is promising £546m as part of a plan to help protect care homes from coronavirus this winter.\n\nA full announcement detailing the new measures for the North East is expected later on Thursday.\n\n\"The number of cases has been rising rapidly in many parts of the country, but in particular in the North East, and so a decision has been made to impose further restrictions there,\" Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick told ITV's Peston programme on Wednesday.\n\n\"And a full announcement will be made tomorrow and so people living in that part of the country should watch out for that. And the measures will come into play at midnight on Thursday evening.\"\n\nMPs from the area met with Health Minister Nadine Dorries on Wednesday evening.\n\nBBC Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt said a Labour MP told him measures would include pubs closing at 22:00 BST, no mixing with other households and public transport only for essential travel.\n\nNewcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said the temporary measures would mainly be a restriction on social gatherings.\n\n\"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas: in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports,\" he said.\n\n\"So [council leaders] have put together a series of requests to government for additional restrictions around these areas for a fixed period of time to try to prevent a damaging full lockdown.\"\n\nThe council leaders had also requested additional funding for policing to enforce the measures, as well as additional local testing facilities, Mr Forbes added.\n\n\"All of the testing facilities in our region are more or less at full capacity every day - we're hearing stories of people being sent 200 miles to get a test and that's not acceptable.\n\n\"That's why we've asked as council leaders for more resources immediately, because we need to make sure anyone with symptoms gets an immediate test and gets the result back straight away.\"\n\nGateshead is among the areas due to face tougher local restrictions\n\nThe North East has seen a resurgence of coronavirus in recent weeks and four boroughs were last week placed on the government's watchlist for areas needing \"enhanced support\".\n\nOn Monday, councils in the seven areas of Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead, County Durham and Sunderland called for new restrictions.\n\nBBC analysis of the government's figures shows that, as of Wednesday, Bolton had the highest rate in England at 204.1 per 100,000 people in the week to 13 September.\n\nSunderland's rate was 82.1 per 100,000 people, South Tyneside was 93.4, Gateshead was 81.7, Newcastle was 64.1, North Tyneside was 46.7, with County Durham at 37.4 and Northumberland at 25.7.\n\nIn total there were 1,106 new cases in a seven-day period.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We constantly monitor infection rates across the country and keep all measures under review in consultation with local leaders.\n\n\"Any changes to local restrictions will be announced in the usual way.\"\n\nOther parts of the UK, including Birmingham and Greater Manchester, are already subject to increased measures.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun on Thursday, Mr Johnson compared the graph showing UK virus cases to the humps on a camel's back, saying the aim is to \"stop the surge\" in cases and \"flatten the second hump\".\n\nHe said he did not want to lock down sections of the economy, but that the government \"will be looking at\" requiring pubs to close early.\n\nOn Wednesday, the prime minister told a committee of MPs a second national lockdown would be potentially \"disastrous\" for the UK.\n\nHe admitted there was not enough testing capacity - amid widespread reports of difficulties obtaining them - and said new nationwide restrictions such as the \"rule of six\" were necessary to \"defeat\" the disease.\n\nCoronavirus cases across the UK increased by 3,991, taking the total to 378,219, according to figures from the government.\n\nWhile parts of north-west England have consistently had the highest rates of new infections for some time now, areas of the North East have also been reporting big increases.\n\nIn the week to 30 August Sunderland had 24 cases. Two weeks later it was 228.\n\nThe rise in South Tyneside was also very large, up from 70 cases in the last week of August to 141 in the week to 13 September.\n\nParts of the region are recording rates they haven't seen since May, when the country was still subject to most of the full lockdown measures.\n\nTesting capacity has increased since then but there have been shortages due to the recent surge in demand.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in one of the areas where restrictions are being reintroduced? How will you be affected? Do you have any questions? 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. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "New restrictions aimed at halting the rise in coronavirus cases in north-east England have come into force, affecting almost two million people.\n\nThe temporary measures, which started at midnight, are to tackle \"concerning rates of infection\" in the region.\n\nThe rules affect Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and the County Durham council area.\n\nPubs and restaurants must shut early and household-mixing has been limited.\n\nResponding to the rise in infections, Newcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said: \"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas - in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new rules banning separate households from meeting each other at home or in private gardens have been introduced in Lancashire, Merseyside, parts of the Midlands and West Yorkshire.\n\nThe measures, due to take effect from Tuesday, will also mean shorter opening hours for pubs and restaurants in parts of Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nNorthumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham council areas are affected\n\nThe new measures for north-east England include:\n\nIt had been hoped that grandparents helping with childcare would be excluded from the restrictions - but they are not.\n\nMr Forbes tweeted that Newcastle City Council had \"specifically\" asked for this to be allowed.\n\nNorthumbria Police said it would provide a \"proportionate response\" to reports the rules being broken, and would assess the situation to determine the most appropriate course of action.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We will look to engage with people in the first instance, explaining the restrictions and encouraging them to follow the regulations.\n\n\"However, where necessary, we will take enforcement action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'These decisions have a real impact': Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms local lockdown in north-east England.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The data says that we must act now.\"\n\nHe said Sunderland currently had an infection rate of 103 cases per 100,000 people. In South Tyneside and Gateshead the latest published rates were 93.4 and 83.6 respectively.\n\nConcern has been raised about increased waiting times for coronavirus test results for people using community testing centres.\n\nIn Sunderland, drivers queued outside a Covid test centre, only to later find out it was empty.\n\nCouncils have requested additional funding to police the local lockdown\n\nCouncil leaders have also requested additional funding for policing, as well as extra testing facilities.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth echoed the need for more testing capacity to be available in areas where there were tightened restrictions.\n\nHe said it was urgent the government \"fixes testing, fixes tracing\" or we face a \"very bleak winter indeed\".\n\nCounty Durham's director of public health Amanda Healy said: \"If we do want to be able to continue to go to work, to schools, to keep in contact with relatives but stop an increase in the cases we have seen, we are really urging people to adhere to the guidance coming out today.\"\n\nGateshead Council leader Martin Gannon said: \"Nobody welcomes these things but I would think the vast majority of people recognise these are extremely difficult times and we all need to act and pull together.\"\n\nSmall businesses broadly welcomed the lockdown but called for more support to adapt to the new measures.\n\nSimon Hanson, North East development manager for the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"absolutely critical\" that small and micro businesses were given grant support quickly to help them adapt and provide cashflow.\n\nIt is estimated than 10 million people in the UK currently face additional coronavirus restrictions, with local lockdowns covering parts of Scotland, south Wales, the north west and north east of England, Yorkshire and the Midlands.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in one of the areas where restrictions are being reintroduced? How will you be affected? 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. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Launched in early 2011, the 3DS went through several redesigns\n\nNintendo has discontinued its 3DS handheld after about 76 million sales over a nine-and-a-half year period.\n\nA notice on the Japanese firm's site says \"manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended\".\n\nThe device had the ability to trick the human eye into seeing 3D images like those in some cinema screenings - but without special glasses.\n\nHowever, its launch received a lukewarm reception and it only gained popularity later.\n\nThe console's demise has long been expected. Last year, the company said it no longer planned to make any new first-party games for the system.\n\nIt means the original Nintendo DS retains the title of being the bestselling mobile console.\n\nAnd the Nintendo Switch - a hybrid handheld-and-home machine - is the current focus of Nintendo's efforts.\n\nThe unique selling point of the 3DS was its stereoscopic 3D effect coming from the screen itself, turned on with a simple slider.\n\nThe optical illusion only works when the screen is in a very specific spot in front of the face - but exactly where gamers tend to hold handheld consoles.\n\nIt was impossible to showcase on video or photo but impressed many who tried it.\n\nIn its 2011 review, game site IGN wrote: \"Once you're in the 3D sweet spot... the 3DS looks amazing; graphics look clean, characters and objects are sharp, and ghosting effects are limited, creating a rich, immersive gameplay experience unlike anything we've seen on a handheld before.\"\n\nThe console was packed with experimental features - augmented reality games, dual 3D cameras, and the the ability to detect nearby consoles while in low-power standby, called \"Streetpass\" - which allowed players to connect with strangers without exchanging any information.\n\n\"The 3DS and its StreetPass functionality were driving factors for the founding of many of the groups now found in [Nintendo Players UK],\" said player John Edwards. \"Without the 3DS I doubt we'd have such a thriving community.\"\n\nDespite all the bells and whistles, the 3DS did not start well. A high asking price for the time of over £200, coupled with a lacklustre list of initial games, hurt sales. The fact that the key feature of 3D had to be tried in person was another obstacle.\n\nOn top of that, some users reported that the 3D effect made them feel sick. Nintendo even advises to this day that children under six should not use the facility as it could cause vision damage.\n\nWithin six months of the launch, Nintendo announced a major price cut to between £100 and £150. Coupled with more games - including a beloved remake of the classic Ocarina of Time - the fortunes of the handheld started to change.\n\nIn 2012, a new version with a larger screen was launched, and Nintendo debuted digital downloads of games for the first time. That online store allowed Nintendo to re-release many of its best-loved classics on the handheld.\n\n\"It became a fantastic Nintendo machine for legacy content,\" recalls games writer Nathan Ellingsworth.\n\n\"It was how I experienced Majora's Mask, Earthbound, Minish Cap and many more for the first time and it had its own steady stream of incredible titles.\"\n\nThe 3DS quickly came into its own, with dedicated Mario titles and new Pokemon games in addition to its growing back catalogue.\n\nIt was revamped and relaunched several times - on top of the \"XL\" models, the \"New 3DS\" had increased horsepower, while the 2DS dropped the standout 3D feature entirely for those who saw it as a gimmick.\n\nBy June 2020, the entire system family had sold nearly 76 million units, Nintendo says - far outclassing its home console of the same era, the WiiU, which sold less than 14 million.\n\nThe higher-resolution, more powerful Switch has largely taken the place of the 3DS\n\nBut the modern Nintendo Switch, released in 2017, has already sold more than 60 million units, and can be played as a handheld.\n\nWhile Nintendo initially insisted it was not a \"replacement\" for the 3DS, declining support and sales meant the venerable handheld's time was limited. In the year to March 2020, only 69,000 3DS consoles were sold.", "Brenda Silverman was one of the first patients to be treated as part of Moorfields' \"cataract drive\"\n\nOne of the world's largest eye hospitals is quadrupling its number of cataract operations, in an attempt to tackle the backlog caused by Covid-19.\n\nMoorfields Eye Hospital, in London, is aiming to perform nearly 1,000 cataract removals in six days\n\nWaiting lists for all planned procedures in England are at record levels after many services were paused.\n\nOver two million people have waited over 18 weeks for surgery, the highest number since records began in 2007.\n\nIn July, NHS trusts in England were told they should get back to about 80% of last year's levels of in-patient procedures by the end of September.\n\nCataracts are cloudy patches on the lens that cause loss of sight.\n\nAnd surgery to replace the affected lens with an artificial one is the most commonly performed operation in the UK.\n\nIt usually takes about 20-40 minutes under local anaesthetic.\n\nAnd Moorfields aims to have patients in and out within 90 minutes.\n\nOne of more than 100 patients being operated on at the specialist hospital in a single day, Brenda Silverman, 77, had to isolate for three days, and take a coronavirus test, before her surgery could go ahead.\n\nBefore the operation, she said: \"I haven't been seeing so well.\n\n\"The glare and the blinding at night is awful.\"\n\nAnd afterwards, she said: \"Everything is in focus.\n\n\"There's nothing I can't see.\n\n\"Everything is bright and cheerful.\"\n\nCataract service director Vincenzo Maurino said Moorfields had had to rethink \"almost everything to make this possible\".\n\n\"Doing four times more what we were doing will ensure our waiting list, which has gone up to four months, will come down significantly,\" he said.\n\n\"Also, we don't know what the future has ahead so we want to learn from this experience, repeat it or find other ways or be adaptable.\"\n\nThe \"cataract drive\" will use eight operating theatres, including those at Moorfields's private facility.\n\nAnd 80 St John Ambulance volunteers will assist with pre-operative assessments and accompanying patients.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"Elective surgery has already rebounded from around a third of its usual rate during the peak of Covid to well over two-thirds in August, with further increases since then.\n\n\"Staff are working hard to ensure that clinics, diagnostic facilities and theatres are as safe as possible.\n\n\"So if you or a loved one have worrying symptoms, please don't put off seeing your GP.\n\n\"And if you're then asked to attend a hospital appointment, please do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boats have been swept ashore and homes flooded by the storm\n\nStorm Sally has brought heavy rain and flooding to the Carolinas and Georgia, as it continues its path of destruction north from the US Gulf Coast.\n\nIt has already battered Florida and Alabama with rain and storm surges, downing power lines, turning roads into rivers and leaving homes submerged.\n\nOne person was killed, and hundreds of thousands are without power.\n\nSally has now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, but meteorologists warn that tornadoes are still possible.\n\nThe wind ripped the roof off this house in Perdido Key, Florida\n\nBesides the fatality reported in Orange Beach, Alabama, one person is also missing from the small coastal city in south-west Alabama, according to Mayor Tony Kennon.\n\n\"It was an unbelievably freaky right turn of a storm that none of us ever expected,\" he told the Washington Post.\n\nPensacola, Florida, 30m (48 km) east of Orange Beach, was also badly hit, with a loose barge bringing down part of the city's Bay Bridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That's my car... submerged\": Video shows flooded streets in Pensacola, Florida\n\nDowntown Pensacola was hit with up to 5ft of flooding and saw the highest storm surge on record. The storm brought \"four months of rain in four hours\" to the city, Pensacola fire chief Ginny Cranor told CNN.\n\nPictures show residents wading through waist-deep water, cars stranded in flooded streets, and homes entirely swamped by Wednesday's deluge.\n\nIn Gulf Shores, Alabama - near where Sally first made landfall as a hurricane on Wednesday - the storm sheared off the face of a beachside apartment complex. And 50 miles (80km) north-west in Mobile, Alabama, photos show the large steeple of El-Bethel Primitive Baptist Church toppled after the storm.\n\nSally hit Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 04:45 local time on Wednesday, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph (169 km/h).\n\nAccording to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph. The NHC says a Category 2 storm's \"extremely dangerous winds\" usually cause damage to homes and shallowly rooted trees.\n\nAs the storm moved north from the coast, some 550,000 residents in affected areas were left in the dark on Wednesday night, according to local reports.\n\nNow a post-tropical cyclone, the storm is expected to deposit up to 10in (25cm) of rain in Virginia and the Carolinas. It will likely cause widespread flash flooding, the NHC said on Thursday.\n\nMaximum wind speeds have decreased to 25mph as the storm moves north-east.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Armondo Moralez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSally is one of at least five storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Officials are running out of letters to name the hurricanes as they near the end of their annual alphabetic list.\n\nHave you been affected by Hurricane Sally? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The new rules cover Newcastle Sunderland, Northumberland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and the Durham County Council area\n\nNew rules have been introduced across large swathes of north-east England in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus. What has the reaction in the region been?\n\nThe seven affected councils have identified people socialising as a key common factor in the rise of coronavirus cases across the area.\n\nSo since midnight on Thursday, almost two million people have been banned from meeting with other households, while pubs and restaurants and restaurants can only offer table service and have to shut at 22:00.\n\nThe move has promoted a mixture of confusion, concern and incredulity among many.\n\nNick Greaves, who runs The Patricia restaurant in Jesmond, Newcastle, said the new measures, which were a mixture of rules and guidelines, must nots and should nots, were confusing, worrying and \"a bit of a nightmare\".\n\n\"It's a bit of a shock,\" he said. \"We have come so far to get back on our feet and now we are back down in this saga again.\"\n\nHe said the 22:00 curfew put the restaurant \"in an awkward position\".\n\n\"We have changed the restaurant to have people much more spaced out time wise, in three sittings almost,\" Mr Greaves said.\n\n\"It's going to take out that 20:30 table sitting.\"\n\nThe Patricia now effectively has three sittings for meals\n\nHe said the restaurant offered a six-course menu that took about two-and-a-half hours to work through.\n\nMr Greaves also said he couldn't understand how the rules would help stop the spread of the coronavirus.\n\n\"It could even be a little bit dangerous with people going to the pub, necking as much as they can and then they end up drunk and are like 'let's go to a house or something'.\n\n\"I can't get my head around that's going to help anything. The virus is still as dangerous before 22:00 as it is afterwards.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat's a concern shared by Spencer Hughes who lives in Sunderland and whose wife Jaci is a waitress at a social club in South Hylton which is open from 11:00 to 23:00.\n\n\"I don't see how closing an hour earlier will make any difference to the chances of getting the coronavirus,\" Mr Hughes said.\n\n\"As for other pubs which would normally be open later, I think people are just going to change their drinking habits.\n\n\"They will go out drinking earlier and once they've had a few, how much are they really going to be adhering to the social distancing as they were when they had their first pint?\"\n\nHe said there was too much confusion over what was a rule and what was a guideline, with people able to interpret the latter to suit their own needs.\n\nBecci Nye is manager of the Fifteas Vintage tearoom in Bishop Auckland\n\nBecci Nye, manager of Fifteas Vintage tearoom in Bishop Auckland, also said the confusion between what you must not do and what you were advised not to do was posing a problem.\n\nThe regulations ban people from visiting another household, including going to private gardens, apart from within a support bubble.\n\nAnd they advise people not to meet with other households at public venues, although Newcastle director of public health Eugene Milne said it would be alright in parks if people adhered to social distancing guidelines.\n\n\"I think people just need clear instructions,\" Ms Nye said, adding: \"Like right, 'you can mix, you can't mix'.\n\n\"Can you come with your neighbour, can you meet your mam in a tearoom rather than your house?\"\n\nShe said she did not expect to see much of a change.\n\n\"I don't think the big tables will be booked any more but other than that I think it will be quite samey,\" she said.\n\nMr Hughes in Sunderland also wasn't sure how well the rules would be followed.\n\n\"When we first went into lockdown and people didn't know much about the virus then everyone went with it,\" he said.\n\n\"Now there is a split, some people haven't been affected by it and don't even think it's real or claim it's the government trying to control them.\n\n\"But others like me have lost friends to it, we know it's there and what it does.\n\n\"What's needed are clear definitive rules that are scientifically proven that everybody sticks to.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newcastle, Mr Milne said it would be \"very hard\" to enforce rules about people mixing in public places, saying: \"How would a pub know if people coming in together did actually live together or not?\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "The car had been driving along a highway near Ponoka in Alberta\n\nA Canadian man has been charged with dangerous driving for allegedly taking a nap while his self-driving Tesla car clocked up more than 90mph (150km/h).\n\nPolice said both front seats were fully reclined, and the driver and passenger were apparently asleep when they were alerted to the incident in Alberta.\n\nWhen police turned on emergency lights and other vehicles moved out of the way, the Tesla Model S sped up.\n\nThe 20-year-old driver from British Columbia is due in court in December.\n\nHe had initially been charged with speeding and handed a 24-hour licence suspension for fatigue, but was subsequently charged with dangerous driving.\n\nThe incident happened near Ponoka, some 100km south of Edmonton, in July.\n\n\"Nobody was looking out the windshield to see where the car was going,\" Police Sgt Darri Turnbull told CBC News.\n\nHe said that when they put on their emergency lights the Tesla accelerated, with vehicles ahead of it moving out of the way.\n\n\"Nobody appeared to be in the car, but the vehicle sped up because the line was clear in front.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've been in policing for over 23 years, and the majority of that in traffic law enforcement, and I'm speechless. I've never, ever seen anything like this before but of course the technology wasn't there.\"\n\nTesla cars currently operate at a level-two Autopilot, which requires the driver to remain alert and ready to act, with hands on the wheel.\n\nTesla founder Elon Musk has said he expects his vehicles to be completely autonomous, with little driver input needed, by the end of the year.\n\nHowever, he added that there were \"many small problems\" that would need solving through real-world testing.", "The memoir will be released on 17 November, two weeks after the US presidential election\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama has announced the publication date of the first half of his memoirs.\n\nMr Obama - the first black president and husband of Michelle Obama - said the book would \"try to provide an honest account of my presidency\".\n\nA Promised Land is set for release on 17 November, just two weeks after the US presidential election.\n\nThe Democratic leader won two elections and served as president between 2009 and 2017.\n\nJoe Biden - his vice-president for those two terms - is challenging Mr Obama's successor, Republican leader Donald Trump, for the presidency on 3 November.\n\n\"There's no feeling like finishing a book, and I'm proud of this one,\" Mr Obama wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe 768-page memoir will be simultaneously issued in 25 languages, according to publisher Penguin Random House.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barack Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Obama writes about the response to the global financial crisis, his landmark healthcare reform legislation known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, and the 2011 US raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.\n\nThe 44th president of the US has written three previous books, including Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope as well as the children's book Of Thee I Sing.\n\nHis wife, lawyer and former First Lady Michelle Obama, has published her own memoir. Within five months of publication, Becoming had sold more than 10 million copies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Author Viv Groskop looks at Michelle Obama's power as a public speaker\n\nMr Obama may struggle to outshine his wife, but this would not be the first time spouses have bested presidents. Both Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford's memoirs outsold their husbands' works.\n\nPresident Ronald Reagan however may not have minded. His work, An American Life, was ghost written by the journalist Robert Lindsey. At the book's launch Mr Reagan said: \"I hear it's a terrific book. One of these days I'm going to read it myself.\"\n\nThere were rumours in the 19th century that the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant by the post-Civil War president was in fact penned by the famous US writer Mark Twain, whose company published the work.\n\nMr Twain however denied the allegation, and editors of Mr Grant's papers have dismissed the claim as \"completely baseless\", as much of what was published still survives as notes handwritten by Mr Grant himself.\n\nPresident Grant's 584-page tome eventually became one of the highest-selling books of the 19th century.\n\nBut for those looking for a lighter read, the record for shortest memoir goes to President Calvin Coolidge. The famously laconic leader's work is a succinct 247 pages.\n\nThe US presidential election is in November - and the BBC wants to answer your questions about everything from policies to the voting process.\n\nPlease submit your questions below. If you can't see the form, you may need to view the site on a desktop.\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.", "A second national lockdown would be likely to have \"disastrous\" financial consequences for the UK, the prime minister has said.\n\nAppearing at a committee of MPs, Boris Johnson said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another nationwide lockdown.\n\nThis was why new restrictions - such as the \"rule of six\" - were necessary to \"defeat\" the disease, he said.\n\nThe PM also admitted there was not enough testing capacity.\n\nEarlier, he blamed a \"colossal spike\" in demand for ongoing problems in accessing tests and results being delayed.\n\nOn Wednesday, coronavirus cases in the UK increased by 3,991, taking the total to 378,219, according to figures from the government.\n\nA further 20 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19. This brings the UK death total by this criterion to 41,684.\n\nAmid the increase in coronavirus cases, Mr Johnson was asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether the UK could afford another national lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I don't want a second national lockdown - I think it would be completely wrong for this country and we are going to do everything in our power to prevent it.\n\n\"And can we afford it? I very much doubt that the financial consequences would be anything but disastrous, but we have to make sure that we defeat the disease by the means that we have set out.\n\n\"So when I see people arguing against the rule of six or saying that the government is coming in too hard on individual liberties and so on - I totally understand that and I sympathise with that, but we must, must defeat this disease.\"\n\nFrom Monday, new rules came into force, restricting indoor and outdoor gatherings in England and Scotland, and indoor groups in Wales.\n\nA second national lockdown is extremely unlikely for two reasons.\n\nFirstly, it is hugely damaging - to the economy, to education and to wider health for reasons other than Covid.\n\nYou only need to look at the latest figures for falling cancer referrals, the hours spent out of school and the rising unemployment to see the cost of the UK's spring lockdown.\n\nSecondly, the government and its medical advisers have a much better grasp of the virus.\n\nCurrent infection rates and hospitalisations remain much lower than they were in the spring and, despite the problems with testing, there is pretty rich data on exactly where the virus is and how quickly it is spreading.\n\nEven if things get worse, officials are quite confident the NHS will cope.\n\nBut that does not mean there won't be further restrictions - or that it won't be a very difficult winter with a high number of deaths.\n\nThe ban of gatherings of more than six people could be just the first step.\n\nThere is also talk of curfews, forcing hospitality venues to close at 22:00 BST.\n\nThis tactic was used in Belgium to curb the rise in cases, and has been deployed to tackle the outbreak in Bolton.\n\nAt this stage, it is unlikely this will be used nationally.\n\nInstead, expect it to be an option for virus hotspots, along with banning visits to other people's housing which has been used in the North West and West Yorkshire.\n\nShielding could, though, be re-introduced across the country at some point, along with bans on visits to care homes, in an attempt to protect the most vulnerable groups.\n\nMr Johnson also admitted there was not enough coronavirus testing capacity amid reports of people struggling to get tests and results being delayed.\n\nHe told the committee: \"We don't have enough testing capacity now because, in an ideal world, I would like to test absolutely everybody that wants a test immediately.\"\n\nHe promised there would be capacity for 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\nBut he urged people without symptoms to stay away from testing centres - although he acknowledged why they may want to find out if they had Covid-19.\n\n\"What has happened is demand has massively accelerated just in the last couple of weeks,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, who stood in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions, said Mr Johnson had \"time and again\" made pledges on testing, but \"then breaks those promises\".\n\n\"They've had six months to get this right and yet the prime minister still can't deliver on his promises,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner stood in for Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions\n\nMPs at the liaison committee also asked the prime minister about his aim of having a \"pregnancy-style test\" in place within months, which would have a role in fulfilling his \"Operation Moonshot\" ambition for mass testing.\n\nThe government has said it £500m has been set aside to invest in its mass testing plans.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I am going to be cautious and say that I can't sit here today and say that we have such a 'pregnancy-style test'... today.\n\n\"It is right for government to invest in such a project.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Sir Bernard Jenkin told Mr Johnson musicians, singers and performers had \"fallen through the cracks of the support schemes available\".\n\nMr Johnson said the best way to help the sector was to \"get these businesses going again and to get the theatres lit again, by having the virus down and having a testing regime that allows us to do that\".\n\nHe also said an inquiry into the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic would \"look at everything that has gone wrong and gone right\".\n\nBut he said it would not be a \"good use of official time at the moment\" and declined to indicate when the inquiry could begin.\n\nEarlier, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said plans to put the NHS top of the list for coronavirus tests will be published in the coming days,.\n\nPeople in care homes would also be a priority, while schools could be considered, Mr Buckland said.\n\nResolving delays with testing was \"the number one issue\", he added.", "Universities and colleges are facing a wave of cyber-attacks\n\nUniversities and colleges are being warned by the UK's cyber-security agency that rising numbers of cyber-attacks are threatening to disrupt the start of term.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre has issued an alert after a recent spike in attacks on educational institutions.\n\nThese have been \"ransomware\" incidents which block access to computer systems.\n\nPaul Chichester, the NCSC's director of operations, says such attacks are \"reprehensible\".\n\nThe return to school, college and university, already facing problems with Covid-19, now faces an increased risk from cyber-attacks, which the security agency says could \"de-rail their preparations for the new term\".\n\nThe cyber-security body, part of the GCHQ intelligence agency, says attacks can have a \"devastating impact\" and take weeks or months to put right.\n\nNewcastle University and Northumbria have both been targeted by cyber-attacks this month, and a group of further education colleges in Yorkshire and a higher education college in Lancashire faced attacks last month.\n\nThe warning from the NCSC follows a spate of ransomware attacks against academic institutions - in which malicious software or \"malware\" is used to lock out users from their own computer systems, paralysing online services, websites and phone networks.\n\nThe security agency says this is often followed by a ransom note demanding payment for the recovery of this frozen or stolen data - sometimes with the added threat of publicly releasing sensitive information.\n\nUniversities have frequently been targets of cyber-attacks - with up to a thousand attacks per year in the UK.\n\nAttacks can be attempts to obtain valuable research information that is commercially and politically sensitive. Universities also hold much personal data about students, staff and, in some cases, former students who might have made donations.\n\nEarlier this summer more than 20 universities and charities in the UK, US and Canada were caught up in a ransomware cyber-attack involving a cloud computing supplier, Blackbaud.\n\nA Freedom of Information inquiry in July, carried out by the TopLine Comms digital public relations company, found 35 UK universities, out of 105 responses, had faced ransomware attacks over the past decade. There were 25 which had not had attacks - and a further 43 which declined to answer.\n\nThe warning from the NCSC highlights the vulnerability of online systems for remote working, as increased numbers of staff are working from home.\n\n\"Phishing\" attacks, where people are tricked into clicking on a malicious link such as in an email, also remains a common pathway for such ransomware attempts, says the advice.\n\nMr Chichester of the NCSC says: \"The criminal targeting of the education sector, particularly at such a challenging time, is utterly reprehensible.\"\n\n\"I would strongly urge all academic institutions to take heed of our alert.\"\n\nUniversities UK says data security has had to become a priority for higher education - and that \"protections are in place to manage threats as much as possible\".\n\nThe universities body also says it is working with the NCSC to produce \"robust guidance on cyber-security\" which will be released later this academic year.", "Rhondda residents have expressed their concerns about coronavirus as the county returns to lockdown\n\nThere is a \"high risk\" that a spike in covid cases will lead to more hospital admissions and deaths in locked down areas of Wales, it has been warned.\n\nDr Robin Howe, of Public Health Wales, said older people are being infected in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT).\n\nIt comes as people in Rhondda expressed frustration at becoming the second area in Wales to return to lockdown after Caerphilly on Thursday.\n\nStrict rules came into force at 18:00 BST for RCT's 240,000 residents.\n\nUnder the lockdown, they will not be able to enter or leave the county without a reasonable excuse, such as travel for work or education.\n\nPeople will be banned from meeting those outside their own households indoors and pubs, bars and restaurants will have to shut by 23:00.\n\nFigures released on Thursday reveal more than half of all Covid-19 hospital admissions in Wales are in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, which covers Caerphilly and Newport, and Cwm Taf Morgannwg, which covers RCT.\n\n\"There is a high risk that with the level of cases in Caerphilly and RCT we will see increased hospital admissions,\" Dr Howe told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"And we are seeing older age groups now being infected and there is obviously a sad risk that we may be seeing deaths.\n\n\"We would expect that hospital admissions would be increasing around about now and we are perhaps starting to see that in Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, and there may be deaths in the coming days.\"\n\nOn Thursday, residents could be seen forming a long queue outside a new mobile testing centre in Abercynon.\n\nIt follows an announcement on Wednesday by Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething, who pledged up to five extra mobile testing units for Covid-19 hotspots in Wales this week.\n\nColin Edrop, who owns The Bear Inn, in Llantrisant, said of the local lockdown: \"I'm not surprised, but it is frustrating because Llantrisant has been safe enough recently and other areas in RCT have made things worse.\n\n\"Shutting at 11 doesn't make a difference in my opinion, If people are going to get drunk they'll do it regardless.\n\n\"I would rather pubs be asked to close for two or three weeks so we can sort this all out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rhondda Cynon Taf lockdown: 'It's got to happen'\n\nMr Edrop said he would be \"happy to close if asked\", but added: \"We need to be making money, so I will remain open with strict safety measures.\n\n\"We're definitely not seeing groups of youngsters in our local area, certainly not seeing that - we have a much older crowd thankfully.\n\n\"But it is a nightmare to maintain social distancing, people have forgotten about social distancing.\"\n\nThe lockdown will be reviewed by the Welsh Government in two weeks' time\n\nMum-of-two Victoria Vaughan, from Pontypridd, said she thought the move was \"too little too late\".\n\n\"I'm not surprised that a local lockdown is coming, as I think the guidance over the past few weeks has been too relaxed and people have been complacent,\" she said.\n\n\"The guidance is very unclear, there's confusion over what we can and can't do, but at the moment it's still not firm enough in my view.\"\n\nMs Vaughan said it made \"no sense\" she could not see family but could go to the pub.\n\n\"Pubs should close, that's where the problem is, the guidance needs to be black or white - at the moment it's grey,\" she said.\n\n\"I rely heavily on my mum for childcare, she lives in Cardiff. If we can't see her, that will have a detrimental impact on my ability to work from home.\"\n\nTeleri Jones, who owns The Old Library Cafe in Porth, welcomed the announcement despite it being \"bad news for business\".\n\nShe said she had noticed a change in people's behaviour recently: \"People have been worrying, especially those with health issues.\n\n\"They had been staying away, then gradually we saw them come back. But last week was much quieter, and with all the talk on the news I can see it being even quieter this week.\"\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said some people not following Covid-19 guidelines had led to the spike.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"There must be some people who think they have got some kind of magic cloak of invisibility which means the virus won't touch them or anyone they know or love... and we've got some people who go into anarchy mode and decided they're going to do whatever they want to do.\n\n\"If the UK government doesn't get on top of this testing issue we will lose control of the virus… if we lose control then we lose control of the NHS... as we go into the winter that could be very dangerous.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru councillor for Ystrad, Elyn Stephens, said there was an \"overwhelming sense of frustration with the pubs remaining open\".\n\nPeople formed a long queue at the new Abercynon mobile testing unit on Thursday\n\nHe said some residents were now in their second lockdown after being flooded four times this year.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there had been a \"rapid\" rise in cases in RCT, with 82.1 infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe latest equivalent figure across Wales was 21.4 per 100,000.\n\nWednesday's rate of positive tests for the past week in RCT was 5.1% - the highest in Wales. Mr Gething previously warned a positive rate of 4% across Wales would trigger a national lockdown.\n\nFigures on Wednesday showed RCT's case rate had almost caught up with Caerphilly, which had 83.4 per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe restrictions have been imposed despite people in RCT having been asked to take extra precautions last week.\n\nA review of the lockdown will be held in two weeks.", "Richard Morris's family said they were \"devastated by his loss\"\n\nThe family of a British high commissioner found dead in a Hampshire forest have said they are \"devastated by his loss\".\n\nRichard Morris, from Bentley, was last seen running in Alton in the county on 6 May.\n\nHampshire Constabulary has formally identified a body found in Alice Holt Forest on 31 August as Mr Morris.\n\nIn a statement relatives described him as \"a loving and loyal husband, father, son and brother\".\n\nThey went on to say he was \"described as funny, kind and smart by his diplomatic colleagues\" and had worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) \"with professionalism and integrity for nearly 30 years\".\n\n\"His empathy and kindness to those around him earned him respect wherever he went, evidenced by the messages of love, friendship and support we have received from all over the world,\" they said.\n\nPolice said 50 officers and volunteers took part in initial searches of Alice Holt Forest\n\nFather-of-three Mr Morris, originally from Worcestershire, was the UK ambassador to Nepal for four years until 2019.\n\nBefore his disappearance he was appointed British High Commissioner to Fiji.\n\nMr Morris had also worked as head of the Pacific department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), consul general in Sydney as well as director general of trade and investment in Australasia.\n\nPolice previously said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead, Northumberland and the County Durham council area are affected by the new restrictions\n\nAlmost two million people in north-east England will be banned from meeting other households as Covid cases rise.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock announced the temporary restrictions will be in place from midnight due to \"concerning rates of infection\".\n\nThe rules affect Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and the County Durham council area.\n\n\"The data says that we must act now,\" Mr Hancock told the House of Commons.\n\nHe said Sunderland currently had an infection rate of 103 cases per 100,000 people. In South Tyneside and Gateshead the latest published rates were 93.4 and 83.6 respectively.\n\nThe government was taking \"swift action\" after concerns were raised by the councils covering the affected areas, he said.\n\nThe restrictions, which will be reviewed weekly, also mean restaurants will only be able to offer table service and restaurants, bars and pubs will have to shut between 22:00 BST and 05:00.\n\nThe latest measures come as figures showed people using community coronavirus testing centres in England were waiting longer for their results.\n\nIn Sunderland, drivers queued outside a Covid test centre only to eventually find it was empty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'These decisions have a real impact': Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms local lockdown in north-east England.\n\nNewcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said the temporary measures would hopefully \"head off the potential of any further damaging full lockdown across the region\".\n\n\"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas - in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Forbes said, as of 17:00 BST, the regulations still had not been published despite being announced at 11:30 and coming into effect at midnight.\n\n\"The longer this goes on the greater the info vacuum and the more alarmed people are getting. We need clarity, now,\" he said.\n\nDiscussions between the council and the government were still continuing on Thursday over whether to exclude grandparents helping with childcare from the restrictions.\n\nMr Forbes tweeted the authority had \"specifically\" asked for this to be allowed and was \"hoping\" for government confirmation.\n\nMr Forbes said council leaders had requested additional funding for policing to enforce the measures, as well as additional local testing facilities.\n\nCounty Durham's director of public health Amanda Healy said: \"If we do want to be able to continue to go to work to schools, to keep in contact with relatives but stop an increase in the cases we have seen, we are really urging people to adhere to the guidance coming out today.\"\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"concerning rates of infection in the North East\"\n\nMaking sense of positive cases is fraught with difficulties. In recent weeks, the North East has seen a marked increase in the amount of testing being done.\n\nThat in itself will lead to an increase in infection being detected. The more you look for it, the more you are likely to find.\n\nBut the rise in the North East is more than just that.\n\nWe can see from the community testing done in the early part of September the proportion of tests returning a positive result has also gone up.\n\nBut that is the case for much of the country.\n\nWhat marks the North East out is the fact positive cases in hospitals have also started rising.\n\nThat is the case in the North West and Yorkshire and Humber too and helps to explain why restrictions have been targeted in these places.\n\nPubs in the affected areas in the North East will be made to shut at 22:00 BST\n\nGateshead Council leader Martin Gannon said: \"Nobody welcomes these things but I would think the vast majority of people recognise these are extremely difficult times and we all need to act and pull together.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he knew these \"decisions have a real impact on families, on businesses and on local communities and I can tell everyone affected that we do not take these decisions lightly\".\n\nShadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth called for more testing capacity to be available in areas where there were tightened restrictions.\n\nHe said it was urgent the government \"fixes testing, fixes tracing\" or we face a \"very bleak winter indeed\".\n\nSmall businesses broadly welcomed the approach but called for more support to adapt to the new measures.\n\nMr Hancock said the people of the North East would \"come together\" to beat the virus\n\nSimon Hanson, North East development manager for the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"absolutely critical\" that small and micro businesses were given grant support quickly to help them adapt and provide cashflow.\n\nHowever, the owner of The Patricia restaurant in Jesmond described the new measures as a \"bit of a nightmare\".\n\nNick Greaves said it would lose one of its later sittings if it shut at 22:00 and the virus \"is still as dangerous before 10pm as it is afterwards\".\n\n\"We have come so far to get back on our feet and now we are back down in this saga again,\" he said.\n\n\"It could even be a little bit dangerous with people going to the pub, necking as much as they can and then they end up drunk and are like 'let's go to a house or something'.\"\n\nWhile the rates of new coronavirus infections in the affected parts of the north-east England are lower than those in places like Bolton, this is not a simply a case of rankings.\n\nRates of new infections in areas like South Tyneside and Sunderland are at their highest since spring and have been climbing for the past few weeks.\n\nOther areas affected by the new restrictions, such as Northumberland, have much lower rates per 100,000 population but it is clear that infections have been climbing there too.\n\nNorthumberland's rate of 29.8 cases per 100,000 in the week to 14 September is lower than some of the other areas now affected by restrictions.\n\nHowever, when the government imposed tighter restrictions on Greater Manchester, the east of Lancashire and West Yorkshire in the summer, areas with lower rates were also included.\n\nAt the time, Wigan in Greater Manchester and Rossendale in Lancashire were not seeing the same rates of infection as their neighbouring boroughs and districts, but Public Health England included them because they were \"part of an area in which overall infection rates are high, with household transmission a key pathway\".\n\nIt will be the same for Northumberland, with people travelling to and from work in other areas of the North East.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Sony has matched the price of the forthcoming flagship PlayStation 5 to that of Microsoft's Xbox Series X.\n\nLast time round, the PS4 significantly undercut the Xbox One at launch.\n\nSony also confirmed the PS5's \"digital edition\" - which does not have a disc drive - would cost about 40% more than the low-end Xbox Series S.\n\nBoth PS5 consoles are set to be released on 19 November in the UK, and 12 November in the US, Japan and Australia.\n\nThat puts them slightly later than Microsoft's 10 November launch date.\n\nMarvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be one of the PS5's exclusive titles\n\nSony was the clear leader in the previous generation of the so-called console wars.\n\nThe various PlayStation 4 consoles outsold the Xbox One range by a factor of more than two to one.\n\nBut the £449/$500/€500 cost of the Japanese firm's new top-end machine and £360/$400/€400 price of the digital edition means it may be a closer battle this time, at least to begin with.\n\nSome industry-watchers believe Microsoft's combination of a £250 price for the XBox Series S and the value offered by the Xbox Game Pass subscription service could give the US firm an advantage.\n\nMicrosoft offers members its first-party blockbuster games at launch in its games library, unlike Sony's existing PlayStation Now services, which is limited to older major releases.\n\nSony's decision to price some of its first PS5 releases at £70 - including the \"ultimate edition\" of a new Spider-Man game, and Demon's Souls - represents a rise, and will also have to be taken into consideration.\n\nIt showed off a new subscription service called the PlayStation Plus Collection for the PS5.\n\nPS5 owners will be able to play the PS4's God of War and are being promised a sequel of their own\n\nBut it appeared to focus on the PS4's greatest hits - including Last of Us Remastered, God of War and Bloodborne - rather than any of the PS5's forthcoming releases.\n\n\"Microsoft has a really appealing offering with the Xbox Series S pricing at just £250, and Sony doesn't really have an answer to that for people who just want the cheapest possible entry point to next-generation gaming,\" video games journalist Laura Dale told the BBC.\n\n\"However, people who want to play any of Sony's first-party franchises are unlikely to be swayed to Xbox just because it's cheaper.\"\n\nOne key difference between the two companies' strategies is that the Xbox Series S delivers lower-resolution graphics than the Series X because it has less powerful components, while Sony has opted only to remove the Blu-ray drive from its entry-level machine.\n\nOn that basis, its marketers may still argue it provides a better-value way to experience the full power of what next-generation games can deliver.\n\nThe trailer for the new Final Fantasy game said it would only be released on the PS5 and PCs\n\nEven so, it is likely Sony will instead focus its appeal on the draw of its \"console exclusive\" titles.\n\nTo that end, during its latest virtual event it showed trailers and gameplay for:\n\nSony also teased its forthcoming God of War sequel Ragnarok, which it said would be released next year, but only showed off an animated logo.\n\n\"It is possible that PS5 will have launched three console-exclusive titles before Xbox Series X manages to launch its first - Halo Infinite, with no date in 2021 specified as of yet,\" said Louise Shorthouse, a games analyst at Omdia.\n\n\"Consumers also tend to stick with the same console brands across generations, so Sony is in an incredibly strong position.\"\n\nMany of the games on show had been previewed at an earlier event in June.\n\nHogwarts Legacy is an open-world game set more than 100 years before Harry Potter was born\n\nBut there was also a first look at the much anticipated Harry Potter spin-off Hogwarts Legacy. The role-playing game will be a cross-platform release in 2021.\n\n\"The two higher-spec consoles are close to each other in terms of specification - the Xbox has more storage, but the PS5's is slightly faster,\" said Nicky Danino, a gaming expert at the University of Central Lancashire.\n\n\"But there are still reasons why people will pick a specific console. What platform your friends play on, for example, is highly influential.\"\n\nIt looks like Sony is almost trolling arch-rival Microsoft by matching the PS5's price to that of the Xbox Series X.\n\nThe gambit will have surprised many industry observers.\n\nXbox felt forced to reveal its prices last week following a leak. And this seemed to gift PlayStation a second-mover advantage.\n\nBut when I spoke to PlayStation's chief executive Jim Ryan, he was adamant that the PS5's price points had been set since the beginning of the year. Likewise, he said, today's announcement had been in his diary for some time.\n\nOn paper the Xbox Series X is the more powerful machine.\n\nBut PlayStation has a solid line-up of platform-exclusive titles.\n\nAnd the delay to Halo Infinite - after fans complained that footage shown earlier in the year was underwhelming - has been a big blow to Microsoft's original launch plans.\n\nBut is the PS5 fighting the last generation's console war?\n\nXbox has a compelling offer with its Game Pass Ultimate subscription service. So even if Xbox doesn't sell as many physical consoles as PlayStation, it may still prove to be at least as profitable.\n\nWhen I questioned Mr Ryan about the possibility of a similar service, he said PlayStation was about big blockbuster games that cost a lot to make, so a similar subscription service model would not make financial sense.\n\nWe will find out whether he sticks to that strategy in 2021 or beyond once supply meets demand.", "There has been a surge in reports of so-called revenge porn this year, with campaigners saying the problem has been exacerbated by lockdown.\n\nAround 2,050 reports were made to a government-funded helpline, a 22% rise from last year.\n\nAs cases have remained high despite coronavirus restrictions easing, those that run the service fear this is \"the new normal\".\n\nSharing pornography without consent is illegal in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Bullock talks about how her ex-boyfriend shared naked pictures of her\n\nRecent research by domestic violence charity Refuge found that one in seven young women has received threats that intimate photos will be shared without their consent.\n\nThere have been more cases of non-consensual pornography reported to a dedicated UK helpline so far this year than in all of 2019.\n\nAround two-thirds of cases reported to the helpline involve women.\n\nHelpline manager Sophie Mortimer said the sustained rise is evidence of behaviour triggered by the lockdown, and greater awareness of the crime and support.\n\nThe helpline is run by the charity South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL), part of the UK Safer Internet Centre.\n\nThe charity has helped remove 22,515 images this year - 94% of those reported by victims.\n\nDavid Wright, director of the UK Safer Internet Centre, said: \"The lockdown produced an extreme set of circumstances which are bringing a lot of problems.\n\n\"What we are seeing here, however, suggests something more long-term has happened which could mean we will be busier than ever before. It's worrying to think this could be the new normal.\"\n\nResearch by domestic violence charity Women's Aid found that more than 60% of survivors living with their abuser reported that the abuse they experienced got worse during the pandemic.\n\nCampaign and policy manager Lucy Hadley said: \"Disclosing private sexual images - or threatening to do so - is a common form of abuse, and is particularly harming young women.\"\n\n\"Image based forms of abuse - such as so-called revenge porn - must be taken just as seriously as abuse in 'real life',\" she added.\n\nFolami Prehaye's former partner posted explicit pictures of her online in 2014.\n\nHe was given a six-month suspended sentence for harassment and distributing indecent images.\n\nMiss Prehaye founded the website Victims of Internet Crime: Speak Out! to provide ongoing emotional support for victims of these kinds of offences.\n\nShe said: \"There is no wonder that there has been an increase of cases during lockdown as more and more people have been forced to build relationships online.\n\n\"The problem has always been there, its just that lockdown made it more apparent, and an easier place for predatory sexual exploitation.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse or violence, the following organisations may be able to help.", "John Lewis has confirmed that staff will not receive a bonus for the first time since 1953 after it was hit by lockdown store closures.\n\nThe retailer - which also owns Waitrose - posted a huge £635m pre-tax loss for the six months to 25 July after higher costs offset a 1% rise in sales.\n\nIts chairwoman told staff on Thursday the announcement \"will come as a blow\".\n\nEven before Covid-19 hit, the chain had warned it might not pay the usual staff bonus as competition ate into profits.\n\nThe group's first-half loss was £635m once exceptional items were taken into account, including a £470m write-down in the value of its stores.\n\nExcluding those one-off costs, the group's loss in those six months stood at £55m.\n\nThe last time that the chain, which operates as a partnership, decided not to pay a bonus to its staff was in the aftermath of World War Two.\n\nChairwoman Dame Sharon White said: \"We came through then to be even stronger and we will do so again.\"\n\nShe added: \"I know this will come as a blow to partners who have worked so hard this year. The decision in no way detracts from the commitment and dedication that you have shown.\"\n\nThe payment of bonuses will only resume once annual profits rise to above £150m and debt falls, she said.\n\nThe retailer said store closures during lockdown and customers buying less profitable items, such as toilet paper or laptops, had hit trade.\n\nIt estimated that in its first half, John Lewis shops saw a £200m drop in sales, while the wider group saw additional coronavirus-related costs total about £50m.\n\nBut in a statement, it said that its Waitrose supermarkets had seen \"a return to the weekly shop\", with like-for-like sales up 10% year-on-year.\n\nJohn Lewis has had a whopping half-year loss. But it was mainly down to some big one off costs, including a £470m impairment charge against the value of its department stores, reflecting the fact that they don't play as big a role as they used to.\n\nStores have a halo effect in boosting online sales. Many shoppers browse before going home and ordering online. Before the crisis, John Lewis thought its department stores helped generate around £6 of every £10 spent online. John Lewis now thinks that figure is nearer £3.\n\nEight John Lewis stores have closed, costing the business another £105m.\n\nThese results lay bare the impact of the pandemic. But the the company says this is better than what it expected in April. John Lewis makes most of its profits in the second half of the year. Christmas is key. With the outcome still very uncertain, it now thinks the most likely outcome is a \"small loss or small profit\" for the full year.\n\nDame Sharon said the pandemic had brought forward changes in consumer shopping habits \"which might have taken five years into five months\".\n\nAt John Lewis stores, online sales surged by 73% in the six months to 25 July, \"helping to offset the impact of shop closures\". They now account for more than 60% of sales overall for the department store chain, up from 40% before the pandemic hit.\n\nThe group added that a shift towards increased home working had affected people's purchases, with increased sales of tablets and TVs, while sales of trousers had declined.\n\nThe chain also said that Waitrose was now delivering about 170,000 weekly food orders - up from 60,000 pre-lockdown - and the demand had risen since its partnership with online grocer Ocado ended in August.\n\nWaitrose has seen a \"return to the weekly shop\", the John Lewis group said\n\nHaving struggled to manage competition from online rivals and slower consumer spending, the group has, however, recently announced plans to shut stores.\n\nIn July, it said it would close eight John Lewis stores, in a move which put 1,300 jobs at risk. And this week it announced it would close four of its Waitrose supermarkets, with the loss of 124 jobs.\n\nIt also recently said it was reviewing its famous \"never knowingly undersold\" price pledge, which has been in place since 1925. The commitment never applied to sales from internet-only retailers, which have lower costs and often undercut the High Street on price.\n\nLooking ahead, Dame Sharon said that the outlook for the second half was \"clearly uncertain\", given the wider coronavirus crisis.\n\nShe also emphasised that the Christmas trading period would be \"particularly important to profits\" for the group.\n\nOn Thursday, John Lewis also confirmed that it had opened its Christmas shop early this year. Sales of Christmas trees and baubles were both \"markedly\" up on last year, it said.", "Nearly two in three workers are now commuting again, as some employers ask their staff to return to offices during the pandemic.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 62% of adult workers reported travelling to work last week.\n\nThat compares with 36% in late May, soon after the ONS began compiling the figures during lockdown.\n\nThe government has been encouraging workers to return to offices to help revive city centres.\n\nWhile the proportion of people travelling to work has increased, the ONS said 10% of the workforce remained on furlough leave.\n\nIt added that 20% of workers continued to do so exclusively from home.\n\nThe commuter data includes people who may be travelling to work exclusively, or they may be doing a mixture of commuting and working from home, the ONS said.\n\nBusiness groups have warned city centres could become \"ghost towns\" if more staff do not return, damaging small businesses that rely on passing trade from office workers.\n\nHowever, new research released on Thursday by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests that working from home could be a permanent fixture for many, following the pandemic.\n\nAccording to the survey of 1,000 employers, 37% believe staff will regularly avoid the journey into the office following Covid-19 - up from just 18% before the pandemic.\n\nCIPD chief executive Peter Cheese said: \"The step-change shift to home working to adapt to lockdowns has taught us all a lot about how we can be flexible in ways of working in the future.\n\n\"Employers have learnt that, if supported and managed properly, home working can be as productive and innovative as office working and we can give more opportunity for people to benefit from better work-life balance.\"\n\nHowever, he said it did not suit everyone and that organisations would have to design working arrangements around people's needs while \"also meeting the needs of the business\".\n\nThe ONS also found that about one in 10 workers are still furloughed under the government's job retention scheme. Under the scheme, workers placed on leave have been able to receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThat level is likely to fall in coming weeks as the government has started to scale back the amount of money it pays out to furloughed workers.\n\nCompanies who want to furlough their staff have had to pick up at least 10% of the bill since the beginning of September. In October, they will have to pay 20%.\n\nAlmost 10 million workers have been furloughed since March, but the scheme is set to end entirely on 31 October.", "Footballer Lionel Messi can register his name as a trademark after a nine-year legal battle, the EU's top court has ruled.\n\nThe European Court of Justice dismissed an appeal from Spanish cycling company Massi and the EU's intellectual property office, EUIPO.\n\nThe Barcelona footballer first applied to trademark his surname as a sportswear brand in 2011.\n\nBut Massi argued the similarity between their logos would cause confusion.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that the star player's reputation could be taken into account when weighing up whether the public would be able to tell the difference between the two brands.\n\nIn doing so, it upheld a ruling by the EU's General Court in 2018 that the footballer was too well known for confusion to arise.\n\nMassi, which sells cycle clothing and equipment, was successful in its initial challenge to the Barcelona striker's application. But it lost out when Lionel Messi brought an appeal to the General Court, which ruled in his favour.\n\nMessi, 33, who wears the number 10 shirt, has been crowned world football player of the year a record six times and is the world's highest-paid soccer player, according to Forbes. It puts his total earnings for 2020 at $126m (£97m).\n\nIn August, he made headlines by sending a fax to his club declaring his intention to leave.\n\nBut when Barcelona responded by insisting that any team that took him on would have to honour a €700m (£624m) release clause, he changed his mind, saying he did not want to face \"the club I love\" in court.", "New Zealand is in its deepest recession in decades, following strict measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic which were widely praised.\n\nThe country's GDP shrank by 12.2% between April and June as the lockdown and border closures hit.\n\nIt is New Zealand's first recession since the global financial crisis and its worst since 1987, when the current system of measurement began.\n\nBut the government hopes its pandemic response will lead to a quick recovery.\n\nThe nation of nearly five million was briefly declared virus free, and although it still has a handful of cases, it has only had 25 deaths.\n\nThe economy is likely to be a key issue in next month's election, which was delayed after an unexpected spike in Covid-19 cases in August.\n\nStats NZ spokesman Paul Pascoe said the measures implemented since 19 March have had a huge impact of some sectors of the economy.\n\n\"Industries like retail, accommodation and restaurants, and transport saw significant declines in production because they were most directly affected by the international travel ban and strict nationwide lockdown,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern's government has said the success in suppressing the virus is likely to help recovery prospects.\n\nFinance Minister Grant Robertson said the GDP numbers were better than expected, and suggested a strong recovery ahead.\n\n\"Going hard and early means that we can come back faster and stronger,\" he said.\n\nSome economists are also predicting a swift recovery, because of New Zealand's strong response to the virus.\n\n\"We expect the June quarter's record-breaking GDP decline to be followed by a record-breaking rise in the September quarter,\" said Westpac Senior Economist Michael Gordon.\n\nMs Ardern said she backs the economy's ability to rebound.\n\n\"I think one of the key questions here is not just about what's happened over that June quarter in terms of the effect of lockdown. It's actually about the rebound - and I back New Zealand's rebound,\" she said.\n\nMs Ardern said activity is already picking up as the country has been able to open up a lot more quickly compared with other nations.\n\n\"Even with some of the more recent restrictions, we've seen a return to activity, whereas compared to Australia we are in a much better position,\" she added.\n\nHowever Treasury forecasts released yesterday suggested massive debt and continuing disruptions are likely to delay a full recovery.\n\nThe opposition National party accused the government of a lack of pragmatism that made the impact worse than it needed to be.\n\nNew Zealand recorded a steeper drop than neighbouring Australia, where the lockdown was less severe.\n\nBut the state of Victoria has faced a second lockdown, which is likely to weigh on Australia's economic recovery.", "Almost 17,000 people are taking part in the virtual event\n\nAlmost 17,000 people will be taking part in a virtual Great North Run across 57 countries and six continents, organisers have said.\n\nThe official event was cancelled because of coronavirus and a virtual run is taking its place later with a free app to accompany runners.\n\nRun founder Brendan Foster said the aim was to recoup money for charities.\n\nMore than 60,000 runners were due to take part in the half-marathon in what would have been its 40th year.\n\nBig pink dress man Colin Burgin-Plews will walk around South Shields in his costume to raise money for charity\n\nMr Foster said: \"This year has been testing for everyone so we had to re-imagine the event and take it out to the people.\n\n\"At least we will be able to keep people active and that's our mission.\n\n\"Thousands of charities have lost their income in recent times and we want to address this.\n\n\"Through the app those taking part can experience the sights and sounds of previous runs and hear encouraging words from the likes of Ant and Dec and Mo Farah.\"\n\nHe said he would do the run setting off from Bamburgh Castle and along the Northumberland coast taking breaks and walking part of the way.\n\nFounder Brendan Foster said participants will be \"together in spirit\"\n\nHe added: \"I want to urge people to take their time and experience the day on the app and wherever you are, there are thousands of others from every postcode in the UK.\n\n\"We won't be physically together but we will be in spirit.\"\n\nOrganisers said they had not taken the decision to cancel the run, from Newcastle to South Shields, lightly and participants could apply for refunds or transfer their entry to next year.\n\nBig pink dress man Colin Burgin-Plews, who has raised thousands of pounds for charity, was due to take part but will now walk roughly 13 miles around South Shields in his costume.\n\nHe is raising money for St Benedict's Hospice in Sunderland and the Kayaks club for children and young adults in South Tyneside.\n\nHe said: \"I'm going to set off in the morning - no idea what route I'll take. Hopefully I'll meet people on the way socially-distancing obviously.\n\n\"I feel good about it, but it's going to be weird and different not seeing thousands of people.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the letter sent to his neighbours, the party host said the \"foolish gathering\" was a \"major lapse of judgement\"\n\nA student who was fined £10,000 for an illegal house party of more than 50 people has apologised.\n\nThe 19-year-old was issued with the fixed penalty notice after ignoring warnings to shut down the party at his Nottingham home on Friday night.\n\nIn a letter sent to his neighbours, he said the \"foolish gathering\" was a \"major lapse of judgement\".\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the group was breaking social distancing rules and the fine should serve as a warning.\n\nIt said about 50 people found at the address on Harlaxton Drive, in Lenton, refused to leave and the host was issued with the fine.\n\nAbout 50 people were found at an address on Harlaxton Drive, in Lenton\n\nThe party host wrote in the letter that friends were hoping to have a party of 25 people - adhering to Covid-19 restrictions - to celebrate two housemates recently turning 21.\n\n\"However, it quickly became out of hand,\" he said.\n\n\"It was never our intention to disrupt your evening. It was a major lapse in judgement on our end.\n\n\"We are eager to make amends.\"\n\nThe force said it used its full powers to deal with the \"reckless\" organiser who \"deliberately flouted\" the rules.\n\nBut one neighbour told the BBC the £10,000 fine was \"absolutely ridiculous... fine the guys, but we were all students once\".\n\nAnother resident said there had been large student parties in the Lenton area during the coronavirus pandemic and hoped lessons had been learned.\n\nChief Constable Craig Guildford said fines were issued as a last resort\n\nChief Constable Craig Guildford said: \"The individual had their chance and that chance wasn't heeded.\n\n\"In extremes, if people aren't following the rules, after we've tried our best... we will enforce and issue fines as a last resort.\"\n\nPeople were warned not to treat this weekend as a \"party\" after one scientist warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.\n\nThe new \"rule of six\" coronavirus restrictions, limiting gatherings to six people indoors and outdoors in England, come into force on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to the M5 between Gloucester and Tewkesbury at about 05:20 BST\n\nA stretch of the M5 has been closed in Gloucestershire after a serious crash involving several vehicles.\n\nPolice were called at about 05:20 BST following reports of a Ford Fiesta leaving the northbound carriageway between junctions 9 and 11.\n\nPolice said as a lorry parked behind the Fiesta to offer help, a second lorry crashed into the first one.\n\nHighways England (HE) reported a vehicle on fire. Details of any casualties were not disclosed.\n\nRay Knight's farm is about two miles from the M5 and he said he heard a \"great big bang\" before 06:00 BST\n\nFarmer Ray Knight, who lives near to the M5, said he heard \"a great big bang\" at about 05:40 BST when he was feeding his cattle.\n\n\"I looked outside, didn't know what it was so carried on as normal and then a few minutes later, there was a second one.\"\n\nMr Knight said his son said \"there's something strange going on\" and mentioned \"black smoke billowing up in the distance\".\n\n\"Ten minutes later we heard a third one [bang] and by that point you could see the black smoke and there was a glow in the sky, which I presume was a fire,\" Mr Knight added.\n\nThe crash happened on a stretch of the motorway near Tewkesbury and Gloucester.\n\nBoth carriageways between junctions 9 and 11 were affected.\n\nHE said the southbound lanes between junctions 9 and 11 had reopened \"with a lane-three closure past the scene\". It asked drivers to \"please approach with care\".\n\nIt added the northbound lanes were expected to remain closed until \"at least 6am\" on Monday.\n\nIt said the surface of the road had been \"extensively damaged and must be resurfaced\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful has been hit by another landslide\n\nA trunk road through Argyll has been closed by a \"significant landslide\" for the second time in six weeks.\n\nThe A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful was covered in earth and debris as 75mm (3in) of rain fell in 24 hours.\n\nRoad operator Bear Scotland said the A83 and the nearby old military road would remain closed on Sunday night.\n\nIt added that the landslide had continued through the day and engineers were unable to conclude safety assessments.\n\nThe route only reopened on Monday following a 10,000 tonne landslide at the beginning of August.\n\nAbout 1,000 tonne of debris is thought to have moved down the hillside on Sunday morning, according to Bear Scotland.\n\nThe roads firm said it happened at the same place as the earlier landslide.\n\nMuch of it was \"caught\" in temporary mitigation measures including a pit and a rockfall barrier.\n\nEddie Ross, the road operator's north west representative, said: \"This is another major landslide event and the on-going nature of it and the continued heavy rain has meant we are unable to conclude a full safety assessment.\"\n\nHe said the roads have been closed because a \"safety-first approach\" was required.\n\nThe closures mean motorists will have to follow a 59-mile (95km) diversion.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for rain is in place across parts of the west of Scotland until midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said 75mm (3in) of rain fell in 24 hours at the Rest and Be Thankful over the weekend.\n\nThere were similar levels of rainfall across the country and a series of flood warnings and alerts were in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the extent of a landslip at the A83 Rest and Be Thankful\n\nSepa duty flood manager Mark Franklin said Scotland had been \"battered\" by another weekend of wet weather and there had been flooding in the west, central, north of and south of Scotland.\n\n\"Whilst Sunday sees an improving picture for central and southern Scotland, we'll see continued heavy rainfall across the day for the north west,\" he added.\n\n\"This is likely to result in further localised flooding of land and roads, as well as some transport disruption before improving on Monday.\n\n\"People living, working and travelling in these areas are advised to ensure they have signed up to Floodline and are prepared to take action to protect property.\"", "The annual Strictly Come Dancing special in Blackpool will not take place this year, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nA BBC spokesman said while contestants would not physically go to Blackpool's Tower Ballroom in 2020, they would still be \"celebrating the iconic venue\" from Elstree studio.\n\nIt follows changes made to the show due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBeginning on 12 October, the forthcoming BBC One series will be shorter than usual.\n\nThere will be no red carpet launch show or Christmas special, either.\n\nContestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nStrictly's annual special at Blackpool, filmed in one of the country's most historic ballrooms, is seen by contestants and the professional dancers alike as one of the highlights of the series.\n\nThe show has filmed at the venue since 2004, taking regular breaks. However, since 2013 there has been a Blackpool special annually.\n\nBlackpool is renowned for being a home for ballroom dancing, having hosted the Blackpool Dance Festival since 1920. That event is taking place online this year as a result of coronavirus.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Blackpool is a milestone moment in every series of Strictly that our audience, our celebs and professional dancers look forward to.\n\n\"Whilst we'll be unable to physically go to Blackpool this series, we'll still be celebrating this iconic venue and bringing it to life from our studio in Elstree.\"\n\nIt comes after former home secretary Jacqui Smith was confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant for 2020.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThis year, fans have been asked to apply for tickets for the live shows in groups of four so they can attend as a family bubble.\n\nThey will be placed at socially distanced cabaret-style tables and in balcony seating.\n\nSuccessful applicants have also been asked to provide their own plain black face coverings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"What we can't have... is the EU disrupting or putting at threat the integrity of the UK\"\n\nMichael Gove has defended plans to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement as a means of protecting the \"integrity\" of the UK.\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister said the UK was being \"generous\" with the EU over the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe EU has threatened legal action over the Internal Market Bill, which ministers say will break international law in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson is urging Tory MPs to back it, after some raised concerns.\n\nThe bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf this became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the Commons the bill, which would go against the Withdrawal Agreement signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nBut Mr Gove said the attorney general had said the proposal would be consistent with the rule of law - and that it was important to have an \"insurance policy\".\n\nHe insisted the government was being \"proportionate and generous\" in its approach to the EU talks.\n\nMr Gove said: \"These steps are a safety net, they're a long-stop in the event, which I don't believe will come about but we do need to be ready for, that the EU follow through on what some have said they might do which is, in effect, to separate Northern Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nWhile admitting it was a \"crunch moment\", he insisted \"we have got the support of our own MPs\".\n\nThe EU and UK have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks and the European Parliament says will \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nBoris Johnson said he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\"\n\nOn Friday Mr Johnson had a Zoom call with about 250 of his MPs, in which he said the party could not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call. He is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAnd on Saturday, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood - who is chairman of the Defence Select Committee - also voiced his concern.\n\n\"I don't want us to lose our way, to lose our reputation as a force for good, as an exemplar holding up the international rule of law,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm afraid that's where I find myself not wishing to support this particular bill, because it does mean that we would be challenging unilaterally a Treaty. And that goes against the principle of everything we stand for.\"\n\nFormer Conservative party leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major are also among senior figures urging Mr Johnson to think again.\n\nBoth Ireland and the EU have warned that Mr Johnson's plans pose a serious risk to the peace process rather than protecting the Good Friday Agreement, as the government claims.\n\nWriting that it had become clear there might be a \"serious misunderstanding\" between the UK and EU over the Withdrawal Agreement, Mr Johnson said the UK must be protected from what he called a \"disaster\" of the EU being able to \"carve up our country\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nBut in a column in the Daily Telegraph, he accused the EU of adopting an \"extreme\" interpretation of the Northern Ireland Protocol to impose \"a full-scale trade border down the Irish Sea\" that could stop the transport of food from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be \"irrational\" not to allow the transportation of food in such a way, which would happen if the UK was not granted third-country listing. Such a listing is needed for the export of food.", "Former tennis star Barker has hosted the show for 24 years\n\nA Question of Sport host Sue Barker is leaving the BBC quiz show after 24 years, as part of a major shake-up at the programme.\n\nThe former professional tennis player said she was \"sad to say goodbye\" to her \"dream job\".\n\nTeam captains Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell will also depart the long-running sports quiz show.\n\nTheir final series together will be broadcast next year. The new line-up is yet to be announced.\n\nBarker, 64, who took over as presenter from commentator David Coleman, said: \"I've absolutely loved my 24 years fronting A Question of Sport, it's been my dream job.\n\n\"But I understand the BBC want to take the show in a new direction and I'm sad to say goodbye.\"\n\nEx-England rugby player Dawson, 47, and former England international cricketer Tufnell, 54, have led their teams on the show for 16 and 12 years respectively.\n\nThey were recording the new series together as recently as a week ago, according to a post on Tufnell's social media.\n\nTufnell wrote on Twitter that it had been a \"great part of life\" and that he was \"going to miss it hugely\" as he thanked fans for their messages.\n\nDawson also said he would miss the show \"immensely\" but admitted he did not know yet how to respond to the news.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"We would like to thank Sue for her enormous contribution as the show's longest reigning host over the last 24 years, and Matt and Phil for their excellent team captaincy.\"\n\n\"Together they have ensured A Question of Sport remains a firm favourite with the BBC One audience.\"\n\nThe first episode was broadcast on 5 January 1970 and the series has only had three hosts in the last 50 years - David Vine, David Coleman and Sue Barker.\n\nOver 3,000 different sports stars have appeared on the programme over the years, including Jessica Ennis Hill, Chris Hoy, Anthony Joshua, Sebastian Coe and Tanni Grey-Thompson.", "Trials of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will resume after being paused due to a reported side effect in a patient in the UK.\n\nOn Tuesday, AstraZeneca said the studies were being paused while it investigated whether the adverse reaction was linked with the vaccine.\n\nBut on Saturday, the university said it had been deemed safe to continue.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the news that the trials would resume.\n\n\"This pause shows we will always put safety first. We will back our scientists to deliver an effective vaccine as soon as safely possible,\" he added.\n\nThe university said in a statement that it was \"expected\" that \"some participants will become unwell\" in large trials such as this one.\n\nIt added that the studies could now resume following the recommendations of an independent safety review committee and the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.\n\nIt would not disclose information about the patient's illness for confidentiality reasons, but the New York Times reported that a volunteer in the UK trial had been diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord and can be caused by viral infections.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says nearly 180 vaccine candidates are being tested around the world but none has yet completed clinical trials.\n\nHopes have been high that the vaccine might be one of the first to come on the market, following successful phase 1 and 2 testing.\n\nIts move to Phase 3 testing in recent weeks has involved some 30,000 participants in the US as well as in the UK, Brazil and South Africa. Phase 3 trials in vaccines often involve thousands of participants and can last several years.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told the Downing Street press conference on Wednesday what had happened in the Oxford trial was not unusual.\n\nThe news comes after Prof Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's scientific advisory group Sage, warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control of the virus\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nOfficial figures released on Saturday showed a further 3,497 people have tested positive with the virus in the UK. It is the second day in a row that number of daily reported cases has exceeded 3,000.\n\nIt brings the overall number of confirmed cases so far to 365,174. Meanwhile, the government figures revealed that a further nine people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bring the UK death toll to 41,623.\n\nOfficial figures indicate the UK's coronavirus epidemic is growing again, after the R number - the reproduction rate of the virus - was raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March.\n\nMeanwhile, daily coronavirus cases in Scotland have reached a four-month high, according to the Scottish government's latest data.\n\nA total of 221 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since 8 May, when there were 225 positive tests.\n\nNew \"rule of six\" restrictions intended to halt the rises are due come into force on Monday.\n\nIn England indoor and outdoor gatherings of more than six people will be banned, except in certain circumstances such as for work or school. Those breaking the rules could be fined.\n\nIn Scotland, socialising will be limited to a maximum of six people inside and outside - but unlike England they must be from two households, and children under 12 are exempt.\n\nIn Wales, also from Monday, it will be illegal for more than six people from an extended household to meet indoors - but up to 30 can still meet outdoors.\n\nLocalised restrictions for parts of Northern Ireland, including Belfast and Ballymena, are to come into force on Monday, aimed at reducing contacts between people in homes in the affected areas.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove agreed fines might be necessary to ensure people self-isolate when required.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk.\"", "People in the UK must not treat this weekend as a \"party\" before the new \"rule of six\" coronavirus restrictions come into force on Monday, a police union has warned.\n\nThe Police Federation said there was a \"real risk\" that the public would \"take advantage of the current situation\".\n\nThe new rules limit gatherings to six people indoors and outdoors in England.\n\nIt comes as one scientist warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.\n\nEngland's new rule of six applies to all ages, although there are some exemptions, such as gatherings for work. Those who fail to follow the new rules can be fined by police - £100 for a first offence, doubling on each further offence up to £3,200.\n\nIn Scotland, socialising will be limited to a maximum of six people inside and outside - but unlike England they must be from two households, and children under 12 are exempt.\n\nIn Wales, also from Monday, it will be illegal for more than six people from an extended household to meet indoors - but up to 30 can still meet outdoors.\n\nIn Northern Ireland last month, meanwhile, the number of people who could gather indoors in a private home was reduced from 10 people from four households to six people from two households.\n\nWith the introduction of the new rules in England and Wales delayed until Monday, John Apter, the chairman of the Police Federation for England and Wales, said: \"There is a real risk some members of the public will take advantage of the current situation and treat this weekend as a party weekend ahead of the tighter restrictions being introduced on Monday.\n\n\"Using the current situation as an opportunity and excuse to party would be incredibly irresponsible and put pressure not only on policing, but potentially on the ambulance service and NHS.\"\n\nTim Robson, the North East's representative on the National Pubwatch scheme, said he expected police officers would strictly monitor bars over the weekend to ensure they are operating safely.\n\n\"There is an anticipation that everyone is going to have a big last binge, but people are starting to get fearful and a lot of licensed premises have already been clamped down on by the police,\" he said.\n\nMr Robson, a former police officer, said it would be up to licensees to manage their premises and break up large groups from gathering together unsafely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If the restrictions are urgent why are they waiting until Monday? Why aren't they coming in now?\"\n\nOn Saturday, the government announced there were a further 3,497 coronavirus cases in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, daily coronavirus cases have hit a four-month high, with a total of 221 people testing positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since May 8.\n\nThe virus is still at much lower levels across the UK than at the peak in April, but a study of thousands of people in England found cases are doubling every seven to eight days.\n\nProf Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"One would have to say that we're on the edge of losing control.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nIt comes as the final clinical trials for a vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, are set to resume. They were put on hold last weekend after a participant became unwell.\n\nThe AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine - in which 18,000 people from around the world are taking part - is seen as a strong contender among dozens being developed globally.\n\nMeanwhile, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the rule of six was \"well-understood\" as a public health message and had the public's support.\n\n\"As ever, the important thing is balance - eating out, seeing friends - that is fine, provided we do so in a way that is socially responsible, that's what the rule of six is about,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe added that there needed to be \"a degree of self-discipline and restriction\" in order to deal with the challenges posed by the rising number of coronavirus cases across England - and the escalating R number, which measures the rate at which the virus is transmitted.\n\nHowever, Mr Gove also conceded fines could be necessary to enforce regulations.\n\n\"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk,\" he said.\n\nThe R number has been raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March. Any number above one indicates the number of infections is increasing.\n\nAnd in addition to a general rise in cases in the community, the government's latest coronavirus surveillance report shows a sharp rise in people over the age of 85 testing positive.\n\nAsked about Prof Walport's statement that the UK was \"losing control\", Mr Gove said it was \"a warning to us all\".\n\n\"There's a range of scientific opinion but one thing on which practically every scientist is agreed is that we have seen an uptick in infection and therefore it is appropriate we take public health measures.\"\n\nIt comes after people across England told BBC News they are struggling to access coronavirus tests.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said last week that no-one should have to travel more than 75 miles for a test, after the BBC revealed some were being sent hundreds of miles away.\n\nBut some have now reported being unable to book a swab at all.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said testing capacity was targeted at the hardest-hit areas.", "The daily count of people testing positive for coronavirus in Scotland has risen for the fourth day in a row.\n\nA total of 244 tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the Scottish government.\n\nIt is the second day in a row that the figure has exceeded 200 and the highest number of confirmed cases since 6 May.\n\nHowever, there were far fewer tests being carried out at that stage of the pandemic meaning many people with the virus did not appear in the statistics.\n\nOn Saturday there were 221 cases reported - the highest daily figure since 8 May.\n\nThe latest daily figures issued by the Scottish government reveal that:\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the statistics \"underline the need for all of us to be careful and abide by public health rules\".\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 statistics have been published ahead of the introduction of new rules forbidding groups of more than six people - and then from only two separate households - meeting up either inside or outside in Scotland.\n\nChildren under 12 from the two households are not counted in \"rule of six\" which comes into force on Monday.\n\nBut more than 1.75m people in Scotland are also constrained by further restrictions following a spike in cases in the greater Glasgow area.\n\nPeople in Glasgow city, Lanarkshire, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire cannot meet other households at their own homes.\n\nThe latest figures show there were 104 new cases in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area in the last 24 hours.\n\nThere were also 62 in Lanarkshire, 25 in Lothian, 12 in the Borders and 11 in Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nThe remaining positive cases were recorded in all of the remaining mainland health board areas.\n\nMeanwhile more than 868,000 have downloaded the Protect Scotland contact tracing app.\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. Police made dozens of arrests as opposition supporters gathered for the march\n\nTens of thousands of people have been marching in the capital Minsk and other cities, in the latest of several weeks of mass protest against President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nLarge numbers of police have been deployed, blocking key areas.\n\nPolice said they arrested about 400 people ahead of and during the protests, dubbed the March of Heroes.\n\nThe protests have been triggered by a widely disputed election a month ago and subsequent brutal police crackdown.\n\nDemonstrators want Mr Lukashenko to resign after alleging widespread ballot-rigging.\n\nBut the Belarusian leader - in power for 26 years - has denied the allegations and accuses Western nations of interfering.\n\nThe 66-year-old has promised to defend Belarus.\n\nMost opposition leaders are now under arrest or in exile.\n\nIt is the fifth successive Sunday of mass protests, with about 100,000 rallying each week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonah Fisher reports from Minsk as police turn their sights on female protesters\n\nEyewitnesses said the centre of Minsk was flooded with people. They marched on the elite residential area of Drozdy, where the country's top officials including President Lukashenko live, but were blocked by police.\n\nRallies are also being held in Brest, Gomel, Mogilyev and other cities.\n\nHowever, the Interior Ministry said that as of 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT) the protests involved no more than 3,000 people across the country.\n\nMr Lukashenko has refused to make any concessions to the opposition\n\nThe ministry said arrests were made in various districts of the capital, and that those detained were carrying flags and placards \"of an insulting nature\".\n\nIn many ways Sunday's demonstration was similar to previous weeks.\n\nWhen the march was at full strength the riot police had little choice but to watch on as the protesters filled the streets and waved their red and white flags.\n\nThe now famous \"Goose for a free Belarus\" was there, a bow tie round its neck, flapping its wings and posing for selfies. Plenty of families came too, determined to enjoy the warm weather.\n\nIt's on the side streets, and in the exposed moments when people arrive and disperse in smaller groups that the security forces strike.\n\nIt's not dignified or disciplined. The police, their faces usually covered, launch crude tackles at the protesters before dragging them kicking and screaming into waiting minivans.\n\nAfter five Sundays of huge demonstrations there's still no sign of enthusiasm dwindling or that the threat of violence is stopping people from coming.\n\nVideo footage showed men in balaclavas pulling people out of the crowds gathering for the start of the march and taking them to unmarked minibuses.\n\nProtests were triggered by elections on 9 August, in which Mr Lukashenko was handed an overwhelming victory amid widespread reports of vote-rigging.\n\nViolent clashes on several nights following the poll led to thousands of arrests, and details emerged of severe beatings by police and overcrowding in detention centres.\n\nThis produced a new wave of demonstrations, with weekend rallies drawing tens of thousands.\n\nMr Lukashenko has said he may establish closer ties with Russia, his main ally.\n\nOn at least two occasions in the past few weeks, he has been photographed near his residence in Minsk carrying a gun and being surrounded by his heavily armed security personnel.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDebutants Callum Wilson and Jeff Hendrick both scored as Newcastle made a winning start to the 2020-21 Premier League season against an uninspiring West Ham.\n\nWilson, a £20m summer signing from Bournemouth, was a threat throughout as the Magpies won their opening game for the first time since 2012.\n\nSteve Bruce's side were well worth their victory despite the Hammers twice hitting the crossbar.\n\nWilson prodded in Hendrick's flick-on to open the scoring, while the Republic of Ireland midfielder, who joined on a free transfer, sealed victory with a late effort into the top-left corner.\n\nWhile Pablo Fornals and Angelo Ogbonna both hit crossbar for the hosts, too often their attacks lacked the cutting edge to trouble a resolute Newcastle defence.\n\nAnd it ensured their miserable recent starts to Premier League campaigns continued, as they became the first club to lose their opening match for the fifth consecutive season.\n\nMagpies manager Steve Bruce had said he was pleased to see owner Mike Ashley \"flex his muscles\" with the summer arrivals of Wilson and Jamal Lewis, plus free agents Ryan Fraser and Hendrick.\n\nAnd even more pleasingly for Bruce, Wilson, Lewis and Hendrick all made an immediate impression for their new employers.\n\nWilson, who appears to thrive when facing the Hammers, was undoubtedly the pick of the bunch.\n\nThe 28-year-old's pace and movement caused problems well before he scored his eighth goal in nine outings against West Ham, twice going close from Lewis deliveries from the left and teeing up Jonjo Shelvey after a surging run from his own half.\n\nHe also appeared to benefit from the freedom and flicks that Andy Carroll's robust presence provided alongside him.\n\nNewcastle had the fourth worst goal-scoring record in the top flight last term and Bruce will hope that combination can help to remedy that problem.\n\nWilson's goal was a result of his opportunism after Carroll had got across the near post to flick on Javier Manquillo's cross, and Hendrick's late right-foot shot put the seal on a fine night for Newcastle's new boys.\n\nWest Ham were bottom of the Premier League after the opening round of fixtures in each of the past three seasons.\n\nAnd despite this performance not being as humbling as their heavy defeats against both Manchester clubs and Liverpool, it did highlight the need for manager David Moyes to bring in some reinforcements.\n\nWhile they have been able to complete the permanent signing of Tomas Soucek, the Czech international has not exactly provided any fresh impetus, having spent the second half of last term on loan at the club.\n\nYoung winger Grady Diangana was controversially sold and three of the club's most expensive players, including record signing Sebastien Haller, started as substitutes.\n\nWhile Andriy Yarmolenko, Felipe Anderson and Haller were all brought off the bench, there was little suggestion that the Hammers, who only managed three shots on target, were going to mount a comeback.\n\n'Callum will give us something different' - what they said\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes speaking to BBC MOTD: \"I think you are always trying to improve the squad but that wasn't the reason we lost tonight. We have to analyse that.\n\n\"We had a good pre-season, we were feeling good after finishing the season well so we were disappointed with tonight.\n\n\"We need to get better with the players we have and they can be better, undoubtedly.\"\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce told Sky Sports: \"I wouldn't say best week but when you come away from the Premier League and win 2-0 with two new signings scoring, it helps the cause.\n\n\"There was not much in it and we have a striker who scored typical striker's goal. Callum Wilson enjoys playing against West Ham and it was good to see them two get off the mark. We were worthy winners.\n\n\"We have been missing the goals, Callum will give us something different and makes the squad better. He can only help the situation.\n\n\"We have made progress, it is a long season and cannot get carried away but the last week has been a positive week for everybody, the impact the signings have made, the supporters in particular will like the look of them,\n\n\"That is certainly the best I have seen of Andy Carroll since the year he has been back. He has scored a coupe goals in pre-season and when he plays like that and he stays well, we know what sort of competitor he is.\"\n• None Newcastle United have won 10 Premier League away games against West Ham United - their joint-best such tally in the competition (10 vs Tottenham Hotspur).\n• None West Ham have lost more season openers in the Premier League than any other team in the competition's history (14).\n• None Newcastle recorded their first opening weekend victory in the Premier League since beating Tottenham Hotspur in August 2012.\n• None West Ham manager David Moyes has lost nine of his last 13 matchday one fixtures in the Premier League (W4), including his last two (also for Sunderland in 2016-17).\n• None Newcastle's Jeff Hendrick scored and assisted in a single Premier League game for the first time in his career (123rd appearance).\n• None Newcastle's Callum Wilson has scored eight goals in nine league games against West Ham, more than he has netted against any other side in his league career.\n• None West Ham midfielder Declan Rice made his 100th appearance for the club in the Premier League.\n\nWest Ham host Charlton in the second round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday (19:30 BST) before travelling to Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday, 19 September (20:00 BST).\n\nNewcastle are also in EFL Cup action on Tuesday (19:30 BST) when they welcome Blackburn to St James' Park before facing Brighton at home in their next Premier League game on Sunday, 20 September (14:00 BST)\n• None Attempt blocked. Miguel Almirón (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Javier Manquillo tries a through ball, but Joelinton is caught offside.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Aaron Cresswell tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0, Newcastle United 2. Jeff Hendrick (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Miguel Almirón.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Miguel Almirón tries a through ball, but Joelinton is caught offside.\n• None Andy Carroll (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Sébastien Haller (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Comedians try to make sense of 2020\n• None Go behind the scenes with West Ham Women", "The government has been urged to do more to get people to switch from disposable masks to reusable coverings.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said single-use surgical masks caused \"enormous\" plastic waste and that environmentally friendly alternatives must be promoted.\n\nAnd the Green Party wants ministers to push the media to show them less, to stop their use becoming \"normalised\".\n\nDisposable masks contain plastics which pollute water and can harm wildlife who eat them or become tangled in them.\n\nThe UK government said it was investigating whether personal protective equipment (PPE) could be \"reused in safe ways\".\n\nTo help prevent the spread of coronavirus, face coverings - disposable or reusable - are now mandatory on public transport, in shops and in some other enclosed spaces in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe rule only applies on public transport in Wales, but it will be extended to shops and other indoor spaces from Monday.\n\nThe latest figures for Britain from the Office for National Statistics suggested 96% of adults who had left their homes in the past week had worn a face covering.\n\nThe official guidance for England is to wear a reusable, washable one where possible.\n\nIt also states that used disposable face coverings - often containing the plastic polypropylene - should be put in \"black bag\" waste bins \"or a litter bin if you're outside\".\n\nIt adds that people should \"not put them in a recycling bin as they cannot be recycled through conventional recycling facilities\" and \"take them home... if there is no litter bin - do not drop them as litter\".\n\nSea birds can become tangled up in masks\n\nBut with the public being told to cover their faces, environmental groups say hundreds of thousands, even millions, of single-use masks are being dumped outdoors, blighting towns and the countryside.\n\nAs part of its Great British Beach Clean, running from 18 to 25 September, the Marine Conservation Society is asking volunteers to record how many they pick up.\n\nLaura Foster, the organisation's head of clean seas, said: \"Just look at rivers such as the Thames and you'll see them floating by.\n\n\"When they're whole, wildlife's going to get tangled in it or the plastic's going to be ingested. They aren't going to biodegrade either, although they will break up, introducing more microplastics into the sea and the food chain.\"\n\nThe RSPCA is encouraging people with disposable masks to \"snip the straps\" after use to prevent animals getting caught in them.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are calling on UK ministers to do more to \"encourage people to use reusable masks, as well as provide guidance about how best to keep them clean\".\n\nClimate and business spokeswoman Sarah Olney told the BBC: \"As we face the Covid-19 crisis, we all want to do our bit to keep others safe. Wearing face coverings is a vital part of that, but it shouldn't cost the earth.\n\n\"It's clear that single-use face masks are creating an enormous amount of waste. Outside of essential clinical settings, there are plenty of environmentally friendly, reusable alternatives that people can choose to use.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems say disposable masks should be reserved mostly for people working in healthcare\n\nAmelia Womack, deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, said the surge in disposable mask use came \"at a time when we are clearly drowning in plastic\".\n\nShe called for \"stronger government guidance\", with the public potentially being asked to wear coverings \"for years\" if the pandemic continues.\n\nThe media should be discouraged from showing masks in \"normal\", non-clinical, situations, Ms Womack added, also arguing that the government should impose a ban on its own websites, leaflets and films doing so.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority is rightly to protect public health, but government and the NHS are actively looking at how PPE can be reused in safe ways, including decontamination.\"\n\nThey added: \"We have published guidance on how to wear and make a cloth face covering and how to safely dispose of PPE.\n\n\"Over the next couple of months, we are considering how we can inform the UK's longer-term PPE use strategy into the future, including taking into account environmental concerns.\"", "Frances McDormand (left) and Chloé Zhao (centre) accepted the Golden Lion prize via Zoom from California\n\nUS film Nomadland has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, the first such event held with live audiences since the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe film, by Chinese-born Chloé Zhao, stars Frances McDormand as a widow living as a nomad after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nMexican director Michel Franco's thriller New Order and historic drama Wife of a Spy by Japan's Kiyoshi Kurosawa were also recognised.\n\nGuests had to wear masks at screenings.\n\nAbout half of the seats at the venues on the Lido waterfront were left empty, and few celebrities made the trip to the world's oldest film festival.\n\nCate Blanchett was the jury president in the lagoon city\n\nAustralian actress Cate Blanchett, who headed the jury at the 77th edition of the festival, said the winner had been chosen after \"healthy and robust\" deliberations by the jury members.\n\n\"Good discussion is good discussion with a mask or not,\" she said.\n\nZhao, who is the first woman to win the festival's top award, the Golden Lion, in 10 years, and McDormand were speaking via Zoom from California.\n\n\"Thank you so much for letting us come to your festival in this weird, weird, weird world and way,\" McDormand said.\n\nChloé Zhao at the drive-in premier of Nomadland on Friday\n\nThe festival's Grand Jury prize went to Franco's film, while Kurosawa was named the best director. They were jointly given the Silver Lions.\n\nRussian director Andrei Konchalovsky was given the Special Jury prize for Dear Comrades!, a film about the massacre of protesters in the USSR in 1962.\n\nBritain's Vanessa Kirby won the best actress award, while the best actor prize went to Italy's Pierfrancesco Favino.\n\nThe annual gathering in the Italian city is one of the \"big three\" film festivals, alongside Cannes and Berlin.\n\nThe Berlin festival took place as scheduled from 20 February to 1 March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nCovid-19 has transformed how GPs work - from having to wear full PPE instead of ordinary clothes, to seeing a huge decline in the number of patients they are seeing. Here's how one practice in Liverpool has adapted.\n\nDr Debbie Noland is living with a new reality.\n\nA few months ago, the Liverpool GP would have dressed relatively casually for a day seeing patients at the Ropewalks Practice in the city centre.\n\nNow she is in medical scrubs and full protective clothing - face mask, visor, gloves and apron.\n\n\"Now we are completely clinical, I look like I did when I was a medical student working in the hospital in surgery,\" says Dr Noland.\n\n\"It's definitely far more challenging - and the job is challenging enough without the extra stress.\n\n\"Having to go home and put your scrubs into a 60-degree wash, so you don't pass it on to your family. It's a completely different world than pre-Covid, that's for sure.\"\n\nEven when she is seeing patients with no Covid symptoms, Dr Noland needs to balance the risk of infection while, simultaneously, being able to check out potentially dangerous conditions.\n\n\"If you need to listen to somebody's chest or you need to listen to somebody's heart - you need to do that.\n\n\"I feel like I am as covered and protected as I possibly can be. I would much prefer to make sure that I am doing things properly than miss something.\"\n\nPatients are assessed in advance over the phone, including questions on whether or not they have coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut since chest pain is exactly the type of thing that might indicate the development of another serious condition, some patients have to attend the surgery for an examination.\n\nIn between each appointment, Dr Noland must clean the room and change her personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"When the patient has left, I'll clean down the room before anyone else comes in and change all my(PPE) so it is as safe as it possible can be. It may not be as approachable, but we are doing our best to make sure everyone can feel safe coming into a GP surgery.\"\n\nAll this means a much slower trickle of patients.\n\nThis time last year the surgery was seeing around 130 patients a day for GP appointments, blood tests or just to pick up a prescription.\n\nBut on the day we visited, just 24 patients attended the surgery, all by appointment only.\n\nThe surgery had previously introduced an online booking and assessment system last September, so most patients were accustomed to a more remote way of working.\n\nBut still, the change is stark: a normally busy waiting room now has just one patient at a time.\n\nDr Noland has to wipe down the consultation room between patients\n\nSome patients are happy to come to the surgery. But Dr Noland says there are growing fears over those who are too worried about the risk of infection to come in.\n\n\"The amount of people I have spoken to on the phone with anxiety and depression... They were probably keeping it together, but it's the last straw that broke the camel's back.\n\n\"They can't cope now. It has been a massive impact.\n\n\"People are still having heart attacks, they are still having strokes, they are still having cancer, unfortunately.\n\n\"And there are a lot of other people that are dying of other things that seem to have been forgotten a little bit.\n\n\"It's a massive hidden cost of lockdown and that is really worrying for all of us - because we think there is an epidemic [of non-Covid illnesses] and we are just waiting for it to come.\".\"\n\nThe surgery is divided into two zones, with Dr Noland seeing her Covid-free patients in the 'green zone' on the first floor of the building.\n\nDownstairs is the 'red zone, for those patients who are displaying Covid-19 symptoms, with a separate entrance to the rest of the surgery.\n\nThe receptionist, as well as the GP, wears full PPE.\n\nTina Atkins, the practice management partner, says the whole idea is to minimise exposure to infected patients.\n\n\"We don't have anything other than an examination couch and a chair - we don't use any of the IT equipment.\n\n\"We also say to patients if they arrive early: 'please stay in your car outside' because the slots are timed, so we don't cross-contaminate patients.\"\n\nRopewalks is a \"hub\" for nine practices in Liverpool. Each one directs coronavirus patients to the Ropewalks General Practice so the surrounding practices can maintain a Covid-free environment.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, the surgery saw around 5-8 cases a day, but on the day we visited, no-one needed to be seen.\n\nPhone consultations are part of the new norm, especially when checking up on those who are shielding.\n\nPractice nurse Moira Cain says: \"With not going out at all, you're worried about people's mental health and their wellbeing. So the fact they're getting a phone call from someone who cares must be some reassurance.\n\n\"It's reassuring for us to know that they are eating, they are having food taken into them, they are sleeping ok - they haven't got any other symptoms.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"What we have found is the footfall to primary care, as well as A&E, is really reduced.\n\n\"Are people sitting at home with chest pain? With shortness of breath? Have they got swollen ankles? Because if they have, they should really come in.\"\n\nSocial distancing, PPE, the fear of infection - all are making an already tough job more challenging.\n\nBut GPs want their patients to know that, despite appearances - the empty waiting rooms, the 'red zone', they are still very much open for business.", "A-level results day started terribly for Grace Kirman. The sixth former in Norwich had been waiting anxiously to hear whether she would get the grades needed for her dream university place.\n\nBut it was bad news and a rejection email had arrived. The grades produced by the exam algorithm had been lower than her teachers predicted - and the offer to study biochemistry at Oxford University was disappearing before her eyes.\n\n\"It wasn't my fault and it was really unfair,\" said the student from Notre Dame High School.\n\nShe'd worked extremely hard for her A-levels, it had been her big ambition, she'd been on a university outreach scheme for disadvantaged youngsters, and she'd been quietly confident of getting the A* and two A grades needed.\n\nBut this summer's exams had been cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic - and England's exam watchdog Ofqual had produced an alternative way of calculating grades.\n\nHer teachers had expected three A*s - but the algorithm produced results of three As. It might be a small margin for a statistician, but it was a difference that she said \"could change her life\".\n\n\"I was so disappointed, I knew I was equally intelligent,\" she said. And she was angry too at the way doors suddenly seemed to be closing.\n\nBrian Conway, chief executive of the St John the Baptist academy trust responsible for the school, was beginning to see other inexplicable results arriving.\n\n\"The tragedy of results day was when people you would bet your house on getting a grade C were given a U grade,\" he said.\n\nSomething was going badly wrong - and the school decided to challenge the results, and in Grace's case, to get in touch with Oxford to try to overturn the rejection.\n\nThere were problems with exams across the UK this summer, but in England it's the Department for Education and Ofqual which will face public scrutiny to explain the confusion, the colossal U-turns and resignations.\n\nThe algorithm for replacement grades mostly relied on two key pieces of information - how pupils had been ranked in order of ability and the results of schools and colleges in previous years.\n\nOf less influence were teachers' predictions and how individual pupils themselves had done in previous exams.\n\nIt was designed to stop grade inflation and in effect replicated the results of previous years - but it meant a serious risk of disadvantage for talented individuals in schools that had a history of low results.\n\nIt would be like being told you'd failed a driving test on the grounds that people from where you lived usually failed their driving test. That might be the case, but it's hard to take when you hadn't even started the car.\n\nBut if the aim was to keep grades in line with previous years, the opposite happened. There were stratospheric increases particularly at A-level - with more than half of students getting A*s and As in some subjects.\n\nWhile the scrutiny will focus on what went wrong in past weeks, the bigger fallout could be from what it changes in the future. A major unintended consequence could be a radical shake-up of England's university admissions, with plans believed to be in the pipeline.\n\nThis summer has shown the problems with estimated grades - raising the issue of whether such predictions should still be used for university offers, rather than waiting until students have their actual results.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb this week described as \"compelling\" the argument made by former universities minister Chris Skidmore that the \"entire admissions system to university should now be reformed\". Also expect in the forthcoming months to hear some big questions about the future role of Ofqual.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, facing calls for his resignation over the exams fiasco, will have to defend himself in front of the Education Select Committee this week.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Robert Halfon, likened the exam problems to the Charge of the Light Brigade, where no-one, particularly Ofqual, seemed able to heed the warnings to stop.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who originally called the results \"robust\" and then blamed a \"mutant algorithm\", has accused critics of relying on \"Captain Hindsight\". But more evidence of foresight in warnings is emerging too.\n\nBarnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, told the BBC he had warned in stakeholder meetings with Ofqual about the dangers of attaching so much weight to schools' previous results, and so little to teachers' estimates. \"It was always going to be a hashed job,\" he said.\n\nHe thinks Ofqual and the Department for Education had begun to prioritise sounding publicly confident rather than being open about the shortcomings. Mr Lenon, a former head teacher of Harrow School and former Ofqual board member, had made his concerns public.\n\nOn 7 July, at the Festival of Higher Education at the University of Buckingham, he predicted unreliability and unfairness in the results and warned Ofqual was being asked to do a \"terrible thing\" in producing these calculated grades.\n\nDanger signals couldn't be dismissed as politically motivated. On 26 May, a warning was sent from the New Schools Network, which supports free schools and has strong ties to Conservative education policy.\n\nThe group's director Unity Howard, wrote to Sally Collier, the now resigned head of Ofqual, and to Gavin Williamson: \"It is easy to bury these arrangements in scientific modelling, but the issues here will affect at least a generation of children, but more likely those that come after it too.\"\n\nIt included warnings from seven schools and trusts - and it's understood the group held a meeting with Ofqual.\n\nThe Northern Powerhouse, a lobby group for the north of England chaired by former Tory chancellor George Osborne, had also been flagging concerns about BTec vocational exams as well as A-levels and GCSEs.\n\nFrank Norris, working with the Northern Powerhouse on education, told the BBC the \"proposed algorithm design was always going to put the average performance of schools above individual merit\".\n\nWith worries not allayed, the Northern Powerhouse wrote to Sally Collier on 9 August, drawing attention to their high level of concern about a disproportionate impact on poorer communities. On 11 July, the Education Select Committee pointed to unanswered questions about the fairness of how grades would be calculated.\n\nOfqual was not unaware of these worries, not least because the regulator says it was giving its own advice to ministers about the risks - and right to the top.\n\nJulie Swan, Ofqual's executive director of general qualifications, said 10 Downing Street had been briefed on 7 August, highlighting risks over so-called \"outlier students\" - the bright pupils whose grades might be reduced because they were in low-performing schools.\n\nThere were also weekly meetings with education minister Nick Gibb. Kate Green, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, said in the House of Commons this week the exam controversy had caused \"huge distress to students and their parents\" - and asked Mr Gibb why he had failed to respond to warnings. \"These warnings were not ignored,\" said Mr Gibb. \"Challenges that were made by individuals were raised with Ofqual and we were assured by the regulator that overall the model was fair,\" he told MPs. It was only when grades were published that \"anomalies and injustices\" became apparent, said Mr Gibb.\n\nA common thread to the warnings was although the results might work smoothly in terms of national statistics, maintaining a similar pattern to previous years, this would be at the cost of individual unfairness. The standardisation process, which tended to push down teachers' grades, would also not apply to subjects with smaller numbers of entries, such as classics and modern languages - with accusations this would benefit independent schools.\n\nGrace Kirman was one of these \"anomalies\" - her future hanging in the balance. But when had this year's exams really begun to go into tailspin? If you wanted to pinpoint a moment, it might be about 36 hours before Grace and hundreds of thousands of young people were finding out their results.\n\nThat was the heatwave night of Tuesday 11 August, ahead of A-level results being released on Thursday. In Scotland there had been a U-turn on grades, and pressure was building for a response in England.\n\nWhen it came, it left Ofqual completely wrong-footed and unable to explain how it would work. The Department for Education had informed them of a major change that would allow schools to appeal over grades on the basis of their mock test results. It was announced late in the evening as an extra \"safety net\" and \"triple lock\", but was eventually ditched within the week.\n\nBut head teachers, who had been on a low-boil all summer, went into volcanic mode - attacking this last-minute change as \"panicked and chaotic\". This sudden rule change meant a school could appeal for an upgrade if a mock test had been higher than the calculated grade about to be issued.\n\nThis infuriated head teachers who said mocks were carried out in many different and inconsistent ways. Sometimes they had been deliberately marked down as a scare tactic and some schools had not taken them at all. Therefore, they said, they could not be used to decide such important results.\n\nHeads' leader Geoff Barton said at that point he knew this approach to exams had become \"unsustainable\". It had been \"fatally undermined\" by an unworkable decision, which he said represented a \"complete failure of leadership\". Mr Halfon said it also raised the fundamental question about who was really in charge - and if Ofqual wasn't really acting independently, then what was its purpose?\n\nResults day on 13 August added to the confusion. These calculated grades produced the highest results in the history of A-levels - but in the background was a growing volume of protest over the algorithm reducing 40% of grades below teachers' predictions. MPs saw emails arriving in their in-trays, upset parents took to Twitter, lawyers warned of multiple legal challenges, universities didn't know if grades were going to be changed on appeal and marchers were waving placards demanding a U-turn.\n\nOn Saturday 15 August, matters became even more bizarre. Ofqual published plans for appeals over mock tests - but in the evening Gavin Williamson rang Sally Collier disagreeing with the guidance and it was taken down again from the website.\n\nAccording to Ofqual chairman Roger Taylor, the situation was \"rapidly going out of control\" - and on Sunday the watchdog took the momentous decision to switch to centre assessed grades - the results estimated by schools.\n\nThis biggest U-turn of the summer was made public the next day and the education secretary told students he was \"incredibly sorry\".\n\nSally Collier, who has talked of her admiration for Edith Cavell, the nurse executed during the First World War, later stepped down as chief regulator and has made no comment since.\n\nAt the Department for Education, it was the senior civil servant, Jonathan Slater, who lost his job, with accusations that he had been \"scapegoated\". The blame game had begun almost immediately. Ofqual's argument has been they knew the risks of the iceberg ahead, but they had warned ministers and been told not to change direction.\n\nThe politicians in turn say they had heard the iceberg warnings, but Ofqual had assured them it would be safe. \"The finger of blame is pointed at everyone else,\" says heads' leader Mr Barton.\n\nWhat has baffled school leaders is why, with almost five months between the cancellation of exams and the issuing of calculated grades, there wasn't a more thorough attempt to test the reliability of results in advance, including with real schools. Ofqual's defence to all of this, according to Mr Halfon, could be summed up as: \"Not me, guv.\"\n\nThere are also questions about the delays for results for BTec students - and MP Shabana Mahmood said it was disgraceful how they had been \"left languishing at the back of the queue\". There is another uncomfortable truth from the U-turn, which Barnaby Lenon said will have created a \"different kind of injustice\". Schools which were over-generous in their predictions will have got better grades than those which were more painstaking.\n\nThings eventually turned out well for Grace\n\nMr Conway, leader of Notre Dame's academy trust where Grace was at school, said his staff had put a \"huge effort\" into making sure every estimated grade was accurate and evidence based - and carried out their own moderation process to guard against grade inflation. But there are persistent rumours of other exam centres which have ended up with implausibly high grades for many of their students.\n\nPupils could have unfairly been \"bumped off\" university places as a result, said Mr Lenon. When Mr Williamson faces the select committee this week he is likely to argue that no-one wanted to cancel exams, but the pandemic forced them to find an alternative - and when there were problems his department took swift action.\n\n\"It was not a decision that was taken lightly. It was taken only after serious discussions with a number of parties, including, in particular, the exam regulator, Ofqual,\" he told MPs this week. \"We have had to respond, often at great speed, to find the best way forward, given what we knew about the virus at the time.\"\n\nOther education ministers around the UK faced similar problems and eventually came up with similar answers, said Mr Williamson.\n\nAnd Grace got her place back at Oxford. \"I just couldn't believe it. It's been a dream of mine for so long. \"I wish I could have woken up to an acceptance - but I appreciate it now even more. \"It was a flawed system,\" she said. \"And they could have been kinder, especially after everything over the summer.\"", "GP practices are being told they must make sure patients can be seen face to face when they need such appointments.\n\nNHS England is writing to all practices to make sure they are communicating the fact doctors can be seen in person if necessary, as well as virtually.\n\nIt's estimated half of the 102 million appointments from March to July were by video or phone call, NHS Digital said.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said any implication GPs had not been doing their job properly was \"an insult\".\n\nNHS England said research suggested nearly two thirds of the public were happy to have a phone or video call with their doctor - but that, ahead of winter, they wanted to make sure people knew they could see their GP if needed.\n\nNikki Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, said GPs had adapted quickly in recent months to offer remote consultations and \"safe face-to-face care when needed\".\n\nShe added: \"While many people, particularly those most vulnerable to Covid-19, want the convenience of a consultation over the phone or video, the NHS has been and will continue to offer face-to-face appointments and I would urge anyone who feels they need medical support to come forward so they can get the care, support and advice they need - the NHS is here for you.\"\n\nNHS England said it would be reminding GPs they faced enforcement action if they failed to offer face-to-face appointments when necessary on medical grounds. Failure to do so was a breach of their contract, it said.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said general practice was \"open and has been throughout the pandemic\", with a predominantly remote service to help stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nHe said: \"The college does not want to see general practice become a totally, or even mostly, remote service post-pandemic.\n\n\"However, we are still in the middle of a pandemic. We need to consider infection control and limit footfall in GP surgeries - all in line with NHS England's current guidance.\"\n\nHe said most patients had understood the changes and that clinical commissioning groups had been asked to work with GP practices where face-to-face appointments were not possible - for example, if all GPs were at a high risk from coronavirus.\n\n\"Any implication that they have not been doing their job properly is an insult to GPs and their teams who have worked throughout the pandemic, continued delivering the vast majority of patient care in the NHS and face an incredibly difficult winter ahead,\" he said.\n\nResearch from the college indicated that routine GP appointments were back to near-normal levels for this time of year, after decreasing at the height of the pandemic.\n\n\"Each and every day last week an estimated third of a million appointments were delivered face to face by general practices across the country,\" added Prof Marshall.\n\nIt comes as thousands of doctors say a second peak is likely this winter - and is their greatest fear.\n\nThe British Medical Association survey of more than 8,000 doctors and medical students found that 86% of them believed a second peak was likely, or very likely, in the next six months.\n\nThe survey indicated doctors thought the two most important measures to help prevent such a peak were having a fit-for-purpose test-and-trace system and a \"coherent, rapid and consistent approach to local outbreaks\".\n\nBMA council chair Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: \"We, as a profession, want, above all, to avoid a return to the scenes we saw in April, when hospitals were full with Covid-19 patients, and hundreds were dying every day. Meanwhile, thousands of others missed out on vital appointments and procedures as routine care was put on hold.\n\n\"But while the forecast in this survey may be bleak, it is not an inevitability if the government takes decisive, robust and timely action to stamp down the spread of the infection.\"\n\nHe called on the government to focus on \"sorting out the test-and-trace debacle once and for all\", adding: \"We are at a critical crossroads in the fight against this deadly virus.\"", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier is in London this week for Brexit talks\n\nWhen it comes to Brexit, all negotiations are inter-linked: EU-UK trade talks, the process to implement their divorce deal, negotiations on fishing rights and Brussels' deliberation on UK financial service.\n\nWhat happens in one area very much affects progress in the others. You cannot separate them entirely.\n\nWhich is why this week, as the war of words and wills between Brussels and Downing Street raged over the government's threat to throw a grenade at key parts of the divorce deal, everyone's thoughts turned immediately to the trade talks between the two sides.\n\nIn fact, they limp on. Negotiations are set to resume in Brussels on Monday. This, despite the EU ending the week by threatening Downing Street with legal action unless it rowed back on its threats to the Withdrawal Agreement by the end of the month.\n\nThe government insists it will not budge. So it is significant that the EU stopped short of threatening to press the nuclear button - shutting down trade talks altogether.\n\nWhy is that, when we know the EU is furious?\n\nFirst of all, Brussels still wants a deal with the UK, if at all possible, this autumn.\n\nSecondly, the sense in Brussels is that the government is trying to provoke the EU into abandoning the trade negotiations.\n\n\"We're not going to give them that satisfaction,\" a high-level EU diplomat told me. \"We refuse to be manipulated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK vs EU: Johnson and Michel Barnier set out competing visions on trade\n\nSo, despite bitter arguments over legislation on the one hand, and a huge list of outstanding issues still to be ironed out in bilateral trade talks; despite time and trust running out on both sides; neither the EU nor the UK seem to want to be the first ones to walk out the door.\n\nIt is still possible, of course, that the government's bill is stopped in the House of Lords or even beforehand by rebel MPs.\n\nIt is possible for the EU and UK to iron out their differences over the divorce deal and in trade talks. Concessions can always be \"dressed-up\" to look like victories, after all.\n\nIt has been done before. Remember last autumn? Finding agreement on the divorce deal seemed nigh on impossible - until it was not and a deal was signed.\n\nBut, right now that feels like a long shot. The chatter on both sides of the Channel is that \"no deal\" is becoming more likely by the day.", "Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail empire has apologised after claims it would pay some head office staff only half of their notice pay.\n\nArcadia, whose High Street brands include Topman, Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, said it was \"extremely sorry\".\n\nAll affected employees would get full pay, the firm said.\n\nThe Unite union, which had threatened legal action, said billionaire Sir Philip should not have allowed the situation to happen in the first place.\n\nHigh Street retail is one sector of the UK economy that has been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, with shop closures during lockdown followed by reduced footfall in shops.\n\nWhile retail sales rebounded in July, rising above pre-pandemic levels, the ONS said clothing shops had been the worst hit during the pandemic and the volume of sales remained 25.7% lower than in February.\n\nArcadia, which is cutting 300 jobs from its head office in response to the effects of the pandemic, said on Saturday:\n\n\"We recently implemented a policy for those employees who are working their notice on furlough to receive their furlough pay instead of their full pay.\n\n\"We got this decision wrong and the board has today amended this policy to ensure all affected employees will receive their full pay.\n\n\"We are extremely sorry to all those individuals [affected] for the distress that we have caused and apologise unreservedly.\"\n\nTo try to soften the coronavirus blow to the economy, in March the government put in place the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which paid 80% of the wages of workers placed on leave, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThat scheme has been winding down and, from the beginning of September, companies using the scheme have had to start contributing to workers' wages.\n\nArcadia Group became part of Taveta Investments, owned by Sir Philip and his family, in 2002.\n\nThe statement said it had been forced to make \"many tough decisions\" during the coronavirus pandemic, including the restructuring of its offices.\n\nThe Unite union had threatened legal action on behalf of more than 40 head-office staff over pay after claims it was paying them only 50% of their notice pay. It hailed the \"U-turn\" by Arcadia as a victory for employees.\n\nUnite regional officer Debbie McSweeney said it was \"almost without precedent for Arcadia to apologise for such behaviour towards employees\".\n\n\"But this situation should have never been allowed to happen in the first place by Sir Philip Green, one of the country's richest men,\" she said.\n\nUnite said it would examine the Arcadia statement in detail before finally deciding to withdraw its legal action.", "The proposals also incude longer sentences for 15 to 17-year-olds who commit murder\n\nTeenagers convicted of murder in England and Wales could receive whole-life terms under sentencing reforms described by the government as the most radical in almost 20 years.\n\nCurrently, a whole-life tariff can only be given to someone aged over 21 but ministers plan to reduce this to 18 for exceptional cases, such as terrorism.\n\nA White Paper outlining further details will be published this week.\n\nBut Labour said the Tories had pushed the justice system \"to the brink\".\n\nThe proposals will also include whole-life sentences for those who kill children.\n\nAnd there would be new powers to prevent the automatic release of offenders who have become radicalised behind bars while serving non-terror related sentences.\n\nA whole-life - or so-called \"life means life\" - order means the criminal is in prison for the rest of their life without ever becoming eligible for parole. It differs from a life sentence, under which the prisoner is given a number of years they must spend in jail after which they will be eligible to apply for parole.\n\nWhole-life tariffs are reserved for offenders judged to be the most dangerous to society.\n\nThe planned reforms come after Hashem Abedi, who helped his brother Salman plan the Manchester Arena bombing, was jailed in August for life and ordered to serve at least 55 years in prison.\n\nHe was under the age of 21 at the time of the murders so a whole-life order was not an option open to the courts.\n\nSentencing Abedi, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said a whole-life order would have been a \"just sentence\" in the \"exceptional circumstances\" but said he still \"may never be released\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Express, Boris Johnson cited Abedi's case, saying if someone plots to deliberately kill dozens of people \"then it doesn't matter if you're 'only' 18, 19 or 20 when you do so\".\n\n\"We're going to remove a loophole that lets some truly despicable criminals avoid such a sentence because they're under 21 at the time of their crime,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nUnder the proposals, there will also be longer sentences for 15 to 17-year-olds who commit murder.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said: \"From longer jail time for dangerous criminals to new measures to improve rehabilitation and cut reoffending - we are delivering a system that is more equipped than ever to crack down on crime, which the public can have confidence in to keep them safe.\"\n\nBut shadow justice secretary David Lammy accused the government of failures, citing a Prison Reform Trust report which stated there was a reoffending rate of 64% for those who spend fewer than 12 months in prison.\n\nAnd shadow Northern Ireland secretary Louise Haigh said increasing sentences for younger terrorist offenders was \"quite low down the list\" of issues facing the criminal justice system.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Ridge On Sunday, she added: \"The criminal justice system is in complete disarray because of years of cuts, of privatisation of the probation system and of undermining of the courts and of the police.\"\n\nA White Paper is expected to be published mid-week before legislation is laid before parliament in the new year.", "Iran has executed a wrestler accused of murder, defying international appeals for him to be spared.\n\nNavid Afkari, 27, was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018.\n\nHe said he had been tortured into making a confession.\n\nHuman rights organisation Amnesty International described Afkari's execution as a \"travesty of justice\".\n\nIn a leaked recording released by the group, Afkari says: \"If I am executed, I want you to know that an innocent person, even though he tried and fought with all his strength to be heard, was executed.\"\n\nAfkari was executed by hanging in the southern city of Shiraz, according to state media.\n\nHis lawyer said his client had been prevented from seeing his family before his death, as required under Iranian law.\n\n\"Were you in such a hurry to carry out the sentence that you deprived Navid of a last visit?\" Hassan Younesi said on Twitter.\n\nThere had been many calls to stop the execution, including from a union representing 85,000 athletes worldwide.\n\nThe World Players Association said he had been \"unjustly targeted\" for taking part in the protests, and called for Iran's expulsion from world sport if it went ahead with the execution.\n\nUS President Donald Trump also appealed for mercy, saying the wrestler's \"sole act was an anti-government demonstration on the streets\".\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) called his execution \"very sad news\" and said their thoughts were with his family and friends.\n\n\"It is deeply upsetting that the pleas of athletes from around the world and all the behind-the-scenes work of the IOC... did not achieve our goal,\" their statement said.\n\nAfkari's brothers Vahid and Habib were sentenced to 54 and 27 years in prison in the same case, according to human rights activists in Iran.\n\nIn an audio recording leaked from the prison where he was being held, Afkari had said he had been tortured. His mother said her sons were forced to testify against each other.\n\nHis lawyer had said on Twitter that, contrary to Iranian news reports, there was no video of the moment of the security guard's killing. He added that footage used as evidence in the case was taken an hour before the crime took place.\n\nThe Iranian authorities have denied accusations of torture.\n\nAfkari was a national champion in wrestling, a sport that has a long history and is hugely popular in Iran.\n\nIn 2018, protesters in cities across Iran took to the streets over economic hardship and political repression.", "Big Pink Dress man collects for charity during his virtual Great North Run and walk\n\nAlmost 17,000 people have taken part in a virtual Great North Run across 57 countries and six continents.\n\nThe official event was cancelled because of coronavirus and a virtual run has been taking place with a free app to accompany runners.\n\nRun founder Brendan Foster said the aim was to recoup money for charities and keep people active.\n\nMore than 60,000 runners were due to take part in the half-marathon in what would have been its 40th year.\n\nBig pink dress man Colin Burgin-Plews, who has raised thousands of pounds for charity, walked roughly 13 miles around South Shields in his costume to collect money for St Benedict's Hospice in Sunderland and the Kayaks club for children and young adults in South Tyneside.\n\nHe said: \"It was amazing lots of people came out. I've a headache from all the honking of horns from cars.\"\n\nRunners were able to download an app to listen to words of encouragement\n\nOrganiser Brendan Foster said the aim of the virtual event was to raise money for charity\n\nMr Foster said: \"This year has been testing for everyone so we had to re-imagine the event and take it out to the people.\n\n\"At least we will be able to keep people active and that's our mission.\n\n\"Thousands of charities have lost their income in recent times and we want to address this.\"\n\nHe completed the run setting off from Bamburgh Castle and along the Northumberland coast taking breaks and walking part of the way.\n\nMore than 60,000 runners were due to take part in the cancelled half-marathon\n\nOrganisers said they had not taken the decision to cancel the run, from Newcastle to South Shields, lightly and participants could apply for refunds or transfer their entry to next year.\n\nThe actual run was cancelled because of the coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Typhoon in the foreground intercepting the Russian Bear F aircraft off the Scottish coast\n\nUK fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft off the Scottish coast, defence chiefs have said.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the RAF Typhoons were scrambled after the Russian aircraft \"entered the UK's controlled zone of international airspace\".\n\nThe Russian planes were identified as TU-142 Bear F maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft.\n\nThe RAF aircraft are currently operating from Leuchars in Fife.\n\nAn MoD spokesman said monitoring of the controlled zone ensured safe passage for other aircraft, including civilian transatlantic liners.\n\nThe Russian Bear F aircraft are used for maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare\n\nThe former Leuchars RAF base is now a British Army station, home to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.\n\nHowever, the Typhoons have temporarily relocated from their base at RAF Lossiemouth while part of a runway is resurfaced.", "Three hours before the death, police attended the same location following a noise complaint and reports a smoke alarm had been activated\n\nA man has been stabbed to death at a flat in London, with another arrested on suspicion of murder following a stand-off with police.\n\nThe victim, believed to be in his 60s, was found with multiple stab wounds in Priestley House, Wembley, at about 10:00 BST.\n\nPolice said while paramedics attempted to save him, a man, aged 45, barricaded himself into a nearby address.\n\nAfter negotiations, a Taser was deployed and he was arrested.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the victim and suspect were known to each other.\n\nThree hours before the death, police had attended the same location following a noise complaint and reports a smoke alarm had been activated.\n\nThe Met said a man inside the property was spoken to and officers left.\n\nDue to the previous police attendance, the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed.\n\nThe victim was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to the M5 between Gloucester and Tewkesbury at about 05:20 BST\n\nA lorry driver died when he crashed into another HGV that had stopped to protect a stationary car on the M5.\n\nThe 37-year-old from Bristol died at the scene of the crash, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on Sunday morning.\n\nThe car driver, a 21-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving under the influence of drink and/or drugs.\n\nHe has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe M5 was closed in both directions after the crash\n\nPolice were called to reports a car had lost control on the northbound carriageway between junctions 9 and 11 near Tewkesbury and Gloucester.\n\nA lorry had stopped to protect the vehicle from passing traffic and to check on the driver when another lorry crashed into it, police said.\n\nThe noise of the impact was heard several miles away by people in areas including Gotherington, Fiddington and Bishops Cleeve.\n\nFarmer Ray Knight, who lives near the M5, said he heard \"a great big bang\" at about 05:40 BST when he was feeding his cattle.\n\n\"I looked outside, didn't know what it was so carried on as normal and then a few minutes later, there was a second one.\n\n\"Ten minutes later we heard a third one [bang] and by that point you could see the black smoke and there was a glow in the sky, which I presume was a fire,\" Mr Knight said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe motorway was closed in both directions following the crash.\n\nThe southbound carriageway reopened later on Sunday, with the northbound lanes fully reopening at about 02:52 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The opposition made gains in Novosibirsk and Tomsk\n\nOpposition candidates have won council seats in two Siberian cities where anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny campaigned before being poisoned.\n\nThe pro-Kremlin United Russia party lost its majorities on the city councils in Novosibirsk - Russia's third largest city - and in Tomsk.\n\nBut it has claimed a clear win overall in the local polls, seen as a big test of its popularity.\n\nMr Navalny collapsed on a flight from Tomsk on 20 August.\n\nMost results in the elections have now been counted. But there have been many reports of irregularities. The independent monitoring group Golos said observers had been obstructed by officials at some polling stations and there were reports of ballot-stuffing.\n\nVoting was spread across three days; this was defended by the organisers as necessary to curb coronavirus infections. The opposition, however, argued that the extra time made it easier for results to be fabricated.\n\nEconomic hardship, exacerbated by the pandemic, has eroded support for United Russia in opinion polls.\n\nThe party did get its candidates elected governor in most of the regions where elections took place.\n\nBut in Novosibirsk, the party dropped to 44% on the city council, with 22 seats out of 50, whereas before it had 33.\n\nSergei Boiko and four other allies of Mr Navalny won seats there, along with nine other independent candidates.\n\nHis team had been urging Russians to vote tactically against United Russia.\n\nThe Anti-Corruption Foundation had pledged support for candidates it saw as best placed to unseat incumbents of the ruling party, which it describes as the \"party of crooks and thieves\".\n\nMr Navalny's camp believes this campaign could be why he was attacked, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow says.\n\nHis team allege he was poisoned on the orders of President Vladimir Putin - the Kremlin denies any involvement.\n\nThe German government says labs in France and Sweden have confirmed that the poison was Novichok nerve agent.\n\nHe remains in intensive care in Berlin's Charité hospital, but is no longer in a medically induced coma and he has been reacting to speech, the doctors say.\n\nThese are the first elections since controversial constitutional reforms were approved in a July referendum allowing Mr Putin to stay in power until 2036.\n\nThey are also seen as a dry run for elections to the national parliament next year.\n\nLast year, mass protests were held in the capital Moscow, following the exclusion of many opposition candidates from a local election.\n\nThe authorities were then accused of a heavy-handed response to the rallies, which saw some of more than 1,000 people arrested receive sentences of up to four years in prison.\n\nThe far-eastern city of Khabarovsk has seen regular anti-Putin rallies since July, after the arrest of a popular governor fuelled resentment against Moscow's rule.", "YouTube is facing a legal battle for allegedly breaching the privacy and data rights of under-13s in the UK.\n\nA claim lodged with the High Court against parent company Google accuses the firm of collecting children's data without parental consent.\n\nPrivacy expert Duncan McCann, who is bringing the action, argues this is a breach of UK and European (EU) law.\n\nA YouTube spokesperson said it does not comment on pending litigation and the platform is not for use by under-13s.\n\nMr McCann, a father of three children under the age of 13, believes that if the case is successful, damages of between £100 and £500 could be payable to those whose data was breached.\n\n\"When the internet first emerged, we used to be worried about how children used the internet, said Mr McCann.\n\n\"That is still a problem, but now it's a two-way street. We need to focus on how the internet is using our children, and ask ourselves if we're comfortable with them becoming a product for these digital platforms?\"\n\n\"That's the future I don't want,\" he added.\n\nHe told the BBC that the class action is the first in Europe brought against a technology firm on behalf of children. He says that estimated damages of more than £2bn are being sought for about five million British children as well as their parents or guardians.\n\nHe will argue that YouTube and Google have breached the UK's Data Protection Act and the EU's General Data Protection Regulations.\n\nThe case will focus on children who have watched YouTube since May 2018, when the new Data Protection Act became law.\n\n\"I think we're at the stage, where the only way we can move forward and hold these companies accountable is through the legal process,\" Mr McCann said.\n\nA YouTube spokesperson said: \"We don't comment on pending litigation. YouTube is not for children under the age of 13.\n\n\"We launched the YouTube Kids app as a dedicated destination for kids and have made further changes that allow us to better protect kids and families on YouTube,\" they added.\n\nThe video platform has also previously said that it does not sell its users' personal information to advertising companies.\n\nThe case is not expected before next autumn.\n\nMr McCann also told the BBC that it will also depend on the outcome of another data and privacy case being brought against Google.\n\nCampaign group Foxglove and law firm Hausfeld have also said they would support Mr McCann's case.", "Officers were called to the beach at St Andrews Castle\n\nA gathering of about 50 young people on a Fife beach sparked a police response.\n\nOfficers were called to the beach at St Andrews Castle at about 21:50 on Friday.\n\nIt is understood that the group was made up of students who were adhering to social distancing guidelines and left the area when requested.\n\nA spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: \"Officers attended, gave advice and the group dispersed.\" No fines were issued or arrests made.\n\nCurrent Scottish government coronavirus guidance limits outdoor gatherings to 15 people from five other households.\n\nHowever, restrictions are due to change on Monday when people will only be able to meet in groups of no more than six.\n\nChildren aged under 12 will not be subject to the new \"rule of six\".\n\nA spokesman for the University of St Andrews said students, local young people and visitors often held parties and barbecues on local beaches at this time of year.\n\nHe said the vast majority were observing public health guidelines, remaining in small household groups and behaving responsibly.\n\n\"This is an incredibly difficult period for students, not just in St Andrews but across the country,\" he added.\n\n\"They have experienced a year like no other, far more than their fair share of disruption, and are facing a very different university experience from the one which tradition might have liked to promise.\n\n\"It is so important that while we remain cautious and prudent, and encourage our students to observe safe behaviour, we empower and support them to show what they can do during these enormously restrictive times. \"", "Businesses in Wales face challenges preparing for a potential no-deal Brexit because of debt taken on to deal with coronavirus, according to leaders.\n\nNine out of 10 members report cashflow problems over the pandemic, says the Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\nIt comes as tensions in the trade talks between the UK and the EU increased this week - leading some to believe a no-deal Brexit is more likely.\n\nJoshua Miles from FSB Wales said cashflow was firms' \"main issue\".\n\n\"One in five of our members have had government backed loans, others have gone into debt, used credit cards, some borrowed money from friends and relatives, and others have used their own life savings,\" he said.\n\n\"All of that means they just haven't had the time or money to prepare for something like a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"That's going to be a real challenge for us going forward.\n\n\"It puts us in a very vulnerable position.\"\n\nGym boss Wendy Morris said she was worried about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit\n\nCarwyn Jones, the Labour MS for Bridgend and former first minister, said Brexit makes the UK economy particularly vulnerable.\n\n\"Every other country in the world has to deal with Covid, but the UK is the only country that has to deal with Brexit.\n\n\"It means the UK as a whole is uniquely disadvantaged.\"\n\nBridgend Conservative MP Dr Jamie Wallis said: \"A Brexit deal is still a priority for the government, however, it must centre around free trade with other EU states.\n\n\"What's important is that any deal that we strike does not sacrifice the promise we made to the British to take back control of our money, borders and laws.\n\n\"That is what the people who voted to leave the European Union expect.\"\n\nWendy Morris, who runs Energie Fitness gym in Bridgend, said she was worried about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit but just wants the government to \"get on with it\".\n\n\"I think quite honestly that any kind of deal, including a no-deal is better than the state of flux we're in at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"We need certainty. It impacts on everybody and I'm concerned that because of coronavirus the government is looking in two different directions.\"\n\nViews are mixed among her clients.\n\nLisa Driscoll said: \"I know Brexit's coming but I think we should focus on coronavirus.\"\n\nDaniel Bayliss said: \"If, hopefully, we can get coronavirus under control, get some kind of certainty on the negotiations for Brexit, then things can start to look a bit more hopeful.\n\n\"At the moment I don't think many people feel hopeful.\"", "The Trades Union Congress made a direct appeal to the chancellor on Monday\n\nThe TUC's leader is asking for government action to avert \"mass unemployment\" amid the pandemic.\n\nTrades Union Congress general secretary Frances O'Grady has told its annual meeting the chancellor must \"stand by working families\" as the furlough scheme nears its end.\n\nShe said: \"If the government doesn't act, we face a tsunami of job losses.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said supporting jobs was \"an absolute priority\".\n\nUnder the government's furlough scheme, workers placed on leave have been able to receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nTake-up has been significant, with 9.6 million workers furloughed since March.\n\nThe scheme is due to finish at the end of October and Chancellor Rishi Sunak has repeatedly ruled out an extension to it.\n\nSpeaking at the trade union body's congress in London on Monday, Ms O'Grady said time is running out to prevent huge job losses as the job retention scheme (JRS) comes to a close: \"Millions of livelihoods were saved [by the scheme] - both employees and the self-employed. From this Thursday, it will be just 45 days before the JRS ends.\n\n\"That's the notice period that companies have to give if they intend to make mass redundancies.\n\nThe TUC also called for a new \"job protection and skills deal\"\n\n\"Rishi Sunak, stand by working families - don't walk away. It's so much better to keep people working, paying their taxes, spending and helping to rebuild the economy.\"\n\nThe trade unions body is also calling for a new \"job protection and skills deal\", which would include mandatory training and \"up-skilling\" for workers placed on furlough, for example.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Supporting jobs is an absolute priority which is why we've set out a comprehensive 'Plan for Jobs' to protect, create and support jobs across the UK by providing significant, targeted support where it is needed the most.\n\n\"We are continuing to support livelihoods and incomes through our £2bn Kickstart scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, a £1,000 retention bonus for businesses that can bring furloughed employees back to work, and doubling the number of frontline work coaches to help people find work.\n\n\"We are also supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"", "Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has cautioned against \"playing politics\" with the Brexit negotiations\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has said the UK should expect a \"firm and strong\" response from the EU to the proposed Internal Markets Bill.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Mr Martin also cautioned against \"playing politics\" with negotiations.\n\nThe proposed bill would go against the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by the UK and EU earlier this year.\n\nMr Martin also stated categorically there would be \"no return of a hard border\" on the island of Ireland.\n\nDuring the week, Boris Johnson said part of the reason for the Internal Markets Bill was to protect the Good Friday Agreement and Northern Ireland peace process.\n\n\"There's a very firm and strong view emanating from Brussels in how to manage and deal with this,\" said Mr Martin, speaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ's Week in Politics programme.\n\n\"Whatever ploy or strategic approach is intended for the UK side, will be met with a very measured, firm and strong response from the European Union side,\" he said.\n\nHe described the way the proposed law had been introduced as \"no way to do business\".\n\nSpeaking earlier in the week, Mr Martin said he was not optimistic of a Brexit deal in light of the UK proposal to override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nHis comments followed earlier remarks by Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, who said said the UK government was behaving in an \"extraordinary way\" over Brexit.\n\nDespite this, Mr Coveney said a free trade deal was still a possibility.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Andrew Marr programme, he suggested it would be difficult for trade talks between the two sides to continue if the Internal Markets Bill passes through parliament.\n\n\"How then can the EU proceed with these negotiations, and put a new agreement in place, which will be the basis for a new relationship, if existing agreements, which aren't even a year old, are being legislated against?\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Coveney: \"The reputation of the UK... is being damaged in a very serious way\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said the European Union is threatening to impose a customs border in the Irish Sea, separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney rejected the suggestion that the EU's position on having a customs border between Northern Ireland and Britain had hardened after the agreement was signed, calling this a \"completely bogus argument\".\n\nPrime Minister Johnson has said an agreement on trade must be done by 15 October, to be ready in time for the conclusion of the transition period at the end of this year.\n\n\"In my view it is possible to get a trade agreement, it will probably be a basic, pretty thin trade agreement, but it is possible to do that,\" said Mr Coveney.\n\nPeople protesting between Newry and Dundalk about a possible hard border, in March 2019\n\nOn Sunday there was further local and international reaction.\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry said the UK's admission it could breach international law was \"completely outrageous\" and that the proposed legislation could be damaging to Northern Ireland.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Caoimhe Archibald said the British government was \"acting in bad faith and shows clear intent to disregard the protocol in the withdrawal agreement\".\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the EU could not have been \"clearer\" when the two sides agreed the Brexit withdrawal agreement last year what the implications would be for Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nResponding to Mr Barnier's comments, the UK's chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, tweeted: \"On the Protocol, we indeed negotiated a careful balance in order to preserve peace and the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement.\n\n\"It is precisely to ensure this balance can be preserved in all circumstances that the government needs powers in reserve to avoid it being disrupted.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major urged Parliament to reject Boris Johnson's attempt to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Sir John and Mr Blair - former Conservative and Labour prime ministers respectively - said the government's actions were \"irresponsible, wrong in principle and dangerous in practice\"\n\nThe DUP's East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson dismissed their claims as \"nonsense\", but said his party will table amendments to the Internal Markets Bill.\n\n\"The Internal Market Bill as published is not the finished product but it is a massive step forward for business in Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described the Irish government and EU concerns as \"self-serving hypocrisy\".\n\nHe said they were \"content to raise the spectre of a land border as anti-Belfast Agreement, whilst at the same time ignoring the anti-agreement reality of an Irish Sea Border\".", "Lewis Hamilton took his 90th career victory by beating Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in a chaotic, incident-strewn Tuscan Grand Prix.\n\nThe race was punctuated by two red flags, the first caused by a pile-up on the pit straight, the second by a high-speed crash for Lance Stroll.\n\nIn one of the most dramatic races for years, six cars had retired before a lap of racing had completed.\n\nRed Bull's Thai-British driver Alex Albon took a maiden podium in third.\n\nHamilton's win was his sixth in nine races this season and, coupled with a fastest lap secured on the penultimate tour, it extended his championship lead to 55 points as the season passes halfway, and puts him just one behind Michael Schumacher's all-time record of wins.\n\nAt the pre-race anti-racism demonstration, as he did his post-race interviews, and on the podium, Hamilton wore a T-shirt saying: \"Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.\"\n\nIt refers to one of a number of controversial cases in the US in which police officers have shot and killed black civilians.\n• None 'Today was not particularly safe' - Hamilton critical of F1's re-start approach\n• None Hamilton steps up anti-racism protests with 'Say her name' T-shirt\n\nAmid the sequence of incidents and crashes, the victory hinged on three standing starts between the Mercedes drivers.\n\nIn the first, Hamilton got away poorly from pole position and lost the lead to Bottas, but racing lasted only three corners because of a crash between Kimi Raikkonen's Alfa Romeo, Alpha Tauri's Pierre Gasly and Haas driver Romain Grosjean.\n\nThe incident also took out Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who had been struck by engine problems as he accelerated away from third on the grid.\n\nThat led to a safety car, and at the restart, as Bottas bunched up the field down the pit straight, there was a massive crash towards the back of the field.\n\nHaas' Kevin Magnussen accelerated and then slowed, he said because of cars doing the same in front of him. Williams driver Nicholas Latifi swerved to avoid him and Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi then cannoned into Magnussen.\n\nMcLaren's Carlos Sainz then hit the back of the cars of both Giovinazzi and Magnussen, pitching the Alfa 90 degrees into the air before it came down on all four wheels.\n\nHow Hamilton got the lead\n\nAt the restart, the positions of the Mercedes drivers was reversed. Hamilton drafted Bottas down to Turn One and took the lead around the outside, controlling the race from there.\n\nThe Mercedes drivers disappeared off into the distance and appeared untroubled, but Bottas developed problems with excessive wear of his front tyres and began to drop dramatically away from Hamilton.\n\nBottas had to pit earlier than expected for fresh tyres. Hamilton followed him in next time around and the two drivers were instructed to stay off the kerbs to protect their tyres.\n\nThe race appeared done, but that was counting without another development.\n\nRacing Point's Stroll was in the middle of a three-way fight for third with Renault's Daniel Ricciardo in front and Albon behind when his left rear tyre exploded as he entered the second of the two 170mph Arrabbiata corners.\n\nThat led to a second red flag, to repair the barrier.\n\nThe final part of the race\n\nAt the restart, with just 12 laps remaining, Bottas again got away slowly and lost second place to Ricciardo.\n\nBut the Finn was able to pass the Renault next time around and secure second place.\n\nThat left Ricciardo defending from Albon for third, which would have been the first podium for Renault since they returned to the sport in 2016.\n\nBut Albon had too much pace in the Red Bull and passed the Renault with a lovely move around the outside of the first corner with three laps to go to take his maiden F1 podium.\n\nAlbon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes.\n\nRicciardo took fourth, ahead of Racing Point's Sergio Perez and McLaren's Lando Norris.\n\nWilliams driver George Russell just missed out on his first points, finishing 11th, behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.\n\nFerrari had a difficult day as they celebrated their 1,000th F1 Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc was running third early on, but dropped down the field, lacking pace and straight-line speed and finished eighth.\n\nA welcome two-week break after nine races in 11 weeks before the Russian Grand Prix, where Hamilton can equal a record some felt might never be broken - Schumacher's haul of 91 victories.\n\nWhat they said\n\nLewis Hamilton: \"It was all a bit of daze. It was like three races in one day. Just incredibly tough today. This track is phenomenal and the heat and keeping Valtteri behind was not easy. All those restarts total focus was needed. It was really, really hard. Valtteri appeared out of nowhere when I saw Danny was behind. I didn't want him to have DRS. My heart is racing. It is crazy to be here and to have 90 grands prix wins.\"\n\nValtteri Bottas: \"Disappointing. It was a dream start for me. The start was really good and I managed to hold my position at the safety car restart. It seemed like there was never an opportunity once I lost the position at the second start. That is how it goes. I will just keep pushing and keep trying to get better. It has to turn out well for me at some point.\"\n\nAlex Albon: \"It was good obviously it is a while to get here but it was a tough one. I had to work for it. I am happy. I can breathe. It is nice to be here. It was brutal, especially the high-speed in sector two. It is more adrenaline going in my body than anything else. I am happy.\"\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Drivers who kill others after speeding, racing or using a phone could receive life sentences under new legislation.\n\nThose who cause death by careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs could also get a life sentence.\n\nThe current maximum sentence for each crime is 14 years.\n\nThe sentencing reforms announced this week will be introduced in Parliament early next year. A new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving is also being proposed.\n\nCurrently, without that specific offence, drivers who cause injuries under such circumstances can only be convicted of careless driving - which has the maximum penalty of a fine.\n\nThe proposed law change was first announced in 2017, with Monday's announcement setting a timescale for when the legislation would come into force.\n\nThe increase will apply to offences in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, which has separate road safety laws.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland - also the Lord Chancellor - said: \"This government has been clear that punishments must fit the crime, but too often families tell us this isn't the case with killer drivers.\n\n\"So, today I am announcing that we will bring forward legislation early next year to introduce life sentences for dangerous drivers who kill on our roads, and ensure they feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe new legislation forms part of major sentencing reforms being announced in a White Paper this week.\n\nTeenagers convicted of murder in England and Wales could also receive whole-life terms under the proposals. This order means the criminal is kept in prison for the rest of their life without ever becoming eligible for parole.\n\nWith a life sentence, a prisoner is given a number of years they must spend in jail after which they will be eligible to apply for parole.\n\nLast year, 174 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving\n\nA consultation carried out in 2016 gave support for the new driving offence measures from victims, road safety campaigners and people who had lost loved ones.\n\nOf the 9,000 who responded, 90% thought there should be a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving.\n\nIn addition, 70% of those who responded agreed the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving should be increased to life imprisonment.\n\nLast year, 174 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving, and another 19 for causing death by careless driving while under the influence.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeeds United made a dramatic return to the Premier League after a 16-year absence as they produced a magnificent display only to lose to a late penalty in a thriller against champions Liverpool at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, back in action after winning their first title in 30 years, led three times but were pegged back on each occasion by Marcelo Bielsa's fearless side before this superb match was settled by hat-trick hero Mohamed Salah's spot-kick.\n\nLeeds looked to be leaving Anfield with a fully deserved point only for new £30m striker Rodrigo, on as a substitute, to produce a shocking challenge on Fabinho in the 88th minute, leaving Salah to give Liverpool victory after a serious scare.\n\nSalah made it a nightmare start for last season's Championship winners when he drilled home a penalty in the fourth minute after his shot was handled by another Leeds new boy, Germany defender Robin Koch.\n\nLeeds produced the perfect response as Jack Harrison drilled a low right-foot shot past Alisson only for poor defending to allow Virgil van Dijk to restore Liverpool's advantage as he headed in Andy Robertson's corner.\n\nVan Dijk was badly at fault when he gifted Patrick Bamford Leeds' second before a searing strike from Salah completed the scoring in a chaotic first half.\n\nIn a game which also contained four disallowed goals, Leeds were not to be brushed aside and were level again after 66 minutes when a perfect first touch and volley from Mateusz Klich flashed past Alisson.\n\nMan of the match Salah had the final word, however, after that reckless late challenge from Rodrigo.\n• None How you rated the players\n\nThe presence of manager Bielsa alone will add to the theatre of the Premier League and his vibrant, attacking Leeds United side already promise to decorate the top flight.\n\nLeeds could have feared the worst when Liverpool capped a rampant opening spell by scoring from the spot even before the visitors had secured possession in the opposition half.\n\nNot a bit of it.\n\nLeeds got on the ball, were bursting with energy and attacked Liverpool every time they had the chance, playing with confidence and self-belief.\n\nThree times they went behind but not for one moment did their heads drop or was their positive intent diminished, as proved by the manner in which they fought their way back into the game.\n\nThe final injury was cruel but self-inflicted, Rodrigo's ludicrous challenge on Fabinho drawing the inevitable penalty that cost Leeds a point.\n\nThere was so much to admire about Leeds in an attacking sense but there is also an air of naivety which they must address otherwise plenty of teams will fancy scoring goals against them.\n\nLeeds conceded two penalties and from two set-pieces, although Salah scored a quite brilliant volley when they failed to clear a free-kick.\n\nBielsa and Leeds have created a hugely positive impression from what was arguably the toughest test of all, away to the champions on the opening day.\n\nIn the end, however, they had only Rodrigo to blame for giving Liverpool the chance to gratefully snatch victory.\n\nLiverpool got the job done courtesy of Salah's late penalty but this was an uncharacteristically sloppy display from the champions that relied on that Rodrigo challenge to get three points.\n\nSalah was in imperious mood up front but elsewhere Leeds were able to hurry Liverpool out of their stride and run through their midfield in a manner which would have disturbed manager Jurgen Klopp.\n\nLiverpool were also occasionally shambolic at the back, cut open far too easily with even the normally unflustered Van Dijk knocked out of his stride, committing an awful error for Leeds' second goal, while Trent Alexander-Arnold had a game he will want to forget.\n\nAlexander-Arnold was rescued by the offside flag when he bizarrely headed Harrison's lob into his own net and he will lead Liverpool's relief at getting three points.\n\nIn attack, though, Liverpool have players such as Salah who can rescue them from any hazardous situation and so it proved again here.\n\nUp and down for Van Dijk - all the stats\n• None Liverpool extended their unbeaten home league run to 60 games (W49 D11) - only the third run of 60-plus unbeaten home games by a side in the English top flight, after Chelsea's run of 86 ending in October 2008 and Liverpool's run of 63 ending in December 1980.\n• None This was only the second Premier League game played on the opening matchday of a season to see five goals scored before half-time, after Manchester United 5-1 Fulham in August 2006 (4-1 at half-time).\n• None Liverpool have conceded three or more goals in back-to-back home league games for the first time since September 1982.\n• None Liverpool have now won the past 35 Premier League games in which Mohamed Salah has scored - he has now overtaken Wayne Rooney's competition record of 34 consecutive wins when scoring from September 2008 to February 2011.\n• None Virgil van Dijk scored his 10th Premier League goal for Liverpool - more than any other centre-back in the competition since his club debut in January 2018. His past nine such goals have been headed.\n• None Van Dijk has made two errors leading directly to a goal in his past four Premier League games, more than he registered in his first 154 appearances.\n• None Jack Harrison, Patrick Bamford and Mateusz Klich were the first players to score on their Premier League debut for Leeds United since Nick Barmby in August 2002 against Manchester City, and the first to do so in an away game since Alan Smith in November 1998 - which was also at Anfield against Liverpool.\n\nLiverpool have a full week to prepare for their next game at Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday, 20 September (16:30 BST), while Leeds are in Carabao Cup second-round action at home to Hull on Wednesday (19:45).\n• None Attempt blocked. Robin Koch (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kalvin Phillips with a cross.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Leeds United 3. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Rodrigo Moreno (Leeds United) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Curtis Jones.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt missed. Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday morning.\n\nNearly a third of people in Wales should be working at or near home, even when coronavirus restrictions have eased, the Welsh Government has said. The move could reduce congestion and pollution, and improve work-life balance, ministers suggested. If you do have to return to the office, find out what your boss has to do to keep you safe.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic is creating an \"enormous strain\" on relationships, an advice charity has warned, with family lawyers predicting a \"post-lockdown divorce boom\". Citizens Advice said views on its divorce webpage on the first weekend of September were up 25% compared with the same date in 2019.\n\nA pared-down version of the BBC Symphony Orchestra played to an empty Royal Albert Hall on Saturday for The Last Night of the Proms. The 2020 Proms season was drastically curtailed by the coronavirus epidemic, with the usual six-week season cut down to a fortnight of live shows, performed without an audience.\n\nAlthough the official Great North Run event had to be cancelled this year, almost 17,000 people will be taking part virtually across 57 countries and six continents, organisers have said.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. With the UK's travel rules frequently changing, here's a reminder of which countries are on the UK's various quarantine lists.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The temple would have been a \"major landmark in the region\", according to archaeologist Will Bowden\n\nA dig has revealed \"one of the largest\" temple buildings in Roman Britain.\n\nThe 2nd Century temple site at Caistor St Edmund, near Norwich, has been known about since 1957, but its true scale has only just emerged.\n\nIt was built by the Iceni tribe, best known for their leader Boudicca who rebelled against the Romans in AD61.\n\nArchaeologist Prof Will Bowden said its size, 20m by 20m (65ft by 65ft), showed \"how important this cult was to the Iceni\".\n\nThe depth of the foundations indicates a substantial masonry building up to 15m (49ft) high\n\nThe community archaeology group Caistor Roman Project spent three weeks at the temple site in 2019, working in partnership with the University of Nottingham.\n\nProf Bowden, the project director, said the post-excavation process had since been completed and this \"confirmed that we were looking at a building that was exceptional\".\n\nHe said it was \"one of the largest of its type in Roman Britain\" which \"indicates not only the importance with which the site was regarded but also that the Iceni had the resources to construct major public buildings should they choose to\".\n\nIt has remained unknown which gods were worshipped there. Evidence of the worship of Roman gods has been found but the Iceni could have also dedicated the temple to a local deity, as happened at Bath.\n\nThe 2nd Century building, which was built on the site of an earlier Romano-Celtic temple, was surrounded by a precinct with two gates\n\nBoudicca led her Iceni tribe in a revolt against the Romans between AD60 and AD61\n\nCaistor was the site of Venta Icenorum, the smallest Roman regional capital in Britain.\n\nIts forum - the main public building - was less than a quarter of the size of Verulamium, now known as St Albans.\n\nHistorians saw its small scale as a sign of the Iceni's impoverishment after Queen Boudicca led the Iceni tribe against the Romans.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police described video of the incident which shows a figure approach the officers' car, before opening fire\n\nTwo Los Angeles police officers are recovering in hospital after being shot in what police are calling an ambush.\n\nVideo of the incident shows a figure approach the officers' vehicle, before opening fire and running away.\n\nLos Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the act \"cowardly\". The suspect remains at large.\n\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has announced a $100,000 (£78,000) reward for any information leading to the gunman's arrest.\n\nAlmost 40 US police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2020, FBI statistics show - eight of them were victims of an ambush.\n\nProtesters shouted anti-police slogans and blocked the entrance to the emergency room where the two officers were being treated, police and witnesses said.\n\nTwo people were arrested, including a journalist who police said tried to interfere with the arrest of the other detainee and did not identify herself as a member of the press.\n\nThe reporter, Josie Huang, tweeted she had \"thoughts and videos\" to share, while her employer, NPR, said they were \"appalled\" by her arrest.\n\nThe officers involved in the shooting have not been named but were described as a 31-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man.\n\nThe female officer was shot in the jaw and arms and was in a critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery, authorities said on Sunday. The male officer was hit in the forehead, an arm and a hand and was described as alert, ABC News reported.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alex Villanueva This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"This is just a sombre reminder that this is a dangerous job. Actions, words have consequences and our job does not get easier because people don't like law enforcement,\" Sheriff Villanueva said.\n\nBoth candidates in this year's presidential election weighed in on the shooting.\n\nSharing the footage of the incident, US President Donald Trump, tweeted: \"Animals that must be hit hard.\"\n\nHis Democratic rival, Joe Biden, said he was praying the officers recover.\n\n\"This cold-blooded shooting is unconscionable and the perpetrator must be brought to justice,\" he tweeted. \"Violence of any kind is wrong; those who commit it should be caught and punished.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United forward Mason Greenwood says it was \"poor judgement\" to inhale nitrous oxide, after \"historical pictures\" of him doing so were published by the Sun.\n\nIt comes after Greenwood and Manchester City's Phil Foden were sent home from England duty on Monday for breaching coronavirus quarantine guidelines.\n\n\"I strongly urge others not to follow my example,\" said Greenwood, 18.\n\nNitrous oxide is also known as laughing gas or 'hippy crack'.\n\nIn a statement, Greenwood said: \"I have now been made aware of the health risks associated with this practice and accept that even trying it, as shown in these historical pictures, was poor judgement on my part.\n\n\"As an 18-year-old, I am learning all the time. However, this week I have also learned I will be judged to a higher standard because of my career as a footballer and I must respect that in future.\n\n\"I am determined to repay the faith shown in me by my manager and coaches.\"\n\nSold legally, nitrous oxide is used for medical and commercial uses. While it is not illegal to possess the substance, it is illegal to give away or sell as a psychoactive drug.\n\nNitrous oxide slows down the brain and the body's responses, giving users a feeling of euphoria and can cause hallucinations, but it can also lead to headaches, dizziness and paranoia.\n\nHowever, large doses can starve the body and brain of oxygen, according to UK government drug advice service Frank.\n\nGreenwood made his senior international debut in the 1-0 Nations League victory over Iceland in Reykyavik on 5 September.\n\nHis call-up followed a breakout season under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at United, in which he scored 17 goals.\n\nGreenwood said he \"only has himself to blame\" after being dropped from Gareth Southgate's England squad over the incident in Iceland.\n\nHe is now back at United and training on his own, in accordance with Covid-19 protocols.\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Food firms have written to the government asking for support as a stand-off with landlords looms over rent holidays.\n\nCompanies such as Deliveroo called for a targeted extension of the commercial evictions ban, which was introduced at the height of the pandemic.\n\nRevo, which represents landlords, said well-known firms were \"getting away with not paying their rent\".\n\nThe government said it was \"working closely\" with landlords and tenants.\n\nIn April the government introduced a moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent, which was then extended until 30 September.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, chief executives of these firms called for a targeted extension of the rent holiday for restaurants in city centres and for those in areas under lockdown.\n\n\"There is a critical risk that many restaurants will face eviction proceedings from 1 October,\" the signatories said.\n\nThe bosses, including Will Shu of Deliveroo, Alasdair Murdoch, the UK chief executive of Burger King, and Julian Metcalfe of Itsu, also said landlords should not be able to claim full back-rent when the moratorium ends.\n\nInstead, rent arrears repayments should be spread across 12 months, they said.\n\nWill Shu of Deliveroo was one of the signatories of the letter\n\n\"From our experiences of negotiations with landlords, around 30% have indicated their intention to evict, issue final demands for full payment, or otherwise indicated they will not support any restructure of Covid-19-incurred rent debt,\" the signatories said.\n\nIn addition, they asked for tax breaks for empty properties to be changed to discourage evictions.\n\nBut Revo, an industry body for commercial landlords, said: \"The blanket moratorium means strongly backed, well known High Street companies are getting away with not paying their rent.\"\n\nVivienne King, chief executive of Revo, said that \"this is at the cost of vulnerable occupiers, since the revenue shortfall makes it that much harder for property owners to support those occupiers in genuine need.\"\n\nShe added that any extensions to rent holidays should not be funded by the private sector.\n\n\"The moratoria were meant to be short-term, emergency measures to protect businesses at a time when they could not trade. They too have served their purpose,\" she said.\n\nWho should foot the rent bill during the pandemic is a Mexican stand-off between the businesses who are struggling and their landlords who've got bills to pay, including mortgage payments to their banks.\n\nWill Shu - the founder and chief executive of Deliveroo, which delivers food from 35,000 UK restaurants - says the pandemic means restaurants and landlords are \"in it together\" and that \"landlords understand that without these tenants it's a very different situation on the High Street\".\n\nRent negotiations are incredibly complex, especially for restaurant chains with multiple outlets and thus multiple landlords.\n\nThis is because landlords come in all shapes and sizes, from the big funds which use property to pay our pensions to individuals who rely on the rental income.\n\nLandlords argue that without the stick of eviction, tenants have a free pass to not pay up, even when they can, and that changing the rules in this way undermines the UK's reputation as a safe place to invest.\n\nAs the next quarter's rent bill looms and the eviction ban expires at the end of this month, this debate is a ticking time bomb.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise the huge challenges faced by commercial tenants and landlords during this period and we're working closely with them to ensure they are supported.\n\n\"We've taken unprecedented action to protect jobs and livelihoods, with a package of around £160bn of support, including loans, rates relief and grants for businesses.\"\n\nSome landlords and commercial tenants have managed to come to agreements, and tenants should pay what they can under a government code of practice.\n\nGovernment loans are available to landlords along with VAT and rates deferrals, the spokesperson added.", "UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia.\n\nThe deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn.\n\nARM's technology is at the heart of most smartphones, among many other devices.\n\nNvidia has promised to keep the business based in the UK, to hire more staff, and to retain ARM's brand.\n\nIt added that the deal would create \"the premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence\" (AI).\n\n\"ARM will remain headquartered in Cambridge,\" said Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang.\n\n\"We will expand on this great site and build a world-class AI research facility, supporting developments in healthcare, life sciences, robotics, self-driving cars and other fields.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Nvidia chief explains why he wants to buy ARM\n\nA number of business leaders have signed an open letter calling on the Prime Minister to stop the merger.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC that it would not block the sale, but said conditions could be imposed on the takeover.\n\nSoftbank made commitments to secure jobs and keep ARM's headquarters in the UK until September next year.\n\n\"So far, when you read the announcement coming from Nvidia they said they will honour that Softbank has made at the time,\" said Sonja Laud, chief investment officer at Legal & General Investment Management.\n\n\"But with the expiry about to happen and obviously the Brexit negotiations under way it will be very interesting to see how this develops in the future.\"\n\nThis appears to address concerns that British jobs would be lost and decision-making shifted to the US. Last week, the Labour Party had urged the government to intervene.\n\nBut two of ARM's co-founders have raised other issues about the takeover.\n\nHermann Hauser and Tudor Brown had suggested ARM should remain \"neutral\", rather than be owned by a company like Nvidia, which produces its own processors.\n\nThe concern is that there would be a conflict of interest since ARM's clients would become dependent on a business with which many also compete for sales.\n\nMoreover, the two co-founders also claimed that once ARM was owned by an American firm, Washington could try to block Chinese companies from using its knowhow as part of a wider trade clash between the countries.\n\nHermann Hauser (left) and Tudor Brown (right) have warned the takeover would have negative consequences\n\n\"If ARM becomes a US subsidiary of a US company, it falls under the Cfius [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] regulations,\" Mr Hauser told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"[That] means that if hundreds of UK companies that incorporate ARM's [technology] in their products, want to sell it, and export it to anywhere in the world including China - which is a major market - the decision on whether they will be allowed to export it will be made in the White House and not in Downing Street.\"\n\nHe added that he believed the pledge to retain and increase the number of UK jobs was \"meaningless\" unless UK ministers stepped in to make it legally enforceable.\n\nBut ARM's chief executive played down the threat of export bans.\n\n\"It isn't to do with the ownership of the company, it's all to do with analysis of the product itself,\" Simon Segars told the BBC.\n\n\"The majority of our products are designed in the UK or outside the US, and the majority of our products don't fall under much of the US export control set of rules.\"\n\nMr Huang added that ARM had \"some of the finest computer scientists in the world\" in Cambridge and he intended to both retain them and attract others to what would become Nvidia's largest site in Europe.\n\nThe UK prime minister's spokesman said \"ministers have spoken to both companies\", adding that the government would be scrutinising the deal \"including what it means for the Cambridge HQ\".\n\nARM creates computer chip designs that others then customise to their own ends. It also develops instruction sets, which define how software controls processors.\n\nIt is based in Cambridge but also has offices across the world, including a joint venture in Shenzhen, China.\n\nHundreds of companies license its innovations including Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Qualcomm. To date, ARM says 180 billion chips have been made based on its solutions.\n\nWhen Softbank acquired ARM, it promised to keep the company's headquarters in the UK and to increase the number of local jobs, which it did.\n\nSoftbank's founder Masayoshi Son described the firm as being a \"crystal ball\" that would help him predict where tech was heading. But losses on other investments, including the office rental company WeWork, prompted a rethink.\n\nCalifornia-headquartered Nvidia overtook Intel to become the world's most valuable chipmaker in July.\n\nUntil now, it has specialised in high-end graphics processing units (GPUs). These are commonly used by gamers to deliver more detailed visuals, as well as by professionals for tasks including scientific research, machine learning, and cryptocurrency \"mining\".\n\nNvidia is also one of ARM's clients, using its designs to create its line-up of Tegra central processing units (CPUs).\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, Nvidia will pay Softbank $21.5bn in its own stock and $12bn in cash. It will follow with up to a further $5bn in cash or stock if certain targets are met.\n\nNvidia will also issue $1.5bn in equity to ARM's employees.\n\nMr Huang has already said that one of the changes he wants to make is to accelerate development of ARM's designs for CPUs used in computer servers - a rapidly growing sector.\n\nAmazon is among companies that are already betting on the tech.\n\nThe use of internet-based services has led to ever-growing demand for computer servers\n\nBut experts say one risk Nvidia faces is that the takeover could encourage ARM's wider client list to shift focus to a rival type of chip technology, which lags behind in terms of adoption but has the benefit of not being controlled by one company.\n\n\"ARM is facing growing competition from RISC-V, an open-source architecture,\" wrote CCS Insight's Geoff Blaber in a recent research note.\n\n\"If its partners believed that ARM's integrity and independence was compromised, it would accelerate the growth of RISC-V and in the process devalue ARM.\"\n\nMr Blaber also suggested regulators might block the deal.\n\n\"This process will take months if not years with a high chance of failure,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Huang has said that he expects it to take more than a year to \"educate\" regulators and answer all their questions, but said he had \"every confidence\" they would ultimately approve the investment.\n\nIt's a deal which the man who founded ARM says is a disaster.\n\nAnd many in the UK's technology industry will agree with Hermann Hauser.\n\nHe opposed the 2016 sale of the chip designer to Softbank but accepted that the Japanese firm stood by its guarantees to boost employment and research in Cambridge.\n\nBut a takeover by Nvidia, one of the many firms that licences ARM's designs, appears to pose a threat to its business model - why will its hundreds of other customers now have faith that they will have equal access to its technology?\n\nIn recent days leading figures in the Cambridge technology sector have lobbied Downing Street, calling for ministers to intervene to bring ARM back under UK ownership. There have been signs that the government is considering a more active industrial policy.\n\nDominic Cummings, who has talked of the need for the UK to have a trillion dollar tech company, is leading the drive for a more interventionist approach.\n\nNow, with Hermann Hauser and others warning that this deal will make Britain a US vassal state, the government is under pressure to step in and ensure that control over vital home-grown technology is not lost to a foreign power.", "World champions England claimed an astonishing 24-run victory as Australia crumbled in the second one-day international at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nChasing 232 to win the series, Australia were cruising at 144-2 before Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer induced a collapse of four wickets for three runs in 21 balls.\n\nA reeling Australia lost their final eight wickets for 63 runs as they were bowled out for 207, despite a valiant last-wicket partnership of 31 between Alex Carey and Josh Hazlewood.\n\nEngland earlier collapsed to 149-8, with leg-spinner Adam Zampa taking 3-36 before Adil Rashid and Tom Curran pushed them to 231-9.\n• None 'We've got the belief we can win from any position'\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan said he wanted his side to learn how to \"win ugly\" and will be pleased with how they dragged themselves back into the game.\n\nArcher was as hostile as he has been for England, disrupting the opening batsmen first up before returning to the attack with Woakes and triggering a collapse.\n\nAs good as England were, this was an almost unbelievable collapse from Australia, who gifted wickets with poor shots, no foot movement and a generally bewildered air.\n\nEngland now have a chance to keep their five-year unbeaten run in home one-day series in the final match of the series at the same ground on Wednesday.\n\nWhen Archer and Woakes returned to the attack, with Marnus Labuschagne and Aaron Finch sharing a 107-run stand, it felt like the game was over.\n\nHowever, the two stifled the run-rate before Woakes trapped Labuschagne lbw, and six balls later Mitchell Marsh chopped Archer on to his stumps.\n\nWhen captain Finch, who had led the way with 73, was bowled by Woakes in the next over, England upped their intensity, and it paid off as Glenn Maxwell played a wild slog and was bowled.\n\nIt was the speed with which the collapse happened that was so surprising, with Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc falling to consecutive Sam Curran deliveries as the left-armer used all his variations.\n\nAustralia had this match within their grasp and, for the second time on this tour, they let it slip.\n\nAustralia created their own downfall, as the partnership between Finch and Labuschagne had highlighted England's struggle to take middle-order wickets - a skill that Liam Plunkett led the way in for so long.\n\nRashid could not find the right length on a pitch that offered some turn, while the Curran brothers, replacing Moeen Ali and Mark Wood, could not make the breakthrough.\n\nFinch and Labuschagne countered a tricky pitch with aggression and calm running, although Finch was dropped on 58 by Rashid in his follow-through.\n\nBut Australia twice had the chance to close this match out, the first coming with the ball when they failed to clean up England's tail, and secondly as they cruised past the halfway stage with the bat.\n\nThey will hope that Steve Smith, who again missed this match as a precaution following a blow to the head in the nets on Friday, will return to offer some stability to a slightly fragile line-up.\n\nThis was a far from vintage performance with the bat by England, who were suffocated by Australia's bowlers.\n\nRoot epitomised the struggles. He was hit three times by the pace bowlers - at one point requiring treatment after a blow to the knee from Starc - and in his desperation to rotate the strike, ran out Jason Roy via a superb throw from Marcus Stoinis at cover.\n\nDespite looking uncomfortable, Root and Morgan guided England to 90-2, Root just beginning to cut loose with back-to-back boundaries before he edged Zampa to slip in his first over.\n\nWith the run-rate going nowhere, wickets fell regularly. Jos Buttler was trapped lbw by Pat Cummins, Morgan fell in similar fashion to Zampa, Sam Billings chopped the leg-spinner on to his stumps and Sam Curran edged Starc behind.\n\nChris Woakes played a handy cameo but it was Rashid and Tom Curran who helped England finish strongly.\n\nThe final six overs went for 67 runs, including 18 off the otherwise excellent Cummins. Rashid slapped Cummins over deep mid-wicket for just the second six of England's innings as the two shared a 72-run stand.\n\nAustralia were clearly frustrated as they left the field, but that was nothing compared to how they will feel after the batting performance that was to follow.\n\n'England never know when they are beaten' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on BBC Test Match Special: \"It was an outstanding win - not from nowhere but having the bowlers execute plans as well as we did, particularly when Australia started to gather momentum in the Aaron Finch and Marnus Labuschagne partnership.\n\n\"Once we broke into partnerships it was very tough for batsmen to come in and get going. That was certainly the case when we were batting.\"\n\nOn his decision to bowl Jofra Archer and Chris Woakes out early: \"The game was getting away from us - there was no point Jofra having two or three overs left, and the same with Chris Woakes, if Australia are going to chase it down in the 42nd over. We went all in and the plan was to bowl Australia out.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"At the end of the day England were just too good. England scored 81 runs in the last 10 overs, which wasn't ideal.\n\n\"It was getting more difficult as the match went on but that's no excuse for the collapse. It probably wasn't the greatest viewer match but it was good to see an equal match between bat and ball.\"\n\nEngland bowler Chris Woakes: \"It's great to have someone like Jofra Archer in your team because when you're up against it you can give him the ball and you get that little bit of X-factor from him, which is brilliant.\"\n\nEx-England spinner Phil Tufnell on TMS: \"England never know when they are beaten. They always feel like they can drag it out of the fire.\"\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNaomi Osaka demonstrated her growing maturity to fight back against Victoria Azarenka in a compelling US Open final and claim her third Grand Slam title.\n\nJapanese fourth seed Osaka, 22, won 1-6 6-3 6-3 for her second US Open title.\n\nOsaka was overwhelmed in the first set and in danger of trailing 3-0 in the second but then won 10 of the next 12 games to seize the momentum.\n\nThe Belarusian, 31, in her first major final since 2013, was broken for 5-3 in the decider before Osaka served out.\n\nOsaka shrieked with joy as she took her second match point, then calmly lay on the court and stared at the New York sky as she contemplated her latest achievement.\n\nOsaka's level raised considerably as Azarenka was unable to maintain the intensity she showed in a one-sided opening set.\n\nThe fightback ensured Osaka, who won the 2018 US Open and 2019 Australian Open, maintained her record of winning every Grand Slam final she has played in.\n\n\"I don't want to play you in any more finals, I didn't really enjoy that, it was a really tough match for me,\" Osaka jokingly told Azarenka.\n\nShe added: \"It was really inspiring for me because I used to watch you play here when I was younger. I learned a lot, so thank you.\"\n• None Re-live how Osaka won her second US Open title\n• None 'I've tried to mature' - Osaka on how coronavirus break helped her win US Open\n\nAnother US Open title for Osaka - but a contrasting occasion\n\nOsaka's maiden victory at Flushing Meadows two years ago came in straight sets against Serena Williams in a hostile environment following the American's infamous argument with umpire Carlos Ramos.\n\nIt left Osaka in tears as she stood on the podium waiting to collect her first Grand Slam trophy.\n\nThis second success could not have been more different.\n\nHere she had to fight back from a set down against an inspired Azarenka - and navigate a tricky decider which could have swung either way - on an Arthur Ashe Stadium left virtually empty because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd even in what were still strange circumstances, Osaka could this time enjoy the moment with a beaming smile as she lifted the prize in the company of her team and rapper boyfriend Cordae - even if she had to take the trophy from the table herself rather than be presented with it because of social distancing rules.\n\nOsaka looked a little lost as Azarenka overwhelmed her in a fast start, hitting 13 unforced errors and struggling to cope with the Belarusian's proactive play and controlled aggression.\n\nDraping a towel over her head at changeovers was a sign of Osaka's concerns. Her attempts to collect her thoughts and regain her composure did not initially work, however.\n\nAnother wayward forehand prompted a frustrated Osaka to throw her racquet to the floor in disgust.\n\nEventually, though, the mental resilience which she says she has developed over recent months came to the fore.\n\n\"I just thought it would be embarrassing to lose this under an hour,\" said Osaka, who will rise to third in the world after her win.\n\nThat resulted in a major momentum shift in her favour as Azarenka threatened to move 3-0 ahead in the second set.\n\nA rasping forehand by Osaka at 40-30 proved pivotal, not only in the game, but ultimately in the whole match as she seized control to level.\n\nThe former world number one maintained that level in the decider to earn a 4-1 lead, but was unable to convert one of four break points to move 5-1 ahead.\n\nThat might have proved costly when Azarenka immediately put the set back on serve, only for Osaka to battle back again by winning what proved to be the final two games.\n\nNot only has Osaka impressed on court during the Cincinnati Masters-US Open bubble in the past month, she has also won many admirers for her activism in the fight against racism and police brutality in the United States.\n\nA few days before the start of the US Open, Osaka pulled out of her Western and Southern Open semi-final in protest at the shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by police in Wisconsin.\n\nBefore her US Open first-round match, she wore a face mask with the name of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was shot dead by a policeman in March.\n\nOsaka, who has Japanese and Haitian parents and was brought up in the United States, said she had seven masks with seven different names.\n\nHer target was to reveal all of them by reaching Saturday's final and that provided her with extra motivation to win the title, according to her coach Wim Fissette.\n\n\"I felt the point was to make people start talking,\" Osaka said after her victory.\n\n\"I've been inside the bubble and not sure what's going on in the outside world. The more retweets it gets, the more people talk about it.\"\n\nAzarenka wins hearts but falls short of another Slam\n\nFormer world number one Azarenka was aiming to complete a remarkable renaissance by landing her first Grand Slam title since defending her Australian Open crown in 2013.\n\nFew had predicted she would compete for the sport's biggest prizes again after a turbulent past few years.\n\nAzarenka took time away from the sport to give birth in December 2016 and had her comeback stalled by a lengthy custody battle over son Leo.\n\nLast week she admitted she had thought about quitting when the WTA Tour was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe had won only one match in the previous year going into last month's restart, but came back from the enforced break reinvigorated and possessing a fresh perspective on life.\n\nThat enabled her to win a first WTA title in four years when Osaka pulled out of their scheduled Western & Southern Open final with a hamstring injury - and she continued her form in the Grand Slam.\n\nUltimately though, she could not become the fourth mother to win a major title as Osaka consigned her to a third defeat in a US Open final.\n\nWhen Osaka won the title two years ago, boos rang around the Arthur Ashe Stadium as Serena Williams had been docked a game.\n\nThis time virtual silence greeted her triumph - but again she had to do it the hard way.\n\nAzarenka played an almost flawless first set, and it was only when four games from defeat that Osaka found her range and some serious power.\n\nThe 22-year-old has taken some knocks over the past 18 months as she came to terms with life as one of the world's highest profile athletes.\n\nA first-round defeat at last year's Wimbledon was perhaps the hardest to take - but look at her now.\n\nNot only is she playing with supreme confidence once again, but is also able to use her influence to promote social justice in a very assured and unassuming way.\n• None Comedians try to make sense of 2020\n• None Go behind the scenes with West Ham Women", "Police said the man who hosted the party in Harlaxton Drive \"deliberately flouted\" the rules\n\nA man has been fined £10,000 for hosting a large house party in Nottingham.\n\nThe 19-year-old was issued with the fixed penalty notice after he allowed more than 50 people into his home on Harlaxton Drive, in Lenton, on Friday.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said it used its full powers to deal with the \"reckless\" organiser who \"deliberately flouted\" the rules after an initial warning.\n\nThe new \"rule of six\" coronavirus restrictions come into force on Monday.\n\nThe tighter laws limit gatherings to six people indoors and outdoors in England.\n\nPeople have been warned not to treat this weekend as a \"party\" after one scientist warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said officers attended the house party after Nottingham City Council officers were met with \"hostility from the organiser\" at 22:20 BST.\n\nAbout 50 people were found at the address, who were all ordered to leave, and the host was issued with the fine, it added.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Cooper said: \"This party was a clear example of a householder who deliberately flouted the rules without a care for anyone else and as a result we have used the full powers we have to deal with this.\n\n\"Under current rules we can issue fines to anyone hosting gatherings of more than 30 people which can result in fines of up to £10,000. And now we are on the eve of rules becoming even tighter so there can be gatherings of no more than six.\"\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.", "Richard Ratcliffe has campaigned for Nazanin's release for several years\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran, has not been taken to court to face new charges as expected, her husband has said.\n\nIranian state media had said she would be required to face fresh charges four years after her initial conviction.\n\nHer husband Richard Ratcliffe said: \"For Nazanin, the uncertainty is deeply traumatic, as we await the next move.\n\n\"This remains a game of cat and mouse between governments, with us living life as a piece of bait.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office reacted to the news of the postponement by calling on Iran to permanently release Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nDirector of Amnesty International UK Kate Allen said it was \"a nonsense\" she had ever faced the new court date.\n\nMs Allen said there had already been a \"deeply unfair trial\" leading to her being \"unjustly convicted\".\n\nShe added: \"It appears the Iranian authorities are playing cruel political games with Nazanin. The situation has gone on long enough. Nazanin has continued to suffer in Iran away from her husband and young daughter.\n\n\"The UK government has had four and a half years to secure her unconditional release and have failed to do so. Securing Nazanin's release should be an absolute priority.\n\n\"As a matter of urgency, ministers now need to step up their efforts to get Nazanin home in time for Christmas and provide a clear plan on how they will do this.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Tehran in April 2016. She had been visiting her parents with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting against the Iranian government, which she denies, and no official charges have ever been made public.\n\nGabriella has now returned to the UK.\n\nEarlier this year, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given temporary leave from prison because of the coronavirus outbreak and has been living at her parents' house in Tehran with an ankle tag.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"We welcome the deferral of this groundless court hearing, and call on Iran to make Nazanin's release permanent so that she can return to her family in the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband describes how his daughter Gabriella is coping without her mother\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said she had been \"terrified\" about the expected court appearance and had suffered the latest in a series of panic attacks.\n\nExplaining the process surrounding Sunday's postponed court appearance, he said: \"Nazanin's lawyer went to court early this morning as appointed. When he got there, he was told by the Court Office that there would be no hearing today.\n\n\"He had been given no indication that the trial would not be happening until this point. We have not been given a rescheduled date for the court hearing. It is perhaps early to understand why today's sudden postponement happened, or what it means.\"\n\nHe said he believed the postponement might been to do with efforts made by the British Embassy to attend the hearing.\n\nMr Ratcliffe added: \"The Foreign Office had been requesting access to attend Nazanin's trial.\n\n\"The Iranian authorities were clearly reluctant to say yes, though likely mindful of the legal consequences of saying no in the context of diplomatic protection having been invoked.\n\n\"The current uncertainty of this period, on the back of all that has happened these past four years, is a kind of psychological torture.\"\n\nHe believes his wife and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nThe UK owes Iran about £400m for Chieftain tanks ordered by the former Shah of Iran which were never delivered because of the 1979 Islamic revolution.\n\nThe UK government says it will repay the money, but it cannot do so until a legal path is found because of international sanctions against Iran that currently make payment impossible.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Oruc Reis seismic research ship was surveying drilling prospects in disputed waters\n\nA Turkish research ship at the centre of a row with Greece over oil and gas exploration in a disputed area of the Eastern Mediterranean has returned to waters near southern Turkey.\n\nGreek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the move as a \"positive first step\".\n\nTurkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said the move did not mean Turkey was \"giving up on our rights there\".\n\nTensions flared when Ankara sent the research ship to survey an area claimed by Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.\n\nAnkara has since faced potential sanctions from the European Union, which supports Greece and Cyprus.\n\nRatcheting pressure up further on Saturday, Mr Mitsotakis announced Greece was \"reinforcing its armed forces\" and would buy 18 French Rafale fighter jets, four frigates and four navy helicopters. He said the Greek military would increase by troop numbers by 15,000 over the next five years.\n\nGreece and Turkey are both Nato members, but have a history of border disputes and competing claims over maritime rights.\n\nOn 10 August, Turkey sent the seismic research ship Oruc Reis, accompanied by two auxiliary vessels, to search for potentially rich oil and gas deposits south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo. At the time, the Greek foreign ministry called the move a \"new serious escalation\" which \"exposed\" Turkey's \"destabilising role\".\n\nThere are also tensions around Cyprus over rival exploration rights. The Republic of Cyprus and Greece do not accept any such rights for Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus in the region.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Akar confirmed that the Oruc Reis had returned to Turkish waters. Ship-tracking websites showed it near the port of Antalya.\n\n\"There will be planned movements backwards and forwards,\" Mr Akar told state news agency Anadolu.\n\nLast week, Turkey's navy said that the Oruc Reis would continue operations in the area until 12 September. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said exploratory work would continue but there were no plans so far for an extension to the ship's mission.\n\nThe Turkish pro-government newspaper, Yeni Safak, said the decision not to extend the ship's mission was \"a step towards giving diplomacy a chance\".\n\nFrance has deployed Rafale fighters to the Eastern Mediterranean\n\n\"This is a positive first step. I hope there will be more of them,\" Greek PM Mitsotakis told a news conference in Thessaloniki on Sunday.\n\nFrance - which is at odds with Turkey over the crisis in Libya - recently deployed two Rafale fighter jets and a naval frigate in the Eastern Mediterranean because of the tensions between Greece and Turkey.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said the French military would monitor the situation. He also urged Turkey to halt oil and gas exploration in disputed waters.", "Bernadette Walker, 17, has been missing since 21 July\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl have arrested a second person on suspicion of murder.\n\nBernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough on 21 July by her parents after she had not been seen for three days.\n\nA murder investigation was declared even though a body has not been found.\n\nPolice said a woman in her 30s from Peterborough was arrested on Saturday night. A man in his 50s, also from the town, remains in custody.\n\nPolice urged anyone with information on Bernadette Walker's whereabouts to get in touch\n\nDet Supt Jon Hutchinson from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit said: \"Due to the length of time Bernadette has been missing and concerns she may have come to some harm, we made the decision to declare this a murder investigation.\n\n\"Whilst we hope we do find Bernadette alive and well, there is every possibility this may not be the case therefore my team and I will do everything possible to find out what has happened to her and bring any offenders to justice.\"\n\nPolice urged anyone with information on her whereabouts to get in touch.\n\nA man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of Bernadette's murder\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.", "Sir John Major and Tony Blair have joined critics opposing the government's proposed Internal Market Bill\n\nEx-Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major have urged MPs to reject the \"shameful\" attempt to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nThe two have accused the government of \"embarrassing\" the UK by seeking the power to change the details of a treaty agreed last year with the EU.\n\nMPs will begin debating the contentious Internal Market Bill on Monday.\n\nA senior minister said the ex-PMs weren't \"close\" to the process and the UK was in a unprecedented situation.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the powers being sought by ministers to amend aspects of the Northern Ireland Protocol were an \"insurance policy\" to be used only if attempts to settle differences in other ways failed.\n\nThe Protocol, a key part of the Withdrawal Agreement signed by both sides last year, is designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf the bill becomes law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Sir John and Mr Blair - former Conservative and Labour prime ministers respectively - said the government's actions were \"irresponsible, wrong in principle and dangerous in practice\".\n\n\"It raises questions that go far beyond the impact on Ireland, the peace process and negotiations for a trade deal - crucial though they are. It questions the very integrity of our nation,\" they said.\n\nThe former leaders, both vehement opponents of Brexit, said that respecting treaty obligations was \"just as important\" as domestic law, and called for MPs to reject the legislation.\n\n\"As the world looks on aghast at the UK - the word of which was once accepted as inviolable - this government's action is shaming itself and embarrassing our nation,\" they added.\n\nTony Blair and Sir John Major say Boris Johnson knew the full consequences of the Brexit divorce deal he struck with Brussels last year - that new barriers to trade would arise between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThey say the government's plans to now override parts of the deal would imperil the Good Friday Agreement, undermine the UK's credibility in future trade deals and could prompt a damaging retaliation from the EU.\n\nThey accuse ministers of embarrassing the UK, by negotiating with what they call \"cavalier bombast posing as serious diplomacy\" - an approach they say questions the very integrity of the nation.\n\nTheir intervention is, however, unlikely to sway Mr Johnson, who's insisted the Internal Market Bill is a necessary safety net to protect the union and peace process - and has defied EU demands to withdraw the contentious clauses before the end of the month.\n\nThe prime minister's appealed to MPs to back the legislation - his predecessors say it's Parliament's job to stop his plan going any further.\n\nThe two former leaders were in office during key periods of the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nIn December 1993, Sir John helped negotiate the Downing Street Declaration in an attempt to secure paramilitary ceasefires in Northern Ireland. Less than a year later, the IRA called its first ceasefire.\n\nIt helped pave the way for all-party talks which culminated with the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998 when Tony Blair was in No 10 - a deal that is widely seen as marking the effective end of Northern Ireland's \"Troubles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"What we can't have... is the EU disrupting or putting at threat the integrity of the UK\"\n\nThe EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist MP Sammy Wilson, whose party opposed the Withdrawal Agreement, said Mr Blair and Sir John were talking \"utter bunkum\".\n\nHe said the former leaders should be focusing on the risk of a \"trade border\" between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK and the damage this would do to NI's economy.\n\n\"The suggestion by the hero of the peace process brigade that the bill rips apart the Belfast Agreement is complete and utter bunkum without any factual basis,\" he said.\n\n\"They need to explain how making it easier for Northern Ireland to do business with our biggest market undermines the Belfast Agreement.\n\n\"They need to explain how Northern Ireland companies having less paperwork undermines the Belfast Agreement.\"", "State for International Trade Liz Truss speaking to Japan\"s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi at the Department for International Trade\n\nThe UK has struck its first major post-Brexit trade pact after signing a deal with Japan that aims to boost trade between the countries by about £15bn.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said it was a \"historic moment\".\n\nShe said it would bring \"new wins\" for British businesses in manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries.\n\nCritics said while the deal may be of symbolic importance it would boost UK GDP by only 0.07%, a fraction of the trade that could be lost with the EU.\n\nFriday's deal still needs approval by Japan's parliament, which the country's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi forecast would be passed by January.\n\nMs Truss said the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement means 99% of exports to Japan will be tariff-free.\n\n\"The agreement we have negotiated - in record time and in challenging circumstances - goes far beyond the existing EU deal, as it secures new wins for British businesses in our great manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries,\" she said.\n\n\"From our automotive workers in Wales to our shoemakers in the North of England, this deal will help build back better as we create new opportunities for people throughout the whole of the UK and help level up our country.\"\n\nShe added that, strategically, the deal was an important step towards joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership and placing Britain at the centre of a network of free trade agreements.\n\nMajor Japanese investors in the UK such as Nissan and Hitachi would benefit from reduced tariffs on parts coming from Japan and streamlined regulatory procedures, the UK's trade department statement said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said Brexit gives Britain the freedom to strike trade deals with other countries around the world.\n\nBusiness leaders welcomed the agreement, but stressed that securing a deal with the EU remained the most important goal.\n\nThe director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, Adam Marshall, called the announcement a milestone, but added: \"Whilst this agreement is undoubtedly cause for celebration, securing a Free Trade Agreement with the EU remains critical to the future of businesses in the UK.\n\n\"We urge ministers to redouble their efforts to reach a comprehensive partnership with our largest trading partner at a crucial time in the negotiations.\"\n\nThe CBI also hailed the agreement, with director general Carolyn Fairbairn saying this \"breakthrough moment\" can be the first of many.\n\n\"It's a huge opportunity to secure new Japanese investment across a wider range of sectors and UK regions,\" she said.\n\nYou can almost hear the sighs of relief echoing around Westminster and within the business community.\n\nAfter weeks of wrangling, the first deal of the Brexit era has been struck, which ensures that 99% of British goods can enter Japan without tariffs, or extra charges.\n\nBut ultimately, this deal largely mirrors the agreement which already exists between the EU and Japan. And with trade with Japan accounting for just 2% of the UK's total, the expected boost to GDP of 0.07% over the long term is a tiny fraction of what might be lost from leaving the EU.\n\nAnd there is good reason for Japan cooperating to ensure this deal was secured in record time. It stands to get the lions share, 80%, of the total estimated £15bn boost to trade for both countries.\n\nEven then, the talks haven't been as speedy or straightforward as initially hoped - which may not bode well for negotiations elsewhere.\n\nAbout 99% of exports between the two nations will be tariff-free under the deal, with a particular focus on the food and drink, finance and tech sectors.\n\nManufacturing parts coming from Japan will benefit from reduced tariffs, as will British pork, beef and salmon travelling in the opposite direction.\n\nJapan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said: \"It was a very tough negotiation, but we reached the agreement in principle in about three months, at an unusually fast pace.\n\n\"While maintaining the high levels of access to the British market under the Japan-EU EPA, we improved our access to the British market on train cars and some auto parts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The names of the 22 victims were read out at the start of the inquiry\n\nSeveral people raised suspicions about the Manchester Arena suicide bomber in the minutes before he killed 22 people.\n\nSalman Abedi was reported to police and security ahead of the attack but one witness felt he was \"fobbed off\", a public inquiry has heard.\n\nThe witness had approached Abedi and asked him what was in his backpack while another said he thought he saw the suicide bomber praying.\n\nHundreds were injured in the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nInquiry proceedings began with Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court, reading the names of the 22 people who died on 22 May 2017.\n\n\"What happened that night was the most devastating terrorist attack in the UK for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"The inquiry will leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nFamilies, lawyers and chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders, a retired High Court judge, stood with heads bowed for a minute's silence before Mr Greaney's opening.\n\nSir John then formally opened the inquiry, adding \"this is an exercise in establishing the truth\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Roussos: ''It should be about transparency''\n\n\"If I conclude things went wrong then I shall say so, but we are not looking for scapegoats. We are searching for the truth,\" he said.\n\n\"The explosion killed 22 people, including children, the youngest was eight years old.\n\n\"Salman Abedi blew himself up in the explosion but he intended as many people as possible would die with him.\"\n\nThe most sensitive evidence is likely to be heard at closed hearings, with both press and public excluded because of the risk to national security.\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nHe was jailed for at least 55 years on 20 August for the 22 murders.\n\nThe inquiry will, among other things, look at the emergency response to the attack\n\nIn his opening statement, Mr Greaney told the inquiry \"experts consider that on 22 May there were missed opportunities to identify Salman Abedi as a threat and take mitigating action\".\n\nWhile there is evidence that suspicions were raised by members of the public in the minutes before the attack, \"no steward or British Transport Police (BTP) officer appear to have identified him as suspicious\", the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Greaney said experts concluded: \"If the presence of a potential suicide bomber had been reported, it is very likely that mitigating actions would've been taken that could have reduced the impact of the attack.\n\n\"This is because there was sufficient time between Abedi first being spotted by, and also reported to staff and his attack to effectively react.\"\n\nPaul Greaney QC read the names of each of those murdered by suicide bomber Salman Abedi during the first day of the inquiry\n\nOne member of the public, William Drysdale, spotted Salman Abedi and thought he was praying, less than an hour before he detonated his bomb.\n\nA second witness, Julie Merchant, approached BTP officer Jessica Bullough around 32 minutes before the deadly bombing to point out Abedi.\n\nMr Greaney said Ms Merchant cannot recall the details of the conversation with the officer but that it was \"to do with praying and political correctness\".\n\nThe officer cannot remember the conversation taking place, the hearing was told.\n\nShe was the first police officer to enter the City Rooms, where the bomb was detonated, after the attack, showing considerable bravery, Mr Greaney added.\n\nCCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nTwo more witnesses, known only as A and B, also saw a man matching Salman Abedi's description acting suspiciously.\n\nMr A challenged Abedi, asking him what he had in his backpack.\n\nThe witness then spoke to a Mohammed Agha, an employee of Showsec which provided security to the Arena on behalf of the venue's owners SMG, at 22.14, some 17 minutes before the detonation but said he was \"fobbed off.\"\n\nMr Agha spoke to colleague Kyle Lawler about the matter, eight minutes before the bomb went off.\n\nBut neither security control nor anyone else was informed about the suspicious activity, the hearing was told, although Mr Lawler said in a statement he tried to contact control but could not get through.\n\nHe then spotted the man get up and start walking towards the arena entrance.\n\nHis statement continued: \"I just froze and did not get anything out on the radio. I knew at that point it was too late.\"\n\nThe hearings will take place in a room specially converted from two courtrooms at Manchester Magistrates' Court\n\nMr Greaney also said expert evidence would be heard about risk assessments at the Arena.\n\n\"There was no effective risk assessments that considered the threats from terrorism at Manchester Arena in early 2017, despite the severe threat level,\" he said.\n\nThe possible role of Salman Abedi's family in radicalising the suicide bomber and his brother needs to be assessed, the inquiry also heard.\n\nHashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day after the bombing\n\nMr Greaney told the inquiry: \"Ismail Abedi, the brother of the killers, has been required by the inquiry legal team to answer a series of questions relating to what might, in general terms, be described as the issue of radicalisation.\n\n\"To date, he has declined to answer these questions on the basis that he maintains that his answers may tend to incriminate him.\"\n\nHe said similar requests to the brothers' parents, Ramadan and Samia, who are believed to be in Libya, \"have not been responded to, at least not in any substantive way\".\n\nThe chairman will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard by the inquiry, which is expected to take up to six months.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nTop seed Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the US Open for accidentally hitting a ball at a line judge in his fourth-round match.\n\nDjokovic, 33, showed his frustration after losing serve to trail 6-5 against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.\n\nThe Serbian world number one took a ball out of his pocket and hit it behind him, striking the female line judge in her throat.\n\nAfter a lengthy discussion, he was defaulted by tournament officials.\n• None 'Djokovic will win again - hopefully with a little more humility'\n• None 'Sad and empty' Djokovic 'extremely sorry' for hurting line judge\n• None Right decision to disqualify Djokovic, says Henman\n\nA United States Tennis Association statement said: \"In accordance with the Grand Slam rulebook, following his actions of intentionally hitting a ball dangerously or recklessly within the court or hitting a ball with negligent disregard of the consequences, the tournament referee defaulted Novak Djokovic from the 2020 US Open.\n\n\"Because he was defaulted, Djokovic will lose all ranking points earned at the US Open and will be fined the prize money won at the tournament in addition to any or all fines levied with respect to the offending incident.\"\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\nDjokovic was the heavy favourite to win the men's singles title at the US Open, which is being played behind closed doors and is the first Grand Slam to take place since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nGoing into the encounter with 20th seed Carreno Busta, Djokovic had not lost a singles match in 2020.\n\nHe was aiming for an 18th Grand Slam triumph to move closer to rivals Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, who are not playing in New York, in the race to finish with the most men's major titles of all time.\n\nDjokovic's exit means there will be a new male Grand Slam champion for the first time since Marin Cilic won at Flushing Meadows in 2014.\n\nA player outside of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal will win a major for the first time since Stan Wawrinka won the US Open in 2016.\n\nCarreno Busta, who reached the US Open semi-finals in 2017, will play Denis Shapovalov in the quarter-finals after the 21-year-old Canadian 12th seed beat Belgium's David Goffin 6-7 (0-7) 6-3 6-4 6-3.\n\nDjokovic's costly moment of frustration - how the drama unfolded\n\nDjokovic had been playing well up until the game where he lost serve and had three set points at 5-4 before Carreno Busta fought back from 0-40 down.\n\nHowever, the world number one also showed a flash of his temper during that ninth game by whacking a ball into an advertising board after the Spaniard brought it back to deuce.\n\nLeon Smith, Great Britain's Davis Cup captain, said he was \"surprised\" Djokovic did not get a warning for that incident, and felt one might have prevented the controversy which followed.\n\nAfter Djokovic was defaulted, Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"There has to be consistency, if someone hits a ball with that much venom and temper, call a warning.\n\n\"The second one can be dangerous and so it proved to be.\"\n\nIn what proved the final game, Djokovic fell and hurt his shoulder, immediately calling for a medical timeout when trailing 0-30. Following treatment, the match resumed with Carreno Busta sealing the game three points later.\n\nIt was then that Djokovic hit the ball away, striking the line judge.\n\nDjokovic appeared to plead his case to tournament referee Soeren Friemel and Grand Slam supervisor Andreas Egli during a long conversation at the net.\n\nEventually, however, he accepted his fate and shook hands with Carreno Busta, who looked shocked by what had happened as he waited for a decision in his chair.\n\nDjokovic left Flushing Meadows without doing his news conference and later posted an apology on his Instagram page.\n\n'The officials had no choice' - reaction\n\nDjokovic's opponent Pablo Carreno Busta: \"I didn't see the moment, I was looking at my coach, celebrating the break and then I saw the line judge on the floor. I was in shock.\n\n\"When they were talking at the net I was focused in case I had to continue playing. This moment was so long. Finally Novak gave me the hand.\n\n\"I think it was not intentional. I don't think anyone of us do this intentionally. It's just the moment. It was bad luck.\n\n\"Of course you can't do this. The rules are the rules. The referee and the supervisor did the right thing but it isn't easy to make this decision.\"\n\nGB Davis Cup captain Leon Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"It's a habit. He did it five minutes beforehand, with much more venom, and he was just lucky it hit the advertising board. It could have hit one of the ball kids.\"\n\nMartina Navratilova, winner of 18 Grand Slam singles titles: \"Unbelievable what just happened on the court at the US Open - Novak Djokovic defaulted for inadvertently but stupidly hitting a lineswoman in the throat with a ball and the officials had no choice but to default. Wow. Glad the woman is OK - we must do better than that.\"\n\nIf Novak Djokovic hadn't have been defaulted in that situation, can you imagine the outrage? What sort of light would that have shone on tennis neutrality and the decisions that these officials make?\n\nIt was an open and shut case to me.\n\nI don't see how you could argue that was not a disqualification. It doesn't matter how hard you hit the ball. I don't think he has any defence at all.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is Tom Hanks' Captain Sully all he appears?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We are concerned about this rise in cases\"\n\nA further 2,988 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the UK in the past 24 hours, government data showed.\n\nIt is the highest number reported on a single day since 22 May and a rise of 1,175 on Saturday, according to the UK government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"concerned\" about a rise in cases \"predominantly among young people\".\n\nTwo further deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded, taking the total number of UK deaths to 41,551.\n\nMr Hancock added: \"It's so important that everybody does their bit and follows the social distancing because it doesn't matter how old you are, how affected you might be by this disease, you can pass the disease on to others.\"\n\n\"So don't pass the disease on to your grandparents if you're a young person, everybody needs to follow the social distancing.\"\n\nDespite the sharp rise in cases, Mr Hancock said the government was right to reopen schools \"because of the impact on children of not getting an education\", adding that workplaces which have reopened are \"Covid-secure\".\n\nScotland recorded 208 new cases on Sunday, its highest daily increase for more than 17 weeks.\n\nWales recorded a further 98 cases, its highest daily rise since 30 June, and Northern Ireland recorded 106 new cases, its highest rise since 25 April.\n\nOverall, since the start of the pandemic, 347,152 cases have been confirmed in the UK.\n\nThe number of daily reported cases has been rising steadily and some of that has been put down to an increase in the number of people being tested.\n\nPut simply, the more you test the more new cases you will find. But the jump of more than one thousand in a day is a significant new spike.\n\nThe health secretary says the government is concerned and has renewed official calls for more vigilance on social distancing.\n\nWhat Matt Hancock and health officials are worried about is that the UK might follow the same path as France and Spain, where increases in infections amongst younger adults led after a few weeks to higher numbers of admissions to hospitals for older and more vulnerable patients.\n\nThe number of people seriously ill in hospital with Covid-19 has fallen and there were just two new daily reported deaths.\n\nMedical leaders and ministers can only hope that the spread of the virus amongst younger people does not get passed on to the elderly and those with underlying health problems.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said ministers needed to \"set out what is being done to get testing back on track and bring case numbers down\".\n\nHe said the increase in cases came on top of \"the ongoing testing fiasco where ill people are told to drive for miles for tests, and the poor performance of the contact tracing system\".\n\nIncreased demand led bosses in charge of the coronavirus testing system to apologise after it emerged UK labs were struggling to keep up.\n\nScreening capacity was described last week as being \"maxed out\" - 170,000 tests a day are being processed, up from 100,000 in mid June.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, an expert in outbreak response at the University of East Anglia, said some of the rise may be due to the system catching up after delays when it struggled to keep up with demand, but added it was still a \"marked increase\".\n\n\"Sadly it is beginning to look like we are moving into a period of exponential growth in the UK epidemic, and if so we can expect further increases over coming weeks,\" he said.\n\nBirmingham had the single largest increase in cases overnight, and the majority of new cases were in the north of England, said Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England's medical director.\n\nBut she said no single area accounted for the overnight change, with broad increases in Covid-19 cases across England.\n\nThe rise in positive tests came as tougher measures limiting household contacts were introduced in Bolton in an effort to stop coronavirus cases rising and prevent a full local lockdown.\n\nThe infection rate in the area has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people per week - the highest in England.\n\nCommenting on Scotland's increase, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"While this reflects the substantial opening up of the economy, it reminds us of the need to deploy counter measures.\"\n\nShe added that the \"first line of defence\" is to \"take greater care on face coverings, hygiene and distance\".\n\nMeanwhile, speaking earlier on Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the economy \"needs to have people back at work\".\n\nMr Raab acknowledged there was likely to be a \"bit more\" remote working in future.\n\nHowever, he added: \"It is important to send a message that we need to get Britain back up and running, the economy motoring on all cylinders.\"\n\nMr Raab also played down suggestions that coronavirus testing at airports would help travellers avoid mandatory quarantine.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City winger Riyad Mahrez and defender Aymeric Laporte have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nAlgeria's Mahrez, 29, and Frenchman Laporte, 24, will not train with their team-mates while they self-isolate in line with UK government and Premier League rules.\n\nManchester City say neither player was displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nPep Guardiola's side play Wolverhampton Wanderers in their first fixture of the new league season on 21 September.\n\nBoth players are in the United Kingdom and with the self-isolation period being 10 days, Mahrez and Laporte should be available for City's game with Wolves in two weeks' time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police are looking for this man after an attacker killed one victim and wounded seven other people\n\nPolice hunting a man suspected of killing one person and injuring seven others in stabbings across Birmingham city centre say they have had a \"strong response\" after releasing CCTV footage.\n\nThe attacks in the early hours of Sunday sparked a massive manhunt.\n\nImages of the man officers want to find were published on Sunday evening.\n\nDetectives have been working through the night following leads from the public to identify and find the suspect, West Midlands Police tweeted.\n\nThe attacks happened at four different locations across the city centre during a 90-minute spell.\n\nA 23-year-old man was killed in Irving Street at 01:50 BST on Sunday, while a man and a woman, aged 19 and 32, suffered critical stabbing injuries.\n\nFive other people, aged between 23 and 33, were injured and taken to hospital. Two have since been discharged.\n\nThe public are urged to remain vigilant and not to approach the man pictured\n\nCCTV footage released on Sunday evening shows a man wearing a baseball cap, a dark hoodie with white drawstrings, dark-coloured trousers and shoes.\n\nHe is seen standing and walking on a street corner.\n\nThree hours after the images were published, West Midlands Police tweeted: \"We've had a strong response following our appeal to trace the #BirminghamStabbings suspect.\n\n\"Our detectives are following up several new lines of enquiry. This man is wanted on suspicion of murder.\n\n\"We've got a team of detectives working through the night to identify and trace the suspect.\"\n\nIt added that a special hotline has been set up for members of the public to pass on information.\n\nEarlier in the day, Ch Supt Steve Graham told reporters: \"At this stage we believe that the attacks were random and we have no indication of a motive.\"\n\nHe urged the public to remain vigilant, and call 999 if they spotted anything suspicious.\n\nWest Midlands Police were first called to Constitution Hill where a man sustained a superficial injury just after 00:30 BST.\n\nTwenty minutes later they were called to Livery Street, near to Snow Hill railway station, where the 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt.\n\nAn hour later at 01:50 BST, police were sent to Irving Street, where the 23-year-old died and another man suffered serious injuries.\n\nTen minutes later, they were called to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, where the 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men suffered lesser injuries.\n\nThe stabbings do not appear to be terrorism related or gang related, police said.\n\nMr Graham added: \"We do not underestimate the impact that these incidents have had on the city of Birmingham.\n\n\"We declared this a major incident at the earliest opportunity and we have drafted in scores of officers to help with the investigation and patrol the city to reassure residents and visitors that we are doing all we can to apprehend the person responsible.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the scenes of the stabbings\n\nMultiple witnesses saw the attacks, including Nikita Denton who was out celebrating her 29th birthday and helped stop one of the women bleeding in the street.\n\nRestaurant owner Savvas Sfrantzis described seeing the \"cold\" attacker walk calmly away after stabbing a woman repeatedly.\n\n\"I looked at him, facing him, and I can see he had a blade, not very big, and he was stabbing her in the neck.\n\n\"He wasn't panicking and he wasn't reacting or anything. After he stabbed her between five and seven times... he walked off as if nothing has happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC the victim she helped was alone and in a state of shock\n\nOfficers have recovered a knife from a drain but Mr Graham said it was \"way too early\" to say if it was connected to the case.\n\nWhen asked how the knifeman was able go for more than two hours without being caught, he described the suspect's route through the city was \"relatively unusual\".\n\nHe added: \"There was no suggestion people had seen him running out, area searches were being made at the time, unfortunately the subject wasn't caught.\"\n\nThe attacks happened as city centre revellers were enjoying a night out\n\nKhalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Perry Barr, reportedly said the dead man's life could \"potentially\" have been saved if the police response had been swifter.\n\n\"We've got to look at the fact [the suspect] had two hours to run around the city centre, which has a huge amount of CCTV cameras in place,\" Mr Mahmood told The Times.\n\n\"Where was the monitoring? Both the public and police were put at further risk. There is a person dead. How was this man able to go on a two-hour spate?\"\n\nThe force's police and crime commissioner David Jamieson labelled the assaults \"disturbing\", with the violence unfolding as revellers had been enjoying the night.\n\nWest Midlands Police said extra officers had \"flooded\" the city centre and forensic experts had examined four scenes.\n\nA heavy police presence remained throughout Sunday, with armed officers, patrols, riot vans and squad cars visible.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness what happened? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands joined the human chain in Budapest on Sunday\n\nThousands of people have formed a chain in the streets of the Hungarian capital Budapest in protest at what they say is a takeover of a top arts university by the country's nationalist government.\n\nDemonstrators fear a new board at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, led by an ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, will ruin its autonomy.\n\nStudents have occupied the campus for the past week.\n\nOrban supporters say the arts are dominated by liberals and left-wingers.\n\nThe university is the seventh institution to be transferred to the control of private foundations where the board of directors are selected by the government.\n\nThe government denies claims that it is limiting freedom of expression, and says the privatisation of this and other universities will make them more competitive.\n\nThe human chain on Sunday took in four other institutions and linked around 8,000 protesters from parliament to the university. Demonstrators demanded autonomy for the school and freedom for artistic endeavour and education.\n\nMarta Barbarics, who attended the rally, told Reuters news agency: \"For a university to be able to operate autonomously is the foundation of democracy.\"\n\nShe added: \"If a university can't teach in a way as its citizens deem appropriate then there are serious problems, and the leadership of a university doesn't quit for no reason.\"\n\nThe chain went from the university to parliament\n\nThe University of Theatre and Film Arts has nurtured some of the great names of Hungarian cinema. Graduates of the university include the Oscar-winning director István Szabó - whose credits include Mephisto - and the actress Alexandra Borbély.\n\nStudents have occupied the university since last Sunday.\n\nThe new head of the board, Attila Vidnyanszky, said on Tuesday they were open to dialogue. However he also said he wanted a \"different kind of thinking\" at the university, adding that existing classes would be kept with some emphasis placed on patriotism and Christianity.\n\nFears for artistic and academic freedom in the country have escalated in recent years.\n\nIn 2019, the Central European University in Budapest moved most of its courses to Vienna after a legal battle launched by Mr Orban. The university said it could no longer \"operate as a free institution\" in Budapest.\n\nIn July, more than 70 journalists and staff at Hungary's top news site Index resigned.", "Queuing to get a socially-distanced sunbathing spot on the beach. Wearing your face mask to the hotel bar. Finding out halfway through your trip that you'll have to quarantine when you get home. People are going abroad for holidays for the first time in months, but as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, is it worth the hassle?\n\nSeveral plans have fallen through for Grace Wilding so far this summer. The 19-year-old trainee teacher had been looking forward to a big family holiday in a villa in Spain, but they postponed the trip for fears her baby nephew could catch the virus.\n\nGrace and her boyfriend Alfie Archer, 18, had also booked a trip to Cape Verde, but it was cancelled due to the pandemic. The couple didn't want to lose the opportunity to soak up some sun on their first summer holiday together, and they felt that the virus posed a low risk to them as young and healthy people - so they began hunting for a last-minute deal.\n\n\"I'd say I feel safer here than home definitely. The same rules are applied but everyone actually follows them here,\" says Grace from her hotel in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife. The Liverpool Hope University student from Halton, Cheshire, says she was glad to hear flight attendants reminding people to wear face masks on the plane, and that she waited patiently in line for temperature checks at the airport in Tenerife, and happily shared her details with local contact tracers.\n\nIn Grace and Alfie's hotel, everyone wears face coverings at all times until they reach their rooms, sun loungers, or dinner tables. \"Wearing the masks in the heat can be a bit of a nuisance at times, but this is the climate we've decided to put ourselves in so we will abide by the rules like everyone else,\" she says.\n\nGrace Wilding says everyone's following coronavirus rules at her hotel in Playa de las Americas\n\nIn restaurants \"you're greeted with hand sanitiser before you sit down\", she says. And the couple has mostly steered clear of going to the beach, where officials make people queue up to get a sunbathing spot that's a safe distance from other holidaymakers.\n\nIn keeping with the theme of the summer so far, more of Grace's plans were scuppered when the UK's quarantine rules changed for Spain - including the Canary Islands - while they were away. Grace and Alfie are now having to self-isolate for 14 days after returning to the UK.\n\nGrace admits the couple wouldn't have gone to Tenerife if they had known they would have to quarantine when they came back. Alfie worries about the two weeks of income he will lose, because he is a joiner so cannot work while isolating. But Grace remains upbeat. She says the news meant they enjoyed the holiday \"probably even more\" as they made the most of their last days of relative freedom before flying home.\n\n\"I wouldn't hold back on booking another holiday,\" Grace adds. \"The world can't stop for any longer, in my opinion.\"\n\nAs Ben Osborne describes his family holiday over the phone, his voice is partly drowned out by the sound of his sons shouting and playing at their rented apartment in Lake Como, Italy. \"They're having a fantastic time,\" he laughs.\n\nThe family of five, from Hereford, have been to water parks, on day trips, and spent a lot of time at the pool they share with others in the apartment block. Ben, who works for Vodafone as a customer solutions architect, says the pandemic hasn't got in the way of their holiday at all.\n\nThey've even taken a mini-break from social distancing. Ben, 39, and his wife Nadia, 37, decided they wouldn't be too strict on their children adhering to Italy's one-metre rule during the 11-day holiday, so they have mixed with other young families staying in the complex.\n\nBen says this doesn't mean they have completely given up on social distancing and the adults are remaining wary around each other. But he says three-year-old Cooper has \"absolutely no concept of staying away from people\" and so the rules have also been relaxed for his older brothers Ashton, 10, and Carter, eight.\n\nThe Osbornes found Lake Como to be much quieter than on their previous trips\n\nHygiene rules such as mandatory swimming caps didn't stop Ashton and Carter enjoying the pool\n\nThe only time the pandemic brought the mood down was during the Osbornes' journey to their idyllic destination. The worst part was navigating the not-so-idyllic Luton Airport, which Ben describes as a \"nightmare\". He recalls only one shop was open - Boots - and that it was difficult to find any empty seats in the airport because so many were cordoned off. But the flight itself \"wasn't too bad\", he says. The family wore face coverings but did have to sit next to strangers, without any social distancing.\n\nThe Osbornes have been to Lake Como before, and are enjoying the fact there are far fewer Brits than usual. \"We quite like to go away to experience different cultures, [so] what's really nice is I've not heard any English language,\" Ben says.\n\nHe adds that it's a blessing to not have to queue for the supermarket, as we have grown used to in the UK. The only visible signs of the virus, to Ben, were people wearing face coverings in shops, and mandatory swimming caps in the pool. \"If someone had plonked us here and we didn't know about coronavirus, we wouldn't know the difference. You honestly wouldn't know that there's a pandemic.\"\n\nJulie Grinter's friends told her she was \"completely mad\" for deciding to go ahead with her three-week holiday to Portugal, after the country failed to make it on to the UK government's quarantine-free list. But Julie, 50, points out that you could catch coronavirus in the supermarket at home, let alone on a plane. \"You can't stay inside for the rest of your life so you've got to take the precautions and get on with life,\" she says.\n\nThe choice of destination might have horrified Julie's friends, but she and her partner Matthew Boulden, 52, felt extremely safe. After flying to Lisbon they went on a road trip to the Algarve and enjoyed being almost the only tourists, wherever they went. \"It's just absolutely deserted. There's just nobody there,\" says Julie, who works for a consultancy firm in the City of London.\n\nThe couple ate out regularly, and while most dining was outside to help reduce the spread of the virus, Julie points out that the Portuguese climate meant that was never a problem. Impeccable service, high hygiene standards, free drinks from grateful waiters, and chats with less-than-busy chefs all added to the couple's feeling that they'd stumbled into a luxurious private dining experience.\n\nRestaurants owners on Julie's road trip told her they were struggling with a lack of customers\n\nJulie, who says many beaches were deserted, took this photo of the popular Praia da Rainha in Cascais\n\nCrowds at Praia da Rainha in Cascais, in the pre-coronavirus world of August 2016\n\nBut Julie from Surbiton, south-west London, admits the solitude wasn't always a relief. Tourism is a major industry in Portugal and is popular with British holidaymakers, with almost three million UK visitors a year. The restaurants often lacked \"a bit of atmosphere\", she says, adding that the staff were anxious for the future, and owners were \"hacked off\" and \"obviously devastated\" that their country still has not made it on to the UK's quarantine-free lists. \"You do feel massively sorry for them because they are just desperate for business,\" she says.\n\nPortugal's border is open to British citizens, but the UK government advises against travel to most parts unless the trip is essential. On arrival to the mainland, travellers have to do a health screening, and those going to Madeira, Porto Santo or the Azores must take a coronavirus test on arrival or before travelling.\n\nCheap flights, deserted beaches and a free cocktail or two mean now that Julie is home, she's spending her 14 days of isolation persuading her previously horrified friends that Portugal is the place to be in a pandemic. \"If you can just work from home when you get back, it's ideal.\"\n\nFor Adam Welch, a self-imposed month of minimal social contact at home in Kirkham, Lancashire, is the price he's paying for a five-night getaway to Croatia.\n\nThe 18-year-old and three friends have formed a temporary household bubble at an Airbnb in Split. In order to reduce the chance of spreading the virus to one another, or to anyone else on their return to the UK, the friends agreed to minimise their social contact with anyone for 14 days before going away and 14 days after getting back. \"I just think it comes down to thinking of other people,\" Adam says.\n\nThe pandemic led to exams and celebrations being cancelled in Adam's final year of college, so the sacrifice of semi-quarantine will be worth it to \"let my hair down\" on holiday, he says. \"If someone said to me at the start of the year, 'if you go on holiday you have to isolate for 14 days afterwards in your house', I'd be like: 'no way. I can't do that, it sounds so hard'. But now it just sounds easy.\"\n\nSo far in Split, the four friends have enjoyed eating out, going out for drinks, exploring the city, and snorkelling off picture-perfect beaches. People have to wear masks in shops and on public transport in Croatia but locals aren't observing social distancing at all, Adam says. While it's weird to see, he adds, it's a nice break from the rules and regulations in place in the UK.\n\nAdam Welch says he's happy to give up Croatia's nightclubs in favour of its beaches\n\nIn the hiatus between finishing college and starting university in York in September, Adam admits he's tempted by Croatia's nightclubs, which are open albeit with some additional cleaning measures to combat the spread of the virus. But Adam says the \"lads' holiday\" will be a more muted affair than it would have been in normal times. \"At the end of the day, we're in a nice apartment, we can just get some drinks from a shop and stuff like that, and chill out with each other. We can definitely have a really good time and we don't have to go clubbing.\"\n\nEngland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have separate, albeit similar, lists of destinations that are exempt from the quarantine rule.\n\nFor some of the most popular warm weather hotspots among Brits, we've got more details of what to expect when you're there.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nNovak Djokovic has apologised for hitting a line judge with a ball at the US Open, saying he is \"extremely sorry for creating her such stress\".\n\nThe world number one was disqualified from his fourth-round match against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.\n\nThe Serb, 33, who had just had his serve broken, took a ball out of his pocket and hit it behind him, striking the woman in her throat.\n\n\"This whole situation has left me really sad and empty,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"I checked on the linesperson and the tournament told me that thank God she is feeling OK.\n\n\"I'm extremely sorry to have caused her such stress. So unintended. So wrong. I'm not disclosing her name to respect her privacy.\"\n• None 'Djokovic will win again - hopefully with a little more humility'\n• None Right decision to disqualify Djokovic, says Henman\n\nAfter a lengthy discussion, Djokovic was defaulted by tournament officials at Flushing Meadows.\n\nHe will lose all ranking points earned at the US Open and will forfeit the prize money he had won at the tournament. He could also be fined for the incident.\n\n\"As for the disqualification, I need to go back within and work on my disappointment and turn this all into a lesson for my growth and evolution as a player and human being,\" Djokovic added in a statement on Instagram.\n\n\"I apologise to the US Open tournament and everyone associated for my behaviour. I'm very grateful to my team and family for being my rock support, and my fans for always being there with me.\n\n\"Thank you and I'm so sorry.\"\n\nHis exit ended his hopes of winning an 18th Grand Slam title and narrowing the gap on Rafael Nadal (19) and Roger Federer (20) in the race to finish with the most men's major wins.\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\nDjokovic showed his frustration after losing serve to trail 6-5 against Carreno Busta in the first set.\n\nHe also showed a flash of temper two games earlier at 5-4 - whacking a ball into an advertising board after the Spaniard saved three set points.\n\nLeon Smith, Great Britain's Davis Cup captain, said he was \"surprised\" Djokovic did not get a warning for that incident, and felt one might have prevented the controversy which followed.\n\nAfter Djokovic was defaulted, Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"There has to be consistency, if someone hits a ball with that much venom and temper, call a warning.\n\n\"The second one can be dangerous and so it proved to be.\"\n\nDjokovic pleaded his case with tournament referee Soeren Friemel and Grand Slam supervisor Andreas Egli during a long conversation at the net.\n\nEventually, however, he accepted his fate and shook hands with Carreno Busta, who looked shocked by what had happened as he waited in his chair for a decision.\n\nFriemel said that there was not \"any chance of any opportunity of any other decision other than defaulting Novak because the facts were so clear, so obvious\" and that there was \"no discretion involved\".\n\nThe tournament referee added: \"His point was that he didn't hit the line umpire intentionally. He said 'yes, I was angry, I hit the ball, I hit the line umpire, the facts are very clear, but it wasn't my intent, I didn't do it on purpose, so I shouldn't be defaulted for that'.\n\n\"We all agreed that he didn't do it on purpose but the facts are still that he hit the line umpire and that the line umpire was clearly hurt.\"\n\nDjokovic left Flushing Meadows without doing his news conference.\n\nMore controversy for Djokovic in a contrasting 2020\n\nGoing into the fourth-round match against Carreno Busta, Djokovic was aiming to extend his unbeaten run in 2020 to a 27th victory.\n\nInstead of receiving more plaudits for his on-court performances, he made an undignified exit in what became the latest controversy involving him this summer.\n\nIn June, Djokovic was one of several players - along with Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki - who tested positive for coronavirus after playing at the world number one's Adria Tour competition.\n\nDjokovic apologised for staging the exhibition event in the Balkans, which was held in front of fans and without social distancing rules being observed.\n\nThe first leg in Serbia attracted 4,000 fans, and players were later pictured dancing close together in a Belgrade nightclub.\n\nIn Croatia's second leg, players were pictured taking part in a basketball match.\n\nDjokovic said they had \"met all health protocols\" in the two countries, which had relatively low levels of recorded Covid-19 cases at the time.\n\nAfter announcing his positive test, he conceded it had been \"too soon\" to stage the event.\n\nIn the midst of the pandemic, Djokovic was accused of being opposed to vaccines - something which he later denied - and also drew criticism for saying water could be purified by positivity.\n\nOn the eve of the US Open, he found himself at the centre of more controversy after driving the creation of a new players' union.\n\nDjokovic and Canadian Vasek Pospisil led about 70 players in forming the Professional Tennis Players' Association, with those joining unhappy at the ATP's governance and wanting to increase the power of the players.\n\nNadal and Federer were among those who opposed the new union and questioned its timing, while Britain's former number one Andy Murray called for WTA players to be involved.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Behind the scenes of their title triumph\n• None Can you truly be one or the other?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police are looking for this man after an attacker killed one victim and wounded seven other people\n\nFootage of a man suspected of killing one person and injuring seven others in a spate of stabbings across Birmingham city centre has been released.\n\nThe attacks in the early hours sparked a massive police manhunt for the suspect.\n\nA 23-year-old man was killed in Irving Street at 01:50 BST, West Midlands Police said. A man and a woman, aged 19 and 32, suffered critical injuries.\n\nFive other people, aged between 23 and 33, were also hurt.\n\nThey were taken to hospital and so far two have been discharged.\n\nThe public are urged to remain vigilant and not to approach the man pictured\n\nThe CCTV footage shows a man wearing a baseball cap and a dark hoodie with white drawstrings.\n\nAlso wearing dark-coloured trousers and shoes, he can be seen standing and walking on a street corner.\n\n\"At this stage we believe that the attacks were random and we have no indication of a motive,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, who urged the public to remain vigilant.\n\n\"We are appealing for anyone who recognises the man in the footage to contact us urgently. If you see him, please do not approach him, but dial 999 immediately.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police were first called to Constitution Hill where a man sustained a superficial injury just after 00:30 BST, then to Livery Street 20 minutes later, where the 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt.\n\nAn hour later at 01:50 BST, police were sent to Irving Street, where the 23-year-old died and another man suffered serious injuries.\n\nTen minutes later, they were called to Hurst Street where the 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men suffered lesser injuries.\n\nThe stabbings do not appear to be terrorism related or gang related, police said.\n\nMr Graham added: \"We do not underestimate the impact that these incidents have had on the city of Birmingham today.\n\n\"We declared this a major incident at the earliest opportunity and we have drafted in scores of officers to help with the investigation and patrol the city to reassure residents and visitors that we are doing all we can to apprehend the person responsible.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the scenes of the stabbings\n\nMultiple witnesses saw the attacks, including Nikita Denton who was out celebrating her 29th birthday and helped stop one of the women bleeding in the street.\n\nAnother, restaurant owner Savvas Sfrantzis, described seeing the attacker walk calmly away after stabbing a woman repeatedly.\n\n\"I looked at him, facing him, and I can see he had a blade, small, not very big, and he was stabbing her in the neck.\n\n\"He was like very cold and he wasn't panicking and he wasn't reacting or anything. After he stabbed her between five and seven times... he walked off as if nothing has happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC the victim she helped was alone and in a state of shock\n\nOfficers have recovered a knife from a drain but Mr Graham said it was \"way too early\" to say if it was connected to the case.\n\nAt an earlier press conference he was asked how the knifeman was able to move through the city centre for more than two hours without being caught.\n\nMr Graham said the suspect's route through the city was \"relatively unusual\".\n\nHe added: \"There was no suggestion people had seen him running out, area searches were being made at the time, unfortunately the subject wasn't caught.\"\n\nAreas of the city centre have been cordoned off\n\nThe force's police and crime commissioner David Jamieson labelled the assaults \"disturbing\", with the violence unfolding as revellers had been enjoying the night.\n\nJulia Robinson, from the Southside Business Improvement District, said businesses were in \"shock\" and had worked through the night to provide police with CCTV footage from the area.\n\nWest Midlands Police said extras officers had \"flooded\" the city centre and forensic experts had examined four scenes.\n\nA heavy police presence remained throughout the day, with armed officers, patrols, riot vans and squad cars visible.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness what happened? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of High Street fashion chain Primark has said sales have been higher than expected since stores reopened after lockdown, but are still lower than last year.\n\nAssociated British Foods said sales since reopening would hit £2bn by the end of the year.\n\nHowever, that would be 12% lower on a like-for-like basis than in 2019.\n\nPrimark's four biggest stores, in Birmingham, Manchester and London, were especially hard hit, it said.\n\n\"If the four large UK destination city centre stores are excluded, the decline is 5%,\" it added.\n\nPrimark's biggest UK store is in Birmingham and has 160,000 sq ft of floorspace. The next largest, in Manchester, is 155,000 sq ft.\n\nIts two stores on London's Oxford Street are 82,000 sq ft and 70,000 sq ft respectively.\n\n\"After a period of store closure, we are encouraged by the strength of our sales,\" AB Foods said in its latest trading update.\n\n\"In the latest four-week UK market data for sales in all channels, Primark achieved our highest-ever value and volume shares for this time of year.\"\n\nThe firm said trading in its food divisions had also been better than predicted so far in the fourth quarter.\n\n\"Since reopening Primark stores, we have seen increasing numbers of transactions driven by footfall,\" it added.\n\n\"The average basket size was initially significantly higher than last year, reflecting some pent-up demand, and while this out-performance has reduced in recent weeks, it remains higher than a year ago.\n\n\"We have continued our policy of offering the best prices, and markdowns for the period since reopening have been low.\"\n\nPrimark had made it clear before its stores reopened on 15 June that there would be no special discounts to shift stock.\n\nAB Foods said full-year profits at Primark in the year to 12 September would be at least at the top end of its previously advised £300m to £350m range.\n\nLast year, the equivalent figure was £913m.\n\nAB Foods said its grocery revenues would be bigger than last year, with growth in brands such as Twinings tea and Ryvita crispbread.\n\nHowever, it said sales of Ovaltine were held back by the impact of coronavirus on impulse sales, particularly in Thailand and Vietnam.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People arriving in Wales and Scotland from Portugal must now self-isolate for 14 days, but the rules covering England and Northern Ireland are unchanged.\n\nThe difference between the nations has been criticised as confusing.\n\nThe rules for Wales apply from 04:00 BST on Friday, while in Scotland they begin 24 hours later on Saturday.\n\nCases in Portugal have risen in the past week beyond the threshold at which ministers generally consider imposing 14-day mandatory self-isolation.\n\nThe Department for Transport said decisions around adding or removing countries from the quarantine list \"take into account a range of factors\" - including how many people are being tested.\n\n\"Portugal has drastically increased its testing capacity, as well as taking measures to control the spread of the virus,\" said a spokesperson, adding it would closely monitor the situation.\n\nThe latest quarantine rules introduced in Wales apply to travellers from Portugal, Gibraltar, six Greek islands and French Polynesia.\n\nThe six islands are Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (or Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nScotland has already reintroduced self-isolation measures for arrivals from Greece and has now added Portugal and French Polynesia to its list of countries requiring quarantine.\n\n\"This week's data shows an increase in test positivity and cases per 100k in Portugal,\" said Scottish justice minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nChanges to the rules for arrivals from Greece coming to England have been considered - but Greece will stay on its safe list for now.\n\nIn Portugal, the seven-day infection rate has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people. This is above the threshold of 20 which is when the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nGreece's rate overall is below the threshold at 13.8 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 2 September, down from 14.9 a week earlier.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday: \"There are no English additions or removals today. We continue to keep the travel corridor list under constant review and won't hesitate to remove countries if needed.\"\n\n\"Nonetheless, holidaymakers are reminded - 14-day quarantine countries can and do change at very short notice.\"\n\nHe said the government takes several factors into account, including the prevalence of the virus as well as the level and rate of change, how many tests the country is doing, the extent of the contained outbreak and the government's actions.\n\nNorthern Ireland's department of health also confirmed that NI would not make any further changes at present.\n\nThe changes have drawn criticism from industry experts as well as holidaymakers.\n\n\"The quarantine policy is in tatters and dividing the United Kingdom,\" said Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy firm The PC Agency.\n\n\"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria any more on when to add or remove a country.\n\n\"The current strategy has to change. The weekly reviews have been causing anxiety and financial pain for so many consumers and travel firms,\" he added.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: \"Days of speculation around this announcement meant many people rushed to pay extortionate prices for flights back to England to avoid having to quarantine on their return - only to now find out there was no need.\n\n\"The government knows this and yet it continues to offer no clarity around how these decisions are made.\"\n\nOne aviation boss described travelling abroad right now as \"quarantine roulette\" because the list of destinations which are affected keeps changing.\n\nBut the governments in Westminster, Edinburgh and Cardiff are now clearly at odds over which countries pose a clear risk.\n\nPortugal's infection rate is above the UK government's benchmark of 20 cases of the virus for every 100,000 people.\n\nBut the UK government has surprised us all and not added Portugal to the list for England. It's not clear why.\n\nGreece is even more complicated as the Welsh government is opting for a policy where only people arriving from certain Greek islands have to self-isolate while Scotland has introduced a quarantine for arrivals from across Greece.\n\nFor months the travel industry has been lobbying the UK government for an approach where they consider particular regions in a country but ministers in London are not keen on the idea.\n\nThe quarantine was already hard or impossible to police.\n\nBut discrepancies between different UK nations makes it even harder as someone could, theoretically, fly into Newcastle from Greece and drive into Scotland. That person should self-isolate for 14 days, but no-one will be checking.\n\nSome holidaymakers have told the BBC they have paid as much as £1,000 for flights to get home from Portugal in anticipation of the rules changing.\n\nKelly, from Birmingham, and her family changed their flights home from the Algarve from Saturday to Friday at a cost of £900 to avoid potential quarantine because she did not want her children to miss out on two weeks of school.\n\nThe 45-year-old said the situation was \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\n\"It's cost us a lot more money and it's money we didn't need to spend now. We've lost an extra night in our villa - we won't get that back - we've got a hire car, so we're taking that back a day early.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government just change the goalposts left, right and centre at the moment. It's embarrassing.\"\n\nDamian Martin from Swansea - who is currently on holiday in Lagos, Portugal - said he only arrived earlier on Thursday.\n\n\"Work had been full on so I decided to go,\" said Damian\n\n\"I had already switched my holiday from Spain and I won't be able to come back early,\" he said. \"I will be able to self-isolate, I think, but I work for a supermarket so will have to check in with them.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm supposed to be here eight nights. I might as well try to enjoy it.\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal. Most head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nDuring May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal or Greece? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Cottrell said he was \"shocked\" at the lack of social distancing\n\nFive bars in Cardiff city centre have been ordered to improve the way they operate in order to comply with social distancing guidance.\n\nIt follows \"concern\" raised by health officials about a video which showed crowds of clubbers appearing to ignore guidelines at Coyote Ugly bar.\n\nCardiff council said Coyote Ugly, along with Peppermint, Mocka Lounge, Rum and Fizz, and Gin and Juice had 48 hours to make changes.\n\nThey could otherwise face closure.\n\n\"It is the responsibility of businesses to ensure that social distancing is maintained and their premises can be used in a way that is safe for customers and staff and minimises the potential for Covid-19 to spread,\" said the council's cabinet member for environment, Michael Michael.\n\n\"Ensuring the city centre is safe to visit is a priority and scenes like those seen on St Mary Street at the weekend are simply unacceptable.\n\n\"Businesses should be in no doubt that we will take action against any premises that aren't operating in a safe manner.\n\n\"Officers will be returning to the businesses issued with improvement notices, and visiting others across the city, and will not hesitate to issue closure notices if needed.\"\n\nThe footage was captured by Ian Cottrell on lower St Mary Street in Cardiff and was posted on social media.\n\nIt shows crowds outside the Coyote Ugly bar at about 00:30 BST on Saturday, but the venue said it adhered to coronavirus rules and turned away large crowds.\n\nDr Giri Shankar, from Public Health Wales, said people needed to be responsible.\n\n\"I saw the videos and I was really concerned,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It is disappointing that people are congregating in large numbers without having any regard to social distancing.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's more about people taking more individual and collective responsibilities. We all have to do our part.\"\n\nThe council said its officers visited Coyote Ugly over the weekend and the venue \"acted quickly to resolve a number of identified issues\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said officers spoke with staff at the venue on Friday evening, and the venue was also visited on Saturday \"to try and prevent similar issues this evening and in the future\".\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said the issue was for councils but police \"can intervene\" if people break the law.\n\nBut he added: \"I don't think it's a policing issue. The alternative is to shut the night-time economy.\n\n\"If you have crowds behaving in an irresponsible way... they are not just an issue for the police, they are an issue of public health. The problem has to be solved collectively.\"\n\nCoyote Ugly said it was \"very careful\" to comply with all the rules.\n\nMeanwhile, Carmarthenshire council is asking people to comply with rules after a cluster of cases which, it said, centred around a presentation evening held on Saturday August 29 at Drefach Cricket and Football Club, organised in \"breach of coronavirus regulations\".\n\nIt said 12 people who are linked to the evening have tested positive for Covid-19 and other attendees will be required to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nIn a statement, the club said some senior players had tested positive and it \"immediately advised Public Health Wales and are liaising with them on a continuing basis\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps says the government now has the “data and capacity” to add and remove islands from quarantine list.\n\nTravellers arriving in England from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday, Grant Shapps has said.\n\nThe islands affected are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos (also known as Zante).\n\nThe government says islands can be treated differently from their mainland countries if infection rates differ.\n\nBut airlines have been critical of the time it has taken - Easyjet's boss said the change was \"too little, too late\".\n\nSpeaking to MPs in the Commons, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said the government would use better data to pinpoint risks on popular islands.\n\nHe said that would provide \"increased flexibility\" to add or remove them from the quarantine list for England - distinct from mainland destinations - as infection rates change.\n\nHe said this would \"help boost\" the UK's travel industry while continuing to keeping the travelling public safe.\n\nMr Shapps said the coronavirus infection rate was still too high in Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands to remove them from the list of destinations from where travellers returning to England must quarantine.\n\nTravellers returning to England from Santorini must self-isolate for 14 days\n\nHe said the government was \"working actively on the practicalities\" of using coronavirus testing to cut the 14-day quarantine period for people arriving in the UK from high-risk countries.\n\nPurely testing people on arrival \"would not work\", Mr Shapps said, but quarantine combined with testing was \"more promising.\"\n\n\"My officials are now working with health experts with the aim of cutting the quarantine period without adding to infection risk or infringing our overall NHS test capacity,\" he said.\n\nHe added that if someone was unable to quarantine for 14 days after returning to the UK \"it might be best not to travel\".\n\nBeth Maybury, who is on holiday is Crete, says she feels more comfortable there than in the UK because it is \"less crowded\".\n\nThe 24-year-old from Leeds, who will return to England before the quarantine deadline, said: \"Bars etc just seem a lot quieter, the hotel seems not even at half capacity so there's plenty of room round the pool or beach. There just seems to be a lot more awareness in terms of masks too.\"\n\nKarl Brown, who is on holiday in Santorini with partner Lauren, says he \"can't believe\" it is on the quarantine list because the island is \"quiet\" and social distancing is in place.\n\nThe couple are due to fly back on Wednesday and say they are trying to change their flight as they are due back at work.\n\nDevolved governments set their own travel rules and there are variations across the UK nations on some countries, including Greece.\n\nTravellers arriving in Wales from six Greek islands must already quarantine - these islands are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Paros and Antiparos and Zakynthos.\n\nThe Scottish government has imposed quarantine restrictions on the whole country of Greece. Northern Ireland currently has Greece on its list of countries exempt from quarantine.\n\nFor months, the UK government has been lukewarm about the idea of only applying travel quarantine on a regional basis.\n\nLast week it came under sustained pressure from bosses in the aviation sector.\n\nThey're desperate to know when international travel might recover in a meaningful way.\n\nOne airport boss was scathing, accusing the government of \"overseeing the demise of UK aviation\".\n\nThe Welsh government also then decided its travel quarantine would, in the case of Greece, be managed on a regional level, with six Greek islands added to its list.\n\nThe UK government says its decision to regionalise quarantine now for England is driven by improved availability of data at a regional level in countries abroad.\n\nBut the change isn't silencing the critics.\n\nEasyjet is the latest big name in travel to lay into the government. Its boss told me the situation is too confusing and much of the damage has already been done.\n\nHis warning to ministers: come-up with a substantial recovery plan for UK aviation or much of the damage to the sector will be permanent.\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon described the government's handling of the pandemic as \"chaotic\", saying that \"for months\" there had been no restrictions on travellers entering the UK.\n\n\"By the time restrictions were introduced, we were one of only a handful of countries in the world who had failed to take action,\" he said.\n\nJohan Lundgren, the boss of airline Easyjet, told the BBC the government's latest change to its quarantine rules was \"too little, too late\", as the peak of the summer holiday season had passed.\n\n\"This is something we have argued for a long time - it should not have been a blanket instrument when it comes to quarantine. It should be based on risk and on a much more targeted approach,\" he said.\n\nHe urged the government to devise a plan for UK aviation, warning that the sector would not recover in a meaningful way without one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nA spokesman for British Airways' owner IAG said it was \"evident\" in July that islands should be treated separately and the government was \"too slow in making obvious decisions\".\n\n\"For most families, summer is now over and the damage to the industry and the economy is done,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to get on with (testing). We are way behind other countries on what has to be a more nuanced approach.\"\n\nAirport Operators Association chief executive Karen Dee welcomed the change in approach but said it was unlikely to significantly improve consumer confidence, while quarantine was \"devastating the UK aviation industry\".\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, which represents UK carriers, said a testing regime was \"urgently required\".\n\nHeathrow Airport welcomed the announcement that testing to shorten quarantine was being considered by the government and that air bridges to islands would be used where appropriate.\n\n\"If introduced, these vital policy changes would show the government understands how critical the restoration of air travel is to this country's economic recovery,\" a statement said.", "The 2020 Games Olympics are scheduled to start on 23 July next year\n\nThe postponed Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead next year \"with or without Covid\", the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee says.\n\nJohn Coates confirmed to news agency AFP that the Olympics would start on 23 July next year, calling them the \"Games that conquered Covid\".\n\nThey were originally scheduled to start in July 2020, but were postponed due to Covid-19 fears.\n\nThe IOC had earlier said they would not delay the Games beyond 2021.\n\n\"The Games were going to be their theme, the Reconstruction Games after the devastation of the tsunami,\" Mr Coates told AFP, referring to 2011 catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Japan.\n\n\"Now very much these will be the Games that conquered Covid, the light at the end of the tunnel.\"\n\nIn July, Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto said it was possible that the Games be held to a \"limited\" audience, but said they wanted to avoid the possibility of having no spectators at all.\n\nInstead, he added that the Games could potentially \"simplify\" its opening and closing ceremonies, as well as reduce the number of staff and delegations from each country.\n\nJapan had spent years preparing for the Tokyo Games\n\nMore than 11,000 athletes from around 200 countries were scheduled to take part in the 2020 Games. It is not clear how travel restrictions might impact their participation as Japan's borders are currently largely closed to foreign visitors.\n\nMr Muto also said a vaccine was not a prerequisite for the Games, though health experts had cast doubt over whether the Games could be held without a vaccine.\n\n\"If a vaccine is ready, that will be a benefit, but we're not saying we can't hold the event without it - it's not a precondition,\" he said.\n\nIn April, Games chief Yoshiro Mori said the Tokyo Games would have to be cancelled if there were not held in 2021.\n\nExplaining this decision, IOC President Thomas Bach said: \"You cannot forever employ 3,000 to 5,000 people in an organising committee. You cannot every year change the entire sports schedule worldwide of all the major federations.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, the Games had only ever been cancelled because of war, but never postponed.", "The attacks happened at four locations across Birmingham city centre\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after one person died and seven others were injured in stabbings across Birmingham city centre.\n\nThe 27-year-old suspect was arrested at an address in the Selly Oak area of the city at about 04:00 BST, West Midlands Police said.\n\nOfficers said he was also being held over seven counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe attacks happened at four Birmingham locations over a period of 90 minutes in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Forensic officers seen at property in Selly Oak\n\nForensic officers have been seen conducting searches at an end-of-terrace house in a cul-de-sac in Selly Oak, where neighbours said a police raid took place in the early hours.\n\nEyewitness Robert McLeod, who said he saw two men and a woman walking, stated: \"He looked like he just wanted to walk through them.\n\n\"But the three people obviously stopped, cos... when someone's walking in, you sort of get out the way.... He just launched at her chest and neck and started stabbing at her chest and neck.\n\n\"The armed response... comes to me and I say 'look, he's gone down there, it's a dead-end street' so they went down, but they couldn't find him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSelly Oak resident John Astley said he was woken by a loud bang during the night and saw a police van parked outside the neighbouring property.\n\nHe said: \"I think there were three people living there. They have only been there a few months, since July or something like that.\n\n\"I had a look out of the front bedroom window and I just noticed there was a police van. I could hear a lot of noise coming from next door and it sounded like they were doing a search.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC how she helped a victim\n\nOfficers were first called out just after 00:30 on Sunday at Constitution Hill, where a man sustained a superficial injury.\n\nAbout 20 minutes later they were called to Livery Street, near Snow Hill railway station, where a 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt.\n\nAt 01:50, police were sent to Irving Street, where a 23-year-old man suffered fatal injuries and another man was seriously hurt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. West Midlands Police released CCTV footage on Sunday evening of a man they wanted to trace\n\nTen minutes later, they were called to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, where a 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men were less badly hurt.\n\nPolice say they are treating the attacks as \"random\" at this stage.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said: \"Officers worked through yesterday and into the early hours of this morning in a bid to trace the man we believe responsible for these terrible crimes.\n\n\"We issued CCTV footage of the suspect and had a strong response from the public. I'd like to thank everyone who shared our appeal and who provided information to the investigation.\n\n\"Clearly this is a crucial development but our investigation continues.\"\n\nPolice cordons around the crime scenes are being lifted\n\nA hotline number and website have been set up for members of the public to provide information, while some streets remain closed on Monday as investigations continue.\n\nJulia Robinson, the manager of Birmingham Southside Business Improvement District, described the \"chaos\" she saw as events unfolded on Sunday.\n\n\"I run a warden service in the city and they stand down at about midnight but that night it had been quite busy so we were getting them taxis from a local venue at about 1:30 to 1:45.\n\n\"We heard the screaming then a lot of people running and went outside to see what was going on.\n\n\"There was a man and a couple that had been injured, a man covered in blood, there was a girl on the ground who appeared to be bleeding quite profusely, people trying to help her.\n\n\"Then it was a case of standing back and we were doing our bit really to help with crowd control and to try and get everyone out of the area so the emergency services could do their job.\"\n\nQuestions have been raised about how the suspect was able to move around the city for 90 minutes.\n\nBirmingham MP Shabana Mahmood said she \"shares the same concerns as everybody else\", but the priority was supporting the police with their investigation.\n\nShe said: \"There will be a more appropriate stage to have a more forensic sort of detail about the way that the incident unfolded, and also the police response, and I will certainly be asking those questions as well.\n\n\"But for now I'm encouraged... the police have described a strong response to their CCTV footage appeal.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was not right to say the police response was too slow.\n\n\"It's very easy to comment on a police investigation while it's live. I don't intend to fall into that trap,\" he said.\n\n\"[There are] lots of questions as to what happened during that two-hour period, but there's people making lots of assumptions from things that they quite frankly don't know.\"\n\nHe also said what happened in the early hours of Sunday \"does not define Birmingham\".\n\n\"We have to see it as a one-off random [incident], and what will define the city is our response to it now,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video posted on social media shows a number of emergency service vehicles at the scene\n\nWest Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said the events had left the city \"in shock\".\n\n\"I'm pleased officers moved so quickly to compile and analyse the evidence available to track down the suspect and make an arrest. I hope this offers some comfort to the people of the West Midlands who have been so understandably worried.\n\n\"I'd also like to place on record my sincere thanks to the brave and hardworking police, hospital and ambulance staff who have acted so quickly to help the victims of this atrocity. My thoughts are with all those affected.\"\n\nExtra officers from the neighbouring Staffordshire and West Mercia forces were deployed in the city centre on Monday.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nThe weekly mass participation Parkrun events are set to resume in England by the end of October.\n\nParkrun events were suspended worldwide in March because of the global coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEvents will operate within Parkrun's government-approved Covid-19 framework, though there have been \"minimal changes\" to its operating model.\n\nParkrun said it was a \"watershed moment to drive change\" in creating a \"healthier and happier planet\".\n\nParkrun's chief executive Nick Pearson said they \"are not able to commit to the same timeline across the other Home Nations\" due to current restrictions across Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"However, we are aware of the implications of only opening in England and are continuing our work to overcome the challenges that this presents,\" he added.\n\nThe Parkrun movement was founded in Bushy Park, London in 2002 by Paul Sinton-Hewitt and is now in 22 countries.\n\nRunners or walkers can take part in 5km events on Saturday mornings while 2km junior events take place on Sunday mornings. Events are free and are run by volunteers.\n\nThere are 729 different locations across the UK staging the weekly events and more than two million runners have taken part.\n\nPearson added: \"Everything in life comes with a risk, and we know and accept that we cannot remove all risks from the Parkrun environment. However, it is also important to balance the public health benefits of reopening our events, against the associated public health risks.\n\n\"We now believe, having spent considerable time gathering and understanding the evidence, that the benefits to reopening Parkrun far outweigh the risks.\"", "People who break quarantine restrictions after returning to the UK will face tougher enforcement measures, the transport secretary has said.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Grant Shapps stressed that failing to self-isolate for 14 days is a criminal offence that endangers \"the people you love and others that you've never even met\".\n\n\"We absolutely will be stepping up measures and I'm working with the home secretary and others to secure that, and I again will say more about it very soon,\" he said.\n\nMr Shapps also suggested it was more important for testing capacity to be made available for schools and universities rather than recent arrivals from overseas.\n\n\"Schools have gone back, universities have gone back, pressure on testing is very real at this particular moment in time,\" he said.\n\n\"I am not sure that we should be prioritising holidaymakers returning in the testing system over, for example, children going back to school.\"\n\nAsked whether passengers could be tested before they fly, he said it is \"worth additional examination\".\n\n\"A sort of pre-quarantine is something that other countries are using ... it's not an entirely straightforward solution, but I do think it is worth additional examination, and again I look to the scientists to help advise on this and they're being very forthcoming with that advice,\" he said.", "Netflix's chairman has said working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder.\n\nBut Reed Hastings, who founded the platform, also said its 8,600 employees would not have to return to the office until most of them had received an approved coronavirus vaccine.\n\nAnd he predicted most people would continue to work from home on one day a week even after the pandemic was over.\n\nA new UK government ad campaign is now asking workers to return to workplaces.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal newspaper asked Mr Hastings if he had seen any benefits from staff working from home.\n\n\"No. I don't see any positives,\" he replied\n\n“Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative,” Mr Hastings told the Wall Street Journal.\n\nNetflix is used by almost 200 million households worldwide.\n\nAnd it has already resumed producing its own series, documentaries and films.\n\n“We’re up and running in much of Europe and much of Asia,\" Mr Hastings said.\n\n\"And we’ve got a few things going on already in [Los Angeles],” he added.\n\n“The hope is that, through September and October, we can really get - with proper testing - a lot more running.”\n\nOther leading technology companies, however, have suggested employees may never return to the office.\n\nIn May, Twitter said staff could work from home \"for ever\".\n\nFujitsu has also made plans to allow staff to work from home permanently.\n\nAnd Facebook and Google have said employees can work remotely until at least the end of the year.", "A man who was stabbed to death in Birmingham has been described as \"the light of our life\" by his family who said he \"lit up every room\".\n\nWest Midlands Police said Jacob Billington, 23, was out with school friends from Liverpool visiting one of their group in Birmingham when he was attacked on Irving Street on Sunday morning.\n\nAnother friend, also 23, was seriously hurt and remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nHis family added Jacob was \"a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met\" and \"we have been devastated by his loss\".\n\nThe force said another man, aged 30, who was stabbed in Livery Street and a 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, remain in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nA 27-year-old man, arrested at his home in Selly Oak, remains in custody on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder.\n\nOfficers said three others, two men and a woman, were arrested from the same address on suspicion of assisting an offender.", "Pierre Gasly took a stunning upset win in the Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team in one of the most remarkable races in history.\n\nLewis Hamilton was dominating until he was penalised for being called in for a stop when the pit lane was closed.\n\nTwo safety cars in quick succession mixed up the order and Gasly took the lead after Hamilton served his penalty.\n\nMcLaren's Carlos Sainz closed him down but the Frenchman just held him off to take his first grand prix victory.\n\nHamilton fought back from last place, 18 seconds off the back of the pack, to seventh, just two places behind team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n• None Wolff to stay at Mercedes next year\n\nHow on earth did that happen?\n\nGasly's win sealed an amazing turnaround in fortunes for the likeable 24-year-old, who just over a year ago was demoted from the senior Red Bull team to what was Toro Rosso and was renamed over the winter.\n\nGasly has been outstanding ever since, including taking a second place in Brazil last year, and few will begrudge him this win.\n\nIt is the junior team's second grand prix victory - their first also coming at Monza, with Sebastian Vettel in 2008.\n\nBut it was a cruel twist of fortune for Sainz, who had been running in a superb second place to Hamilton and should have been in a position to benefit from the world champion's penalty.\n\nBut the timing of the pit stops around two mid-race safety cars and then a red flag effectively ended Sainz's hopes.\n\nHe, along with all the leaders, pitted during the first safety-car period, triggered by a breakdown for Kevin Magnussen's Haas.\n\nThis was when Mercedes made the error that cost Hamilton his 90th grand prix win, calling him in as soon as the safety car was thrown and not noticing that race director Michael Masi had closed the pit lane because marshals were dealing with Magnussen's car close to the entry.\n\nGasly had made his stop a couple of laps before the first safety car so did not stop again, and this promoted him to third behind Hamilton and Racing Point's Lance Stroll for a mixed-up field at the restart.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc was soon into fourth place, passing both Alfa Romeo cars into the first chicane on the first lap of racing, but the Monegasque then lost control at the Parabolica and crashed heavily, causing the race to be reflagged for repairs to be made to the barriers.\n\nThe race was restarted with a standing start with Hamilton ahead of Stroll, Gasly, the Alfa Romeos of Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi and Sainz.\n\nHamilton missed the pre-race anti-racism demonstration because of a timing mix-up following his return to the garage for a pre-race comfort break, and once the race started, what had been looking like a routine win turned on its head on Mercedes' fateful decision.\n\nThe race surrendered to him at the start, when Bottas was slow away and had a dreadful first lap, passed by car after car as he slipped down to sixth place.\n\nFrom then on, Hamilton was untouchable until Mercedes made their mistake.\n\nHamilton went to see the stewards during the stoppage to check the penalty was fair. He took the restart from pole, but stopped at the end of the first lap, and his penalty demoted him to last.\n\nHe soon started lapping three seconds faster than anyone else and caught the field in no time, scything past car after car for a useful haul of points.\n\nBottas, his car struggling with overheating and uncertain handling in right-hand corners, could not make progress and became stuck behind other cars all race.\n\nHis fifth place moves him ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen in the championship after the Dutchman retired with collision damage, but Hamilton is 47 points ahead - almost two clear wins - with the season close to its halfway point.\n\nStroll threw away his opportunity for a maiden win with a poor start, and Gasly moved into second behind Hamilton, who pitted at the end of the first lap of racing to serve his penalty.\n\nSainz then fought past Stroll into Turn One at the start of the second lap but took another four laps to catch and pass Raikkonen, by which time Gasly had a four-second lead.\n\nThe Spaniard closed that down to be right on his tail at the start of the last lap but Gasly managed to hold him off.\n\nHe is the first Frenchman to win a race since Olivier Panis won the Monaco Grand Prix for Ligier in similarly unlikely circumstances in 1996.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nAnother race in Italy next weekend - this time the Tuscany Grand Prix, also named for Ferrari's 1,000th race. It is a prospect to savour on a new track to F1. Mugello is renowned as a challenging, fast and flowing circuit and all the drivers are looking forward to it.", "Few commuters took the service on Monday morning\n\nThe metro in the Indian capital, Delhi, has reopened more than five months after it was shut down to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIt's India's largest rapid transport system - it carried 2.7 million passengers a day before the lockdown.\n\nMasks, social distancing and temperature checks are mandatory according to the new rules.\n\nThe move comes as case numbers continue to climb in India, with daily tallies of more than 80,000.\n\nThe country has so far reported more than 4.1 million cases, and 70,000 deaths.\n\nDespite the risks, India continues to reopen because the economy is still reeling from the effects of a prolonged lockdown.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt least 12 other metro services across the country are also reopening today.\n\nDelhi has reported a recent uptick in cases and fatalities after the numbers dipped briefly. But the city has been steadily reopening, with bars set to open next week.\n\nThe metro, however, is especially risky given the volume of passengers, and the fact that it covers large swathes of the sprawling capital.\n\nBut officials have released detailed rules to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nFor one, the 389km (247 mile)-long metro will open in a phased manner over the week, eventually servicing all 285 stations.\n\nThe yellow line, which connects 37 stations between north Delhi and the satellite city of Gurgaon, is the first to reopen. It's the oldest line and also the busiest, with a daily footfall of around 1.45 million.\n\nIn the first phase starting Monday, trains will run for four hours in the morning, beginning 07:00 IST, and for four hours in the evening, ending at 20:00 IST. Service hours will be extended from Friday onwards.\n\nPassengers will be allowed to sit on alternate seats or stand, maintaining adequate social distancing, according to the rules.\n\nThe trains will stop for an increased 10-20 seconds at stations to allow passengers sufficient time to board and alight without crowding around the doors.\n\nThe coaches are expected to be warmer than usual as more fresh air will be pumped in from outside to ensure increased air circulation and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nOnly a limited number of station gates will open to avoid a rush of passengers - stations usually have four entry and exit gates.\n\nSecurity guards wearing face shields will enforce rules in the stations\n\nSome 800 people will be deployed at all stations to \"ensure the cleanliness and orderliness inside stations\", and to regulate entry and exit of passengers, Metro officials said.\n\nAll passengers will be screened and have to sanitise their hands before entering the stations. Forty five stations have been provided with machines, which will screen commuters and sanitise their hands. Masks will be provided to passengers not wearing them.\n\nMetro authorities say the concourse, passages, platforms, stairs, escalators, hand rails and toilets will be disinfected every four hours.\n\nTrains will skip stations in areas with rising coronavirus cases\n\nOnly passengers carrying smart cards that can be digitally recharged will be allowed to travel. Many passengers used plastic travelling tokens before the lockdown.\n\nTrains will skip stations in areas with a high number of coronavirus cases, and where commuters are violating social distancing norms, they added.\n\n\"If we find that resumption of operations is not resulting in social distancing, then, we might have no option but to review these arrangements,\" Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said recently.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Foden and Mason Greenwood are to leave the England camp after an \"unacceptable\" breach of coronavirus quarantine guidelines in Iceland.\n\nThe Football Association is investigating the breaches after Saturday's 1-0 Nations League victory.\n\nManchester City midfielder Foden, 20, and Manchester United forward Greenwood, 18, both made their senior international debuts in the game.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate said they had been \"naive\" and had apologised.\n\nA Reykjavik Metropolitan Police spokesperson told BBC Sport that both players were fined 250,000 Icelandic krona (£1,360).\n\n\"It's a very serious situation and we have treated it that way and have acted as quickly as we have been able to,\" added Southgate.\n\n\"We have dealt with it appropriately. I recognise their age but the whole world is dealing with this pandemic.\"\n\nIn a social media post on Monday evening Foden said missing England's next game on Tuesday against Denmark \"hurts\" and he will \"learn a valuable lesson from this error in judgement.\"\n\n\"I made a poor decision and and my behaviour didn't meet the standards expected of me,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I apologise to Gareth Southgate, to my England team-mates, to the staff, supporters and also to my club and my family.\"\n\nAccording to reports in Icelandic and other media, Foden and Greenwood allegedly met two women in a separate part of the hotel away from where the England team were staying.\n\nWhen asked about the reports, Southgate said: \"Nothing has happened in the areas we occupy in the team hotel.\n\n\"We are still getting to the depths of all the information because it was only brought to my attention only a couple of hours before training.\n\n\"We had to decide very quickly that they couldn't have any interaction with the rest of the team, wouldn't be able to travel to training.\n\n\"Given the procedures that we have to follow now, they'll have to travel back to England separately.\"\n\nLater on Monday, an FA spokesperson said: \"Whilst in Iceland, both Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood spent time outside of our private team area, which was a breach of our Covid-19 rules.\n\n\"While they did not leave the team hotel, it was an unacceptable breach of our protocol. They have both apologised for their serious lack of judgement.\"\n\nThe FA has launched a \"full investigation\" and apologised to the Football Association of Iceland, saying it is \"taking the appropriate steps\". It has also assured the Danish Football Union \"that all other players and staff members have been isolated within our group throughout this period\".\n\nSouthgate has not chosen to call up any replacements and will have a 21-man squad to choose from for the match against Denmark in the Nations League on Tuesday (19:45 BST kick-off).\n\nGreenwood's England call-up followed a breakout season at United, in which he scored 17 goals, while Foden became a regular starter in Pep Guardiola's City side in 2019-20.\n\nA Manchester City spokesman said Foden's behaviour was \"totally inappropriate\" and \"fell well below the standard expected of a Manchester City player and England international\".\n\nA Manchester United statement said the club are \"liaising with the Football Association and are disappointed with the actions of Mason Greenwood\".\n\n'They have let Southgate, the team and fans down' - analysis\n\nA big part of being a footballer is discipline. These young lads made their debuts and have bright futures ahead of them. They are wonderfully talented footballers and will probably go on to make a lot of caps and he [Gareth Southgate] has done the right thing sending them home.\n\nThey have been irresponsible. They haven't just let Gareth down; they have let the group down and the fans. They are young lads and unfortunately they have to learn.\n\nI'm sure when they get going again next year, they will get themselves back in if they're playing well for their clubs. It's a horrible lesson to learn at a young age, when they have just got into the squad. That's what will upset Gareth.\n\nThey are young and naive. These are players that are just starting out their careers and it will stick with them for a long time.", "Uist in the Western Isles has been suggested as the location for a property trial\n\nCommunity figures have warned that rising property prices in the Hebrides and Skye are preventing locals from buying a home.\n\nIn an open letter they described the situation as akin to an \"economic clearance\" that was threatening the sustainability of the islands.\n\nThey said young islanders could not compete with offers made by buyers from elsewhere in the UK.\n\nIt follows claims parts of Scotland are seeing a post-lockdown property boom.\n\nThe uptick in interest has been put down to previously office-based staff being able to work from home and perceived lower rates of Covid-19.\n\nThe letter's signatories - which includes crofters, development officers and Gaelic campaigners - said 40% of housing stock on both Tiree in the Inner Hebrides and West Harris in the Western Isles were holiday homes.\n\nThey said the availability of affordable properties for young islanders had been a long-running problem, but was expected to worsen post-lockdown.\n\nThey pointed to reports of people across the UK looking to relocate to the Highlands and Islands, and having the means to make higher offers than local buyers.\n\nThe average purchase price for residential properties in the Western Isles have increased from £65,189 in 2004 to £123,048 last year, according to the Registers of Scotland.\n\nFor Argyll and Bute - which includes the Inner Hebrides - the prices over the same period have risen from £110,691 to £173,470. In the Highlands, which includes Skye, prices rose from £107,639 to £185,178.\n\nThe Scottish average prices were £113,289 in 2004 and £181,339 last year.\n\nThe Western Island and Argyll and Bute also saw the highest proportion of cash sales of all Scotland's local authority areas in 2019-20, where about 50% of all residential sales were cash sales.\n\nThe letter said: \"Part-time residencies do not sustain our communities and we should therefore ensure that houses are bought with the intention of being a primary residency.\n\n\"Inaction will allow this economic clearance to be consolidated in history.\"\n\nChristina Morrison and her husband moved back to the Western Isles from the mainland for a \"rare job interview\" and to raise a young family.\n\nBut they faced an uphill struggle finding a place in Uist to call their own.\n\n\"We were about to start a family and we wanted our family to grow up here on the islands and have the nice upbringing we had,\" she said.\n\n\"When we first moved over we had a really difficult time. We stayed in a hotel at one point and family helped out with temporary accommodation.\"\n\nThe couple lost out twice in bids for homes and Christina said the buyers in both instances were planning to use the properties as holiday homes.\n\nShe said: \"It was just pure luck we got the house we are in now.\"\n\nThe couple, who were just about to become parents, were told the owners of a house down the road from where they were staying had been seen packing up their household possessions.\n\nThe house had not yet gone on the market, but the sellers were keen for a quick sale and agreed to sell it Christina her husband.\n\nThe use of the term \"clearance\" echoes back to the Highland clearances when tenants were evicted from land in the 18th and 19th Centuries so landlords could increase their income.\n\nThe letter suggests Uist in the Western Isles be used as a trial location where properties are advertised locally in the first instance prior to being listed on the national market.\n\nThe letter said 40% of property on Tiree was used as a second home\n\nThe letter said: \"A recent example of a house in Uist becoming available for rental shows the scope for positive action.\n\n\"The owner agreed that the house should first be advertised to young locals, and a number of applications were received.\n\n\"They seized this opportunity to invest in the community by offering the house to a returning young couple with three children.\"\n\nThe letter comes after concerns were raised that Gaelic speakers among the islands' communities could vanish within 10 years.\n\nResearchers said daily use of Gaelic was currently too low to sustain it as a community language in the future.\n\nThe letter's signatories include Pàdruig Morrison, a Uist crofter, researcher and musician and architect and Gaelic campaigner Martin Baillie, from Skye.\n\nUist businesswoman Emma Axelsson and crofter Fiona NicÌosaig have also signed it.\n\nA lack of affordable housing for islanders is recognised in the Scottish government's National Plan for Scotland's Islands, which was published last year.\n\nThe plan's consultation process had \"highlighted that the availability of affordable, fit-for-purpose housing on Scottish islands presents a challenge for island communities\".\n\nThe challenges include young people deciding to leave island communities and a lack of accessible and affordable housing being a \"barrier\" to attracting families to island communities.\n\nIn the plan, the government made a commitment to support affordable housing projects.\n\nGordon Macrae, of homeless people's charity Shelter Scotland, said the solution to providing housing for islanders and meeting demand from people living elsewhere in the UK wanting to move to rural areas was to \"build more homes\".\n\nHe added: \"The problem for many parts of the Highlands, and the Borders as well, is that they have gone under-invested for so long.\"\n\nHousing Minister Kevin Stewart said the Scottish government recognised good quality, affordable homes were \"essential to help attract and retain\" people in Scotland's remote rural and island communities.\n\nHe said the government had committed record levels of investment as part of its efforts to deliver 50,000 affordable homes, with more than 4,800 homes delivered in rural and islands areas in the first four years of the current parliament and over £50m spent on affordable housing on islands in that time.\n\nMr Stewart said: \"While promoting rural properties to local people in the first instance clearly has merits in supporting local people to access housing, it would need to operate on a voluntary basis as the way in which an owner chooses to market their property is a matter entirely for them.\n\n\"However, we remain committed to affordable local housing solutions that allow people to stay, live and work in their communities.\"", "Production of Wagon Wheels and Jammie Dodger biscuits could be halted at an Edinburgh factory this month as staff strike over pay, a union has warned.\n\nThe GMB union accused Burton's Biscuits, which also makes Maryland cookies, of making a \"derisory\" pay offer that had \"insulted\" workers.\n\nIt said staff would stage three 24-hour walkouts, with the first on Wednesday.\n\nA Burton's Biscuits spokesman said it was \"shocked\" at GMB's request for a 7% pay rise but keen to resume talks.\n\nMore than 400 workers are employed at its Edinburgh factory, which makes around 7.5 million biscuits a day.\n\nGMB members at the plant voted by a majority of 91% for industrial action after management refused to increase a 1.6% annual pay rise offer.\n\nThe union said indefinite work to rule and an overtime ban will start tomorrow from 2pm, followed by strikes on 9, 16 and 23 September.\n\nGMB Scotland organiser Benny Rankin said: \"Burton's stubborn stance on this year's pay offer is an insult to staff that have worked throughout the lockdown at management's insistence.\n\n\"Their refusal to meaningfully engage with a workforce that deserve so much better means we have been left with little choice but to strike for a decent pay offer.\"\n\nBurton's Biscuits, which is owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan investment company, said the union was being unreasonable.\n\n\"Against the backdrop of growing economic uncertainty, the country entering a depression and rising levels of unemployment, we have made what we consider to be a series of very fair and reasonable offers, enabling us to provide job security alongside increased earnings.\n\n\"Alongside the challenging environment, this action may only serve to jeopardise our employees' ongoing job security.\"\n\nHe said the firm wanted to find a \"mutually acceptable solution\" and was willing to resume talks with the union.\n\n\"We also hope that we can return to full production as soon as possible and move forward in a spirit of unity and co-operation in a safe, enjoyable and productive working environment.\"\n\nBurtons, which also makes Cadbury biscuits under a perpetual licence, has three sites in the UK employing 2,200 workers.", "More than 30 horses have been killed or mutilated around France in recent months\n\nPolice in France have launched a manhunt for two suspects after the latest in a spate of horse mutilations.\n\nForty officers have flown by helicopter to the town of Losne, near Dijon, after a horse was attacked on Sunday morning.\n\nDozens of horses have been killed or maimed around the country this year, prompting public outcry.\n\nPolice do not know why the animals are being targeted, nor whether it is the work of one person, or if initial attacks have inspired copycat killings.\n\nDuring the latest incident, the horse's owner called police at around 02:00 local time (01:00 BST) on Sunday after seeing lamp lights in his meadow.\n\nThe Dijon prosecutor's office told local media that the horse had been injured in its flank, although the injury was not very severe.\n\nMore than 30 other cases have been reported in France, with horses being left with their ears and genitals cut off. Another was found disembowelled.\n\nAs part of their investigation into one attack in Yonne, north-west of Dijon, last month, police released an artist's impression of an alleged perpetrator spotted at the scene.\n\nAgriculture Minister Julien Denormandie later pledged that those responsible for the attacks would be brought to justice.\n\n\"All branches of the state are mobilising to get justice done,\" said Mr Denormandie during a visit to Saint-Eusèbe, in central France, where a horse's ear had recently been cut off.\n\n\"There is clearly a professionalism, people acting with a certain level of technique,\" he added.\n\nSerge Lecomte, president of the French Equestrian Federation, accompanied Mr Denormandie during the visit.\n\n\"It is cruel savagery of a kind we have rarely seen before,\" he told AFP. \"Is it a cult? Cruelty towards animals is the precursor to cruelty towards humans\".", "More than 1.1 million people are now affected by tougher restrictions on home visits after they were extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland.\n\nThe measures came into force in East Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire at midnight after a rise in cases.\n\nThe rules had already been reimposed in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire last week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said acting quickly now could \"stem the tide of transmission\" in the area.\n\nBut she has warned that there is a \"definite trend\" of rising case numbers across Scotland.\n\nMeasures were reimposed in parts of the greater Glasgow area last week in response to a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nPeople are being told not to host people from other households inside their own homes, or visit another person's home.\n\nMeetings in pubs and restaurants and outdoor areas are still permitted - although the Scottish government said the hospitality sector would be monitored in the coming days to see whether restrictions should be extended.\n\nA further 78 positive cases were reported in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The hope is that we will stem the tide\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"too early\" to say whether the fresh lockdown had had any effect on cases.\n\nThe measures are targeted at household meetings, with Ms Sturgeon saying it was \"still the view of public health teams that the significant factor driving transmission is people meeting up in their own homes\".\n\nShe said local authorities in the area would \"pay close attention to hospitality\" and would encourage people to act responsibly while using bars and restaurants.\n\nThe widened restrictions - which also mean there should only be \"essential\" visits to people in hospitals and care homes - will be reviewed in a week's time.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the measures are not yet being extended to Lanarkshire or Inverclyde - noting that levels of infection were \"significantly lower\" in Inverclyde.\n\nThe restrictions will now apply to apply to 179,000 people living in Renfrewshire and 108,000 in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe city of Glasgow has a population of 633,120, while there are 95,530 people in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"regrettable we are in this position\", but that the measures banning household visits were \"considered proportionate but also the most effective\".\n\nShe added: \"If we act quickly and preventatively now, we can stem the tide of transmission and avoid having other restrictions put in place.\"\n\nThe first minister had earlier warned that a continuing rise in Covid-19 cases in Scotland could see her government \"put the brakes\" on the planned easing of some restrictions.\n\nAn average of 152 positive tests have been recorded each day over the past week - compared to 14 per day six weeks ago.\n\nThe number of hospital admissions and deaths has not risen as sharply, although Ms Sturgeon warned that \"this may just be a matter of time\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An air ambulance was called to the scene\n\nA 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition after he was shot on the way to school.\n\nOfficers were called just after 08:40 BST to the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, where a person was later seen receiving medical treatment.\n\nKesgrave High School said it had been told the incident involved one of its Year 11 students. The victim, who was shot once, was flown to hospital.\n\nSuffolk Police have arrested a boy, 15, in connection with the shooting.\n\nThe suspect, who is said to be from the Woodbridge area, was arrested by armed police on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police cordons remain in place around the Grange Farm estate\n\nAn Essex and Herts Air Ambulance landed on an area of grass and took off just before 10:00.\n\nPolice said they were treating the shooting \"as an isolated incident\" and do \"not believe there is any wider threat to the local community\". The Suffolk force said it was thought a single shot was fired in the incident.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rob Jones said: \"Following this serious incident our priority is to keep everyone safe.\"\n\n\"There will be more police officers on patrol and to provide reassurance in the area and I would ask for anyone with information about this incident to come forward,\" he added.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson told the House of Commons: \"I think we're all shocked and saddened to learn about the incident in which a young person was seriously hurt on their way to school in Suffolk today.\n\n\"Our thoughts are very much with the young person, their family and the whole school community at this very difficult time.\"\n\nEyewitness Andy Watts told the BBC he was out walking his dog when he heard \"a gunshot and then I heard a great big scream\".\n\n\"It sounded like scaffolding falling down originally because it was a big, big crash,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw them working on the young lad over on the green; he was over there for quite a while while they were attending to him, a lot of ambulance staff and paramedics working on him.\"\n\nPhil Bennett, 38, said his father lived near the scene in Kesgrave and heard a gunshot.\n\nMr Bennett said he drove to check on his parents at their home in Lyon Close after seeing vague details of the incident on Facebook and becoming concerned.\n\n\"My dad heard a gunshot,\" he said. \"He's a retired paramedic - he's heard a lot of gunshots in his time, so he stayed indoors.\n\n\"The next thing he knew there were police piling in, then it's a scene of crime.\n\n\"It's hard to believe this has happened 100 metres from my mum's front door, that someone's been shot. It's terrible what's going on.\"\n\nKesgrave is a small town on the edge of Ipswich that has grown rapidly over the past 20 years.\n\nIt has two primary schools and a high school and is packed with families. I've been to the scene of the shooting, in the heart of the town's Grange Farm estate, and the sense of shock about what's happened is palpable.\n\nThis is a tight-knit community where many people know and look out for each other. The police have reassured people that this is an \"isolated incident\" but the feeling of concern remains.\n\nKesgrave High, which said the pupil was on his way to school at the time of the incident, said in a statement: \"Students in school are safe and we are managing the situation in constant, close communication with the police.\"\n\nIt is understood Monday was the first day back at school for its Year 11 pupils following the coronavirus lockdown and the summer holiday.\n\nFriends Walk and Through Jollys have been closed off and there is a partial closure in Ropes Drive. Police have urged the public to avoid these areas.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister said a resurgence of cases could see some restrictions being re-imposed\n\nA rise in coronavirus cases could see the Scottish government \"put the brakes\" on further changes to lockdown restrictions, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nA total of 146 new cases of the virus were reported on Monday.\n\nThe first minister said the continued rise must be taken \"really seriously\".\n\nThe restrictions will be reviewed on Thursday, but Ms Sturgeon said it was unlikely Scotland would move to the next phase in her government's route map out of lockdown.\n\nAnd she said a \"resurgence\" of cases could see restrictions being re-imposed.\n\nAn average of 152 positive tests have been recorded each day over the past week - compared to 14 per day six weeks ago.\n\nHowever, this has not yet resulted in a spike in hospital admissions, with 256 people currently being treated for Covid-19.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was a \"very definite trend\" of increasing case numbers over recent weeks.\n\nMore than 200 cases were recorded on Sunday - the highest number since May - with a particular increase in the Greater Glasgow area, where fresh restrictions on household visits has been imposed.\n\nThe new cases reported on Monday represented 2.4% of people tested, having regularly been below 1% two weeks ago.\n\nThe first minister said the figures should not come as a surprise and had echoed the way cases had increased in other countries as they reopened.\n\nShe said the virus currently seemed to be spreading among younger people, who were \"less likely\" to become seriously ill, and that this may be why hospital admissions have not risen as sharply.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said this context \"cannot and really must not be a source of complacency\".\n\nShe said the virus can still be a \"really nasty disease\" for young people, and that it will \"eventually seep into older and more vulnerable groups\".\n\nMs Sturgeon will reveal the outcome of the next review of lockdown measures at Holyrood on Thursday.\n\nShe said Scotland would not move to phase four of the \"route map\" until the virus \"is no longer considered a significant threat to public health\".\n\nAnd she warned: \"It may be that we have to put the brakes on some further changes too\".\n\nThe government had previously indicated that from 14 September, soft play areas and entertainment venues such as theatres and music venues could reopen, along with a limited reopening of stadiums.\n\nThe first minister added: \"The current situation in Greater Glasgow and Clyde is a reminder that if we see a resurgence in cases then restrictions may have to be re-imposed rather than being relaxed.\"\n\nLater this week the Scottish government will roll out a coronavirus contact tracing app, which will help track down people who have been in close proximity to those who test positive.\n\nMs Sturgeon said everyone would be encouraged to download the Protect Scotland app, stressing that it does not track people's location and that \"your data is not passed on and remains private and confidential\".\n\nShe said downloading the app was \"a small but really important individual step we can take for our collective wellbeing\".", "For the last few days India has added more than 75,000 daily infections daily\n\nIndia has recorded more than 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Brazil.\n\nThe country now has the second-largest number of confirmed cases in the world, 4,204,613. It has reported 71,642 deaths, the third-highest in the world.\n\nThe surge in reported infections has mostly come from five states.\n\nThe rise comes as the government continues to lift restrictions to try to boost an economy that lost millions of jobs when the virus hit in March.\n\nFor the last seven days India's caseload has galloped, adding more than 75,000 daily infections per day.\n\nMore than 60% of the active cases are coming from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.\n\nCases have also begun spiking in the capital, Delhi, as well, with more than 3,200 infections recorded on Sunday, the city's highest in more than two months.\n\nAn upsurge of Covid-19 in many rural areas has also led to an uptick in numbers.\n\nThe virus has struck a remote tribe in India's Andamans islands, with 10 members of the Greater Andamanese testing positive over the past month.\n\nThe rise in cases is also partly a reflection of increased testing - the number of daily tests conducted across the country has risen to more than a million.\n\nAlthough India has a low death rate from the disease, nearly 1,000 deaths have been recorded every day from across the country for the last seven days.\n\nIn early August India became the third country in the world to pass two million cases.\n\nIndia went into a stringent lockdown in March in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, whose numbers were only in the hundreds then.\n\nIt began to ease out of it in phases in June to promote economic activity, even as cases continued to spike.\n\nThe pandemic and the lockdown caused massive disruptions to economic activity during the quarter.\n\nIndia's economy shrank by 23.9% in the three months to the end of June, the worst slump since the country started releasing quarterly data in 1996.", "Rail firms are reassuring travellers major efforts have been taken to ensure their safety as services increase.\n\nTrains in England, Wales and Scotland were up to 90% of normal levels by Monday as schools reopen and people are encouraged to return to work.\n\nRail firms said anecdotal evidence suggested a slight increase in numbers but it was too soon for exact figures.\n\nWest Midlands Trains' Francis Thomas said there were \"big changes\", such as sanitising gel and one-way systems.\n\n\"If you haven't been to the railway station in the last couple of months you might find there's a one-way system at your local station, there's hand gel available and we've invested in anti-fogging machines that can spread an anti-viral on trains,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"And there's plenty of space. We reckon we can carry about 40% of normal loads before we start to breach social distancing.\"\n\nOne passenger told the BBC: \"I think you just have to get out… and then once you get out you kind of get rid of your fears.\"\n\nAnother reported there was plenty of space: \"I come in on the Chiltern Railways line into Marylebone and the trains were a lot, lot longer, and they've, barriered off certain seats. It wasn't too packed.\"\n\nJacqueline Starr, head of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said rail services were \"doing everything they can\" to reassure people travel was safe.\n\nThe group said no service was reported as \"close to social distancing capacity\".\n\nTrain operators across the country have designed the new timetable, taking into consideration potentially busy stations and parts of routes that will experience higher demand for travel by schoolchildren.\n\nWhere possible, more frequent services will be put on or extra carriages added to create more room.\n\nStaff will also be on hand to explain the rules on wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing to older children.\n\n\"Some train times will change so we're asking people to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times if possible,\" said Ms Starr.\n\nOver the coming weeks, rail bosses have a delicate balance to strike.\n\nThey want more passengers back on the network, but they don't want a flood of commuters crowding trains and stations.\n\nUp to now, passenger numbers have remained low - on average, about a third of what it was before the pandemic.\n\nThe railways are not going back to where they were before the pandemic. Some services won't return. But in places, at certain times, more capacity will be created.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government has been covering the huge cost of running the railways without passengers.\n\nSo there is also a financial incentive for ministers that passengers return.\n\nTrain companies are now working to manage passenger flows by warning people if a particular service is busy.\n\nSome modern trains, like those running on Southeastern and on Govia Thameslink, can monitor the weight load in carriages, allowing them to estimate the number of people on board.\n\nSoutheastern plans to share the data with passengers so they can avoid a specific train.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said that reducing the timetable during the coronavirus lockdown and then gradually increasing services again in phases had led to improvements in punctuality.\n\nPassengers are advised to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times\n\nIn particular, train operators and Network Rail had learned lessons about the effects of \"wear and tear\" on railway infrastructure, the effects \"knock-on delays\" caused to intensely-used routes, and the time trains take at each station.\n\n\"Before Covid one train was leaving a station at every second - we were congested. Obviously what this has allowed us to do is to look at the timetable and its resilience and to see where we can improve and increase punctuality and build and maintain that as we build back up the timetable,\" Robert Nisbet, regional director at the Rail Delivery Group, told the BBC.\n\nMr Nisbet added that the crisis had prompted another look at the way fares are structured: \"The need for reform has never been stronger, specifically when it comes to fares.\"\n\nHe said the regulations that governed fares needed changing and that talks were being held with government on this issue - including changes to make season tickets more flexible.\n\nAt the end of August, the government launched an advertising campaign encouraging people to go back to the workplace.\n\nBusiness leaders have warned of damage being done to city centres as people stay away from offices.\n\nHowever, many employers have no plans to return workers to the office.\n\nThe BBC questioned 50 big employers ranging from banks to retailers to get a sense of when they expected to ask employees to return to the office.\n\nOne of the main reasons given for the lack of a substantial return was that firms could not see a way of accommodating large numbers of staff while social distancing regulations were still in place.", "Hundreds of thousands of people may wait until 2022 for justice despite a government announcement to speed up work in the Crown Courts, lawyers warn.\n\nMinisters unveiled measures - including holding suspects for longer in England and Wales - in an attempt to manage pressure on courts amid the pandemic.\n\nBut critics say delays in criminal courts are entirely of the government's making and pre-date coronavirus.\n\nMore than 9,000 trials have been put back since the UK went into lockdown.\n\nOn Sunday, the Ministry of Justice announced that it wants Parliament to pass temporary legislation to extend the time that defendants can be held in custody in England and Wales while awaiting trial.\n\nThe law is one of the most important wheels of the criminal justice machine because it ensures that justice is as swift as possible for both suspects and victims.\n\nAt present, defendants can only be held for 182 days after their first appearance in court, before there has to be an application to a judge to keep them inside for longer.\n\nUnder the government's proposal, from the end of this month that will be two months longer.\n\nIn practice, this decision builds more time into the court system - and it is part of a package of measures to manage the impact of coronavirus on the courts.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's main offices in Westminster will house a temporary court to ease the backlog\n\nJudges and court managers are struggling to find enough space to safely manage the social distancing of hundreds of people who would normally come into their buildings every day.\n\nBut criminal barristers say that the government's case is disingenuous. They say the delays to justice are of the government's own making, not because of coronavirus.\n\nThey accuse ministers of taking a political decision to introduce yet more delay - which could lead to cases collapsing if witnesses withdraw cooperation - rather than finding the cash to get more courts operational.\n\nAccording to official figures, more than 37,000 Crown Court cases were outstanding before the pandemic struck the UK.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents barristers who prosecute and defend across the country, says the backlog is now 43,000.\n\nIn recent years, the number of courtrooms in regular use has fallen as part of cuts to the courts budget - and as the number of sitting days has fallen, the backlog of cases has grown.\n\nJames Mulholland QC, chairman of the CBA, said that the delays to justice were damaging to suspects, victims and witnesses.\n\n\"You don't resolve the delays by incorporating further delays into the system,\" he said. \"The people you punish unfairly by this mechanism are not only those wrongly accused of crime, because not everyone in custody is guilty - but the witnesses who will have to wait even longer to be heard.\"\n\n\"The backlog could have gone away if the government had allowed judges to sit. Then along comes Covid, and the crisis that they've created, they can't properly address.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the government's wider package of measures will get the criminal courts system \"back to where it needs to be\".\n\n\"This temporary extension to custody time limits will keep victims and the public safe, and we should not apologise for making that our priority,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, the measures I have announced today will get the criminal courts system back to where it needs to be - reducing delays and delivering speedier justice for all.\"\n\nThe latest plan includes installing plastic screens in often cramped and confined courtrooms to help reduce the risk of virus spread.\n\nThe government has already opened 10 \"Nightingale\" court sites - additional facilities to help manage the burden. But only two are dedicated to criminal work.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has now pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards more Nightingale courts for crime.\n\nBut barristers say the money being spent on warehousing defendants could be better spent on getting existing courts operational.", "There are fears that customs tariffs could lead to big queues in Dover\n\nEU diplomats in Brussels wake up this morning with a sore head. The government has thrown a number of political grenades across the Channel over the space of a few hours.\n\nFirst: a defiant-sounding interview with David Frost, the UK chief negotiator in the troubled trade talks with the EU. Next came a leak about government plans to introduce domestic legislation which would partially undermine the Brexit divorce deal, the Withdrawal Agreement, signed last year with the EU. Also affecting the Irish Protocol, designed at the time by Brussels and the UK to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nFinally, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that if no trade deal is agreed by mid-October, there will be no trade deal at all with the EU. And that - by the way - a no-deal scenario would actually be good for the UK, giving it full control over its \"laws, rules and fishing waters\".\n\nEU reaction? Not at all happy.\n\nBang on cue, irritated European diplomatic sources described the Frost interview as sabre rattling and \"unsurprising muscle flexing\" ahead of the last tough rounds of trade negotiations with the EU.\n\nAs regards the domestic legislation affecting the Irish Protocol (the precise details of which have not yet been revealed), Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney tweeted that would be \"a very unwise way for the government to proceed\".\n\nWhile a high level EU diplomat from a country traditionally close to the UK slammed the planned legislation as, not only a trust or credibility issue, but \"something that could lead to the unravelling of the already fraught EU-UK trade negotiations\".\n\nIt was a self-defeating move by the Johnson government, he said.\n\nSo self-defeating, in EU eyes, that I have now begun to hear musings amongst Brussels contacts that maybe they were not the government's main target audience after all.\n\nBecause, say EU figures, if the Frost interview, the legislation leak and the prime minister's words were all designed as a negotiating tactic, to put pressure on the EU, then it was a terrible tactic, they insist, as it simply serves to \"raise European hackles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK vs EU: Johnson and Michel Barnier set out competing visions on trade\n\nSome in the EU think the government's intended audience was actually ardent Brexiters. More specifically: backbench Tory MPs, already annoyed with the government's handling of domestic issues, like the exam chaos this summer, and worried the prime minister may be about to agree a compromise deal with the EU.\n\nCould this mean, wonders the EU, that Boris Johnson is throwing what one Twitter commentator described as \"red meat\" to the backbench Brexiters - talking up the no-deal scenario and giving Brussels ultimatums - because he is actually preparing to \"get pragmatic\" and make concessions in trade talks?\n\nIs the prime minister preparing the ground to declare that no deal can be reached and that the UK and EU will instead trade on World Trade Organization terms - with the accompanying tariffs to pay - come the new year?\n\nAccess to fishing grounds has become a key issue in the trade talks\n\nBrussels diplomats say they are willing to make concessions, including on key issues like state aid and fishing but that the UK must do the same, including - and this is as much a bottom line for the EU as it is hard to swallow for the UK - signing up to safeguards for the EU's single market.\n\nPushing him towards a compromise deal: cost of no deal for UK business, Scottish elections loom and no deal will likely boost the fortunes of the anti-Brexit SNP who are calling for another referendum on Scottish independence, manufacturing towns among new Conservative \"red wall\" seats would suffer from no-deal paperwork and disruption to supply chains.\n\nPushing him away from such a deal: strong opposition from Brexiter Conservative MPs, concerns over ceding post-Brexit sovereignty and remaining tied to Brussels apron strings.\n\nThe EU is not at all sure what Boris Johnson will decide. But it is convinced of one thing: deal or no deal, the decision ultimately lies in Downing Street, not here in Brussels.\n\nIf there is a deal, it is highly unlikely to be struck by mid-October, as the prime minister wishes. The EU thinks November is a more realistic bet. It still believes a deal can be done and that Boris Johnson would prefer a deal over no deal. But time is tight, tempers are frayed and Covid-19 continues to distract leaders across Europe.\n\nAt least one emergency Brexit summit is likely before the autumn is over.", "Beauty blogger and influencer Ethan Peters, known as Ethan Is Supreme, has died at the age of 17.\n\nEthan's father Gerald told Fox News: \"He was a kind soul, who accepted everyone for who they were.\"\n\nHis friend, fellow influencer Ava Louise, also posted saying she'd lost her \"best friend in the entire world\".\n\nBoth have said that Ethan was struggling with addiction, but his official cause of death is not yet known.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ava Louise (ig @avalouiise) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEthan had over half a million Instagram followers and 139,000 YouTube subscribers.\n\nA Vice article last year described his makeup style as \"characterised by its desire to catch your attention\" and \"dramatic, emotional and, at times, gory.\"\n\nHe started young, saying that by the summer of 2017 he'd hit 100,000 followers and left his private Christian school because his social media activity \"[violated] their moral conduct code.\"\n\nHe moved to an online school instead and had recently started his own clothing line called Hellboy.\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\nThere was some negative response on social media after news of Ethan's death broke.\n\nHe had been accused of racism and transphobia in the past.\n\nBut fans also spoken in his defence - including one of his inspirations, fellow makeup artist Manny MUA, who posted: \"He's made many many mistakes... but to say he deserved to pass away is horrible and inhuman.\"\n\nHis friend Ava Louise blamed his death on addiction.\n\n\"If anyone talks negatively about my friend and his actions over the past year he was battling addiction,\" she tweeted.\n\n\"Speak positively of Ethan. He was an artist & inspiration. So talented.\"\n\nBBC Action Line has links to resources to help with addiction.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jacob Billington was out with friends when he was stabbed on Sunday\n\nA 23-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre has been named as Jacob Billington.\n\nMr Billington was attacked in Irving Street in the early hours of Sunday while he was out with old school friends, police said.\n\nSeven other people were injured at four locations over a period of 90 minutes.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.\n\nWest Midlands Police said Mr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was on a school reunion night out with friends.\n\nOne of the group, also 23, was seriously injured and remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nIn a statement Mr Billington's family said: \"Jacob was the light of our life and we have been devastated by his loss.\n\n\"He was a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met.\n\n\"He lit up every room with his boundless energy and witty humour and the loss of such a special person will be felt by all who knew him for years to come.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice were first called out just after 00:30 BST on Sunday at Constitution Hill, where a man sustained a superficial injury.\n\nAbout 20 minutes later they were sent to Livery Street, near Snow Hill railway station, where they found a 30-year-old man with critical injuries and a woman who was also hurt.\n\nAt 01:50, officers were despatched to Irving Street, where Mr Billington was found with fatal injuries and his friend seriously hurt.\n\nAbout 10 minutes later, police were called to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, to find a 22-year-old woman had been critically injured and two men less badly hurt.\n\nPolice initially reported the critically injured man's age as 19 and the critically injured woman's as 32.\n\nThe attacks happened at four locations across Birmingham city centre\n\nThe suspect was arrested at an address in the Selly Oak area of the city at about 04:00 on Monday and remains in custody.\n\nThree other people, two men and a woman, from the same property were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Jacob's family and friends after receiving such shocking news, particularly for those who were sharing their night out with him.\n\n\"It's utterly shocking that a friends' reunion should end so brutally.\n\n\"Equally the families of the other victims have been left devastated by the events of Sunday morning and we are working hard to discover what led to the apparently random attacks.\"\n\nQuestions have been raised about how the suspect was able to move around the city for 90 minutes.\n\nResponding to this, Chief Constable Dave Thompson said: \"Engaging in an ill-informed critique of this investigation, particularly at such an early stage, is both unhelpful and simply makes the job of the police harder.\"\n\nMr Thompson described the knife attacks as \"extraordinary\", adding: \"These are events quite unlike anything I have seen on our streets before.\"\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.", "Kieran Amos scored a hat-trick in the first league game of the season\n\nA man who lost 7st (44kg) in lockdown so he could return to football notched a hat-trick in the first league game of the season.\n\nKieran Amos, 24, tipped the scales at 21st 6lb (136kg) in March and had not played competitively since an ankle injury seven years ago.\n\nBut he signed for Sawbridgeworth Town FC after completing a challenge to lose 5st (32kg) by the manager.\n\nThe centre-half said his three-goal haul on Saturday was \"crazy\".\n\nAmos's goals helped fire his side to a 5-2 victory against Southend Manor.\n\nFour days earlier he netted a 91st-minute winner against higher division side Romford in the FA Cup extra preliminary round.\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\nAmos, from Bishop's Stortford, played football throughout his childhood and in the Essex Senior League before suffering an injury aged 17.\n\n\"I snapped my ankle and had to have reconstruction surgery,\" he said.\n\n\"After that I went off to university and that's where it all started in terms of the weight gain.\n\n\"I'd be going out, having a kebab after a night out and not really looking after myself or eating correctly.\n\n\"Before I knew it I'd kind of ballooned over a period of time.\"\n\nAmos said he \"ballooned\" to more than 21st after an ankle injury and going to university\n\nSawbridgeworth manager Lee Mackman told Amos if he managed to lose 5st he could start training with the Essex Senior League side.\n\nDuring lockdown, Amos took up running with his brother who was training to join the Marines.\n\n\"The first run I only did 1km and I stopped about four or five times,\" he said,\n\n\"I started calorie counting and was running about six or seven times a week.\"\n\nThe centre-half was Sawbridgeworth Town FC's first signing of the new season\n\nBy the time pre-season came around Amos had hit his weight loss target and started training with the team.\n\nHe is now down to 14st 6lb (91.6kg) and said he felt \"mentally and physically in the best shape I've been in for a very long time\".\n\nAmos said it was \"unbelievable\" to score the winner in an FA Cup game and he \"didn't think the week could be topped\" until he scored a hat-trick four days later.\n\n\"It was a crazy moment,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Restrictions on home visits in the west of Scotland have been expanded to Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe move comes the week after measures were re-imposed in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThe restrictions now apply to more than 1.1 million people living in the five areas.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said acting quickly now could \"stem the tide of transmission\" in the area.", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange appeared in the dock at London's Old Bailey as his fight against extradition to the US resumed.\n\nThe 49-year-old, who has been in Belmarsh Prison for 16 months, is wanted over the publication of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.\n\nHe told the judge at the start of Monday's hearing he does not consent to extradition - as new charges emerged.\n\nIf convicted in the US, he faces a possible penalty of 175 years in jail.\n\nDuring Monday's hearing, the court heard Mr Assange, an Australian national, was re-arrested minutes earlier on a new indictment issued in June, during lockdown, by the US government.\n\nIt contained 18 charges, including plotting to hack computers and conspiring to obtain and disclose national defence information.\n\nEdward Fitzgerald QC, representing Mr Assange, said he had not seen his client in person for six months in part due to the pandemic - and he told the court the latest indictment had been made \"at the 11th hour\" without warning.\n\nBut a bid to rule out the new charges failed, with District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruling they must be heard in the context of the extradition request.\n\nA separate request for an adjournment to allow Mr Assange's lawyers to respond to the new charges was also refused.\n\nMeanwhile, crowds of supporters gathered outside the Old Bailey, including Mr Assange's father John Shipton and the fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood.\n\n\"I'm an activist, I am very frightened, I've lost days and years of sleep worrying about Julian Assange,\" Dame Vivienne told reporters.\n\nDame Vivienne Westwood said she was \"frightened\" for Mr Assange\n\n\"Julian Assange is the trigger, he is shining the light on all the corruption in the world.\"\n\nMr Shipton said his son was being treated like a hardened criminal. He said: \"Julian's in a glass box, he finds it very difficult to hear anything. I can't hear anything, I'm upstairs in the gallery.\"\n\nA mobile billboard van drove past featuring a \"Don't extradite Assange. Journalism is not a crime\" slogan and a picture of his face.\n\nThe hearing will last four weeks and is expected to hear from witnesses, including academics who will give evidence on journalistic practices.\n\nMr Assange was jailed for 50 weeks in May 2019 for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.\n\nHe sought refuge in the embassy for seven years from 2012 until he was arrested in April 2019.\n\nA previous hearing at Woolwich Crown Court was adjourned shortly before the coronavirus pandemic prompted the UK's lockdown.", "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\nTrain operators in England and Wales will lay on more services from today, getting back to about 90% of pre-pandemic levels. The government hopes it'll help with its drive to encourage people to return to offices and other workplaces. BBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge says rail bosses have a delicate balance to strike because they want more passengers back, but don't want a flood of commuters.\n\nPassengers are advised to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times\n\nThe latest coronavirus figures - for Sunday - show the UK recorded the highest number of new cases on a single day since 22 May. The spike so far appears to be predominantly among young people - and in part due to greater testing - but the fear is that the incease subsequently spreads to the older and more vulnerable. See the situation in your area and find out how to get a test if you think you need one.\n\nMore than 9,000 trials have been delayed since the UK went into lockdown and lawyers are warning this morning that hundreds of thousands of people may have to wait until 2022 for justice. That's despite government measures designed to manage the pressure on courts, including holding suspects for longer in England and Wales while awaiting trial. Critics say delays in criminal courts are entirely of the government's making and pre-date coronavirus.\n\nHundreds of parents of children with special education needs have told BBC Panorama they struggled to access support during lockdown. While schools closed to the majority of children, the government said the most vulnerable could still attend, but families found that wasn't always the case. Watch Panorama: Fighting for an Education at 19:35 BST tonight, or later on the iPlayer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia is one of over one million young people with special educational needs and disabilities in the UK\n\nThe Tokyo Olympics will go ahead next year \"with or without Covid\", the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee says. John Coates said the postponed event would kick off on 23 July, calling them the \"Games that conquered Covid\". More than 11,000 athletes from about 200 countries were due to take part. Replay from BBC Radio 5live has been looking back on some of the greatest Olympic moments from years past.\n\nJapan's borders are currently largely closed to foreign visitors\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Covid-19 is already the third-leading cause of death for African Americans this year, so what's behind the unequal threat? We take a look at the story behind the numbers.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Duke of Sussex has paid back the cost of refurbishing Frogmore Cottage near Windsor Castle.\n\nThe cost, estimated at £2.4m in 2018-19, was covered by taxpayers through the Sovereign Grant, but the duke and duchess said they would repay it when they stepped back from royal duties.\n\nPrince Harry's spokesman said he had paid the bill in full by making a contribution to the grant.\n\nThe property will remain a UK residence for the duke and his family.\n\nIt comes days after the couple announced they had reached a deal with Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\nFrogmore Cottage sits in a secluded spot on the Queen's Windsor estate in Berkshire\n\nFrogmore Cottage should have been a rather lovely family home. Instead it became one of the reasons why, eventually, Harry and Meghan left Britain and the official side of the Royal Family.\n\nThe cost of renovation - £2.4m in 2018-19, with more to come after that - provoked critical commentary, and a wave of largely illusory stories about what the money had been spent on.\n\nJust as the couple were setting up their first place together and creating a home for their child, they were subject to what they thought was unfair and intrusive comment.\n\nFor decades, taxpayer funding has been a sticky subject for the Royal Family; it is a point of purchase for critics, who point to the Sovereign Grant and to the costs of security and ask whether the monarchy lives extravagantly and provides value for money.\n\nIn the negotiations over the couple stepping back from royal duties early this year, money - inevitably - was a serious issue.\n\nIt was Harry and Meghan who announced that they would repay the cost of renovating Frogmore Cottage. In such way a line is drawn, and the couple may perceive themselves to be free of any of the obligations they once laboured under.\n\nAnd Frogmore Cottage stands empty, a rather lonely monument to an unhappy chapter in the royal story.\n\nThe duke's spokesman said of the repayment: \"This contribution as originally offered by Prince Harry has fully covered the necessary renovation costs of Frogmore Cottage, a property of Her Majesty The Queen, and will remain the UK residence of the duke and his family.\"\n\nLast year's royal accounts showed the cost of the renovations was £2.4 million and was covered by the grant.\n\nIt is the money given to the Queen by the government and pays for the salaries of the royal household, official travel and upkeep of palaces.\n\nThe payment is based on the profits of the Crown Estate, a property business owned by the monarch but run independently.\n\nRevenue from the Crown Estate does not belong to the Queen, but goes straight to the Treasury which then grants it back to the Queen as a Sovereign Grant to support the monarch's official business.\n\nHarry and Meghan agreed to pay back the money as part of the plans drawn up when they quit as senior working royals in March.", "Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has formed a taskforce to try and tackle child food poverty\n\nA Conservative MP has been criticised by Marcus Rashford for saying it was a \"parent's job to feed their children\".\n\nKevin Hollinrake, who represents Thirsk and Malton, originally tweeted about the success of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\n\nOne user replied asking why it took a footballer to stand up for hungry children, prompting the MP's remark.\n\nThe footballer, who has campaigned on the issue, said the MP should talk to families before commenting.\n\nMr Hollinrake has been contacted for comment.\n\nKevin Hollinrake had originally posted about the success of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme\n\nThe North Yorkshire MP's original tweet prompted one user, Bryan Barrett, to praise the scheme, but also ask:\n\n\"Whilst we're discussing food, why does it take footballer @MarcusRashford to make a stand for the hungry children in our society? Is that not the Government's job?\"\n\nMr Hollinrake replied: \"Where they can, it's a parent's job to feed their children.\"\n\nRashford's reply, which has attracted more than 80,000 likes, said: \"I would urge you to talk to families before tweeting. To this day I haven't met one parent who hasn't wanted or felt the responsibility to feed their children.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marcus Rashford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Manchester United player successfully campaigned during the summer to extend free school meals and the 22-year-old recently joined forces with some of the biggest food brands to create a taskforce to try and cut child food poverty.\n\nAmong those who also replied was the chief executive of First Days Children's Charity, Emma Cantrell.\n\nShe said the MP's comment was typical of the \"type of ignorance that we encounter every day\" and added: \"We have also not come across a single parent who isn't desperate to provide everything their children need.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Kevin Hollinrake - Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People need to \"start taking this very seriously again\" – Prof Jonathan Van Tam\n\nThe latest \"big change\" in coronavirus infections across the UK is of \"great concern\", England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Jonathan Van Tam said people have \"relaxed too much\" over the summer and \"we have got to start taking this very seriously again\".\n\nIf not, the UK will have \"a bumpy ride over the next few months\", he warned.\n\nHe said that infections among younger people in EU countries had later filtered through to older age groups.\n\nFrance and Spain are among a number of European countries that have seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, after lockdown restrictions were eased and testing for the disease was ramped up.\n\nOn Monday, Spain became the first country in western Europe to record 500,000 infections, after tallying more than 26,000 new infections over the weekend.\n\nProf Van Tam's comments came as more parts of the UK are to face tougher restrictions following a rise in the number of cases.\n\nOn Sunday UK authorities announced 2,988 new cases - the highest figure since 22 May, while a further 2,948 cases were reported in the 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nStricter rules on home visits will be extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland from midnight.\n\nIn Wales, the county borough of Caerphilly is to be placed under a local lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\n\"People have relaxed too much, now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this a continuing threat to us,\" Prof Van Tam said.\n\nThe rise in cases we have seen over the past two days seems like quite a large jump.\n\nBut it is still well short of where we were in the spring.\n\nThe official figures show we hit 6,000 cases a day at points, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nTesting was only largely taking place in hospitals so virtually none of the infections in the community were being picked up.\n\nEstimates suggest there were about 100,000 cases a day at the peak.\n\nSo the fact that we have got close to 3,000 a day now when mass testing is available (albeit clearly not picking up every case) means we are a long way from where we were.\n\nBut there is alarm within government.\n\nWhile the majority of cases are in younger age groups, the more they rise the harder it becomes to keep the virus away from more vulnerable people.\n\nProf Van Tam added that hospital admissions and deaths were \"at a very low level\" in the UK and the rise in cases was most prominent among those aged between 17 and 21 - but the country risks following the trajectory of some EU countries.\n\n\"Where case numbers rise initially in the younger parts of the population they do in turn filter through and start to give elevated rates of disease and hospital admissions in the older age groups, and we know that then becomes a serious public health problem,\" he said.\n\n\"The fact that 17 to 21-year-olds are not becoming ill means they are lucky, but they also forget because the disease is not severe for them that they are potent spreaders.\"\n\nProf Van Tam added that the trend had moved away from \"specific hotspots\", such as the one that occurred in Leicester last month.\n\nInstead, \"there is a more general and creeping geographic trend across the UK that disease levels are now beginning to turn up\".\n\nHe urged public health officials and politicians to think about how the virus is managed not in the short term, but over the next six months and \"until the spring\".\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said it was a \"blunt warning\" about the spread of the virus from Prof Van Tam, who implied the next week would be critical as officials and ministers studied the emerging data.\n\n\"This is a wake up call for the public to get real about social distancing from a medical leader who is clearly worried,\" our correspondent added.\n\nIt comes after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced a change in England's quarantine policy, adopting an approach which allows islands to be treated differently to a country's mainland.\n\nHe said travellers arriving in England from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThey are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos (also known as Zante).", "Lord Frost (left) and Michel Barnier (right) will meet on Tuesday for the latest round of trade talks\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator has called for \"realism\" from the EU ahead of the next round of trade talks beginning in London.\n\nLord Frost said there was \"still time\" for the two sides to agree a post-Brexit trade deal for next year.\n\nBut he said the EU needed to recognise the UK's negotiating position came from that of a \"sovereign state\".\n\nHis words follow a pledge from Boris Johnson to walk away from the talks if a deal isn't done by 15 October.\n\nThe EU said it would \"do everything in [its] power to reach an agreement\" with the UK, but \"will be ready\" for a no-deal scenario.\n\nThe exchange also comes after No 10 revealed it would be introducing new legislation on customs rules in Northern Ireland, in case the negotiations fail.\n\nThe announcement has led to concerns from Brussels that the UK would not deliver on the withdrawal agreement, made ahead of its exit from the bloc in January.\n\nBut the government said the legislation would only result in \"minor clarifications\" and it was committed to the earlier deal.\n\nThe transition period - which sees the UK following a number of the EU's rules while the two sides try to negotiate a trade deal - is due to end on 31 December.\n\nIf a deal is not made and ratified by parliaments across Europe by then, the UK will move onto trading with the bloc on World Trade Organisation rules, which would involve tariffs. Critics fear this would damage the economy.\n\nMr Johnson has ruled out any extension to the talks and, despite both sides admitting to little progress recently, he has set a deadline of mid-October - when the European Council is due to meet.\n\nIn an email to Conservative Party members on Monday, the prime minister said if there was no agreement by that date, \"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris looks at where the UK and EU are struggling to agree on their future relationship\n\nLord Frost, who has led the UK's team of negotiators in talks since March, will meet his opposite number from the EU, Michel Barnier, on Tuesday at the start of the eighth round of talks between the two sides.\n\nHe was introduced as a peer for the first time in the House of Lords earlier, having been ennobled by Mr Johnson in July.\n\nLord Frost was introduced in the House of Lords earlier\n\nSpeaking ahead of his meeting with Mr Barnier, Lord Frost promised to \"drive home our clear message that we must make progress this week if we are to reach an agreement in time\".\n\nLord Frost added: \"We have now been talking for six months and can no longer afford to go over well-trodden ground. We need to see more realism from the EU about our status as an independent country.\n\n\"As we have done from the beginning in public and in private, I will reinforce our simple, reasonable request for a free trade agreement based on those the EU has signed before with like-minded partners.\"\n\nLord Frost said the UK had \"listened closely\" to the bloc's team and \"signalled flexibility\" on where it can move, but added: \"We have repeatedly made clear that key elements of our position derive from the fundamentals of being a sovereign state, and it's time for the EU to fully recognise this reality.\"\n\nHe said the UK was \"ramping up\" preparations for a no-deal outcome, but also said he hoped progress could be made this week.\n\nBeyond all the talk, there is a genuine frustration in government that the EU is yet to treat the UK as if it were a fully sovereign country.\n\nThat's matched on the EU side by similar irritation that the UK won't budge.\n\nBut the bad tempers do not necessarily mean that a deal won't be reached.\n\nAnd all the blood curdling vows don't mean that in the end there won't be compromise.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Dan Ferie said the EU had \"engaged constructively and in good faith\" with the talks so far and would be \"fully concentrated on making the most out of this week's negotiating round\".\n\nBut, while he said the bloc shared the UK's \"desire to reach a deal quickly\", it should be \"in line with the EU's long-term economic and political interests\".\n\nMr Ferie added: \"The EU has made numerous constructive proposals to move the negotiations forward.\n\n\"And Michel Barnier has repeatedly said that there needs to be enough time later this year for the European Parliament and the Council to have their say on any agreement.\n\n\"Whether or not there is an agreement in place by the end of the year, the UK's decision to leave the single market and the customs union will inevitably create barriers to trade across border exchanges that do not exist today.\"", "Police colleagues and members of the public have left flowers and paid tribute to an officer who was killed in the early hours of Friday. He was shot at Croydon Custody Centre and died in hospital.\n\nThe officer has not been officially named.\n\nA 23-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital. It is thought he turned the gun on himself after shooting the officer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British ex-soldier has been cleared over the death of an Iraqi teenager, after 17 years of investigations.\n\nSaeed Shabram's family say he drowned after being forced into a river by UK soldiers in Basra in 2003.\n\nBut a report published on Thursday said there was no reliable evidence that soldiers were responsible.\n\nMaj Robert Campbell, one of the accused soldiers, said he had \"finally been exonerated\" but that the allegations had \"destroyed\" his career.\n\nNone of the soldiers were ever charged over the death, despite a criminal inquiry by military police and further investigations by the now defunct Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT).\n\nBut Mr Shabram's death became the subject of a judge-led inquiry by the Iraq Fatalities Investigations team.\n\nBaroness Heather Hallett, who led the Iraq Fatalities Investigations probe, said it was possible Mr Shabram's family had been misled by false witnesses who claimed he had been pushed into the water.\n\nShe said it was \"most likely\" that Mr Shabram \"jumped or fell\" into the water, in the process of trying to escape what he believed would be \"dire punishment for looting\".\n\nShe added there was no need for her to further explore the training and instructions given to British soldiers on dealing with looters or alleged looters, and that she had no recommendations to make.\n\n\"I am relieved that after eight investigations we have finally been exonerated,\" Maj Campbell told BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.\n\n\"But I am angry that it took eight investigations, 17 years and destroyed my career,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm angry that the Army and MoD [Ministry of Defence] abandoned us. Angry that despite the two key Iraqi 'witnesses' being exposed as liars in 2006, the MoD and IHAT chose to believe them anyway and ground us into the dust.\n\n\"I'm grateful to Baroness Hallett for her findings, but I already knew I was innocent,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme in 2018, Maj Campbell said he had not had a good night's sleep for 15 years, as a result of the repeated investigations. Ex-Army chief Lord Richard Dannatt told the same programme the soldier had gone through \"a 15-year nightmare\".\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer said in a statement that he hoped Thursday's findings \"will bring some closure and reassurance to the family and veterans involved in this process\".\n\nHe added: \"Nobody wants to see service personnel or veterans facing extensive reinvestigations into the same incident, and our Overseas Operations Bill will help provide greater certainty and protections in the future.\"\n\nThe government says the new law will protect the armed forces from \"vexatious prosecutions\" but critics argue it could decriminalise torture.\n\nThe Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI) team was set up after the High Court ruled that investigations conducted by the Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT) should be followed up in the form of an inquest.\n\nIHAT had been looking into allegations made against Iraq war veterans but was shut down after the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, involved in many of the abuse allegation cases, was struck off for misconduct.\n\nThe £34m IHAT probe did not lead to any prosecutions and was branded as an \"unmitigated failure\" by MPs on the House of Commons Defence Committee.", "The government funded the \"Eat Out to Help Out\" scheme in August\n\nThe UK government borrowed £35.9bn in August as tackling the economic fallout of pandemic took its toll on the public finances, official figures show.\n\nThe figure - the difference between spending and tax income - was £30.5bn more than it borrowed in August last year.\n\nThe increase meant that the borrowing figure hit its highest amount for August since records began in 1993.\n\nBorrowing between April and August totalled £173.7bn - also a record.\n\nAugust's monthly borrowing figure was, however, less than economists had predicted at £38bn, according to Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) also revised down its estimate for UK borrowing in July, by more than £11bn, to £15.4bn, demonstrating how difficult tracking the economy during the pandemic can be.\n\nIt also said that total UK debt passed £2 trillion for the first time in history in August, rather than in July as previously thought.\n\nIn August, debt hit £2.024tn, £249.5bn more than the same time in 2019.\n\nThat figure now exceeds the size of the UK economy, the highest level of debt seen since the 1960s.\n\nAndrew Wishart, UK economist at Capital Economics, said that rising borrowing figures were down to the government absorbing \"much of the cost of the Covid-19 crisis\".\n\nThe government has been forced to cover a wide range coronavirus-related costs - from the furlough scheme and bailouts for rail firms to business rates holidays and VAT cuts for hospitality and tourism.\n\nIt has also set aside £500m to cover the cost of the \"Eat Out to Help Out\" scheme, where diners got a state-backed 50% discount on meals and soft drinks up to £10 each on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in August.\n\nBut \"the big picture is that fiscal support will fade over the autumn causing many more job losses to be realised\", Mr Wishart added.\n\nThe latest figures from the ONS show that while billions have been pumped into propping up the economy, tax receipts have dropped sharply.\n\nThe amount collected by central government in taxes dropped to £37.3bn in August, which is £7.5bn less than a year before.\n\nThe amount of VAT, corporation tax and income tax collected fell \"considerably\", the ONS said.\n\nIt was another month of heavy government borrowing - though many economists thought it would be even more.\n\nAs always, the outlook will depend on specific spending and tax measures and the strength of the economy.\n\nThe leading headline from the chancellor's announcement yesterday was the coming replacement of the furlough scheme with the less generous Job Support Scheme.\n\nThat will curb spending compared with extending the furlough scheme, though it's almost certain to mean substantial job losses.\n\nAnother of his measures - the extension of the VAT cut for hospitality and tourism - will reduce tax revenue.\n\nThe resurgence in Covid cases and the renewed restrictions intended to contain the pandemic are likely to cast a shadow over the economic recovery.\n\nSome economists expect the economy to stagnate for the rest of the year. To the extent that does happen, it will undermine tax revenue.\n\nThe new figures came the day after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a series of extensions to existing coronavirus programmes, including a replacement for the furlough scheme, which is due to finish at the end of October.\n\nUnder the new wage \"top-up\" scheme, if bosses bring back workers part-time, the government will help top up their wages to at least three-quarters of their full-time pay.\n\nPhilip Shaw, chief economist at Investec Bank, said that the government's borrowing figures may \"partly correct themselves\" next year as a number of the chancellor's measures expire.\n\nMr Shaw pointed out though that in order to bring down debt, the chancellor \"will have difficult decisions to make on fiscal policy\".\n\nBut \"with the focus currently on trying to maintain the recovery, this is not the time,\" he added.\n\nLooking ahead, the ONS said that the chancellor was likely to borrow about £370bn in the 2020 financial year.", "Shoppers will feel the impact of a no-deal Brexit at supermarket tills, the British Retail Consortium has warned.\n\nThe BRC said tariffs would add £3.1bn a year to the cost of importing food and drink unless the UK and EU can strike a free trade agreement.\n\n\"If there is no deal before Christmas, the increase in tariffs will leave retailers with nowhere to go other than to raise the price of food,\" it said.\n\nThe government said it was \"working hard\" to reach a deal.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food at the BRC, said coronavirus was \"already making life hard for consumers\", particularly those on lower incomes.\n\n\"A no-deal Brexit will have a massive impact on their ability to afford essential goods,\" he added.\n\nThe EU is the UK's largest trading partner and the source of 80% of its imported food, the BRC said.\n\nBut if the UK is unable to reach a deal with the bloc, the average tariff on food it imports would be over 20%, the trade body warned.\n\nThose tariffs include a 48% levy on beef mince, 16% on cucumbers and 57% on cheddar cheese.\n\nUnder a new tariff schedule, set to come into effect in January, 85% of food imports from the EU will be subject to a tariff of more than 5%, the BRC said.\n\nThe longstanding post-Brexit promise is of free trade deals that will decrease taxes on imports - called tariffs - and lower prices for consumers.\n\nBut should no trade deal be reached with the EU, from January, one of the most noticeable impacts will be the new UK Global Tariff applying to imports of food and drink from the EU.\n\nUnderstandably, supermarkets have worked out the cost of applying these new tariffs in this British Retail Consortium exercise on their own supply chain data - the total is £3.1bn next year, versus zero this year. That is worth about £112 per household.\n\nAs an illustration, if the entire cost of the tariff were passed on to consumers a £3 pack of Irish beef mince could cost £4.08 and Spanish cucumbers could cost 47p instead of 43p.\n\nIn practice, some - but not all - these cost increases would be passed on, and some lower tariffs on imports from other places could offset those rises.\n\nBut concerns about tariffs on EU food and drink imports are one of the issues troubling retailers.\n\nThe BRC also said increases in \"physical checks, paperwork, and other non-tariff barriers\" will further push up the cost for retailers.\n\n\"With coronavirus affecting the livelihoods of millions of people in the UK, many households can ill afford higher prices for their weekly food shop,\" it said.\n\nIt claimed that the UK grocery sector is \"one of the most competitive in the world\", operating on tight margins.\n\nAs a result, it said, any additional costs would be passed on to customers.\n\n\"UK consumers have benefitted from great value, quality, and choice of food thanks to our ability to trade tariff free with the EU,\" Mr Opie said.\n\n\"There is now the risk of a £3bn tax bill for the food we cannot source here in the UK.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Negotiations are ongoing and discussions will be continuing at the next formal round in Brussels next week.\"\n\n\"The UK is a significant importer of food and other goods, and avoiding tariffs should be beneficial to both sides, particularly given our shared commitment to high regulatory standards.", "Demand for coronavirus tests has almost trebled among young children in England this month - but only 1% were found to have the virus, figures show.\n\nIn the first two weeks of September, more than 200,000 under-nines were tested, according to government's test-and-trace programme.\n\nThat is nearly three times as many as in the previous fortnight.\n\nA large study review has also confirmed that children are less likely to be infected than adults.\n\nBut the role that children and adolescents play in transmitting the virus \"remains unclear\", it said.\n\nGovernment figures reveal that in England demand for tests increased across all age groups under 40, but was particularly noticeable among the under-20s.\n\nThis sharp rise in demand coincided with children returning to school in England.\n\nCombined with an increase in cases among young people and lab testing capacity being reached, this put pressure on the system and led to delays in accessing tests.\n\nOnly 1% of those children who had a test actually had the virus, compared with 3.5% in older age groups, including adolescents, and people in their 20s and 30s.\n\nSymptoms caused by colds and flu viruses shared around children who hadn't mixed for many months may have been a factor in the increased demand.\n\nAs winter approaches, when respiratory viruses are common and the symptoms overlap with coronavirus, even greater demand could be created among younger age groups.\n\nBut if children do become infected with the virus, they are at very low risk of becoming severely ill or dying from Covid-19.\n\nWriting in JAMA Pediatrics, a UK-led research team found that children and adolescents under the age of 20 had 44% lower odds of being infected with Sars-CoV-2 - the scientific name given to the coronavirus - than adults over 20. This was particularly apparent in children younger than 10.\n\nThis chimes with a previous finding that the under-20s are approximately half as susceptible to the virus as adults.\n\nThe latest review based its findings on 32 studies from 21 countries, mostly in East Asia and Europe, involving nearly 42,000 children and adolescents and 270,000 adults.\n\nBut the researchers were not able to come to any conclusions on whether children were any less likely to pass on the virus than adults.\n\nChildren are more likely to be asymptomatic when infected. The theory is that if they are not coughing or unwell with the virus, they are less likely to infect others.\n\nSo their role in transmission may be down to their risk of exposure, the quantity of the virus, or viral load, they develop, their behaviour and the social contacts they make across age groups.\n\nThe researchers said larger contact-tracing studies were needed to find out more about how the virus is spread by adults and children.\n\nNow that children throughout the UK are back at school, the need to understand this aspect of the virus is even more pressing.\n• None Coronavirus: Children 'half as likely to catch it'", "Nicola Sturgeon has written to Boris Johnson calling for urgent four-nation talks to tighten lockdown restrictions further.\n\nThe Scottish first minister cited scientific opinion that stronger action was needed to control coronavirus.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said more financial support was necessary to cushion the impact on businesses.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor prepares to unveil plans to minimise job losses as new Covid restrictions come into force.\n\nRishi Sunak is expected to replace the furlough scheme, which is set to expire next month..\n\nIn July, about 700,000 workers in Scotland, many in the hospitality sector, were still receiving some or all of their income through the scheme.\n\nThe Scottish government has already gone further than the Westminster government in introducing restrictions to limit the spread of the virus, by banning different households from meeting inside their homes.\n\nAs in other parts of the UK, a 22:00 \"curfew\" for bars and restaurants will be introduced in Scotland later this week - but at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon hinted she believed this did not go far enough.\n\nShe said if more money had been available to help the hospitality sector it was \"likely\" she would have come to a \"different decision\".\n\nIn her letter to the prime minister, she said the collective agreement to drive down Covid to the lowest possible level was \"particularly welcome\".\n\nBut she continued: \"While all four governments announced new restrictions yesterday, there is clearly a significant strand of scientific opinion to the effect that bringing R back below one and the virus back under control will require measures beyond those which any of us have so far announced.\n\n\"In my view, there is considerable force in that opinion.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has hinted that a 22:00 curfew on pubs and restaurants may not go far enough\n\nMs Sturgeon said experience from earlier this year had shown how essential acting \"quickly and decisively\" against the virus had been.\n\n\"In other words, if we believe further action will be required there is nothing to be gained - and potentially much to be lost, including lives - from delay.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the four nations should discuss what further actions might be necessary, what support was required for affected sectors and what arrangements could be put in place to ensure that devolved administrations were not constrained when making what they judge to be essential public health decisions.\n\nThe Scottish government has repeatedly called for greater borrowing powers as it seeks to alleviate the impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's letter, the UK government highlighted the support being given through the Treasury to mitigate the effects of the pandemic.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The prime minister held a Cobra meeting on Tuesday which was attended by the leaders of the devolved administrations.\n\n\"This crisis has shown clearly the value of Scotland being part of a strong United Kingdom, with the UK government providing the bulk of Covid testing in Scotland, the UK's armed forces playing a key role in providing support for Scottish communities, and the UK Treasury playing an absolutely critical role in supporting jobs and business across Scotland.\n\n\"We will continue to tackle this pandemic as one United Kingdom.\"", "A bull shark is believed to have carried out the attack on Mr Eddy\n\nA pregnant woman dived into the sea in the Florida Keys to save her husband from an attacking shark.\n\nPolice said Andrew Charles Eddy, 30, was snorkelling on Sombrero Reef but was bitten by the shark almost immediately after entering the water.\n\nHis wife, Margot Dukes-Eddy, saw the shark's dorsal fin and her husband's blood filling the water, and dived in \"without hesitation\", officials said.\n\nAfter she had pulled Mr Eddy to safety, other family members called 911.\n\nHe was airlifted to a trauma centre in Miami on Sunday where he was treated for severe shoulder injuries.\n\nRescue official Ryan Johnson told local media that Mr Eddy was in a \"critical condition\" when they arrived.\n\nThe couple, from the state of Georgia, were on holiday in Florida with family and had been sailing on a private boat together.\n\nA few others from their group were already snorkelling when Mr Eddy got into the water to join them.\n\nDeputy Christopher Aguanno wrote in the police report that there were other people, not from their group, snorkelling in the area as well.\n\nWitnesses later reported seeing a large shark about eight to 10ft long, which looked like a bull shark, swimming in the area earlier in the day.\n\nFlorida has the highest number of shark attacks in the world, with 21 reported in 2019, according to the Florida Museum. However, shark attacks worldwide are extremely rare.", "Quote Message: This is devastating news. No person should go to work never to return. No human being should be stripped of their life in a barbaric act of crime. Another hero has been taken from us in unwarranted violence. They protect us but who protects them? Another life is gone in a disgraceful act that reminds us of the danger our police officers face with every shift they begin. My heart is broken for yet another member of our blue line family, and all of his family, friends and colleagues who must now accept a life without him in it. My thoughts and love are resolutely with them.” from Lissie Harper\n\nThis is devastating news. No person should go to work never to return. No human being should be stripped of their life in a barbaric act of crime. Another hero has been taken from us in unwarranted violence. They protect us but who protects them? Another life is gone in a disgraceful act that reminds us of the danger our police officers face with every shift they begin. My heart is broken for yet another member of our blue line family, and all of his family, friends and colleagues who must now accept a life without him in it. My thoughts and love are resolutely with them.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Kiwanuka said he was \"so excited\" to win the Mercury Prize\n\nSinger-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has won the 2020 Mercury Prize for his soul-searching third record, Kiwanuka.\n\nA lush, immersive album of politicised soul, it sees the star exploring themes of self-doubt, faith and civil rights.\n\nReleased last November, Kiwanuka beat best-sellers like Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia and Stormzy's Heavy Is The Head to win the £25,000 prize.\n\n\"It's blown my mind,\" said the singer. \"Music is all I've ever wanted to do, so I'm over the moon.\"\n\nKiwanuka won on his third attempt, having been nominated for each of his previous albums: 2012's Home Again and 2016's Love & Hate.\n\n\"I was kind of resigned to the fact [that] if I don't win one this year, probably I'll never win one,\" he told BBC 6 Music.\n\nKiwanuka's victory was revealed by Radio 1's Annie Mac on The One Show, after Covid-19 restrictions made the traditional award ceremony impossible.\n\nThe DJ, who was on the judging panel alongside the likes of Jamie Cullum and Jorja Smith, said it had been a \"unanimous\" decision.\n\n\"I don't think any of the judges walked away unhappy,\" she said. \"Everyone felt the same thing about this album, which is that it thoroughly deserved to win the prize.\"\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 MichaelKiwanukaVEVO 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\nKiwanuka, whose Ugandan parents escaped Idi Amin's regime to settle in Muswell Hill, London, is a former session musician who dropped out of the Royal Academy of Music to become a solo artist.\n\nHe first came to attention after supporting Adele on her 2011 tour and winning the BBC's Sound of 2012. He released his debut album, Home Again, later that year.\n\nThe musician cemented his reputation with 2016's Love & Hate, which made him a star in the US when the opening song, Cold Little Heart, became the theme tune to the TV series Big Little Lies.\n\nThe self-titled album has given Kiwanuka his third Mercury Prize nomination and first win\n\nDespite his success, his latest album emerged from a period of crippling self-doubt.\n\n\"I've always had imposter syndrome,\" he told the BBC last year. \"I was always waiting for someone to find me out.\n\n\"But about a year and a half ago, I got tired of that way of thinking. I just went, 'This isn't helping anyone, least of all me.'\"\n\nThe result was Kiwanuka's opening track, You Ain't The Problem, on which the musician vows to stop getting in his own way, singing: \"I used to hate myself / You got the key / Break out the prison.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe record continues as a song cycle where Kiwanuka's own experiences and fears are interwoven with samples of civil rights campaigners and reflections on racial politics.\n\nOn the psych-rock soliloquy Hero, he compares the murder of 1960s Black Panther activist Fred Hampton with recent US police shootings. Exasperated, he turns to God for answers on the call-and-response coda of I've Been Dazed.\n\nReleased last November, the album earned rave reviews and reached number two in the UK charts.\n\nIt is the latest album reflecting the experiences of young black Britons to be chosen by Mercury judges. Kiwanuka is the fifth black male solo artist to win the award in the past six years. Rapper Dave won for Psychodrama last year.\n\nThe musician was the bookies' favourite to win, followed by Laura Marling, who has now been passed over four times.\n\nAnnouncing the winner on The One Show will undoubtedly gave Kiwanuka's record extra exposure. The prime-time BBC One programme regularly attracts three million viewers, compared with the 155,000 who tuned in to last year's final on BBC Four.\n\nMac explained that Kiwanuka had been informed of the result before the show, so that he could be invited to the studio.\n\nHowever, she shared a video of the moment she ambushed him with the news, as he was on his way to be interviewed by Jools Holland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mercury Prize This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 star will celebrate his victory on a special edition of Later... With Jools at 22:00 BST on Friday night.\n\nThe shortlist was praised for highlighting female artists, who outnumbered men for the first time in the prize's 29-year history.\n\nBut organisers came under fire for excluding British-Asian artist Rina Sawayama because she does not hold a British passport.\n\nAfter the singer said she was \"heartbroken\" by the decision, the BPI, which organises both the Mercury Prize and the Brit Awards, said it would review its eligibility criteria.\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. Lord Wolfson says it's going to be \"very uncomfortable\" for a lot of people who work in retail\n\nThe boss of one of the UK's most successful and resilient High Street chains has told the BBC that hundreds of thousands of traditional retail jobs may not survive in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nLord Wolfson, who runs clothing firm Next, said there was a clear threat to thousands of jobs, which are now \"unviable\" because the lockdown has triggered a permanent shift to online shopping.\n\n\"I wouldn't want to underestimate the difficulty that is going to cause a lot of people who work in retail, I think it's going to be very uncomfortable,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came just hours after the chancellor announced a new Job Support Scheme that would see the government top up the pay of people unable to work full time.\n\nBut the government's contribution to workers' pay will fall sharply compared with the furlough scheme. Under furlough, it initially paid 80% of a monthly wage up to £2,500 - under the new scheme this will drop to 22%.\n\n\"We don't think we need it,\" Lord Wolfson said. \"But we think there are other sectors that desperately will.\"\n\nAnd while he welcomed the chancellor's announcement, he said it was important that businesses eventually learn to live without government support.\n\n\"It seems like a very sensible scheme to me,\" he said. \"I think it's important that employers begin to pay a little bit more for the schemes and that employees get a little bit less - because otherwise I think there's a risk that our economy will just become hooked on it.\"\n\nNext is considered one of the best run retail businesses in the UK and Lord Wolfson was confident that compulsory redundancies in his own business would be minimal and new jobs would be added in call centres and distribution centres.\n\n\"We think by the time it gets to the end of October, there'll be enough work through the normal build up to Christmas to employ all the people that we've currently got on furlough,\" he said. \"We've got less than 10% of our staff on (furlough) at the moment.\" But he expressed fears for others.\n\nNext's sales have proved resilient compared to its rivals, even eking out a small profit for the first half of this year, thanks to its strong online business and a strong presence in retail parks, which have regained popularity as shoppers shunned city centres and public transport.\n\n\"I don't think so,\" Lord Wolfson said. \"But I think they're going to have to change and change very radically.\"\n\nHe wants to see that change come from \"the bottom up\", driven by entrepreneurs. And he thinks that freeing up property would be good for the country, especially if the government allows people to do what they want with those sites.\n\n\"The one thing that we are desperately short of in Britain is property, we haven't got enough space to live in,\" he said.\n\nThe value of city centre retail property is plummeting. Many tenants have found themselves unable to pay their rent and have relied on government intervention to save them from eviction by landlords.\n\nBut Lord Wolfson says we should not be too quick to demonise landlords as their investment will be needed to create the High Streets of the future.\n\n\"If city centres and town centres are going to regenerate, it is only going to be from the investment that landlords make in those properties.\"\n\nBut he says the confidence of those landlords would be damaged if tenants tear up rental agreements.\n\nBut one gripe he does share with his retail competitors is the increasing burden of business rates, which he says have become increasingly divorced from the value of the properties on which they are charged.\n\n\"Rates have become unfair,\" he said. \"One of the great principles of taxation is that it should be in proportion to your ability to pay. A gulf has opened up between what rates were being charged and what rates we should be charged at a fair price.\"\n\nBut that would leave a massive hole in government finances. Should the government raise rates on the warehouses and logistics centres of the online retailers?\n\n\"That is exactly what government should do,\" Lord Wolfson said. \"Over the last six or seven years the price of warehousing has gone up dramatically, and the price of shops have come down dramatically, but both of their rates have remained exactly the same.\n\n\"So we think that, actually, you could raise rates on warehousing between 30% and 50% and that would make up for some of the loss and that would be fair.\"\n\nLord Wolfson was a prominent supporter of Brexit - so what does he make of the dire warnings of thousands of trucks queuing on the roads of Kent, a chronic shortage of customs officers and potential chaos at the ports as the UK leaves the EU for real when the transition period ends in 97 days?\n\n\"There's a lot of speculation about what it will look like and I'm certainly not going to get involved in that type of speculation,\" he said. \"All I can say is that we've worked very hard for over two years on making sure that the company is ready to deal with all the administrative changes that will come with a no deal Brexit.\n\n\"I hope we don't, but if we do end up in that situation, certainly, the business I work for will be ready.\"", "The chancellor's statement is a radical attempt to provide a shot in the arm to the jobs market - at a very difficult time.\n\nBut the new jobs support scheme is a fraction of what we have seen over the past few months, and is concentrated on those deemed to be in \"viable\" jobs. It cannot prevent a sharp rise in unemployment in the coming months in \"non-viable\" jobs.\n\nIndeed, the economic impact of this package of several billion pounds is likely to be far outweighed, even by this week's announcement that the UK faces a six-month \"new normal\" of social restrictions.\n\nThe sight of Chancellor Rishi Sunak flanked by the Trade Unions Congress and the Confederation of British Industry bosses at Number 11 was meant to show the country that a non-ideological innovation to protect livelihoods was on the way.\n\nIt is an echo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel locking the heads of the equivalent organisations in a hotel for two days in order to come up with the \"short-time work\" policy, upon which the new jobs support scheme is based.\n\nIt will be possible to claim the coronavirus job retention bonus for reemploying furloughed workers, too. It has been tailored for the UK's more flexible jobs market. The chancellor has kept a careful eye on schemes from all around the world.\n\nBut the size of the scheme also reflects the phenomenal amount of borrowing that the government has done, and will continue to have to do, in terms of lost tax revenue as the recovery is subdued by ongoing restrictions.\n\nFunding conditions for government remain benign. But the Treasury is keeping an eye on how sensitive the public finances are now to even a small increase in market interest rates.\n\nThe Treasury has extended the bridge of support it put in place in March to cover the next six months.\n\nBut the new scheme requires everybody to chip in. That will be too much for many employers. We are about to find out just how many.", "Taio Cruz was only on TikTok for a matter of days before deleting his account.\n\nPop star Taio Cruz has opened up about his reasons for quitting TikTok, saying he wanted to preserve his mental health after having \"suicidal thoughts\".\n\nThe musician, whose hits include Dynamite and Break Your Heart, said he had been targeted by \"hateful\" videos and comments on the video-sharing app.\n\n\"My body was shaking and I had suicidal thoughts,\" he explained on Instagram.\n\n\"I pride myself on being mentally resilient so the fact that I felt that way, shocked even me.\"\n\nThe 35-year-old added: \"Some users posted hateful, mocking videos which spurred a feedback loop of negativity, where more and more people began to join in on the mockery and hate.\n\n\"My intention was to make some fun videos and interact with my fans, but some, whom I won't mention, were averse to that.\n\n\"For my own mental health, I would rather be where I'm welcomed, for now, TikTok is not that place. Social media shouldn't be like this, sadly it is.\"\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 taiocruz 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 London-born singer rose to fame in the late 2000s, scoring two number one singles in the UK, and writing for artists including Jennifer Lopez, Usher and David Guetta.\n\nHe joined TikTok earlier this week and quickly gained 85,000 followers - but abruptly deleted all his videos on Wednesday, posting a message that read: \"Never in my life have I had a more negative experience than the past few days on here\".\n\n\"This community is not for me,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC understands that the musician was targeted by messages accusing of him of being irrelevant and \"begging for clout\".\n\nOne user who wrote, \"I just saw one of his videos [and] scrolled so fast,\" received a response from the star - who simply posted the shrug emoji.\n\nThe majority of the comments were posted beneath Cruz's own videos, which are no longer available.\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 TaioCruzVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfter the musician deactivated his account, fans sent him messages of support on social media.\n\n\"Your music has made me smile from when I was five,\" wrote one Instagram user. \"I'm so sorry, please remember how strong you are.\"\n\n\"We love you and we're looking forward to hearing more songs from you. You are an absolute legend,\" added another.\n\nTikTok star Dixie D'Amelio, who has 38 million followers on the platform, also expressed her concern.\n\n\"This makes me so sad,\" she wrote on Twitter. \"Y'all bullied a legit music artist off TikTok in under a week… WHAT??? Just be nice.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by dixie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 statement provided to the BBC, a TikTok spokesperson said: \"We're a huge fan of Taio and are extremely disappointed he has experienced negativity from a limited number of users.\n\n\"TikTok is a safe space for our community and we have a zero tolerance approach to bullying and harassment.\n\n\"We are in discussions with Taio's management and this matter is under investigation with our Trust and Safety Team.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The impact of lockdown on visitor numbers to venues such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle will lead to an estimated £15m loss of income over the next three years, the Keeper of the Privy Purse said.\n\nAnd a 10-year £369m budget to refurbish Buckingham Palace is expected to be £20m short, Sir Michael Stevens added.\n\nHe said the royal household had \"no intention\" of asking for extra funding.\n\nSir Michael said the royal household would try to manage the \"financial challenges\" of the pandemic \"through our own efforts and efficiencies\".\n\nA pay freeze for royal staff was implemented in April and there is also a halt on recruitment, with only business-critical posts being filled, though staff have not been furloughed.\n\nThe financial report covers the 12 months to 31 March - shortly after the UK government brought in restrictions on daily life, to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nOther details revealed in the report include:\n\nThe Queen's Sovereign Grant from the Treasury increased to £82.4m in 2019-20, up £200,000 on the previous year.\n\nIt includes £33m set aside for major work to update the electrical cabling, plumbing and heating at Buckingham Palace.\n\nAll major expenditure areas have increased, from payroll (up £1.2m to £24.4m), to travel (up £700,000 to £5.3m), and housekeeping and hospitality (up £300,000 to £2.6m).\n\nAccording to a senior Palace source, Prince Harry and Meghan have made a \"substantial contribution\" to the Sovereign Grant for the rent and refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, estimated at £2.4m in 2018-19. The payment will be disclosed in next year's report.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's tour of southern Africa in 2019 was the most costly trip in the past year\n\nThe Sovereign Grant is funded by profits from the Crown Estate - a multibillion-pound property portfolio that ranges from London's Regent Street to Ascot Racecourse.\n\nThe estate is managed by an independent organisation, with any profit paid to the Treasury for the benefit of all UK taxpayers.\n\nRepublic, a campaign group calling for the abolition of the monarchy, said the Sovereign Grant was \"madness\" and should be scrapped.\n\nThe group's chief executive, Graham Smith, said: \"A 15% increase in travel costs when hospitals can't deliver the very best care to every person in need, when teachers are struggling to pay for the necessary books and equipment and the police are stretched to breaking point is scandalous.\"\n\nSeparate accounts published last week show the Crown Estate had a £345m profit for the Treasury for the last financial year but there were concerns about the future financial impact of Covid-19.\n\nThe Royal Collection Trust pays fees, in relation to running the opening of royal residences such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, to supplement the Sovereign Grant. But closures due to the lockdown are likely to cause its income to fall by tens of millions.", "Firefighting resources have been stretched to the limit by the scale and extent of the wildfires\n\nClimate change is driving the scale and impact of recent wildfires that have raged in California, say scientists.\n\nTheir analysis finds an \"unequivocal and pervasive\" role for global heating in boosting the conditions for fire.\n\nCalifornia now has greater exposure to fire risks than before humans started altering the climate, the authors say.\n\nLand management issues, touted by President Donald Trump as a key cause, can't by themselves explain the recent infernos.\n\nThe worst wildfires in 18 years have raged across California since August.\n\nThey have been responsible for more than 30 deaths and driven thousands of people from their homes.\n\nThe cause of the fires have become a political football, with California Governor Gavin Newsom blaming climate change for the conflagrations.\n\nPresident Trump, on the other hand, has dismissed this argument, instead pointing to land management practices as the key driver.\n\nNow, a review of scientific research into the reasons for these fires suggests rising temperatures are playing a major role.\n\nEarlier this year, the same research team published a review of the origins of Australia's dramatic fires that raged in the 2019-2020 season.\n\nThat study showed that climate change was behind an increase in the frequency and severity of fire weather - defined as periods of time with a higher risk of fire due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, low rainfall and high winds.\n\nThe new review covers more than 100 studies published since 2013, and shows that extreme fires occur when natural variability in the climate is superimposed on increasingly warm and dry background conditions resulting from global warming.\n\n\"In terms of the trends we're seeing, in terms of the extent of wildfires, and which have increased eight to ten-fold in the past four decades, that trend is driven by climate change,\" said Dr Matthew Jones from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, who led the review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It will get cooler': President Trump responds to warnings about climate change and wildfires\n\n\"Climate change ultimately means that those forests, whatever state they're in, are becoming warmer and drier more frequently,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"And that's what's really driving the kind of scale and impact of the fires that we're seeing today.\"\n\nIn the 40 years from 1979 to 2019, fire weather conditions have increased by a total of eight days on average across the world.\n\nHowever, in California the number of autumn days with extreme wildfire conditions has doubled in that period.\n\nThe authors of the review conclude that \"climate change is bringing hotter, drier weather to the western US and the region is fundamentally more exposed to fire risks than it was before humans began to alter the global climate\".\n\nThe researchers acknowledge that fire management practices in the US have also contributed to the build-up of fuel.\n\nNormally, fire authorities carry out controlled burnings in some areas to reduce the amount of fuel available when a wildfire strikes - but these have also suffered as a result of rising temperatures.\n\n\"When you do prescribed burns, you can only do it when the conditions aren't too hot and dry, because you need to be able to control the fire,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the UK Met Office and the University of Exeter who was part of the review team.\n\n\"But once you've passed the point where you've got hot, dry conditions for much of the year, you've lost your opportunity to do lots of prescribed burnings. So that makes matters worse and makes the land management challenge even greater.\"\n\nAnother factor in California has been the encroachment of human settlements into forested areas. This has put many more homes at risk of these blazes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways that show the scale of California's 2020 wildfires\n\nBetween 1940 and 2010, there was around a 100-fold increase in the number of houses built in dangerous fire zones in the western US.\n\n\"It's like building on floodplains as well, you know, people are putting themselves in harm's way, based on past statistics, which are no longer true,\" said Prof Betts.\n\n\"The past is no longer a guide to the future, for flooding and for fire and lots of other ways in which climate change is played out.\"\n\nThe researchers say that the conditions for wildfire are likely to continue to grow into the future, and according to Dr Jones, the resulting fires will likely get worse.\n\n\"It's pointing towards increases in fire weather that become increasingly intense, widespread and dramatic in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"And the more that we can do to limit the degree to which temperatures rise, is fundamental to how frequently we see dangerous fire weather in the future.\"\n\nFull details of the review can be found here.", "Pupils from better-off families found it easier to access learning during lockdown, says Mr Chalke\n\nPupil premium funding used to boost the education of the poorest children should be trebled, says the boss of a leading academy chain.\n\nDisadvantaged children were hit hardest by the lockdown, says Steve Chalke, founder of the Oasis Trust which runs 53 academies in England.\n\nThe learning gap between disadvantaged pupils and better off children \"has become a gulf\", he claims.\n\nThe government says it has already allocated £1bn to help pupils catch-up.\n\nBut Mr Chalke questions whether enough of this funding is earmarked for the pupils in most need.\n\nOasis Trust focuses on running schools in deprived areas, and Mr Chalke says he is particularly concerned by recent research which suggests pupils at schools like these fell further behind than better-off children during the lockdown.\n\nTheir teachers will have a tougher job of helping them catch up, he says.\n\nThe Chancellor has cancelled this autumn's budget to focus on emergency support during the pandemic.\n\nMr Chalke argues this support should include a fundamental rethink of the pupil premium, which was introduced by the coalition government in 2011 to boost the education of disadvantaged children.\n\nIt is a cash bonus paid to schools for any pupil who has been eligible for free school meals at any point during the previous six years, or for pupils who have been in care for more than six months continuously.\n\nMr Chalke argues more money is needed, specifically targeted at poorer pupils whose learning has been so badly harmed by the lockdown.\n\n\"Government should respond to the need before it causes irrevocable damage by trebling this funding, at least over the next three years, and focusing it on children living in persistent poverty and facing long-term disadvantage,\" he argues.\n\n\"It is vital that government makes this move now, to ensure that a generation of children, already disadvantaged before the Covid-19 lockdown but whose situations have deteriorated even further, are not completely abandoned, doomed to spend their lives struggling for opportunities their peers will have ready access to, rather than flourishing,\" he said.\n\nAcademy chain leader Steve Chalke, says government cash to help poor pupils catch-up is 'far too little'\n\nMr Chalke also says the government's £350m National Tutoring Programme which is aimed at helping the most disadvantaged pupils catch-up after the lockdown \"is far too little\".\n\nThis funding, for just one academic year, will not address the \"aching long-term need to narrow the disadvantage gap\", he says.\n\n\"It is the equivalent of a very poor quality sticking plaster being stretched across a wound that is far too deep to be healed by short-term interventions.\"\n\nMr Chalke argues that the whole designation of this money as \"catch-up funding\" is wrong.\n\n\"The focus on academic achievement, accompanied by a 'teach to the test' education strategy, fails totally to recognise the heart of the issue.\n\n\"Despite the fact that there is, at last, a focus on student wellbeing in the national curriculum, until we develop an education strategy that commits cash and learning time to working with the adverse and traumatic childhood experiences that many disadvantaged students suffer, and have suffered through lockdown, we are wasting public money.\n\n\"That's why the attainment gap has never been tackled successfully, despite the many millions already spent on improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said the best place for disadvantaged children was back in school, where the government's £1bn Covid catch-up package was \"tackling the impact of lost teaching time\".\n\nThis includes £350m for disadvantaged students through the National Tutoring Programme, \"which is in addition to our £2.4bn pupil premium to improve these pupils' attainment and outcomes,\" said the statement.\n\n\"Head teachers and school leaders are best placed to make decisions about their pupils and which of them need the most support,\" said the spokeswoman.", "The minimum budget for most Asian weddings is £50,000, events manager Arum Javed says\n\nThe new 15-guest limit would be \"out of the question\" for South Asian weddings, according to an events manager who has lost all his bookings since March.\n\nArum Javed said Monsoon Venue Group, in Birmingham, was on \"shaky ground\".\n\nBefore Covid-19, British Asian weddings were traditionally lavish affairs, with multiple events that would tend to have 300 guests as a minimum.\n\nOn Tuesday it was announced the maximum number of people allowed at weddings was being cut from 30 to 15.\n\nThe change came as the government outlined a new set of restrictions aimed at limiting another rise in cases of the coronavirus.\n\n\"The average wedding you have 300 to 400 people, in some cases that pushes up to 1,500... people book at least a year-and-a-half in advance,\" said Mr Javed, who had 54 weddings planned for 2020.\n\nThe sales manager said the firm he works for had received no new bookings since March as people were \"cautious\" about weddings being able to go ahead.\n\nMr Javed, who has been furloughed, said the prime minister's announcement this week \"crippled us even more\".\n\n\"It's very hard managing the bride and groom, they're emotionally stressed, we're the bearers of bad news, they're feeling the strain as well,\" he said.\n\nRestrictions on 15 people at a wedding come into force on 28 September\n\n\"Restaurants allow track and trace, face coverings, these could be in place at a larger wedding, they could be socially-distanced, we can make sure people sit in their bubble,\" Mr Javed said.\n\n\"I don't see the difference between the restaurant and a wedding, you would still be Covid secure... the logic doesn't make any sense.\"\n\nThe last wedding the company had was at the end of January, with 1,400 people in attendance.\n\n\"We're a year behind with our sales - we've had to move everything to next year, over 52 weddings, 52 weeks in a year, there is not much space to add new ones.\"\n\nArum Javed said brides and grooms are \"emotionally stressed\"\n\nRose Nicholls from Telford was due to get married at Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire on 21 March this year.\n\nShe postponed for exactly a year but said she was still unsure if her \"quite small and intimate\" 320-guest wedding would be able to take place next year.\n\n\"We don't want to reduce it further, we just really want to get married, when you've been waiting so long, it's so hard to give up your dream,\" Ms Nicholls, 26, said.\n\nShe and her fiancé Raj have been planning their three-day wedding for 18 months.\n\n\"It's a hard decision, do I give up or wait it out? We can't live together or go on holiday until we get married, so it's really hard.\"\n\nMs Nicholls said her wedding \"couldn't happen\" under current restrictions as her immediate family numbered 10, leaving her fiancé with only five guests and she would not want to \"offend\" family.\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. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA long-serving police officer has been shot dead at Croydon Custody Centre in south London.\n\nThe male sergeant was shot in the chest before the suspect turned the firearm on himself, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe man had been brought to the custody suite in a police vehicle and the shooting happened during questioning about Covid-19, the BBC was told.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has confirmed it is investigating the incident.\n\nThe victim, who has not been named, is thought to have been a few weeks away from retirement and was described as \"one of a kind\" by a colleague.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said it was believed the suspect - who is critically ill in hospital - was known to counter-terrorism police having been on their radar in the past, though the Metropolitan Police has not officially confirmed that.\n\nNo police firearms were discharged during the incident, which happened at about 02:15 BST at the Windmill Road centre.\n\nThe IOPC said in a statement that it had established the man was arrested for possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply, and possession of ammunition.\n\nThe police watchdog said the man had been handcuffed while officers prepared to search him using a metal detector.\n\n\"It is at the point that shots were fired, resulting in the fatal injuries to the officer and critical injuries to the man.\n\n\"A non-police issue firearm, which appears to be a revolver, has been recovered from the scene. Further ballistic work will be required.\"\n\nThe IOPC added that the Met Police was conducting a separate murder investigation into the death of its officer and it was working to ensure \"our investigation does not impact its enquiries\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick says all police \"are mourning a great loss\"\n\nA minute's silence was held for the officer, described by the Met Police chief as a \"much-loved colleague\".\n\nThe force's chief, Cressida Dick, said the policing family was \"deeply shocked and very sad\" following the death of the officer.\n\n\"I have visited and spoken to our officer's partner together with other colleagues and we are of course giving her the best support we can,\" she said\n\n\"My heartfelt condolences go to her, to their family, to his colleagues and his close friends.\n\n\"A murder investigation is under way and officers are working at several crime scenes to secure evidence and to establish the facts of what happened.\n\n\"Early indications are that the suspect shot himself, this has not yet of course been established as a fact.\"\n\nThe officer has been described as a professional and inspirational colleague\n\nDet Insp Richard Berns described his colleague as \"hard working and an inspiration to all who knew him\".\n\n\"It was a privilege to have worked with him and known him over so many years,\" he said.\n\n\"He was was one of a kind and will be deeply missed. Rest in peace my friend.\"\n\nCommunity police officer Jacqueline Kufuor was among those laying flowers outside the custody centre in tribute to her colleague.\n\nShe described the officer as \"a lovely guy\" and \"the nicest man I have ever met\".\n\nThe IOPC investigation will have several strands, our correspondent Danny Shaw added.\n\n\"It's likely to focus on the circumstances of the man's arrest - which officers were deployed during the operation; whether and how the suspect was searched; and if he was put into handcuffs,\" he said.\n\n\"The IOPC will also need to establish what happened at the police station and whether appropriate measures were put in place when the suspect was taken out of the police van.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the police were currently \"reviewing the safety of custody suites\" and \"there could be changes very soon to custody suites to make sure they are as safe as they can be\".\n\nFloral tributes were left at the custody centre by both police officers and members of the public\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We owe a huge debt to those who risk their own lives to keep us safe.\"\n\nIn a post on social media he also said: \"My deepest condolences go to the family, friends and colleagues of the police officer who was killed in Croydon last night.\"\n\nA number of police officers have also been turning their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respect to the officer.\n\nThis appalling incident in Croydon appears to be absolutely unique - an officer shot by a man who was already inside a police facility - and the shock felt today underlines how rare it is for police officers in the UK to be killed by a suspect in the line of duty, relative to other nations.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police officer shot dead in Croydon is the 17th from the force to have been killed by a firearm since the Second World War.\n\nBut since the beginning of the 20th Century 73 police officers have been shot and killed by criminals in the UK, excluding all deaths in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe majority of those deaths - more than 50 - have occurred since 1945.\n\nPolice officers in other parts of the world are often puzzled why British constables are not routinely armed. But the fact is that there are very few criminal guns in circulation - and the culture of policing has never seen it as acceptable to be universally armed.\n\nHowever, Tasers are increasingly a common sight in the UK - and a massive survey of police officers recently found three-quarters would carry one of the less-than-lethal devices on the frontline, if given the choice.\n\nYogarajah Emmanuel, 43, who runs a shop opposite the custody suite, said he woke up at 02:30 BST to the sound of sirens.\n\n\"I looked out of my window and could see three ambulances,\" said Mr Emmanuel.\n\nYogarajah Emmanuel, who runs a shop opposite the custody suite, said he saw an ambulance speed away at 02:30 on Friday\n\n\"There was noise and all of a sudden one ambulance from inside the car park came out and sped off.\n\n\"This morning I heard it was a police officer and just felt so sad. They are all very good people and wave and say hello when they come to my shop.\"\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Met Police Federation, said news of the shooting was \"utterly devastating\".\n\n\"Officers across London are in shock and sick to their stomachs at the nature of his death,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, on very rare occasions officers make the ultimate sacrifice whilst fulfilling their role.\n\n\"When that happens we will ensure their bravery and sacrifice is never forgotten.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Students should not be made \"scapegoats\" for a wave of Covid outbreaks, says a lecturers' leader.\n\nJo Grady of the UCU university staff union said it was the \"completely predictable\" outcome of encouraging large numbers of students to return.\n\nWith universities in England starting term, she called for students to be able to study online from home.\n\nThe Department for Education says it is supporting universities to have a mix of online and face-to-face teaching.\n\nIn a further Covid outbreak, 1,700 students in two accommodation blocks at Manchester Metropolitan University have been told to stay in isolation for 14 days, after about 100 students tested positive.\n\nThe lecturers' union questioned the point of \"encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\".\n\nDr Grady said tough restrictions on students in Scotland and increasing warnings for students in England did not mean outbreaks were a consequence of \"reckless behaviour\" by students.\n\nInstead she said outbreaks were the result of universities pushing for \"massive numbers\" of students to come back to campuses for the \"university experience\" and to sign up for accommodation.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, they were mis-sold,\" Dr Grady told the BBC.\n\nShe said it was \"irresponsible\" of universities to have been \"luring students back on the basis that they can have a social life at university and that they can have face-to-face teaching\".\n\nRather than bringing back more students in England, she said more teaching should be put online and students should be able to study from home.\n\n\"I think there has to be an alternative to keeping students locked in absurdly expensive accommodation, rather than having them at home,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nShe called for students to be released from their housing contracts and for a way for them to be able to make a safe way home.\n\nDr Grady warned of an increasingly chaotic situation in universities and criticised the response of not letting students return home from their university accommodation.\n\nShe said this was based on a \"boarding school\" perception of university life, adding that it might be important for some students to be able to go home, for instance if they were homesick or living with people who they did not like or felt threatened by.\n\nDr Grady wants universities to reduce face-to-face teaching, but said some universities were only doing it \"surreptitiously\", because of fears \"their nearest competitor isn't doing it\".\n\nMost universities were expecting to deliver lectures online, but it is also thought some seminars could be \"live and interactive\" but delivered online.\n\nLiverpool Hope and Liverpool John Moores are among those that have publicly moved more teaching online.\n\nUniversities UK says it us up to each individual university to decide how they will bring back students and whether they will switch to online lessons.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working with universities and Public Health England on any measures needed to respond to Covid outbreaks.\n\n\"Protecting students' education and wellbeing is vital, so we are supporting universities to continue delivering a blend of online and face-to-face learning where possible in a Covid-secure way,\" said a department spokeswoman.\n\n\"As with other essential services, education staff should continue to go into work where necessary.\"", "Anti-racism protesters threw the statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour in June\n\nPublic statues of controversial historical figures should be \"retained and explained\" instead of being taken down, the government has said.\n\nCulture Minister Matt Warman told MPs the UK's heritage should not be removed from view \"however contentious\".\n\nThe toppling of slave trader Edward Colston's statue in Bristol in June, during Black Lives Matter protests, led to a fierce debate on the issue.\n\nMr Warman said statues played a role in \"teaching us about the past\".\n\nIn the government's first official policy statement about the issue, he told the Commons ministers believed in the \"right to retain statues however contentious\".\n\nA number of memorials to wealthy merchants who profited from the slave trade were removed this summer during a wave of anti-racism protests in the UK sparked by the murder of George Floyd in the US.\n\nA statue of the slave owner and philanthropist Edward Colston was torn down and thrown into Bristol harbour while a monument to Robert Milligan, an 18th Century Scottish merchant, was removed from London's Docklands and taken to a museum.\n\nOther institutions came under pressure to act, with the governing body of Oxford's Oriel College saying it backed the removal of a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes from its main building pending a review of its future.\n\nThere have been calls for statues of other major historical figures, including Sir Robert Clive and Sir Francis Drake, to be taken down as part of a reappraisal of the UK's colonial history.\n\nLabour-controlled councils across England have been carrying out an audit of statues on their land, while the National Trust recently outlined all its properties' historical links to the Atlantic slave trade and British Empire.\n\nThe statue of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford will stay in place until a review group reports back next year\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons in an adjournment debate about statues, Mr Warman said he wanted organisations to \"retain and explain not remove our heritage\".\n\nWhilst individuals such as Colston or Rhodes may have \"said or done things we may find deeply offensive\", he said they played an important role in teaching us about a past \"with all its faults\".\n\n\"We should seek to contextualise or reinterpret them in a way that enables to public to learn about them in their entirety,\" he added.\n\nFollowing a recent row over the playing of patriotic songs at the Last Night of the Proms, Boris Johnson said it was time the UK \"stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history\".", "Renee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the top acting prizes at the 2020 Bafta Film Awards\n\nThe Bafta Film Awards will have more nominees next year in an attempt to increase the diversity of the stars and film-makers who are up for honours.\n\nAll four acting categories as well as the best director award will have six nominees, instead of the usual five.\n\nTen titles will be in contention for the outstanding British film award - four more than the customary six.\n\nEarlier this year, Bafta was heavily criticised after picking an all-white line-up of acting nominees.\n\nMeanwhile, no female film-makers were nominated for the best director prize for the seventh year running.\n\nOrganisers carried out a \"detailed review\" as a result, and said they would now also seek to \"meaningfully target\" 1,000 new voting members from under-represented groups.\n\nThe move, they said, was one in a series of steps \"to ensure a more representative and inclusive membership that reflects today's British society\".\n\nDirector Andrew Onwubolu, aka Rapman, on the set of Blue Story\n\nIn January, Blue Story director Rapman was among Bafta's many critics, saying it had done his gritty urban drama \"dirty\" by not shortlisting it for any awards.\n\nBafta said the review had begun as \"a direct response\" to the lack of diversity in its 2020 nominations, but had \"soon expanded to encompass all aspects\" of the organisation.\n\nBafta - the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - said the expansion of its outstanding British film award would enable it to \"do more to champion the vast pool of multicultural British talent\".\n\n\"One of the key issues raised time and time again... was that too much deserving work was not being seen,\" said film committee chair Marc Samuelson.\n\n\"The changes we are implementing are designed to ensure these films are seen and judged on merit alone.\"\n\nChanges to campaigning rules will seek to ensure \"a fairer consideration of all films regardless of marketing budget\".\n\nBafta said this would ensure \"smaller\" films were not \"left out of the conversation\" and would have as much \"visibility\" as titles backed by major studios.\n\nChanges to Bafta's voting practices will ensure the best director jury will have a guaranteed number of female film-makers to choose from.\n\nThe final six nominees will be drawn from an expanded longlist of 20 names, half of which will be female.\n\nBafta said this would help to address \"a historic lack of female representation in the directing category\".\n\nKathryn Bigelow, pictured with Clive Owen in 2010, is the only female winner of the best director Bafta\n\nOnly five women have ever made the shortlist for the best director award, which Bafta first presented in 1969.\n\nKathryn Bigelow, the only woman to win, for The Hurt Locker in 2010, was also the last woman to be shortlisted when she was nominated in 2013 for Zero Dark Thirty.\n\nAll voting members will also now be required to take a \"specially designed bespoke\" course in \"conscious voter training\".\n\nBafta said that would help its members \"navigate and recognise the wider societal influences that can impact the voting process\".\n\nKrishnendu Majumdar is the first Bafta chair from a BAME background\n\nIn the case of the overall best film award, all voters will be required to watch all 15 movies on the longlist. The shortlist will continue to consist of five films.\n\nBafta's review was led by its chair Krishnendu Majumdar, Samuelson and a steering group that included former Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke, academic Sadia Habib and ITV's head of diversity Ade Rawcliffe.\n\nMr Majumdar praised them for \"bravely sharing their experiences of racism and discrimination\" during \"tough, chastening [and] captivating\" sessions.\n\nNoel Clarke played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who and has directed several films\n\n\"This is a watershed moment for Bafta,\" the TV producer said in a statement. \"The Academy has never opened itself up like this before.\"\n\nBafta's chief executive Amanda Berry concurred, saying the review was \"a fantastic opportunity... to make substantial cultural and organisational change\".\n\nBafta said \"significant changes\" to its Television Awards would be announced in October and that its Games and Children's Awards would also be reviewed.\n\nThe 2021 Bafta Film Awards are scheduled to take place on 11 April, two months later than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 1,700 university students have been told to self-isolate after 127 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nStudents at two Manchester Metropolitan University accommodation blocks have been told to stay in their rooms for 14 days, even if they have no symptoms.\n\nStudents said \"police and security were outside\" and self-isolation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nThe restrictions affect students in accommodation blocks at Birley campus and Cambridge Halls after \"127 students have tested positive with a number of others symptomatic or self-isolating\", Manchester City Council said.\n\nStudents across the city have been urged to attend virtual freshers' events and avoid big parties.\n\nBut some said they had no warning of a lockdown and are now trapped in halls of residence.\n\nStudents at two accommodation blocks are self-isolating for a fortnight\n\nMegan Tingy, who studies at Manchester Metropolitan, said on Friday \"We were getting ready to go out and looked out to security and police outside the halls. They say we can't leave.\n\n\"We haven't received any emails from university about this and they seem to be holding us in against our will.\"\n\nStudent Trisha Kakooza, who is from London, said: \"We had eight hours to go get food to last us for two weeks.\n\n\"We have to get any other food delivered, which is expensive.\n\n\"I have a job and it helps me make extra money since student finance isn't enough but now I can't go out to work.\n\n\"We can study remotely but I won't get paid by the agency I work for.\"\n\nChip Wilson, 19, said: \"We have been told we are not allowed to leave and, if we do, we cannot come back, so now we are all stuck inside.\n\n\"On top of all this, many of us here have Covid symptoms but we cannot get tests. We can only get drive-through tests and none of us have cars, and even if we did we can't leave now.\"\n\nMost parts of Greater Manchester have been subject to stricter restrictions since July after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe rate has also doubled in the city of Manchester to 1,026 positive tests in the week up to 22 September, compared to 515 cases in the previous week.\n\nThe lockdown comes as students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nNHS staff hand out test kits to Glasgow University students, who are also subject to restrictions\n\nJoe Barnes, who recently started at Manchester Metropolitan University, told BBC Breakfast that self-isolation had \"left the morale of my flat really low\".\n\nHe said lessons were being conducted online \"so theoretically I could go and study from home but that defeats the point - I've not just come for my studies but to meet new people and enjoy the experience.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've heard horror stories of massive parties in some of the halls around here… it is just frustrating that no one else could have foreseen that.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students said affected students should be able \"to return to their families if they wish, as being trapped in university accommodation will only add anxiety at an already difficult time\".\n\n\"All students affected must be supported by their universities with food deliveries, shopping and access to mental health services if needed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, said the Manchester incident was \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc on campuses across the UK\".\n\n\"We warned last month of the problems with moving thousands of students across the country and the time has come for urgent action from ministers and universities to protect staff and students.\"\n\nShe urged university leaders to drop face-to-face classes until the government improves the test-and-trace system.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"We are fully supportive of the [lockdown] decision.\n\n\"Services such as wellbeing support and the library will remain available to our students online.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nCouncillor Bev Craig, executive member for adult health and wellbeing for the city council, said: \"We understand that local residents may be concerned about this situation.\n\n\"We want to reassure them that the evidence so far suggests that transmission has been within the student community only and has not been more widespread.\"\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\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police across the UK \"are mourning a great loss,\" after an officer was shot dead at custody centre, the country's most senior police officer has said.\n\nA Met Police Sergeant died after being shot in the chest at the centre on Windmill Road, Croydon, shortly after 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nA 23-year-old male suspect is critically ill after apparently turning the gun on himself.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick offered her \"heartfelt condolences\" to the unnamed office's family.\n\nMs Dick said: \"The Met is a family. Policing is a family in London and across the UK and today we police we are all mourning a great loss.\n\n\"This terrible incident underlines once again how police officers face danger every day in their work to protect the public.\"\n\nShe added the Met was giving the officer's partner \"the best support we can\".", "City centres are far quieter than normal, more than six months into the crisis\n\nThe government has \"wasted\" three weeks of Whitehall bosses' time by twice changing its advice on civil servants working from home, a union says.\n\nFirst Division Association (FDA) general secretary Dave Penman said ministers had got themselves into a \"tizzy\" and had suggested staff were \"lazy\".\n\nIn March, civil servants were told to work from home if possible, but earlier this month ministers said 80% should come in once a week or more by October.\n\nBut, with Covid cases up, they reverted to the previous advice this week.\n\nThe government has promised to maintain \"productivity\" and \"cohesiveness\" within the Civil Service as the pandemic continues.\n\nOver the summer, with city-centre businesses such as shops and cafés suffering because of a lack of commuters, the government encouraged companies to bring more people back into the office where it was made safe.\n\nDowning Street argued that civil servants should set an example to the private sector and return to their usual workplace in greater numbers.\n\nAnd, at the start of this month, Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and Alex Chisholm, chief operating officer of the Civil Service, wrote to permanent secretaries, who run government departments, telling them they should \"now move quickly to seek to bring more staff back into the office in a Covid-secure way\".\n\nMr Penman, whose FDA union represents senior civil servants, accused the government of putting \"political pressure\" on itself by briefing the media that civil servants were \"reluctant\" to return to offices - and then having to be seen to rectify this.\n\nAt the start of the coronavirus crisis, permanent secretaries had \"transformed their staff from being 95% office-based to 95% home-based in three weeks, while delivering the furlough scheme for the country\", he said.\n\n\"They did amazing work turning it around and then they got told to reverse much of it in the same timeframe. Well, that's going to hit productivity, the important things that government needs to be doing.\n\n\"And now we're back to where we were in the first place. At the same time you have civil servants being called lazy. It's all been such a waste of time and goodwill.\"\n\nDave Penman says government services have been adversely affected\n\nHuffpost reported this week that Home Office staff in central London had been told to bring in packed lunches, because of the time it took to get through Covid-19 checks and security.\n\n\"Ministers got themselves into a tizzy and ended up with this target of 80%,\" said Mr Penman. \"Then they committed to a timeframe. They didn't think it through.\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office, the Whitehall department which supports the prime minister, declined to comment on Mr Penman's remarks.\n\nBut official guidance states that civil servants in \"essential\" services should \"continue to go into work where necessary in a Covid-secure workplace\".\n\nIt adds that permanent secretaries \"know their departments best\" and will work with cabinet ministers to decide which colleagues should \"continue to attend the workplace to support ministers and maintain full delivery of public services\".\n\nThe situation will be kept under review to ensure \"safe working\" and that \"Civil Service productivity and cohesiveness do not falter at this crucial time\", it adds.", "The rate at which the Covid-19 virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.\n\nThe R number, indicating how fast the coronavirus epidemic is growing, has risen from 1.1-1.4 to 1.2-1.5.\n\nAn Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey estimated there were 9,600 new cases a day in England in the week to 19 September - up from 6,000 the week before and three times that being picked up by general testing.\n\nIt comes as more restrictions come into effect in parts of England and Wales.\n\nOn Friday, the daily number of positive cases in the UK picked up by coronavirus testing rose to a new high of 6,874, government figures show.\n\nA further 34 deaths were announced, although figures were not available for Scotland because of a power cut at the National Records of Scotland.\n\nInfection rates are highest in the north west of England and in London.\n\nAs infection rates rise, new restrictions are being brought into effect in the following areas:\n\nAn R or reproduction number above one means the epidemic is growing. It's a measure of how many extra people each coronavirus case is infecting,\n\nIn March, before any control measures were put in place, R was thought to be just under three.\n\nThe ONS's estimates of how much of the population is currently infected are based on testing a representative sample of people with or without symptoms.\n\nIt is different to the number published daily by the Department of Health and Social Care. That records positive cases in people with potential Covid symptoms who request tests.\n\nAnd in the week up to 19 September, the DHSC data showed roughly 3,000 positive tests a day in England - a total of 23,378.\n\nIn contrast, the ONS survey suggest there were actually 103,600 people in England with the virus, equating to an estimated one in 500 people in private homes.\n\nThe number does not include cases in hospitals and care homes.\n\nThe ONS said there was \"clear evidence\" of an increase in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in all age groups, but rates are currently highest in those aged 17-24.\n\nInfection rates are highest across the north of England and in London, with smaller increases seen in the Midlands.\n\nIn Wales, cases appear to have risen dramatically but because there are fewer people in the sample, there is a lot of uncertainty around the precise figure.\n\nBut central estimates suggest they could have risen almost seven-fold, from 1,500 people in total having Covid the previous week to more than 10,000.\n\nThe ONS has also begun surveying people in Northern Ireland, where early figures suggest one in 300 people had the virus in the period 6-19 September.\n\nThese figures only take us up to the end of last week, and as such may be an underestimate of the current situation.\n\nCases have been rising over the past few weeks, and have begun to translate to a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nData from the Covid Symptom Study app, run by King's College London and tech company ZOE, put the daily figure for England at 12,883 - higher than the ONS.\n\nIts figures are based on people who download and use the app, so it is not a random sample - but does include a larger number of positive tests.\n\nThe ZOE figures are also more up to date than the ONS's and so may be capturing more recent rises.", "Dr Tedros said he \"didn't believe\" the US's decision to withdraw from the WHO Image caption: Dr Tedros said he \"didn't believe\" the US's decision to withdraw from the WHO\n\nPresident Donald Trump \"doesn't have any good reason to withdraw\" the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), its Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said.\n\nPresident Trump announced the termination of the country's relationship with the WHO in May, accusing the UN agency of failing to hold China to account over the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n“My first reaction was, to be honest, I didn’t believe it,” Dr Tedros said in an interview with Time Magazine . \"Even now I believe that the US administration doesn’t have any good reason to withdraw from WHO.\"\n\nIn 2019, the US was the global health agency's largest single contributor, providing 15.18% of its total budget .\n\nDr Tedros said the impact of US withdrawal was uncertain, but stressed it was the country’s \"global leadership\" that mattered more to him than its financial contribution.\n\nNevertheless, Dr Tedros was hopeful co-operation would prevail over division, especially when vaccines against Covid-19 are distributed.\n\n\"The basic principle we're following now, in terms of distribution of the vaccines, is to give vaccines to some people in all countries, not all people in some countries,\" he said.", "Limits are being applied to certain products to prevent panic buying at Morrisons supermarkets\n\nShoppers at Morrisons face restrictions on the number of items they can purchase to prevent panic buying.\n\nThe supermarket chain has put a limit of three items per customer on some ranges, including toilet rolls and disinfectant products.\n\nIt said stock levels \"were good\", but the firm wanted to \"make sure they were available for everyone\".\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said supply chains were \"stronger than ever\".\n\nBradford-based Morrisons said restrictions would be sign-posted on shelf edges at tills.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have some products with limits on all year round such as paracetamol and so it works in just the same way.\"\n\nShelves at some stores were left depleted recently after the Government warned of rising coronavirus cases across the UK and the possibility of stricter lockdown measures.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) has urged consumers to be considerate of others and \"shop as you normally would\".\n\nDespite scenes at some stores, supermarket giants Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Lidl and Aldi said they had \"good availability\" earlier in the week and had not experienced any shortages yet.\n\nTesco added its online capacity had more than doubled from 600,000 weekly delivery slots in March to 1.5 million in September.\n\nDirector of food and sustainability at the BRC, Andrew Opie, said: \"Supply chains are stronger than ever before and we do not anticipate any issues in the availability of food or other goods under a future lockdown.\n\n\"Nonetheless, we urge consumers to be considerate of others and shop as they normally would.\"\n\nAsda is to enforce the rules on face coverings during the pandemic and deploy 'safety marshals' at its stores\n\nMeanwhile, Asda is set to enforce rules on face coverings more strictly across its shops amid the pandemic.\n\nCustomers who do not have a covering when they enter a store will be offered a pack of disposable masks that they can pay for at the end of their trip.\n\nThe firm announced on Wednesday that it will create 1,000 new \"safety marshal\" roles across its 639 UK stores.\n\nDedicated staff will remind shoppers to wear face coverings in-store and provide customers with sanitised shopping baskets on arrival.\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.", "Neil is known as one of the BBC's most ferocious political interviewers\n\nBroadcaster Andrew Neil has paid tribute to the BBC after announcing he will be leaving after 25 years.\n\nThe 71-year-old journalist is to become chairman of new TV channel GB News, which is due to launch early next year.\n\nHe said he was leaving the BBC, where he has presented shows such as Daily Politics and helped front its election coverage, with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nThe BBC said he had \"informed and entertained millions of viewers\" over the years.\n\nNeil's last appearance for the BBC will be in early November when he will help lead its coverage of the US presidential election.\n\nThe former Sunday Times editor has been at the heart of the BBC's political coverage for the best part of three decades.\n\nAs well as presenting Daily Politics and its successor Politics Live, he was the host of the popular late-night discussion show This Week for many years.\n\nHis penetrating and often combative general election interviews with party leaders won him wide critical acclaim.\n\nHe was involved in a row with Downing Street prior to last year's election when he publicly challenged Boris Johnson on air to appear on his show, saying his absence from the screens represented a \"question of trust\".\n\nThe PM was the only one of the main party leaders not to be questioned by Neil.\n\nEarlier this year, the BBC said the weekly Andrew Neil Interview show, which had been broadcast since 2019, would not be recommissioned but it was in discussion with him about other formats.\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\nAnnouncing his departure, Neil said these discussions had not come to fruition and he had decided to take the role of chair of GB News, where he will also host a daily show.\n\n\"With heavy heart I announce I will be leaving the BBC,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Despite sterling efforts by new DG (director general) to come up with other programming opportunities, it could not quite repair damage done when Andrew Neil Show cancelled early summer.\"\n\nHe thanked everyone who had helped him during his time at the BBC, describing them as the \"best of the best\" and saying the corporation \"will always be special to me\".\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it would like to give its \"heartfelt thanks\" to Neil, describing him as a \"formidable and talented broadcaster\".\n\n\"For years, he was at the heart of the irreverent and much-loved This Week and played a key role in the Daily and Sunday Politics, Politics Live and the BBC's general election coverage,\" it said.\n\n\"We are sorry the US election coverage will be his last BBC presentation for the foreseeable future but he will always be welcome at the BBC.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 BBC News Press Team This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGB News is a new 24-hour news channel which will compete with the BBC, ITV and Sky News. Its financial backers include the US media giant Discovery.\n\nThe BBC's media editor Amol Rajan said its launch and Neil's signing was a \"big moment for British culture\".", "Sir David will be seen in the Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet in October\n\nSir David Attenborough has broken Jennifer Aniston's record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on Instagram.\n\nAt 94 years young, the naturalist's follower count raced to seven figures in four hours 44 minutes on Thursday, according to Guinness World Records.\n\nHis debut post said: \"Saving our planet is now a communications challenge.\"\n\nLast October, Friends star Aniston reached the milestone in five hours and 16 minutes.\n\nIn his first video, the veteran broadcaster told followers: \"I am making this move and exploring this new way of communication to me because, as we all know, the world is in trouble.\n\n\"Continents are on fire. Glaciers are melting. Coral reefs are dying. Fish are disappearing from our oceans. The list goes on and on. Saving our planet is now a communications challenge.\"\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 davidattenborough This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe joins a varied list of public figures who have at some point held the record for the fastest to gain a million followers.\n\nSir David's total following rose to 2.5 million within 24 hours. However, he is some way behind the most-followed person overall - footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 238 million.\n\n\"Social media isn't David's usual habitat,\" wrote collaborators Jonnie Hughes, a BBC film-maker, and Colin Butfield, of the World Wildlife Fund. \"So while he's recorded messages solely for Instagram, like the one in this post, we're helping to run this account.\"\n\nSir David's Instagram debut precedes the release of a book and a Netflix documentary, both titled A Life On Our Planet.\n\nThe film will see him reflect on his career and the decline of the planet's environment and biodiversity, which he has observed first-hand.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Netflix This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSir David said he would use the platform to share videos explaining \"what the problems are and how we can deal with them\".\n\nSigning off, he invited viewers to \"join me - or as we used to say in those early days of radio, stay tuned\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The review said Boohoo had \"already made a significant start on putting things right.\"\n\nA review into an online fashion retailer's supply chain found it capitalised from lockdown opportunities without taking responsibility for those making its clothes.\n\nIt was one of \"many failings\" identified after concerns were raised about Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nThe review by Boohoo said the firm did not intentionally profit from poor working conditions and low pay.\n\nThe company said it had already taken steps to address the issues raised.\n\nBoohoo said it was \"appalled\" by allegations made in the summer about its suppliers in Leicester, when the city was in a local lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMs Levitt found some workers in its supply chain had not always been properly compensated for their work and that many were not fully aware of their rights and their obligations.\n\nShe said Boohoo had \"capitalised on the commercial opportunities offered by lockdown\" but took no responsibility for the consequences for those making the clothes they sold.\n\nThe review also found senior directors at Boohoo knew about \"serious issues\" over how workers were treated months before it was reported.\n\nThe company said: \"Ms Levitt is satisfied that Boohoo did not deliberately allow poor conditions and low pay to exist within its supply chain.\n\n\"It did not intentionally profit from them and its business model is not founded on exploiting workers in Leicester.\"\n\nChief executive John Lyttle said the review identified \"significant and clearly unacceptable issues\" in the company's supply chain as well as the steps it had taken to address them.\n\nHe said: \"It is clear that we need to go further and faster to improve our governance, oversight and compliance.\"\n\nBoohoo said it recognised this was a widespread issue in the garment industry and committed to establishing and funding a Garment and Textiles Community Trust to address hardship.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The government should do more to help women cope with the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a senior Conservative MP has said.\n\nCaroline Nokes said ministers needed to \"step in\" to ensure women were not disadvantaged when firms cut jobs.\n\nShe added she was \"disappointed\" the chancellor did not mention women in his winter jobs support package on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Treasury for a response.\n\nMs Nokes chairs Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee, which launched an inquiry in June into the gender impact of the post-Covid economic downturn.\n\nShe previously served as a minister at the Home Office under former PM Theresa May, but was not kept in a government role by Boris Johnson.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's World at One programme, she said: \"Women in many cases, in far too many cases, have been the first to be laid off.\"\n\nShe added she was \"disappointed that there wasn't specific reference of that\" in the package of measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nWomen had been disproportionately affected by hits to sectors such as retail, she said, and by a drop in spaces at childcare settings due to social distancing.\n\n\"That makes it very difficult for all working parents, but specifically for women,\" she said.\n\nArguing that women were also more at risk of being furloughed, she said: \"I think there are still some terrible stereotypical attitudes about women being more likely to have caring responsibilities.\"\n\n\"The reality is within families it's still much more likely that a man will be earning more than a woman. There is still a gender pay gap.\n\n\"I think there is a really unfortunate reinforcement to that that's happening during this hideous period, and we are seeing a return to the employment trends of the 1970s.\"\n\nAsked whether the government needed to do more, she said: \"I really think the government has to step in here.\n\n\"They had done a fabulous job up until the pandemic hit at getting more women into work, we were at a record number of women in employment.\n\n\"I think it is absolutely essential that we try to maintain that, that we take specific measures that will make sure that women are not disadvantaged.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies says women are around a third more likely than men to work in a sector heavily affected or entirely shut down due to the pandemic.\n\nThe think tank said one in six female employees work in retail and hospitality, compared to one in seven male workers.\n\nMs Nokes said the beauty industry, where nine in ten workers are estimated to be women, was particularly in need of further support.\n\nShe called for the sector to be eligible for the 15% emergency VAT cut offered to tourism and hospitality, which now is being extended from to 31 March 2021.\n\nShe urged ministers to consider \"radical\" ideas for the sector, such as discounts based on the Eat Out to Help Out scheme that ran in restaurants in August.\n\n\"You could see a 'Treat Out to Help Out' which would get that sector, where there is still much anxiety, back up and running again,\" she said.", "Jeffrey Plevey died while he was working at the derelict Citadel Church\n\nTwo men will appear in court to face gross negligence manslaughter charges, three years after a church collapsed in Cardiff, killing a worker inside.\n\nJeffrey Plevey, 55, died when the Citadel Chruch in Splott collapsed on 18 July 2017.\n\nKeith Young, 72, of Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan, and Stewart Swain, 53, from Cardiff, have been summonsed to appear at Cardiff Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Young will also face a charge under the Health and Safety Act.\n\nHe faces a charge of failing to discharge a duty, while five companies and three other men have been summonsed to court in relation to offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nSwain Scaffolding Ltd, South Wales Safety Consultancy Ltd, Amos Projects Ltd, Strongs Partnership Ltd and NJP Consultant Engineers Ltd also face charges as do Mark Gulley, 58, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Richard Dean, 58, from Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, and Philip Thomas, 55, from Thornhill, Cardiff.\n\nThey are all due to appear at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on 21 October.\n\nJeffrey Plevey was working inside the derelict church when it collapsed\n\nMr Plevey was found under rubble at the derelict church, where he was working at the time.\n\nThe building was being demolished when it collapsed.\n\nTwo other people escaped from the building and were treated for minor injuries.\n\nAn evidence file was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service in January after a joint investigation between South Wales Police and the Health and Safety Executive.", "A trial of a new vaccine that appears to train the immune system to fight coronavirus has begun in the UK.\n\nEarly tests showed the jab, developed by US biotechnology company Novavax, leads to high levels of virus-fighting antibodies being produced.\n\nThe trial on 10,000 people will now see if the vaccine can prevent people getting ill.\n\nThe UK government has already ordered 60 million doses in case it proves successful.\n\nA vaccine that can protect people from Covid-19 is still widely seen as the main exit strategy from the restrictions on all our lives.\n\nThe Novavax jab is only the second to enter large scale trials in the UK; the other has been developed by the University of Oxford.\n\nSome of the vaccines being developed for Covid-19 use either completely new or barely proven technologies.\n\nNovavax are using traditional methods - proteins from the coronavirus that cannot replicate in the body and a chemical, called an adjuvant, to boost the immune response.\n\n\"It's a technology that we are more familiar with,\" Prof Paul Heath, who is leading the trial at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"This is an open field and we don't know what will work, that is the truthful answer here,. And that's the reason there are so many different vaccine candidates.\"\n\nEarly trial data on 83 people, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed the vaccine appeared safe.\n\nBlood samples from those injected showed the volunteers were producing antibodies that could neutralise the coronavirus and another part of the immune system, called T-cells, were also trained to fight the virus.\n\nWhile this is a promising sign, it is not enough to prove the vaccine can either stop infection or prevent someone developing the severest form of the disease.\n\nTen thousand people will take part in the trial and at least a quarter of them will be over 65, the age-group most at risk of severe Covid-19.\n\nSome of the volunteers will be picked from those who have signed up to take part in clinical trials run by the NHS.\n\nHalf will be given two doses of the vaccine, three weeks apart, and the rest will be given a dummy jab called a placebo.\n\nHowever, it will take months - probably early 2021 - before we know if the vaccine is successful.\n\nThe vaccine has been tested in animals and small numbers of people already\n\n\"This is a really exciting moment, this is only the second phase three efficacy trial in the UK,\" Prof Heath told the BBC.\n\n\"This vaccine looks like an excellent candidate to be protective against Covid-19, but we need now to prove that.\"\n\nThe vaccine will be manufactured in Stockton-on-Tees.\n\nKate Bingham, chairwoman of the government's Vaccines Taskforce, said: \"Finding a safe and effective vaccine that works for the majority of the UK population is the best way to tackle this devastating disease.\n\n\"Whilst social distancing, testing and other measures can help reduce the impact of coronavirus, the only long-term solution to beating it will be finding a vaccine.\"", "Kat Kingsley said she would be wary of giving out her personal details again\n\nA bus worker who sent \"creepy\" messages to a woman after getting her contact details from a test-and-trace form has been fired from the company.\n\nKat Kingsley, 25, from Hayle in Cornwall, went on the Original Tour bus in Windsor on 10 September.\n\nThree days later she received two messages from a member of staff saying he wanted to see her.\n\nA spokesman for the company said the employee had since been dismissed as a result of their investigation.\n\nThe company spokesman added the firm was also introducing a new system for test-and-trace, which meant personal data would be stored online and would not be accessible to staff.\n\nAs she got on the bus, Ms Kingsley said she gave her name and phone number to a staff member, who wrote them on a piece of paper as part of the NHS Test and Trace system.\n\nMs Kingsley said he later sent her text messages saying she had been \"living in his head\" and he admitted there was a risk to using \"data that's not supposed to be for me\".\n\nMs Kingsley described the messages as \"creepy\" and said she hoped his being fired would prevent others doing the same.\n\n\"He didn't resign, he went through the disciplinary process and I think he expected to keep his job but I got a call yesterday to say he had been fired,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it should teach him a lesson and hopefully deter anyone else who was considering breaching data [protection].\"\n\nThe messages were sent using the phone number Ms Kingsley had provided for the test-and-trace form\n\nThe Original Tour spokesman said the company's managing director would be speaking to Ms Kingsley \"to express to her our regret and apologies for the incident\".\n\nTest-and-trace launched in May in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe system is designed to be used to enable venues and services to contact people, using personal details given, if they may have come into contact with someone with Covid-19 while using their services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cardiff has seen 38.2 cases per 100,000 people in the past week\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas has warned of potential restrictions on travel and different households mixing.\n\nHe told a virtual meeting of the authority that over the past seven days, the area has seen 38.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nMr Thomas said the city was on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's \"red zone\".\n\nHe said if that was to happen \"then I fully expect that we will be implementing further restrictions as we have seen elsewhere\" in south Wales.\n\nCardiff is home to 366,903 people and would be the seventh area to have tighter restrictions imposed.\n\nPeople living in Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport cannot leave their areas without a reasonable excuse.\n\nShould Cardiff follow them into lockdown, it would mean more than a 1.2 million people - about a third of Wales' population - would be under tighter restrictions than the rest of the country.\n\nConservative councillor Jayne Cowan asked Mr Thomas if Cardiff would be put into a local lockdown in the next 48 hours.\n\nHe replied: \"We'll look at the numbers again in the morning and make a decision based on that.\"\n\nIt comes as Caerphilly's lockdown has been confirmed for at least a further seven days.\n\nMr Thomas said restrictions could be introduced \"at speed\" and could include a ban on households meeting or travel outside of Cardiff.\n\nThe council leader said the coronavirus test positivity rate stood at 3.8%, which exceeds the government's amber threshold of 2.5%.\n\nThere has been a sharp rise in hospital emergency attendance in the past week, he added, with the spread of infection \"most frequently found within household settings\".\n\n\"Our test trace and protect data suggests this is particularly in cases where family bubble rules have been breached, and also where people are mixing in indoor home settings and not following the rule of six,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is that indoor mixing with people not in extended households in homes, cafes, bars and restaurants is happening far too frequently.\"\n\nCardiff city centre at the end of July\n\nMr Thomas said there had been a significant rise in those aged 35 to 50 testing positive.\n\nAny new restrictions would need to be introduced by the Welsh Government.\n\nMr Thomas said he met First Minister Mark Drakeford and Health Minister Vaughan Gething prior to Thursday night's council meeting.\n\nThe threshold for foreign countries to be added to the list of destinations where people need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the UK is 20 cases per 100,000.\n\nCardiff councillor Jayne Cowan told BBC Radio Wales a local lockdown was \"inevitable\" but feared the impact on businesses.\n\n\"Many businesses won't survive another lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"We're seeing many thousands of cases of people having livelihoods stripped away. As part of the first lockdown, I was made redundant from my part time job.\n\n\"The Welsh Government needs to come up with the goods.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman, Andrew RT Davies, tweeted that a \"it's incumbent on the Welsh Labour government to bring forward a package of financial support for the many businesses (particularly hospitality) that will be devastated by the news\".\n\nHe said a blanket lockdown of the city \"really isn't local\".\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru health spokesman, said: \"Shutting pubs slightly earlier isn't going to be enough - the Welsh Government must think of a suite of new steps, which are perhaps stricter but for a shorter period, in order to control these new spikes.\"", "A sign on a pub window warns customers of the curfew\n\nPolice patrols have been stepped up across Scotland to ensure the smooth introduction of a new pub and restaurant curfew.\n\nAll hospitality must now close at 22:00 in the latest raft of measures designed to halt Covid transmission.\n\nScotland's chief constable promised extra policing as he urged citizens to act responsibly.\n\nHe also issued a blunt warning that organising, hosting or attending house parties was now breaking the law.\n\nThe Scottish government has revealed that 36% of positive cases handled by Test and Protect mention social exposure, through hospitality or socialising with friends and family.\n\nIt said the aim of the measures was to reduce the amount of time people can spend in licensed premises and therefore curtail the spread of the virus in high risk environments while still allowing businesses to trade.\n\nSoaring infection rates have prompted the introduction of strict measures on the hospitality industry across the UK.\n\nEvery pub has been ordered to observe the 22:00 curfew, with the threat of permanent closure for those who do not comply.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone from Police Scotland said extra patrols would be deployed around closing time to ensure the change was being adhered to.\n\nAt Friday's Scottish government coronavirus briefing he said: \"Additional officers will be deployed across Scotland to support colleagues from local authorities and to monitor compliance.\n\n\"I think it's important for me to say that the vast majority of licensees have acted with great responsibility during this very challenging period - I pay credit to them and undertake that policing will continue to support and work with the licensed trade.\"\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone warned people that house parties were now illegal\n\nHe said that officers would \"continue to use good sense\" when enforcing the new rules.\n\nHe also issued a stark warning over the temptation to spill from the pub to a gathering within a house.\n\nThe chief constable admitted that the curfew could see an increase in house parties or gatherings as customers refused to end their nights early.\n\nBut he made it clear this would not be tolerated.\n\nHe said: \"During this extraordinary time where people's freedoms, liberty and family relationships are subject to restrictions never seen before, it is right and proper that the police service looks to engage with people, explain what is required of them.\n\n\"If they refuse to do what their fellow citizens, their neighbours are doing, we will take enforcement action.\n\n\"What is absolutely clear is that house parties and house gatherings are not permitted under any circumstances, there can be no excuse for arranging or attending a house party.\n\n\"You must not organise, host or attend a house party or house gathering, it is against the law.\"\n\nWith local \"September weekend\" public holidays in many areas, the curfew marks one of a set of increased measures introduced to combat the rise of new infections.\n\nOn Friday there were 558 new positive cases of coronavirus reported in Scotland since in the previous 24 hours - the highest daily total since the outbreak began.\n\nOf these, 255 were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where there has been a significant outbreak at University of Glasgow student accommodation\n\nStudents were ordered to quarantine and stay away from pubs after an outbreak at Glasgow University's Murano Halls\n\nStudents at all Scottish universities have been told not to visit hospitality venues this weekend and Universities Scotland said students who go to parties or socialise with anyone outside their accommodation risks losing their place at university.\n\nUniversities will adopt a \"yellow card/red card\" approach to breaches of discipline, with students warned the consequences could include \"potential discontinuation of study\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she sympathised with students and she hoped disciplinary action would only be taken as a \"last resort\" against those who \"flagrantly\" broke the rules.\n\nThe Scottish government also said it appreciated how difficult it was for pubs and other hospitality outlets, but that restrictions were based on the fundamental need to reduce transmissions.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Recent management information from our Covid-19 case management system suggests that around 36% of cases mention social/recreational exposure, including hospitality or socialising with friends/family.\n\n\"Although this data has many caveats and limitations, and therefore cannot prove causality in terms of where transmission has taken place, it does help guide our response to help prevent transmission in such settings.\"\n\nThe hospitality curfew comes a week after the \"rule of six\" came into effect in Scotland, limiting all gatherings, including those in pubs and restaurants, to no more than six adults from two households.\n\nVenues are also forbidden from playing background music, must enforce strict rules on hygiene and distancing, and record customers' details for track and trace data.\n\nHospitality industry organisations said the latest restrictions were a \"potentially fatal blow\" for many business.\n\nIndoor visits between households are also banned across Scotland for the foreseeable future until the risk of transmission is reduced.\n\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A long-serving police officer has been shot dead at Croydon Custody Centre in south London.\n\nThe male sergeant was shot in the chest before the suspect turned the firearm on himself, sources have told the BBC.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, Sadiq Khan and Priti Patel all took part in the silence at New Scotland Yard, while colleagues of the killed officer gathered outside the Croydon Centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barrister Alexandra Wilson says \"everyone should be treated with respect\" in court\n\nA black barrister mistaken for a defendant three times in one day has received an apology from court officials.\n\nCriminal and family lawyer Alexandra Wilson, 25, said the experience had left her \"absolutely exhausted\".\n\nShe lodged a formal complaint after being challenged by a security officer, a solicitor and a clerk.\n\nHer Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) apologised for the \"totally unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nMs Wilson, from Essex, said she had attended the magistrates' court - where barristers' traditional wigs and gowns are not usually worn - on Wednesday.\n\nUpon arrival, she said a security officer asked for her name and then searched for it on a list of defendants.\n\n\"I explained I was a barrister. He apologised and guided me through security,\" Ms Wilson said.\n\nAfter meeting her client, she tried to enter a courtroom to discuss the case with the prosecutor.\n\n\"Another barrister or solicitor sitting at the back of the court told me to go outside and wait and to sign in with the usher for my case.\n\n\"I explained again I was a barrister and she looked awfully embarrassed and said 'I see'.\n\nAlexandra Wilson, who specialises in family and criminal law, said she did not expect to \"constantly justify my existence at work\"\n\n\"At this point as I was already pretty annoyed, but I went over to the prosecutor and then the clerk told me very loudly to get out of the court room because I had to wait for my case to come on.\n\n\"I was nearly in tears, and I said again, 'I am a defence barrister', and she nodded her head and turned back to her computer.\"\n\nIn addition, she said, a member of the public thought she was a journalist and told her \"only lawyers can go in\" the courtroom.\n\n\"All of that in one day, it made me feel exhausted,\" she said.\n\n\"This really isn't ok... I don't expect to have to constantly justify my existence at work.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Alexandra Wilson, author of In Black and White, criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan \"Black Lives Don't Matter\"\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"quite often\" mistaken for a defendant but never so often in one day, and her experience had made her realise \"it's not nice being a defendant in court\".\n\n\"Everyone should be treated with respect,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact I was shouted at to get out of court isn't ok for defendants either.\"\n\nHMCTS acting chief executive, Kevin Sadler, said: \"I'm very sorry about your experience at court yesterday - it is totally unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nHe said he would be investigating the role of his staff and contractors \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\n\"This is not the behaviour anyone should expect and certainly does not reflect our values,\" he added.\n\nMs Wilson said she was \"grateful\" for the apology and hoped it would lead \"to some real change\".\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.", "Face coverings have been mandatory on public transport in England since 15 June\n\nFewer than 0.1% of people stopped by police for not wearing masks on trains received a fine, figures have revealed.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said it stopped 14,726 people from 15 July to 15 August for failing to comply, resulting in 14 fixed penalty notices.\n\nThe rules, introduced in June, state anyone travelling on public transport must wear a face covering.\n\nBTP said enforcement in the form of fixed penalty notices was only used as a \"last resort\".\n\nIt said, from 30 July to 8 September, officers recorded 50,729 \"interventions\" with passengers not wearing face coverings, with 3,545 - 7% - of those told to leave the train.\n\nThe figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, showed 37 fines had been issued between 15 June and 14 July. BTP said it did not hold complete data for how many people were stopped during that time.\n\nThe rules have led to rows on public transport, with some spilling over into violence.\n\nLast month, police said a train passenger was head-butted to the floor and repeatedly punched in the face for asking a fellow passenger to wear a face mask on a service between Slough and Langley in Berkshire.\n\nAnd in Bournemouth, a bus driver was hit over the head and kicked on the floor for refusing to let a man board without a face covering.\n\nMP Sammy Wilson was pictured on the London tube without a mask\n\nPoliticians have also been photographed breaking the rules.\n\nConservative MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger, apologised for forgetting to put on his face covering for a train journey from Hungerford to Paddington.\n\nDUP MP for East Antrim, Sammy Wilson, was also caught on camera by a fellow passenger on the London Underground without a mask.\n\nMr Wilson said he accepted he \"should have been\" wearing a face covering and he would \"accept whatever consequences there are\".\n\nA BTP spokesman said: \"British Transport Police has been working with rail industry staff since face coverings became mandatory on public transport in England on 15 June 2020 to engage with passengers, explain the importance of preventing the spread of the Covid-19 virus and encouraging people to wear face coverings.\n\n\"Enforcement, in the form of fixed penalty notices, has only been used as a last resort.\"\n\nRail campaign group Railfuture said it was difficult to strike a balance but said BTP had got it \"about right\".\n\nSpokesman Bruce Williamson said: \"We want a safe railway. We do not want to deter people from travelling.\n\n\"It looks like British Transport Police are doing this right. If fines are a last resort, it's good, they are not being heavy-handed.\"\n\nBTP has jurisdiction for the railway network in England, Scotland and Wales, which includes the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Croydon Tramlink, Midlands Metro, Glasgow Subway and part of the Tyne & Wear Metro.", "A local trader, who took this photo of a victim being treated, said there was panic outside his store\n\nTwo people have been stabbed and seriously hurt in Paris near the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested. One of them was seized in the nearby Bastille area with blood on his clothing, police told the BBC.\n\nAnti-terrorism police have taken over the investigation.\n\nA security cordon has been set up in the 11th arrondissement in eastern Paris.\n\nNearby metro stations were closed and five schools in the area immediately went into lockdown. The schools were allowed to reopen some hours later.\n\nA blade - described as a machete or a meat cleaver - was recovered at the scene of the attack near the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.\n\nPolice quoted by French media said the \"main suspect\" was from Pakistan and the second person arrested was from Algeria. They have not yet been named and any connection between them has not been disclosed.\n\nThe conditions of the victims have not been made public although French Prime Minister Jean Castex told reporters at the scene that their lives were not in danger.\n\nThe attack comes as a high-profile trial is under way in Paris of 14 people accused of helping two jihadists carry out the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed.\n\nThe two people wounded were staff at a TV production company, one of their colleagues told AFP news agency.\n\n\"Two colleagues were smoking a cigarette outside the building, in the street. I heard shouting. I went to the window and saw one of my colleagues, covered in blood, being chased by a man with a machete in the street,\" another member of staff at the Premières Lignes production firm said.\n\nThe firm has offices in the Rue Nicolas Appert, a side street off Boulevard Richard Lenoir where the former Charlie Hebdo offices are located. A mural to the 12 people killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack is nearby.\n\nThe satirical magazine has since moved to a secret location.\n\nMr Castex visited the scene accompanied by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.\n\nThe prime minister reiterated the government's \"firm commitment to combat terrorism by all possible means\".\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex visited the scene flanked by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo\n\nAt a news conference, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard confirmed that the \"main perpetrator\" had been arrested and said a \"second individual\" was also in custody.\n\n\"The investigation will continue,\" he said.\n\nCharles Michel, President of the European Council and former Belgian PM, expressed his \"full solidarity with the French people\".\n\n\"All my thoughts are with the victims of this cowardly act of violence. Terror has no place on European territory,\" he tweeted.\n\nIn a tweet, Charlie Hebdo expressed its \"support and solidarity with its former neighbours... and the people affected by this odious attack\".\n\nCharlie Hebdo has marked the start of the trial by reprinting controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked protests in several Muslim countries.\n\nIn response, the militant group al-Qaeda renewed its threat to the magazine.\n\nThe magazine's head of human resources said earlier this week that she had moved out of her home after receiving death threats.\n\nThe defendants in the trial are also accused of helping another jihadist carry out a related attack in which he shot dead a policewoman, then attacked a Jewish store, killing four people.\n\nThe 17 victims were killed over a period of three days. All three attackers were killed by police. The killings marked the beginning of a wave of jihadist attacks across France that left more than 250 people dead.\n\nThe public has been told to avoid the area in Paris's 11th arrondissement", "Magawa has won a gold medal for detecting mines in Cambodia\n\nAn African giant pouched rat has been awarded a prestigious gold medal for his work detecting land mines.\n\nMagawa has sniffed out 39 landmines and 28 unexploded munitions in his career.\n\nThe UK veterinary charity PDSA has presented him with its Gold Medal for \"life-saving devotion to duty, in the location and clearance of deadly landmines in Cambodia\".\n\nThere are thought to be up to six million landmines in the southeast Asian country.\n\nPDSA's Gold Medal is inscribed with the words \"For animal gallantry or devotion to duty\". Of the 30 animal recipients of the award, Magawa is the first rat.\n\nThe seven-year-old rodent was trained by the Belgium-registered charity Apopo, which is based in Tanzania and has been raising the animals - known as HeroRATs - to detect landmines and tuberculosis since the 1990s. The animals are certified after a year of training.\n\n\"To receive this medal is really an honour for us,\" Apopo chief executive Christophe Cox told the Press Association news agency. \"But also it is big for the people in Cambodia, and all the people around the world who are suffering from landmines.\"\n\nPDSA broadcast the award ceremony for Magawa on its website.\n\nAccording to Apopo, Magawa - born and raised in Tanzania - weighs 1.2kg (2.6lb) and is 70cm (28in) long. While that is far larger than many other rat species, Magawa is still small enough and light enough that he does not trigger mines if he walks over them.\n\nThe rats are trained to detect a chemical compound within the explosives, meaning they ignore scrap metal and can search for mines more quickly. Once they find an explosive, they scratch the top to alert their human co-workers.\n\nMagawa is capable of searching a field the size of a tennis court in just 20 minutes - something Apopo says would take a person with a metal detector between one and four days.\n\nIt takes the rats a year of training before they become certified land mine detectors, known as HeroRATs\n\nMagawa and his colleagues are working with the Cambodian Mine Action Centre to detect unexploded ordnance in the country\n\nHe works for just half an hour a day in the mornings and is nearing retirement age, but PDSA director general Jan McLoughlin said his work with Apopo was \"truly unique and outstanding\".\n\n\"Magawa's work directly saves and changes the lives of men, women and children who are impacted by these landmines,\" she told the Press Association. \"Every discovery he makes reduces the risk of injury or death for local people.\"\n\nAccording to the mine-clearing NGO the HALO Trust, Cambodia has recorded more than 64,000 casualties and some 25,000 amputees due to landmines since 1979. Many were laid during the country's civil war in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nIn January 2020, US President Donald Trump lifted restrictions on US landmine use, reversing a ban brought in by President Barack Obama in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Landmines: Why do they kill thousands every year?", "The UK has recorded 6,634 new coronavirus cases, the government has announced, making it the highest daily figure since mass testing began.\n\nAnother 40 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe latest figures take the overall number of confirmed cases to 416,363, and total deaths to 41,902.\n\nMeanwhile, people arriving in the UK from Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Caribbean island Curacao will need to self-isolate for 14 days from Saturday.\n\nAfter falling from their April peak, confirmed new coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since July.\n\nThe latest surge in cases comes after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans aimed at stopping mass job cuts over the winter months.\n\nThe government's new wage subsidy scheme, set to replace furlough, will see the government top up the pay of people unable to work full time.\n\nThe official records may show that the UK has just seen the highest number of new cases on a single day.\n\nBut it is, of course, nothing of the sort. At the peak of the pandemic in the spring we had such limited testing capacity that it was largely only hospital patients who were being checked.\n\nIt meant we were identifying just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nEstimates have suggested there may have been as many 100,000 cases a day at the peak.\n\nWe are clearly not capturing all the infections - even now with the mass testing that is available.\n\nSurveillance data last week suggested we may be identifying only about half of cases.\n\nBut that still puts the infection levels well below what they were in the spring.\n\nHospital admissions and deaths have also started creeping up, but are still very low.\n\nHealth experts have been clear we are now on the upwards path so we should expect this trend to continue.\n\nCrucial will be how quickly figures rise for all three measures, with the hospital cases and deaths the most important.\n\nEvidence from Spain and France, which started seeing rises a few weeks before us, offer some hope.\n\nCases have been climbing gradually - at least more gradually than the trajectory government scientists warned could lead the UK to 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nMr Sunak's measures come two days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced further restrictions to help curb the spread of coronavirus, including a 22:00 closing time for all pubs, restaurants and hospitality venues, which have now come into force in England.\n\nThe sector will also be restricted, by law, to giving table service only.\n\nIn Scotland, university students have been asked not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend, in a bid to curb outbreaks at several institutions.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised to students, saying she recognised Covid was \"making this special time of your lives so tough\".\n\nAnd in Wales, people in Cardiff are facing the prospect of local lockdown after council leader Huw Thomas said the city was on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's \"red zone\".\n\nThe decision to remove Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Caribbean island Curacao from the so-called \"travel corridor\" list takes effect from 04:00 BST on Saturday, the Department for Transport said.\n\nIt has been agreed with the devolved administrations so covers the whole of the UK, unlike some previous travel quarantine announcements.\n\nNo countries will be added to the UK travel corridor list this week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nSingapore and Thailand remain the most recent additions to England and Scotland's list, from 17 September.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Shapps reminded passengers they were required by law to fill in a passenger locator form when entering the UK.\n\n\"This protects public health and ensures those who need to are complying with self-isolation rules,\" he said.\n\nThe form asks travellers to provide their contact details and UK address. Passengers can be fined up to £3,200 in England if they do not provide accurate contact details, or £1,920 in Wales.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nell Manson and Lucy Owens are self-isolating at the University of Glasgow\n\nStudents caught up in a spate of Covid outbreaks have questioned why university halls were allowed to open.\n\nThey have been told not to visit pubs or restaurants this weekend or go home after hundreds of students across Scotland tested positive for the virus.\n\nHowever, many have called the outbreaks inevitable given students were encouraged back to campus.\n\nThe Scottish government said all efforts were focused on stopping further transmission of the virus.\n\nOne of the worst affected halls is Glasgow University's Murano Street residences where at least 172 students have tested positive for Covid-19 and hundreds more are self isolating.\n\nLucy Owens, a student living in the Murano complex and who has coronavirus, questioned why students had been brought back given so much learning had moved online.\n\nShe asked on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"What are we paying for? I could do everything I am doing from my house, so why have they sent us here?\n\n\"I know we're making the most of this accommodation because we're stuck in it all day but we're not really making the most of being at university.\n\n\"Putting two thousand students into such a confined area, something like this was bound to happen.\"\n\nFellow student Nell Manson said keeping students out of pubs and restaurants was not the answer.\n\nShe said: \"More things will be happening in accommodations.\n\n\"In pubs and restaurants there are lots of social distancing measures, you can't even get up from your table without a mask.\n\n\"It lends itself to people socialising in other ways where there's not such strict rules.\"\n\nStudents in Glasgow have been getting tests and told to self isolate\n\nTessa Morrison, 17, who is studying politics at Glasgow University, said she has had a positive Covid diagnosis and is living with 10 other people, some of whom also have the virus.\n\nThe students all have their own rooms but share two bathrooms and one kitchen.\n\nShe said it was \"difficult to avoid people\" in this setup, adding, \"They should have waited until at least Christmas to let us come here, I do think they are just trying to make money off us being in halls and they knew this was inevitably going to happen.\"\n\nGlasgow University said the positive cases were due to social activity during Freshers Week\n\nThere are currently about 250,000 students in Scotland, with up to 35,000 living in university halls and 10,000 in private halls.\n\nCovid outbreaks have been reported at halls of residence in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.\n\nArturo Morselli, a student from Italy studying at St Andrews University but living in Dundee, said he felt left in limbo by the current situation.\n\nHe said: \"My belief is that universities are trying to avoid accountability in the sense that they are not taking decisions.\n\n\"We students are caught up in the fact that no one wants to take responsibility for what's going on and we are the ones caught up in it and we don't know if it's worth the money we are paying.\"\n\nIsobelle Robinson-Gordon described her university experience to date as \"very ostracising\"\n\nIsobelle Robinson-Gordon, a first year student at Edinburgh University, said her experience had been \"very isolating\" so far.\n\nShe said: \"I've moved to Edinburgh. I'm in accommodation, but all the learning is online. I'm frustrated.\n\n\"A lot of students are here and ready to learn, but it's all online. It's the lack of direction. It's debilitating.\n\n\"We've not had any guidance from the university. Everything we're learning is from the news media.\"\n\nHelen Kirkpatrick's daughter is a second year student at Glasgow's Strathclyde University and is staying in private halls.\n\nShe said: \"After going back there she has found out that all classes will be online for the first semester.\n\n\"She's signed an agreement and paid a lot of money to stay there and what for? Now she is essentially imprisoned?\n\n\"She could have studied at home - I think the Scottish government could have handled this a lot better.\"\n\nUniversities in Scotland have agreed to introduce a \"yellow card, red card\" system for breaches of student discipline that put students and others at risk, which could result in an end to their studies.\n\nHigher Education Minister Richard Lochhead said this, and curbs on going to hospitality this weekend, was about trying to stop the virus spreading.\n\nHe said: \"This is an ask of the student population of Scotland from universities. The Scottish government support that, but the universities are asking the students jointly across Scotland this weekend - given we've got a number of outbreaks of the virus and some campuses across Scotland - to have the weekend off from socialising out-with the households.\"\n\n\"The vast majority of students have been so responsible, it's a very tough time for them.\"\n\nMr Lochhead added that \"it's not stigmatising students, it's not about saying they're particularly to blame for what's happening.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish government was trying to strike the right balance between protecting public health and ensuring there is a \"degree of normality around education\".\n\nShe told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"Students deserve to have a campus experience. They deserve to have some kind of normality in their life. So people will have different views about the rights and wrongs.\"", "Universities must make sure food and essentials are delivered to students self-isolating at campuses across Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nSeveral unis are dealing with coronavirus outbreaks, with many students in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh being told to stay in.\n\nThe first minister will remind university heads of their \"big responsibility\" to students later.\n\nScotland students have been told to avoid pubs and parties this weekend.\n\nThe stricter guidelines have been criticised by the National Union of Students Scotland as \"unjustified\" and \"deeply concerning\".\n\nPresident Matt Crilly said it showed a \"complete disregard\" for students' mental health and wellbeing.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat's political editor Daniel Rosney, Ms Sturgeon said she wasn't blaming students.\n\n\"It's not their fault, it's nobody's fault. Covid is nobody's fault.\n\n\"But we all have to play our parts and try and to get it under control.\"\n\nA total of 172 Glasgow University students have so far tested positive, with 600 in isolation, while all 500 residents at the Parker House halls in Dundee have been told to quarantine.\n\nThe first minister said students were being asked not to go to the pub just for this weekend, adding that it was incorrect to say the measures were in place for longer.\n\n\"I think last night, there was a sense that we were saying to students, for the foreseeable future, do not to go to pubs. That's not what we're saying.\"\n\nBut she didn't rule out that it could happen again.\n\n\"I've tried to be really straight with people in how we're dealing with this.\n\n\"I can't see into the future in any certain sense. I don't have a crystal ball.\"\n\nHousehold mixing is banned under stricter regulations announced this week for Scotland, and Nicola Sturgeon expects students to follow the rules.\n\nThat means the start of university is very different to normal.\n\nWhen asked about sex with new partners, she said: \"There are limits to what I'm going to say to students about the regulation of their intimate private lives.\n\n\"But I, a student, anybody else, is not allowed to be in somebody else's house right now.\n\n\"Because we know that is one of the big risks of the virus spreading.\"\n\nThose living alone who form extended households, couples not living together and those who need childcare and tradespeople do not have to observe the indoor visiting restriction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students in Sheffield talk about their last night of \"freedom\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said while she was concerned about the mental health impact of restrictions, there was a balance to find with physical health.\n\n\"My priority is to try and keep people safe from a virus that even for young people can do a lot of damage to their physical health.\n\n\"But the more quickly we can bring Covid back under control right now, hopefully, the sooner students can start to have a bit more normality in their lives.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is to give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme designed to ensure treatments for Covid-19 are distributed fairly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson made the announcement in a speech to the United Nations general assembly.\n\nHe called on world leaders to overcome their differences as he set out plans to prevent future global pandemics.\n\nHe also promised extra funding for the World Health Organization.\n\nMr Johnson told his foreign counterparts at the UN that the \"notion of the international community looks tattered\" after the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nHe called for states to \"reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts\", as he announced a plan, developed with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Wellcome Trust, to help stop future pandemics.\n\nThe proposals include developing a global network of \"zoonotic hubs\" to identify dangerous pathogens before they jump from animals to humans, as well as improving manufacturing capacity for treatments and vaccines.\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech on Saturday afternoon, the prime minister said: \"After nine months of fighting Covid, the very notion of the international community looks tattered.\n\n\"We know that we cannot continue in this way. Unless we unite and turn our fire against our common foe, we know that everyone will lose.\n\n\"Now is the time, therefore, here at what I devoutly hope will be the first and last ever Zoom UNGA, for humanity to reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts.\n\n\"Here in the UK, the birthplace of Edward Jenner who pioneered the world's first vaccine, we are determined to do everything in our power to work with our friends across the UN to heal those divisions and to heal the world.\"\n\nOther measures being proposed include designing a global pandemic early warning system, improving the ability to collect and analyse samples and distribute the findings.\n\nThe plan also calls for common protocols to be agreed on sharing data.\n\nMr Johnson is also proposing states reduce trade barriers on Covid-critical products, such as soap, to help the global response.\n\nThe £500m in aid funding will go to the Covax vaccines procurement pool, which aims to help poorer countries access a coronavirus jab when one is developed.\n\nThere are about 40 different coronavirus vaccines in clinical trials - including one being developed by the University of Oxford that is in an advanced stage of testing.\n\nA successful vaccine that can protect people from Covid-19 is still widely seen as the main exit strategy from the current restrictions on people's lives.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson said \"we must never cut corners\" or \"sacrifice safety to speed\" in the search for a vaccine.\n\n\"Because it would be an absolute tragedy if, in our eagerness, we were to boost the nut-jobs - the anti-vaxers, dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millions of lives,\" he said.\n\nThe PM also promised £340m to the World Health Organization over the next four years - a 30% increase on the previous period, making the UK one of its biggest donors.\n\nRomilly Greenhill, UK director of The One Campaign, which fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, said the British government was showing \"powerful leadership\" at a moment when it \"could not be more important\".\n\n\"It will give the global fight against Covid-19 a shot in the arm, helping ensure everyone, everywhere can access a vaccine.\"", "A defendant in Ohio made a daring escape from the courtroom while being sentenced for a drugs offence.\n\nNickolaus Garrison broke free of the deputies holding him and made a run for it - causing one officer to fly down the stairs head first.\n\nAfter three days at large, Garrison is now back in custody.", "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.", "Police said all 43 regional forces in England and Wales were involved in the raids\n\nMore than 1,000 people have been arrested and an estimated £1.2m worth of drugs seized in a police crackdown on so-called \"county lines\" gangs.\n\nYoung and vulnerable people are used as couriers to move drugs and cash between cities and smaller towns.\n\nPolice said raids in the past week, involving all 43 regional forces in England and Wales, had been the most successful of their kind.\n\nAlmost 200 weapons and £526,000 in cash were also seized.\n\nDuring a week-long operation, police forces also shut down about 10% of the phone lines (102) being used for drug dealing.\n\nCounty lines is the term used to describe criminal gangs who move illegal drugs from big cities to more rural locations and sell them via dedicated mobile phone lines.\n\nIt is a \"business model\" which now dominates the drug trade, according to BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds.\n\nInvestigators said restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic and a better understanding of mobile phone data had helped them target the drug dealers operating the lines.\n\nNikki Holland, director of investigations with the National Crime Agency, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Drugs dealers were a lot more visible on empty trains and on roads that are less busy so it was much easier to be able to spot the drugs dealers.\"\n\nShe added the police forces had worked with phone companies to share intelligence with each other and now had a \"greater understanding\" of how phone lines are used when they are passed on from one group to another.\n\nBy liaising with law enforcement overseas the NCA had been able to \"choke the supply\" of drugs, she said.\n\nClass A drugs, £526,000 in cash and almost 200 weapons were seized\n\nKey to the county lines trade are mobile phone numbers advertised in smaller towns but controlled by gang leaders in cities like London, Birmingham and Liverpool.\n\nThe gangs send bulk text messages to customers informing them of what is on offer, with cocaine and heroin the most common drugs for sale.\n\nGangs then have to transport the drugs to the areas where they are sold, often using young or vulnerable people, who are enticed or threatened into being involved.\n\nThe phones used are usually pay-as-you-go, but police are obtaining communications data from network providers and analysing the calls and texts sent and received to work out who controls the line.\n\nThe evidence is so strong, defendants often plead guilty without going to trial, police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They are made to work in horrific circumstances'\n\nMetropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Graham McNulty, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead for county lines, said: \"We know now what a county lines phone looks like.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the results of the operation were \"hugely impressive\" and tackling county lines was a \"priority\" for the government.\n\nShe said it had invested £25m in the \"crucial work\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to make a \"big bet\" on renewables, turning the UK into the \"Saudi Arabia\" of wind power.\n\nTalking via video link to a roundtable discussion at the UN in New York, he said the country held \"extraordinary potential\" for wind energy.\n\nHe said the UK should embrace a range of new technologies to achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the UN climate conference, known as the COP.\n\nBut because of the coronavirus crisis, the annual gathering will not take place this year. It has instead been postponed until November 2021.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK had an ambitious agenda for the meeting and called on other countries to show similar ambition. He praised the recent pledge by China to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.\n\nMr Johnson reiterated his government's pledge to \"build back greener\" after the Covid-19 pandemic, through a green industrial revolution. He promised to deliver thousands of new jobs in the process.\n\nAs regards wind power, Mr Johnson said: \"We've got huge, huge gusts of wind going around the north of our country - Scotland. Quite extraordinary potential we have for wind.\"\n\nOn the question of new technologies, the prime minister also said he wanted the UK to take the lead in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, in which greenhouse gas emissions are captured from sources such as power stations and then stored underground.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK had \"quite extraordinary potential\" for wind power\n\nMr Johnson said this was a technology he \"barely believed was possible, but I am now a complete evangelist for\".\n\nHe said the country would also be investing in renewable hydrogen fuel technology to provide what he called \"grunt\" for \"trucks, for trains, even perhaps for planes - for vehicles that aren't readily capable of being moved by electric batteries\".\n\nLike many other countries, he said the UK government was also thinking of bringing forward the date for phasing out new petrol and diesel cars. It's thought that date will be 2030, with 2035 for plug-in hybrids - but this has not yet been confirmed. This would help accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles (EVs).\n\nThe government would be continuing its ongoing investments in solar power and nuclear energy: \"I do think nuclear has to be part of the mix,\" the prime minister said.\n\nSomething that might have got a bit lost amongst Mr Johnsons references to the UK not \"lagging on lagging\" or the need to get hydrogen \"grunt\" to power the nation's trucks was just how important the Glasgow conference is.\n\nIt was only at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015 that the world actually agreed that all nations needed to do their bit to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEven as the Paris conference closed, the participants knew the commitments made were not sufficient to meet the UN's stated goal of keeping temperature rises well below 2C.\n\nThat is why they agreed to review their ambitions every five years. The idea is that they will keep raising the bar, doubling down on the efforts to moderate climate change.\n\nMr Johnson's goal today was to urge them to bring the boldest possible carbon cuts at a new meeting marking the anniversary of the Paris agreement on 12 December.\n\nWhat they bring to that meeting will kick off a year of negotiations designed to get them to go even further eleven months later at Glasgow.\n\nSo Mr Johnson was beginning a process that will determine how successful the conference will be and - much more important - will also determine the future direction of global climate.\n\nThe UK plans to invest in hydrogen-powered vehicles\n\nIn addition, homes would have to be improved so that they emit far fewer emissions. \"Putting in lagging, changing the way the windows are configured, all kinds of things - changing the boilers. You can do so much to make a home less carbon-emitting.\n\n\"The UK may sometimes be accused of lagging in some things my friends, but we will never be lagging in lagging.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK's greenhouse gases were 8-10% down in 2020 on previous years. But added: \"The bad news is we've achieved that by sustaining an appalling economic shock in the form of coronavirus.\n\n\"The only way we've done - or we're going to do it - is as you can imagine because our planes aren't flying, our people aren't moving, our cars aren't travelling and our industry isn't producing emissions in the way that it normally would.\"\n\nAt the roundtable, Ursula Van der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said that keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C - considered the gateway to dangerous global warming - was still possible \"if we act quickly and if we act together\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Llanelli will be the first area that is not an entire county to be locked down Image caption: Llanelli will be the first area that is not an entire county to be locked down\n\nThe Welsh Government does not currently have any \"additional financial provision\" for businesses in local lockdown areas, according to the health minister.\n\nVaughan Gething said it was in discussion with the UK government about further support, but said Chancellor Rishi Sunak's statement on Thursday did not set out more cash for businesses affected.\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government's budget was to \"help us survive known threats we do have\".\n\nHe called on the UK government for a \"further package\".", "The Always Home Cam covers up its camera when not in flight\n\nAmazon's smart home security division Ring has unveiled a flying camera that launches if sensors detect a potential home break-in.\n\nIt is designed to activate only when residents are out, works indoors, and is limited to one floor of a building.\n\nThe firm also unveiled an online games-streaming service and a voice-activated screen that swivels about.\n\nBut one campaign group described the drone camera as Amazon's \"most chilling home surveillance product\" yet.\n\n\"It's difficult to imagine why Amazon thinks anyone wants flying internet cameras linked up to a data-gathering company in the privacy of their own home,\" said Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch.\n\n\"It's important to acknowledge the influence that Amazon's product development is having on communities and the growing surveillance market.\"\n\nWhen the Always Home Cam is triggered by a suspected break-in, owners will get a smartphone alert to let them see live footage.\n\nAmazon said that privacy had been \"top of mind\" when the machine was designed.\n\n\"It only reports when it's in motion, and when it's not in motion it actually sits in a dock where it's physically blocked from even being able to report,\" explained Leila Rouhi, president of Ring.\n\n\"In addition to that, it's built to be loud, so it's really privacy that you can hear.\"\n\nThe drone's rotor blades are inside a cage, which could help protect pets\n\nThe device is set to cost $250 (£192) when it goes on sale. At launch, it will only be available in the US.\n\n\"The Always Home Cam is an incredibly ambitious device that will seem like something from a science fiction movie for many consumers,\" commented Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"I expect it to generate a huge amount of interest from technology enthusiasts who are typically the people who embrace smart home technology first. However, it is also likely to provoke a huge discussion around privacy and the future role of technology in the home.\"\n\nThe Ring division also unveiled a new security camera designed for use in a car, which monitors for nearby activity when the vehicle is parked.\n\nIt can also start recording video if a driver is pulled over while on a journey, potentially allowing them to record an interaction with the police.\n\nRing's business has previously been criticised because it has encouraged users to share their recordings with the authorities. This has prompted claims that it is normalising surveillance technologies that can intrude on people's lives.\n\nThe division claims its existing products - including video doorbells, indoor video cameras, and smart alarm systems - have helped make neighbourhoods safer.\n\nGlobal consumer spending on smart home products is expected to fall about 15% this year to $44bn (£24.5bn) due to the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. But it predicts a rebound in 2021.\n\nAmazon's rivals have previously accused it of anti-competitive behaviour by selling its products at a lower price than they cost to make, in order to secure market share.\n\nWhen questioned about sales of the firm's Echo speakers in July, chief executive Jeff Bezos said the firm did not lose money on the range when they were sold at \"list price\", but acknowledged they were often on promotion at a lower cost.\n\nAmazon's other big announcement was the launch of its long-rumoured cloud-based games-streaming service.\n\nLuna will run games on remote computer servers so that players do not need to buy a console or other dedicated devices beyond a controller.\n\nIts Luna+ channel will offer access to a selection of older games such as Control, Resident Evil: Biohazard, Sonic Mania and Metro: Exodus for $6 a month.\n\nMany gamers may be more interested in the forthcoming \"Ubisoft channel\", which will include the publisher's next Assassin's Creed game among other blockbuster releases. The monthly cost of the Ubisoft channel has yet to be disclosed.\n\nThe Luna Controller will cost extra on top of the service's subscription fee\n\nAt launch, Luna will work with Amazon's own Fire TV dongles, Windows and MacOS computers, as well as on iPhones and iPads via the web browser.\n\nSupport for iPhones and iPads is notable as Apple has restricted other high-profile games-streaming services that did not obey its App Store rules.\n\nLuna will compete with Google Stadia, which launched about a year ago and has struggled to establish itself in a busy marketplace.\n\nXbox Game Pass, PlayStation Now, Apple Arcade and EA Play are among other subscription services competing for players' money and attention.\n\nThe Luna controller connects directly to the wi-fi\n\nHowever, Amazon has the advantage of owning the hugely popular Twitch platform, where people watch each other play. This could help it promote Luna.\n\n\"Amazon is allowing third-party channels on Luna, but at an additional cost to the user,\" commented Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis.\n\nHe added that this was the opposite strategy to Microsoft, which had recently revealed it was bundling EA Play with the ultimate edition of its Xbox Game Pass without raising its price.\n\n\"Amazon's approach is commercially more sustainable and flexible,\" Mr Harding-Rolls concluded.\n\nUsers in parts of the US are the only ones able to sign up for \"early access\" at this time.\n\nIt is easy to forget how quickly drone technology has developed.\n\nAlways Home Cam is straight out of a 1980s science-fiction movie. But this is 2020, and the technology for flying security drones is here.\n\nThe Always Home Cam (l) is launched from a dock and streams live video to a smartphone\n\nFor years, Amazon has been using drones to try to speed up its delivery network. And in the past, its patents have suggested these could also provide a surveillance service.\n\nBut using drones for security inside the home is a new development.\n\nThere are general worries that this is the thin end of a wedge.\n\nFuture products might include Ring drones that operate around your house at times other than a suspected burglary - maybe there will even be guard drones in the future.\n\nOther announcements during Amazon's virtual event included a revamp for the firm's Echo and smaller Echo Dot smart speakers, which now come in spherical designs.\n\nThe devices can now recognise when a child is speaking to them and adapt their responses accordingly - for example selecting \"kid-friendly\" songs when asked to play music.\n\nThe new Amazon Echo is spherical and covered in cloth\n\nThe firm said that a new computer chip inside would allow more artificial intelligence-related tasks to be processed locally, meaning responses to commands and questions could be given more quickly.\n\nAmazon also launched a new version of its Echo Show 10 smart screen, which can now rotate to stay facing its users as they move about. In addition, the built-in camera has been upgraded to a 13-megapixel component to allow it to digitally zoom in and track users.\n\nThis should help the machine keep the owner in view during a video chat, and mirrors the capabilities of Facebook's rival Portal product.\n\nThe device will also add support for Zoom video calls and Netflix, as well as retaining Amazon's proprietary services and Skype.\n\nThe Echo Show 10 can swivel and face the person who is speaking to it\n\nAmazon added that Alexa's voice would soon sound more natural, by adding pauses for Alexa to take a \"breath\".\n\nAnd it said the virtual assistant would soon become better at recognising when customers were talking to it and when they were talking to each other, after it had been activated by a wake word.\n\nThis should help it avoid responding to speech that is not directed at it.\n\nAmazon Echo is forecast to have 11.6 million smart speaker users in the UK by the end of 2020, according to research firm eMarketer. By contrast, it says the nearest competitor Google Home would have 3.7 million.\n• None Why Amazon knows so much about you", "London's local authority areas have not appeared in the watch-list before\n\nLondon has been added to the government's Covid-19 watch-list following a rise in cases in the city, officials have said.\n\nAll boroughs have been classed as areas of concern, but no additional restrictions have been announced.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the city was at \"a worrying tipping point\" with hospital admissions increasing.\n\nCouncils in the city have urged residents to abide by current restrictions.\n\nThe watch-list, published each week, categorises local councils seeing a higher infection rate as \"areas of concern\", \"areas of enhanced support\" or \"areas of intervention\".\n\nTighter restrictions are usually introduced for areas in the third category.\n\nEarlier on Friday, London Councils - the group representing all 33 local authorities in the city - announced the city would be joining the list, saying it was a \"stark reminder\" to residents they must follow new rules announced this week.\n\nThe organisation called for a sustained boost to Covid-19 testing in the capital so infections can be monitored.\n\nSadiq Khan said the city had seen \"a sharp rise\" in NHS 111 calls, hospital admissions and patients in intensive care due to coronavirus\n\nMr Khan said testing capacity had been \"diverted away\" from the capital to other national hotspots, causing the number of tests in the city to drop by 43%.\n\n\"The lack of testing capacity is totally unacceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"It's vital that testing capacity is increased immediately in London and focused in the areas it is needed most. Any delay will mean letting the city down and will cost lives.\"\n\nThe most recent daily figures showed 584 coronavirus cases were reported across London. In the week to 21 September, Redbridge had the highest infection rate per 100,000 residents compared with other boroughs, at 55.4.", "Tesco has become the latest supermarket to place limits on the number of items shoppers can buy, following a similar move by rival Morrisons.\n\nIt now has a three-items per customer limit on flour, dried pasta, toilet roll, baby wipes and some wet wipes.\n\nThe supermarkets are acting to prevent a repeat of the panic-buying that led to shortages in March.\n\nThe managing director of Iceland told the BBC he is urging shoppers to \"calm down and carry on as normal\".\n\nRichard Walker said his supermarket chain was not currently considering limiting purchases on any lines. He said there had been a small uptick in interest in the \"usual suspect products\" like toilet roll, but it was \"nothing like last time\".\n\nMr Walker said that, in March and April, this had resulted in elderly and vulnerable people, as well as NHS workers, being faced with empty shelves. He described panic buying as socially divisive, only an option to those who can afford it.\n\nTesco said it had \"introduced bulk-buy limits on a small number of products\".\n\nIt said this was to \"ensure that everyone can keep buying what they need\".\n\n\"We have good availability, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe supermarket has introduced additional limits for a small number of products online, such as rice and canned veg.\n\nMorrisons introduced a limit of three items per customer on some ranges on Thursday, including toilet rolls and disinfectant products.\n\nIt said stock levels \"were good\", but it wanted to \"make sure they were available for everyone\".\n\nIn March, UK supermarkets were forced to take steps to prevent shoppers from panic-buying around the height of the pandemic.\n\nMany introduced limits on the number of certain items that customers could buy, such as flour, pasta or toilet roll.\n\nEnhanced measures introduced in recent weeks have not triggered stock-piling by customers, according to several supermarkets approached by the BBC earlier this week.Tesco joins Morrisons to limit sales of some items\n\nAsda said it still had good availability in-store and online, while Waitrose said it had \"good levels\" of stock and that it had also looked at the items people bought early in lockdown and planned ahead accordingly.\n\n\"We would like to reassure customers that there is no need to worry about buying more than they need,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said supply chains were good and has urged consumers to \"shop as you normally would\".\n\nDirector of food and sustainability at the BRC, Andrew Opie, said: \"Supply chains are stronger than ever before and we do not anticipate any issues in the availability of food or other goods under a future lockdown.\n\n\"Nonetheless, we urge consumers to be considerate of others.\"\n\nAldi boss Giles Hurley has written to customers saying: \"There is no need to buy more than you usually would. I would like to reassure you that our stores remain fully stocked and ask that you continue to shop considerately.\"", "The 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nA long-serving police officer shot dead in a custody centre in south London has been named as Sgt Matiu Ratana.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Ratana, known as Matt, was shot in the chest in Croydon as a suspect, who was still in handcuffs, was being checked in.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick described the 54-year-old as \"talented officer\" who was \"big in heart\".\n\nAfter the shooting at about 02:15 BST the suspect, 23, is then thought to have shot himself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick paid tribute to Sgt Ratana, saying he was \"big in stature, big in heart\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the man was arrested on suspicion of possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply and possession of ammunition.\n\nHe is currently in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nPolice officers have been arriving at Croydon Police Station to pay their respects\n\nThe IOPC confirmed he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and had been taken to the custody centre in a police vehicle, before being escorted into the building.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect, who was still handcuffed, with a metal detector, the IOPC said.\n\n\"A non-police issue firearm, which appears to be a revolver, has been recovered from the scene. Further ballistic work will be required,\" said IOPC regional director Sal Naseem.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA minute's silence was held at 16:00 BST at New Scotland Yard and Croydon Police Station to pay tribute to Sgt Ratana, who was heavily involved in rugby coaching when he was not working.\n\nHe would have been eligible for retirement in just two months.\n\n\"Matt spent very nearly 30 years as a uniformed police officer serving the public of London,\" said Dame Cressida.\n\n\"He will be remembered so fondly in Croydon and missed there, as well as in the Met and the rugby world,\" she said.\n\nShe added that he \"leaves a partner and he leaves an adult son from a previous relationship. Our thoughts are with them.\"\n\nSgt Ratana joined the Met in 1991, having moved to the UK in 1989.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boy's High School's, a town north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nThe officer has been described as a professional and inspirational colleague\n\nHe served in various parts of London including Hackney and Selhurst, with his last posting as custody sergeant in Croydon, where he managed suspects who are brought into the cells.\n\n\"He worked in our detention command at Croydon but frequently volunteered for duty in custody suites across London,\" Dame Cressida added.\n\nSgt Ratana had led rugby teams in Worthing, close to Goring-by-Sea where he then lived and in East Grinstead, where he was living when he died.\n\nRyan Morlen, assistant head coach at East Grinstead Rugby Club, described him as \"an absolutely lovely bloke\".\n\n\"He is a bloke who is just so passionate about what he does - it does not matter whether you're the most talented or least talented, he will treat you equal,\" he said.\n\nSgt Ratana had taken part in weightlifting competitions\n\nEarlier, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said it was believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police.\n\nHe had been referred to the anti-extremism \"Prevent\" programme, though the Met said the murder inquiry was not being treated as terrorism-related.\n\nThe Met said a murder investigation was under way, but the shooting was not being treated as a counter-terrorism incident.\n\nDame Cressida said she understood \"the great concern about how this happened\" and that officers \"will establish the facts\".\n\n\"We owe it to Matt, his loved ones and all other officers. But we need to give investigators space to do their job,\" she said.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan earlier said the police were currently \"reviewing the safety of custody suites\" and \"there could be changes very soon\".\n\nTributes have been left outside Croydon Police Station\n\nPolice officers and members of the public have been arriving at Croydon Police Station during the day to lay tributes.\n\nThe owner of a gym in Lancing, Sussex, told the BBC how Sgt Ratana had helped when his business was going through financial difficulty.\n\nNeil Donohue, 54, said: \"He came in one day and gave me 200 quid out of the blue, I said no no, I can't accept that and gave it back to him.\n\n\"But the next day he wired it into my account. That's the sort of guy he was.\"\n\nA number of police officers have been turning their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respects.\n\nJohn Davies, a retired officer who worked with Sgt Ratana when he was based in Hillingdon, said he was \"a truly remarkable, strong and unique individual\" who \"left an impression on all those he came into contact with\".\n\nEast Grinstead RFC also released a tribute to their \"much-loved\" head coach.\n\n\"Matt was an inspiring and much-loved figure at the club and there are truly no words to describe how we are feeling,\" said Bob Marsh, the club's chairman, and the club's president Andy Poole.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank are expecting a baby early next year, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nA tweet from the Royal Family account said the couple were \"very pleased\" to announce the news.\n\nIt added: \"The Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York, Mr and Mrs George Brooksbank, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh are delighted with the news.\"\n\nPosting a photo of herself and her husband on Instagram alongside another of some baby shoes, the princess said the couple were \"so excited\".\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 princesseugenie 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\nMessages of congratulation for the expectant parents have included one from Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe couple's baby will be the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's ninth great-grandchild. Their eighth - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor - was born last May.\n\nEugenie's parents, Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, will become grandparents for the first time.\n\nThe baby boy or girl will be born 11th in line to the throne.\n\nBecause the child will be born down a female line of the Royal Family - and drinks executive Mr Brooksbank has no royal status - he or she will be plain Master or Miss Brooksbank, with no royal title.\n\nThis could change if the Queen decided to give Mr Brooksbank an earldom or issue Letters Patent to amend the rules.\n\nThe Royal Family were out in force at the couple's wedding in 2018\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Mr Brooksbank - who is European brand manager for Casamigos Tequila, co-founded by George Clooney - met when skiing in Switzerland in 2010.\n\nTheir wedding was watched on an extended episode of ITV's This Morning by an average of three million people, giving the channel its best ratings for the timeslot since William and Kate's marriage in 2011.\n\nCelebrities including Cara Delevingne and Robbie Williams were among the 850 guests, with an additional 1,200 members of the public invited to follow proceedings from the grounds.\n\nThe bride asked for a low back to show her scar\n\nPrincess Eugenie's wedding dress - designed by Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos - featured a low back, at her request, to show a scar from surgery she had to correct scoliosis when she was 12.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, acted as pageboy and bridesmaid.\n\nThe beaming couple celebrated at a private evening dinner at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte, were among the bridesmaids and page boys at Eugenie's wedding\n\nEugenie's sister, Princess Beatrice, married her property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, at a small private ceremony in Windsor in July. She had been due to marry in May but coronavirus delayed the plans.", "There's a new acronym to add to Whitehall's alphabet soup of projects designed to soothe the harsh impacts of coronavirus.\n\nAfter CBILS, JRS (and many more) comes JSS - the Job Support Scheme - another policy put together by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nIt follows many weeks of calls for a replacement for furlough - the eye-wateringly expensive support system that saw a Tory chancellor decide to use public money to pay the wages of millions of people to prevent economic disaster.\n\nMr Sunak was always determined to resist demands just to extend the scheme, or Labour's push for carrying on supporting certain parts of the economy. And he has stuck to that.\n\nInstead, there's a scheme where employers will make the call as to whether or not their firms have a future beyond the pandemic - whether the sums add up to keep going in a time of economic distress in the hope of better times on the other side.\n\nThe plan is designed to stop the country waking up to a nightmare of mass unemployment.\n\nIn normal times it would be a huge step to take, with potentially a very hefty price tag. But nothing is normal right now.\n\nThe government has made a political choice to shrink the support that's been available under furlough. There's no pretence that jobs won't go.\n\nThe scheme is quite complicated and employers will be doing their sums to see if it's really worth their while.\n\nWhile the government took most of the burden under furlough, that's swung back to employers in a big way. And the Treasury won't officially put a number on how many jobs it hopes to save, or how many business will take up the offer.\n\nUnofficially there's an estimate in government that between two and five million people are likely to have their incomes topped up.\n\nAt the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, that is a vast range. If the scheme is the difference between jobs surviving or not, that spectrum of numbers suggests how little we can predict about the likely scale of unemployment in the months to come.\n\nWe know nothing at the moment about how the government proposes to pay the costs of all this in the years to come. But it is likely to be some time, not just months, before the public, or the public services, are asked truly to start to shoulder the costs.\n\nThe chancellor said it had been a hard decision to end furlough. It was always in fact his intention to do so, but in this announcement, the Treasury has publicly faced up to the reality that the costs of Covid will not be temporary.\n\nAll talk of a \"bounce back\", a rapid return to something like economic normality, has gone rapidly out of fashion.\n\nIt is only four months since the chancellor was reluctant even to admit we were in recession. But with cases on the rise, limits on our lives being rolled back in, there is no hiding now.\n• None What's the guidance for Covid in the UK now?", "Police patrol Soho in London, after ministers told pubs and restaurants to close earlier from Thursday\n\nMore than 40 Conservative MPs are backing an attempt to increase parliamentary scrutiny over further coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nSenior Tory Sir Graham Brady has tabled an amendment that would see the House of Commons debate and vote on any future such measures.\n\nIt comes as MPs prepare to consider government legislation that will keep Covid-19 emergency powers in force.\n\nThe government said it was consulting MPs on public health measures.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act - which was passed in March - gave ministers emergency powers to respond to the pandemic but they were time-limited and need to be renewed by the House of Commons next week.\n\nBut a number of MPs are worried about how restrictions - including the limiting of pub and restaurant opening hours and the ban on meetings of more than six people - are being imposed.\n\nSir Graham, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, has argued that too much power has been left in ministers' hands, with too little scrutiny.\n\nThe list of MPs who have signed up to back Sir Graham's amendment covers a wide spectrum from those newly elected last year, through to some committee chairs and former ministers.\n\nSenior Tory Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said: \"It's disgraceful that really very far-reaching powers, curtailing people's civil liberties, have just been pushed through without a proper debate in Parliament.\"\n\nFormer minister Tobias Ellwood also backed the amendment, tweeting that six months after the act was passed it was time for \"parliamentary oversight to return\".\n\nThe amendment may not end up being debated or put to a vote when MPs consider the legislation next week.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Helen Catt said that the number of Tory rebels suggested a real possibility of defeat for Prime Minister Boris Johnson - whose Commons majority is just under 80 - if it does go to a vote.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers understood MPs and their constituents \"would be concerned about coronavirus\".\n\nThey added that the government continued to \"work closely with MPs\" and was happy to be held to account.", "The EU's Margrethe Vestager says the appeal will go before the European Court of Justice\n\nThe European Commission plans to appeal against a ruling that Apple does not have to pay 13bn euros (£11.6bn) in back taxes to Ireland.\n\nThe EU's General Court had ruled in July there was no evidence Apple had broken any rules on tax paid there.\n\nIreland never disputed the arrangement but the European Commission, which brought the case, argued it enabled Apple to avoid taxes on EU revenues.\n\nThe EU said paying the correct amount of tax was \"a top priority\".\n\nIn 2016, a court ruled that Apple had indeed been given illegal tax breaks by Dublin - but this was overturned in July 2020.\n\nThe European Commission claimed Ireland had allowed Apple to attribute nearly all its EU earnings to an Irish head office that existed only on paper, thereby avoiding paying tax on EU revenues.\n\nIreland has always said Apple's tax bill was in line with its regulations.\n\nEU executive vice-president and competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, said in a statement: \"If member states give certain multinational companies tax advantages not available to their rivals, this harms fair competition in the European Union in breach of state aid rules.\n\n\"We need to continue our efforts to put in place the right legislation to address loopholes and ensure transparency.\"\n\nA new appeal will now go before a higher court, the European Court of Justice.", "The governor of the Bank of England has called for the government to \"stop and rethink\" the furlough scheme.\n\nThe Job Retention Scheme is due to finish at the end of next month.\n\nBut speaking on a webinar hosted by the British Chambers of Commerce, Andrew Bailey suggested specific sectors may benefit from further help.\n\nThere are fears unemployment could spike when the furlough scheme ends, as firms struggle to retain workers.\n\nIn August, Mr Bailey told the BBC he backed ending the scheme, saying workers should be helped to move on rather than stay in unproductive jobs.\n\nBut on Tuesday, he suggested he was now open-minded about further intervention.\n\nHe said the furlough scheme \"has been successful\" and that he supported the chancellor's decisions, not wanting to \"tie his hands\".\n\nBut he added: \"We have moved from a world of generalised employment protections, to specific and focused areas.\"\n\nMr Bailey noted that at the peak of the crisis, about 30% of private sector employers were using the furlough scheme, but it was now used most heavily by industries such as hospitality, retail and culture.\n\n\"[Furlough] has helped manage the shock, to firms and to labour [but now] the use of it, as far as we can tell, is more concentrated,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it is therefore sensible to stop and rethink the approach going forward, without any commitment to what that might be.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn and Beefeater, announced plans to cut 6,000 staff just days after the furlough scheme is due to end in October. Meanwhile, Wetherspoon said it would shed up to 450 workers at pubs in airports.\n\nAnd Mr Bailey's comments were made just hours before the Prime Minister Boris Johnson took to his feet in the Commons to reinstate guidance that office workers stay at home and confirm that pubs and restaurants will be forced to close at 22:00 from Thursday.\n\nUK Hospitality said the move was \"effectively a lockdown\" for city centre bars and restaurants.\n\n\"This is a huge, huge blow to hospitality and it will be potentially fatal for many businesses,\" it said.\n\nMr Bailey's comments echo the opinion of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who has called on the government not to remove all support in one go.", "Hilda Robles at her home in San Antonio\n\nMinority communities in the US and elsewhere have sometimes turned to traditional money saving methods outside the formal banking system. The economic shock from the coronavirus pandemic could spur renewed interest in those savings clubs.\n\nWhen Hilda Robles recalls her first years in America, tears come to her eyes.\n\n\"I cried and even wanted to leave at one point because I felt alone,\" she says. \"I would ask people for help and they couldn't help me because they didn't understand Spanish and I didn't understand English.\"\n\nWhen she came to San Antonio, Texas some 20 years ago, even daily duties like getting to work or going to the doctor were feats of bilingual diplomacy and logistical planning - she had no car, no English and almost no one to turn to for help.\n\nOpening a bank account seemed impossible. \"When I stepped into a bank for the first time, I was told I couldn't open a bank account because I had no social security number,\" she says.\n\n\"Someone told me about a bank where I could open an account with no social security number, but the language barrier stopped me from going.\"\n\nHilda Robles moved to San Antonio about two decades ago\n\nSo Ms Robles, 49, went a different route - she started a tanda, an informal savings club popular in Latin America, with contributions from her extended relatives.\n\nMembers of the club each contribute a fixed sum to a pool of money on a regular, periodic schedule, with the lump sum going to one member each round until everyone gets paid.\n\nThis means that members get back what they put in over the course of the scheme, but by getting it in the form of a lump sum, the money can be put to use for purchases, investments or debt payments they otherwise could not afford. Members who get their \"hand\" early are effectively receiving an interest-free loan, while those who receive theirs later in the cycle are essentially withdrawing a lump of \"saved\" cash.\n\nWith the $5,000 lump sum she received for her turn of her tanda, Ms Robles bought her first car. Her relatives and friends in the savings club were able to put down payments on houses, pay for university tuition - and now, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, survive when their families have been out of work or sick.\n\nSince that first savings club 14 years ago, Ms Robles has run them continuously with only a few months break to organise the next one.\n\n\"It gives me a lot of joy to see people reach their goals because of the tandas without having to drown in debt from loans,\" she says. \"It's proof that among us Hispanics, we can get ahead here.\"\n\nHispanic-Americans are not alone in their use of this ancient savings mechanism that has parallels all over the globe, known generally as a rotating savings and credit association, or roscas.\n\nIn Mexico, they are popularly called tandas, but they are also known as huis, susus or ballot committees in various parts of the world. Immigrant communities continue their practice in the US.\n\nAs economic hardship accompanies the public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, for some families, traditional methods of saving outside the banking system have become a lifeline, especially for hard-hit immigrant communities with little access to mainstream sources of capital.\n\nFinancial access and security in America has become an increasingly pressing subject of discussion in 2020. Even before the pandemic, the US was behind other rich countries when it comes to accessing money and credit.\n\nSome seven percent of Americans over the age of 15 did not have any kind of bank accounts in the US in 2017, compared to less than one percent of Canadians, and less than four percent of Britons, according to the World Bank.\n\nA quarter of American adults - more than 80 million people - were \"unbanked\" or \"underbanked\", meaning either that they had no accounts entirely, or that they are forced to use alternative services besides traditional banks in order to get enough financial access to meet goals or obligations.\n\nTandas allow members to save money in order to receive an eventual lump sum\n\nHouseholds most likely to fall into the two categories were black or Hispanic, lack university qualifications and to be poor. To access loans, they must sometimes turn to non-bank lending options like payday lenders or loan sharks.\n\nThese shadow banking options can be risky, charge high interests and bring dire consequences for borrowers who struggle to pay - but a rosca can provide a safer, more trustworthy alternative.\n\n\"These systems are actually useful when we have bank systems that have a finite possibility,\" says Caroline Hossein, a professor of business and social studies at York University who studies roscas in communities in Canada.\n\n\"Banks only have a certain amount of money, and if you only have a certain amount of money, you're only going to dish it out to those that are less risky.\n\n\"So it makes perfect sense that people would engage in these kinds of mutual aid or money pooling systems.\"\n\nOften, they are run by women, whom Dr Hossein calls the \"banker ladies\" of the community.\n\n\"The banker lady, who might be the one organising it - you can be in touch with her anytime of day, it may be someone who lives in your neighbourhood so [there's] the ease of getting there.\n\n\"The paperwork is not as treacherous as it would be as a formal bank, so there's a kind of kinship that exists because it's people who voluntarily like and know each other.\"\n\nThough they tend to be \"more of a life line for people who have difficulty accessing banking, particularly on the lending side,\" such savings schemes are also used by more established members of communities who may have inherited knowledge about them from immigrant parents.\n\nBeyond access to a pool of money, \"a primary benefit is building 'bonds of mutual trust' within a network of trustworthy people,\" says Lee Martin of the University of California, Davis. Roscas are primarily beneficial for people without access to mainstream forms of credit, he says.\n\nBut because they are used by marginalised communities, studying their overall prevalence and use has been difficult, says Dr Hossein, who participates in a rosca - known as a su-su in her Afro-Carribean community - as part of her research.\n\n\"A lot of these roscas, particularly in places like Canada, the US or Europe, tend to be underground,\" she says, because many worry that the endeavour is seen as an unrespectable or even an illicit form of financing, only for those who are short of options. Clearly, unlike a savings account, they do not generate interest.\n\nYet economists believe they are probably quite common in the West. One survey of Korean-American garment business owners in Los Angeles from 2004 found that 77% of households had participated in a version of the lending scheme.\n\nSelf-lending within communities can have unexpected benefits. A rosca-like system among Chinese immigrants in Spain, for example, helped expatriate businessmen weather the Euro crisis of the late 2000s and 2010s.\n\nThe Chinese business community was \"largely insulated from the vagaries of the country's tottering retail banking system\" - precisely because the system that shut them out meant they turned to each other, reported the Financial Times in 2014.\n\nIn the 2020 Covid-19 crisis, families who participated in the tanda Ms Robles is running were able to pay their bills when some fell ill and could not work.\n\nFor most, it was their only source of cash, Ms Robles says - only one of the families has received a cheque from the government for coronavirus relief because they lack the papers to get onto the dole.\n\nLike any investment scheme, however, roscas are not risk-free. A participant could fail to pay their hand, or take their share and run.\n\nMs Robles says there have been rare times that she misplaced a contribution and had to make up the difference out of her own pocket, which can be costly.\n\nAs they operate on trust, usually within a deeply connected community, the social consequences of misdeeds dissuades wrong-doing.\n\nBut since they are run by privately, there is little legal recourse for cheating. And unlike putting money in a bank savings account, there is no interest paid.\n\nCould roscas catch on and become more mainstream? The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia asked just such a question in 2006, but was sceptical given the depth of trust it would require.\n\nAn attempt by Yahoo Finance to popularise a tanda app in 2018 was unsuccessful. The scheme shut down after only a few months due to, it would seem, lack of participation.\n\nThere are two big hurdles, as Dr Hossein sees it - the stigma attached to a non-traditional financial tool used by ethnic minority communities, and the barrier in trust that must be surmounted to put one's faith in other people to handle money.\n\nBut with the Covid-19 pandemic, a younger generation of North Americans with an interest in sharing resources and the technology to do so efficiently - from crowdfunding to forms of \"caremongering\" - roscas are bound to be a savings method that continue and evolve and expand.\n\nFor Mayra Martinez, 30, a university administration professional in Dallas, Texas, being in tandas has helped her learn about trust and foster a sense of obligation to save, which can otherwise be hard for young people like herself she says.\n\n\"It's not like your commitment to yourself, where you can easily say 'hmm, I'm not going to do that this month because I just don't want to,\" she says.\n\nIt is an added layer of security in an economic world that has been particularly unpredictable for young professionals, which Ms Martinez says she has seen first-hand - her sister and brother-in-law each recently tested positive for Covid-19 and could not work.\n\n\"She just happened to get her tanda this week,\" says Ms Martinez. Because of that, Ms Martinez says, her sister was able to tell her husband: \"It's ok\".\n\nThe tanda Ms Martinez is involved in now consists of family members from all generations and is run by her mother.\n\nWould she ever take over and start one for her own cohort of siblings and cousins once the older generations retire from such schemes?\n\n\"I wouldn't mind running one,\" she says, adding with a laugh, \"but it depends on which cousins.\"", "Brusthom Ziamani had written a four-page letter spelling out his \"expectation of immediate martyrdom\", jurors heard\n\nTwo prisoners wore fake suicide belts as they tried to kill a prison officer in a terrorist attack at a maximum security jail, a jury has heard.\n\nTerror convict Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and radicalised Baz Hockton, 26, attacked Neil Trundle at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nProsecutors said the pair launched the \"carefully planned\" attack using makeshift weapons \"painstakingly constructed\" from limited materials.\n\nAnnabel Darlow QC told jurors the men wore imitation suicide belts and shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" - God is greatest - during the attack on 9 January.\n\nWhen another officer approached to intervene, Ziamani opened up his jacket to expose the fake suicide belt, and said: \"I've got a bomb,\" jurors were told.\n\nMs Darlow said: \"Both men strenuously and forcefully resisted all efforts to restrain them and after the attack Mr Ziamani attempted to barricade himself into his cell.\n\n\"It is the prosecution case that the defendants were motivated to commit the attack by extremist Islamic ideology. It was a terrorist attack,\" she said.\n\nBaz Hockton was radicalised in prison, jurors were told\n\nMs Darlow said items used in the attack on Mr Trundle included a \"shank\" - an improvised stabbing implement - formed from \"lumps of twisted metal\" covered in fabric.\n\nShe said the defendants had planned to lure their target to a store cupboard \"on the pretext of asking a prison officer to fetch a spoon\".\n\nA nurse and prison officer who attempted to intervene were both attacked and injured by Mr Ziamani, the court was told.\n\nA prison officer was attacked at HMP Whitemoor in January, the court was told.\n\nExtremist writings were recovered from both men, including a four-page letter handwritten by Ziamani spelling out his \"expectation of immediate martyrdom\" and \"strong belief in violent jihad\", jurors heard.\n\nThe prosecutor said Hockton had registered his Islamic faith at HMP Whitemoor but that had been \"corrupted into extremism\".\n\nMaterial was recovered his cell which set out his desire to become a martyr, the court was told.\n\nJurors were told that told that an alternative count of inflicting wounding with intent in relation to Prison Officer Trundle is available for Mr Ziamani.\n\nThe alternative charge need only be considered if the jury acquit him of attempted murder.\n\nMr Hockton has already pleaded guilty to that alternative offence, thereby accepting that he intended to cause really serious harm to Mr Trundle, but not accepting that he intended to kill him.\n\nMr Ziamani has pleaded guilty to assaulting the female prison officer and the nurse, the court was told.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dark web \"is not a fairy tale\" said Europol\n\nPolice forces around the world have seized more than $6.5m (£5m) in cash and virtual currencies, as well as drugs and guns in a co-ordinated raid on dark web marketplaces.\n\nSome 179 people were arrested across Europe and the US, and 500kg (1,102lb) of drugs and 64 guns confiscated.\n\nIt ends the \"golden age\" of these underground marketplaces, Europol said.\n\n\"The hidden internet is no longer hidden\", said Edvardas Sileris, head of Europol's cyber-crime centre.\n\nThe operation, known as DisrupTor, was a joint effort between the Department of Justice and Europol. It is believed that the criminals engaged in tens of thousands of sales of illicit goods and services across the US and Europe.\n\nOf those arrested 119 were based in the US, two in Canada, 42 in Germany, eight in the Netherlands, four in the UK, three in Austria and one in Sweden.\n\nPolice are getting better at targeting operations on the dark web - a part of the internet that is accessible only through specialised tools. This latest raid follows the takedown of the Wall Street market last year, which was then thought to be the second-largest illegal online market on the dark web.\n\nMr Sileris said: \"Law enforcement is most effective when working together, and today's announcement sends a strong message to criminals selling or buying illicit goods on the dark web: the hidden internet is no longer hidden and your anonymous activity is not anonymous.\"\n\n\"With the spike in opioid-related overdose deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic, we recognise that today's announcement is important and timely,\" said FBI director Christopher Wray.\n\nKacey Clark, a researcher at dark web monitoring specialist Digital Shadows said: \"This is another further blow to organised cybercrime. The operation which took down the AlphaBay and Hansa marketplaces three years ago spooked cyber criminals, since it resulted in many follow up prosecutions as law enforcement pieced evidence together - often many months later.\n\n\"Wall Street market emerged from these ashes and was the most significant one in existence at the time. It would appear that law enforcement has followed the same pattern and that is why we are seeing arrests today.\"\n\nWill this truly herald the \"end of the golden era of dark web marketplaces\"?\n\nIn the short-term there could be a big impact. This operation follows other recent incidents that have shaken trust in dark web stores.\n\nLast month, another popular marketplace called Empire came to an abrupt close after a suspected \"exit scam\".\n\nIt's thought the administrators made off with members' funds, leaving customers' wallets empty and vendors needing to rebuild their shops somewhere else.\n\nThree other major sites have also been linked to exit scams in the last 12 months. So, the police operation comes at a time when many people may already be questioning their shopping habits.\n\nHowever, as we've seen in the past with big takedowns like AlphaBay, the lure of buying drugs and other illegal items on the internet means there will always be a market.\n\nOther sites will try to boost their security and anonymity, and it's likely more marketplaces will sprout up, potentially using even more innovative techniques to make it harder for law enforcement to find them.", "If Boris Johnson had decreed a year ago that he was going to call last orders on the pub at 10pm, the ravens might have left the Tower.\n\nBut given the terrible warnings from the government's top scientists on Monday, the kind of strict measures that ministers had been discussing - and the extent of restrictions that many people are already living with in some of our towns and cities - you might wonder if what the prime minister has ended up deciding is less stringent than it might have been.\n\nAs we have talked about many times, Downing Street is all too aware of the economic havoc the restrictions around the pandemic have caused.\n\nLogically, therefore, it has always only wanted to take action when it has felt absolutely urgent. It is also the case that, as we enter a second surge, more is understood about the virus itself.\n\nThat means the government ought to be able to take a more sophisticated approach to managing the spread, rather than blunt, blunderbuss nationwide measures.\n\nAt least for now, the prime minister has concluded there is a narrow but real chance to put the brakes on the outbreak before taking more draconian steps.\n\nSomething else has changed, though. There were strong voices in government arguing for more immediate action, wondering whether it was right to take steps rather than strides towards tougher controls.\n\nBut the political mood has shifted. It's not just that the chancellor worked to persuade Mr Johnson to stop short of full closures of anything yet, evidently with some success.\n\nNot just that, as one cabinet minister worried, dramatic restrictions would be \"hellishly unpopular\".\n\nAnd the atmosphere among Conservative MPs has changed too, with prominent backbenchers urging more caution, and complaining fiercely about how decisions have been made.\n\nFrom the broad smile of one of them, strolling in the sunshine outside Parliament on Monday, \"they seem to have started to listen\", confident that after a bumpy few weeks, MPs' pushing had started to have an effect.\n\nYet the prime minister, by his own admission, accepts the government did not understand enough, quickly enough at the start.\n\nUltimately the results of the decisions taken at the start of this second surge will be chalked up by his name.", "China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping has announced.\n\nMr Xi outlined the steps when speaking via videolink to the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nThe announcement is being seen as a significant step in the fight against climate change.\n\nChina is the world's biggest source of carbon dioxide, responsible for around 28% of global emissions.\n\nWith global climate negotiations stalled and this year's conference of the parties (COP26) postponed until 2021, there had been little expectation of progress on the issue at the UN General Assembly.\n\nHowever China's president surprised the UN gathering by making a bold statement about his country's plans for tackling emissions.\n\nHe called on all countries to achieve a green recovery for the world economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to the official translation, Mr Xi went on to say:\n\n\"We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.\"\n\nUntil now China has said it would peak its emissions by 2030 at the latest, but it has avoided committing to a long-term goal.\n\nEmissions from China continued to rise in 2018 and 2019 even as much of the world began to shift away from fossil fuels.\n\nWhile the Covid-19 crisis this spring saw the country's emissions plunge by 25%, by June they had bounced back again as coal-fired plants, cement and other heavy industries went back to work.\n\nIn 2014 the US and China reached a surprise agreement on climate change\n\nObservers believe that in making this statement at this time, the Chinese leader is taking advantage of US reluctance to address the climate question.\n\n\"Xi Jinping's climate pledge at the UN, minutes after President Donald Trump's speech, is clearly a bold and well calculated move,\" said Li Shuo, an expert on Chinese climate policy from Greenpeace Asia.\n\n\"It demonstrates Xi's consistent interest in leveraging the climate agenda for geopolitical purposes.\"\n\nBack in 2014 Mr Xi and then US-President Barack Obama came to a surprise agreement on climate change, which became a key building block of the Paris agreement signed in December 2015.\n\nMr Xi has again delivered a surprise according to Li Shuo.\n\n\"By playing the climate card a little differently, Xi has not only injected much needed momentum to global climate politics, but presented an intriguing geopolitical question in front of the world: on a global common issue, China has moved ahead regardless of the US. Will Washington follow?\"\n\nThere are many questions about the announcement that remain unanswered, including what is meant exactly by carbon neutrality and what actions the country will take to get there.\n\n\"Today's announcement by President Xi Jinping that China intends to reach carbon neutrality before 2060 is big and important news - the closer to 2050 the better,\" said former US climate envoy Todd Stern.\n\n\"His announcement that China will start down this road right away by adopting more vigorous policies is also welcome. Simply peaking emissions 'before 2030' won't be enough to put China on the rapid path needed for carbon neutrality, but overall this is a very encouraging step.\"\n\nThis week has seen the second lowest Arctic sea ice minimum on record\n\nMost observers agreed that the announcement from China was a significant step, not least because of the country's role in financing fossil fuel development around the world.\n\n\"China isn't just the world's biggest emitter but the biggest energy financier and biggest market, so its decisions play a major role in shaping how the rest of the world progresses with its transition away from the fossil fuels that cause climate change,\" said Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), a UK-based think tank.\n\n\"The announcement today is also a major fillip for the European Union, whose leaders recently urged President Xi to take exactly this step as part of a joint push on lowering emissions, showing that international moves to curb climate change remain alive despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and [Brazil's president] Jair Bolsonaro in the run-up to next year's COP26 in Glasgow.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has used a national TV address to urge the public to \"summon the discipline and the resolve\" to follow the new coronavirus rules announced on Tuesday. This is his statement in full:\n\n\"Good evening, the struggle against Covid is the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime.\n\nIn less than a year this disease has killed almost a million people, and caused havoc to economies everywhere.\n\nHere in the UK we mourn every person we have lost, and we grieve with their families.\n\nAnd yet I am more certain than ever that this is a struggle that humanity will win, and we in this country will win - and to achieve what we must I want to talk to you directly tonight about the choices that we face - none of them easy - and why we must take action now.\n\nI know that we can succeed because we have succeeded before.\n\nWhen the sickness took hold in this country in March, we pulled together in a spirit of national sacrifice and community. We followed the guidance to the letter. We stayed at home, protected the NHS, and saved thousands of lives.\n\nAnd for months with those disciplines of social distancing we have kept that virus at bay.\n\nBut we have to acknowledge this is a great and freedom-loving country; and while the vast majority have complied with the rules there have been too many breaches - too many opportunities for our invisible enemy to slip through undetected.\n\nThe virus has started to spread again in an exponential way. Infections are up, hospital admissions are climbing.\n\nWe can see what is happening in France and Spain, and we know, alas, that this virus is no less fatal than it was in the spring, and that the vast majority of our people are no less susceptible, and the iron laws of geometrical progression are shouting at us from the graphs that we risk many more deaths, many more families losing loved ones before their time.\n\nAnd I know that faced with that risk the British people will want their government to continue to fight to protect them, you, and that is what we are doing, night and day.\n\nAnd yet the single greatest weapon we bring to this fight is the common sense of the people themselves - the joint resolve of this country to work together to suppress Covid now.\n\nSo today I set out a package of tougher measures in England - early closing for pubs, bars; table service only; closing businesses that are not Covid secure; expanding the use of face coverings, and new fines for those that fail to comply; and once again asking office workers to work from home if they can while enforcing the rule of six indoors and outdoors - a tougher package of national measures combined with the potential for tougher local restrictions for areas already in lockdown.\n\nI know that this approach - robust but proportionate - already carries the support of all the main parties in Parliament.\n\nAfter discussion with colleagues in the devolved administrations, I believe this broad approach is shared across the whole UK.\n\nAnd to those who say we don't need this stuff, and we should leave people to take their own risks, I say these risks are not our own.\n\nThe tragic reality of having Covid is that your mild cough can be someone else's death knell.\n\nAnd as for the suggestion that we should simply lock up the elderly and the vulnerable - with all the suffering that would entail - I must tell you that this is just not realistic, because if you let the virus rip through the rest of the population it would inevitably find its way through to the elderly as well, and in much greater numbers.\n\nThat's why we need to suppress the virus now, and as for that minority who may continue to flout the rules, we will enforce those rules with tougher penalties and fines of up to £10,000. We will put more police out on the streets and use the army to backfill if necessary.\n\nAnd of course I am deeply, spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe anyone's freedom, but unless we take action the risk is that we will have to go for tougher measures later, when the deaths have already mounted and we have a huge caseload of infection such as we had in the spring.\n\nIf we let this virus get out of control now, it would mean that our NHS had no space - once again - to deal with cancer patients and millions of other non-Covid medical needs.\n\nAnd if we were forced into a new national lockdown, that would threaten not just jobs and livelihoods but the loving human contact on which we all depend.\n\nIt would mean renewed loneliness and confinement for the elderly and vulnerable, and ultimately it would threaten once again the education of our children. We must do all we can to avoid going down that road again.\n\nBut if people don't follow the rules we have set out, then we must reserve the right to go further.\n\nWe must take action now because a stitch in time saves nine; and this way we can keep people in work, we can keep our shops and our schools open, and we can keep our country moving forward while we work together to suppress the virus.\n\nThat is our strategy, and if we can follow this package together, then I know we can succeed because in so many ways we are better prepared than before.\n\nWe have the PPE, we have the beds, we have the Nightingales, we have new medicines - pioneered in this country - that can help save lives.\n\nAnd though our doctors and our medical advisers are rightly worried about the data now, and the risks over winter, they are unanimous that things will be far better by the spring, when we have not only the hope of a vaccine, but one day soon - and I must stress that we are not there yet - of mass testing so efficient that people will be able to be tested in minutes so they can do more of the things they love.\n\nThat's the hope; that's the dream. It's hard, but it's attainable, and we are working as hard as we can to get there.\n\nBut until we do, we must rely on our willingness to look out for each other, to protect each other. Never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our individual behaviour.\n\nIf we follow these simple rules together, we will get through this winter together. There are unquestionably difficult months to come.\n\nAnd the fight against Covid is by no means over. I have no doubt, however, that there are great days ahead.\n\nBut now is the time for us all to summon the discipline, and the resolve, and the spirit of togetherness that will carry us through.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nLeyton Orient's chairman says they \"can't be punished\" after Tuesday's Carabao Cup tie against Tottenham was called off because a number of O's players have coronavirus.\n\nSeveral of the squad tested positive after Saturday's draw with Mansfield.\n\nThis season, English Football League clubs do not have to do mandatory coronavirus tests on players and staff.\n\n\"If I was doing this again I would not do the testing,\" Orient chairman Nigel Travis told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"This is an incentive not to test and that is bad for football and bad for health and safety.\"\n\nLeague Two side Orient have been doing medical questionnaires every morning and said they would pay for testing to be done before Tuesday's cup tie, but Premier League opponents Spurs offered to cover the cost.\n\n\"That's why we can't be punished over this,\" Travis added. \"People should be incentivised to take the test, especially when Premier League clubs with their resources give us the opportunity to have all our players tested.\"\n\nDiscussions are ongoing over the implications of not holding the third-round match on Tuesday, with a further update to be provided in due course.\n\nTottenham are in action in the Europa League on Thursday.\n\nThe decision to call off the match was announced two hours before the scheduled 18:00 BST kick-off at the Breyer Group Stadium.\n\nOrient shut down their east London home and training ground after receiving the positive results following their league match against the Stags at the weekend, and held discussions with Public Health England about whether any further action needed to be taken.\n• None Plans for fans to return to sports in October called off\n• None Delayed return of fans could have 'devastating impact'\n\nThis season, English Football League (EFL) clubs do not have to carry out mandatory coronavirus testing of their players and staff.\n\n\"Leyton Orient, the EFL and the relevant authorities are conducting a thorough review of the club's Covid-19 secure procedures with the view to reopening the stadium and training ground as soon as possible,\" a statement said.\n\nThere is little room to rearrange the tie, with the fourth round of the EFL Cup scheduled to take place next week.\n\nLast week's draw handed Orient or Spurs a home tie against Chelsea or Barnsley.\n\nTottenham face Shkendija in the third qualifying round of the Europa League in North Macedonia on Thursday and, if they progress, the north London club will have a play-off match to qualify for the group stage seven days later.\n\nTuesday's match was set to be the first competitive meeting between Orient and Tottenham since January 2001.\n\nSpurs had previously announced they would donate their match shirts to the foundation set up in memory of their former player Justin Edinburgh.\n\nEdinburgh was manager at Orient when he died at the age of 49 after suffering a cardiac arrest in June 2019.\n• None Amazing recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank", "Coronavirus contributed to 1% of all deaths in England and Wales in the second week of this month.\n\nThat's among the lowest figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) since March when the pandemic took hold.\n\nIt's feared this will rise following recent increases in cases and hospitalisations.\n\nDeaths from all causes in England and Wales were higher than average in the week to 11 September.\n\nThis is likely to be because the August Bank Holiday delayed reporting, however.\n\nThe north west of England had the most deaths from coronavirus.\n\nThe ONS counted registrations where \"novel coronavirus\" was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nAlthough coronavirus deaths remain relatively low, this week also marks the first time they have increased rather than decreased since the beginning of April.\n\nThe government is poised to introduce new restrictions on gatherings and hospitality, as cases of infection have begun to rise again.\n\nDeaths hit their lowest point since mid-March in the week to 4 September, with 78 deaths certificates mentioning coronavirus as a factor.\n\nBut analysis from Oxford University suggests that the number of Covid-19 deaths could be even lower.\n\nThe ONS count includes any death certificate that mentions Covid-19.\n\nThe Oxford analysis suggests that an increasing proportion of these death registrations mention Covid-19 without saying that the disease was a direct or underlying cause of the death.\n\nIn total, there were 51,818 deaths in England and Wales where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate - making up 12% of all deaths this year.\n\nThe ONS also looked at deaths among the working-age population between March and June, before many lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nIt found of just over 5,000 deaths - 72% - were likely to be the result of an infection acquired before lockdown came into force.\n\nPeople working in factories, and in the care and leisure sectors, had a significantly higher risk of dying than the average population.", "People should be allowed to make their own choices over the Covid risk posed to themselves and their families, the Brexit Party says.\n\nThe party said it opposed the new restrictions being brought in by the Welsh Government.\n\nParty leader in the Senedd, Mark Reckless, said: \"We think it would be much better to trust to people's individual judgments, as to their risk and the risk of those they live with, and make their own decisions depending on the evolution of the virus.\"", "Face coverings are required on school buses in Scotland, but not in other parts of the UK\n\nSchool bus drivers have raised concerns about a lack of social distancing on services travelling at full capacity, with many children not wearing masks.\n\nThe Unite union said it was \"extremely worried\" drivers were at risk of catching Covid-19 on \"packed\" buses.\n\nSocial distancing is not mandatory on dedicated school buses under government guidance across the UK, although it should happen where possible.\n\nThe government says it is providing £40m to help increase capacity.\n\nGovernment guidance for England says that, where possible, social distancing should be \"maximised\" between individuals or \"bubbles\" of children who stay together throughout the course of the day.\n\nOther safety measures recommended include more frequent cleaning, maximising ventilation through opening windows and ceiling vents, and allocating seats to ensure children sit with their \"bubble\" if possible.\n\nThe guidance says the measures are an \"appropriate balance\" because the overall risk to children of serious illness from Covid-19 is very low, they do not mix with the general public on school buses, and services often carry the same children on a regular basis.\n\nSimilar guidance is in place for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSheamus Greene, who drives a school bus in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, which holds 45 children and travels at full capacity, says there is no social distancing on the service.\n\nHe says the bus carries children from eight different schools, who are on board for between 20 and 35 minutes.\n\nPupils over the age of 12 are advised to wear face coverings but Mr Greene says only around 50% on his bus do.\n\nUnlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory on dedicated school buses in Northern Ireland, Wales or England, although they are recommended. However, they should be worn by children aged five and over on services in Scotland.\n\nMr Greene, who is also a Sinn Féin councillor, says a plastic screen was installed around his driver's seat after he raised concerns with the education authority - but it is not airtight.\n\nHe says there is very little ventilation on the bus, with only one skylight window able to be opened and this has to be closed if it rains, which he fears will allow the virus to spread more easily.\n\nSheamus Greene says his bus is full to capacity\n\nChildren are at extremely low risk of becoming ill from Covid-19 but evidence on how likely they are to spread the virus is less certain.\n\nMr Greene, 55, says he is worried about transmitting the virus to family members at home, who have underlying health conditions making them more vulnerable to Covid-19.\n\n\"There's an awful lot of drivers in this area in their 70s and mid to late 60s, and I know some of them have underlying health problems as well,\" he adds.\n\n\"I don't know of any other job where people have been expected to do what school bus drivers have been expected to do - sit in a confined space with up to 50 people for six hours a day.\"\n\nMr Greene says he wants to see evidence that travelling without social distancing is safe - and, if it isn't, he says capacity should be reduced.\n\nA statement from the education authority said it had put in place a range of safety measures, in line with government advice, including distributing more than 150,000 items of PPE to drivers, installing screens and hand sanitiser dispensers on vehicles, and enhanced cleaning.\n\n\"Our drivers and escorts play a vital role in enabling children and young people to access education, and their health and wellbeing is important to us, so we are committed to keeping our guidance under review in line with government advice,\" the statement said.\n\nMichael - not his real name - drives a minibus for a special needs school in Surrey.\n\nWith children travelling in the vehicle for up to an hour-and-a-half each morning, Michael, who is 61 and asthmatic, says he is \"very worried\" about catching the virus.\n\n\"During the winter season colds are rife because they just go round and round the vehicle,\" he says.\n\n\"If the common cold can whizz around a vehicle very easily, it does concern me enormously that coronavirus could also spread come cold season.\"\n\nThe vehicle carries up to eight passengers but after Michael raised concerns with his employer the capacity was reduced to seven, allowing a one-seat gap between him and the next child.\n\nWhile the children wear masks, Michael - who does not want to use his real name for fear of losing his job - says they are not worn properly, with the children's noses often uncovered.\n\nHe wants capacity reduced to four passengers to enable social distancing and medical-grade masks for drivers.\n\nA Surrey County Council spokesman said both the council and the Department for Transport had provided guidance to schools and bus operators on how to safely run school transport.\n\n\"It's important that we all work together to ensure that appropriate measures are in place and the risk to passengers, drivers and passenger assistants is minimised, therefore we're always willing to discuss any concerns with transport operators,\" he said.\n\nSome buses in London have been designated for school pupils only\n\nUnite's national officer for passenger transport, Bobby Morton, says social distancing and face coverings should be mandatory on school buses.\n\nHe says a lack of consistency in guidance for public transport and dedicated school services means the situation varies across the country, with some buses \"packed\" full of children.\n\n\"I get call after call from drivers saying to me they're very, very fearful,\" he says.\n\n\"Not only could they be infected themselves but when they return home after their shift they could unwittingly be transmitting the virus to members of their family.\"", "The third and fourth earthquake struck on market day in the Bedfordshire town\n\nA town in Bedfordshire has experienced two earthquakes in one day.\n\nIt is the third and fourth time people in Leighton Buzzard have felt tremors in the space of two weeks.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed a 3.0-magnitude earthquake happened just north of the town at about 09:30 BST and a 2.1-magnitude tremor occurred at about 13:40.\n\nPeople reported their houses \"jolting and shaking\" when the larger quake struck.\n\nSince 8 September there have been four earthquakes in the town, the BGS confirmed.\n\nA 3.5-magnitude earthquake was felt by residents on that day, followed by a 2.1 magnitude tremor on 13 September.\n\nGlenn Ford, a BGS seismologist, said the latest two tremors were aftershocks from the first incident, but were \"earthquakes in their own right\".\n\nTuesday afternoon's tremor was \"20 times smaller\" than the one in the morning, but a few people had reported it to the organisation, he added.\n\nMatt Stewart, who lives about 1.5 miles (2.4km) from Leighton Buzzard in Eggington, was one of those who felt the larger earthquake, and said the tremors \"almost shook me out of bed\".\n\n\"It was as big as the first one, I think,\" he said. \"My wife ran downstairs and said, 'oh no, not another one'.\n\n\"It felt like a whoosh and then a boom coming up through the earth, then it shook the house and a couple of pictures fell off the wall upstairs, like the last time.\"\n\nThe British Geological Survey has released seismograms of the 09:30 BST earthquake\n\nMr Stewart described it as \"a horrible feeling\".\n\n\"You're just not in control and I'd like to know what's going on, as this is the third one - it's very strange.\"\n\nThe BGS said its provisional data suggested the earthquake originated at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10km).\n\nThe earth did not move during the morning's tremors quite as much as when the first earthquake hit two weeks ago at magnitude 3.5, was the general opinion of people shopping and working in the town.\n\nWesley Venn said: \"I was sat in the garden having a lovely cup of tea when all of a sudden I saw the fence shaking.\"\n\nHe described it as \"a little tremor, just to remind us that there are earthquakes about, apparently - in Leighton Buzzard\".\n\nHe added that \"the earth didn't move for me\" during the second quake - which he slept through - but he felt the other larger ones.\n\n\"I don't know if we're the San Andreas Fault of Bedfordshire... but it's a claim to fame.\n\n\"We will rebuild - where a plate fell off the shelf - we will rebuild.\"\n\nResident Wesley Venn joked the town might be \"the San Andreas Fault of Bedfordshire\"\n\nShop staff Carrie Wainer and Sarah Arkle said there was \"a massive bang\"\n\nCarrie Wainer, who works in a gift shop, said she heard \"a massive bang\", adding \"that was about it for us\".\n\n\"With what 2020's bringing us, this is just another one added on.\"\n\nShop owner Anthony Rosier said \"a few things might have moved a couple of inches\"\n\nModel railway store owner Anthony Rosier said there were \"two large bangs, the walls and units shook - then peace and quiet\".\n\nThe latest tremors had been \"a talking point\" and \"brings the buzz back\" to Leighton Buzzard, he said.\n\nMr Ford said: \"It's not an unusual thing to be seen in the UK... this relieves the built-up stress in the rocks.\"\n\nThey were \"nothing to do with fracking or anything like that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's typical British tectonic activity that's been going on for hundreds of years.\"\n\nMr Ford said the UK experiences about 200 to 300 earthquakes each year, but 90% are \"so minor that people can't perceive them\".\n\nWhile the UK has a few quakes of the same magnitude as Leighton Buzzard each year, it was \"absolutely tiny on the scale of worldwide earthquakes\" and \"more than a billion times smaller than the one that hit Japan in 2011\".\n\nHe added: \"If they felt this one in Japan, they wouldn't even look up from their morning coffee.\"\n\nDr Matthew Blackett, an earthquake expert from Coventry University, said the Leighton Buzzard tremors were likely caused by the fracturing of solid rock in \"hidden fault lines\", several hundred metres below the surface.\n\n\"What seems to have happened is that this was an initial earthquake in a hidden fault - some stress or other has caused it.\n\n\"These two subsequent events are a readjustment of the fault lines to come back to some sort of stability.\n\n\"The crust has to adjust itself to become stable again, that seems to have happened to the poor people of Leighton Buzzard.\n\n\"It is quite possible that that sequence is now done, but it might be that there are still stresses there.\n\n\"If there are [further tremors], I think it will only be minor events.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None How bad can earthquakes be in the UK?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Among today's announcements is the introduction of a 10pm closing time for the hospitality industry, as well as a table service-only rule.\n\nThe news has been greeted with concern by businesses in the sector.\n\nTom Stainer, chief executive of the Campaign for Real Ale, said pub customers and publicans wanted to stop the spread of the virus but said the government hadn't shown the evidence that pubs were disproportionately contributing to increased infections.\n\n\"It is additional pressure on already fragile pubs which are at real risk of closure,\" he said, pointing out there was currently no support on offer from the government.\n\nMr Stainer added the curfew would cut into several hours of \"high trading times\" at a time when the industry needed to pay off debts after the lockdown.\n\nAndy Lennox, founder of Zim Braai restaurants, said his business had lost 30% of its revenue \"overnight\" with the 10pm closing time and it was going to be \"very difficult\".\n\n\"The big thing now is what the support going to be, we need some kind of more flexi-furlough brought in that will allow us to add new employees to that, the VAT needs to stay - that 5% is massive,\" he said.\n\nMr Lennox added that Eat Out To Help Out had helped in August - but had only made back losses the industry had already suffered.", "Liverpool is one of many cities where there are extra restrictions\n\nIn many areas under local lockdown, cases and hospital admissions have continued to soar. Does that mean restrictions don't work?\n\nConsider the national lockdown in the spring. While it feels like it was one single policy, it was in fact a package of different measures. Schools, universities and offices shut. Pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops closed. No-one could mix with people from outside their household. People were advised not to use public transport and to limit the number of times they visited essential shops.\n\nTogether these had a dramatic impact on cases, and the number of coronavirus patients in hospital plummeted from 20,000 to about 800.\n\nHow much each part of that lockdown contributed is hard to say.\n\nThe rules were relaxed but then, at the end of June, Leicester became the first place to go into a local lockdown. Other cities, and whole regions, have followed. But so far, Leicester's lockdown is the only one to have come close to the strictness of the national policy. Shops and pubs were stopped from opening. Households were barred from mixing indoors. And new cases of the virus dropped by 60% during July. People in hospital beds with coronavirus fell from 88 to 18.\n\nSince Leicester, local lockdowns have multiplied. More than 15 million people - very roughly, a quarter of the UK population - have come under new curbs, in some form.\n\nAnd it's become harder to see whether they are working or not.\n\nAfter the first changes, cases continued to rise, throughout August. Then, after pub and restaurant closures, case rates dropped sharply. It is, however, too soon to say for sure that the stricter measures led directly to the decline.\n\nIn the rest of Greater Manchester, gatherings with other households were banned but shops, pubs and restaurants remained open. Cases have mostly kept climbing throughout these local restrictions.\n\nHowever, the latest week's data will be welcome news - suggesting the sharp increases might be levelling off. The rise in cases in many areas under local lockdown appears to be slowing, in line with the national picture.\n\nThis may be a sign that the England-wide \"rule of six\" is working.\n\nA large national study, published last week, confirmed the growth in cases was slowing across England, although overall levels remained high. But restrictions on households meeting - which have been seen at a local level - don't always lead to a slowing case rate. And this change in impact highlights the many factors involved which make it difficult to isolate the precise effect of local lockdowns.\n\nPeople don't necessarily change their behaviour exactly in line with rule changes.\n\nWhen concerns about cases rising begin to be reported, some people alter their behaviour before any law change. Other people, even when the rules come into place, don't obey them.\n\nSo it may be a question of timing: are people more ready to restrict their movements now than they were in August?\n\nTo complicate the figures further, other things have been going on at the same time as local lockdowns were being introduced, including summer holiday season and schools reopening.\n\nIn Leicester, cases fell when restrictions were introduced. When they were progressively eased in August and September, cases started to rise. But this rise coincided with more people travelling abroad. And with children going back to school.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, cases also rose over those months despite the area being in lockdown - albeit a looser version than Leicester's had been.\n\nUnpicking these different factors is a big challenge.\n\nLooking at \"positivity rates\" - the proportion of all tests that are positive, adjusting for different levels of testing - shows there have been increases in cases across England, with particularly sharp spikes in the North West and North East between the end of August and the end of September. Restrictions in those regions were only introduced between the middle of September and the beginning of October, making it too soon to see the impact of these rules.\n\nBut in Blackburn, which has been in lockdown long enough for an effect to be seen, there was also a rise in cases - though this has come back down in recent weeks.\n\nRecent increases in hospitalisations from coronavirus have highlighted the extent of the challenge facing the north of England. Though without up-to-date localised data, it is difficult to judge whether the impact on a local level - such as those in Blackburn - have helped prevent serious cases.\n\nThere's no doubt the national lockdown had a considerable impact on cases.\n\nFundamentally, the virus needs people to be in close contact and mixing between circles to spread through the population. How tight the restrictions are makes a difference - look at the experience of Leicester, compared with Oldham or Blackburn.\n\nBut so do the crucial issues of timing and compliance. A lockdown only works if people stick to it.\n\nThe data also indicates that any impact lockdowns do have is far from permanent - relax the restrictions and allow more contact, and the virus will quickly start to spread again.\n\nUnless and until a viable vaccine becomes available, government will be faced with the same choice: shut down large chunks of society or allow the virus to tear through communities, with little idea of the true toll that either will exact.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: FM says tighter restrictions expected 'within days'\n\nAdditional lockdown restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland in the next couple of days, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing, the first minister said \"fast and urgent action\" was needed to tackle the growth of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon indicated that a package of new restrictions would be announced within the next 48 hours.\n\nA total of 255 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nThat represented 6.3% of those tested, the third day running the \"positivity rate\" has exceeded 5% - which the World Health Organization has said is a key benchmark for a virus to be considered under control.\n\nWhile no new deaths were reported, the number of people treated in hospital rose to 73, an increase of 10.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I need to be absolutely straight with people across Scotland, that additional restrictions will almost certainly be put in place in Scotland over the next couple of days.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be with four-nations alignment, but if necessary it will have to happen without that.\"\n\nShe said a meeting of the UK government's Cobra emergency committee would take place, and that she would be speaking to Prime Minister Boris Johnson directly after the briefing.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"In that call, I will impress upon the prime minister my view that we need decisive, urgent and, as far as possible given our individual responsibilities, co-ordinated action across the UK.\n\n\"I will be clear that I am willing to allow a bit more time for four-nations discussions to take place before making final decisions for Scotland, but I will be equally clear that the urgency of this situation will mean that we cannot, must not and will not wait too long.\"\n\nLater on Monday the UK's chief medical officers said the coronavirus alert level should move to Level 4, meaning that transmission of the virus was \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nDowning Street confirmed Boris Johnson had spoken on the phone to the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and that they would be taking part in a Cobra meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"They all agreed to act with a united approach, as much as possible, in the days and weeks ahead.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted that she would make a statement to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is indeed a critical time in the trajectory of this virus. Cases are going up at a time when we are heading towards winter and the NHS will also have to deal with seasonal flu.\n\nThe first minister says \"difficult decisions\" are to be made in this trade-off. We are being told to prepare for further restrictions on daily life.\n\nThe government says keeping schools open and protecting the NHS are priorities, so what else will have to give?\n\nOne of the government's own advisers has said travel restrictions and pub curfews could feature.\n\nWe are in uncharted waters and no-one can predict what the winter will bring.\n\nWhat is clear is that we are all going to have to find ways to live with this virus for much longer than the next six months.\n\nMs Sturgeon gave no detail of what new restrictions would be introduced, but said the government was \"very close to a point of decision\".\n\n\"At the heart of this decision is a simple truth - the longer we wait to introduce new measures, the longer these measures are likely to be in place,\" she said.\n\n\"If we move sharply now to get the virus back under control we can minimise the time we all spend under any new restrictions.\"\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld said the likely options could include travel restrictions and curfews or restrictions on hospitality.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that there would be financial support for people required to self-isolate, particularly those on low incomes.\n\nWhile larger fines for non-compliance were under consideration, she said a better approach was to \"remove barriers\" to self-isolation.\n\nShe said: \"Nobody should be forced to choose between self-isolating for the collective good and paying their rent and feeding their families.\n\n\"If that is the choice people face, then it shouldn't be a surprise to us that compliance levels will be lower than we need them to be.\"\n\nThe first minister added that the \"collective action\" of the summer months had not been in vain, and without it the number of deaths would have been \"significantly higher\".\n\n\"We are in a much stronger position now than we would have been without that - but none of it was a magic wand that made the virus go away,\" she said.\n\n\"So as we face winter, as we face an acceleration of cases again, we must act to keep that under control.\"\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance earlier warned that without further restrictions there could be 50,000 new coronavirus a day by mid-October. This could lead to about 200 deaths a day UK-wide by the middle of November.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Gregor Smith, said cases in Scotland were roughly doubling every seven to nine days.\n\nAsked about suggestions that new restrictions might last for six months, Mr Sturgeon said this was \"the length of time we all likely to be living with some restrictions, but it is not necessarily going to be the same restrictions, of the same severity, for that period\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said people needed to heed the \"stark warnings\" about the virus.\n\n\"It is right that our governments work together to tackle this, because this is an issue that we need to get on top of,\" he said.", "Glastonbury Tor, in Somerset, which was found to have links to to successful compensation claims as a result of the abolition of slavery\n\nThe National Trust has revealed how more than 90 of its properties have connections to slavery and colonialism.\n\nThe links - at 93 properties - are highlighted in a report commissioned by the charity to tell the history of colonialism and slavery at its sites.\n\nSome, like Penrhyn Castle in north Wales, show how wealth derived from slavery was used for reconstruction.\n\nThe charity has said it is committed to sharing the histories of slavery and colonialism.\n\nIt has also pledged to add to its research, and admitted that it has more work to do.\n\nJohn Orna Orenstein, its director of culture and engagement, said it was about raising awareness.\n\nHe said: \"Just to be really clear, we're not making judgements about the past, what we're trying to do is reflect as accurately and comprehensively as we can the histories across a variety of places.\"\n\nThe National Trust is a conservation charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is a separate and independent National Trust for Scotland,\n\nThe report details links to plantation owners and those who were paid compensation for enslaved people freed through abolition, as well as those who gained their wealth through the slave trade.\n\nIt also includes properties with connections to people involved in colonial expansion, including leading figures in the East India Company, or senior figures in administering colonies, including Winston Churchill's home Chartwell.\n\nAnd those with important cultural links to Britain's colonial history, such as writer Rudyard Kipling's home in Sussex, Bateman's, or the home of historian Thomas Carlyle in London are highlighted.\n\nThe National Trust report shows how estates and stately homes such as Clandon Park, Surrey, and Hare Hall in Cheshire were linked to wealth from plantations or the slave trade.\n\nSome 29 properties cared for by the National Trust have links to successful compensation claims as a result of the abolition of slavery, such as Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, and Blickling Hall, Norfolk, the report shows.\n\nQuarry Bank Mill, Cheshire, was built using family wealth related to slavery, while Bath Assembly Rooms was connected to the wider colonial and slavery economies of the 18th Century, it highlights.\n\nPowis Castle in Wales, with its links to Clive of India, and Cragside, Northumberland, which was home to Sir William Armstrong who supplied guns to British military forces, are among those with imperial links.\n\nThe survey also documents those National Trust properties belonging to people who were involved in the abolition movement or the fight against colonial oppression.\n\nAnd it highlights the presence of African and Asian people working on English and Welsh estates.\n\nThe report draws on the trust's own archives and external evidence such as the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project run by University College London.\n\nDr Tarnya Cooper, the National Trust's curatorial and collections director, said a \"significant\" number of the properties in the charity's care have links to the colonisation of different parts of the world, and some to historic slavery.\n\n\"Colonialism and slavery were central to the national economy from the 17th to the 19th Centuries,\" she said.\n\nShe added that it was the charity's job, as a heritage charity, to research, interpret and openly share full and up-to-date information about its properties.\n\n\"This report is the fullest account to date of the links between places now in the care of the National Trust and colonialism and historic slavery,\" she said, though she added it was not exhaustive and would be added to as more research was done.\n\nThe research has been used to update online information and will be used to help the Trust review visitor information and displays at properties.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTensions between the US and China came to the fore of the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe called for China to be held \"accountable\" for the pandemic.\n\nIn his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had \"no intention to enter a Cold War with any country\".\n\nTies between the two world powers are strained on a number of fronts.\n\nThis year's summit at New York is largely being held virtually, with world leaders providing pre-recorded speeches.\n\nThe new format meant some of the geopolitical theatre normally on offer at the key UN meeting was absent. Each country was represented by a single delegate and there was little opportunity for one nation to rebut another.\n\nBut as often is the case for speeches to the assembly, President Trump used his address to tout his achievements and tear into a rival.\n\n\"We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague on to the world - China,\" he said.\n\n\"In the earliest days of the virus China locked down travel domestically, while allowing flights to leave China and infect the world. China condemned my travel ban on their country, even as they cancelled domestic flights and locked citizens in their homes,\" he added.\n\nPresident Trump, whose own record on coronavirus is under close scrutiny as the US heads towards elections, has frequently accused Beijing of covering up the virus, saying they could have stopped the disease spreading. China has called the attacks an unfounded distraction.\n\nThe US death toll for coronavirus, at more than 200,000, is the highest in the world and President Trump has often downplayed the disease.\n\nTensions are high between the US and China on a number of other issues, including trade, technology, Hong Kong and China's treatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province.\n\nThe US president's speech came in the form of a pre-recorded message\n\nSpeaking soon after the US leader, President Xi warned of the risks of a \"clash of civilisations\".\n\n\"We will continue to narrow differences and resolve disputes with others through dialogue and negotiation. We will not seek to develop only ourselves or engage in zero sum game,\" he said.\n\nIn remarks released ahead of Tuesday's speech, President Xi took a more overt swipe at the US, saying \"no country has the right to dominate global affairs, control the destiny of others, or keep advantages in development all to itself\", something China itself has been accused of by critics.\n\nAlso in his speech, President Xi said China - the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases - aims to hit peak emissions in 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060.\n\nThis was a stump speech by President Trump, who faces re-election in 40 days time. He had Beijing firmly in his sights - blaming what he and his followers call the China virus for taking countless lives.\n\nMr Trump is trying to deflect attention from his own handling of the pandemic by heaping opprobrium on China, while emphasising US efforts to find a cure.\n\nWe will end the pandemic, the president pledged, saying thanks to US efforts three vaccines are in the final stage of development. For good measure, Mr Trump lumped the UN's World Health Organization into his critique of China - saying the international body, which he's withdrawing US funding from, is virtually controlled by China, blaming it for spreading what he called misinformation about the virus.\n\nThis was not a subtle speech. It was a clear attempt to shift blame as Americans are already voting in the presidential election.\n\nThe assembly was opened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who, without naming China or the US warned \"we must do everything to avoid a new Cold War\".\n\n\"We are moving in a very dangerous direction,\" he said. \"Our world cannot afford a future where the two largest economies split the globe in a great fracture - each with its own trade and financial rules and internet and artificial intelligence capacities.\"\n\nHe said there was no room for self-interest in the face of the coronavirus. \"Populism and nationalism have failed,\" he said. \"Those approaches to contain the virus have often made things manifestly worse.\"\n\nPresident Trump gave a very different vision in his speech, saying \"only when you take care of your own citizens will you find a true basis for co-operation\".", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe leaders of more than 100 sports bodies have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask for emergency funding, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\" because of coronavirus.\n\nThe coalition of organisations says they are \"united in our concern that at a time when our role should be central to the nation's recovery, the future of the sector is perilous\".\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Sport, the group urges the government to provide a \"sports recovery fund\" so the sector can \"survive and stabilise\".\n\nThe government announced on Tuesday that plans for spectators to be allowed to return to stadiums and venues from 1 October will not go ahead.\n\nThe letter written by the organisations, which include the Football Association, Premier League, Rugby Football Union, England and Wales Cricket Board and Lawn Tennis Association, adds: \"We require a comprehensive support package for the sport and physical sector to aid its recovery.\n\n\"This package must combine investment, tax incentives, and regulatory reform.\n\n\"Covid-19 has undermined our commercial revenue streams with both stadiums and leisure facilities closed or greatly reduced in capacity.\n\n\"The impact of this will potentially lead to a lost generation of sport and activity.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the impact on those whose participation has been limited during the pandemic. Physical activity levels, especially in the most vulnerable groups, are significantly below where they were tracking pre-Covid-19.\"\n\nThe arts industry was given a £1.57bn support package by the government in July.\n\nAlthough Sport England has handed out £200m for emergency cases, many in the sector believe more is needed.\n\nA series of sports bodies have announced job losses in recent weeks and warned they face major mounting losses if turnstiles are not opened soon.\n\nThe government is to ask sports bodies to assess the financial impact of several more months without paying spectators, and is understood to be preparing to work with organisations on what support might be needed to help them survive.\n\nIn the letter, the prime minister is told that sport and physical activity contributes more than £16bn and 600,000 jobs to the UK economy.\n\n\"Our sector will be at the forefront of your plans to improve the health and wellbeing of all communities…to solving societal issues…including reducing health inequalities, tackling obesity, cutting crime, easing loneliness, and enhancing social cohesion,\" the group adds.\n\n\"But to do so effectively, we require your government's backing.\"\n\nLisa Wainwight, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance, said: \"The strength of this coalition from the sports, recreation and activity sector cannot be ignored in its public call to the prime minister.\n\n\"The pandemic has put an incredible strain on our sector, which was forced to close for a prolonged period.\n\n\"It is imperative that our sector gets the support it requires from the government to get back to business, in order to ease the pressures on the NHS and play a central role in our nation's recovery.\"\n\nSwim England has reported that 22% of public pools remain closed and all those that are open have reduced capacity. Some 36% of clubs remain without access to pools.\n\nIndustry bodies Community Leisure UK and UK Active estimate leisure centres, swimming pools and community services face a shortfall of more than £800m this year.\n\nFormer sports minister Tracey Crouch added: \"This isn't just about the number of people on a pitch, field, court or in a pool or gym.\n\n\"This is about the whole ecosystem that supports sport, fitness and leisure and, if we're not careful, historic clubs and the jobs that support them will be lost, potentially for good. If government is going to shut sport down then it needs to provide a package of support to stop its decimation.\"\n• None Has cancel culture gone too far?", "Guess How Much I Love You was translated into 57 languages and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide\n\nSam McBratney, author of the children's classic book Guess How Much I Love You, has died at the age of 77.\n\nThe author, who was born in Belfast, died on 18 September, his publisher Walker Books announced on Monday.\n\nThe tale of two nutbrown hares, who try to express their affection for each other, became a children's classic.\n\nThe book is best remembered for ending with the now well-known phrase \"I love you to the moon and back\".\n\nThe illustrated children's book, which was first published in 1994, was translated into 57 languages and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaren Lotz, managing director of Walker Books Group, described McBratney as a \"profoundly lovely human being\".\n\n\"You could recognise his voice in a moment, he was an exceptionally talented wordsmith and always knew exactly what children would enjoy hearing the most,\" Ms Lotz said.\n\n\"His legacy of kindness and humour will burn bright and carry on through his stories,\" she added.\n• None Why is a children's book about rabbits being read at weddings?", "The prison, near Devizes, was inspected in August\n\nA prison's response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to it being \"less safe\" and \"less purposeful\", a report found.\n\nInspectors found \"troubling\" conditions at HMP Erlestoke, including violence, indiscipline and cases of self-harm.\n\nA scrutiny visit took place last month to assess how conditions had changed, since heavy restrictions were imposed at the start of the pandemic.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said it had taken \"immediate action\" to address the issues identified in the report.\n\nSome inmates in the segregation unit were held in cells without running water or toilets for weeks at a time, the report found.\n\n\"We are urgently working to identify additional improvements we can make to prisoner safety, and Erlestoke will receive additional staff training and specialist support to help drive down violence,\" the Prison Service spokesman added.\n\nHM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, said the response to the pandemic at the category C prison, near Devizes in Wiltshire, had \"led to a less safe, less decent and less purposeful prison\".\n\n\"Although the amount of time prisoners could spend out of their cells had been increased in the early stages of lockdown, during our visit... most prisoners still only received 45-minute sessions in the morning and the afternoon, and an additional half an hour one evening a week,\" he said.\n\n\"Prisoners reported being frustrated about daily delays in the delivery of this limited regime, and about the lack of activity.\"\n\nThe chief inspector of prisons has received a response which is \"in effect\" an action plan to address the issues\n\nOther concerns raised in the report included:\n\nMr Clarke said it was \"a very troubling visit\" with some issues \"systemic, arising from the apparent inflexibility of the recovery programme\".\n\n\"Well-led and properly supported local innovation and flexibility are now urgently needed to restore the acceptable treatment and conditions of the prisoners held there,\" he added.\n\nHe said he had raised concerns in a letter to Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland, and had received a response which was \"in effect\" an action plan to address the issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Prime Minister Theresa May has said she \"cannot support\" the government's plan to override parts of its Brexit agreement with the EU.\n\nShe told MPs the move, which breaks international law, would damage \"trust in the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will be voted on in the Commons on Tuesday, having passed its first hurdle last week.\n\nMinisters say it contains vital safeguards to protect Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union on 1 January.\n\nBut it gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally binding deal governing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say this is a failsafe mechanism in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the section on Northern Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way. The section - know as the protocol - is designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland,\n\nAs well as Mrs May, the other four living former prime ministers - Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron - have spoken out against the bill.\n\nLabour is opposing it and some Conservative MPs have raised concerns over its legal implications.\n\nAmid all this, Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week agreed to amend the bill so that the Commons would get a vote before he could use the powers involved in breaking international law.\n\nBut Mrs May, whose own withdrawal agreement with the EU was repeatedly rejected by the Commons when she was prime minister, told MPs: \"Frankly, my view is to the outside world it makes no difference as to whether a decision to break international law is taken by a minister or by this Parliament - it is still a decision to break international law.\n\n\"This can only weaken the UK in the eyes of the world.\"\n\nShe added that, if the Internal Market Bill were passed, \"our reputation as a country that sticks by its word will have been tarnished\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Maidenhead added that governments around the world had \"trust in the United Kingdom\", asking: \"Where will that trust be in future if they see a United Kingdom willing to break its word and break international law?\"\n\nMrs May also said there would be \"untold damage to the United Kingdom's reputation\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Minister Robin Walker said the government still hoped to reach a trade agreement with the EU.\n\nHe added: \"Through this bill, we are acting to uphold those priorities and deliver commitments we made in our election manifesto that we will provide unfettered access between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and maintain and strengthen the integrity and smooth operation of our internal market.\"\n\nMr Walker also said there were \"harmful legal defaults in some interpretations\" of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"The consequences of this for Northern Ireland in that scenario would be very damaging,\" he told MPs. \"We cannot and will not run that risk.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Paul Blomfield said giving MPs the power to decide whether to use measures in the bill the Commons did not \"resolve the issue\", which was \"the breach of international law\".\n\nSNP Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald called the legislation \"a grubby power-grab which we cannot and will not support\" and that sections of it hung \"like a badge of dishonour around this prime minister's term of office\".", "As the US Covid-19 death toll passes 200,000, owners and directors of funeral homes across the country reflect on how the loss of life has affected the families and communities that they serve.", "And that brings our live page for the Labour leader's speech to a close.\n\nQuite the change from a packed conference hall, we are sure you will agree, but a clear pitch from Sir Keir Starmer on the direction he wants to take the party.\n\nYou can read more about what he said here.\n\nAnd don't forget to come back tomorrow where we will be bringing you live updates of this week's Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHave a great day and see you soon!", "Maples are known by the scientific name, Acer\n\nOne in five maple species is threatened in the wild, according to the first full assessment of extinction risks.\n\nKnown for the vivid colour of their autumn leaves, the trees are popular in parks and gardens.\n\nBut in their natural habitats, they face a myriad of threats, including unsustainable logging, climate change, deforestation and forest fires.\n\nBotanists are calling for urgent action to protect rare maple trees.\n\nAnd they say seeds should be stored as an insurance policy against extinction.\n\nThe assessment of all 158 species of maple is part of an effort to map the conservation status of all tree species by the end of 2020. It was carried out by the group, Botanic Gardens Conservation International.\n\nConservation manager Dan Crowley told BBC News: \"Maples are some of our most familiar trees, particularly in autumn when they give us those wonderful displays of yellow, orange, red and purple colours.\n\n\"And whilst they are common in some of our open spaces, spaces where they are highly valued, several species are also highly threatened in the wild.\"\n\nMost wild maple species are found in China\n\nThe scientists say action is needed to ensure there is active conservation in protected forests where maples grow.\n\nAnd as a back-up, rare seeds should be collected and stored in botanic gardens.\n\nWhat we see in gardens and parks is just a small selection of the vast number found in the wild.\n\nAnd many of the specimens seen in urban spaces are grown from a small number of seeds collected by early plant hunters, with only limited genetic diversity.\n\nCurrently, 14 species of maple tree, including four that are critically endangered, are missing from arboretums and botanical gardens.\n\nDan Crowley added: \"We're highly responsible for the threats that some of these species face including urban development, agriculture and timber harvesting and we have the capabilities to conserve the species in the wild and also in our living collections, and we should act to do. \"\n\nThe paperbark maple has ornamental leaves and bark\n\nChina holds the greatest diversity of maple trees, with a total of 92 species. But threatened species also occur in other parts of Asia and the Americas.\n\nThe North American sugar maple is famous for giving us maple syrup, a favourite pancake topping for many.\n\nTwo little-known close relatives of the tree can be found in Mexico, where they are threatened by grazing, logging and forest fires.\n\nCommenting on the study, Kathy Willis, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, said: \"These trees provide a number of important ecosystem services and their loss is not just a loss of a pretty iconic tree but also all the important benefits they provide to humans - maple syrup being but one of them.\"", "In much of the west of Scotland, people have not been allowed to meet in each others homes for some weeks.\n\nThat measure has now been extended to the whole of Scotland.\n\nThis is stricter than the rules in England but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was the right stance to take to suppress the spread of the virus.\n\nThe regulations come into force on Friday but Ms Sturgeon urged everyone to comply from tomorrow.\n\nThe rules will be reviewed after three weeks.\n\nThe restrictions are different in public indoor spaces such as pubs, cafes and restaurants. Here it is the rule of six: two households with a maximum of six people.\n\nOutdoors, the rule is also up to six people from two households. Children under 12 are exempt from these limits.\n\nThere is no limit on children under 12 playing outdoors.\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 18 are also exempt from the two household limit and can meet outdoors in groups of up to six.\n\nFrom Friday, bars and restaurants will have to close at 10pm. That is the same as the new rule in England.\n• Work from home if possible\n• Do not car share with other households\n• Do not travel overseas during the October school holiday unless essential\n• The dates for the return of fans to sports stadiums has been postponed", "Artwork: Nasa wants to return to the Moon, but this time it wants to stay\n\nThe US space agency (Nasa) has formally outlined its $28bn (£22bn) plan to return to the Moon by 2024.\n\nAs part of a programme called Artemis, Nasa will send a man and a woman to the lunar surface in the first landing with humans since 1972.\n\nBut the agency's timeline is contingent on Congress releasing $3.2bn for building a landing system.\n\nAstronauts will travel in an Apollo-like capsule called Orion that will launch on a powerful rocket called SLS.\n\nSpeaking on Monday afternoon (US time), Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said: \"The $28bn represents the costs associated for the next four years in the Artemis programme to land on the Moon. SLS funding, Orion funding, the human landing system and of course the spacesuits - all of those things that are part of the Artemis programme are included.\"\n\nBut he explained: \"The budget request that we have before the House and the Senate right now includes $3.2bn for 2021 for the human landing system. It is critically important that we get that $3.2bn.\"\n\nArtwork: astronauts will travel to the Moon in a spacecraft called Orion\n\nThe US House of Representatives has already passed a Bill allocating $600m towards the lunar lander. But Nasa will need more funds to develop the vehicle in full.\n\nMr Bridenstine added: \"I want to be clear, we are exceptionally grateful to the House of Representatives that, in a bipartisan way, they have determined that funding a human landing system is important - that's what that $600m represents. It is also true that we are asking for the full $3.2bn.\"\n\nIn July 2019, Mr Bridenstine told CNN that the first woman astronaut to walk on the Moon in 2024 would be someone \"who has been proven, somebody who has flown, somebody who has been on the International Space Station already\". He also said it would be someone already in the astronaut corps.\n\nAt the time of this interview, there were 12 active woman astronauts. They have since been joined by five other female Nasa astronauts who graduated from training earlier this year. But it remains unclear whether any of the newest astronauts can fulfil the criteria in time to fly on the first landing mission in 2024.\n\nThe most recent class of astronaut graduates includes six women - five from Nasa and one from the Canadian Space Agency\n\nAsked about the timeline for choosing crew members for Artemis, the Nasa chief said he hoped to pick a team at least two years prior to the first mission.\n\nHowever, he said: \"I think it's important we start identifying the Artemis team earlier than not... primarily because I think it will serve as a source of inspiration.\"\n\nBy sending astronauts back to the Moon, the White House wants to renew American leadership in space. There are also plans to extract valuable deposits of water-ice from the lunar South Pole. These could be used to make rocket fuel on the Moon - at a lower cost than carrying it from Earth - serving as the foundation for a lunar economy.\n\nBut Vice President Mike Pence has also cited concerns about China's spacefaring ambitions. In January 2019, the East Asian superpower became the first nation to softly land a robot rover on the far side of the Moon. The country is now preparing for its first mission to deliver samples of lunar soil to labs on Earth.\n\nIt has been developing a next generation spacecraft for Chinese astronauts that could fly to deep space destinations such as the Moon. Though China isn't on a timeline to get there by 2024, it could make considerable progress towards such a goal this decade.\n\nThe new Nasa document outlines Phase 1 of the US plan, which includes an uncrewed test flight around the Moon - called Artemis-1 - in the autumn of 2021.\n\nNasa's human spaceflight chief Kathy Lueders said that Artemis-1 would last for about a month to test out all the critical systems.\n\nShe said that demonstration flight would reduce the risk for Artemis-2, which will repeat the trip around the Moon with astronauts.\n\nA new test has been added to this mission - a proximity operations demonstration. Shortly after Orion separates from the upper-stage of the SLS rocket - known as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage - astronauts will manually pilot the spacecraft as they approach and back away from the stage.\n\nArtwork: The SLS rocket is on track to make its maiden flight next year\n\nThis will assess Orion's handling qualities, along with the performance of the spacecraft's hardware and software.\n\nArtemis-3 will become the first mission to send astronauts to the lunar surface since Apollo 17 some 48 years ago.\n\nNasa has provided $967m (£763m) to several companies to work on designs for the landing vehicle that will take them there.\n\nLater in the decade, the plan calls for Nasa to establish a base for humans, called Artemis Base Camp, that would include the infrastructure needed for long-term exploration of the Moon.\n\nBy comparison with Artemis, the Apollo programme in the 1960s and 70s cost upwards of $250bn in inflation-adjusted US dollars.\n\nHowever, the $28bn for this new plan does not include money already spent developing the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.", "It's not a day for optimists, even though the prime minister himself is one of that tribe.\n\nTomorrow, it will be six months exactly since he told the nation to stay at home.\n\nThis time, Boris Johnson stopped well short of slamming the country's doors shut.\n\nBut what really stood out in his long statement in a miserable-looking Commons was his message that the limits put in place today will last another six months.\n\nEven if you are very fond of your own company, lucky enough to have a secure job you enjoy and a comfy spare room where you can do it, it is quite something to contemplate.\n\nThe government now expects that all our lives will be subject to restrictions of one kind or another for a whole year - March 2020 to March 2021.\n\nAs each month ticks by, it becomes harder to imagine a return to anything like normal political life, or, more importantly, the way we all live.\n\nWe may not be waiting for a return to life as we knew it, but grinding through a moment of change.\n\nBut if you were listening carefully, something else was different too.\n\nThe country became familiar with the slogan \"Stay At Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives\" - it was emblazoned on government lecterns, repeated again and again by government ministers in interview after interview, on bus shelters, pop-up ads on the internet, wherever you looked.\n\nThat phrase was retired after the most intense period of the lockdown, but echoed today with one important additional condition.\n\nBoris Johnson's driver today was to \"save lives, protect the NHS\" and \"shelter the economy\".\n\nAs we discussed here yesterday, concerns about the economy played more strongly in Downing Street after fierce resistance from backbenchers, and arguments from the next-door neighbour in No 11 of the economic risks of a short, sharp closure programme.\n\nFears about how the country makes a living have always been part of the decision-making process for the government, grappling with these acute dilemmas.\n\nBut the political appetite inside the Tory party for sweeping restrictions has certainly dimmed.\n\nThe changes announced today do make economic recovery harder, the \"bounce back\" the government dreamt of looks harder to achieve, but they are not as draconian as they may otherwise have been.\n\nThe choices made by Nicola Sturgeon to restrict social lives much further than in England, as in Northern Ireland, point to that difference.\n\nMinisters used to make great play of following the science, now they are certainly following the politics too.\n\nOnly the unknowable progress of the disease will, in time, suggest which call was right.\n• None What's the guidance for Covid in the UK now?", "People and businesses have been reacting to the decision to impose local lockdowns in four more counties in south Wales.\n\nRestrictions come into force in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent and Newport at 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nPeople will not be able to enter or leave those areas except for a limited number of exemptions, such as work.\n\nCaerphilly went into lockdown on 8 September and Rhondda Cynon Taf followed on Thursday.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The number of schools in England sending home groups of pupils because of Covid-19 incidents has quadrupled in a week, according to the latest official figures.\n\nBased on attendance last Thursday, they show 4% of schools not fully open because of confirmed or suspected cases - up from 1% the previous week.\n\nThis could mean about 900 schools sending home pupils.\n\nOverall attendance has also dipped slightly from 88% to 87%.\n\nThis means over a million children were off school that day, whether from Covid-related or other reasons, with more pupils missing from secondary schools than primary.\n\nThe fall in attendance should \"ring alarm bells\" for the government, said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\n\"Clearly the failure of Covid testing sits at the heart of this. The inability of staff and families to successfully get tested when they display symptoms means that schools are struggling with staffing, children are missing school, and ultimately that children's education is being needlessly disrupted,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nThis is the second set of Department for Education attendance figures since schools returned in the autumn - and they show a significant increase in schools sending home groups of pupils or whole year groups because of concerns about coronavirus.\n\nBut they also show the number of schools which were fully open had increased - up from 92% to 94% - because the previous week's figures included schools that were still carrying out a phased start to the year or holding teacher training days.\n\nThe figures, based on responses from 76% of state schools, show almost no schools being completely closed - with 99.9% recorded as open.\n\nThis combination of more schools completing their reopening - and at the same time more schools sending pupils home because of Covid-19 - meant that the overall attendance figure balanced out as being similar to the previous week, from 88% to 87%.\n\nThis is well below what would be expected, with attendance rates usually around 95%.\n\nAn even lower proportion of vulnerable children, such as those with a social worker, were recorded as being at school, with an attendance rate of 81%.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said that with rising rates of infection and problems with Covid testing, the attendance figures were \"not at all surprising\".\n\n\"Frankly, it is a great relief that the situation is not a lot worse,\" said Mr Barton, who warned that even though schools were \"working incredibly hard to manage this very difficult situation\" it was going to be a \"long, hard winter\".\n\nProblems with getting Covid tests was making it harder for schools, said Kevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union.\n\n\"This is eroding trust among parents, and it will be an uphill struggle for it to be regained,\" he warned.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson welcomed that 99.9% of schools were open, but said: \"As we would expect, this data shows a small number of pupils are self-isolating in line with public health advice.\"\n\nHe said schools were working \"tremendously hard to ensure protective measures are in place to reduce the risks of transmission\" and they had \"access to timely advice and support through our helpline if they have a positive case\".", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nFans may not to be able to return to watch live sporting events in England until the end of March at the earliest.\n\nAt a meeting on Tuesday, sports governing bodies - including those from football, rugby, cricket, Formula 1 and horse racing - were told to prepare for no spectators throughout the winter.\n\nOfficials from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) told the meeting, which was attended by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, that the ban on fans will be kept under review.\n\nPremiership Rugby chief executive Darren Childs said: \"The announcement that supporters will not be allowed into stadiums for up to six months cuts off crucial revenue for clubs who have already suffered significant financial losses from suspending the season and playing matches behind closed doors since March.\n\n\"We believe the lack of supporters in our grounds could cause irreparable damage to our clubs and the communities they serve, so we must find a way forward to avoid this.\"\n\nRalph Rimmer, the chief executive of the Rugby Football League (RFL), added: \"Today's call specifically focused on the postponement of the pilot event programme and the plans for socially distanced crowds and the further serious impact this will now have on sports.\n\n\"The secretary of state indicated that the postponement may last throughout the winter. The impact on rugby league and other sports is profound.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined a range of new restrictions for the country, including confirmation that plans to allow fans to return to sport from 1 October would not go ahead.\n\nThe plans had been placed under review earlier this month after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe UK's Covid-19 alert level has moved to 4, meaning transmission is \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nThe prime minister also said restrictions are likely to remain in place for the next six months.\n\n\"We have to acknowledge the spread of the virus is now affecting our ability to reopen large sporting events,\" said the prime minister.\n• None 'Delayed return of fans is devastating for clubs, their employees and local businesses'\n• None Premier League clubs consider alternatives after proposed return of fans scrapped\n\nIn an address to the Commons on Tuesday, Johnson announced new restrictions for the country and those included the halting of the phased return of fans.\n\n\"We will not be able to do this from 1 October and I recognise the implications for our sports clubs, which are the life and soul of our communities,\" he added.\n\n\"The chancellor and the culture secretary are working urgently on what we can do now to support them.\"\n\nThe pilot programme, which was to trial events of up to 1,000 spectators, has also been paused.\n\nTwo Premiership rugby union matches - Bath v Gloucester on Tuesday and Bristol v Leicester next week - will now be played behind closed doors, as will a horse racing meeting at Newmarket later this week.\n\nThe majority of sports in England have been played behind closed doors since the coronavirus lockdown in March, including Premier League football fixtures and the FA Cup final, England's Test cricket matches and two Formula 1 races at Silverstone.\n\nSport events that took place with full crowds in March shortly before all fixtures were postponed and the UK locked down have come under scrutiny.\n\nThe impact of Liverpool's Champions League fixture against Atletico Madrid on the spread of coronavirus is being investigated by the city's council, while there have also been calls for an investigation into whether horse racing's Cheltenham Festival should have gone ahead.\n\nThe government defended its decision to allow such events to proceed before restrictions on mass gatherings were introduced.\n\n\"People look back now at the beginning of the pandemic at some of the major sporting events then and ask the question why were they allowed to go ahead,\" said Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove on BBC Breakfast earlier on Tuesday.\n\n\"What we must do is look at sporting events now with caution but we also recognise that sport is a vital part of this nation and we're looking at everything we can do to support our athletes, our great clubs, through what will be a challenging time.\"\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS select committee, said: \"If we don't find a route map with smart solutions to allow sports and live events to gradually reopen, we risk decimation of our sporting and cultural infrastructure.\"\n\nThe leaders of more than 100 sports bodies have written to the prime minister to ask for emergency funding, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\" because of coronavirus.\n\nSport England has handed out £200m for emergency cases, but many in the sector believe more is needed.\n\nEarlier this month, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters told BBC Sport it was \"absolutely critical\" fans were allowed back inside stadiums as soon as possible and failure to do so would cost clubs £700m during the 2020-21 season.\n\nEnglish Football League (EFL) clubs lost £50m in gate receipts last season and estimate a £200m loss if there are no fans this season.\n\nThe Rugby Football Union (RFU) said no spectators at the forthcoming Autumn Nations Cup or Six Nations will result in losses of £60m.\n\nRFL chief executive Rimmer urged the government not to delay the return of crowds, with clubs facing a potential impact on revenues of \"up to £2m per week\".\n\nAt the end of August, 2,500 people watched a friendly between Brighton and Chelsea at the Seagulls' Amex Stadium - the first time fans had been allowed into a Premier League ground for almost six months.\n\nAbout 300 spectators were allowed to watch last month's World Snooker Championship final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Kyren Wilson at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, but original plans to admit fans for all days of the tournament were reversed.\n\nArsenal's 9-1 victory over West Ham in the Women's Super League on 12 September saw up to 1,000 fans attend.\n\nMore than 2,500 spectators bought tickets for the first day of the St Leger meeting at Doncaster on 9 September, the first crowd at a British horse racing fixture in six months - but the rest of the meeting was then held behind closed doors.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, it was confirmed that indoor recreational team sports such as netball, basketball and five-a-side football will not be able to continue under the new restrictions, which limit numbers taking part to six.\n\nLarger fitness classes will be permitted, as long as they are organised so those taking part do not mix in groups of more than six.\n\nElite indoor sports are exempt, as are indoor sports played by children.\n\nThis is grim news for British sport, which teeters on the brink of an unprecedented crisis.\n\nOn one hand, it is no surprise, given rising cases of Covid-19, tighter restrictions and the criticism the government received for allowing events like the Cheltenham Festival to continue in March and not shutting down sooner.\n\nThe optics of allowing thousands of fans to travel to grounds while encouraging people to work from home was also seen as insurmountable.\n\nBut it will infuriate sports governing bodies that insist it is much safer for fans to be in highly regulated, socially distanced, often open-air venues and stadiums than watching on the TV in pubs, for instance.\n\nThey are not aware of any data or research which proves the return of fans would increase transmission. And they point to the fact that countries like Germany are allowing thousands of fans back inside grounds.\n\nSports are now being warned to brace themselves for several months without fans and report back to DCMS officials what impact this will have on their finances.\n\nFor the EFL and rugby clubs in particular, where matchday revenue is crucial, the answer will be potentially devastating. From non-league football and Olympic sports, through to grassroots clubs and community leisure facilities, the sector fears an existential crisis which could cost thousands of jobs and result in a slump in participation.\n\nPressure will now build on the government to come up with a similar emergency fund to the £1.57bn bailout the arts sector was handed in the summer. Calls for the Premier League to help prop up the football pyramid will also intensify.\n• None Amazing recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank", "Kaloti is a major participant in global gold refining with a substantial presence in Dubai\n\nA gold refiner that was used by criminals to launder drug money has been allowed to sell gold into global supply chains used to make smartphones and cars.\n\nInternational investigators concluded that the Dubai-based trader Kaloti was buying gold from criminal networks.\n\nThe US Treasury was urged by law enforcement six years ago to warn the world that it was a \"primary money laundering concern\".\n\nBut the warning was never given.\n\nAs a result, Kaloti has continued to sell tonnes of gold to companies in the supply chains of Apple, General Motors and Amazon, which use the precious metal in components. This has put firms and millions of consumers at risk of unwittingly funding criminal activity.\n\nThe US Treasury did not respond to requests for comment.\n\nKaloti's representatives said it \"vehemently denied\" it was knowingly involved in any crime or misconduct.\n\nConfidential documents seen by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the BBC reveal the US Treasury was urged by investigators in 2014 to issue the warning after a three-year investigation.\n\nCodenamed \"Honey Badger\" and led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the investigation concluded that Kaloti was involved in a scheme to transport or transfer \"tremendous amounts of illicit value through the use of gold as a commodity\".\n\nUnder the scheme described in the documents, criminals anywhere in the world could use drug money or other unlawfully obtained cash to buy scrap gold such as second-hand jewellery and bring it to Kaloti.\n\nIn exchange for the gold, according to investigators, Kaloti would offer bulk cash or send a wire transfer to them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn 2014, the DEA recommended that the US Treasury should publicly designate Kaloti a \"primary money laundering concern\" under the US Patriot Act, which would have made it too risky for global banks to do business with them, freezing the group out of the global financial system.\n\nBut the US Treasury never took action against Kaloti. Former officials said it put off a decision on the recommendation, concerned about the reaction of the United Arab Emirates, a key diplomatic ally, where Kaloti was based.\n\nWhen the UAE failed to act on its own initiative, the investigation was shelved.\n\nKaloti did not have the chance to see or challenge any of the evidence as they were not questioned by investigators and there could be undisclosed reasons justifying why the report wasn't acted upon. Attempts to obtain an explanation from the US Treasury failed to draw a response.\n\nThe investigation, which the US government has never made public, was supported by a flood of reports of suspicious activity from banks across the world handling Kaloti's money.\n\nLenders including Deutsche Bank and Barclays submitted 34 separate reports about Kaloti to the US Treasury's Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN), highlighting as suspicious thousands of transactions from 2007 to 2015 totalling $9.3bn (£7.26bn).\n\nIn 2017 a money laundering gang was convicted in France of laundering the proceeds of drug sales all over Europe including the UK.\n\nLast October, BBC Panorama revealed that a company controlled by the gang, Renade International, had sold $146m (£114m) of gold to Kaloti in 2012 alone - part of $5.2bn of gold purchases paid for with cash.\n\nKaloti vehemently denies ever acting improperly and says it has never been accused or contacted by any US authority about wrongdoing.\n\nIt says it performs full due diligence on all customers and suppliers.\n\nLawyers for the firm said it had successfully passed audits each year against all regulatory and legal standards.\n\nThe DEA-led taskforce investigating Kaloti submitted a report of their investigation and recommended the primary money laundering designation in August 2014.\n\nBut after the designation didn't materialise, gold sold by Kaloti has continued to end up in major supply chains.\n\nApple's list of approved suppliers includes entities which have purchased tonnes of gold from Kaloti, including Valcambi, one of the largest gold refiners in the world, based in Switzerland.\n\nAll modern smartphones feature components made with gold, which is a highly conductive metal.\n\nThis year the anti-corruption watchdog Global Witness reported that in 2018 and 2019, Valcambi purchased up to 20 tonnes of gold directly from Kaloti and a further 60 tonnes from a related entity.\n\nA further report by the Tech Transparency Project listed two further Swiss refiners which had purchased gold from Kaloti and were also on Apple's list of suppliers.\n\nValcambi said it would not confirm or deny buying gold from Kaloti. The company said it only purchases gold from its suppliers \"where the company can fully ensure the identification of the origin of the gold\".\n\nIn a statement, Apple said it was committed to responsibly sourcing for its products: \"If a refiner is unable or unwilling to meet our standards, they will be removed from our supply chain. Since 2015, we've stopped working with 63 refiners of gold for this reason.\n\n\"Several thorough and independent reviews have been conducted since 2015, and there is no evidence that any gold from Kaloti enters Apple products.\"\n\nBlack market gold can be used to launder profits from the drug trade\n\nKaloti is listed as being in the supply chain for General Motors and Amazon, according to data submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US regulator.\n\nGeneral Motors, which uses gold in car parts such as catalytic converters, said it was committed to responsible sourcing of goods used in its manufacturing and had not done business with Kaloti directly.\n\nIt said none of its suppliers had shared any compliance issues or concerns regarding Kaloti.\n\nAmazon said it was \"committed to ensuring that the products and services we provide are produced in a way that respects human rights and the environment. We engage with suppliers that are committed to these same principles.\n\n\"We expect suppliers to support our effort to identify the origin of designated minerals used in our products.\"\n\nInvestigators who had worked for years to expose money laundering linked to Kaloti describe themselves as \"incredibly frustrated\" by the US Treasury's handling of the matter.\n\n\"We put a tremendous amount of work and effort over three years into the case - we all lived and breathed it,\" said one of the people on the DEA-led taskforce, speaking anonymously.\n\n\"We were very confident we had more than enough for them to be designated. It pissed us all off.\"", "Barclays will tell \"hundreds\" of UK staff who had gone back to the office to return to working from home.\n\nThe bank told the BBC it was making the move following the latest guidance from the government that people should work at home when they can.\n\nAbout 1,000 Barclays employees worldwide returned to the office over the summer.\n\nFrench bank Societe Generale and insurance giant Lloyd's of London also told UK staff to work from home again.\n\nBarclays said it would not be releasing a country-specific number on those returning to work from home.\n\nThe bank had said it would carry out a \"gradual\" return to the office in October, after chief executive Jess Staley signalled that he wanted employees working from home during the pandemic to return to the office \"over time\".\n\n\"It is important to get people back together in physical concentrations,\" he told Bloomberg TV in July.\n\nHowever, not all banks take the same view. NatWest has said staff can continue to work from home until next year.\n\nOn Tuesday, Societe Generale said it was also \"adapting its position in line with UK government guidance\", without stating the number of workers in its London offices would now work from home.\n\nLloyd's of London said it had told its 800 directly employed staff to work from home but that this did not apply to the independent brokers who use its Lime Street headquarters.\n\n\"Lloyd's underwriting room is certified as a Covid-secure environment and will remain open for market participants,\" the company said.\n\nBusiness groups have reacted with dismay to the prime minister's call for people to work at home where they can.\n\nThe CBI said that it was a \"crushing\" blow that would have a \"devastating impact\".\n\nIt marks a change in policy following a government advertising campaign to get people back to work where safe.\n\nCampaign group London First said it would discourage people from returning to workplaces and risk \"derailing an already fragile recovery\".\n\nCBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC: \"We know we need to avoid a second national lockdown at all if we possibly can, but I have to say these are crushing blows.\n\n\"The impact on people who are coming back into their offices, the impact on city centres, so dependent on the bustle of city life, our creative industries - this will have a devastating impact on people and businesses.\n\n\"And I think that the answer for business, and what I'm hearing in my conversations this morning, is make it a short, sharp shock if it has to happen.\"\n\nPublic transport is still a worry for many people\n\nAppearing on the Emma Barnett Show on Radio 5 live, she said she was speaking to the programme from her office and that \"about 15%\" of her people were in.\n\n\"They're excited about coming back, we need to plan to bring more people back. It's good for morale, it's good for learning, it's good for creativity and so many businesses are feeling that, so this is a backward move that won't be welcomed, and let's make it as short as it needs to be.\"\n\n\"The new restrictions must be regularly reviewed to minimise the damage to the economy while safeguarding the health of the nation in the round - not just physical health, but mental health and our economic health, said London First chief executive Jasmine Whitbread.\n\nShe also called for the government to extend business rates relief and to introduce a \"targeted\" version of the furlough scheme, which is due to end on 31 October.\n\nAs well as the change in stance on working from home, Boris Johnson also confirmed that pubs and restaurants in England will have to close at 22:00 from Thursday to stop the spread of the coronavirus. He warned that the new measures could last up to six months.\n\nMs Whitbread said: \"A targeted version of the furlough scheme would help those hardest hit in leisure, retail and hospitality.\"\n\nRoger Barker, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, said the spread of coronavirus was not wholly predictable, but the \"back and forth\" on office working would cause \"frustration\".\n\nHe added: \"Business leaders are eager for the government to focus on the foundations, issues like childcare, public transport, and getting the testing system firing on all cylinders.\"", "Amazon has since taken down the hats from sale and said sellers must follow their guidelines\n\nA barrister has criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan \"Black Lives Don't Matter\", marketed as being elegant and a \"nice present\".\n\nAlexandra Wilson, from Essex, said it was \"honestly embarrassing\" the company was selling the caps and questioned whether it had any checks in place.\n\nAmazon has since removed the hats, which were being sold by a third party.\n\nLast week the retailer faced criticism for selling T-shirts with the slogan \"Let's Make Down Syndrome Extinct\".\n\nMs Wilson, 25, who has previously been the subject of racist abuse, said it was \"really disappointing\" it took some time for the hats to be taken down.\n\nShe said she wanted to make sure the item was never sold again.\n\nAlexandra Wilson, who specialises in family and criminal law, reported the item to Amazon\n\n\"Multiple people reported it and racist material should be removed immediately,\" she said.\n\n\"Websites like Amazon definitely need to have better checks in place for both their descriptions and photos because this isn't the first time something like this has happened.\"\n\nThe hat, which cost £12.96, was described by the seller as \"high quality\" with a \"unique and fashionable\" design which was \"eye catching\". It said the hat's \"elegant\" appearance made it a \"nice present\" for family and friends.\n\nIn a statement, Amazon said: \"All sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who do not will be subject to action including potential removal of their account. The product in question is no longer available.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers have ruled out changes to make it easier for transgender people in England and Wales to have their gender legally recognised.\n\nThey have rejected calls for people to be able to self-identify their gender and change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis.\n\nMinisters said reform of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act was not the \"top priority\" for trans people.\n\nThe UK's equalities watchdog said it was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nBut women's rights groups applauded the decision as a \"victory for fairness and common sense\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the GRA and has anything actually changed?\n\nMinisters are pledging action to make it easier for trans people to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate and to improve healthcare services for them.\n\nBut LGBT groups had urged them to go much further, by making it easier for people to legally transition from their birth sex and to provide greater protection under the law.\n\nCurrently, the Gender Recognition Act requires trans people to go through a long process in order to change their birth certificates.\n\nA \"self-ID\" process, allowing changes to birth certificates without a medical diagnosis, was one of the ideas put forward in a consultation undertaken by the last Conservative government, led by Theresa May.\n\nOf the 102,818 responses received, 64% said there should not be a requirement for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria in the future, on the grounds that being trans was neither a medical nor a mental health issue.\n\nBut, in a statement, Equalities Minister Liz Truss said she believed the law as it stood provided the right \"checks and balances\".\n\n\"We want transgender people to be free to live and to prosper in a modern Britain,\" she said.\n\n\"It is the government's view that the balance struck in this legislation is correct, in that there are proper checks and balances in the system and also support for people who want to change their legal sex.\n\n\"We have also come to understand that gender recognition reform, though supported in the consultation undertaken by the last government, is not the top priority for transgender people.\"\n\nIt's now nearly three years since Theresa May talked about \"de-medicalising\" the gender recognition process.\n\nAnd it raised hopes, in some quarters, that fundamental reforms were on the way.\n\nElsewhere, it raised fears that women's rights were set to be eroded.\n\nAnd as that debate raged, ministers seemed to retreat from the scene, unwilling or unsure about how to publicly deal with this political 'hot potato'.\n\nAnd although an official response remained missing in action, it did increasingly become clear that Boris Johnson's administration was unlikely to back what's known as self-ID.\n\nNow, finally, ministers have made up their mind.\n\nIt's a no to changing the law - albeit a yes to cutting the costs of the process.\n\nAnd there are promises to try and address some very real concerns about healthcare.\n\nWhile that move will be welcomed by many, such measures may also be perceived as a way of trying to sweeten the pill for those who are disappointed about the lack of legal reform.\n\nAfter the drawn out delays in Whitehall - and divisive debates in some communities - it's very doubtful that this government will seek to delve into the self-ID debate again any time soon.\n\nMs Truss said the 2010 Equality Act, landmark legislation passed towards the end of the last Labour government, \"clearly protects\" transgender people from discrimination while allowing service providers to restrict access to single sex spaces on the basis of biological sex if there is a clear justification.\n\nThe government is pledging to cut the time involved in applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate, making the process \"kinder and more straightforward\", as well as reducing the £140 cost to a \"nominal\" amount.\n\nAnd it is also promising to cut waiting times at NHS gender clinics.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission welcomed the steps but said it regretted the fact that ministers had passed up an opportunity to \"simplify the law\".\n\n\"There is more to be done to increase understanding in wider society and address the divisive public dialogue in this space,\" a spokesman said.\n\nStonewall, which campaigns for equality for lesbian, bisexual, gay and trans people, said the \"minimal administrative\" changes being proposed were totally inadequate.\n\n\"While these moves will make the current process less costly and bureaucratic, they don't go anywhere near far enough toward meaningfully reforming the Act to make it easier for all trans people to go about their daily life,\" said the organisation's chief executive Nancy Kelley.\n\nAnd, in a joint statement, Amnesty International UK, Liberty and Human Rights Watch said it was a \"missed opportunity\" to ensure the law kept pace with \"human rights standards\".\n\n\"Research has found that medical barriers to gender recognition for trans people are unnecessarily intrusive and can harm their physical and mental health,\" the three organisations said.\n\n\"With medical requirements still in place, trans people will continue to be forced through harmful processes to have their gender legally recognised.\"\n\nBut Fair Play for Women, a group committed to defending the sex-based rights of women, said Ms Truss had made the right decision.\n\nIt said the government had \"acknowledged women are stakeholders too and policies must fairly balance the conflicting rights of trans people and women\".\n\n\"Trans people in the UK have some of the strongest legal protections in the world. That does not change today.\"\n\nIn Scotland, plans that would have allowed trans people to self-identify have been put on hold following criticism from across the political spectrum, including from within the SNP.\n\nA draft bill published by the Scottish government in December would have removed the requirement for people to provide medical evidence of their diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nNo change is now expected before next year's Holyrood elections although Scottish minsters say they remain \"committed\" to updating the law so people can get a gender recognition certificate without \"unnecessary stress\".", "Six people were treated for injuries following the crash on Monday morning\n\nA man has died and an 11-year-old boy is in a life-threatening condition after a lorry crashed into a house in south-east London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Broad Walk, Kidbrooke, at 08:05 BST, where six people had been injured in the crash.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said the 29-year-old lorry driver was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nTwo other men were taken to hospital, London Ambulance Service (LAS) added.\n\nLFB said the crash had also caused structural damage to a house in Woolacombe Road.\n\nStation commander Nathan Hobson said: \"It was a challenging incident and it appears that a lorry collided with two cars and crashed into a house.\n\n\"Specialist urban search and rescue crews attended the scene and efforts were made to free the lorry driver but sadly he was pronounced dead at the scene.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said the scene was \"utterly tragic\" after the lorry crashed just 30 metres from his home.\n\nHe added: \"I was preparing for the school run, all [of a] sudden police, ambulance siren, helicopter sound went on.\n\n\"Local traffic was controlled by police, then I heard people are talking about a lorry crashed into a house... then someone was sent off [in an] air ambulance.\n\n\"It's utterly tragic - my thoughts are with their loved ones.\"\n\nAnother neighbour, who also asked not to be named, described the crash as \"sounding like an earthquake\".\n\nGreenwich Council said it was not aware any of its vehicles or employees were involved in the crash\n\nLAS said six patients were treated for injuries at the scene.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Unfortunately, one patient was found to have died at the scene.\n\n\"Of the remaining five patients, we took three to hospital and two were discharged at the scene.\"\n\nOne patient was flown to a major trauma centre in London\n\nIt is understood one of the patients was flown by air ambulance to a major trauma centre in London.\n\nThe Met Police said the two men who were taken to hospital had been told their injuries were neither life-threatening nor life-changing.\n\nOfficers are still trying to find the driver's next of kin and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.\n\nDet Con Neil Webb said the Met was appealing for dash-cam or home CCTV footage to help understand more about the crash.\n\n\"This is a traumatic incident and my thoughts are with those involved and their loved ones,\" he added.\n\nRoyal Borough of Greenwich Council said it was aware of the crash, but had been told \"no council vehicles or employees were involved\".\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.", "Children are included in the new limits for social gatherings in England\n\nThe \"rule of six\", the latest limits on social gatherings in England, will not be changed to exempt children under 12, Michael Gove has insisted.\n\nThe new rules, which limit six people to meeting indoors and outdoors, come into effect on Monday.\n\nSimilar rules in Wales and Scotland do not include children under 11 and 12 respectively. But Mr Gove said the England rules were \"absolutely right\".\n\nIt comes as one scientist warned UK could lose control of the virus.\n\n\"One would have to say that we're on the edge of losing control,\" Prof Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nProf Walport said it was very important that children go to school and students return to university - but social interactions would have to be limited in other areas.\n\n\"The only way to stop the spread of this infection is to reduce the number of people we all come into contact with,\" he added.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the rule of six was \"well-understood\" as a public health message and had the public's support.\n\n\"As ever, the important thing is balance - eating out, seeing friends - that is fine, provided we do so in a way that is socially responsible, that's what the rule of six is about.\"\n\nHe said some people had \"unwittingly\" contributed to the spread of the virus because of the way they had interacted, adding: \"So therefore, a clear message - as simple as possible - makes it easier for all of us to do what is helpful to others.\"\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4, he added that there needed to be \"a degree of self-discipline and restriction\" in order to deal with the challenges posed by the rising number of coronavirus cases across England - and the escalating R number, which measures the rate at which the virus is transmitted.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast. he urged the public to behave in \"a responsible fashion\" amid fears people might treat it as a \"party weekend\", ahead of the new restrictions coming into effect next week.\n\n\"These rules and regulations are there for our protection, but also for the protection of the most vulnerable in society\", citing the elderly or those with underlying health conditions \"who face far grimmer consequences\" if they contract Covid-19.\n\n\"The onus is on all of us to do everything we can to make sure we abide by those rules.\n\n\"Then we can ensure, in due course, that these restrictions can be relaxed - and my hope, like so many, is that we can have a proper Christmas.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nIn the immediate future, Mr Gove agreed fines could be necessary to enforce regulations. It follows a story in the Times, which says the government is looking at introducing fines for people who refuse to self-isolate when required.\n\n\"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk,\" Mr Gove told Radio 4.\n\nAsked about Prof Walport's statement that the UK was \"losing control\", Mr Gove said it was \"a warning to us all\".\n\n\"There's a range of scientific opinion, but one thing on which practically every scientist is agreed is that we have seen an uptick in infection and therefore it is appropriate we take public health measures.\"\n\nThere are fears people will treat this weekend as a \"party weekend\" ahead of the new restrictions\n\nSage found that only about 20% of people who have symptoms or live in a household where someone else has symptoms adhere to self-isolation requirements.\n\n\"Sometimes there's an argument that's depicted, as though this is pernicious of the liberty of freedom-loving people - well there are restrictions, and I love freedom, but the one thing I think is even more important is that you exercise freedom with responsibility,\" said Mr Gove.\n\nSome Conservative backbenchers have protested about enhanced regulations, such as the rule of six, and pressed the government to follow Wales and Scotland in exempting young children.\n\nOn Friday, ex-minister Steve Baker said the latest government action amounted to \"arbitrary powers without scrutiny\" and MP Desmond Swayne said it was \"outrageous\" not to have a Parliamentary debate.\n\n\"This is not a fit legal environment for the British people,\" Mr Baker told the BBC.\n\n\"It's time to move to a voluntary system, unless the government can demonstrate otherwise and it is time for us to start living like a free people.\"\n\nSenior Conservative backbenchers are reported to be lobbying Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to make sure that legislation is being reviewed every month, not every six months.\n\nWhat do you think about the decision to include children under 12 in the \"rule of six\" in England? How does it affect you? Tell us about your experience by emailinghaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website or contacts us via email at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, location and a contact number with any email.", "Addiction services in England could struggle to cope with \"soaring\" numbers of people misusing alcohol, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is warning.\n\nMany adults are drinking more since the coronavirus pandemic began, data shows.\n\nThe college estimates that in June, more than 8.4m people in England were drinking at higher-risk levels, up from 4.8m in February.\n\nIt says deep cuts made to addiction services could mean patients will miss out on life-saving care.\n\nThe rise in risky drinking comes at a time when more people addicted to opiates are seeking help from addiction services, says the college, referring to National Drug Treatment Monitoring System statistics showing 3,459 new adult cases in April - up 20% from 2,947 in the same month the previous year.\n\nGuidelines advise people drink no more than 14 units of alcohol (equivalent to six large glasses of wine or six pints of beer) a week, spreading consumption over three days or more.\n\nDrinking too much can damage your liver and increases the risk of other health conditions such as heart disease and stroke.\n\nPeople with alcohol use disorder are more likely to develop serious complications if they catch Covid-19.\n\nThe college is asking the government to invest millions more in addiction services.\n\nProf Julia Sinclair, chair of the college's addictions faculty, said: \"Covid-19 has shown just how stretched, under-resourced and ill-equipped addiction services are to treat the growing numbers of vulnerable people living with this complex illness.\n\n\"There are now only five NHS inpatient units in the country, and no resource anywhere in my region to admit people who are alcohol dependent with co-existing mental illness.\n\n\"Drug-related deaths and alcohol-related hospital admissions were already at all-time highs before Covid-19. I fear that unless the government acts quickly we will see these numbers rise exponentially.\"\n\nLaura Bunt from the drug, alcohol and mental health charity We Are With You said: \"Social isolation and a lack of a human connection is a big factor behind why some people turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism, so clearly the pandemic continues to be really tough for many people.\n\n\"When you consider that the UK had some of the highest levels of alcohol-related harms in Europe even before the lockdown in March, the need for government action now is clear.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We have increased their funding this year, providing over £3.2 billion to spend on public health services like addiction.\n\n\"We support evidence-based approaches to reduce the health-related harms of drug misuse and, as part of our NHS Long Term Plan, alcohol care teams will be introduced in hospitals where alcohol-related admissions are high, intervening in 50,000 cases over five years to reduce harm.\"\n\nIf you are concerned about addiction, BBC Action Line has help and support.", "German carmaker Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, has agreed to pay $1.5bn (£1.2bn) to resolve US government claims that it designed its diesel vehicles to cheat air pollution tests.\n\nThe firm was investigated for installing software to evade emissions laws in 250,000 Mercedes cars and vans.\n\nUS officials said they hoped the fine would deter future misbehaviour.\n\nDaimler called the deal an \"important step\" towards resolving diesel proceedings but denied the claims.\n\n\"By resolving these proceedings, Daimler avoids lengthy court actions with respective legal and financial risks,\" the company said.\n\nIn addition to the $1.5bn settlement with US authorities, Daimler said it had agreed to pay $700m to settle a class action lawsuit brought by owners.\n\nIt also disclosed \"further expenses of a mid three-digit-million EUR amount to fulfil requirements of the settlements.\"\n\nThe deals, which Daimler had said it was nearing last month, conclude an investigation that the US started in 2016, after \"defeat devices\" were discovered through testing.\n\nOfficials said that an $875m fine included in the $1.5bn settlement with authorities is the second-largest civil penalty the US has ever imposed under its Clear Air Act and the largest if measured on a per-vehicle basis.\n\nDaimler has also agreed to fix the affected cars, which were sold between 2009 and 2016, at no cost to their owners. US officials said that commitment was worth about $400m.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, Andrew Wheeler, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, said: \"The message we are sending today is clear: We will enforce the law.\n\n\"If you try to cheat the system and mislead the public, you will be caught. Those who violate public trust in pursuit of profits will forfeit both.\"\n\nThe penalties are the latest in a wide-ranging scandal that has cast a cloud over the motor industry since 2015, when Volkswagen admitted to installing secret software on vehicles sold in the US.\n\nThe system allowed the cars to emit up to 40 times legally permitted emissions and evade detection during tests.\n\nVolkswagen later admitted the devices affected more than 11 million vehicles globally. The company more than $20bn to resolve claims in the US alone.\n\nBut investigations soon widened to other companies, including Ford, Mitsubishi, and Nissan.\n\nIn 2018, Daimler recalled more than 700,000 vehicles in Europe that had \"defeat devices\" installed. BMW and Porsche have also recalled cars over the issue.\n\nFiat Chrysler in Europe were raided this summer over the matter. The firm agreed to an estimated $800m settlement to resolve civil claims in the US in January.\n\nDaimler said the US settlement concerned vehicles that were not sold in the same configurations in Europe.", "JD Wetherspoon has said that 66 of its workers have tested positive for the coronavirus but maintains that visiting pubs is safe.\n\nThe company, which employs more than 41,000 people, said the vast majority of its pubs had recorded no positive tests for the virus.\n\nThere had been one or more cases among staff at 50 of its pubs.\n\nWetherspoon's boss Tim Martin dismissed claims by disease expert Professor Hugh Pennington that pubs are \"dangerous\".\n\nHe said: \"The situation with regard to pubs has been widely misunderstood.\"\n\nAberdeen University's Prof Pennington said last month that pubs are \"far, far more dangerous places to be\" when discussing sending children back to school during the pandemic.\n\nSince reopening on 4 July, the company said some 32 million people have visited its 861 open pubs.\n\nForty of its pubs have reported one worker testing positive for the coronavirus and six have disclosed two.\n\nIn addition, two pubs reported three staff testing positive and another two said four workers had.\n\nA spokesman for Wetherspoon said the pubs have not been closed for a deep clean.\n\nThe company said it has invested £15m in hygiene and social distancing measures at its premises.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"The advice Wetherspoon has received from the public health authorities is that employees should self-isolate if they come into close contact with someone who has tested positive. Close contact means within 2 metres for 15 minutes or more or 1 metre for 1 minute or more.\n\n\"Unless social distancing policies have not been observed, the health authorities, in our experience, do not normally advise closure.\"\n\nHe added that since the company's pubs reopened: \"Staff are conducting regular surface cleaning and numerous hand sanitisers have been installed in each pub.\"\n\nHe said each premises is cleaned throughout trading and at the end of the day.\n\nWetherspoon said 28 of the affected employees had returned to work. A spokesman for the company said the workers, as well as those who worked in close proximity to them, self-isolated for 14 days and were paid in full.\n\nThe chain said signing up to the NHS track-and-trace system was mandatory in its premises.\n\nThe company's spokesman said there was no list of the pubs that had been affected. \"Whenever there has been a situation we have dealt with the local press, public health and the council,\" he said.\n\nMr Martin argued that pubs and shops were safer than homes.\n\n\"It is much easier to inadvertently pass on the virus in someone's house, where people are more relaxed and less vigilant,\" he said.\n\nFrom Monday, social gatherings of more than six people have been banned both indoors and outdoors in England and Scotland and indoors only in Wales.\n\nIt follows a rise in new coronavirus cases, with a further 3,330 positive cases recorded in the UK on Sunday.\n\nMr Martin said there had not been a rush of people coming to its pubs before the so-called \"rule of six\" was introduced and trade was 22.5% below the equivalent Saturday last year.\n\nHe added: \"If pubs are closed, or restricted so much that they become unprofitable, a great deal of the strenuous effort of the hospitality industry's 3.2 million employees, currently engaged on upholding hygiene and social distancing standards, will be lost.\"", "The A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful has been hit by another landslide\n\nA trunk road through Argyll has been closed by a \"significant landslide\" for the second time in six weeks.\n\nThe A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful was covered in earth and debris as 75mm (3in) of rain fell in 24 hours.\n\nRoad operator Bear Scotland said the A83 and the nearby old military road would remain closed on Sunday night.\n\nIt added that the landslide had continued through the day and engineers were unable to conclude safety assessments.\n\nThe route only reopened on Monday following a 10,000 tonne landslide at the beginning of August.\n\nAbout 1,000 tonne of debris is thought to have moved down the hillside on Sunday morning, according to Bear Scotland.\n\nThe roads firm said it happened at the same place as the earlier landslide.\n\nMuch of it was \"caught\" in temporary mitigation measures including a pit and a rockfall barrier.\n\nEddie Ross, the road operator's north west representative, said: \"This is another major landslide event and the on-going nature of it and the continued heavy rain has meant we are unable to conclude a full safety assessment.\"\n\nHe said the roads have been closed because a \"safety-first approach\" was required.\n\nThe closures mean motorists will have to follow a 59-mile (95km) diversion.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for rain is in place across parts of the west of Scotland until midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said 75mm (3in) of rain fell in 24 hours at the Rest and Be Thankful over the weekend.\n\nThere were similar levels of rainfall across the country and a series of flood warnings and alerts were in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the extent of a landslip at the A83 Rest and Be Thankful\n\nSepa duty flood manager Mark Franklin said Scotland had been \"battered\" by another weekend of wet weather and there had been flooding in the west, central, north of and south of Scotland.\n\n\"Whilst Sunday sees an improving picture for central and southern Scotland, we'll see continued heavy rainfall across the day for the north west,\" he added.\n\n\"This is likely to result in further localised flooding of land and roads, as well as some transport disruption before improving on Monday.\n\n\"People living, working and travelling in these areas are advised to ensure they have signed up to Floodline and are prepared to take action to protect property.\"", "Alison Keen and her husband have four children so are already a group of six\n\nIndoor and outdoor social gatherings of more than six people will be banned in England from Monday as coronavirus restrictions are tightened. Although larger households are able to gather within their bubbles, some can no longer meet up with friends and family.\n\nBefore the pandemic hit, Alison Keen had planned a big party for her 40th birthday on 21 September. When lockdown happened, she postponed it until 2021 and instead had hoped for a family gathering. But now that too cannot go ahead.\n\nShe and her husband have four children, meaning the new \"rule of six\" applies solely to their family.\n\n\"I can't meet up with anyone just because I've got kids,\" said Mrs Keen, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.\n\n\"Mum's upset that she can't see me on my birthday and really annoyed that she could have come to see the kids last week, but not next week.\"\n\nMrs Keen said allowing her children, between six and 11, to go back to school but not have family gatherings \"seems daft\".\n\nThe family had thought her parents, who live in Birmingham, would be able to see Mrs Keen's two sisters, who both have fewer children. But from Tuesday additional restrictions in Birmingham will prevent this.\n\nMrs Keen's four children have all recently returned to school\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the new rules \"to avoid a second national lockdown\" as the rate of infection climbs across the country.\n\nIt applies both indoors and outdoors and to all ages - although there are some exemptions, such as gatherings for work or school.\n\nThe new rules will be enforced by police who will have powers to issue fines and make arrests.\n\n\"I get they're trying to simplify the rules, but that's not how viruses work,\" said Mrs Keen.\n\n\"At the end of the day it's a new virus and as you learn, policies have to evolve. But it feels awful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said the new measures were \"not another national lockdown\"\n\nDee Jones, a mum of six from Telford, in Shropshire, said the new restrictions means she won't be able to see all of her children, five of whom have moved out and married.\n\nShe works two jobs and so only has one weekend off each month - the family would normally use that weekend to get together for a big meal.\n\n\"We can't do that now, unless my son-in-law sits out in the garden and eats his dinner there.\"\n\nThe \"rule of six\" will make it almost impossible to arrange seeing her family and already they are having to do so \"almost on a rota\".\n\nShe said a turkey, bought for the family's Easter meal, had been \"stuck in the freezer all throughout lockdown - if I didn't laugh about it I would have cried\", adding she was finding the restrictions \"quite depressing\".\n\n\"Honestly, it's ridiculous. I'm frustrated. We've done what we've been advised and there are clearly people out there who haven't.\"\n\nStephanie Raheel, from Yardley in Birmingham, has three children, Alina, Amaya and Arissa.\n\nHer husband's parents are at the heart of their family and they would usually meet them regularly with extended family members.\n\nTo go back to stricter measures will be hard, she said, \"especially for the children - it's hard for them to understand\".\n\nMrs Raheel's children, aged between three and six, have returned to school and nursery but she worries the restrictions will mean the older people in her family will miss out on special moments with her young daughters.\n\n\"Within our family we've had two babies born in lockdown,\" she said. \"The key moments, you want to celebrate with your loved ones.\n\n\"The grandparents too, they love to see the little ones.\"\n\nBirmingham has the second highest rate of infections in England - 85.4 per 100,000 people\n\nMrs Raheel said her mother-in-law is due to have an eye operation next week, something her husband and his six brothers are keen to support her with.\n\n\"We'll all just want to go and see her and check she's OK - when people are in need, it's difficult.\"\n\nShe is not sure how the family will be able to keep checking in on loved ones without breaking the new restrictions, but thinks they will just have to take it in turns to visit.\n\n\"Everyone is just a little bit puzzled about why it is six people, and they're not shutting restaurants and pubs - it just doesn't make any sense.\n\n\"There are so many different things you're allowed to do and not allowed to do, we just have to accept that's the way it is.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden - in north-east Greenland.\n\nThe ejected section covers about 110 square km; satellite imagery shows it to have shattered into many small pieces.\n\nThe loss is further evidence say scientists of the rapid climate changes taking place in Greenland.\n\n\"The atmosphere in this region has warmed by about 3C since 1980,\" said Dr Jenny Turton.\n\n\"And in 2019 and 2020, it saw record summer temperatures,\" the polar researcher at Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany told BBC News.\n\nNioghalvfjerdsfjorden is roughly 80km long by 20km wide and is the floating front end of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream - where it flows off the land into the ocean to become buoyant.\n\nAt its leading edge, the 79N glacier splits in two, with a minor offshoot turning directly north. It's this offshoot, or tributary, called Spalte Glacier, that has now disintegrated.\n\nThe ice is being attacked from above and below\n\nThe ice feature was already heavily fractured in 2019; this summer's warmth has been its final undoing. Spalte Glacier has become a flotilla of icebergs.\n\nLook closely at the satellite pictures and the higher air temperatures recorded in the region are obvious from the large number of melt ponds that sit on top of the shelf ice.\n\nThe presence of such liquid water is often problematic for ice platforms. If it fills crevasses, it can help to open them up. The water will push down on the fissures, driving them through to the base of the shelf in a process known as hydrofracturing. This will weaken an ice shelf.\n\nOceanographers have also documented warmer sea temperatures which mean the shelf ice is almost certainly being melted from beneath as well.\n\n\"79N became 'the largest remaining Arctic ice shelf' only fairly recently, after the Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland lost a lot of area in 2010 and 2012,\" explained Prof Jason Box from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).\n\n\"What makes 79N so important is the way it's attached to the interior ice sheet, and that means that one day - if the climate warms as we expect - this region will probably become one of the major centres of action for the deglaciation of Greenland.\"\n\nThe trunk of N79 is covered in melt ponds and streams\n\nThe Northeast Greenland Ice Stream drains about 15% of the interior ice sheet. The stream funnels its ice either down N79 or the glacial member just to the south, Zachariae Isstrom. Zachariae has already lost most of its floating ice shelf area.\n\nProf Box said N79 could resist longer because it was penned in right at its forward end by some islands. This lends a degree of stability. But, he added, the shelf continues to thin, albeit mostly further back along the trunk.\n\n\"This will likely lead to N79 disintegrating from the middle, which is kind of unique. I guess, though, that won't happen for another 10 or 20 years. Who knows?\" he told BBC News.\n\nJuly witnessed another large ice shelf structure in the Arctic lose significant area. This was Milne Ice Shelf on the northern margin of Canada's Ellesmere Island.\n\nEighty sq km broke free from Milne, leaving a still secure segment just 106 sq km in size. Milne was the largest intact remnant from a wider shelf feature that covered 8,600 sq km at the start of the 20th Century.\n\nThe fast pace of melting in Greenland was underlined in a study last month that analysed data from the US-German Grace-FO satellites. These spacecraft are able to track changes in ice mass by sensing shifts in the pull of local gravity. They essentially weigh the ice sheet.\n\nThe Grace mission found 2019 to have been a record-breaking year, with the ice sheet shedding some 530 billion tonnes. That's enough meltwater running off the land into the ocean to raise global sea-levels by 1.5mm.", "The US is embroiled in a debate over racism in the police\n\nPolice in the US state of Georgia say a sheriff's deputy has been fired after video emerged showing him pinning a black man to the floor and punching him in the face.\n\nRoderick Walker, 26, was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by deputies for an alleged broken rear light.\n\nAfter an altercation, police tried to arrest him.\n\nVideo shared on social media showed Mr Walker being held down by two white deputies, one of whom punches him.\n\nIn a statement, Clayton County Sheriff's Office said \"the deputy who repeatedly struck Roderick Walker\" was to lose his job \"for excessive use of force\".\n\nA criminal investigation has been turned over to the district attorney's office, the statement added.\n\nThe incident, which happened on Friday near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, comes amid heightened tensions in the US over racism and police brutality.\n\nMr Walker's lawyer, Shean Williams, said his client had been a passenger in the lift-share car with his girlfriend, their five-month-old child and his stepson when police pulled them over.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shomari Stone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Walker became upset when he was asked for his identification as he hadn't been driving the car, Mr Williams said in a statement quoted by ABC News.\n\n\"He informed them that he did not have any ID and that he didn't need any since he was not driving a vehicle,\" he said.\n\n\"When they didn't like his question, they then demanded that he get out of a vehicle that he wasn't driving. It escalates to him being beaten on the ground, being tased, and almost dying. And they take him to jail.\"\n\nIn footage of the arrest, a child in the car yells \"Daddy\" and Mr Walker's girlfriend screams. One of the deputies says Mr Walker bit him.\n\nMr Williams said that his client lost consciousness at least twice during the arrest and denied biting the deputy.\n\nA photograph of Mr Walker taken later in custody shows him with a swollen left eye.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kristen Clarke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"My reaction to the video is that it just shows, unfortunately, another incident where an African American male's civil rights have been violated by people and officers and law enforcement who have the duty first to protect and serve,\" Mr Williams said.\n\nMr Walker is charged with two counts of obstructing officers and two counts of battery, ABC News reported.\n\nHis family and his lawyers are pressing to have him released from jail.\n\nIn recent months the US has been grappling with the treatment of African-Americans at the hands of the police, as well as wider questions about racism in society.\n\nDebates were triggered by the death in police custody in Minneapolis of another black man, George Floyd, in May.\n\nHis death sparked protests around the country, and abroad, and has ignited calls for police reform in the US.\n\nMore recently, the shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, in Wisconsin led to further violent protests.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nFrank Lampard says his expensively reshaped Chelsea side \"have to have intentions to be up there\" with champions Liverpool after they began their campaign with victory at Brighton.\n\nChelsea finished 33 points adrift of the Reds last season and lost both league fixtures against them but have spent around £200m this summer.\n\nTimo Werner - signed from RB Leipzig - and his Germany team-mate Kai Havertz - brought in from Bayer Leverkusen - made their debuts for a side forced to work hard for their win in Monday's game at Brighton.\n\nWerner was pacy and prominent in the victory, winning a 23rd-minute penalty when he was hauled down by Brighton keeper Mat Ryan, Jorginho scoring the resulting spot-kick.\n\nThe new signing had ice strapped to his leg at full-time following the collision to win the penalty but said he would be fit to face Liverpool in Sunday's game at Stamford Bridge.\n\nBrighton lost summer signing Adam Lallana to injury before the break but were back on level terms after 54 minutes when Leandro Trossard's 20-yard shot squirmed past Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.\n\nChelsea regained their lead two minutes later when Reece James ripped a 25-yard right-foot shot high past Ryan.\n\nBrighton should have equalised when Lewis Dunk somehow headed wide at the far post, paying the price for the miss when Kurt Zouma's shot was deflected past Ryan by Adam Webster.\n\n\"We definitely want to close that gap to Liverpool - we have to have intentions to be up there even though it is a big ask to win [the title],\" said Lampard, who has also signed midfielder Hakim Ziyech and defenders Xavier Mbuyamba, Malang Sarr, Ben Chilwell and Thiago Silva this summer.\n\n\"We are behind, it's step by step. Hopefully we can make big strides.\"\n• None How you rated the players\n\nRusty Chelsea will take the points\n\nLampard will be delighted to leave Brighton win three points after what was a mixed performance, perhaps understandable for the first Premier League outing of the season.\n\nLampard got what he wanted, apart from a debut goal, from Werner as he was a constant menace, always on the move and looking to use his speed to get behind the Brighton defence. He had no trouble adjusting to the tempo of the Premier League and there seems little doubt goals will come.\n\nHavertz was a more low-key presence on the right side of midfield in front of James but he worked hard in his 79 minutes and drew warm applause from Lampard for one lengthy recovery run back into his own penalty area to clear danger.\n\nChelsea were without injured left-back Chilwell, signed for £50m from Leicester City, and Silva as he has only just joined training and Lampard will be keen to get that influential duo into a defence that still looks vulnerable.\n\nTariq Lamptey's crosses caused trouble all night and Chelsea were grateful for that headed miss by Dunk at the far post when it looked easier to score.\n\nAnd once again there were questions over keeper Kepa, who got close to Trossard's shot but allowed it to creep in.\n\nIt seems his time is running out as Chelsea's first-choice goalkeeper, with the £20m signing of Rennes' Edouard Mendy apparently imminent.\n\nBrighton can take some satisfaction through the pain of a defeat that will leave manager Graham Potter bitterly frustrated.\n\nThe Seagulls acquitted themselves very well and had the game's outstanding performer in former Chelsea right-back Lamptey, who was industrious and creative in a top-class display.\n\nAnd the momentum appeared to be with Brighton when Trossard scored a deserved equaliser - only for them to concede a second within two minutes from James' thunderous finish.\n\nBrighton then wasted the best chance of the game when Dunk headed wide and were unable to recover as Chelsea re-established a two-goal lead.\n\nThis was, however, a very respectable performance. On the down side, Potter is facing the issue he must have feared when he signed Lallana from Liverpool.\n\nLallana is a great asset when fit - but therein lies the problem. He did not last the first half and has now failed to play 90 minutes in the Premier League since he faced Middlesbrough for Liverpool in May 2017.\n\n'We'll get better and better' - what they said\n\nBrighton manager Graham Potter to BBC Sport: \"The performance was good in many aspects; we more than matched Chelsea for long periods. I'm disappointed with the opening goal, but errors can happen. We were heavily punished with a wonder strike - and ultimately, if you concede three times it's hard to win football matches.\n\n\"You have moments against the big teams that you need to have go your way and we need to learn from that. But there are positives. Adam Lallana was enjoying the game, he brings that personality, we are pleased with what he has brought to us and we just have to help him get on the field more often.\"\n\nChelsea manager Frank Lampard to BBC Sport: \"To come to Brighton and win is a tough ask. We've only had a few days, so I didn't expect the kind of football we want to play. We had to do some of the more difficult things - resilience, throwing yourself in front of the ball, so I'm pleased.\n\n\"We've had a lot of quarantines, a lot of players who aren't match fit. That's how this season has started. There's a lot of strain on these players and hopefully we'll get better and better.\"\n\n2,000 points - the best of the stats\n• None This victory earned Chelsea their 2,000th point in the Premier League (1,077 games), making them the third side to reach that total since the competition began in 1992, after Manchester United (2,234) and Arsenal (2,014).\n• None Brighton have won just one of their 10 home Premier League games in 2020 (D4 L5), the fewest of any side to have played two or more home matches in the competition this calendar year.\n• None Since the start of last season, Chelsea's 20 away Premier League games have produced 81 goals (42 for, 39 against), at least 14 more than any other side on their travels.\n• None Chelsea have scored each of their past 16 penalties in the Premier League, since Eden Hazard missed from the spot against Manchester City in April 2017.\n• None Jorginho has scored all eight of the penalties he has taken for Chelsea in all competitions (excluding shootouts), including five in the Premier League.\n• None Since he joined Chelsea in 2018, Kepa Arrizabalaga has conceded more Premier League goals from outside the box (19) than any other goalkeeper. Indeed, excluding blocked shots, Kepa has conceded nine of the past 13 overall shots on target he has faced in the Premier League.\n• None Leandro Trossard has scored three goals in his past six Premier League games for Brighton, as many as he netted in his first 26 appearances in the competition before this.\n• None Kurt Zouma scored what was only his second Premier League goal for Chelsea (72nd appearance), and his first since September 2015 against Arsenal.\n\nBrighton host Portsmouth in the Carabao Cup on Thursday, 17 September (19:45 BST) and return to Premier League action at Newcastle on Sunday, 20 September (14:00).\n\nMeanwhile, Chelsea host champions Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, 20 September (16:30) in the Premier League.\n• None Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. César Azpilicueta replaces Jorginho because of an injury.\n• None Tariq Lamptey (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "The parents of a missing teenage girl have been charged with her murder.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said Bernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough on 21 July by her mother and father who said she had not been seen for three days.\n\nA murder investigation was opened even though her body has not been found.\n\nSarah Walker, 37, and Scott Walker, 50, both of Century Square, Millfield, Peterborough, are due to appear in court charged with murder.\n\nDet Supt Jon Hutchinson said: \"Whilst my team have made significant progress with this investigation in the last few days, we are yet to find Bernadette, therefore my plea is for anyone who has information on what has happened to her, or where she might be, to get in touch as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nBernadette's parents were charged with murder in the early hours of Monday, police said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The daily count of people testing positive for coronavirus in Scotland has risen for the fourth day in a row.\n\nA total of 244 tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the Scottish government.\n\nIt is the second day in a row that the figure has exceeded 200 and the highest number of confirmed cases since 6 May.\n\nHowever, there were far fewer tests being carried out at that stage of the pandemic meaning many people with the virus did not appear in the statistics.\n\nOn Saturday there were 221 cases reported - the highest daily figure since 8 May.\n\nThe latest daily figures issued by the Scottish government reveal that:\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the statistics \"underline the need for all of us to be careful and abide by public health rules\".\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 statistics have been published ahead of the introduction of new rules forbidding groups of more than six people - and then from only two separate households - meeting up either inside or outside in Scotland.\n\nChildren under 12 from the two households are not counted in \"rule of six\" which comes into force on Monday.\n\nBut more than 1.75m people in Scotland are also constrained by further restrictions following a spike in cases in the greater Glasgow area.\n\nPeople in Glasgow city, Lanarkshire, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire cannot meet other households at their own homes.\n\nThe latest figures show there were 104 new cases in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area in the last 24 hours.\n\nThere were also 62 in Lanarkshire, 25 in Lothian, 12 in the Borders and 11 in Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nThe remaining positive cases were recorded in all of the remaining mainland health board areas.\n\nMeanwhile more than 868,000 have downloaded the Protect Scotland contact tracing app.\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. Police made dozens of arrests as opposition supporters gathered for the march\n\nTens of thousands of people have been marching in the capital Minsk and other cities, in the latest of several weeks of mass protest against President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nLarge numbers of police have been deployed, blocking key areas.\n\nPolice said they arrested about 400 people ahead of and during the protests, dubbed the March of Heroes.\n\nThe protests have been triggered by a widely disputed election a month ago and subsequent brutal police crackdown.\n\nDemonstrators want Mr Lukashenko to resign after alleging widespread ballot-rigging.\n\nBut the Belarusian leader - in power for 26 years - has denied the allegations and accuses Western nations of interfering.\n\nThe 66-year-old has promised to defend Belarus.\n\nMost opposition leaders are now under arrest or in exile.\n\nIt is the fifth successive Sunday of mass protests, with about 100,000 rallying each week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonah Fisher reports from Minsk as police turn their sights on female protesters\n\nEyewitnesses said the centre of Minsk was flooded with people. They marched on the elite residential area of Drozdy, where the country's top officials including President Lukashenko live, but were blocked by police.\n\nRallies are also being held in Brest, Gomel, Mogilyev and other cities.\n\nHowever, the Interior Ministry said that as of 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT) the protests involved no more than 3,000 people across the country.\n\nMr Lukashenko has refused to make any concessions to the opposition\n\nThe ministry said arrests were made in various districts of the capital, and that those detained were carrying flags and placards \"of an insulting nature\".\n\nIn many ways Sunday's demonstration was similar to previous weeks.\n\nWhen the march was at full strength the riot police had little choice but to watch on as the protesters filled the streets and waved their red and white flags.\n\nThe now famous \"Goose for a free Belarus\" was there, a bow tie round its neck, flapping its wings and posing for selfies. Plenty of families came too, determined to enjoy the warm weather.\n\nIt's on the side streets, and in the exposed moments when people arrive and disperse in smaller groups that the security forces strike.\n\nIt's not dignified or disciplined. The police, their faces usually covered, launch crude tackles at the protesters before dragging them kicking and screaming into waiting minivans.\n\nAfter five Sundays of huge demonstrations there's still no sign of enthusiasm dwindling or that the threat of violence is stopping people from coming.\n\nVideo footage showed men in balaclavas pulling people out of the crowds gathering for the start of the march and taking them to unmarked minibuses.\n\nProtests were triggered by elections on 9 August, in which Mr Lukashenko was handed an overwhelming victory amid widespread reports of vote-rigging.\n\nViolent clashes on several nights following the poll led to thousands of arrests, and details emerged of severe beatings by police and overcrowding in detention centres.\n\nThis produced a new wave of demonstrations, with weekend rallies drawing tens of thousands.\n\nMr Lukashenko has said he may establish closer ties with Russia, his main ally.\n\nOn at least two occasions in the past few weeks, he has been photographed near his residence in Minsk carrying a gun and being surrounded by his heavily armed security personnel.", "British perfume brand Jo Malone London has issued an apology to John Boyega for dropping an ad he made for them and replacing him with a Chinese actor.\n\nThe firm reshot the personal video the Star Wars actor made, in his home town of London, for the Chinese market.", "The bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people\n\nBereaved families whose loved ones were killed in the Manchester Arena attack have shared their heartache as the inquiry heads into its second week.\n\nThe father of Martyn Hett was the first to present a \"pen portrait\" of his son, whose \"memory will shine brightly\".\n\nThe portraits will give each family the chance to present a personal insight into the lives of those who died.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb as 14,000 fans left the arena in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry comes more than three years after the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, which left hundreds more injured.\n\nIt was due to start in June, but was delayed by the trial of Abedi's brother Hashem, who was jailed for at least 55 years for 22 murders on 20 August.\n\nThe inquiry is being held at Manchester Magistrates' Court, less than a mile away from where the bombing happened.\n\nThe \"pen portraits\" will be provided by family members, or others on their behalf, reading out witness statements and playing music and videos to remember those who died.\n\nTributes were left in in St Ann's Square in Manchester city centre in the wake of the bombing\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said they would \"ensure the deceased and their families are at the centre of this process\".\n\n\"Each 'pen portrait' is deeply affecting. The experience will be moving and distressing... and exceptionally difficult for the families,\" he added.\n\nDuring the first \"pen portrait\", the inquiry heard a moving testimony from Mr Hett's father Paul.\n\n\"How would I describe Martyn's personality in one simple word? Fun. He had the most wicked sense of humour,\" Mr Hett said.\n\nThe 29-year-old, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, \"lit up everyone around him\", his father added.\n\nMartyn Hett, pictured centre, was \"so vibrant, so full of energy\"\n\nThe family of John Atkinson, 28, from Radcliffe in Bury, told the public inquiry he had a \"massively addictive personality\" and his \"smile would light the room up\".\n\n\"He loved everyone and everyone loved him,\" his parents Kevan and Daryl said.\n\n\"He was the centre of our world.\"\n\n\"He was the centre of our world,\" said John Atkinson's parents\n\nEilidh MacLeod, 14, from the Isle of Barra, was described as a \"bundle of fun\" with \"perfect quips, one-liners and an infectious laugh\".\n\nThe teenager, who loved playing the bagpipes, was \"growing into a lovely young woman with this fantastic gift she was able to express herself with\", her father Roderick said.\n\nHer former primary school teacher Michelle McLean said: \"The whole island community misses her - as her teacher she taught me to be a better person.\"\n\nEilidh MacLeod was described as a \"bundle of fun\"\n\nSorrell Leczkowski was \"hungry for knowledge\" and dreamed of studying in New York to fulfil her ambition to become an architect, her mother told the inquiry.\n\nThe 14-year-old had gone to the Manchester Arena with her family to collect her sister who was at the concert.\n\nHer mother Samantha and grandmother Pauline were both seriously injured.\n\nSorrell Leczkowski dreamed of studying in New York\n\nThe commemorative hearings are expected to conclude on 23 September.\n\nThe inquiry was set up to examine the background to the attack and the response of the emergency services.\n\nIts chairman, Sir John Saunders, will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\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.", "After almost seven months at home, it's finally back to school for millions of Italian children today.\n\nI grew up learning the three Rs, but today Italian children have to know the three Ms: Mascherina, Mani, Metro (mask, hands, metre).\n\nThere was the usual mix of first-day excitement and nerves. Ten-year-old Gabriele posed joyfully for a photo with his classmates in masks. His mother, an A&E doctor, was impressed to see them greeting each other with elbow bumps – not the usual bear hugs. \"The parents were far less disciplined,\" she remarked.\n\nMy seven-year-old is relieved to return to proper lessons with teachers, instead of \"full-time homework\". But she is sad that coronavirus means \"it's never going to be the same\". She's worried about playtime - \"what happens when it rains?\" - and nervous about all the new rules. So are the parents.\n\nWhich entrance will they use? What if you have two kids at the school? Borrowing in class is banned and everything has to be name-labelled. Each individual pencil?!\n\nMasks can only be removed once children are seated at their desks. At our school, washable masks aren't allowed: they must be surgical, changed daily, and for now provided by the parents.\n\nDisappointingly, our class sizes haven't been reduced or classrooms extended. Pigeon holes have simply been removed to make room to space out the desks.\n\nDespite our worries, my daughter is looking on the bright side: \"At least nobody can nick my pencil sharpener.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nCovid-19 has transformed how GPs work - from having to wear full PPE instead of ordinary clothes, to seeing a huge decline in the number of patients they are seeing. Here's how one practice in Liverpool has adapted.\n\nDr Debbie Noland is living with a new reality.\n\nA few months ago, the Liverpool GP would have dressed relatively casually for a day seeing patients at the Ropewalks Practice in the city centre.\n\nNow she is in medical scrubs and full protective clothing - face mask, visor, gloves and apron.\n\n\"Now we are completely clinical, I look like I did when I was a medical student working in the hospital in surgery,\" says Dr Noland.\n\n\"It's definitely far more challenging - and the job is challenging enough without the extra stress.\n\n\"Having to go home and put your scrubs into a 60-degree wash, so you don't pass it on to your family. It's a completely different world than pre-Covid, that's for sure.\"\n\nEven when she is seeing patients with no Covid symptoms, Dr Noland needs to balance the risk of infection while, simultaneously, being able to check out potentially dangerous conditions.\n\n\"If you need to listen to somebody's chest or you need to listen to somebody's heart - you need to do that.\n\n\"I feel like I am as covered and protected as I possibly can be. I would much prefer to make sure that I am doing things properly than miss something.\"\n\nPatients are assessed in advance over the phone, including questions on whether or not they have coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut since chest pain is exactly the type of thing that might indicate the development of another serious condition, some patients have to attend the surgery for an examination.\n\nIn between each appointment, Dr Noland must clean the room and change her personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"When the patient has left, I'll clean down the room before anyone else comes in and change all my(PPE) so it is as safe as it possible can be. It may not be as approachable, but we are doing our best to make sure everyone can feel safe coming into a GP surgery.\"\n\nAll this means a much slower trickle of patients.\n\nThis time last year the surgery was seeing around 130 patients a day for GP appointments, blood tests or just to pick up a prescription.\n\nBut on the day we visited, just 24 patients attended the surgery, all by appointment only.\n\nThe surgery had previously introduced an online booking and assessment system last September, so most patients were accustomed to a more remote way of working.\n\nBut still, the change is stark: a normally busy waiting room now has just one patient at a time.\n\nDr Noland has to wipe down the consultation room between patients\n\nSome patients are happy to come to the surgery. But Dr Noland says there are growing fears over those who are too worried about the risk of infection to come in.\n\n\"The amount of people I have spoken to on the phone with anxiety and depression... They were probably keeping it together, but it's the last straw that broke the camel's back.\n\n\"They can't cope now. It has been a massive impact.\n\n\"People are still having heart attacks, they are still having strokes, they are still having cancer, unfortunately.\n\n\"And there are a lot of other people that are dying of other things that seem to have been forgotten a little bit.\n\n\"It's a massive hidden cost of lockdown and that is really worrying for all of us - because we think there is an epidemic [of non-Covid illnesses] and we are just waiting for it to come.\".\"\n\nThe surgery is divided into two zones, with Dr Noland seeing her Covid-free patients in the 'green zone' on the first floor of the building.\n\nDownstairs is the 'red zone, for those patients who are displaying Covid-19 symptoms, with a separate entrance to the rest of the surgery.\n\nThe receptionist, as well as the GP, wears full PPE.\n\nTina Atkins, the practice management partner, says the whole idea is to minimise exposure to infected patients.\n\n\"We don't have anything other than an examination couch and a chair - we don't use any of the IT equipment.\n\n\"We also say to patients if they arrive early: 'please stay in your car outside' because the slots are timed, so we don't cross-contaminate patients.\"\n\nRopewalks is a \"hub\" for nine practices in Liverpool. Each one directs coronavirus patients to the Ropewalks General Practice so the surrounding practices can maintain a Covid-free environment.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, the surgery saw around 5-8 cases a day, but on the day we visited, no-one needed to be seen.\n\nPhone consultations are part of the new norm, especially when checking up on those who are shielding.\n\nPractice nurse Moira Cain says: \"With not going out at all, you're worried about people's mental health and their wellbeing. So the fact they're getting a phone call from someone who cares must be some reassurance.\n\n\"It's reassuring for us to know that they are eating, they are having food taken into them, they are sleeping ok - they haven't got any other symptoms.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"What we have found is the footfall to primary care, as well as A&E, is really reduced.\n\n\"Are people sitting at home with chest pain? With shortness of breath? Have they got swollen ankles? Because if they have, they should really come in.\"\n\nSocial distancing, PPE, the fear of infection - all are making an already tough job more challenging.\n\nBut GPs want their patients to know that, despite appearances - the empty waiting rooms, the 'red zone', they are still very much open for business.", "Stricter restrictions barring household visits in the west of Scotland have been extended for another week.\n\nThe measures cover 1.75 million people living in and around Glasgow.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged everyone living in the areas to follow the rules in a bid to \"get more control over the virus\".\n\nThe restrictions apply in Glasgow city, East and West Dunbartonshire, North and South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and East Renfrewshire.\n\nPeople living in the seven areas are not allowed to host others inside their home, or visit anyone else's home anywhere in Scotland.\n\nThe announcement comes on the same day that lockdown restrictions across the country were tightened, with gatherings now restricted to a maximum of six people from two households.\n\nThe Scottish government said reported cases of Covid-19 were higher than average in the seven council areas, although an \"early assessment\" had suggested the tougher measures were \"working to slow the increase in cases\".\n\nThe first minister said it was \"clearly regrettable\" that the restrictions would have to continue, but said \"we must act to get more control over the virus in these areas\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I would ask everyone in the affected areas to continue being extra vigilant, to follow all guidance and to isolate and book a test if they have any symptoms. Do not lose ground now.\"\n\nThe only exception to the bar on indoor meetings is for those in extended households, while only essential indoor visits are being permitted in hospitals and care homes.\n\nPeople from two different households are still allowed to meet up outdoors and in hospitality settings, as long as groups do not exceed six and wider guidance around hygiene and physical distancing is followed.\n\nThe local restrictions will be reviewed again on Tuesday 22 September.\n\nThe rules, which had already covered Glasgow city, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, and East Renfrewshire, were extended to cover Lanarkshire on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday, those seven areas had the highest rates of new Covid-19 cases in Scotland. The seven-day rate is calculated by adding up all the new cases over the previous week, then dividing it by the total population of the area.", "US tech firm Oracle has confirmed that TikTok's owner has formally proposed it become a \"trusted technology partner\" to the video-sharing app.\n\nFull details of the tie-up have yet to be disclosed, but the aim is to avoid President Trump's threat to shut down the Chinese-owned service in the US.\n\nMr Trump has cited national security concerns, suggesting users' data could be accessed by Beijing under current arrangements.\n\nIt says it has taken \"extraordinary measures to protect the privacy and security of TikTok's US user data\", which is stored in the States and Singapore.\n\nOracle is a database specialist without experience of running a social media app targeted at the general public.\n\nEarlier in the day, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the Trump administration had been contacted by the American firm to discuss plans to make TikTok a US-headquartered company. He said the White House intended to review the idea this week.\n\nMicrosoft had also attempted to buy the platform, but revealed it had been rejected on Sunday.\n\nTikTok has released a statement that does not make direct reference to Oracle.\n\n\"We can confirm that we've submitted a proposal to the Treasury Department which we believe would resolve the administration's security concerns,\" it said.\n\n\"This proposal would enable us to continue supporting our community of 100 million people in the US who love TikTok for connection and entertainment, as well as the hundreds of thousands of small business owners and creators who rely upon TikTok to grow their livelihoods and build meaningful careers.\"\n\nOracle's shares were trading about 5% higher in lunchtime trade in New York.\n\n\"While I can see the upside for Oracle from a cloud perspective, it is hard not to think how much of this deal rests on politics rather than tech,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from the Silicon Valley-based research firm Creative Strategies.\n\nOracle's chairman, the billionaire Larry Ellison, is a supporter of Mr Trump and in February held a fundraiser at his California home to aid the Republican leader's re-election campaign.\n\nThe White House is also taking a harsh line against other Chinese tech companies - including Huawei, Tencent and a number of artificial intelligence start-ups - restricting what business they can do with US counterparts without the administration's approval.\n\nPresident Trump had given TikTok's owner Bytedance until this week to secure a deal.\n\nFailure to do so would have seen US companies prevented from doing business with it from Sunday, and Bytedance being forced to give up TikTok's US operations one way or another by 12 November.\n\nThe app's US team sued the US government last month in an effort to challenge the moves.\n\nOracle was not the favourite to buy or otherwise link up to TikTok's US arm - Microsoft was the early frontrunner.\n\nBut as time wore on, Microsoft became increasingly concerned about what it would be acquiring.\n\nIt became clear that China might attempt to block the sale of the technology behind the app's powerful algorithm.\n\nPrivately there were concerns too that Microsoft was about to create a rod for its own back by becoming involved with a mass market, youth-focused social network - it already owns LinkedIn, but that caters for a very different audience.\n\nPolitical bias, child safety issues and right-wing militias are just some of the problems TikTok has had to deal with in the last few months.\n\nEven so, TikTok's hundreds of millions of users make it an attractive proposition in a sector where size is everything: if all your friends are on a platform, you too are more likely to join.\n\nOracle has decided it's worth the risk.\n\nThe big questions now are what exactly is Oracle's involvement, and will the tie-up be approved by the US and Chinese authorities.\n\nMarch 2012: Bytedance is established in China and launches Neihan Duanzi - an app to help Chinese users share memes\n\nAugust 2017: An international version of Douyin is launched under the brand TikTok in some parts of the world, but not the US at this time\n\nMay 2018: TikTok declared world's most downloaded non-game iOS app over first three months of the year, by market research firm Sensor Tower\n\nAugust 2018: Bytedance announces it is shutting down Musical.ly and is moving users over to TikTok\n\nFebruary 2019: TikTok fined in US over Musical.ly's handling of under-13s' data\n\nNovember 2019: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (Cfius) opens national security investigation into TikTok\n\nMay 2020: TikTok hires Disney executive Kevin Meyer to become the division's chief executive and chief operating officer of Bytedance\n\nJune 2020: India bans TikTok among dozens of other Chinese apps\n\nJuly 2020: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and then President Trump, say TikTok might be banned\n\nAugust 2020: Microsoft and Oracle make rival approaches to acquire or otherwise operate TikTok in the US and three other markets. Mr Meyer announces he is leaving the company because the \"political environment has sharply changed\"\n\nSeptember 2020: TikTok says it has more than 100 million active users in Europe. It recently said it had a similar number in the US, and has been estimated to have more than 800 million engaged members worldwide", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nCrime minister Kit Malthouse has encouraged people to report their neighbours for any suspected breaches of the new \"rule of six\", which came in today. The new coronavirus restrictions make it illegal for more than six people to meet at indoor and outdoor social gatherings in England and Scotland, and indoor groups in Wales. Find out here what you can and can't do under the new regulations.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she has \"very serious concerns\" about an apparent delay in processing coronavirus tests. She said she was worried a backlog of results was preventing her assessing the scale of the pandemic. The number of new daily confirmed UK cases was 2,621 on Monday - a fall after three consecutive days with more than 3,000 positive tests. Meanwhile, Labour said its leader Sir Keir Starmer was self-isolating after a family member showed possible symptoms.\n\nA new treatment that uses laboratory-made antibodies is to be trialled on Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals. These monoclonal antibodies will be given to about 2,000 people as part of the UK Recovery Trial, which previously found that a cheap steroid called dexamethasone could save lives. The first patients will be given the new drugs in the coming weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEight months after the curtain came down, the first musicals have confirmed plans to reopen in London's West End. Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Six will restart performances in mid-November. A number of safety measures will be in place at the reduced capacity shows, including the use of contactless tickets, temperature checks on entry and face coverings.\n\nEverybody's Talking About Jamie will return to the Apollo Theatre on 12 November\n\nPride events have been cancelled all over the world because of coronavirus, but not in Guernsey. The island, which has lifted nearly all of its Covid-19 restrictions, held the British Isles' first \"in person\" Pride event since the pandemic began. Thousands of people attended over the weekend, including performer Kalon Rae, who showed us what it was like.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Guernsey Pride: 'You can touch each other'\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nNew restrictions on social gatherings could stay in place until the end of the year, but what might that mean for Christmas celebrations?\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.", "GP practices are being told they must make sure patients can be seen face to face when they need such appointments.\n\nNHS England is writing to all practices to make sure they are communicating the fact doctors can be seen in person if necessary, as well as virtually.\n\nIt's estimated half of the 102 million appointments from March to July were by video or phone call, NHS Digital said.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said any implication GPs had not been doing their job properly was \"an insult\".\n\nNHS England said research suggested nearly two thirds of the public were happy to have a phone or video call with their doctor - but that, ahead of winter, they wanted to make sure people knew they could see their GP if needed.\n\nNikki Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, said GPs had adapted quickly in recent months to offer remote consultations and \"safe face-to-face care when needed\".\n\nShe added: \"While many people, particularly those most vulnerable to Covid-19, want the convenience of a consultation over the phone or video, the NHS has been and will continue to offer face-to-face appointments and I would urge anyone who feels they need medical support to come forward so they can get the care, support and advice they need - the NHS is here for you.\"\n\nNHS England said it would be reminding GPs they faced enforcement action if they failed to offer face-to-face appointments when necessary on medical grounds. Failure to do so was a breach of their contract, it said.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said general practice was \"open and has been throughout the pandemic\", with a predominantly remote service to help stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nHe said: \"The college does not want to see general practice become a totally, or even mostly, remote service post-pandemic.\n\n\"However, we are still in the middle of a pandemic. We need to consider infection control and limit footfall in GP surgeries - all in line with NHS England's current guidance.\"\n\nHe said most patients had understood the changes and that clinical commissioning groups had been asked to work with GP practices where face-to-face appointments were not possible - for example, if all GPs were at a high risk from coronavirus.\n\n\"Any implication that they have not been doing their job properly is an insult to GPs and their teams who have worked throughout the pandemic, continued delivering the vast majority of patient care in the NHS and face an incredibly difficult winter ahead,\" he said.\n\nResearch from the college indicated that routine GP appointments were back to near-normal levels for this time of year, after decreasing at the height of the pandemic.\n\n\"Each and every day last week an estimated third of a million appointments were delivered face to face by general practices across the country,\" added Prof Marshall.\n\nIt comes as thousands of doctors say a second peak is likely this winter - and is their greatest fear.\n\nThe British Medical Association survey of more than 8,000 doctors and medical students found that 86% of them believed a second peak was likely, or very likely, in the next six months.\n\nThe survey indicated doctors thought the two most important measures to help prevent such a peak were having a fit-for-purpose test-and-trace system and a \"coherent, rapid and consistent approach to local outbreaks\".\n\nBMA council chair Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: \"We, as a profession, want, above all, to avoid a return to the scenes we saw in April, when hospitals were full with Covid-19 patients, and hundreds were dying every day. Meanwhile, thousands of others missed out on vital appointments and procedures as routine care was put on hold.\n\n\"But while the forecast in this survey may be bleak, it is not an inevitability if the government takes decisive, robust and timely action to stamp down the spread of the infection.\"\n\nHe called on the government to focus on \"sorting out the test-and-trace debacle once and for all\", adding: \"We are at a critical crossroads in the fight against this deadly virus.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFormula 1 bosses are looking into whether Lewis Hamilton broke rules at the Tuscan Grand Prix by wearing a T-shirt highlighting police brutality.\n\nA spokesman for the FIA said the matter was \"under active consideration\".\n\nHe said the FIA was a non-political organisation and was considering if Hamilton's T-shirt broke its statutes.\n\nThe T-shirt said: \"Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor\" - a black woman shot eight times in her Louisville, Kentucky home by US police in March.\n\nHamilton's shirt, which he wore during the pre-race anti-racism demonstration and on the podium, also said: \"Say her name.\"\n\nIt was not immediately clear which statute from governing body the FIA was at issue.\n\nAsked whether the FIA considered the T-shirt to be bearing a political message, the spokesman said: \"That's the consideration we are looking into.\"\n\nTaylor was one of a number of victims of incidents involving police violence in the US whose names have become rallying cries for equality and justice.\n\nHamilton said after winning the race on Sunday: \"I've been wanting to bring awareness to the fact there are people being killed on the street.\n\n\"And someone was killed in her own house and they were in the wrong house and those guys are still walking free.\"\n• None Long read: The story of Black Lives Matter in sport\n\nF1 and the FIA have mounted an anti-racism and pro-diversity campaign this year, which includes anti-racism demonstrations before every race.\n\nHamilton has been at the centre of the demonstrations, as the sport's most high-profile figure and its only black driver.\n\nThe spokesman said that the FIA had been working with Hamilton on its diversity programme this year.\n\nMercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday that Hamilton had the organisation's full support in his desire to highlight racial injustice and that it was up to him what T-shirts he wished to wear to demonstrate that.\n\nWolff said: \"No question - it is entirely his decision. Whatever he does, we will support.\n\n\"The team is fighting against any kind of racism and discrimination and it is Lewis's personal fight for Black Lives Matter and with all the support we can give him. It's his call.\"\n\nAfter the race, Mercedes responded to a Twitter user who asked that Hamilton \"keep politics out of F1\", saying: \"We're not bringing politics into F1; these are human rights issues that we're trying to highlight and raise awareness of.\"\n\nWolff added: \"Black Lives Matter is something that is important to all of us and we have supported Lewis all the way.\n\n\"The much broader movement is obviously the fight against any kind of racism and discrimination - and we as a team and as a corporate have always put an emphasis to fight against that injustice.\"\n\nThe only reference to politics in the statutes is a requirement on the FIA to \"refrain from manifesting discrimination on account of race, skin colour, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic or social origin, language, religion, philosophical or political opinion, family situation or disability in the course of its activities\".\n\nThe sporting code forbids competitors from \"affixing to their automobiles advertising that is political or religious in nature or that is prejudicial to the interests of the FIA\".", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating after a member of his household \"showed possible symptoms of the coronavirus\", the party has said.\n\nThe person displaying symptoms has had a test and Sir Keir is now awaiting the results \"in line with NHS guidelines\", they added.\n\nThe Labour leader will not be speaking in Monday's Commons debate on the government's post-Brexit plans.\n\nHowever, he is not reported to have shown any coronavirus symptoms.\n\nSir Keir - who is due to address the TUC Congress on Tuesday - found out about the concerns over the member of his household following an appearance on LBC radio on Monday morning.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"The prime minister has spoken to the leader of the opposition this morning and gave best wishes to him and his family.\"\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate is rising across the UK, with rules restricting the size of social gatherings coming into force in England, Scotland and Wales from Monday.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said: \"This morning Keir Starmer was advised to self-isolate after a member of his household showed possible symptoms of the coronavirus.\n\n\"The member of his household has now had a test. In line with NHS guidelines, Keir will self-isolate while awaiting the results of the test and further advice from medical professionals.\"\n\nThe hospital where she works, in occupational health, provides on-site testing for staff and their families who have symptoms.\n\nThe move comes ahead of what was to be one of Sir Keir's most important parliamentary performances since becoming Labour leader in April.\n\nInstead shadow business secretary - and former leader - Ed Miliband will open for the party in the debate over the government's Internal Market Bill on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe legislation attempts to override parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement reached by the UK and EU.\n\nLast week, Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg announced he was self-isolating at home after one of his children showed symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was taken into intensive care in April after he caught it.", "The Chain Home Tower at Great Baddow, Essex has been Grade II listed on the advice of Historic England\n\nA radar tower that helped win World War Two's Battle of Britain by providing early warning of Luftwaffe attacks has been given protected status.\n\nThe Chain Home Tower at Great Baddow in Essex has been Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).\n\nIt is the only complete tower of its kind surviving in the British Isles.\n\nTony Calladine from Historic England said it was \"a testament to the men and women who developed the technology\".\n\nIt has been listed to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, which took place between July and October 1940.\n\nThe tower, one of five complete Chain Home masts still standing, was originally erected at RAF Canewdon in south-east Essex in 1937 and relocated to Great Baddow in 1956.\n\nThe tower, a prominent Essex landmark, was moved to the Marconi Company research site at Great Baddow\n\nChain Home was the first early warning radar network in the world and the first military radar system to be fully operational.\n\nAs well as detecting enemy planes, the technology was vital to the defence of London, through the tracking of destructive V1 flying bombs and V2 missiles later in World War Two.\n\nWhen the tower, which is 109m (358ft) high, was relocated in 1956 it was used in defence research and communications during the Cold War.\n\nIt was particularly crucial in the development of the radio guidance system for the British \"Blue Streak\" intercontinental ballistic missile.\n\nDaniel Black, who campaigned for the tower to be listed, said: \"This tower represents not only the innovation and brilliance of pre-war engineers and scientists but also the heritage of the local area.\"\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.", "Dr David Hepburn was one of the first NHS doctors to become ill with Covid-19\n\nNew rules to curb a rise in the number of coronavirus cases could be \"shutting the door after the horse has bolted\", an intensive care doctor has warned.\n\nDavid Hepburn, from the Royal Gwent Hospital, was one of the first NHS doctors to become ill with Covid-19.\n\nHe said he feared a second wave had already started and could last six months amid a rise in cases in Newport linked to pubs and clubs in the city.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said closing such venues was an option.\n\nMr Gething said if people's behaviour does not change Wales could face a national lockdown within seven weeks' time.\n\nDr Hepburn's warning comes as the BMA warned that doctors' greatest fear was a \"very likely\" second wave.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Dr Hepburn said there was \"definitely a sense that things are ramping up again\", likening it to the situation in February \"before we started to get active cases in March\".\n\n\"It is worth emphasising there are patients in hospital in south Wales with Covid and it is only a matter of time before we start getting patients sick enough to end up with us [in intensive care],\" he told Oliver Hides.\n\nPublic Health Wales has named a number of pubs and bars in Newport where cases have been confirmed\n\nNew rules came into force in Wales on Monday, mandating the wearing of masks in shops and other indoor public spaces, and banning indoor meetings of more than six people from an extended household.\n\nOn Monday, Pembrokeshire council asked care homes for older people in the county to suspend all non-essential indoor visits from Tuesday.\n\nIt said it was a precautionary measure to help keep residents as safe as possible.\n\nVisits to care homes have already been stopped in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Caerphilly.\n\nThe changes come after two areas brought in new advice to avoid following Caerphilly into a local lockdown, with Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford warning Covid-19 was \"on the rise again\" as 20 people in 100,000 had the virus.\n\n\"There is still time if people obey the rules, wear masks and try to stay apart. We know that being outdoors is much better than being indoors, so if we have to meet up with someone you are much better doing it outdoors.\n\n\"We can turn it around, but I have a terrible feeling now we are shutting the door after the horse has bolted, and this increased activity at the minute is going to translate into another big wave for us in critical care in the next four to six weeks, which would be a shame.\"\n\nAt its peak, 49 patients were critically ill on ventilators at the Royal Gwent Hospital's intensive care unit in Newport - the unit's usual maximum capacity being 14 - with Dr Hepburn comparing it with \"scenes from a science fiction film\".\n\n86% of doctors and medical students who took part in a survey said they fear a \"very likely\" second wave\n\nDr Hepburn said if it was the start of a second wave it could last longer than the first wave because it was happening before the winter months when cases were expected to rise as people move indoors.\n\n\"It was fairly acute last time - it was all over by May, June last time,\" he explained.\n\n\"But if we see a big surge in hospital admissions this time, it could last for six months which would be a big problem.\"\n\nHe added: \"There was always going to be a natural ramping up but the question is now whether behaviour modification and whether people pulling together locally to avoid a big surge will work, and I really hope it does because I can tell you this now, I'm really not looking forward to going through it again.\"\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) has reported 86% of doctors and medical students who responded to a survey said a second peak was likely or very likely in the next six months.\n\n\"The survey results expose the greatest fears of doctors in Wales - fears borne out of their everyday experiences of treating patients with Covid-19 and witnessing the dramatic impact of the virus on the NHS,\" said Dr David Bailey, BMA Cymru Wales council chairman.\n\n\"As a profession, and I'm sure as a nation, we do not wish to return to the scenes we saw earlier in the year, where hospitals were full with Covid-19 patients, many people dying every day.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he would be willing to impose a national lockdown in Wales, even if other parts of the UK do not\n\nMr Gething said he was waiting to see the results of recent testing in Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil before deciding whether local measures were needed.\n\nHe said he could not rule out a national lockdown in Wales, even if other parts of the UK do not.\n\nLater at a press conference he added: \"If there isn't a change in behaviour we could well be not just seven weeks away from a potential national lockdown, but a lot quicker.\"\n\n\"If we see cases continue to rise… then we may be in a position to make that decision and need to make that decision sooner than the seven week period of time.\"", "Sir Patrick Vallance says he \"argued stronger than anyone for action for lockdown\"\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said he was rebuked for arguing strongly in favour of imposing Covid lockdown restrictions earlier this year, it has emerged.\n\nIn an email uncovered by a BBC Freedom of Information request, Sir Patrick reveals he was given a \"telling off\" from other senior officials.\n\nSome scientists argue lives could have been saved had a lockdown been introduced earlier. The government insists there was \"no delay\".\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said government policy had been \"guided by the advice of world-renowned scientists\".\n\nThe UK has one of the highest number of coronavirus deaths per capita in the world, though officials insist it's too early to draw accurate comparisons with other countries. The Department for Health and Social Care insists there was no delay in locking down.\n\nThe email obtained by the BBC appears to be a discussion of a Sunday Times article in May criticising the delays in announcing a lockdown in March.\n\nIt's not known when the \"telling off\" occurred, but speaking to Parliament's science and technology committee in July, Sir Patrick referred to advice given by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on 16 March for \"additional social-distancing measures\" to be implemented \"as soon as possible\".\n\nA full lockdown was not introduced until 23 March. It's now thought the number of cases rose dramatically in the period just before that.\n\nIn the email, Sir Patrick writes that he \"argued stronger than anyone for action for lockdown\" but received a \"telling off\" from chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and the then Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill.\n\nSir Patrick and Prof Whitty regularly appeared at news conferences together updating the public on measures taken to combat coronavirus, without noticeably disagreeing.\n\nOn 16 March, the government issued advice \"against all unnecessary social contact with others and unnecessary travel\" including warnings to avoid pubs, bars and restaurants. However, premises were not ordered to close until 20 March, whilst on 23 March a full lockdown was introduced whereby people could only leave the home for exercise or grocery shopping.\n• None Did 'herd immunity' change the course of the outbreak?", "Keeping out of lockdown \"depends on the choices that each one of us is prepared to make\", Health Minister Vaughan Gething said.\n\nHe told Monday's Welsh Government press conference that while cases were kept low during the summer, the autumn poses a challenge.\n\n\"The challenge comes back to how we've chosen to behave through the summer and going into the autumn,\" he said.\n\n\"We suppressed coronavirus pretty significantly through the summer, we were in a position with low levels of transmission to have further easements.\n\n\"The challenge is that we've seen some people relaxing too much perhaps and small instances where people know that they're breaking the rules, and in particular larger social gatherings in people's homes, and a couple of businesses that have not enforced the rules in terms of where their customers behave.\n\n\"Now that's a challenge for us and we see as I said in Caerphilly the infection rate has moved so more people over 40 and over 50 are testing positive.\n\n\"Their risks of harm are much greater than fit and healthy people in their teens and twenties so the risks are there.\n\n\"And of course it's about what our health and social care system prepares for what might come through the autumn, and the winter, and that's entirely the right thing to do our ability to keep out of lockdown depends on the choices that each one of us is prepared to make to help keep us safe.\"", "Blowing a ram's horn is a key feature of Rosh Hashanah - but extra care must be taken this year\n\nThe government has issued highly detailed dos and don'ts for the UK Jewish community as it celebrates its most important festivals of the year.\n\nRosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot normally involve packed synagogues and large family gatherings.\n\nThis year, synagogues will have to ensure social distancing and avoid communal prayer shawls and books.\n\nThe person blowing the shofar (ram's horn) for Rosh Hashanah should keep 2m from other worshippers.\n\nBeginning on Friday, the three-week period known as the Days of Awe is the central feature of the Jewish religious year, but many of its traditions will be impossible this year.\n\nA long checklist makes clear that synagogues can be used as long as Covid secure measures are in place.\n\nBut communal prayer books and prayer shawls, normally strewn around the synagogue, must be removed with worshippers told to bring their own prayer books.\n\nMicrophones should be used where possible, though these would normally be unacceptable in orthodox synagogues.\n\nMask-wearing is advised, and people should not mix in groups of more than six in line with the new limits on social gatherings.\n\nThe guidance acknowledges that the \"rule of six\" will have a particular impact on the tradition of hospitality around Sukkot - the Feast of Tabernacles, which marks the end of harvest and commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.\n\nRunning from 2 October to 9 October this year, the festival normally involves constructing \"sukkah\" the little shelter many Jews build in their gardens to eat in during the eight-day Succot festival.\n\nNormally guests would be invited and crammed inside, but now the limit is six people - unless the social bubble is bigger than that.\n\nSharing food or cutlery is out, as are social gatherings in a communal sukkah and \"sukkah crawls\" across the community.\n\nA central feature of Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year - is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from a ram's horn that may present a risk for a virus spread through droplets.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the guidance says the shofar blower must be at least 2m from anyone else, and it should not be blown towards anyone.\n\nThere is also detailed guidance for a ceremony known as Tashlich, where on Rosh Hashanah worshippers go to a body of moving water like a river and figuratively throw away their sins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Losing a ‘beacon of light’ of the UK’s ultra-Orthodox community to coronavirus\n\nAs well as the rule of six and social distancing, the guidance says items used during the ceremony should not be shared, such as prayer books or the breadcrumbs that some worshippers cast on the water.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince of Wales has been appointed patron of a Jewish youth organisation as it celebrates in 125th year.\n\nNeil Martin, chief executive of the JLGB (Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade), said it is an \"absolute honour\" and praised the prince as \"a tremendous believer in the power of young people\".", "The torch relay toured the UK for 70 days ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games\n\nAn automotive firm that made the 2012 London Olympic torch has gone into liquidation.\n\nPremier Sheet Metals said it blamed \"conditions within the automotive sector which were further compounded by the onset of Covid-19\".\n\nBased in Exhall, Warwickshire, the firm said a fall in sales had affected its cash flow and could no longer trade.\n\nIt produces sheet metal parts for the automotive sector, which has been struggling throughout the pandemic.\n\nThe first six months of the year saw the number of cars built in the UK slump to the lowest level since 1954.\n\nPremier Sheet Metals also made the 8,000 torches used in the relay that marked the opening of the 2012 games.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said despite \"substantial cash injections\", extra funding could not be secured, \"largely due to the absence of any certainty in the marketplace\".\n\n\"Following a review of the company's financial position and cashflow requirements by the company's advisors, it became apparent that Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Ltd could not generate sufficient sales and in turn cash flow to enable it to continue to trade,\" he added.\n\n\"Therefore, very regrettably, and after a period of over 25 years of trading, the decision was taken to commence the process of placing Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Limited into liquidation.\"\n\nOther companies within the group remain unaffected.\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 were called to the M5 between Gloucester and Tewkesbury at about 05:20 BST\n\nA lorry driver died when he crashed into another HGV that had stopped to protect a stationary car on the M5.\n\nThe 37-year-old from Bristol died at the scene of the crash, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on Sunday morning.\n\nThe car driver, a 21-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving under the influence of drink and/or drugs.\n\nHe has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe M5 was closed in both directions after the crash\n\nPolice were called to reports a car had lost control on the northbound carriageway between junctions 9 and 11 near Tewkesbury and Gloucester.\n\nA lorry had stopped to protect the vehicle from passing traffic and to check on the driver when another lorry crashed into it, police said.\n\nThe noise of the impact was heard several miles away by people in areas including Gotherington, Fiddington and Bishops Cleeve.\n\nFarmer Ray Knight, who lives near the M5, said he heard \"a great big bang\" at about 05:40 BST when he was feeding his cattle.\n\n\"I looked outside, didn't know what it was so carried on as normal and then a few minutes later, there was a second one.\n\n\"Ten minutes later we heard a third one [bang] and by that point you could see the black smoke and there was a glow in the sky, which I presume was a fire,\" Mr Knight said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ξll This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 motorway was closed in both directions following the crash.\n\nThe southbound carriageway reopened later on Sunday, with the northbound lanes fully reopening at about 02:52 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.\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. Teacher 'overwhelmed' since Who Wants To Be A Millionaire win\n\nA teacher who became the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years said he was \"overwhelmed\" by the response.\n\n\"I didn't expect the tsunami of interest,\" Don Fear, from Telford, said, adding people had \"fallen over themselves\" to congratulate him.\n\nFormer pupil and pub quiz mate Patrick Campbell told the BBC he was \"in tears\" when Mr Fear claimed his £1m prize.\n\nMr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show's 22-year history.\n\nHe and Mr Campbell, 33, have been doing weekly quizzes at the Red Lion in Wellington for about seven years.\n\nMr Fear has joined his quiz team in Wellington for about seven years\n\n\"Don was my history teacher, myself and a few school friends set up a pub quiz and we kept in touch with him on Facebook and various things.\n\n\"We knew what a clever man he was so we invited him to join,\" he said.\n\nMr Campbell said watching his former teacher was \"so surreal\" - \"I could tell from the look of his eye he was confident he knew the answer\".\n\n\"That winning moment, I was in tears. I know what a lovely man he is, we're all so thrilled for him.\"\n\nMr Fear returned to his school - Haberdashers' Adams Grammar school in Newport - after the show aired on Friday but has since announced he will retire at the end of term in December.\n\nThe history and politics teacher said students and staff were clapping and cheering him as he went in and that \"quite a few pupils are trying to tap me up for a tenner\".\n\nAfter a 33-year career, Mr Fear said he would \"miss school hugely\" but hopes \"a new career as a travel guide is on the cards\", with Canada first on his wish-list.\n\n\"And then really it's a case of you name the place and I want to go there.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said the UK must reserve the right to override the Brexit deal to protect the country's \"economic and political integrity\".\n\nThe PM said legislation was needed to resolve \"tensions\" in the EU-UK deal.\n\nHe said it would ensure the UK could not be \"broken up\" by a foreign power and the EU was acting in an \"extreme way\", by threatening food exports.\n\nLabour said the PM had caused the \"mess\" by reneging on a deal he had previously called a \"triumph\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill is expected to pass its first parliamentary test shortly, when MPs vote on it at about 22.00 BST, despite the reservations of many MPs that it gives the UK the power to break international law.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have said they will not support the bill as it stands and some could register their concerns by abstaining.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, having negotiated and signed the withdrawal agreement with the bloc.\n\nA key part of the agreement - which is now an international treaty - was the Northern Ireland Protocol, designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill proposed by the government would override that part of that agreement when it comes to movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain and would allow the UK to re-interpret \"state aid\" rules on subsidies for firms in Northern Ireland, in the event of the two sides not agreeing a future trade deal.\n\nSpeaking at the start of the five-hour debate, the PM said the bill should be \"welcomed by everyone\" who cares about the \"sovereignty and integrity of the UK\".\n\nHe said the UK had signed up to the \"finely balanced\" withdrawal agreement, including the Northern Ireland Protocol, in \"good faith\" and was committed to honouring its obligations, including the introduction of \"light touch\" checks on trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut he said additional \"protective powers\" were now necessary to guard against the EU's \"proven willingness\" to interpret aspects of the agreement in \"absurd\" ways, \"simply to exert leverage\" in the trade talks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ed Miliband says it is not an argument of Leave versus Remain, but “an argument about right versus wrong”.\n\n\"What we cannot tolerate now is a situation where our EU counterparts seriously believe they have the power to break up our country,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"We cannot have a situation where the very boundaries of our country can be dictated to by a foreign power or international organisation.\"\n\nHe also suggested the EU was threatening not to allow British firms to export products of animal origin to either the continent or Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Absurd and self-defeating as that action would be...the EU still have not taken this revolver off the table,\" he told MPs.\n\nHowever, he sought to reassure MPs that the powers were an \"insurance policy\" and Parliament would be given a vote before they were ever invoked, insisting \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\".\n\nBut former Labour leader Ed Miliband, standing in for Sir Keir Starmer after the Labour leader was forced to self-isolate at home, said the \"very act of passing the law\" would constitute a breach of international law.\n\nHe told MPs the PM \"could not blame anyone else\", having drawn up and signed the Brexit deal himself.\n\n\"It is his deal, it is his mess, it is his failure,\" he said. \"For the first time in his life, it is time to take responsibility and to fess up,\" he said. \"Either he was not straight with the country in the first place or he did not understand it.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is not just legislative hooliganism on any issue, it is on the most sensitive issue of all.\"\n\nAmong Tory MPs to speak out were ex-ministers Andrew Mitchell, Sir Bob Neill and Stephen Hammond, all of whom urged the government to settle differences with the EU through the arbitration process in the Agreement.\n\nConservative MP Charles Walker said the EU was a \"pain in the neck\" but urged the government not to \"press the nuclear button\" before all other options had been exhausted.\n\n\"I am not going to be voting for this bill at second reading because if you keep whacking a dog, don't be surprised when it bites you back,\" he said.\n\nAnd Former Chancellor Sajid Javid has joined the ranks of potential rebels, saying he could not see why it was necessary to \"pre-emptively renege\" on the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Breaking international law is never a step that should be taken lightly,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC \"all options are on the table\" in terms of possible action against Tory MPs who do not support the bill.\n\nThe bill, which sets out how trade between different nations of the UK will operate after the UK leaves the EU single market on 31 December, is likely to face more difficulties in its later stages, especially in the House of Lords.\n\nThe DUP's Sammy Wilson welcomed the bill, but said his party still had concerns and would be tabling amendments to \"ensure Northern Ireland is not left in a state aid straight jacket and our businesses are not weighed down by unnecessary paperwork when trading within the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said the bill was the \"greatest threat\" to devolved government in Scotland since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament 20 years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron said he has “misgivings about what is being proposed”\n\n\"We are discussing the details of a bill which this government casually and brazenly admits breaks international and domestic law, he said.\n\nFive former prime ministers have raised concerns about the bill, including Boris Johnson's predecessor Theresa May - who is absent from Monday's debate as she is on a visit to South Korea.\n\nSpeaking earlier on Monday, David Cameron said \"passing an act of Parliament and then going on to break an international treaty obligation...should be the absolute final resort\".", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSocial gatherings of more than six people have become illegal in England. Versions of the \"rule of six\" - explained in detail - are now in place right across the UK and are designed to provide clarity. However, there are significant differences between nations. It applies indoors and out in England and Scotland, but not in Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland and Wales, children under 11 and 12 respectively are exempt. A reminder of why this is all being brought in - that crucial R number is rising.\n\nEvery GP practice in England has been sent a letter telling them they must make sure patients can access face-to-face appointments where needed. It follows concerns that vulnerable people have been shut out due to the pandemic. The Royal College of GPs said it was an \"insult\" to suggest its members hadn't been doing their jobs properly. An estimated half of the 102 million appointments from March to July were by video or phone call. Read more on how GPs are changing the way they work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nEmployers in Britain are preparing for more than twice as many redundancies than they did at the height of the last recession. According to the Institute for Employment Studies, about 380,000 were planned from May to July this year - set against 180,000 over a comparable period in 2009. Redundancies could reach 735,000 this autumn, researchers say. TUC leader Frances O'Grady is urging the chancellor to \"stand by working families\" as the furlough scheme nears its end.\n\nMany household names have announced redundancy plans since the pandemic began\n\nGlobally, a new daily record of coronavirus infections has been set. The World Health Organization reported more than 307,000 new cases on Sunday. Deaths rose by more than 5,500, bringing the global total to 917,417. The biggest rises were in India, the US and Brazil, but countries across Europe are also seeing a surge in infections.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge and the National Portrait Gallery will today unveil a digital exhibition of photographs taken by members of the public during lockdown. More than 31,000 submissions poured in, along the themes of Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness. The final 100 selected by judges are moving and uplifting - take a look at a few in our gallery and see them all on the National Portrait Gallery's website.\n\nThe Stockport Spider-Men kept children entertained during lockdown\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, you may have heard about Covid marshals who'll be patrolling city centres to enforce the \"rule of six\". But who are they and what powers do they have?\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.", "Officers were called to the beach at St Andrews Castle\n\nA gathering of about 50 young people on a Fife beach sparked a police response.\n\nOfficers were called to the beach at St Andrews Castle at about 21:50 on Friday.\n\nIt is understood that the group was made up of students who were adhering to social distancing guidelines and left the area when requested.\n\nA spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: \"Officers attended, gave advice and the group dispersed.\" No fines were issued or arrests made.\n\nCurrent Scottish government coronavirus guidance limits outdoor gatherings to 15 people from five other households.\n\nHowever, restrictions are due to change on Monday when people will only be able to meet in groups of no more than six.\n\nChildren aged under 12 will not be subject to the new \"rule of six\".\n\nA spokesman for the University of St Andrews said students, local young people and visitors often held parties and barbecues on local beaches at this time of year.\n\nHe said the vast majority were observing public health guidelines, remaining in small household groups and behaving responsibly.\n\n\"This is an incredibly difficult period for students, not just in St Andrews but across the country,\" he added.\n\n\"They have experienced a year like no other, far more than their fair share of disruption, and are facing a very different university experience from the one which tradition might have liked to promise.\n\n\"It is so important that while we remain cautious and prudent, and encourage our students to observe safe behaviour, we empower and support them to show what they can do during these enormously restrictive times. \"", "Businesses in Wales face challenges preparing for a potential no-deal Brexit because of debt taken on to deal with coronavirus, according to leaders.\n\nNine out of 10 members report cashflow problems over the pandemic, says the Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\nIt comes as tensions in the trade talks between the UK and the EU increased this week - leading some to believe a no-deal Brexit is more likely.\n\nJoshua Miles from FSB Wales said cashflow was firms' \"main issue\".\n\n\"One in five of our members have had government backed loans, others have gone into debt, used credit cards, some borrowed money from friends and relatives, and others have used their own life savings,\" he said.\n\n\"All of that means they just haven't had the time or money to prepare for something like a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"That's going to be a real challenge for us going forward.\n\n\"It puts us in a very vulnerable position.\"\n\nGym boss Wendy Morris said she was worried about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit\n\nCarwyn Jones, the Labour MS for Bridgend and former first minister, said Brexit makes the UK economy particularly vulnerable.\n\n\"Every other country in the world has to deal with Covid, but the UK is the only country that has to deal with Brexit.\n\n\"It means the UK as a whole is uniquely disadvantaged.\"\n\nBridgend Conservative MP Dr Jamie Wallis said: \"A Brexit deal is still a priority for the government, however, it must centre around free trade with other EU states.\n\n\"What's important is that any deal that we strike does not sacrifice the promise we made to the British to take back control of our money, borders and laws.\n\n\"That is what the people who voted to leave the European Union expect.\"\n\nWendy Morris, who runs Energie Fitness gym in Bridgend, said she was worried about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit but just wants the government to \"get on with it\".\n\n\"I think quite honestly that any kind of deal, including a no-deal is better than the state of flux we're in at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"We need certainty. It impacts on everybody and I'm concerned that because of coronavirus the government is looking in two different directions.\"\n\nViews are mixed among her clients.\n\nLisa Driscoll said: \"I know Brexit's coming but I think we should focus on coronavirus.\"\n\nDaniel Bayliss said: \"If, hopefully, we can get coronavirus under control, get some kind of certainty on the negotiations for Brexit, then things can start to look a bit more hopeful.\n\n\"At the moment I don't think many people feel hopeful.\"", "YouTube is facing a legal battle for allegedly breaching the privacy and data rights of under-13s in the UK.\n\nA claim lodged with the High Court against parent company Google accuses the firm of collecting children's data without parental consent.\n\nPrivacy expert Duncan McCann, who is bringing the action, argues this is a breach of UK and European (EU) law.\n\nA YouTube spokesperson said it does not comment on pending litigation and the platform is not for use by under-13s.\n\nMr McCann, a father of three children under the age of 13, believes that if the case is successful, damages of between £100 and £500 could be payable to those whose data was breached.\n\n\"When the internet first emerged, we used to be worried about how children used the internet, said Mr McCann.\n\n\"That is still a problem, but now it's a two-way street. We need to focus on how the internet is using our children, and ask ourselves if we're comfortable with them becoming a product for these digital platforms?\"\n\n\"That's the future I don't want,\" he added.\n\nHe told the BBC that the class action is the first in Europe brought against a technology firm on behalf of children. He says that estimated damages of more than £2bn are being sought for about five million British children as well as their parents or guardians.\n\nHe will argue that YouTube and Google have breached the UK's Data Protection Act and the EU's General Data Protection Regulations.\n\nThe case will focus on children who have watched YouTube since May 2018, when the new Data Protection Act became law.\n\n\"I think we're at the stage, where the only way we can move forward and hold these companies accountable is through the legal process,\" Mr McCann said.\n\nA YouTube spokesperson said: \"We don't comment on pending litigation. YouTube is not for children under the age of 13.\n\n\"We launched the YouTube Kids app as a dedicated destination for kids and have made further changes that allow us to better protect kids and families on YouTube,\" they added.\n\nThe video platform has also previously said that it does not sell its users' personal information to advertising companies.\n\nThe case is not expected before next autumn.\n\nMr McCann also told the BBC that it will also depend on the outcome of another data and privacy case being brought against Google.\n\nCampaign group Foxglove and law firm Hausfeld have also said they would support Mr McCann's case.", "The Trades Union Congress made a direct appeal to the chancellor on Monday\n\nThe TUC's leader is asking for government action to avert \"mass unemployment\" amid the pandemic.\n\nTrades Union Congress general secretary Frances O'Grady has told its annual meeting the chancellor must \"stand by working families\" as the furlough scheme nears its end.\n\nShe said: \"If the government doesn't act, we face a tsunami of job losses.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said supporting jobs was \"an absolute priority\".\n\nUnder the government's furlough scheme, workers placed on leave have been able to receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nTake-up has been significant, with 9.6 million workers furloughed since March.\n\nThe scheme is due to finish at the end of October and Chancellor Rishi Sunak has repeatedly ruled out an extension to it.\n\nSpeaking at the trade union body's congress in London on Monday, Ms O'Grady said time is running out to prevent huge job losses as the job retention scheme (JRS) comes to a close: \"Millions of livelihoods were saved [by the scheme] - both employees and the self-employed. From this Thursday, it will be just 45 days before the JRS ends.\n\n\"That's the notice period that companies have to give if they intend to make mass redundancies.\n\nThe TUC also called for a new \"job protection and skills deal\"\n\n\"Rishi Sunak, stand by working families - don't walk away. It's so much better to keep people working, paying their taxes, spending and helping to rebuild the economy.\"\n\nThe trade unions body is also calling for a new \"job protection and skills deal\", which would include mandatory training and \"up-skilling\" for workers placed on furlough, for example.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Supporting jobs is an absolute priority which is why we've set out a comprehensive 'Plan for Jobs' to protect, create and support jobs across the UK by providing significant, targeted support where it is needed the most.\n\n\"We are continuing to support livelihoods and incomes through our £2bn Kickstart scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, a £1,000 retention bonus for businesses that can bring furloughed employees back to work, and doubling the number of frontline work coaches to help people find work.\n\n\"We are also supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"", "Six the Musical will be at the Lyric theatre in London from 14 November\n\nSix and Everybody's Talking About Jamie will become the first musicals back in the West End in mid-November, eight months after the curtain came down.\n\nThey will hit the stage three weeks after a string of non-musical shows reopen London's theatre district.\n\nThe Play That Goes Wrong, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap and Adam Kay's This Is Going To Hurt will all admit socially distant audiences in October.\n\nVenue bosses said \"robust risk mitigation\" would be in place.\n\nThey include reduced capacities, contactless tickets, temperature tests and deep cleans, as well as hand sanitation, face coverings and track and trace.\n\nEverybody's Talking About Jamie is expected to return to the Apollo Theatre in November\n\nThe producers of Six, the hit show about Henry VIII's wives, will take a separate cast to The Lowry in Salford from late November.\n\nThe musical had been due to be staged in the Greater Manchester venue's 450-capacity Quays theatre over Christmas, but will move into the complex's 1,700-seater Lyric in order to accommodate all ticket holders while ensuring social distancing.\n\nThe queens will hit Salford two weeks after they return to the West End at another Lyric Theatre - on Shaftesbury Avenue - on 14 November.\n\n\"We are reconfiguring the entire stalls to absolutely comply with social distancing,\" Nimax Theatres boss Nica Burns told BBC Breakfast.\n\nPromising more legroom as one positive consequence of the new set-up, she added: \"We're taking out some of the rows. We feel very sure that we'll be able to keep this venue safe for our audiences.\"\n\nThe Apollo was covered in tape as part of the Live Theatre Missing campaign in July\n\nMost of the shows that have announced their reopening plans so far will be staged at Nimax venues.\n\nProducers hope Everybody's Talking About Jamie will resume at the Apollo in November, but the group's biggest production - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace - will not return until at least February.\n\n\"It's impossible to open a large show with social distancing,\" Burns said. \"These shows are very, very expensive and you simply can't meet your weekly costs. So we have to do smaller shows.\"\n\nThe company said it would be operating at a loss after the furlough scheme ends at the end of October.\n\n\"We looked at the financial and human cost of large-scale redundancies,\" a statement said. \"We preferred to put the potential redundancy monies towards employment rather than unemployment.\"\n\nThe Nimax plans will save 355 jobs. Separately, Six's producers said the two productions in London and Salford would account for 100 jobs.\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\nOne of the producers, Kenny Wax, called for news from the government about insurance and a date to welcome audiences without social distancing.\n\n\"We're desperate for some news on a government-backed insurance scheme, which would enable the bigger shows to open,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"That's one of the answers, and the second is the crucial thing, which is stage five of [Culture Secretary] Oliver Dowden's five-point plan, which is no social distancing. Those two things are the things that are going to get all of the West End back open, which of course drives tourism and the economy.\"\n\nA smattering of theatres have already reopened, including the Troubadour in Wembley, north London, where a musical based on the film Sleepless In Seattle had its world premiere in August.\n\nBut Andrew Lloyd Webber recently told MPs it was economically \"impossible\" to run theatres with social distancing, while fellow theatre impresario, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, said in June that shows including Hamilton, Les Miserables, Mary Poppins and The Phantom of the Opera would not return to the West End until 2021.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Drivers who kill others after speeding, racing or using a phone could receive life sentences under new legislation.\n\nThose who cause death by careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs could also get a life sentence.\n\nThe current maximum sentence for each crime is 14 years.\n\nThe sentencing reforms announced this week will be introduced in Parliament early next year. A new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving is also being proposed.\n\nCurrently, without that specific offence, drivers who cause injuries under such circumstances can only be convicted of careless driving - which has the maximum penalty of a fine.\n\nThe proposed law change was first announced in 2017, with Monday's announcement setting a timescale for when the legislation would come into force.\n\nThe increase will apply to offences in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, which has separate road safety laws.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland - also the Lord Chancellor - said: \"This government has been clear that punishments must fit the crime, but too often families tell us this isn't the case with killer drivers.\n\n\"So, today I am announcing that we will bring forward legislation early next year to introduce life sentences for dangerous drivers who kill on our roads, and ensure they feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe new legislation forms part of major sentencing reforms being announced in a White Paper this week.\n\nTeenagers convicted of murder in England and Wales could also receive whole-life terms under the proposals. This order means the criminal is kept in prison for the rest of their life without ever becoming eligible for parole.\n\nWith a life sentence, a prisoner is given a number of years they must spend in jail after which they will be eligible to apply for parole.\n\nLast year, 174 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving\n\nA consultation carried out in 2016 gave support for the new driving offence measures from victims, road safety campaigners and people who had lost loved ones.\n\nOf the 9,000 who responded, 90% thought there should be a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving.\n\nIn addition, 70% of those who responded agreed the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving should be increased to life imprisonment.\n\nLast year, 174 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving, and another 19 for causing death by careless driving while under the influence.", "Nicola Sturgeon has voiced \"very serious concerns\" about an apparent backlog of coronavirus test results.\n\nThe Scottish first minister said she was seeking \"urgent discussions\" with UK ministers over delays to results.\n\nOnly 70 new positive cases of the virus were confirmed in Scotland on Monday, compared with 244 on Sunday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the figures were \"not yet complete\", and suggested that schools going back in England could be causing a spike in demand for tests.\n\nThe system in Scotland was hit by \"exceptional demand\" when pupils returned to schools in August.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said a \"significant\" number of people had been seeking tests, including some \"who do not have symptoms and are not otherwise eligible\" - but that capacity was at its highest level ever.\n\nThe \"vast bulk\" of Scotland's coronavirus testing is carried out as part of a UK-wide network of test centres and mobile testing units, with the results processed in Lighthouse labs such as the one in Glasgow.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government had been \"fully engaged and involved in that system\", and wanted to work \"in partnership with the UK government\" to solve any problems.\n\nHowever, amid reports of a backlog of tests, she said UK ministers needed to \"share the scale and nature of the issues\" so that \"we can collectively and very quickly find solutions\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"We now have a very serious concern that the backlog of test results being faced by the UK lab network is starting to impact on the timeous reporting of Scottish results.\n\n\"We have reason to be concerned that the figures that have been reported today are not complete, because some of the turnaround of the tests done in Scotland over yesterday is longer.\n\n\"I'll be seeking urgent discussions later today with UK government counterparts just to make sure we are doing everything possible to get on top of this before it becomes a bigger issue.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the DHSC said the Test and Trace system was working and that \"our capacity is the highest it has ever been\".\n\nHowever, it added: \"We are seeing a significant demand for tests, including from people who do not have symptoms and are not otherwise eligible.\n\n\"New booking slots and home testing kits are made available daily for those who need them and we are targeting testing capacity at the areas that need it most, including those where there is an outbreak, and prioritising at-risk groups.\n\n\"Our laboratories are processing more than a million tests a week and we recently announced new facilities and technology to process results even faster.\"\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, the first minister said Scotland was in a \"precarious situation\".\n\nEven with a lower number of positive results on Monday, they still represented 2.7% of people tested. A few weeks ago that figure was usually around or below 1%.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the number of new cases was trebling roughly every three weeks, a pattern which is \"not sustainable\".\n\nNew restrictions on the number of people who can meet up were imposed on Monday, limiting gatherings to six people from two households.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"We have to act now, we have to act quickly to prevent and even greater increase in cases as we go through autumn and into winter.\"", "UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia.\n\nThe deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn.\n\nARM's technology is at the heart of most smartphones, among many other devices.\n\nNvidia has promised to keep the business based in the UK, to hire more staff, and to retain ARM's brand.\n\nIt added that the deal would create \"the premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence\" (AI).\n\n\"ARM will remain headquartered in Cambridge,\" said Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang.\n\n\"We will expand on this great site and build a world-class AI research facility, supporting developments in healthcare, life sciences, robotics, self-driving cars and other fields.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Nvidia chief explains why he wants to buy ARM\n\nA number of business leaders have signed an open letter calling on the Prime Minister to stop the merger.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC that it would not block the sale, but said conditions could be imposed on the takeover.\n\nSoftbank made commitments to secure jobs and keep ARM's headquarters in the UK until September next year.\n\n\"So far, when you read the announcement coming from Nvidia they said they will honour that Softbank has made at the time,\" said Sonja Laud, chief investment officer at Legal & General Investment Management.\n\n\"But with the expiry about to happen and obviously the Brexit negotiations under way it will be very interesting to see how this develops in the future.\"\n\nThis appears to address concerns that British jobs would be lost and decision-making shifted to the US. Last week, the Labour Party had urged the government to intervene.\n\nBut two of ARM's co-founders have raised other issues about the takeover.\n\nHermann Hauser and Tudor Brown had suggested ARM should remain \"neutral\", rather than be owned by a company like Nvidia, which produces its own processors.\n\nThe concern is that there would be a conflict of interest since ARM's clients would become dependent on a business with which many also compete for sales.\n\nMoreover, the two co-founders also claimed that once ARM was owned by an American firm, Washington could try to block Chinese companies from using its knowhow as part of a wider trade clash between the countries.\n\nHermann Hauser (left) and Tudor Brown (right) have warned the takeover would have negative consequences\n\n\"If ARM becomes a US subsidiary of a US company, it falls under the Cfius [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] regulations,\" Mr Hauser told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"[That] means that if hundreds of UK companies that incorporate ARM's [technology] in their products, want to sell it, and export it to anywhere in the world including China - which is a major market - the decision on whether they will be allowed to export it will be made in the White House and not in Downing Street.\"\n\nHe added that he believed the pledge to retain and increase the number of UK jobs was \"meaningless\" unless UK ministers stepped in to make it legally enforceable.\n\nBut ARM's chief executive played down the threat of export bans.\n\n\"It isn't to do with the ownership of the company, it's all to do with analysis of the product itself,\" Simon Segars told the BBC.\n\n\"The majority of our products are designed in the UK or outside the US, and the majority of our products don't fall under much of the US export control set of rules.\"\n\nMr Huang added that ARM had \"some of the finest computer scientists in the world\" in Cambridge and he intended to both retain them and attract others to what would become Nvidia's largest site in Europe.\n\nThe UK prime minister's spokesman said \"ministers have spoken to both companies\", adding that the government would be scrutinising the deal \"including what it means for the Cambridge HQ\".\n\nARM creates computer chip designs that others then customise to their own ends. It also develops instruction sets, which define how software controls processors.\n\nIt is based in Cambridge but also has offices across the world, including a joint venture in Shenzhen, China.\n\nHundreds of companies license its innovations including Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Qualcomm. To date, ARM says 180 billion chips have been made based on its solutions.\n\nWhen Softbank acquired ARM, it promised to keep the company's headquarters in the UK and to increase the number of local jobs, which it did.\n\nSoftbank's founder Masayoshi Son described the firm as being a \"crystal ball\" that would help him predict where tech was heading. But losses on other investments, including the office rental company WeWork, prompted a rethink.\n\nCalifornia-headquartered Nvidia overtook Intel to become the world's most valuable chipmaker in July.\n\nUntil now, it has specialised in high-end graphics processing units (GPUs). These are commonly used by gamers to deliver more detailed visuals, as well as by professionals for tasks including scientific research, machine learning, and cryptocurrency \"mining\".\n\nNvidia is also one of ARM's clients, using its designs to create its line-up of Tegra central processing units (CPUs).\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, Nvidia will pay Softbank $21.5bn in its own stock and $12bn in cash. It will follow with up to a further $5bn in cash or stock if certain targets are met.\n\nNvidia will also issue $1.5bn in equity to ARM's employees.\n\nMr Huang has already said that one of the changes he wants to make is to accelerate development of ARM's designs for CPUs used in computer servers - a rapidly growing sector.\n\nAmazon is among companies that are already betting on the tech.\n\nThe use of internet-based services has led to ever-growing demand for computer servers\n\nBut experts say one risk Nvidia faces is that the takeover could encourage ARM's wider client list to shift focus to a rival type of chip technology, which lags behind in terms of adoption but has the benefit of not being controlled by one company.\n\n\"ARM is facing growing competition from RISC-V, an open-source architecture,\" wrote CCS Insight's Geoff Blaber in a recent research note.\n\n\"If its partners believed that ARM's integrity and independence was compromised, it would accelerate the growth of RISC-V and in the process devalue ARM.\"\n\nMr Blaber also suggested regulators might block the deal.\n\n\"This process will take months if not years with a high chance of failure,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Huang has said that he expects it to take more than a year to \"educate\" regulators and answer all their questions, but said he had \"every confidence\" they would ultimately approve the investment.\n\nIt's a deal which the man who founded ARM says is a disaster.\n\nAnd many in the UK's technology industry will agree with Hermann Hauser.\n\nHe opposed the 2016 sale of the chip designer to Softbank but accepted that the Japanese firm stood by its guarantees to boost employment and research in Cambridge.\n\nBut a takeover by Nvidia, one of the many firms that licences ARM's designs, appears to pose a threat to its business model - why will its hundreds of other customers now have faith that they will have equal access to its technology?\n\nIn recent days leading figures in the Cambridge technology sector have lobbied Downing Street, calling for ministers to intervene to bring ARM back under UK ownership. There have been signs that the government is considering a more active industrial policy.\n\nDominic Cummings, who has talked of the need for the UK to have a trillion dollar tech company, is leading the drive for a more interventionist approach.\n\nNow, with Hermann Hauser and others warning that this deal will make Britain a US vassal state, the government is under pressure to step in and ensure that control over vital home-grown technology is not lost to a foreign power.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAustria's Dominic Thiem clinched his first Grand Slam title after a gritty fightback from two sets down stunned Alexander Zverev in the US Open final.\n\nSecond seed Thiem, 27, had lost his previous three major finals and looked destined for another agonising defeat.\n\nBut 23-year-old Zverev, playing in his first Slam final, became edgy at key moments and Thiem took full advantage.\n\nBoth players failed to serve out victory in a tense decider before Thiem sealed a 2-6 4-6 6-4 6-3 7-6 (8-6) win.\n\nThiem took his third championship point when Zverev pulled a backhand wide, leaving the Austrian - who suffered cramp during the tie-break - falling flat on his back in celebration.\n\nWhen he climbed back to his feet, he found a gracious Zverev - with whom he is close friends - waiting to hug him at the net.\n\n\"I wish we could have two winners today, we both deserve it,\" Thiem told Zverev, whom he has known since they were juniors.\n\nThiem is the first player to claim a Grand Slam title from two sets down since Argentine Gaston Gaudio at the French Open in 2004.\n\nIt had been longer since anyone achieved this feat in New York, with Thiem emulating American Pancho Gonzales' comeback in 1949.\n• None Follow all the reaction to Thiem's first major win\n• None 'I dedicated my whole life to this' - new US Open champion Thiem\n\nThiem, who remains third in the world rankings, is the first man to win a maiden Grand Slam singles title since Croat Marin Cilic's 2014 US Open victory.\n\nThe absence of 2019 champion Rafael Nadal and Swiss great Roger Federer at the behind-closed-doors Grand Slam, plus the expulsion of top seed Novak Djokovic for hitting a line judge with a ball, opened the door for a new name to be etched on to a major trophy.\n\nThiem took his opportunity to become the first man outside the 'Big Three' to win the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon or US Open since Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka triumphed at Flushing Meadows in 2016.\n\nWhile this final was not of the same ilk as some recent Grand Slam classics, it developed into a gripping contest which was impossible to call right up to the very last ball.\n\nOdd moments of brilliance from both players were outweighed by mistakes, with the match eventually won by a battle of the minds as much as their techniques.\n\nThiem was the favourite to take advantage of the absence of the 'Big Three' and finally land his maiden Grand Slam title.\n\nThe Austrian had lost the past two French Open finals to Nadal, who cemented his place as the greatest clay-courter of all-time by winning his 11th and 12th titles at Roland Garros.\n\nThen he lost February's Australian Open final against Djokovic, who claimed a record eighth title in Melbourne.\n\nSo this was the first major final where the world number three was not playing one of the game's greats.\n\nWhether his jittery start came as a result of that additional expectation to achieve his ultimate career goal, or perhaps an Achilles injury that bothered him in Friday's semi-final against Daniil Medvedev, was unclear.\n\nEventually, he settled down to the task after trailing by two sets and a break. Thiem started to land more first serves and find more fizz in his returning game, as well as being aided by Zverev's own edginess starting to appear in the third and fourth sets.\n\nMomentum had now swung back to the Austrian and when he broke serve in the first game of the decider, it seemed like that might have been the catalyst for him to close out victory relatively comfortably.\n\nThat was not the case as the drama stepped up. Thiem hit a double fault on break point in the next game, then fought back from 0-30 in the sixth game after a stunning forehand winner down the line.\n\nLittle separated the pair as they were locked at 3-3, having won 139 points each in the match, and led to that riveting finale where they split four breaks of serves before the tie-break decided the outcome.\n\nLike Thiem, Zverev was also aiming to fulfil his much vaunted potential by winning a first Grand Slam title.\n\nThe 23-year-old made a confident start in his first major final as he moved into a two-set lead, but some of his weaknesses - particularly the tendency to hit double faults under pressure - began to appear.\n\nTwo double faults in the fifth-set tie-break gave the upper hand to Thiem, who eventually got over the line despite struggling physically in the final moments.\n\nZverev's heartbreak at the manner of his defeat was clear, breaking down in tears as he struggled through his runner-up speech.\n\nHe cried as he tried to thank his parents Alexander - also his coach - and Irina who were not in New York after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\n\"I miss them. I'm sure they are sitting at home pretty proud even though I lost. I wish one day I can bring the trophy home,\" he said.\n\nFor so long Zverev had been touted as a major winner but had failed to deliver on the Grand Slam stage.\n\nThat was until he reached his first Grand Slam semi-final at the Australian Open earlier this year - where he lost to Thiem - and then backed that up by going one better in New York.\n\n\"It was a tough battle and I wish you had missed a little bit more so I could lift that trophy,\" he told Thiem.\n\n\"To my team, the last two years haven't been easy but we are definitely on our way up.\"\n\nAn astonishing Grand Slam final - which had moments of sheer genius, and others which felt like intruding on private grief.\n\nFor the first two sets, Thiem was listless and horribly off key; Zverev often excelling in his first Grand Slam final.\n\nThe final set produced the best tennis of the match, but also moments of unbearable stress and pressure. Both served for the title, and in the tie-break Zverev's two double faults made the difference, after Thiem looked to have a case of terminal cramp.\n\nPerhaps we underestimated just how stressful it would be to win a Grand Slam in the absence of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal. Without any of them as opponents in the final, neither could pretend they had nothing to lose.\n\nIt will be a crushing disappointment to Zverev, but he has reached a semi-final and a final in this year's two majors, with still so much room to improve.\n\nThiem, meanwhile, is likely to become an even more formidable Grand Slam foe for Djokovic and Nadal.\n\nHe will think anything is possible right now, but surely even this extraordinary athlete will need more than 13 days to get ready for another tilt at a major title at the French Open in Paris.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "World champions England claimed an astonishing 24-run victory as Australia crumbled in the second one-day international at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nChasing 232 to win the series, Australia were cruising at 144-2 before Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer induced a collapse of four wickets for three runs in 21 balls.\n\nA reeling Australia lost their final eight wickets for 63 runs as they were bowled out for 207, despite a valiant last-wicket partnership of 31 between Alex Carey and Josh Hazlewood.\n\nEngland earlier collapsed to 149-8, with leg-spinner Adam Zampa taking 3-36 before Adil Rashid and Tom Curran pushed them to 231-9.\n• None 'We've got the belief we can win from any position'\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan said he wanted his side to learn how to \"win ugly\" and will be pleased with how they dragged themselves back into the game.\n\nArcher was as hostile as he has been for England, disrupting the opening batsmen first up before returning to the attack with Woakes and triggering a collapse.\n\nAs good as England were, this was an almost unbelievable collapse from Australia, who gifted wickets with poor shots, no foot movement and a generally bewildered air.\n\nEngland now have a chance to keep their five-year unbeaten run in home one-day series in the final match of the series at the same ground on Wednesday.\n\nWhen Archer and Woakes returned to the attack, with Marnus Labuschagne and Aaron Finch sharing a 107-run stand, it felt like the game was over.\n\nHowever, the two stifled the run-rate before Woakes trapped Labuschagne lbw, and six balls later Mitchell Marsh chopped Archer on to his stumps.\n\nWhen captain Finch, who had led the way with 73, was bowled by Woakes in the next over, England upped their intensity, and it paid off as Glenn Maxwell played a wild slog and was bowled.\n\nIt was the speed with which the collapse happened that was so surprising, with Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc falling to consecutive Sam Curran deliveries as the left-armer used all his variations.\n\nAustralia had this match within their grasp and, for the second time on this tour, they let it slip.\n\nAustralia created their own downfall, as the partnership between Finch and Labuschagne had highlighted England's struggle to take middle-order wickets - a skill that Liam Plunkett led the way in for so long.\n\nRashid could not find the right length on a pitch that offered some turn, while the Curran brothers, replacing Moeen Ali and Mark Wood, could not make the breakthrough.\n\nFinch and Labuschagne countered a tricky pitch with aggression and calm running, although Finch was dropped on 58 by Rashid in his follow-through.\n\nBut Australia twice had the chance to close this match out, the first coming with the ball when they failed to clean up England's tail, and secondly as they cruised past the halfway stage with the bat.\n\nThey will hope that Steve Smith, who again missed this match as a precaution following a blow to the head in the nets on Friday, will return to offer some stability to a slightly fragile line-up.\n\nThis was a far from vintage performance with the bat by England, who were suffocated by Australia's bowlers.\n\nRoot epitomised the struggles. He was hit three times by the pace bowlers - at one point requiring treatment after a blow to the knee from Starc - and in his desperation to rotate the strike, ran out Jason Roy via a superb throw from Marcus Stoinis at cover.\n\nDespite looking uncomfortable, Root and Morgan guided England to 90-2, Root just beginning to cut loose with back-to-back boundaries before he edged Zampa to slip in his first over.\n\nWith the run-rate going nowhere, wickets fell regularly. Jos Buttler was trapped lbw by Pat Cummins, Morgan fell in similar fashion to Zampa, Sam Billings chopped the leg-spinner on to his stumps and Sam Curran edged Starc behind.\n\nChris Woakes played a handy cameo but it was Rashid and Tom Curran who helped England finish strongly.\n\nThe final six overs went for 67 runs, including 18 off the otherwise excellent Cummins. Rashid slapped Cummins over deep mid-wicket for just the second six of England's innings as the two shared a 72-run stand.\n\nAustralia were clearly frustrated as they left the field, but that was nothing compared to how they will feel after the batting performance that was to follow.\n\n'England never know when they are beaten' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on BBC Test Match Special: \"It was an outstanding win - not from nowhere but having the bowlers execute plans as well as we did, particularly when Australia started to gather momentum in the Aaron Finch and Marnus Labuschagne partnership.\n\n\"Once we broke into partnerships it was very tough for batsmen to come in and get going. That was certainly the case when we were batting.\"\n\nOn his decision to bowl Jofra Archer and Chris Woakes out early: \"The game was getting away from us - there was no point Jofra having two or three overs left, and the same with Chris Woakes, if Australia are going to chase it down in the 42nd over. We went all in and the plan was to bowl Australia out.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"At the end of the day England were just too good. England scored 81 runs in the last 10 overs, which wasn't ideal.\n\n\"It was getting more difficult as the match went on but that's no excuse for the collapse. It probably wasn't the greatest viewer match but it was good to see an equal match between bat and ball.\"\n\nEngland bowler Chris Woakes: \"It's great to have someone like Jofra Archer in your team because when you're up against it you can give him the ball and you get that little bit of X-factor from him, which is brilliant.\"\n\nEx-England spinner Phil Tufnell on TMS: \"England never know when they are beaten. They always feel like they can drag it out of the fire.\"\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "The Oruc Reis seismic research ship was surveying drilling prospects in disputed waters\n\nA Turkish research ship at the centre of a row with Greece over oil and gas exploration in a disputed area of the Eastern Mediterranean has returned to waters near southern Turkey.\n\nGreek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the move as a \"positive first step\".\n\nTurkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said the move did not mean Turkey was \"giving up on our rights there\".\n\nTensions flared when Ankara sent the research ship to survey an area claimed by Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.\n\nAnkara has since faced potential sanctions from the European Union, which supports Greece and Cyprus.\n\nRatcheting pressure up further on Saturday, Mr Mitsotakis announced Greece was \"reinforcing its armed forces\" and would buy 18 French Rafale fighter jets, four frigates and four navy helicopters. He said the Greek military would increase by troop numbers by 15,000 over the next five years.\n\nGreece and Turkey are both Nato members, but have a history of border disputes and competing claims over maritime rights.\n\nOn 10 August, Turkey sent the seismic research ship Oruc Reis, accompanied by two auxiliary vessels, to search for potentially rich oil and gas deposits south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo. At the time, the Greek foreign ministry called the move a \"new serious escalation\" which \"exposed\" Turkey's \"destabilising role\".\n\nThere are also tensions around Cyprus over rival exploration rights. The Republic of Cyprus and Greece do not accept any such rights for Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus in the region.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Akar confirmed that the Oruc Reis had returned to Turkish waters. Ship-tracking websites showed it near the port of Antalya.\n\n\"There will be planned movements backwards and forwards,\" Mr Akar told state news agency Anadolu.\n\nLast week, Turkey's navy said that the Oruc Reis would continue operations in the area until 12 September. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said exploratory work would continue but there were no plans so far for an extension to the ship's mission.\n\nThe Turkish pro-government newspaper, Yeni Safak, said the decision not to extend the ship's mission was \"a step towards giving diplomacy a chance\".\n\nFrance has deployed Rafale fighters to the Eastern Mediterranean\n\n\"This is a positive first step. I hope there will be more of them,\" Greek PM Mitsotakis told a news conference in Thessaloniki on Sunday.\n\nFrance - which is at odds with Turkey over the crisis in Libya - recently deployed two Rafale fighter jets and a naval frigate in the Eastern Mediterranean because of the tensions between Greece and Turkey.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said the French military would monitor the situation. He also urged Turkey to halt oil and gas exploration in disputed waters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miliband to Johnson: \"He hasn't read the bill\"\n\nA proposed law giving Boris Johnson's government the power to override parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU has passed its first hurdle in the Commons.\n\nMPs backed the Internal Market Bill by 340 votes to 263.\n\nMinisters say it contains vital safeguards to protect Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, if negotiations on a future trade deal break down.\n\nBut critics, including a number of Tory MPs, warned it risks damaging the UK by breaching international law.\n\nTwo Tory MPs voted against the bill on Monday night - Sir Roger Gale and Andrew Percy - while a further 30 abstained, although some of those may not have been for political reasons.\n\nAlthough the government has a majority of 80 in the Commons, it is braced for further rebellions in the coming weeks as the legislation receives detailed scrutiny.\n\nSeveral prominent Conservatives, including former Chancellor Sajid Javid - who appeared to abstain on Monday - have said they could not support the final bill unless it is amended.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel insisted it put the \"safeguards and mechanisms in place to ensure that we stay true to the people of Northern Ireland\".\n\nSir Roger Gale, the Tory MP for North Thanet in Kent, told the BBC's Newsnight he had voted against the bill as a \"matter of principle\" to uphold international law.\n\n\"I think that this is damaging our international reputation for honest and straight-dealing at a time when we are about to embark on a series of trade negotiations. I took a view that you fight this tooth and nail at every step.\"\n\nHe suggested other colleagues were \"holding their fire\" until later in the bill's passage, with a group led by ex-minister Sir Bob Neill pressing for a \"parliamentary lock\" on the government's ability to exercise the powers.\n\n\"I'm not remotely surprised that I am a tiny minority. I think that may change next Tuesday,\" he added.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, former Conservative leader Lord Hague also warned against breaching international law, saying it would be \"a serious foreign policy error\".\n\n\"It would have a lasting and damaging effect on our international reputation and standing, diminishing our ability to exert our influence and protect our interests.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government was still working closely with the EU to \"settle on our future relationship\".\n\nBut she defended the bill, saying it stood by the party's manifesto commitments from the 2019 election to \"ensure peace, security and good governance for the whole of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union on 1 January.\n\nBut, controversially, it gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally-binding deal governing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say this is a failsafe mechanism in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the Northern Ireland Protocol designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way.\n\nBoris Johnson's government has a hefty majority. It was never going to lose Monday night's vote in the Commons.\n\nDowning Street calculates that most of the public won't pay that much attention to yet more Westminster argy-bargy about the Brexit process.\n\nIn turn, many Tory MPs are sure that the wrangling over the UK Internal Market Bill won't filter through to their constituents.\n\nAnd where it does, they would much more likely take the side of the government taking a tough line with the EU than share the concerns of former prime ministers or august lawyers foaming about the government's behaviour.\n\nAnd yet - first off, to state the obvious, opposition from former occupants of No 10, former chancellors and former cabinet ministers is not exactly a sign of peace and harmony.\n\nBut the resistance to No 10 goes beyond the usual suspects this time.\n\nDuring a five-hour debate, Mr Johnson claimed the EU's current approach could lead to excessive checks and even tariffs on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said the bill would ensure the UK's \"economic and political integrity\", accusing the EU of making unfair demands to \"exert leverage\" in the trade talks - including a threat to block food exports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\"\n\nBut ministers also said they would listen to concerns, insisting that the powers being sought would only be used if other legal avenues had been exhausted and only if MPs explicitly voted to activate them.\n\nA government spokesman said it was vital the bill - which is expected to face stern opposition in the House of Lords - becomes law by the end of the year when EU law will cease to have effect in the UK.\n\n\"It will protect the territorial integrity of the UK and the peace in Northern Ireland, safeguarding trade and jobs across all four corners of the UK following the end of the transition period,\" he said.\n\nThe PM also held a call with Conservative members of the House of Lords on Monday night.\n\nLabour said the PM was reneging on a deal he himself signed earlier this year, and on which Conservative MPs campaigned in the 2019 election, and was \"trashing\" the UK's reputation.\n\nBut the Commons also voted against a Labour amendment to reject the bill entirely by 349 votes to 213.\n\nMPs will now begin detailed scrutiny of the bill on Tuesday with Conservative MPs seeking further assurances that the UK will not betray its treaty obligations.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for “urgent talks” to set up “new targeted support” when the furlough scheme ends\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to replace the furlough scheme and outlaw \"firing and re-hiring\" methods to avoid the \"scarring effect\" of \"mass unemployment\".\n\nAlmost 10 million workers have been furloughed since March but the scheme is set to end on 31 October.\n\nThe Labour leader made an \"open offer\" to work on a plan with the PM including targeted support for badly-hit sectors.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he would be \"creative\" in helping people find work.\n\nHe told Cabinet it was his \"top priority\", but said that \"indefinitely keeping people out of work is not the answer\".\n\nHowever, Employment Minister Mims Davies hinted there could be a more targeted approach when Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils his budget later in the year.\n\nShe said there would be \"sectors that take longer to come back\" from the pandemic, adding: \"I don't think this government is afraid of supporting where we can [and we] have fiscal events where the chancellor can start to look at that.\"\n\nSir Keir's speech at this year's Trades Union Congress' annual conference comes as the latest UK unemployment figures are released, showing the highest level for two years.\n\nThe unemployment rate grew to 4.1% in the three months to July - compared with 3.9% previously - with young people were particularly hard hit.\n\nSir Keir made the case for replacing the job retention scheme - also known as the furlough scheme - which was introduced to support employers and staff during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nUnder it, employees placed on leave due to virus restrictions have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nSince September, firms have had to start making a contribution to wages as part of the scheme winding down.\n\nThe government has been reluctant to extend the furlough scheme beyond October with Boris Johnson arguing that it would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nSpeaking to the conference via Zoom while isolating at home, Sir Keir said: \"We all know the furlough scheme can't go on as it is forever, but the truth is the virus is still with us and infections are increasing.\n\n\"It just isn't possible to get back to work or reopen businesses. It isn't a choice. It's the cold reality of this crisis.\n\n\"So it makes no sense at all for the government to pull support away now in one fell swoop.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said the government should hold urgent talks with his party, trade unions and businesses, and use a \"bit of imagination\" to create \"new targeted support that can replace the job retention scheme and develop those sectors where it is most needed\" - such as retail, hospitality and aviation.\n\n\"Imagine how powerful it would be if we all shared a national plan to protect jobs, create new ones and invest in skills and trade,\" he added.\n\n\"So I'm making an open offer to the prime minister: work with us to keep millions of people in work, work with the trade unions, work with businesses and do everything possible to protect jobs and deliver for workers. My door is open.\"\n\nPolitically, Keir Starmer's language was at least as interesting as his post-furlough policies.\n\nFirst, his call for a \"national plan\" and his offer of an \"open door\" to government.\n\nHe is attempting to appear as a consensus-builder, and placing responsibility for any lack of engagement on Boris Johnson.\n\nThis is felt to be a more effective tactic than unadulterated criticism - offering potential solutions as well as pointing out problems.\n\nIt has caused teeth-gnashing amongst some on his party's left, however.\n\nSecond, and perhaps more significantly, was the language he used to encase a commitment that Jeremy Corbyn could have made.\n\nThe re-hiring of employees on worse conditions was \"against British values\" and hit those who worked hard he said and should be banned.\n\nThis terminology is aimed at those residing amidst the ruins of the red wall, presenting left-wing positions that might appeal to them as \"patriotic\".\n\nThe question for the future is how far Keir Starmer will feel he has to change previous Labour policies rather than to re-badge them.\n\nOther proposals from Labour include expanding part-time working and rewarding employers who give people hours rather than cut jobs, and providing training and support for those who can't come back full-time.\n\n\"We know only too well the scarring effect massive mass unemployment will have on communities and families across the country,\" Sir Keir added.\n\n\"We cannot let that happen again.\"\n\nThe Labour leader praised trade unions as \"unsung heroes\" saying: \"Without you there would have been no furlough scheme, no life raft for seven million people.\"\n\nAnd he pledged to \"stand together\" with the unions under his leadership.\n\nDuring questions from union members, Sir Keir also called for a \"different approach\" to the care sector, which he said had been \"underpaid and undervalued\" for years.\n\nAnd asked about the return to workplaces, he criticised the government communications for \"being all over the place\" but said going back safely was \"in the best interest of everybody and in the best interests of the country\".", "The small town of Leighton Buzzard has experienced two earthquakes within a week\n\nLeighton Buzzard residents have felt a second earthquake within a week.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) said a 2.1-magnitude tremor was felt in the Bedfordshire town at 00:20 BST on Monday.\n\nIt comes after a 3.5-magnitude earthquake hit the town on Tuesday.\n\nThe BGS tweeted there had been \"a small number of reports\" from the public with one saying this earthquake \"felt slower and less intense\".\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"What is going on??? Just woken by another earthquake in Leighton Buzzard!\"\n\nLeighton Linslade Town Council mayor Dave Bowater said he slept through the second quake, but the first had been \"a little bit frightening\".\n\n\"We've had two now and the experts say that is one and the aftershock,\" he said. \"We should be done now.\"\n\nMr Bowater, who once spent 10 days living on the 14th floor of a hotel in Tokyo while a number of four and above-magnitude earthquakes took place, said he was surprised to experience two in Leighton Buzzard.\n\n\"It brings things sharply into focus when you can be hit that strongly out of the blue,\" he said.\n\nThe first earthquake struck just north of Leighton Buzzard and was also felt in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.\n\nA BGS spokesman said the second tremor was more than 100 times smaller than the first.\n\nHe said it \"could have occurred because all the stress in the rocks was not relieved\" or because the first earthquake \"caused a slight change to the stress regime in that location\".\n• None How bad can earthquakes be in the UK?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools worked hard to get ready for the new term - but there are worries about lack of access to testing\n\nSchools in England are being \"severely hampered\" by delays in Covid tests for teachers, say head teachers.\n\nJules White, organiser of the WorthLess? network of over 5,000 heads, says there is growing frustration at the lack of access to testing.\n\nThis means teachers have to isolate and that \"serious staff shortages\" could force partial closures in school.\n\nBut a government spokeswoman said \"testing capacity is the highest it has ever been\".\n\nMr White, a West Sussex head teacher whose group grew out of a school funding campaign, has written to England's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to warn of disruption from delays in Covid testing.\n\nHe warns that efforts to get pupils back for the autumn term are being seriously undermined by a \"test and trace system that is simply not working effectively enough\".\n\nThe group of head teachers, across 75 local authorities, warns that schools are struggling to cope with teachers not being able to get quickly tested for Covid-19 and find out whether they can get back to the classroom.\n\nThe head teachers say this is leaving staff in isolation and \"out of action\".\n\nThe letter warns that schools need to help pupils catch up and get ready for exams next year - and instead the lack of staff could mean even more lost lesson time.\n\nPupils are back in schools but they face safety measures against the spread of Covid-19\n\nThey also warn this uncertainty about Covid cases could be further compounded by seasonal \"coughs and colds\" - and that urgent action is needed on testing, rather than \"vague promises\".\n\n\"It is beyond frustration that we are now seeing teachers and support staff being unable to attend work because they cannot get a test or the results from it are far too slow,\" said Mr White.\n\n\"Time after time, schools are doing their utmost to support the national effort and time after time, we are left confounded by a lack of effective support from government.\"\n\nTehmina Hashmi, head of Bradford Academy in West Yorkshire, who is supporting the letter, warns of the confusion facing her school community over testing.\n\n\"It feels really tense in Bradford,\" she says, with parents reporting they cannot get Covid tests.\n\nMs Hashmi says after working hard to get the school ready through the summer, there is great \"frustration\" at what she says has been \"inept leadership\" over Covid testing.\n\nLast week Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said teachers were struggling to get tests locally and were being directed to testing sites hundreds of miles away.\n\nAn academy trust leader has called for a more \"robust strategy\" to help schools facing Covid cases among pupils or staff - as more schools are going to face disruption.\n\nSteve Chalke, chief executive of the Oasis academy trust, said that several of the trust's school have already had to send home year groups, affecting about 1,200 pupils.\n\nHe says that Covid testing needed to be available on the school site and results needed to be turned around quickly - and that eventually there would need to be routine, daily testing.\n\nMr Chalke argued that it would be better to accept the need for a planned rota system, with pupils switching between school and online learning at home, rather than having a \"rotation system by default\" each time a case was discovered.\n\nHe is also calling for a more \"credible\" approach to how next year's exam season will operate in a fair way and wants a big increase in the pupil premium, which provides schools with extra funding for disadvantaged pupils.\n\nA government spokeswoman said that testing levels have increased - \"but we are seeing a significant demand for tests. It is vital that children and school staff only get a test if they develop coronavirus symptoms\".\n\n\"If a positive case is confirmed in a school, swift action is being taken to ask those who have been in close contact to self-isolate, and Public Health England's local health protection teams continue to support and advise schools in this situation,\" said the government spokeswoman.\n\n\"Children who are self-isolating will receive remote education. We will continue to work with schools to ensure all appropriate steps are taken to keep pupils and staff safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron said he has “misgivings about what is being proposed”\n\nDavid Cameron has become the fifth former prime minister to criticise a new bill attempting to override the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nNo 10 says the Internal Market Bill was a \"critical piece of legislation for the UK\".\n\nBut Mr Cameron said he had \"misgivings\" over it and breaking an international treaty should be the \"final resort\".\n\nFormer Tory PMs Theresa May and Sir John Major, and Labour's Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have condemned the plan.\n\nHowever, Boris Johnson's official spokesman said the bill delivered a \"vital legal safety net\" so the government can \"take the necessary steps to ensure the integrity of UK's internal market\" - steps it hoped never to have to use.\n\nMPs have begun debating the bill at its second reading, with the PM making the opening remarks, and it is expected to pass this early stage after a vote at around 22:00.\n\nBut the legislation is likely to face more difficulties in its later stages, especially when the bill heads for debate in the Lords.\n\nFormer Attorney General Geoffrey Cox accused Mr Johnson of doing \"unconscionable\" damage to Britain's international reputation and said he would \"withhold\" his support for the bill in its current form.\n\nThe PM's special envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Tory MP Rehman Chishti, has resigned over the proposed law, saying: \"I have always acted in a manner which respects the rule of law... [and] voting for this bill as it currently stands would be contrary to the values I hold dearest.\"\n\nA senior government source told the BBC \"all options are on the table\" in terms of possible action against Tory MPs who do not support the bill.\n\nMr Miliband will stand in for Sir Keir Starmer at the opposition dispatch box after the Labour leader was forced to self-isolate at home when a member of his household developed possible coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, having negotiated and signed the withdrawal agreement with the bloc.\n\nThe two sides are now in the closing weeks of negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal before the transition period ends on 31 December - with informal talks taking place in Brussels this week.\n\nA key part of the withdrawal agreement - which is now an international treaty - was the Northern Ireland Protocol, designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill proposed by the government would override that part of that agreement when it came to goods and would allow the UK to modify or re-interpret \"state aid\" rules on subsidies for firms in Northern Ireland, in the event of the two sides not agreeing a future trade deal.\n\nLast week, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the bill would \"break international law\" in a \"specific and limited way\", leading to swathes of criticism from all sides of the political spectrum.\n\nHere we go again... a Brexit deadline looms, there's a whole lot of noise about it in Westminster, and the UK and the EU can't agree.\n\nAnd yes, yet again, there is a swirling soup of jargon every other sentence.\n\nTake a few steps back though, and here is what this all amounts to - how the UK will trade with its nearest neighbours from January next year onwards and how the different parts of the UK will trade with each other.\n\nThis matters economically - and matters politically too.\n\nThe Brexit process has long exposed the tensions between the UK and Brussels, but don't underestimate the tensions it places on the UK as well.\n\nThose in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales who have long argued to be unshackled from London, as they see it, argue Brexit is the ultimate case study to illustrate their argument.\n\nAnd so the government at Westminster's delicate task is to extricate the UK from one union, the EU, while holding together another one, the UK.\n\nAll of these rows have that central aim at their core.\n\nMr Cameron - who called the EU referendum when he was PM - said he had \"misgivings about what is being proposed\".\n\nSpeaking to reporters, he said: \"Passing an act of Parliament and then going on to break an international treaty obligation is the very, very last thing you should contemplate. It should be the absolute final resort.\"\n\nMr Cameron said the \"bigger picture\" was about trying to get a trade deal with the EU, urging the government to \"keep that context [and] that big prize in mind.\"\n\nThe comments follow stronger criticism by the four other surviving former prime ministers of the UK.\n\nMrs May, who still sits as an MP in the Commons, said breaking international law would damage \"trust\" in the UK, while Mr Brown said it would be akin to \"self-harm\" for the country.\n\nSir John and Mr Blair - who were both in office during key periods of the Northern Ireland peace process - wrote a joint article in the Sunday Times accusing Mr Johnson of \"embarrassing\" the UK and urging MPs to reject the \"shameful\" attempt to override parts of the withdrawal agreement.\n\nEarlier, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse called the bill a \"practical\" step, saying it \"solves the problem that we're faced with\" over the future of trade with the EU.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"What we've done is to say transparently that this is a situation which we think may occur - certainly that's what's being intimated from the EU. It's a problem we have to solve so here's a bill that solves it.\n\n\"In the end those people that oppose this bill have to tell us what the resolution is.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC the bill was an \"insurance policy\" in case the UK and EU do not agree a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nHe said he hoped powers being sought by ministers would never be needed, and that he would resign if the UK ended up breaking international law \"in a way I find unacceptable\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused government ministers of handing out \"misinformation\" over the weekend and \"spinning\" the reasons they were pursuing the new bill.\n\nHe told LBC: \"[Mr Johnson] is making a mistake reneging on a treaty - that will have reputational damage for the UK.\n\n\"I would say to the prime minister, look go away, go back to the drawing board, drop these problems, don't act in this reckless and wrong way and we'll look again at the legislation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Buckland: \"If I see the rule of law being broken in a way that I find unacceptable then of course I will go\"\n\nThe bill has split opinion on the Tory backbenches.\n\nMP Sir Desmond Swayne said he would be supporting the bill, praising the government for preparing in case no trade deal is agreed by the end of the year.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"If the government didn't take precautions against that possibility, it would be utterly negligent. It is right it arm itself with the powers just in case.\"\n\nBut his colleague, and chair of the Justice Select Committee, Sir Bob Neill, said the government and its supporters needed to \"calm the language\".\n\nHe said there was already a mechanism for addressing the government's concerns, but he was willing to \"meet them half-way\" with an amendment to the bill - only allowing the elements that would break international law to be used if Parliament signs it off.", "A picture of Earth taken from a Rocket Lab Photon. The craft will go to Venus in 2023\n\nWith astronomers detecting a potential signature of life in the clouds of Venus, there's obviously going to be a big push to get some new space missions to the planet.\n\nWe don't know if the phosphine gas recently observed by telescopes is coming from floating microbes or has a simple non-biological origin. Right now, nothing is conclusive. But the only way we're likely to find out for sure is by taking some scientific instruments there.\n\nThe Japanese space agency's Akatsuki orbiter is the one mission at the planet at present, and it was built long before the phosphine question came up – so it's not really best-suited to study the issue.\n\nWhat's needed are some dedicated investigations. And the first opportunity we'll probably get to perform these will be with the private Rocket Lab company.\n\nThis start-up has been making waves with its small Electron rocket, which launches from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand’s North Island.\n\nThe company's CEO, Peter Beck, is fascinated by Venus and has already announced his intention to send a mission there in 2023. He's funding and constructing it in-house.\n\nRocket Lab will do it with the Photon \"kick-stage\" that goes on the top of an Electron.\n\nIn Earth orbit, this stage does the final placement of small satellites in the part of the sky they want to operate. But the Photon is extremely capable and could shepherd a probe to another planet, and even carry some sensors of its own.\n\nBeck's plan is to drop off an atmospheric entry probe at Venus. As this falls through the “air”, it would radio back its observations of Venusian clouds to the Photon, which in turn would relay that data back to Earth.\n\nPeter Beck says Venus deserves a little more love from space missions\n\nThe entrepreneur's team is working on a payload mass of 37kg.\n\n\"That might not sound a lot, but 37kg can get you an awful lot of instrumentation, especially if you're now very targeted in what you're looking for and what you're trying to measure,” Beck told BBC News.\n\n\"Venus hasn't had a lot of love recently, and I think 2023 is the opportunity to put that right. It's very hard for governments to move quickly but a private mission can. We can go there for a small amount of money, and we can go there many times and have many goes at it, and iterate the learning.\"\n\nRocket Lab's Photon: It will drop off an entry probe to fall through the Venusian atmosphere\n\nIt’s true, the big space agencies operate by a different philosophy. They aim for super, high-fidelity science and engineering – but this means their top-notch missions fly infrequently and at high cost. It's a question of trade-offs.\n\nA Rocket Lab entry probe when it falls through the atmosphere at Venus is not going to spend long in the key zone where phosphine has been detected – between 50km and 60km in altitude. The measurements will be brief.\n\nIdeally, what you need is some sort of long-lived platform, dwelling in the clouds of Venus for weeks or months at a time. Like a balloon. That's the kind of thing big space agencies do.\n\n\"This would allow detailed measurement of cloud,\" explains Dr Colin Wilson from Oxford University, UK, who worked on the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe (2006-2014)\n\n\"We proposed such a mission – the European Venus Explorer – to Esa in 2010, unsuccessfully. This year, in a Nasa-run Venus Flagship Mission study, we proposed including a balloon that would explore the cloud layer for two months, with specific instruments designed to detect biological material if present.\"\n\nIt's a fantastic idea and follows in the pioneering footsteps of the Soviet Vega balloons at Venus in the 1980s, although they only worked for a couple of days.\n\nThe problem is that, even if approved for development, we wouldn't see a Nasa Venus flagship mission - and its balloon - fly until the 2030s at the earliest. And the more modest mission concepts now before Nasa and Esa for consideration are looking at launch slots no sooner than the back end of this decade. Which brings us back to the Rocket Lab type of approach if we want quicker results.\n\nProf Jane Greaves from Cardiff University led the team that detected phosphine in the atmosphere at Venus. She hopes scientists can find inventive ways of getting new probes to the planet.\n\n“I think in the fairly near-term, we'd like to send even just a really small probe that maybe some other mission could drop off on the way - you know, something going to the Sun. Perhaps it could drop a tiny 'lab on a chip' package through the atmosphere so we can get some new data back.\"\n\nPeter Beck's message is \"give me a call. If anybody wants to join the team, come join us. But, you know, the bus is leaving; we're going!\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is urging government to create new green jobs to lift productivity after the pandemic.\n\nChief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn will say the UK must become a global leader in climate action at a virtual conference.\n\nShe will say the next Budget should invest in low-carbon technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture.\n\nA government spokesperson said the prime minister is \"committed to tackling climate change\".\n\nDame Carolyn will open the industry body's first virtual conference about plans for zero emissions.\n\nIt's a far cry from times past when the CBI used to warn that tackling climate change could destroy jobs.\n\nFor several years now the group has promoted the opposite message: that targeted support for clean technologies can actually create jobs.\n\nThe prime minister and some of his colleagues have spoken of the need for a “green” recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut Dame Carolyn says actions must now underpin those promises.\n\nShe is expected to say: “For so many, this feels like a time of fiercely competing goals. The world faces two seemingly separate yet fundamental problems - Covid-19, the biggest health crisis in living memory, and climate change – the defining challenge of the modern era.\n\n“But they are not separate. The response to one affects success on the other. And the defining question is, how does the UK use this moment to rebuild our economy?\"\n\nShe says business urgently needs the government to publish a slew of policy documents.\n\nThat includes a long-term carbon-cutting plan – along with the energy white paper, National Infrastructure Strategy, and plans for the decarbonisation of transport, heat and buildings.\n\nShe will urge the UK to take a strong international lead: “Together business and government can lay the foundations for a strong, sustainable future.\n\n\"Not just for the UK, but through our global leadership, beyond our shores as well… a to-do list for this generation to pass on a better world to the next.”\n\nThe CBI also wants £500m of government cash to support the UK’s first commercial sustainable fuel plant.\n\nA government spokesperson told BBC News: “The prime minister is committed to tackling climate change and building back greener, and has set out his vision that the UK should have the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth.”\n\nThey said ministers have set out billions in support for a low-carbon economy.\n\nMany policies were in train, they continued, with consultations on ending coal power and phasing out new petrol and diesel cars, supporting renewable energy projects across the UK and announcing over £3bn to transform the energy efficiency of the UK’s homes and public buildings.", "The events had been expected to attract about 20,000 people to Southampton\n\nPublic health officials have cancelled two boat shows hours before they were due to start over coronavirus fears.\n\nBOATS2020, and the smaller sailing show MDL Ocean Village, were due to start in Southampton on Friday, with an expected 20,000 visitors over the next 10 days.\n\nThe organisers of BOATS2020 said they were told at about 18:30 BST that the event could not go ahead.\n\nSouthampton City Council said the decision was \"regrettable\" but made with public safety in mind.\n\nLesley Robinson, chief executive of British Marine, which organised BOATS2020, said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the cancellation, \"especially receiving the news at the eleventh hour before opening\".\n\nShe added: \"Alongside our exhibitors, we were ready to open a show that exceeded all safety requirements. We are truly perplexed as to why we are unable to run the show at least until Monday in line with the government restrictions imposed yesterday.\n\n\"Public health and safety come first and naturally, as the show organiser, British Marine must comply with all guidance.\"\n\nBritish Marine's chief executive Lesley Robinson said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the late cancellation\n\nAbout 230 boats had been brought to the city for the show.\n\nSouthampton City Council's director of public health, Debbie Chase, said: \"In Southampton and the South East, we have seen a lower rate of COVID-19 transmissions since lockdown ended.\n\n\"However, the national picture shows a concerning rise in cases, and with these events set to attract around 20,000 people from different parts of the UK over a 10-day period, it's important we act now to reduce the risk of infection.\"\n\nShe added: \"The decision, while regrettable, has been made after detailed analysis of the public health risks and discussions with our colleagues and partner agencies within the city. COVID-19 is still very much with us and we all need to stay alert, particularly at this sensitive time.\"", "Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg is self-isolating at home after one of his children showed symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nHe said the child had been tested for the virus and the family was isolating while they waited for the test result.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg missed his weekly Thursday morning appearance at business questions, where he normally briefs MPs on the following week's Commons agenda.\n\nHe was replaced by the deputy chief whip, Stuart Andrew.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who has six children and is the MP for North East Somerset, tweeted his thanks to Mr Andrew.\n\nAt business questions, his Labour counterpart Valerie Vaz wished Mr Rees-Mogg and his family well, saying: \"We know it had to be something very, very serious for him not to be here.\"\n\nThe SNP's spokesman, Tommy Sheppard, said he would miss being \"patronised in the flesh\" by Mr Rees-Mogg.\n\nHe added: \"Can I also wish the Leader of the House and his family well. I can hardly hide my disappointment at his absence.\n\n\"After five long months of my own absence from this chamber, and sometimes problematic communication through the virtual proceedings, I have been looking forward to being patronised in the flesh rather than over the internet.\"\n\nDuring the coronavirus outbreak, several MPs had to stay away from parliament after showing symptoms of the virus.\n\nIn June, the Business Secretary Alok Sharma, was forced to self-isolate at home after falling ill in the Commons chamber. He tested negative for the virus 24 hours later.", "Scientists and health professionals have raised doubts about Prime Minister Boris Johnson's \"Operation Moonshot\" plan for mass coronavirus testing.\n\nThe PM hopes millions of Covid-19 tests - including some giving results within minutes - could be processed daily.\n\nBut experts say there are issues with laboratory capacity for current tests, while the technology for more rapid tests \"does not, as yet, exist\".\n\nThe British Medical Journal says leaked memos show the plan could cost £100bn.\n\nSpeaking after his announcement that gatherings in England are to be restricted to six people from Monday, Mr Johnson said the government was \"working hard\" to increase testing capacity to 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\nAnd he said that \"in the near future\" he wanted to start using testing \"to identify people who are negative - who don't have coronavirus and who are not infectious - so we can allow them to behave in a more normal way, in the knowledge they cannot infect anyone else\".\n\nMr Johnson added: \"We believe that new types of test which are simple, quick and scalable will become available. They use swabs or saliva and can turn round results in 90 or even 20 minutes.\n\n\"Crucially, it should be possible to deploy these tests on a far bigger scale than any country has yet achieved - literally millions of tests processed every single day.\"\n\nMr Johnson said a mass-testing programme could be ready by the spring and could help the UK to avoid a second national lockdown.\n\nBut Dr Chaand Nagpaul, council chairman of the British Medical Association, said it was unclear how the so-called Operation Moonshot would work - given the \"huge problems\" currently seen with lab capacity.\n\nDr Nagpaul added the idea of opening up society based on people testing negative for the virus should be \"approached with caution\" because of the high rate of \"false negatives\" and the potential to miss those who are incubating the virus.\n\nMany experts believe plans to roll out mass rapid testing this winter is unrealistic. Piloting is still taking place to see if the technologies work - millions of tests would then need to be manufactured and distributed.\n\nThe focus on this \"moonshot\" plan is perhaps a distraction from the difficult decisions the country faces.\n\nThe level of infection is still low - despite the recent rises.\n\nBut do not expect them to stay this way.\n\nRespiratory viruses tend to do better in the autumn and winter because of the colder weather and fact people are indoors more.\n\nMinisters will then face the choice of more restrictions to try to curb the virus in the knowledge these will damage people's health in other ways as well as harming education and the economy.\n\nOr let the virus spread, while focusing efforts on protecting the vulnerable - that means protecting care homes and perhaps reintroducing shielding.\n\nLockdown bought us time, but simply deferred the problem.\n\nProgress has been made in the past six months - there are better treatments, more testing and a network of contact tracers - but perhaps not as much as hoped.\n\nThe UK - like all nations - faces a tricky act of balancing harms.\n\nDr David Strain, clinical senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and chairman of the BMA's medical academic staff committee, said the mass-testing strategy is \"fundamentally flawed\" and is \"based on technology that does not, as yet, exist\".\n\n\"The prime minister's suggestion that this will be as simple as 'getting a pregnancy test' that will give results within 15 minutes is unlikely, if not impossible, in the timescale he was suggesting to get the country back on track.\"\n\nWhile Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, warned it could also lead to false positives - with hundreds of thousands of people being wrongly told they have coronavirus.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries acknowledged that the \"the tricky thing with this is not so much the technology, which I'm sure we will have in the very short while in weeks to months, the issue actually is how it gets used in practice\".\n\n\"So that, if you have, for example, a false negative test, but you feel assured that you don't have the disease, you don't end up going back into the workplace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check looks at why testing matters\n\nCurrently, between 150,000 and 200,000 tests are processed each day.\n\nTesting capacity is reported as being 350,000 a day - and this includes 250,000 swab tests (which check if you have the virus currently) as well as 100,000 antibody tests (which check if someone has already had the virus).\n\nEarlier this week a director of the government's test and trace programme in England issued a \"heartfelt\" apology for problems with the testing system, explaining that laboratories, not the testing sites themselves, were the \"critical pinch-point\".\n\nThe UK has drawn up plans to eventually carry out up to 10 million Covid-19 tests a day by early next year - at a cost of more than £100bn, which is approaching the entire annual budget for NHS England, according to a report in the BMJ.\n\nThe new rapid tests will be piloted in Salford from next month.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the technology needed to be \"tested carefully\" and it would be \"completely wrong to assume this is a slam dunk\".\n\nThe plans for mass testing come as Scotland launched its new contact tracing app, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urging as many people as possible to download it.\n\nThe contact tracing app being developed in England ran into technical problems and is currently being tested following a revamp.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson set out a new \"rule of six\" in England, restricting gatherings to a maximum of six people, enforced by police able to issue fines or make arrests, after the UK reported more than 2,000 new coronavirus cases for the fourth consecutive day.\n\n\"If everyone does it [the rule of six], we may well be by Christmas in a position to look at it again,\" Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said the new measures were \"not another national lockdown\"\n\nFormer government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson said the new measures will take about \"two to three weeks\" to see an effect on the number of cases.\n\n\"So we need to wait at this point and see how much we flatten the curve and then if that's not sufficient to bring the reproduction number below one, so the epidemic starts shrinking again, then yes, we may need to clamp down on other areas,\" he added.\n\nWhile young people are testing positive at higher rates, Prof Ferguson said it was unavoidable that the virus would resurge in all age groups.\n\nAsked about the return to work, he said: \"Certainly I think we should hesitate and maybe pause at the headlong rush to get everybody back into offices. But some people have to work and I completely understand the concerns in many quarters that everybody working at home has an economic impact, particularly on city centres.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a new law will also require businesses such as pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas to record customers' contact details.\n\nThe government has also published its coronavirus guidance for universities ahead of students returning later this month, with full online learning only as a last resort.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ayaan, Mikaeel and their community have raised thousands for the Yemen crisis\n\nTwo best friends who set up a lemonade stand to raise money for the people of Yemen received a donation from a very unexpected source - Angelina Jolie.\n\nSix-year-olds Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq, from east London, created the stand after learning about the crisis.\n\nThe actress read about their campaign on the BBC News website and sent them a note saying she was sorry she could not buy any lemonade but wanted to donate.\n\nAyaan's mother said it had been \"a bit bizarre but amazing\" for the appeal.\n\nAngelina Jolie is a UNHCR special envoy and has previously spoken about the Yemen crisis\n\nAdeela Moosa explained the Hollywood star had first contacted her UK representative after finding out about Ayaan and Mikaeel's campaign, and they had then got in touch with the family.\n\nAt the weekend the boys, who live in Redbridge, received the \"lovely note\" from Ms Jolie along with \"a very generous donation\", Ms Moosa said.\n\nThe actress and director apologised that she could not buy any of the boys' lemonade\n\nAsked what the boys had first thought when they found out about it, Ms Moosa said they initially did not know who Ms Jolie was although \"their dads were very excited\".\n\nThey soon realised who the Tomb Raider and Maleficent star was after being shown various clips and films.\n\n\"Now they're getting the enormity of it all,\" she said.\n\nThe pair have sent a video message in response thanking Ms Jolie, telling her that: \"If you ever come to London, feel free to buy a glass of fresh lemonade.\"\n\nAlong with their community, Ayaan and Mikaeel have raised more than £67,000 for Yemen\n\nTens of thousands of people have been killed during the civil war in Yemen, while another 24 million are estimated to need humanitarian aid to survive.\n\nMs Jolie, who is a UNHCR special envoy, has previously spoken about the crisis in Yemen.\n\nMs Moosa said her donation had raised more awareness about the boys' efforts and they were being sent money from across the world for their ongoing online campaign, which has so far raised more than £67,000.\n\nAs for the best friends, they have both returned to school this week.\n\n\"It was much needed for all parties involved,\" Ms Moosa said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nEvidence of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi discussing martyrdom was seized almost three years before the attack, an inquiry has heard.\n\nThe hearing was told Abedi, who killed 22 people in the May 2017 atrocity, had first been linked to \"subjects of interest\" in 2010.\n\nA mobile phone seized in February 2017 showed regular contact between Abedi and a convicted terrorist organiser.\n\nPaul Greaney QC said their relationship was of \"some significance\".\n\nThe inquiry heard the device was confiscated from British-Libyan national Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was jailed in 2016 for helping others to reach Syria.\n\nPhone analysis revealed he had been in contact with Abedi, who went to visit him in prison, in the months leading up to the attack.\n\nIn 2014, during investigations into Abdallah, counter terrorism police had evidence of discussions with Abedi regarding \"martyrdom, including the martyrdom of a senior al-Qaeda figure\", the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Greaney said Abdallah had refused to answer any questions put to him by inquiry staff, but investigators were \"determined\" to get to the bottom of their relationship.\n\nThe inquiry will also examine what intelligence and information was or should have been available to security services and the police about Abedi.\n\nMr Greaney said MI5 had received intelligence about Abedi on two separate occasions in the months prior to the bombing, \"the significance of which was not fully appreciated at the time\".\n\n\"In retrospect\", he said, it could \"be seen to be highly relevant to the planned attack\".\n\nOn 1 May 2017, the inquiry further heard, Abedi had been assessed as meeting the threshold to be considered for further investigation by MI5.\n\nHe was due to be considered for referral on 31 May 2017 but \"tragically this was overtaken by matters nine days earlier\", Mr Greaney said.\n\nThe inquiry is being held at Manchester Magistrates' Court, less than a mile away from where the bombing happened\n\nDuring the third day of proceedings, photographs of the 22 victims were displayed on a screen as the public inquiry heard their final movements.\n\nRelatives of some of the victims wiped away tears in the hearing room at Manchester Magistrates' Court, while other families watched proceedings from a nearby annexe.\n\nThe inquiry heard how 21 of the victim suffered injuries which were said to be unsurvivable.\n\nBut bomb blast experts believe the injuries of John Atkinson, 28, may have been potentially survivable.\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nThe public inquiry will look at a number of factors including the emergency response to the bombing.\n\nIt was told how problems with communication and incorrect reports of an \"active shooter\" meant fire engines carrying specialist equipment and stretchers did not arrive for another two hours and six minutes after the blast at 22:31 BST on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Greaney said the inquiry would need to consider \"whether that absence contributed or may have contributed to the loss of life that occurred\" and \"whether a better response by the emergency services would have saved more lives\".\n\n\"There can be no doubt there was a need for such joint working on the night of 22 May 2017 in Manchester,\" he said during the third day of the inquiry.\n\nThe hearing was told North West Fire Control was first notified at 22:34 BST that there had been an explosion and mass casualties, and police were looking for a second device.\n\nThey also received reports, wrongly, of an \"active shooter\" and some casualties with gunshot wounds.\n\nTributes were left in in St Ann's Square in Manchester city centre in the wake of the bombing\n\nBut there appeared to be confusion about whether Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) should follow procedures based on the incident being an explosion or a terror bombing.\n\nStation manager Simon Berry, of GMFRS, was told a rendezvous point was arranged with police at Manchester Cathedral nearby, but this was rejected in favour of a different \"muster point\" three miles away from the arena.\n\nThis decision would be \"critical\" to the understanding of how the fire service was delayed so long in deploying to the arena, Mr Greaney said.\n\nAn expert report on GMFRS's response to the attack found it \"inadequate and ineffective\" and said there was a lack of effective leadership, though \"no single individual\" was responsible for the failings.\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 EU is demanding the UK ditches plans to change Boris Johnson's Brexit deal \"by the end of the month\" or risk jeopardising trade talks.\n\nThe UK has published a bill to rewrite parts of the withdrawal agreement it signed in January.\n\nThe EU said this had \"seriously damaged trust\" and it would not be \"shy\" of taking legal action against the UK.\n\nBut cabinet minister Michael Gove said the UK had made it \"perfectly clear\" it would not withdraw the bill.\n\nThe government says Parliament is sovereign and can pass laws which breach the UK's international treaty obligations.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said \"trust and confidence are and will be key\", after the latest round of UK-EU trade talks wrapped up in London on Thursday.\n\nHis UK counterpart David Frost said \"significant\" differences remained over a free trade deal, but added discussions would continue in Brussels next week.\n\nThe source of the EU's concern is Mr Johnson's proposed Internal Market Bill, which was published on Wednesday.\n\nIt addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - an element of the withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe bill proposes no new checks on goods moving from Northern Ireland to Great Britain. It gives UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe publication of the bill prompted emergency talks between Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and Maros Šefčovič, the European Commission Vice-President.\n\nAfter two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage, however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none.\n\nFollowing the discussions, the EU issued a strongly-worded statement warning that the withdrawal agreement was a legal obligation, adding that \"neither the EU nor the UK can unilaterally change, clarify, amend, interpret, disregard or disapply the agreement\".\n\nThe EU rejected the UK's arguments that the bill is designed to protect peace in Northern Ireland arguing that \"it does the opposite\".\n\nMr Šefčovič said that if the bill were to be adopted, it would constitute an \"extremely serious violation\" of the withdrawal agreement and of international law.\n\nHe urged the government to withdraw the bill \"by the end of the month\", adding that the withdrawal agreement \"contains a number of mechanisms and legal remedies to address violations of the legal obligations contained in the text - which the European Union will not be shy in using\".\n\nGermany's UK ambassador said he had not experienced \"such a fast, intentional and profound deterioration of a negotiation\" in his diplomatic career.\n\n\"If you believe in partnership between the UK and the EU like I do then don't accept it,\" he tweeted.\n\nMichael Gove arrives at the Cabinet Office ahead of talks with EU officials\n\nIn its response, the UK government said it would \"discharge its treaty obligations in good faith\", but added that \"in the difficult and highly exceptional circumstances in which we find ourselves, it is important to remember the fundamental principle of parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\n\"Parliament is sovereign as a matter of domestic law and can pass legislation which is in breach of the UK's treaty obligations. Parliament would not be acting unconstitutionally in enacting such legislation.\n\n\"Treaty obligations only become binding to the extent that they are enshrined in domestic legislation. Whether to enact or repeal legislation, and the content of that legislation, is for Parliament and Parliament alone.\"\n\nMr Gove \"said that, during the talks, he had \"made it perfectly clear that we would not be withdrawing this legislation\", adding that the government was \"absolutely serious\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will be formally debated by MPs in Parliament for the first time on Monday, 14 September.\n\nIt has come under increasing criticism from Conservative parliamentarians.\n\nFormer party leader Lord Howard said it would damage the UK's \"reputation for probity and respect for the rule of law\", while former Chancellor Lord Lamont asked ministers to \"think again\".\n\nBut Mr Gove said: \"I'm looking forward to the second reading of the bill next week. It's an opportunity for the government to set out in detail why we have this legislation.\"\n\nHe promised to fight for \"unfettered access for goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nMr Johnson has defended the bill, saying it would \"ensure the integrity of the UK internal market\" and hand power to Scotland and Wales, while protecting the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nBut critics say the move will damage the UK's international reputation after a minister admitted the plans break international law.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to consider \"the reputational risk that it's taking in the proposed way forward\".\n\nMeanwhile, the latest round of formal talks over a post-Brexit trade deal concluded in London on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Barnier said the EU had \"shown flexibility\" in an effort to \"find solutions\", but the UK had not \"not engaged\" on some \"major issues\".\n\nFor the UK side, Lord Frost said \"challenging areas remain and the divergences on some are still significant\".\n\nHe said the UK negotiators \"remain committed\" to reaching a deal by the middle of October and officials would \"continue discussions\" next week.", "There is more than one \"rule of six\". Who knew?\n\nIt's what a legendary Hollywood film editor used to describe the best of way making a must-watch movie, mixing six different elements like emotion and space (his name is Walter Murch, if you are on the hunt for trivia).\n\nThe other rule of six is part of the code that rules corporate takeovers, more familiar to City lawyers. You may indeed have your own obscure examples.\n\nBut ministers hope now the government's new rule of six will very quickly become familiar to the country and will immediately change people's behaviour too.\n\nFrom Monday, it will be illegal in England, apart from at school or work or under other few exceptions, to meet more than five other people at a time.\n\nThe police will have the power to stop that happening - you can read exactly how the new restrictions will work here.\n\nAfter weeks when the government has been trying to cheerlead the country back to the office, urging pupils back to school and taking steps to roll back coronavirus restrictions it is quite the change of tone, change of pace, and change of heart.\n\nThe prime minister also acknowledged publicly, after many weeks of questions about the layers of anomalies and different rules and regulations, that complicated messages had made the rules hard for people to follow.\n\nBoris Johnson can hope that the public in England will be willing to follow a new, clearer instruction. But it is not obvious that the public will all comply.\n\nThe reason for the change however, as we discussed yesterday, is crystal clear.\n\nThe number of cases has started to rise, and rise quickly, and ministers want to slam on the brakes.\n\nThe new rule is a significant move, and it's plain it could mean limits on our lives for many months. The prime minister today acknowledged that even Christmas may not be much like normal.\n\nThe changes are designed to prevent the disease taking off again, and to stop the need for another full national lockdown, something the government is desperate to avoid.\n\nBut other measures are waiting in the wings too.\n\nAt the bottom of the government's guidance issued today, there is a rather bland, technical sounding paragraph:\n\n\"The government will restrict the opening hours of premises, initially in local lockdown areas, with the option of national action in the future. This has been introduced in Bolton, following a steep rise in cases, and will seek to restrict activities that may lead to a spread in the virus.\"\n\nIn other words, if the rise in cases doesn't slow, the government could bring in a national curfew on opening hours, a more radical step.\n\nGovernment sources emphasise this is not about to happen.\n\nBut by laying out the option, it's clear the rule of six could be followed by more radical steps.", "The government should ban placing under-18s in care in unregulated homes amid concerns over sexual and criminal exploitation, the children's commissioner for England has said.\n\nSome vulnerable teenagers are \"at risk every day of the week\", Anne Longfield told BBC Newsnight.\n\nShe called them \"inappropriate\" places for any child.\n\nThe government is consulting on proposals to introduce new minimum standards to the sector.\n\nIt has already told local authorities to stop placing under 16s in these homes.\n\nBut Ms Longfield said the plans do not address \"the real problem\" of allowing older teenagers aged 16 and over in care to be placed in such accommodation.\n\nOne in eight children in care - around 12,000 - spent time in an unregulated home in 2018-19, her report reveals.\n\nIt comes following a year long investigation by BBC Newsnight into the care sector.\n\nIt also highlights evidence that providers linked to organised crime are exploiting the lack of regulation to gain access to children.\n\nPolice have told her that criminality in the sector is \"rife\" and children are being groomed to sell drugs and for sexual exploitation.\n\nUnlike children's homes registered with Ofsted, unregulated homes - often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation - are not inspected by a regulator in England or Wales.\n\nThe hostels, flats, bedsits and even caravans come with differing levels of staff support to help 16 to 18-year olds gain independence.\n\nThree-quarters (73%) of the sector is privately run and \"allows for high profit-making without the checks and balances that are seen in other care settings\", Ms Longfield said.\n\nChildren's Minister Vicky Ford said the government was taking steps to drive up the quality of care provided to vulnerable children.\n\nShe added: \"In some circumstances, semi-independent accommodation can be the right choice for 16 and 17 year-olds as they move towards adult life, but only when it is of high quality and meets their needs.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBritish boxing legend and former world champion Alan Minter has died at the age of 69 after suffering from cancer.\n\nMinter, who won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, claimed the undisputed world middleweight title against Italian Vito Antuofermo in Las Vegas in 1980.\n\nAfter he won a rematch against Antuofermo, Minter lost the title to Marvin Hagler inside three rounds at Wembley Arena later that year.\n\nHe had his last fight in 1981.\n\nHe experienced tragedy during his career, when Italian Angelo Jacopucci died as a result of injuries sustained in their European title fight in 1978.\n\nThere was a point early in Minter's professional career where he lost three fights in six months - all because of cuts.\n\nThe 1972 Olympic bronze medallist seemed to attract blood. After seeing a doctor about the ongoing issue he arrived at a conclusion - \"don't get hit in the first place\".\n\nThese days, few, if any of the belt-chasing Olympians who turn to the professional ranks would likely have much of a career left if they faced a similar string of defeats.\n\nBut Minter was a dogged man in a hard era. At the start of 1970, not one British boxer held a world title. They were tough to come by and even the British and European belts often only came along after one had paid their dues.\n\nMinter twice won the European title on the road and would find himself coming to terms with the tragic death of one of his opponents.\n\nThat he overcame cuts, a ruthless era, tragedy and still won a world title is testament to the character he was.\n\n\"If you can walk away after winning and defending a world title, you've done something special,\" he once told Boxing News.\n\nIn the way he did it and in the era he did it in, \"special\" feels like an understatement.", "A bust-up with Brussels was always a possible feature of this autumn.\n\nBut when EU top brass and their officials arrived in London this morning, it was not inevitable that it would come today.\n\nThere were whispers yesterday that one or other of the sides might flounce out - but \"wait and see\" seemed the order of the day.\n\nLate last night, chatter from sources in Brussels suggested they were unwilling to rise to what they see as the UK's provocation, to \"take the bait\", as it was expressed to me.\n\nBut after two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none. The chances therefore of talks, that matter so much to our economy, moving very far are almost zilch - and therefore the chances of a deal are falling away.\n\nRemember last autumn, day-after-day-after-day the language between the two sides became more heated, brinkmanship more risky, the government's moves more audacious, and then, suddenly, a deal was done.\n\nAnd despite the EU's extraordinary statement, and serious stumbling blocks in the talks, the UK chief negotiator, Lord Frost, has now announced that the trade talks will still go ahead next week.\n\nThe added complication here is that the government can't be sure at all that their plans to change the Northern Irish parts of the existing treaty will pass through Parliament.\n\nResistance in the Lords is inevitable and while it's hard to gauge the final number, there is likely to be a rebellion from Tory MPs too.\n\nBut Downing Street right now is confident that MPs will back the plans in the end.\n\nWilling to forgo a trade deal - if that's what their changes mean - rather than back down on their plans, having chosen to take what insiders admit is a nuclear option, for now, they are willing to stand back and watch the explosion.", "The data measures the time between a sample is collected to the time the result is \"authorised\" in the lab\n\nThe speed at which coronavirus home tests have been processed in Wales has fallen dramatically.\n\nIn the final week of August, 8% of home tests were processed within a day and only 24% were processed within two days.\n\nAt the end of July, 50% of home tests were processed within a day and 88% within two.\n\nWelsh Government statisticians said the fall was due to demand exceeding Lighthouse laboratory capacity.\n\nThe delays have also meant that less than half of home tests had been processed within three days - this figure was 99% in July.\n\nLighthouse labs are a UK-wide network of specialist coronavirus laboratories and most Welsh tests are processed in them.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK government apologised for the delays at Lighthouse labs and a backlog at the labs has led to a drop in available testing slots.\n\nCapacity problems at the labs have also resulted in people being asked to travel long distances to access drive-through tests.\n\nSome people reported being offered tests more than 50 miles (80km) from their homes.\n\nCoronavirus cases have been rising in Wales in recent weeks\n\nCoronavirus cases have been rising in parts of Wales over the past few days, with 165 new cases reported by Public Health Wales on Wednesday.\n\nThe spike has seen Caerphilly county placed in Wales' first local lockdown after 151 cases in the past seven days.\n\nMeanwhile, 100 cases have been reported in Rhondda Cynon Taff, prompting the council to open a temporary testing centre at Oldway House in Porth from 09:30 BST on Thursday for one week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, the Welsh Government said: \"We have raised this issue with the UK government, which runs the Lighthouse lab testing system and we expect these issues to be resolved quickly to ensure people in Wales who have suspected coronavirus symptoms can receive a test as close to home as possible.\n\n\"We have recently announced £32m to increase capacity to process tests at laboratories in Wales, which includes extending our regional labs to 24-hour operation and six new 'hot labs' at hospitals across Wales.\n\n\"This investment will increase our testing resilience ahead of the winter.\"", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nHarry Dunn's family say they have been told prosecutors do not believe the woman accused of killing the teenager in a crash had diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died last August when his motorbike was in collision with a car allegedly driven by Anne Sacoolas outside a US airbase in the UK.\n\nHis parents said the director of public prosecutions was \"actively considering\" a virtual trial of Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe US government has previously declined a UK extradition request.\n\nHowever, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and felt let down after their meeting with Max Hill QC at the Crown Prosecution Service headquarters.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash in Croughton, Northamptonshire, and was able to return to her home country, sparking an international controversy.\n\nShe was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December but an extradition request was rejected by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nRadd Seiger, the family's spokesman, told reporters the family felt \"hopeless\" after the meeting and that the US had not changed its position on the immunity claimed by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Dunn's family have also filed a civil claim for damages against Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Seiger said the claim for damages for wrongful death had been made at the courts in the US state of Virginia.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nCommenting after the meeting, Greg McGill, the CPS director of legal services, said: \"Today we have met with the family of Harry Dunn to update them on the various steps the CPS has taken over the last 10 months to secure justice in this tragic case.\n\n\"The challenges and complexity of this case are well known, but the CPS and other partners have been working tirelessly to do all they can so that Anne Sacoolas faces the charge we have brought - causing death by dangerous driving.\n\n\"We know this is a very difficult process for the family, which is why we wanted to assure them personally that we continue to seek justice for them and for the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trials for 43,000 defendants are being listed for next year and some for 2022\n\nA judge has claimed he was put under \"improper and undue influence\" to keep a defendant in custody.\n\nJudge Keith Raynor refused to extend the time a teenager charged with drugs offences could be held in custody before his trial.\n\nWoolwich Crown Court heard Tesfa Young-Williams was charged with serious drug offences last October and had been in custody for 321 days because of delays.\n\nThat is 139 days beyond the custody time limit (CTL), the judge said.\n\nRefusing the further extension on Tuesday, Judge Raynor ruled government measures which include the creation of 10 Nightingale courts - temporary courts to help tackle the number of outstanding cases - were slow, not proportionate, lacked funding and that alternative, adequately-funded measures which would have worked were not adopted.\n\nIn a highly unusual move, Judge Raynor has made public communications with a senior judge in the lead-up to Mr Young-Williams' CTL hearing.\n\nJudge Raynor said he felt \"pressurised into granting the CTL extension application\" and \"was subjected to improper and undue influence to make a ruling extending the CTL in the case of R v Tesfa Young-Williams\".\n\nThe judge has now been told he will not be hearing a CTL application in another case but has said he wants to issue a formal complaint.\n\nCustody limits are in the spotlight because the Covid pandemic has led to an increased backlog of cases causing more defendants on remand awaiting trial to have their custody limits extended.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, the backlog of crown court cases has risen by 6,000 to 43,000.\n\nThe government has announced it will extend CTLs from six to eight months from the end of September. It also expects to have 250 usable jury trial rooms by November, as part of a so-called \"criminal courts recovery plan\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards a range of measures, including more Nightingale courts.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the distance between the senior judiciary and ministers is becoming too close.\n\nCriminal barrister Kirsty Brimelow QC said: \"The judiciary and the government are separate and distinct, so where there is a closeness between senior judiciary and government on policy, as there is here on custody time limits, there is real constitutional concern that this may compromise the independence of the judiciary.\"\n\nJudge Raynor's actions are exceptional and the senior judge he has criticised has said it would not be appropriate to comment.\n\nHowever, the allegations put the relationship between senior judges and the government firmly under scrutiny.\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. Scotland sets 'rule of six' for people meeting up\n\nThe number of people allowed to meet up in Scotland has been cut to six amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic \"accelerating\".\n\nIt came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a \"tightening and extension\" of lockdown rules.\n\nChanges planned for next week have been put back until at least 5 October.\n\nIt means that theatres, live music venues, indoor soft play facilities and indoor contact sports will not now open next Monday.\n\nUntil now, eight people from three households had been allowed to meet indoors in Scotland, and up to 15 from five households outdoors.\n\nThis will change to six people from two households, and will apply both indoors and outdoors - including in homes, gardens, pubs and restaurants.\n\nChildren under the age of 12 will not count towards the total, however.\n\nThe changes also mean spectators will not be able to return to sports stadia and other venues over the next three weeks - although two pilot events due take place at the weekend will still happen.\n\nScotland is currently recording three times more positive cases of the virus on average each day than it was three weeks ago - with a further 161 cases being logged on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the spread of the virus was accelerating - albeit from a low base and not as rapidly as it was back in March and April.\n\nShe said this was \"not entirely unexpected\" given the recent steps to reopen the economy - but that further planned moves to lift lockdown had to be put on pause for now.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Right now, given the rise in cases, it's the only responsible decision we can reach.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also said the reopening of offices and call centres will \"definitely not take place\" before October, saying that \"for now, working from home will remain the default position\".\n\nThe move to cut the number of people who can meet follows a similar move announced for England on Wednesday.\n\nThere will be \"limited exceptions\" to the rules for organised sports, places of worship and wedding and funeral services - which will be capped at 20 guests.\n\nThe new limits will officially come into force on Monday, although Ms Sturgeon said that she was asking people to immediately abide by the stricter new limits on gatherings.\n\nScotland's music industry has warned many venues may not survive the coronavirus lockdown\n\nIt will also become mandatory for staff working in hospitality premises such as pubs and restaurants to wear face coverings, and for customers to wear them while moving around.\n\nMs Sturgeon admitted the new announcements would be \"hard for people to hear\", but said they were necessary.\n\nShe said the rise in new cases was \"not as rapid as it was earlier in the year\" and that prevalence of the virus was lower \"thanks to the individual sacrifices that so any of you have made for the greater good\".\n\nShe said: \"We have grounds for cautious hope, but we have no grounds for complacency. It is vital to do everything we can to stop cases rising further before winter.\n\n\"These steps are necessary to help curb a virus that we know spreads rapidly whenever it gets the chance.\"\n\nShe insisted that the Test and Protect contact tracing system was \"working well\", adding that without this \"the virus would be spreading further and faster, and we would require to apply much stricter lockdown measures again\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives asked the government to consider moving more towards a strategy of mass community testing to complement Test and Protect.\n\nThe party's Holyrood leader, Ruth Davidson, said: \"Experts have said that mass community testing must also be part of the solution, if we are going to succeed in keeping the virus supressed through the winter.\n\n\"I would also urge the government to continue their work with Scotland's airports on a testing regime.\n\n\"The aviation sector needs all the help it can get, and stopping the virus will only be possible if we reach everyone coming into the country who may need to quarantine.\"", "Cosmetics giant L'Oreal is introducing make-up recycling bins across 1,000 UK stores in an environmental push.\n\nIts Maybelline brand and recycling firm TerraCycle will install the recycling points in branches of Tesco, Boots, Sainsbury's and Superdrug.\n\nL'Oreal's UK boss said the firm wants to \"lead the way\" in creating beauty recycling habits.\n\nBut Greenpeace said without reducing single-use plastic production, firms \"cannot claim they are doing enough\".\n\nFrom Thursday, consumers can drop off empty make-up products from any brand at the recycling bins in participating Tesco and Superdrug stores, which can be found online.\n\nBoots and Sainsbury's will follow at the end of September.\n\nCompacts, eyeshadow palettes, foundation or concealer tubes, mascara, eyeliner and lip products will be accepted, although make-up brushes, nail polish and aerosols will not.\n\nThe used items will be collected from the shops, sorted, cleaned and recycled into plastic pellets, which can be used to make other products, such as outdoor furniture.\n\nChains such as The Body Shop and skincare specialist Kiehl's, which is also owned by L'Oreal, already offer customers rewards for returning empty products to stores to be recycled.\n\nVismay Sharma, country manager of L'Oreal UK and Ireland, told the BBC that the firm had the \"ability to make impact at real scale\".\n\nThe recycling bins will be introduced across 1,000 UK shops\n\nNearly half of make-up wearers did not know that recycling beauty products was possible, according to a recent survey of more than 1,000 consumers by Maybelline.\n\nAsked what differentiates Maybelline and TerraCycle's new \"Make-up Not Make Waste\" scheme from other similar ones, Stephen Clarke, head of communications at TerraCycle, said that the number of stores participating meant it would be easier for consumers to recycle their beauty buys.\n\nHe also said the firm can recycle mixed materials, such as compacts with mirrors, as well as beauty items with pumps and triggers, which local councils won't necessarily do.\n\nHowever, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said that \"recycling will only ever get us so far\".\n\nWill McCallum, head of oceans at Greenpeace UK, said: \"Given the almost daily torrent of research revealing the extent to which plastic pollution is damaging our planet, it's frustrating to see a major plastic producer like the make-up industry fail to commit to reduce its overall plastic footprint.\n\n\"Without action plans to move towards reusable packaging and reduce single-use plastic production, companies cannot claim they are doing enough.\"\n\nMore than 120 billion units of packaging are produced globally every year by the cosmetics industry alone, according to the Zero Waste Week campaign.\n\nL'Oreal told the BBC that its global consumption of plastic totalled 137,000 tonnes in 2019.\n\nThe cosmetics firm has pledged that 100% of its plastic packaging will be refillable, reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.\n\nMr Sharma also said that the firm was dedicating €50m (£45.4m) to investing in recycling or plastic waste-related projects.", "The government has announced a \"truce\" on enforcement action for tenants facing eviction in England and Wales this Christmas.\n\nIt also said that evictions will not be enforced in areas subject to local lockdowns as the pandemic continues.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick added that it has increased notice periods to six months in an \"unprecedented measure\".\n\nCampaign group Generation Rent said the government \"must offer [renters] more.\"\n\nThe government confirmed that court proceedings for evictions in England and Wales would restart on 21 September after being suspended for six months due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nBut under new measures announced on Thursday, evictions will not be enforced by bailiffs if a local area is in lockdown that includes restrictions on gathering in homes.\n\nBailiffs will also be told that they should not enforce possession orders over Christmas, other than in \"the most serious circumstances\", such as cases involving domestic abuse or antisocial behaviour.\n\nThe government has not yet confirmed which dates the \"winter truce\" will cover for tenants in England and Wales.\n\n\"We have protected renters during the pandemic by banning evictions for six months - the longest eviction ban in the UK,\" Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said.\n\n\"To further support renters we have increased notice periods to six months, an unprecedented measure to help keep people in their homes over the winter months.\n\n\"It's right that we strike a balance between protecting vulnerable renters and ensuring landlords whose tenants have behaved in illegal or anti-social ways have access to justice.\"\n\nThe new measures are aimed at ensuring potentially vulnerable tenants are not forced out of their homes \"at a time when public and local authorities may be dealing with an increased demand for services\", a statement said.\n\nMinisters extended the ban on evictions for four weeks in August, but campaign groups and housing charities had hoped that more would be done for renters who have seen a loss in income during the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Batchelder: \"I don't know what the future holds\"\n\nAlicia Kennedy, director at Generation Rent, said: \"It is welcome that renters will not face eviction by bailiffs around Christmas or where there are lockdown measures.\n\n\"But outside that, thousands of renters who have had eviction notices during the pandemic still have no assurance from the government whether they can stay in their home.\n\n\"Those who have lost income will find it difficult to find a new home so face many months of uncertainty, getting deeper into debt.\"\n\nOne survey by homelessness charity Shelter suggested that more than 170,000 private tenants have been threatened with eviction by their landlord or letting agent, and 230,000 in England have fallen into arrears since the pandemic started.\n\nHowever, landlord groups have previously said that their members have been left \"powerless\" in dealing with the non-payment of rent.\n\nSome have called for more help in England to reduce the financial pressures on landlords, in addition to mortgage holidays.\n\nChris Norris, policy director for the National Residential Landlords Association, welcomed news that the courts would begin to hear possession cases again from 21 September.\n\n\"It is vital that this happens so that landlords can begin to take action against anti-social tenants, those committing acts of domestic violence and those with rent arrears that have nothing to do with Covid-19,\" he said.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's alleged killer Anne Sacoolas drove on the \"wrong side of the road for 20 seconds\" before the fatal crash, her lawyers said.\n\nBut she was \"otherwise driving cautiously and below the speed limit\", her legal representatives added.\n\nThey have issued a statement detailing the 43-year-old's side of the story.\n\nThe American was charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a crash in August 2019 which resulted in 19-year-old Mr Dunn's death.\n\nMrs Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity following the collision outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.\n\nShe was able to return to her home country, sparking controversy.\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\nAccording to her lawyers, Ms Sacoolas \"instinctively\" began driving on the right-hand side, and could not see Mr Dunn due to \"the crest of a small hill\".\n\nIn a public statement, they said: \"Anne did everything she could to assist Harry. After the accident, she ran from her car and tried to help him.\n\n\"Anne then saw another motorist approach and flagged her down for more support.\n\n\"The other motorist immediately called for the emergency services and Anne made calls to alert the police from the nearby air force base.\n\n\"Tragically, it took over 40 minutes for the ambulance to arrive and nearly two hours passed before Harry was admitted to the hospital.\n\n\"Anne did not leave the scene until she was instructed to do so by the UK authorities.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas's legal representatives also made an on-the-record statement regarding her position on the prospect of a virtual trial.\n\nThey said: \"We have been and remain willing to discuss a resolution, including the possibility of virtual proceedings, with the UK authorities.\"\n\nReacting to the suspect's statement and speaking on behalf of Mr Dunn's family, their spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"The parents have noted the statement issued this evening on behalf of Mrs Sacoolas.\n\n\"Their position is that these issues should not be aired in any form other than a court of law.\n\n\"Once again, they invite her to do the right thing and return to the UK to answer to the charges laid against her.\"\n\nMr Dunn's alleged killer returned to the US on a commercial flight after the US Embassy \"informed the Foreign Office of this decision and instructed Anne to return home\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in December but an extradition request submitted by the Home Office was refused in January.\n\nThe US State Department has since said the decision to reject the request was \"final\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nSerena Williams kept alive her hopes of a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title with a 4-6 6-3 6-2 win over Tsvetana Pironkova in the US Open quarter-finals.\n\nThe American six-time champion, 38, struggled early on with the variety of shots from the unranked player who was in her first tournament in three years.\n\nThe Bulgarian, 32, broke in the fifth game en route to taking the first set.\n\nPironkova tired as Williams took the second and broke twice in the third.\n\nWhenever you can birth a baby, honestly you can do anything\n\nThe veteran will now play former world number one Victoria Azarenka, whom she beat in the 2012 and 2013 US Open finals.\n\nWilliams said she could not afford another sluggish start if she is to reach her fifth Grand Slam final in three years.\n\n\"I was feeling it a little in my legs and an hour in, for some reason, I got more energy. I can't do that if I want to keep winning,\" said the American, who last won the US Open in 2014.\n\n\"I play again on Thursday. I am used to playing back to back to back, but I need to figure out how to start a little bit faster.\n\n\"I keep fighting, I never give up. You've got to keep going.\"\n• None Azarenka into first Grand Slam semi-final since 2013\n• None 'Without your gutsy actions, we wouldn't be here today' - Andreescu's open letter to 'Original 9'\n\nLike in her third-round match against Sloane Stephens, Williams made a slow start which Pironkova exploited on longer rallies and with her dangerous sliced forehand. The break seemed inevitable and came in the fifth game when the Bulgarian - a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2010 - hit a great double-handed backhand winner.\n\nThere were signs Williams was improving towards the end of that set, and although she did go a break down early in the second set, the American levelled immediately and then had break point in the following Pironkova service game.\n\nThat was saved, but the former world number 31 lost her serve again when she was out-thought and outplayed in the eighth game, decided by an error following a phenomenal 26-shot rally. Her more decorated opponent raised her arm and let out a cry of celebration and relief inside the near empty Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nBy this stage, Pironkova's points won on her first and second serves had dropped from 87% and 70%, respectively, down to 47% and 55% and the unforced errors were up from five to 10. It seemed the exertions of the near three-hour three-set match against Alize Cornet in the previous round were beginning to take their toll.\n\nWilliams also experienced a three-set contest in her last-16 match, but her stamina appeared to increase as this match went on. She broke twice more in the third set and booked her place in the semi-final with a game to love, which contained her 20th ace.\n\n'You play a match, go home and you're still changing diapers'\n\nDefeat brought an end to the fairytale return for the player from Plovdiv, who following a shoulder injury in 2017 decided to start a family and take time out from the sport.\n\nPironkova chose the Flushing Meadows tournament to mark her comeback and entered at the first-round stage courtesy of a protected ranking of 123rd - the position she occupied when she last played.\n\nWilliams paid tribute to the Bulgarian for reaching the last eight in her first tournament since 2017.\n\n\"It shows me how tough mums are,\" the former champion said. \"Whenever you can birth a baby, honestly you can do anything. We saw that today, she played unbelievable.\n\n\"I could barely win a match when I came back, so she's incredible. Her baby has to be younger than mine - you play a match, go home and you're still changing diapers, it's like a double life.\"\n• None Listen to unique tracks from Stormzy, Miley and Biffy Clyro\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Ambassador Liu Xiaoming has had a Twitter account since late last year\n\nChina's UK embassy has asked Twitter to \"make thorough investigations\" after its ambassador's official account liked a pornographic clip.\n\nLiu Xiaoming's account also liked posts that criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and showed blindfolded Uighurs being detained.\n\nOfficials claimed that \"anti-Chinese elements [had] viciously attacked\" Mr Liu's account in a \"despicable\" plot designed to \"deceive the public\".\n\nTwitter has yet to comment.\n\nThe activity first drew attention after the account liked a 10-second video posted by an adult-themed page containing clips with Chinese-language descriptions.\n\nA London-based human rights campaigner flagged this to other Twitter users just after 09:00 GMT with a screenshot as proof.\n\nThe clip was subsequently unliked by whoever was controlling the account.\n\nBut some other tweets remained liked for a time before they too were reversed.\n\nOne included claims that officials had \"paid lip service to non-interference\" in order to get away with killing members of the Chinese public.\n\nA second featured drone-captured footage of Uighur Muslims being taken to what the post described as a \"concentration camp\".\n\nBeijing has previously denied holding large numbers of people from the ethnic minority in camps against their will in the western Xinjiang region.\n\nAnd the ambassador denied his country was carrying out a programme of sterilisation of Uighur women, when he was shown the drone footage by the BBC earlier in the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liu Xiaoming told the BBC in July there was not a concentration camp in Xinjiang\n\nTwitter is blocked within mainland China. But over the past year Chinese officials have become more active on the platform, and Mr Liu's account was created in October.\n\nThe app's likes are sometimes used as a kind of bookmark facility rather than to express support, and the heart-shaped icon that activates them can be easily selected by mistake.\n\nSome of the social network's users have suggested the pornographic clip might have been liked by accident and then the others selected as part of a cover story.\n\nBut Chinese officials have dismissed the suggestion.\n\n\"The embassy has reported this to Twitter and urged the latter to make thorough investigations and handle this matter seriously,\" said a statement.\n\n\"The embassy reserves the right to take further actions and hope that the public will not believe or spread such rumour[s].\"\n\nMr Liu's account now only has two likes - both related to tweets it posted in 2019.\n\nIt has also tweeted a proverb in reaction to the affair, suggesting the ambassador is not concerned about being attacked: \"A good anvil does not fear the hammer.\"", "There have been 302 deaths in Rhondda Cynon Taff involving coronavirus since March - including two in care homes in the last six weeks\n\nPeople in two counties are being asked to wear face masks in work, shops and crowded public spaces in a bid to avoid another local Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nResidents of Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil have been asked by councils only to use public transport if \"essential\".\n\nThey have already been warned they face lockdown after an increase in cases.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil has the second highest coronavirus case rate in Wales - behind Caerphilly, already in lockdown.\n\nIn a joint statement, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff councils, the local health board and police called for local residents to \"take action now\".\n\nTo take affect immediately, they want people to:\n\nBoth councils said schools would remain open and home-to-school transport would continue \"in accordance with the latest Public Health Wales guidance\".\n\nPublic health chiefs said people \"ignoring or disregarding\" social distancing was \"why transmission has increased\" in those areas.\n\n\"Our message for the public is that coronavirus has not gone away - and it can be a very serious illness - especially for older and vulnerable people,\" said Kelechi Nnoaham, public health director of Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\n\"We must all play our part to protect our vulnerable or older friends, family members and loved ones. Whilst we may not be seeing hospital admissions at the moment, it will only be a matter of weeks if we don't act now.\"\n\nThere were almost 3,000 Covid-19 UK confirmed cases in the last 24 hours as cases in Wales reached almost 19,000 on Thursday as 102 new positive cases were reported by Public Health Wales.\n\nHospital admissions of patients with coronavirus have doubled in the last week in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area.\n\nSix supermarkets in Rhondda Cynon Taff have already been given improvement orders, while warnings were given over a lack of social distancing due to small clusters around Porth, Penygraig and Tonypandy.\n\nThe highest rate for cases in Wales remains in Caerphilly county where there have been 91.1 cases per 100,000 of the population over the past seven days.\n\nIn Merthyr Tydfil, more than 6% of those tested in the last week had coronavirus.\n\nIt has the second highest case rate in Wales, with 54.7 cases per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nCases have been rising in the council areas affected\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taff, there were nine further coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, making a total of 90 positive Covid-19 tests in the last week.\n\nThe situation there is \"stable at the moment\" according to council leader Andrew Morgan who said a full lockdown could be avoided as long as people followed the rules.\n\n\"Over the next week we can turn this round,\" he said.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Greenpeace says some destination countries don't use sufficient protective equipment\n\nThe UK approved the export of more than 32,000 tonnes of banned pesticides in 2018, according to environmental campaign group Greenpeace.\n\nThe shipments were among 81,615 tonnes of banned \"crop protection products\" planned by British and other European companies that year.\n\nUnder EU law, firms are still permitted to make and export chemicals whose use is restricted within the bloc itself.\n\nGreenpeace used freedom of information requests to unearth the data.\n\nThis was contained in hundreds of documents.\n\nThe group said almost 40% of planned exports by weight came from the UK. The next-highest exporter was Italy, with 11% of planned exports, or 9,350 tonnes.\n\nGreenpeace described the trade as \"exploitative hypocrisy\" and demanded the UK government put an end to it.\n\nThe campaign group's chief scientist, Doug Parr, said the UK should stop the manufacture and export of all banned pesticides and \"pressure the EU to do the same and close this loophole for good\".\n\nSome critics in importing nations claimed the practice was a \"double standard\" that placed a lower value on lives and ecosystems in poorer countries.\n\n\"Even though the climate is different, our bodies are made from the same matter,\" said Alan Tygel, spokesperson for the Permanent Campaign Against Pesticides and for Life, a Brazilian umbrella group of social movements and NGOs.\n\n\"Substances that are dangerous for Europeans, are also dangerous for Brazilians, Indians, Argentinians, and so on.\"\n\nThe majority of the exports notified from the UK (28,185 tonnes) were mixtures containing paraquat, a weedkiller that has been banned in the EU since 2007.\n\nParaquat is manufactured in Huddersfield by the biotech company Syngenta.\n\nIt is a very effective weedkiller that is widely used around the world but in concentrated doses can be very toxic.\n\nIt is often used in suicides, and scientists are investigating evidence of links between repeated exposure to the chemical and Parkinson's disease.\n\nSyngenta told the BBC it followed the law in every country in which it operates.\n\nIt said different parts of the world grew different crops in different climates with different weeds and other pests, and therefore needed different chemicals.\n\n\"It is very common that crop protection chemicals produced in countries where we have manufacturing plants are not necessarily registered or sold there,\" it said.\n\nAlmost half of the UK's 2018 paraquat shipments (14,000 tonnes) were destined for the United States, where Syngenta faces lawsuits from farmers who allege the weedkiller gave them Parkinson's disease.\n\nBut exports were also planned to low- and middle-income nations including Brazil, Mexico, India, Colombia, Ecuador, and South Africa, where protective equipment is less commonly used and government regulation on the use of dangerous chemicals is not so rigorous.\n\nThe other significant exports of banned pesticides notified from the UK in 2018 included up to 4,000 tonnes of the soil fumigant 1,3-Dichloropropene, produced by a subsidiary of the chemicals giant Ineos, which is majority owned by billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the richest individuals in the UK.\n\n1,3-Dichloropropene is classified as a probable carcinogen. It remains banned in the EU because of concerns related to consumer exposure, as well as risks of \"groundwater contamination\" and risks for \"birds, mammals, aquatic organisms and other non-target organisms\".\n\nIneos told the BBC the only exports of 1,3 Dicholoropropene from the UK were to Japan.\n\nIt said that all shipments of the product followed strict European rules on the export of dangerous chemicals.\n\nIn addition, the company said 1,3 Dicholoropropene helped to protect important food crops from disease and was \"still used in European Union countries but only under emergency procedures which are subject to national approvals\".", "Several trees on Llanrhystud beach were found after Storm Francis, which hit Wales in August\n\nA forest which was buried in sand more than 4,500 years ago may stretch further than thought after Storm Francis uncovered more hidden trees.\n\nThe petrified forest can often be seen in Borth, Ceredigion, after storms, but new trees have been seen 13 miles (21km) south in Llanrhystud.\n\nTests are being carried out at the Llanrhystud site to determine its age.\n\nDr Hywel Griffiths, from Aberystwyth University, said the find was \"both exciting and worrying\".\n\nDr Griffiths is part of a joint research project between groups in Wales and Ireland looking at coastal environmental change.\n\nHe said: \"It's exciting because it's additional evidence of these climate change processes that have been going on for so long.\n\n\"But also worrying because we are seeing these landscape changes occur more often. It's due to the impact and influence of the storms that feel like they are happening more.\"\n\nThe forest has become associated with a 17th Century myth of a sunken civilization known as Cantre'r Gwaelod, or the Sunken Hundred.\n\nAccording to the legend, the kingdom was lost at sea when Seithenyn, the guardian of sea defences, forgot to close the gates.\n\nIn one version of the myth, the forest stretched 20 miles to the west of Cardigan Bay.\n\nHistorian Gerald Morgan said: \"It's an addition to what we already know about the extraordinary number of petrified trees that have been found all along the coast of Wales.\n\n\"It's exciting because we have found another one that hasn't been recorded yet.\"\n\nLlanrhystud beach lies 13 miles south of Borth, where the previous forest was uncovered\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Council leaders in Rhondda Cynon Taff have warned about potential local lockdowns here\n\nHospital admissions of patients with coronavirus in a health board covering the south Wales valleys have doubled in the last week.\n\nThere were 72 admissions in Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board in the week to Tuesday, according to figures from NHS Wales.\n\nIt is the highest figure since the start of August.\n\nThere has been concern about rising infections in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nWelsh Government ministers and officials had been meeting on Thursday to discuss potentially introducing tighter restrictions within the Rhondda Cynon Taff area, but no announcement was made by the evening.\n\nInstead, local councils issued voluntary advice to wear masks in work and shops in an effort to avoid local lockdowns.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg executive director of public health Kelechi Nnoaham said local lockdowns for Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil were \"not very far\", but were \"not inevitable\" if people abided by the rules.\n\n\"There is more we can do to limit these infections within our communities and not go straight into lockdown territory.\"\n\nKelechi Nnoaham says he is worried by rising cases but the problem can be tackled by working together\n\nMr Nnoaham said some people who had come home from holidays who should be isolating were not, and that people needed to stop attending parties.\n\n\"I know how hard lockdown has been for people, and that they want to let go a little bit, that is perfectly human, but coronavirus has not gone away,\" he said.\n\n\"I am worried, but it is not hopeless. It is not an insurmountable problem, it feels like something we can tackle if we are working together with our communities.\"\n\nNumbers have also risen in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, which covers Caerphilly county, the area put into local lockdown earlier this week.\n\nThere were 76 hospital admissions in the week to 8 September - the highest total for 10 weeks.\n\nCaerphilly has the second highest rate for coronavirus infections in the UK in the last seven days, after Bolton, Greater Manchester.\n\nBut there are concerns if those infections start translating down the line into hospital admissions.\n\nThe seven-day average in total daily admissions to hospitals of confirmed and suspected Covid-19 cases in Wales is currently 54, about the same as last week.\n\nOverall, numbers of patients in hospital with coronavirus in Wales have continued to fall.\n\nThese include those in critical care.\n\nMeanwhile, separate weekly figures for the \"test, trace, protect\" system for contacting people with coronavirus and tracing contacts, shows 98% of the 1,860 positive cases since 21 June were reached and were able to provide details of their recent contacts.\n\nIn the most recent week, 96% of the 424 positive cases were reached.\n\nOf the 5,834 close contacts that were eligible for follow-up, 94% were successfully contacted and advised, according to NHS Wales.\n\nThe Welsh Government said this shows it was reaching more contacts than the system in England.", "Plans for spectators to attend sporting events in England from 1 October are to be reviewed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.\n\nJohnson, speaking at a Downing Street news conference, also said pilot events in September would be restricted to 1,000 fans with social distancing measures in place.\n\n“We must revise plans to pilot larger audiences in venues later this month and review our intention to return audiences to stadiums from 1 October,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean we are going to scrap the programme entirely. We are just going to have to review it and abridge it.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"In light of increasing transmission rates, the government is reviewing the proposed sports and business events pilots ahead of 1 October and we will unfortunately need to scale some back.\n\n\"We know fans and audiences are eager to return, and jobs depend on this too, so work continues around the clock on the 'moonshot project' with the ambition of having audiences back much closer to normal by Christmas, if safe to do so.\"\n\nThe majority of sports in England have been played behind closed doors since the coronavirus lockdown in March, including Premier League football, the FA Cup final, England Test matches and two Formula 1 races at Silverstone.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said it was \"absolutely critical\" that fans were allowed back inside stadiums as soon as possible and failure to do so would cost clubs £700m during the 2020-21 season, which starts on Saturday.\n\nAt the end of August, 2,500 people watched a friendly between Brighton and Chelsea at the Seagulls' Amex Stadium - the first time fans had been allowed into a Premier League ground in almost six months.\n\nAbout 300 fans were allowed to watch last month's World Snooker Championship final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Kyren Wilson at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, but original plans to admit fans for all days of the tournament were reversed.\n\nMore than 2,500 spectators bought tickets for Doncaster on Wednesday as the St Leger meeting started, the first crowd at a British horse racing fixture in six months, although the rest of the meeting will be held behind closed doors.\n\nThe Women's Super League match between Arsenal and West Ham on 12 September was one of the pilot events that were planned with a limited number of fans in attendance.\n\nOther planned pilot events include football's non-league finals day at Wembley on 27 September, race meetings at Warwick and Newmarket on 21 and 24 September respectively, a basketball exhibition match in Newcastle on 18 September and a speedway event in Ipswich on 26 September.\n• None Listen to unique tracks from Stormzy, Miley and Biffy Clyro", "Boris Johnson has urged MPs to support a bill which modifies the Brexit deal he signed with the EU in January.\n\nThe PM said the Internal Markets Bill would \"ensure the integrity of the UK internal market\" and hand power to Scotland and Wales.\n\nHe also claimed it would protect the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nCritics say the move will damage the UK's international standing after a minister admitted the plans break international law.\n\nThe Scottish government has not ruled out legal action to prevent it becoming law.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"The Tories' proposed bill for a so-called UK internal market is an abomination. It is a naked power grab which would cripple devolution.\"\n\nThe Taoiseach (Ireland's prime minister) Micheál Martin has spoken to Mr Johnson \"in forthright terms\" about \"the breach of an international treaty, the absence of bilateral engagement and the serious implications for Northern Ireland\", the Irish government said.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove will hold emergency talks in London on Thursday with EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic to discuss the contents of the bill.\n\nThe European Commission had requested a meeting as soon as possible to clarify what the legislation means for the Brexit deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest scheduled round of negotiations on securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU are also due to wrap up on Thursday.\n\nCommission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted: \"Very concerned about announcements from the British government on its intentions to breach the Withdrawal Agreement. This would break international law and undermines trust.\"\n\nDowning Street said the EU Withdrawal Agreement - repeatedly described as \"oven ready\" by Mr Johnson during last year's general election - contained \"ambiguities\" and lacked clarity in \"key areas\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman said it had been agreed \"at pace in the most challenging possible political circumstances\" to \"deliver on a decision by the British people\".\n\nIt had been signed \"on the assumption that subsequent agreements to clarify these aspects could be reached\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe new bill sets out rules for the operation of the UK internal market - trade between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - after the end of the Brexit transition period in January.\n\nThe bill explicitly states that these powers should apply even if they are incompatible with international law.\n\nMinisters say the legislation is needed to prevent \"damaging\" tariffs on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if negotiations with the EU on a free trade agreement fail.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have warned it risks undermining the UK's reputation as an upholder of international law.\n\nFormer PM Sir John Major fears the UK will lose its reputation for keeping its word\n\nFormer Prime Minister Sir John Major said: \"For generations, Britain's word - solemnly given - has been accepted by friend and foe. Our signature on any treaty or agreement has been sacrosanct.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we lose our reputation for honouring the promises we make, we will have lost something beyond price that may never be regained.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to consider \"the reputational risk that it's taking in the proposed way forward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK government should consider the “reputational risk” in its approach.\n\nBut Sir Keir - who campaigned for a second Brexit referendum - added that the \"way forward\" now was to get a trade deal, adding \"if you fail to get a deal, prime minister, you own that failure\".\n\n\"The outstanding issues are not difficult. They can be resolved. So what I say to the prime minister is, you promised a good deal, get on, negotiate it,\" he added.\n\n\"That's what's in the national interest and focus then on the issue in hand which is tackling this pandemic.\"\n\nIn the withdrawal agreement with the EU, Northern Ireland is still in the UK, but it has to follow elements of the EU's customs code.\n\nThis bill will be seen by the EU as a pretty brazen attempt to override the deal that has been done.\n\nThe bill contains the words \"notwithstanding\" - that basically means this law sets aside a law we have already agreed.\n\nThat was described to me earlier in the week as being a completely nuclear option.\n\nAnd they have pressed it.\n\nThis row isn't going to go away.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party, which has been pressing for changes to the Withdrawal Agreement, said the bill was a \"step forward\" but the government must ensure Northern Ireland is not \"restrained in a state aid straight jacket unlike the rest of the UK\".\n\nBut the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein's Michelle O' Neill, said the Withdrawal Agreement protected the Good Friday Agreement and it was \"astounding\" the UK government \"thinks its fine\" to wreck an international treaty they had signed up to.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"My job is to uphold the integrity of the UK but also to protect the Northern Ireland peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"And to do that, we need a legal safety net to protect our country against extreme or irrational interpretations of the Protocol, which could lead to a border down the Irish Sea, in a way that I believe would be prejudicial to the interests of the Good Friday Agreement and prejudicial to the interests of peace in our country. And that has to be our priority.\"\n\nCommenting on a similar argument by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, a former minister told the BBC: \"I cannot allow anyone to get away with saying the government is doing this to protect the peace process. This does the precise opposite.\"\n\nThe legislation will see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland handed powers in areas such as air quality and building efficiency currently regulated at EU level.\n\nIt will also set up a new body - the Office for the Internal Market - to make sure standards adopted in different parts of the UK do not undermine cross-border trade.\n\nThe Scottish government fears the UK single market will cut across areas that are usually devolved.\n\nFor example, if the UK government decides some food imports are acceptable in England then they would also be allowed in Scotland, even though agriculture is devolved.\n\nThe new body will be able to issue non-binding recommendations to the UK Parliament and devolved administrations when clashes emerge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford asks Boris Johnson if he thinks he is above the law regarding a bill on future trade.\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, described the Internal Markets Bill as \"nothing short of an attack on Scotland's parliament and an affront to people of Scotland\".\n\nMr Johnson said the bill would protect jobs and growth - and was a \"massive devolutionary act\" that would represent a \"very substantial transfer of power and sovereignty\" to Scotland and Wales.\n\nBut his words did not prevent the resignation of a senior Conservative in Wales, where the party is in opposition.\n\nDavid Melding, shadow Counsel General, said in his resignation letter that the PM's actions in the past few days had \"gravely aggravated\" the dangers facing \"our 313-year-old Union\".\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "Sister Bliss from dance act Faithless has said UK nightclubs have been \"left to rot in a corner\" amid the pandemic.\n\nThe government says clubs must stay shut \"in line with current scientific advice to control the virus\".\n\nThe musician and DJ told BBC Radio 6 Music club culture should be better protected.\n\n\"There's a lack of leadership at the top which means certain industries have been given support and then others have been completely ignored,\" she said.\n\n\"The electronic music scene and clubbing is definitely an incredible part of our cultural and economic force, and it travels all over the world globally.\n\n\"We really, I think, have been left to rot in a corner, so it's good to see that venues and artists are trying to galvanise it - with the Let the Music Play movement - trying to bring the plight of venues and freelancers, like myself, to the fore.\"\n\nThe Let the Music Play campaign saw 1,500 artists sign an open letter in July calling for support for the UK's music scene.\n\n\"All we can do is keep waving a flag and saying, 'We want support as well,'\" she told 6 Music's Georgie Rogers.\n\nFaithless performed at the BBC Music Awards in 2015\n\nThe government has announced a £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, but there is uncertainty over how far this money will stretch and where it will go.\n\nSister Bliss's comments come on 6 Music's State of the Independents Day on Thursday, looking into the effects of the pandemic on the independent music sector.\n\nIn response, a government spokesman said: \"We know this is an incredibly difficult time for nightclubs, but they will need to remain closed for now in line with current scientific advice to control the virus.\n\n\"We continue to engage with industry representative and listen to their concerns.\n\n\"Throughout the pandemic, nightclubs have access to the government's unprecedented package of support to help businesses, which includes business rates relief, tax deferrals, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and billions paid in loans and grants.\"\n\nWhile clubbing as we know it remains off the cards, some venues have been able to diversify in a bid to stay open and survive.\n\nVenues like Brixton Jamm and Escape to Freight Island in Manchester have been able to move things outside and host seated, socially distanced events with strict rules.\n\nMeanwhile, virtual clubbing has boomed, with DJs moving their sets online via social media or platforms like Boiler Room and United We Stream.\n\nLast week, the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) lent its support to The Global Nighttime Recovery Plan, which is looking at the \"the future of dancefloor\" by proposing flexible and open clubbing experiences.\n\nNTIA boss Michael Kill told BBC News the night time economy was \"on a cliff edge\", with furlough coming to an end soon. A government scheme meaning no business can be evicted for missing rent payments is also ending this month.\n\nAt the end of July, a survey of the association's members suggested that 58% fear they will not survive longer than two months without further government support. And 71% were already set to make more than half of their workforces redundant in a matter of weeks.\n\n\"We need the government to recognise the critical position the sector is in across the UK and work expediently to release a roadmap,\" Mr Kill said. \"But also act quickly to put a sector specific financial package together which will allow these businesses to survive and save jobs.\"\n\nJamz Supernova is a DJ on BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra and 6 Music\n\nDJ Jamz Supernova told 6 Music club culture has been undervalued in the UK for a long time.\n\n\"Nobody flies across the world to go to a restaurant,\" she declared. \"You will fly across the world if there's a great clubbing scene.\n\n\"So I felt there needs to be a lot of more transparency, communication, and funding.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "No more than six people from two households in the affected areas will be allowed to gather in a private garden\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households are to be reintroduced in parts of Northern Ireland after a rise in cases of coronavirus.\n\nThe new rules affect people in Ballymena town, those who live in the Belfast council area and addresses with postcodes BT43, BT28 and BT29.\n\nThose postcodes take in areas north east of Ballymena, and parts of Glenavy, Lisburn and Crumlin.\n\nPeople cannot visit other people's homes, but there are some exemptions.\n\nNo more than six people from two households in the affected areas will be allowed to gather in a private garden.\n\nAnd people living in them are being advised not to travel outside the zones unless it is necessary.\n\nThe measures, which mark the first series of localised restrictions to be imposed in Northern Ireland since the lockdown in March, will take effect next week and be in place for at least a fortnight.\n\nNorthern Ireland currently has the UK's highest rate of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill outlined the restrictions as they led their first joint press conference together at Stormont for 73 days.\n\nMrs Foster urged people living in the affected areas to \"please take action now and stop the spread of the virus\".\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill gave their first press conference together in more than two months\n\n\"There is a creeping of the virus across Northern Ireland and we need people to work with us to stop that,\" she stressed.\n\nThe executive said it was asking medically vulnerable and older people living in the areas affected by the new restrictions to be \"particularly careful\" and follow all public health advice.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said hospitals and care homes in those areas would also be advised to limit visitors, with one family member being allowed to visit once a week.\n\nMore frequent visits may be allowed only in \"exceptional circumstances\", but that will be reviewed, she added.\n\n\"We may also have to add postcodes to this as the situation develops,\" she said.\n\nMrs Foster said the executive needed to limit social interactions between households in order to \"push down the rising curve of infection\" in the areas with the highest rates of the virus.\n\nThe deputy first minister urged people outside of the affected areas \"not to think they are invincible or immune\".\n\nMinisters also agreed to provide about 600 pubs in Northern Ireland which do not serve food with a new indicative date to reopen.\n\nThe executive agreed that drink-only pubs can provisionally reopen on 21 September, but this will have to be ratified closer to the time.\n\nArlene Foster said at present the \"villain\" was in our homes, not in businesses where customer numbers were regulated\n\nNon-food pubs in the Republic of Ireland are also aiming to reopen on the same date but it is being kept under review.\n\nProf Ian Young, NI's chief scientific adviser, told the press briefing he was satisfied the mitigations being taken by the hospitality industry would ensure it was safe to reopen.\n\nMrs Foster said at present, the \"villain is not in businesses where numbers of customers are regulated\".\n\n\"It's in our homes - it is the house party, it is the dinner party - it is the few people coming around for drinks or coffee,\" she added.\n\nHospitality Ulster said the decision to give pubs a new reopening date would \"help secure hundreds of businesses and thousands of jobs that have been hanging in the balance\".\n\nBar the police turning up outside on a doorstep in a residential area, we are seeing that they are really clamping down on those large social gatherings that according to the data are happening in those BT areas and also in Belfast.\n\nThey say that they can manage to enforce what is going on in bars and restaurants, that they are very happy with the behaviour, but really they can't manage what is going on inside houses and outside in gardens.\n\nIt is similar to what happened in Glasgow a number of weeks ago.\n\nObviously, Belfast is the most affected by this and people are being asked to really curtail going out; restricting how many people we can have in our back gardens and mixing between houses really is forbidden - but there are exemptions.\n\nAsked how the measures would be enforced, Mrs Foster said she \"hoped people will comply\".\n\nShe said she did not want it to reach the stage that measures had to be strictly enforced, but the law would be in place.\n\n\"We're always very aware we're asking people to do things they would not ordinarily do,\" the first minister added.\n\nThe executive has also agreed to set up a minister-led group to consider compliance and enforcement of the regulations, to ensure \"everyone follows the spirit and the letter of the law\".\n\nThe executive also agreed to give the green light to soft play areas in Northern Ireland reopening from Monday.\n\nThe Department of Health says the current R number - or reproduction rate - of coronavirus in Northern Ireland is between 0.3 and 1.4.\n\nThe R value is the number of people that one infected person will pass a virus on to, on average, and if the reproduction number is higher than one, then the number of cases increases very fast\n\nChief scientific adviser Prof Ian Young said although NI's R number estimate appeared lower than it has been in recent weeks, there had been a \"general increase in cases\".\n\nIt was also announced that from 04:00 BST on Saturday, anyone arriving in NI from Portugal, Hungary, French Polynesia and Réunion will be required to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nQuarantine-free travel is still allowed from the Portuguese islands, the Azores and Madeira.\n\nSweden will also be removed from the list of countries where quarantine measures are required.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would continue to monitor the situation in all countries.\n\nAll the announcements came as one more coronavirus-related death was recorded in the Newry, Mourne and Down area, with 79 new cases throughout NI also reported.\n\nThat brings the total to 568 deaths and 8,035 cases.\n\nIn the past seven days, there have been 177 new cases in the Belfast council area.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, no further deaths were reported on Thursday, with the total remaining at 1,781.\n\nThe Irish department of health revealed there had been 30,360 confirmed cases of the virus, after 196 more were recorded.", "Cases in Portugal have been rising since the country was made exempt from UK quarantine on 22 August\n\nTravellers from mainland Portugal to England will have to quarantine from 04:00 BST on Saturday, just weeks after the country was put on the safe list.\n\nWales and Scotland had already imposed the mandatory two weeks of self-isolation earlier this month.\n\nQuarantine-free travel is still allowed from the Portuguese islands, the Azores and Madeira.\n\nMeanwhile, Sweden has been made exempt from quarantine for Wales, England and Scotland.\n\nPeople travelling to England, Wales and Scotland from Hungary and Reunion will also be required to self-isolate, while England is additionally requiring arrivals from French Polynesia to quarantine.\n\nHungary has a seven-day rate of 31.6 infections per 100,000 people and French Polynesia's rate is 71.3.\n\nPortugal, one of the UK's most popular holiday destinations, was given an exemption from UK quarantine rules as recently as 22 August.\n\nBut since then the infection level has been rising. It now has 28.3 infections per 100,000 people, above the threshold of 20 per 100,000 people which the UK generally uses for adding countries to the quarantine list.\n\nPortugal expressed \"regret\" over the quarantine decision for the mainland, but said it valued the continued inclusion of the Azores and Madeira on the safe \"travel corridor\" list.\n\nIt comes as the UK's confirmed coronavirus cases rose by another 2,919, the fifth consecutive day that the figure has been more than 2,000. Another 14 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said that because of \"enhanced data\" the government was able to assess the infection rates of islands separate to their mainland countries.\n\nOn Wednesday, quarantine requirements were also imposed on seven Greek islands, the first time that different self-isolation rules had been applied to the mainland of a country and its islands.\n\nMr Shapps also stressed that travellers must fill out the Passenger Locator Form on arrival to the UK, a day after the prime minister said enforcement of this part of the quarantine rules would be stepped up.\n\n\"It is a criminal offence not to complete the form and spot checks will be taking place,\" Mr Shapps said.\n\nFigures show that nearly 2m spot checks have been carried out to ensure travellers have filled out the form, and calls and text messages were made to 136,500 people to check they were quarantining.\n\nSuccessful contact, where the traveller has been spoken to or responded to a text, was made 66,773 times with 64,800 people confirming they were self-isolating. Just 34 fines have been issued.\n\nTravel industry body Abta, along with the chief executives of airlines such as easyJet, Ryanair and British Airways, is calling on the government to introduce testing on arrival at airports and to change quarantine policy so mainland regions can be treated differently.\n\n\"Every country, mainland or island that is taken off the government's travel list lessens the ability of travel businesses to operate and increases the necessity for the government to provide tailored industry support,\" said an Abta spokesman.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said holidaymakers were now \"more acutely aware\" of the risks of travel abroad, but said the \"last-minute\" decisions meant many missed out on refunds or were \"extorted\" with additional airfares if they tried to rush home.\n\n\"It's obvious that the current travel corridor system is not working for passengers, and becoming completely detrimental to the already dwindling trust in the sector,\" he said.\n\nSweden adopted a lighter-touch strategy for dealing with the pandemic compared with most other European countries, deciding not to institute a widespread lockdown, and putting in place relatively few restrictions.\n\nThis was based partly on the idea of letting Covid-19 sweep through the population creating so-called herd immunity. Such an approach was considered but then abandoned in the UK.\n\nResearch published in August suggested exposure to coronavirus was similar in Stockholm and London, based on antibody tests, despite the different lockdown strategies.\n\nAre you in Portugal at the moment and planning to return to the UK before the new quarantine regulation begins? 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. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three children were seriously injured in the crash\n\nThree children were seriously injured when their school bus hit a railway bridge.\n\nThe double-decker's roof was torn off in the crash in Wellhouse Lane, Winchester, shortly after 08:10 BST.\n\nPupils from Henry Beaufort School \"started screaming\" when the roof fell on top of them, leaving a further 12 needing treatment for minor injuries.\n\nBus operator Stagecoach South said an investigation was under way. No arrests have been made.\n\nThe three badly hurt children were taken to hospital. Twelve other youngsters, two of whom were also taken to hospital, suffered minor injuries, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nAll pupils on board were aged between 11 and 16, the force said.\n\nPoppy, 11, who was sitting on the top deck of the bus, said the children had noticed the driver was \"going on a completely different route\" in the moments before the crash.\n\nShe said a metal pole struck her on the head and others were hurt by breaking glass.\n\n\"There was blood everywhere - everyone was in a rush to get down, but we were all trying to help each other,\" she added.\n\nZoe was on the top deck of the bus when the crash happened\n\nZoe, 14, who was also on the top deck, said the roof fell in on top of everyone \"and everyone started screaming\".\n\n\"It felt like 'am I going to live or am I going to die' - everyone was crying and shaking, it was a huge shock,\" she said.\n\nFifteen-year-old Robert, who was on the lower deck of the bus, said: \"I heard crashing upstairs. I thought we'd hit the side of the tunnel, then I saw the top of the bus falling down.\n\n\"Most of the people hurt just had cuts and were bleeding. But there were some people with bad injuries.\"\n\nThe children on board were all aged between 11 and 16\n\nInsp Andy Tester, of Hampshire Constabulary, said it was \"very lucky\" nobody was killed.\n\n\"That bus doesn't fit through the bridge - I can't think that a bus route would have been drawn [up] to take it through a bridge that is too low for the bus,\" he said.\n\nThe bridge has a warning sign above it that states vehicles with a height of more than 12ft (3.6m) should not enter.\n\nThe bus involved in the crash was believed to be about 14ft (4.3m) in height.\n\nThe bus had been on its way to Henry Beaufort School\n\nSue Hearle, head teacher of the Henry Beaufort School, said: \"This is a distressing incident and we are extremely relieved that it wasn't more serious.\"\n\nShe added she did not want to speculate on the circumstances of the crash and would be focusing on supporting the children affected.\n\nA spokesperson for Stagecoach South said: \"Our thoughts are with the children and their families.\n\n\"We are carrying out an internal investigation into the circumstances involved in the incident and we will continue to provide the emergency services with our full support.\"\n\nThe road remains closed between the junction with Andover Road North to School Lane.\n\nHampshire County Council said staff were providing support to the school \"including our education psychology team to help students and staff to deal with any trauma they may experience\".\n• None 'Everything fell on us and everyone was screaming'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fire safety guidance for what materials could be used on Grenfell Tower was \"confusing\", the director of the company which installed the cladding has told an inquiry.\n\nRay Bailey, director of Harley Facades, said there was \"quite widespread\" confusion in the building industry at the time of the refurbishment.\n\nThe cladding has been blamed for fuelling the fire at the tower block.\n\nThe inquiry into the fire, which killed 72 people, is in its second phase.\n\nIt is now looking into how the 24-storey tower in west London came to be covered in such cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016, before the fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating whether the confusion about fire ratings was one of the reasons dangerous cladding and insulation was used to refurbish the tower.\n\nMr Bailey said he had a \"misunderstanding\" about which materials were approved for use on tall buildings.\n\nOne section of the guidance for meeting the government's building regulations stated that materials used on towers above 18m needed to have a Class 0 (zero) rating, though another European classification was equally acceptable.\n\nThe government has always insisted that another section of the guidance required the insulation used in cladding systems to be of \"limited combustibility\" as well.\n\nUnder questioning, Mr Bailey said he had believed at the time that if the materials were Class 0 \"throughout\" this also meant they were also classed as being of \"limited combustibility\" - in other words, less likely to burn.\n\nHowever, Class 0 is only a classification of the way the surface of a product such as cladding resists the spread of flames, not its overall combustibility.\n\nThe insulation panels used on Grenfell Tower were rated Class 0, but were not of limited combustibility. Neither was the cladding, Reynobond PE, which had a core made from flammable plastic.\n\nThe inquiry also heard that the manufacturer of the cladding - Arconic - had tested various configurations of its product in 2013, and found they had achieved poor ratings for fire safety.\n\nThe product performed worse when it was shaped into \"cassette\" boxes, the design used at Grenfell Tower.\n\nAccording to a manager's statement, shown at the inquiry, one test had to be stopped due to a 'flash-over', meaning the cladding could only be rated E, out of a possible A to F.\n\nThe tests were first revealed following a BBC investigation in 2018, which found the company did not pass the results to the body which issues product certificates in the UK, relied on by the building industry.\n\nThe certificate for Reynobond PE, the cladding used at Grenfell, stated it had a class B rating.\n\nArconic sent Mr Bailey this certificate in April 2014, as the materials for Grenfell were being chosen, but made no mention of the poor test results in the covering email.\n\nMr Bailey told the inquiry he was unaware of the tests.\n\nThe role of the manufacturer will be examined when it gives evidence later in the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry continues. A separate government consultation on plans to improve fire safety regulations is due to close on 12 October.", "Shipping a coronavirus vaccine around the world will be the \"largest transport challenge ever\" according to the airline industry.\n\nThe equivalent of 8,000 Boeing 747s will be needed, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.\n\nThere is no Covid-19 vaccine yet, but IATA is already working with airlines, airports, global health bodies and drug firms on a global airlift plan.\n\nThe distribution programme assumes only one dose per person is needed.\n\n\"Safely delivering Covid-19 vaccines will be the mission of the century for the global air cargo industry. But it won't happen without careful advance planning. And the time for that is now,\" said IATA's chief executive Alexandre de Juniac.\n\nWhile airlines have been shifting their focus onto delivering cargo during the severe downturn in passenger flights, shipping vaccines is far more complex.\n\nNot all planes are suitable for delivering vaccines as they need a typical temperature range of between 2 and 8C for transporting drugs. Some vaccines may require freezing temperatures which would exclude more aircraft.\n\n\"We know the procedures well. What we need to do is scale them up to the magnitude that will be required,\" added Glyn Hughes, the industry body's head of cargo.\n\nFlights to certain parts of the world, including some areas of South East Asia, will be critical as they lack vaccine-production capabilities, he added.\n\nDistributing a vaccine across Africa would be \"impossible\" right now IATA says given the lack of cargo capacity, size of the region and the complexities of border crossings.\n\nTransportation will need \"almost military precision\" and will require cool facilities across a network of locations where the vaccine will be stored.\n\nAbout 140 vaccines are in early development, and around two dozen are now being tested on people in clinical trials.\n\nOne is being developed by the University of Oxford that is already in an advanced stage of testing.\n\nIATA has urged governments to begin careful planning now to ensure they are fully prepared once vaccines are approved and available for distribution.\n\nAlong with making sure they are handled and transported at controlled temperatures, security is another issue.\n\n\"Vaccines will be highly valuable commodities. Arrangements must be in place to keep ensure that shipments remain secure from tampering and theft,\" added IATA.", "Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May and ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling have joined voices to call on the current government to change its policy on aviation during the pandemic.\n\nMrs May told the House of Commons the aviation sector was important for jobs and Britain's standing around the world - and that it was a \"shame\" Boris Johnson's government had not moved quickly enough to encourage passengers.\n\nShe said that changes to the country's travel corridor policy had led to \"uncertainty\" and that stopping people flying into the UK would not change the fact \"the virus is here, we will continue to have cases of Covid\".\n\nAirport testing would \"mitigate the risk\" of people coming into the UK with coronavirus and the government should support trials at airports.\n\nMr Grayling told MPs he was speaking out because he felt passionately that the issue must be addressed \"urgently\".\n\nTesting - initially on a trial basis - \"has to be the way forward, this is vitally important for the industry\" and that testing would allow the reopening of transatlantic routes to North America.\n\n\"We have got to do this, and we have got to do it now,\" he said.", "New designs are being trialled that still \"pop\" when they open\n\nThe distinctive Pringles tube is being re-designed after criticism that it’s almost impossible to recycle.\n\nThe current container for the potato-based snack was condemned as a recycler’s nightmare.\n\nIt's a complex construction with a metal base, plastic cap, metal tear-off lid, and foil-lined cardboard sleeve.\n\nThe Recycling Association dubbed it the number one recycling villain – along with the Lucozade Sports bottle.\n\nNow Pringles' maker Kellogg's is trialling a simpler can – although experts say it’s not a full solution.\n\nThe existing version is particularly troublesome because it combines so many different materials\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 90% of the new can is paper. Around 10% is a polyal (plastic) barrier that seals the interior to protect the food against oxygen and moisture which would damage the taste.\n\nBut how about the lid? Well, two options are on trial in some Tesco stores – a recyclable plastic lid and a recyclable paper lid. Kellogg's says these lids will still produce the distinctive \"pop\" associated with the product.\n\nSimon Ellin from the Recycling Association told BBC News: \"The Pringles tube has been a bastion of bad design from the recyclers' point of view.\n\n\"This new version is an improvement, and we broadly welcome it.\n\n\"But, frankly, if they are going to stick to a plastic lid that’ll just add to problems with plastic pollution - people on picnics leave them behind and they find their way into streams and the sea. That plastic lid has got to go.\"\n\nThe Recycling Association said many manufacturers needed to rethink their packaging\n\nKellogg's says its packaging must be airtight, or the food inside will be wasted.\n\nThe new designs have been 12 months in the making. Pringles have a shelf life of 15 months - and three million cans are made across Europe every day.\n\nMr Ellin said the polyal-coated card might be recyclable but the product would need to be tested in recycling mills.\n\nAnd what of the much-criticised Lucozade Sports bottle? Mr Ellin said its unchanged basic design was still a big problem, as machines found it hard to differentiate the plastic in the bottle and the plastic that makes up its outer sleeve.\n\nHe called on the makers, Suntory, to reduce the size of the external sleeve, as it has with the new Ribena bottle.\n\nThe firm said it was planning to do this for the new year.\n\nSuntory said it was working on a new material made entirely from seaweed extract that was 100% edible, biodegradable and compostable.\n\nEnvironmentalists say that trivial changes like these won't solve the world's ecological crises - but on a large scale they'll make a contribution.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says increasing numbers of people in England are seeking tests when they don't have any Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nHe said this \"inappropriate\" use of the system was making it harder for people who needed tests to get one.\n\nIt comes after the boss of England's testing system apologised to people who were struggling to get tests.\n\nThe Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for the government to \"accept there is a problem\" and \"get it fixed\".\n\nIn the Commons, Boris Johnson responded saying \"we are working flat out to address all the issues confronting us today\", adding that demand was \"acute\" and there were too many people requesting tests who did not have symptoms.\n\nUK labs have reached capacity, meaning some people are struggling to book tests or being sent long distances to get one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nBut Mr Hancock gave the example of one school who sent a whole year group for tests, which is \"not appropriate\", he added.\n\nHe also described how some people who were going on holiday had sought to get tests.\n\nThe free tests are available to people with symptoms of coronavirus - a fever, new and continuous cough or a loss or change in sense of taste or smell.\n\nClaire tried to get a test for her son who had a cough and a temperature\n\nClaire Peposhi, who lives in north London, spent more than five hours online trying to order a home test kit for her eight-year-old son.\n\nHe had a cough and a slight temperature and had just returned to school.\n\nShe was offered testing 40 miles away from her home, but neither she nor her husband could get there, or afford the time off work.\n\n\"I have done nothing else this morning other than refresh the page,\" Claire says.\n\n\"I can't be alone in this.\"\n\nClaire says a sudden surge in need for tests \"was always going to happen\".\n\n\"It's not a surprise there are more colds around when kids are going back to school.\"\n\nMr Hancock denied the testing system was failing, pointing out the UK had the biggest testing system per head of population of all major European countries.\n\n\"Right now, we have the highest capacity for testing that we've ever had - increased compared to last week.\n\n\"And that testing means that we can find these cases, and therefore help keep the virus under control with the contact-tracing system as well.\n\n\"However, in the last couple of weeks we have seen an increase in demand, including an increase in demand for people who are not eligible for tests, and people who don't have symptoms,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"We have seen an increase of about 25% of people who are coming forward that don't have symptoms and aren't eligible. They don't have a reason for it.\n\n\"I've even heard stories of people saying, 'I'm going on holiday next week, therefore I'm going to get a test'. No - that is not what the testing system is there for.\n\n\"We've got to be firmer, I'm afraid, with the rules around eligibility for testing.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Department of Health and Social Care how the 25% figure has been calculated, but is still waiting for a response.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"It beggars belief that after weeks of encouraging people to have a test if feeling unwell, ministers are seeking to blame people for simply doing what they were advised.\n\n\"With children returning to school and thousands returning to the office, it's obvious extra testing capacity would be needed.\n\n\"The fact ministers failed to plan is yet more staggering incompetence.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the director of testing in England, Sarah-Jane Marsh said she offered her \"heartfelt\" apologies to people who could not get a test.\n\nA new lab is due to open in Loughborough in about a fortnight, which will increase testing capacity by about a fifth.", "Thousands of students are preparing to return to university after the coronavirus lockdown\n\nUniversities should switch to full online learning only as a last resort in the event of a local coronavirus outbreak, new guidance says.\n\nThe hundreds of thousands of students due to arrive at England's universities in the coming weeks also face a ban on house parties under the \"rule of six\".\n\nStudents must limit socialising, staying within separate \"households\", and be taught in managed groups.\n\nThe mass return of students raises the risk of outbreaks, the guidance says.\n\nThe academics' union said it would be safer to switch most teaching online this term and allow students to return only when virus levels were lower.\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady added: \"Any country with a infection rate anywhere near that of our young people would be removed from the safe travel list.\n\n\"We cannot see why the government is insisting young people move around the country and engage in unnecessary face-to-face interactions.\n\n\"Moving learning online would remove the need for universities to consider teaching outside or opening doors and windows in the winter months as the guidance suggests.\"\n\nBut the Department for Education guidance reiterates the current position that courses will be provided using a blend of face-to-face and online learning, unless an outbreak occurs locally.\n\nWhere social distancing cannot be maintained, teaching sessions will be via technology or moved to more spacious premises.\n\nThe DfE also stressed there was no evidence face-to-face teaching was unsafe, as long as Covid precautions were maintained.\n\nAnd it highlighted government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) advice online-only teaching \"would have an impact on students' mental health.\"\n\n\"Universities have been making a mammoth effort to safely reopen campuses and buildings to students this autumn,\" Universities Minister Michelle Donelan said.\n\n\"And the government has worked closely with them.\"\n\nCampuses have been closed since March and Sage suggests the university return \"could amplify local and national transmission\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Many university students are in the age bracket where we have seen the infection rates rise recently.\n\n\"My message to students is simple, 'Please, for the sake of your education and your parents' and your grandparents' health, wash your hands, cover your face, make space, and don't socially gather in groups of more than six, now and when term starts.\"\n\nHe added the updated guidance for universities on \"how they can operate in a Covid-secure way\" included a \"clear request not to send students home in the event of an outbreak, so as to avoid spreading the virus across the country\".\n\nThe guidance also asks universities to identify \"safer social activities\" for students and create Covid-secure campus bars and students' unions where they can socialise.\n\nAnd the government expects the universities to use incentives to encourage students to comply with social-distancing measures and disciplinary measures for serious breaches.\n\nVice-chancellors' group Universities UK said they had been working very hard to put Covid-secure safety measures in place.\n\nChief executive Alistair Jarvis said: \"Life across society will be different this autumn, with university life no exception, with differences to previous years.\n\n\"However, students can look forward to a high-quality, rewarding and enjoyable experience.\"\n\nAll universities are also required to plan for a tiered response, depending on the level of risk in the area.\n\nThe guidance comes as Exeter University signed a contract for tens of thousands of potential saliva tests this academic year.\n\nThe results will be provided within 24 hours and fed into the NHS Test and Trace system.\n\nSome other universities, including Leicester, Cambridge and East Anglia, are offering voluntary swab tests to staff and students.", "Peloton, which won an early celebrity fanbase for its exercise bikes and remote workout classes, has seen demand surge during the pandemic.\n\nThe firm's global membership base hit 3.1 million at the end of June, more than double a year earlier, as gym closures due to Covid-19 increased demand for at-home workouts.\n\nThe jump in sign-ups lifted revenue to $607m (£474m), up 172% year-on-year.\n\nBut it has also strained supply, prompting lengthy waits for equipment.\n\nThe firm had said it was slashing prices for its existing treadmill and bike, cutting the cost of the bike from $2,245 to $1,895 in an effort to make their products more accessible.\n\nThe move coincided with the launch of new, more expensive, versions of the same pieces of equipment.\n\nBut the firm, which relies on purchases of its machines fitted with touchscreens for most of its sales, said it did not expect delivery delays to improve much before the end of the year.\n\n\"Demand... remains strong and member engagement remains elevated, despite improving weather and the gradual reopening,\" chief executive John Foley said on an analyst call after the firm shared its quarterly results on Thursday.\n\nPeloton said the number of \"connected fitness\" subscribers, who access its remote classes via one of the firm's machines, jumped to more than 1.09 million at the end of June, up 113% in comparison with the same period last year.\n\nThose members are also working out more - averaging more than 24 workouts per month, compared to 12 one year ago.\n\nThe growth propelled the firm to its first quarterly profit of $89m, versus a loss of $47.4m last year.\n\nMr Foley told analysts he was not worried about demand subsiding after the pandemic, given the opportunities for global expansion.\n\nPeloton said it expected the number of subscribers to exceed 2 million over the next 12 months and forecast revenue for its next financial year of at least $3.5bn.\n\nThe results shared by the firm exceeded analyst expectations, prompting shares to rise 7% in after-hours trade.", "Ronald Bell (right) with brother and fellow band member Robert in 2014\n\nRonald Bell, one of the founder members of 1970s and 1980s pop group Kool & the Gang, has died at the age of 68.\n\nHe started the band with his brother Robert \"Kool\" Bell in 1964.\n\nThey became one of the era's most popular and influential soul and funk bands, with hits including Celebration, Ladies' Night and Get Down On It.\n\nTheir music also featured in several films including Saturday Night Fever, for which they received a Grammy in 1978, and Pulp Fiction.\n\nBell died at his home in the US Virgin Islands with his wife by his side, his publicist said. The cause of death was not given.\n\nA self-taught saxophonist and singer, he founded the group in New Jersey with Robert and five schoolfriends - Dennis Thomas, Robert Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown and Ricky Westfield.\n\nThe band released 23 albums across their career\n\nTheir career was split into two distinct halves. In the early 70s, they scored US hits with the foot-stomping funk of songs like Jungle Boogie and Hollywood Swinging. Then, with the addition of vocalist James \"JT\" Taylor in 1979, they morphed into a hit-making R&B band, scoring the biggest commercial success of their career as they reached their 20th anniversary.\n\nAs musical director, Bell co-wrote all of their biggest hits, including the wedding disco classic Celebration.\n\nIt was his \"favourite song\" from the band's extensive back catalogue, he told the Reuters news agency in 2008.\n\n\"I had no clue, you know,\" he said. \"I was clueless, thinking that that was going to be a hit. I had no idea.\n\n\"But after all these years, there are times at the end of the show when I see all of these people singing a song, and after all of an hour and a half, you ask them to jump up and down and they still jump up and down. That's kind of overwhelming for me.\"\n\nThe group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015 for their contribution to the world of entertainment, and were inducted into the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame in 2018.\n\nBell was born and raised in Ohio, and picked up the music bug from his father, a professional boxer who was a close friend of jazz musicians Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.\n\nUnable to afford drums, he and his brother taught themselves to play on makeshift instruments.\n\n\"I used to beat paint cans like bongos, and depending on how much paint was inside, this would determine the tone of the sounds we made,\" he later recalled.\n\nAfter the family moved to New Jersey in his teens, Bell's mother bought him a real set of bongos and he began to teach himself bass guitar, borrowing an instrument from the brother of his future bandmate Robert \"Spike\" Mickens.\n\nThe first incarnation of Kool & The Gang formed in 1964, but they cycled through several names - including Jazziacs, The New Dimensions, The Soul Town Band, the Jazz Birds and Kool & the Flames before settling on their final moniker in 1969.\n\nAlong the way, they combined their love of jazz with the gritty rhythms of street funk, creating a sound that would lead to their success in the 1970s.\n\n\"We used to play a lot of percussion in the streets in the 60s, go to the park and start beating on drums and stuff in the street,\" Bell told Rolling Stone.\n\n\"You had a hard time trying to get us to play R&B,\" he added. \"We were die-hard jazz musicians. We're not stooping to that.\"\n\nRobert (left) and Ronald Bell in the studio in the 1970s\n\nAs the Jazz Birds, they won the Apollo Theater's famed Amateur Night and landed a record deal with a small label called De-Lite Records.\n\nThree singles from their self-titled debut album hit the pop charts, with the instrumental track Kool & The Gang showcasing their raucous, horn-driven sound.\n\nTheir mainstream breakthrough came with 1973's Wild and Peaceful album. Lead single Funky Stuff became their first top 40 hit in the US, followed by Jungle Boogie and Hollywood Swinging, which both reached the top 10.\n\nJungle Boogie went on to become one of their signature songs - used in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and sampled in Madonna's Erotica.\n\nIt was only written after the band's record label, in search of a top 10 single, pressured Kool & The Gang to record a cover of Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango.\n\n\"It would have been a hit,\" Bell later recalled. \"But we decided we were not going to record Soul Makossa - we'll come up with our own 'jungle music', not to be derogatory.\n\n\"We made the song up in the rehearsal, went in and recorded it that night. Jungle Boogie is one take.\"\n\nAs disco rose to prominence, the band struggled to replicate their early success - although they did win a Grammy for Open Sesame, their contribution to the multi-million-selling Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.\n\nThings changed with the addition of Taylor, a former nightclub singer, and producer Eumir Deodato, which led to a cleaner, pop-driven sound and the crossover single Ladies' Night.\n\nThe decision was prompted when the band found themselves on tour with the Jacksons and were told by the promoter that they needed a frontman. Taylor, chosen for his deep baritone \"like Nat King Cole\", was the only singer they auditioned.\n\nUnlike many of the funk bands of the 70s, Kool & The Gang thrived in the 1980s, scoring huge hits with sentimental ballads like Joanna and Cherish, as well as the party anthems Steppin' Out and Get Down On It, which is now their most-streamed song on Spotify.\n\nThe band won an outstanding contribution prize at the 2003 Mobo Awards\n\nPossibly their most enduring hit is Celebration, which was inspired by Bell's Islamic faith.\n\n\"I was reading the scripture about where God called the angels together, and made an announcement that he was going to create this being,\" he told Songwriter Universe.\n\n\"He gathered the angels together and they said, 'We don't know nothin', but we just celebrate you, God - we celebrate and praise you.'\"\n\n\"And I thought, I'm going to write a song about that, [with the line] 'Everyone around the world…Come on!'\n\n\"That's the intent... it was actually written for mankind.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe group found a new generation of fans in the 80s and 90s as their music was sampled in a raft of pop and hip-hop songs.\n\nWhen Public Enemy sampled three separate Kool & The Gang songs for Fear of a Black Planet, Bell voiced his approval.\n\n\"After Public Enemy, I was all in [with hip-hop],\" he told Rolling Stone in 2015. \"The music was all new to me. I sat and listened to Fear of a Black Planet and was thrilled. I thought that was amazing.\n\n\"You can practically hear [drummer] George [Brown] playing that break beat. You can hear our music in the background. You know it was compound and compact, but you can hear Kool & the Gang music in all that hip-hop.\"\n\nThe rise of hip-hop and the departure of Taylor in 1989 effectively ended Kool & The Gang's presence on the charts, but Bell continued to record and tour with the group as a legacy act in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nAt the time of his death, he was working on a solo album called Kool Baby Brotha Band, as well as a series of animations about the band's childhood and career.\n\nIn an interview with Billboard last year, he said he felt grateful to have had a career in music.\n\n\"And for it to be this long,\" he added. \"For me, I'm most grateful for that, to still be relevant since [we were] 19.\"\n\nThe musician is survived by his wife Tia Sinclair Bell and 10 children; as well as his brother Robert and three other siblings. The family will hold a private funeral service, and have asked that fans donate to the children's charity the Boys and Girls Club of America.", "Concerns were raised over social distancing at the Department for Work and Pensions office in Leeds\n\nA government office failed to do enough to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a health and safety inspection found.\n\nWorkers were pictured gathered around a desk at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in Leeds where there have been two confirmed Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found management had failed to ensure social distancing was maintained.\n\nThe DWP said it had taken \"urgent action to rectify all issues identified\" at the Quarry House office.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the majority of DWP employees in Leeds have been working from home but there have still been hundreds of people in the office, located inside a landmark building on the eastern edge of the city centre.\n\nThere has been a recruitment drive at the DWP amid a rise in Universal Credit claimants due to coronavirus, a whistleblower told the BBC.\n\nQuarry House in Leeds is known locally as \"The Kremlin\" because of its imposing architecture\n\nThe whistleblower has been working at home for the DWP but said he was concerned for his health when returning to the building, which is also home to parts of the NHS.\n\nHe said: \"I hear stories about people congregating, not following outlaid guidance. In an office so big it is difficult to monitor 24/7.\n\n\"People I have spoken to are nervous about a return, they and I feel it is not yet safe enough to go back.\n\n\"The office was busy pre-Covid, I don't know where everyone would operate from in normal times let alone in a virus outbreak.\"\n\nThe HSE inspected the office on 27 August after receiving a report of a \"workplace concern\". During the visit photographs were taken, including one of workers standing close together.\n\nThe report compiled following the inspection said: \"You are failing to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of your employees/agency staff at work because you have not implemented necessary measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\"\n\nThe DWP had risk assessed for the office being about 50% full, which the HSE said \"may be ambitious and unrealistic\", leading to a risk of \"congestion\" and making it more difficult to maintain social distancing.\n\nThe BBC has seen leaked messages showing the office has had at least two positive coronavirus cases among staff.\n\nTwo emails have recently been sent to workers saying people had been sent home from the affected floors and deep cleans carried out.\n\nCharles Law, industrial officer with the PCS union, said: \"It's extremely worrying for our members who work for the department, especially if they're expected to stop being at home and come into the workplace.\n\n\"It's shocking that the HSE would do such a damning report on a flagship DWP office and we're extremely concerned for the safety of our members.\"\n\nThe HSE confirmed that following the visit an official letter, known as a Notification of Contravention, was sent to the DWP.\n\nIn this letter, the DWP was warned a fee would need to be paid because of \"material breaches\" of health and safety law.\n\nIt was given a deadline of Tuesday 15 September to confirm action had been taken to remedy the issues highlighted in the report.\n\nIn a statement, a DWP spokesperson said: \"We take the health and safety of staff extremely seriously and have implemented Covid-secure measures across our sites to ensure they comply with government guidelines.\n\n\"We have taken urgent action to rectify all issues identified by the HSE.\"\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.", "Mike Pompeo said the attack on Mr Navalny could \"prove costly for the Russians\"\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says there is a \"substantial chance\" that the suspected poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was ordered by senior officials in Moscow.\n\nMr Pompeo said the US was evaluating how it would respond.\n\nNato and Germany say there is \"proof beyond doubt\" that Mr Navalny was attacked with a Novichok nerve agent.\n\nMr Pompeo's comments contrast with President Donald Trump who has refused to condemn Moscow.\n\nMr Navalny was airlifted to Berlin from Russia after falling ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow last month.\n\nThe 44-year-old was brought out of an induced coma earlier this week with doctors at Berlin's Charité hospital saying he was responding to verbal stimuli but it was \"too early to gauge the potential long-term effects of his severe poisoning\".\n\nMr Pompeo gave his comments in an interview with the conservative US commentator Ben Shapiro, who asked if there would be any ramifications for the Russian government over apparent attacks on its political opponents.\n\nThe secretary of state said the US, along with the EU, had made clear to Russia \"our expectations that they will hold those responsible for this accountable. We'll do our best to come to a conclusion about who was responsible too\".\n\n\"I think people all around the world will see this kind of activity for what it is,\" he added. \"And when they see the effort to poison a dissident, they recognise that there is a substantial chance that this actually came from Russia\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added that \"the world has matured and come to an understanding that this is not how normal countries operate, and this will prove costly for the Russians.\"\n\nMr Pompeo declined to say how the US would respond as \"I don't want to get in front of the president\", but said Washington would play its part to \"reduce the risk that things like this happen again\".\n\nPresident Trump has given no indication of how the US will respond to the poisoning, saying on Saturday: \"I don't know exactly what happened. I think it's tragic, it's terrible, it shouldn't happen. We haven't had any proof yet but I will take a look.\"\n\nNato has called for Russia to disclose its Novichok nerve agent programme to international monitors. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said members were united in condemning the \"horrific\" attack on Mr Navalny.\n\nOn Wednesday, Russia's foreign ministry summoned the German ambassador to protest at what it called \"unfounded accusations and ultimatums against Russia\" and accused Berlin of using the Navalny case \"as a pretext to discredit our country\".\n\nThe German ambassador was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry over the Navalny case\n\nMr Navalny is an anti-corruption campaigner who has long been the most prominent face of opposition to President Vladimir Putin in Russia.\n\nHis supporters believe his tea was spiked at Tomsk airport on 20 August. He became ill during the flight, and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk so he could be taken to hospital. Russian officials were persuaded to allow him to be airlifted to Germany two days later.\n\nA nerve agent from the Novichok group identified by Germany in the Navalny case was also used to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, in England. They both survived but a local woman, Dawn Sturgess, died after coming into contact with the poison.\n\nBritain accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out that attack in Salisbury. As part of a co-ordinated response, 20 countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies. Russia denied any involvement.", "The UK government should consider a targeted extension of its furlough scheme, MPs have said.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis risks mass long-term unemployment and viable firms could go under without support, the Treasury Select Committee has warned.\n\nHowever, a blanket retention of the scheme would not be good value for money, it added.\n\nThe Treasury said it would \"continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment.\"\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is due to end on 31 October. Under it, workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first, this was all paid for by the government. But firms had to start making a contribution to wages in September as the scheme began to wind down.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said that extending furlough past October would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak also ruled out an extension, instead saying that firms will be given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still in employment at the end of January.\n\nBut the committee's chairman, Mel Stride, said the chancellor \"should carefully consider targeted extensions\" to the scheme.\n\n\"The key will be assisting those businesses who, with additional support, can come through the crisis as sustainable enterprises, rather than focusing on those that will unfortunately just not be viable in the changed post-crisis economy.\"\n\nIn the second report of its inquiry into the economic impact of Covid-19, the committee also warned that the pandemic risked widening the gender pay gap due to the differences in hours of paid work in lockdown - especially if work patterns are changed permanently.\n\nThe MPs also said people should be able to reskill, and that small businesses should be able to fully participate in the government's Kickstart Scheme, which aims to create work placements for young people on universal credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) trade body said with the furlough scheme winding down, \"policymakers will need to look closely at measures to stem mass unemployment, including a successor scheme.\"\n\nFSB national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"The priority should be protecting viable small businesses - and all the jobs they provide - that have been disproportionately [hit] by the coronavirus crisis, including those caught by local lockdowns, subject to continued national restrictions, or with staff that have directly suffered because of Covid.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julie changed jobs before lockdown - then became unemployed and ineligible for the furlough scheme\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which campaigns on living standards, said that \"extending support for the hardest-hit sectors of the economy will be essential to limit the rise in unemployment Britain faces in the months ahead.\"\n\nTorsten Bell, the think tank's chief executive, said: \"This authoritative account of the economic impact of coronavirus should be required reading for Treasury officials planning the Autumn Budget against the highly uncertain backdrop of rising coronavirus case numbers.\n\n\"The chancellor will need to reconsider his plans to swiftly phase out support given the painful reality that the economic crisis is here to stay.\"\n\nThis week leading business groups warned that the UK risks a second wave of job cuts and a slower economic recovery if it does not extend its furlough scheme.\n\nGermany, Belgium, Australia and France have all decided to extend or launch new wage support schemes into next year.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown told the BBC that the UK should emulate other countries' short-term working schemes.\n\nMr Brown said the end of the furlough scheme on 31 October was a \"cliff-edge\" that could trigger \"a tsunami of unemployment\".\n\n\"The government's got to change course here,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nShort-term working schemes would allow firms to reduce employees' working hours while keeping them in jobs, with the state topping up their salaries.\n\n\"You have got to send a signal that unemployment matters,\" he said. \"We don't want to destroy any more capacity and skills in the economy.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said that by the time the UK scheme closes it will have helped to pay for 9.6 million jobs.\n\n\"We will continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're helping employees get back to work, where they want to be, through a £1,000 retention bonus.\n\n\"And we are creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart Scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, and supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate has been at 3.9% since the lockdown was introduced.\n\nBut the Bank of England expects that rate to double to 7.5% by the end of the year when the government-funded support schemes come to an end.\n\nThousands of job cuts have already been announced by firm such as Rolls-Royce, Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, Pizza Express, British Airways and BP.", "British Airways owner IAG is cutting more flights over the next three months as it adjusts to the continuing collapse in demand for air travel.\n\nIAG, which also runs Aer Lingus and Iberia, said quarantine restrictions meant capacity this autumn would be 60% below 2019 levels.\n\nThe group said it had seen a \"delayed recovery\", and did not expect business to return to 2019 levels until 2023.\n\nIAG also said BA had reached the outline of a jobs agreement with Unite.\n\nThe union has been in a bitter dispute with BA over redundancies and pay cuts for cabin crew. BA has already reached a separate deal with pilots.\n\nThe airline, which is aiming to shed up to 13,000 jobs, said that by the end of August some 8,236 employees had left the business, \"mostly as a result of voluntary redundancy\".\n\nUnite stressed its cabin crew members still needed to approve the plan through a ballot and that negotiations remained ongoing.\n\n\"Unless and until Unite members agree to all and any proposals, no settlement has been reached and it is unhelpful and misleading for British Airways to suggest otherwise,\" said assistant general secretary Howard Beckett.\n\nIAG's decision to cut more flights than planned follows its previous forecast of a 46% reduction for the October-to-December period compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nIt said it had seen an \"almost complete cessation of new booking activity\" in April and May due to the pandemic, but the easing of country lockdowns boosted ticket sales in June.\n\nHowever, since July there had been an \"overall levelling off in bookings\" as the UK and other European countries re-imposed quarantine requirements for travellers returning from countries such as Spain.\n\nOn Tuesday, EasyJet revealed it will have flown \"slightly less\" than the 40% of pre-coronavirus pandemic capacity it previously said it would operate between July and September following the government's decision to impose quarantine restrictions for seven Greek islands.\n\nAirlines are among the firms hardest hit by the impact of the pandemic. British Airways plans to cut up to 13,000 jobs due to the crisis, while EasyJet and Virgin Atlantic are slashing 4,500 roles each.\n\nOperators say the UK's travel quarantine policy - which requires visitors to high risk countries to isolate on their return - is crushing demand and want the government to back testing at airports instead.\n\nUK government sources have indicated that they are looking at system where the two tests would be eight days apart to further minimise the risk of \"false negative\" results.\n\nThey are yet to approve the idea, however, while the prime minister last week warned testing at airports could give a \"false sense of security\".\n\nIn a joint letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday, Airlines UK, whose members include BA, Virgin, Ryanair and EasyJet, called for an extensions of the jobs furlough scheme and air passenger duty waiver.\n\n\"Our industry is in crisis,\" the letter said. \"In sum, we ask you to act urgently to implement a programme of recovery for our sector.\"\n\nIAG also announced on Thursday that it was tapping shareholders for €2.7bn (£2.5bn) to help shore up its finances.\n\nThe company said the money would be used to reduce debt and help it withstand a prolonged downturn in travel.\n\nUnder the fundraising, existing investors will buy new shares at a deeply discounted price - 36% below the closing price on Wednesday.\n\nThe group's largest shareholder, Qatar Airways, which has a 25.1% holding, has said it will buy its full entitlement.\n\nDetails of the rights issue, which was announced in July, come two days after new chief executive Luis Gallego took over from long-time boss Willie Walsh.", "The infection rate in Leeds has been rising over the last few weeks, officials said\n\nLeeds has been added to Public Health England's list as an \"area of concern\" following a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe latest seven-day infection rate in the city has risen to 32.5 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe city council said being on the list did not mean more restrictions would be brought in immediately.\n\nHowever, it did mean increased monitoring of cases and potential additional steps if the infection rate did not start to fall.\n\nCouncil leader Judith Blake said: \"We have been working tirelessly with our partners and communities, doing everything within our power to keep the spread of this virus under control and to ensure Leeds stays open.\n\n\"We completely understand that these past six months have put a tremendous strain on everyone in Leeds and that being able to get out, socialise and enjoy ourselves has provided a massive lift.\n\n\"But it is absolutely crucial that if we want to continue to do that, we all do it sensibly and responsibly and follow the latest guidance which is there to keep us all safe,\" she added.\n\nThe council said many of the cases may be linked to social interaction and leisure activities.\n\nThe spread was \"broad and changeable across wards\", it said, with increasing numbers detected in young people aged 18-34.\n\nExtra Covid-19 restrictions imposed on some other parts of West Yorkshire are being eased.\n\nTattoo artist Nico Pantu said his business had the equipment needed to keep customers safe\n\nLocal businesses expressed concern over the impact of a potential local lockdown in Leeds.\n\nNico Pantu, owner of Grimm Tattoo Studio, said: \"If Leeds is to go back into lockdown, for us it could be catastrophic.\n\n\"Another lockdown would absolutely affect the whole city and most likely leave lasting damage to Leeds and its wide range of independent businesses.\"\n\nBar owner Stuart Dixon said it took a month for business to build back up after pubs reopened\n\nStuart Dixon, who owns the Doghouse Bar and 212 Cafe Bar, said: \"My concern is whether it will frighten people off again and ruin footfall for the bars, when we've literally just got back them to a position where we're managing.\n\n\"My worry would be if there's a local lockdown, are people going to not go out? That will destroy us. And will there be extra support from the government and council? Probably not.\n\n\"It's not their fault but if we have to keep shutting over the next year or so, I'm going to get the point where I'm just not going bother anymore because we'll just accumulate debt and then you end up just working to pay off debt.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire is a densely populated metropolitan county and some parts of it have been subject to restrictions because of coronavirus for a few weeks already.\n\nLeeds has escaped these local rules because infection rates weren't high but that's changed.\n\nThe latest seven-day infection rate shows the city has 29.4 cases per 100,000 people, with 44 new cases on Wednesday, according to council figures.\n\nThe local authority expected it to be added to Public Health England's weekly watchlist of areas of concern.\n\nThis doesn't mean any further restrictions at this stage but they could be imminent if infection rates continue to rise.\n\nLeeds, unlike neighbouring Bradford, has avoided stricter measures because its infection rates were much lower.\n\nHowever, there were 261 cases in the week up until 30 August, up from 167 in the week up until 23 August.\n\nAs an area of concern, Leeds would be subject to increased monitoring and could face additional measures if infection rates do not fall.\n\nOfficers issued seven fines to organisers of illegal events over the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nProf Robert West, from University College London's Institute of Epidemiology, was asked whether issues in the city were \"inevitable\" following local outbreaks across West Yorkshire.\n\nHe said: \"The problem is that this remains a very infectious virus and what that means is that if you're near someone, with someone who has it, there's a good chance you'll get it.\"\n\nLast month, the council said it was introducing \"a series of targeted preventative steps\" following a cluster of cases in parts of Leeds.\n\nHowever the most recent rise is not isolated to specific parts of the city.\n\nA range of measures are now to be introduced including additional mobile testing units, door knocking in areas of high prevalence, and officials will work with bars, venues and restaurants to make sure they follow Test and Trace guidelines.\n\nThe authority will also work with West Yorkshire Police and community organisations to discourage gatherings and house parties, as well as working with schools, colleges and universities to try and ensure a safe return to education.\n\nPeople have been urged to follow guidance on social distancing, hand-washing, and wearing face masks while those with symptoms of the virus have been told to stay at home.\n\nThe council's public health director Victoria Eaton said: \"We've seen a tremendous amount of collective determination from people in Leeds to keep their city and each other safe through this crisis.\"\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.", "Early results from small trials on a Russian vaccine against Covid-19 have found it is safe and there were no serious side-effects in people.\n\n“Encouraging” and “so far so good” are some of the reactions from scientists in the UK – but there is still, clearly, a long way to go.\n\nTwo small trials, with 38 people in each, were carried out in two hospitals in Russia.\n\nAlthough the vaccine showed an antibody response in all participants in phase 2 (40 people), this doesn’t necessarily mean it would protect them from the virus.\n\nThat still hasn’t been established yet.\n\nFrom these results, we can tell that the vaccine - named Sputnik V - appeared to be safe in healthy people between the age of 18 and 60 for 42 days, because that was how long the study lasted.\n\nBut what about older people and those with underlying health conditions who are most at risk of Covid-19 – how safe is it for them and over a longer period of time?\n\nThis can only be answered after much larger, long-term randomised trials where the people taking part don’t know if they are receiving the vaccine or a dummy injection.\n\nThese will also tell scientists how effective the vaccine really is among a much wider population.\n\nThere have also been calls for openness and transparency. Of the many vaccines currently being trialled around the world, some will work better than others in certain situations and in certain groups of people, perhaps.\n\nSo knowing exactly how well they work and for whom is paramount – it is unlikely that one vaccine will be suitable for everyone.", "Thousands of videos, graphics and other images have been collected together to form a growing propaganda archive\n\nOne of the largest collections of online material belonging to the group calling itself Islamic State has been discovered by researchers at the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD).\n\nThe digital library contains more than 90,000 items and has an estimated 10,000 unique visitors a month.\n\nExperts say it provides a way to continually replenish extremist content on the net.\n\nBut taking it down is difficult because the data is not stored in one place.\n\nAnd despite counter-terrorism authorities in Britain and the US having been alerted to this growing repository, it continues to grow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe discovery came after the death of the prominent IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in October 2019.\n\nAt the time, many social media posts supporting the organisation contained a short link.\n\nIt led researchers to documents and videos in nine different languages.\n\nThey included details of attacks, including those on Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017, in London on 7 July 2005 and in the US on 11 September 2001.\n\n\"[There's] everything you need to know to plan and carry out an attack,\" said ISD deputy director Moustafa Ayad, who discovered the archive.\n\n\"Things that teach you how to be a better terrorist essentially.\"\n\nThis graphic relate to the London bombings in July 2005\n\nThe ISD named the library the Caliphate Cache.\n\nFor months the institute's researchers have studied how it evolves, how it is being administered and who is visiting it.\n\nThe data is spread across a decentralised system, rather than a single computer server.\n\nAnyone can share the content across the web, via servers based at multiple locations.\n\nAnd this hampers any effort to take it offline.\n\nBut as long as the Caliphate Cache remains live, it aids IS by providing a means to continuously seed out content.\n\nThe material is added to social-media comments pages and spread via bot accounts.\n\nAnother technique has been to target Twitter accounts linked to celebrities and athletes.\n\nFor example, IS hijacked an account belonging to a fan of the pop singer Justin Bieber and used it to promote material from the cache.\n\nThis image was posted within a tweet from a compromised Justin Bieber fan account\n\nIn another case, the group managed to fool the English rugby team's account into following one of its own by masquerading as a supporter.\n\n\"They understand how not just to game platforms, they understand the power of the content that is contained within the Caliphate Cache,\" Mr Ayad said.\n\nNot all the cache's content is violent.\n\nVisitors also encounter philosophies of IS, religious texts and propagandised versions of what an IS lifestyle looks like.\n\nThe researchers say this includes material runaway brides such as Shamima Begum would have seen.\n\nMost of those drawn to the Caliphate Cache are 18- to 24-year-old males in the Arab world, with 40% of the traffic coming from social media, largely via YouTube.\n\nThe ISD has also discovered the Caliphate Cache is not unique.\n\nThere are smaller repositories belonging to other extremist groups, many of which are also using decentralised platforms.\n\nThe library of material available for IS accounts to draw on continues to grow\n\n\"The attraction for jihadists of these platforms is that the developers of these decentralised platforms have no way of acting against content that is stored on user-operated servers or content that's shared across a dispersed network of users, \" BBC Monitoring senior jihadi specialist Mina Al-Lami said.\n\n\"It's really all about privacy, freedom and encryption.\n\nThe researchers have alerted the US Attorney's Office for Eastern District of New York, which prosecutes counter-terrorism cases, as well as the Met Police.\n\nThe authorities in New York have not commented.\n\nBut the Met acknowledged receiving the referral and said it was being assessed by specialist officers.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta was knocked out of the US Open in three sets by Sorana Cirstea.\n\nNinth seed Konta led by a set and a break but the Romanian world number 77 fought back to win 2-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 at Flushing Meadows.\n\nIt is a second early exit in a Grand Slam in 2020 for 29-year-old Konta, who lost in the first round of the Australian Open in January.\n\n\"My opponent played better than me, that's really about it,\" said Konta.\n\n\"She obviously raised her level and then we were battling toe-to-toe. She was better in the end.\n\n\"I did the best that I could. I really fought hard.\"\n• None Follow radio and text updates from day four\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta, a quarter-finalist in 2019 at Flushing Meadows, had won their two previous meetings, including a controversial Fed Cup rubber in 2017 when Romania captain Ilie Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and Great Britain captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nKonta was visibly upset and the umpire halted the match for 25 minutes, with Cirstea later claiming the Briton had \"overreacted\".\n\nThere was no hint of controversy about their meeting in New York with Konta seemingly set for a routine win as she broke Cirstea's serve three times in the first set and then again to lead 2-1 in the second set.\n\nHowever, Cirstea broke back immediately and upped her level to turn the match around.\n\nKonta had break points at 4-4 and 5-5 in the second set but could not convert and was taken to a tie-break.\n\nCirstea dominated it and although Konta saved three set points, Cirstea levelled the match with an ace on her fourth opportunity.\n\nPoorly executed drop shots were an issue for Konta in the final set, and one particularly feeble effort helped Cirstea get the first break for 2-1.\n\nKonta levelled immediately but was now routinely having to fight to hold her own service games, winning only 34% of points on her second serve during the match.\n\nShe fought back from 0-30 down to go 3-2 up but a gripping seventh game - which lasted more than 10 minutes - proved pivotal, Cirstea converting her sixth break point by superbly picking up a volley.\n\nKonta had three break-back points in the next game but they were quickly snuffed out as Cirstea held for 5-3. Excellent serving allowed the Briton to stave off two match points in her next service game, but Cirstea was not fazed as she coolly sealed victory with an ace in two hours and 49 minutes.\n\nJohanna Konta does not tend to dwell on missed opportunities, but there will be plenty of frustration this match slipped away from such a promising position.\n\nMuch of that frustration can be directed at Sorana Cirstea for playing so well.\n\nThe Romanian served superbly, and from the middle of the second set onwards was able to sustain a level far above her ranking.\n\nKonta was unable to throw her off course, which will give new coach Thomas Hogstedt some food for thought as they head on to the clay.\n\nJamie Murray and fellow Briton Neal Skupski made an impressive start to their men's doubles campaign, beating fourth seeds Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek 6-3 7-5.\n\nBriton Dom Inglot and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi lost to Americans Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow with all three sets decided by tie-breaks.\n\nJonny O'Mara and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador were beaten in three sets by Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.", "A quadcopter has been recorded releasing a payload of little bags, which Israeli police suspect contained \"a dangerous drug\", over Tel Aviv.\n\nIt followed activists who seek to legalise the drug in Israel promising free cannabis from the air on social media.\n\nWhile medical use of cannabis is permitted in the country, recreational use remains illegal.", "The star is trying to have her father removed as her legal guardian.\n\nBritney Spears has welcomed public scrutiny of the legal arrangement that has controlled various aspects her life and finances for more than a decade.\n\nA court-appointed guardian has been in charge of her affairs since her public breakdown in 2008. Her father Jamie has filled the role for most of that time.\n\nNow, the star is trying to remove him from power, and has argued the public has a right to know what is happening.\n\n\"The world is watching,\" said her lawyer in a court filing on Thursday.\n\nSpears' comments came in response to a motion from her father, who wanted to seal a recent filing in the case.\n\nThe star is \"vehemently opposed to this effort by her father to keep her legal struggle hidden away in the closet as a family secret\", said her lawyer Samuel Ingham III in the court documents.\n\nSpears' teams also appeared to endorse the #FreeBritney movement, which argues the star is being held against her will by people who stand to gain financially from her situation.\n\nIts supporters frequently protest outside court hearings, and the campaign has won support from celebrities including Cher, Miley Cyrus and actress Ariel Winter - who herself won emancipation from her mother as a teenager.\n\n\"At this point in her life when she is trying to regain some measure of personal autonomy, Britney welcomes and appreciates the informed support of her many fans,\" wrote Ingham.\n\nFans say Britney is being held hostage by her family, a claim the family denies\n\nJamie Spears has previously called the fan-led #FreeBritney movement \"a joke\" and characterised its supporters as \"conspiracy theorists\".\n\n\"I have to report every nickel and dime spent to the court every year. How the hell would I steal something?\" he said to the New York Post last year.\n\nBut Ingham challenged that idea in his latest court filing\n\n\"Britney's conservatorship has attracted an unprecedented level of scrutiny from mainstream media and social media alike,\" said the court papers.\n\n\"Far from being a conspiracy theory or a 'joke' as James reportedly told the media, in large part this scrutiny is a reasonable and even predictable result of James' aggressive use of the sealing procedure over the years to minimise the amount of meaningful information made available to the public.\"\n\nMr Spears and his lawyers have routinely sought to have legal filings sealed from the public and hearings held behind closed doors, arguing that the case involves private medical information, details about Spears' children and trade secrets that should be protected. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny has routinely approved their requests.\n\nIngham argued on Thursday that the strategy might have had \"merits\" years ago, when the pop musician was trying to restart her career, but that the situation has changed.\n\n\"The sealing motion is supposedly being brought by her father to 'protect' Britney's interests, but she is adamantly opposed to it,\" he wrote.\n\nSpears has been subject to a conservatorship since 2008, when she was twice admitted to a psychiatric ward.\n\nThe arrangement is usually reserved for people with a diminished capacity to make decisions for themselves, but they rarely last this long.\n\nIn a filing earlier this week, the 38-year-old indicated that she was happy for the conservatorship to continue - calling it \"voluntary\" - but she no longer wants her father to be in charge of her affairs.\n\nSpears has not performed live since 2018, and cancelled a planned Vegas residency in 2019\n\nJamie Spears and lawyer Andrew M Wallet were Britney's co-conservators from 2008 until the latter stepped down in 2019.\n\nMr Spears temporarily stepped down last year, citing health concerns, but retained control of her finances.\n\nJodi Montgomery then became conservator of Britney's personal affairs. In legal papers lodged last month, Britney said she wanted Montgomery to stay in the role and strongly objected to her father returning.\n\nIn a new filing on Wednesday, she added that she wants a wealth-management company called the Bessemer Trust, to oversee her $57.4 million (£42.5 million) fortune - a move that would push her father out entirely.\n\nHer father has requested that Mr Wallet be reinstated as conservator, and that documents relating to that request remain sealed. Spears has opposed both motions.\n\nHer lawyer also argued that the moment her father obtained the power to handle Spears' affairs, he \"surrendered a large measure of privacy as to the manner in which he exercises that power\".\n\n\"Transparency is an essential component in order for this court to earn and retain the public's confidence with respect to protective proceedings like this one,\" he wrote.\n\n\"In this case, it is not an exaggeration to say that the whole world is watching.\"\n\nA hearing on the conservatorship is scheduled for October. Last month, Judge Brenda Penny also extended the current version of the conservatorship until 1 February, 2021, in accordance with Spears' wishes.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Grocery chain the Co-op is opening 50 new stores and creating 1,000 new jobs this year.\n\nThe new roles come on top of the 1,000 posts it added during lockdown as demand from shoppers increased.\n\nThe extra jobs announced today will be spread across the new shops and 15 stores that are being enlarged.\n\nThe Co-op said its research had found that 70% of adults have relied on their local convenience store for food and other goods in recent months\n\nThe retailer also said that it had expanded its online shop.\n\nThe Co-op currently employs 55,000 workers across the UK and has 2,600 stores. The new stores will open in areas such as Wrexham, London, Poole, Leeds and Guildford.\n\nMeanwhile up to 12 new Co-op franchise stores are also set to launch this year, including at Oxford Brookes University and Stirling University, with more university locations planned for 2021.\n\n\"We continually look for new locations, sites which are definitively convenient in their community,\" said David Roberts, managing director of Co-op Property.\n\nHe said more than 100 of the Co-op's outlets would receive major makeovers as part of a £130m investment programme.\n\nThe chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, James Lowman, said: \"This commitment to investing in stores in the coming months is testament to the importance of the convenience sector.\"\n\nThe grocery sector has seen a surge in demand during the pandemic, and the big supermarket chains have also been creating jobs.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would create 16,000 permanent jobs after the lockdown led to \"exceptional growth\" in its online business.\n\nWhile the grocery sector has done well, other parts of the economy have been hit hard by the pandemic.\n\nIt was announced on Friday that 540 workers at Nationwide Accident Repair Services have lost their jobs after the struggling business was sold to RunMyCar in a pre-packaged administration.\n\nAs part of the deal 30 of Nationwide's sites have been shut.\n\nFounded in 1993 in Witney, Oxfordshire, the business operated 115 garages across the country, as well as a mobile fleet of repair vans, servicing the accident repair market for UK insurers.\n\nBut the company suffered a substantial decline in business during lockdown as millions of motorists stayed off the road.\n\n\"As with many other businesses, the group had to weather major financial fallout due to the economic impact of Covid-19, which meant that trading volumes were significantly reduced,\" said Rob Lewis, joint administrator at PwC.\n\n\"Against that backdrop, the sale announced today reflects a significant positive outcome for the business, and we are especially pleased to have safeguarded 2,350 roles including apprentices, mechanics and technicians.\n\n\"Sadly we have had to make 540 staff redundant.\"", "A man has been sentenced for filming a naked woman in a hotel room while she was unconscious, following her five-year campaign for justice.\n\nChristopher Killick, 40, recorded a 62-second clip of Emily Hunt in an east London hotel in 2015.\n\nProsecutors repeatedly told Ms Hunt what he did was not illegal, until a Court of Appeal hearing in January.\n\nKillick, who previously pleaded guilty to voyeurism, was given a 30-month community order and fined £2,000.\n\nAt a Stratford Magistrates' Court hearing, he was also ordered to pay Ms Hunt £5,000 in compensation and put on the sexual offenders register for five years.", "The paddle steamer was badly damaged in Thursday's crash\n\nMore than 130 people were returned to the mainland on a late-night ferry after the Waverley's collision with Brodick Pier in Arran.\n\nMore than 200 passengers and 26 crew were onboard the paddle steamer when it crashed into the pier as it arrived at Brodick on Thursday evening.\n\nThe coastguard said 24 passengers were injured in the crash, with some airlifted to hospital on the mainland.\n\nThe boat's operators confirmed its sailing season is now over.\n\nThe Waverley set sail for the first time in two years less than a fortnight ago, an event which was itself delayed due to an \"unexpected technical and administration issue\".\n\nThe boat, described as the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, had been due to continue sailing until 12 September.\n\nWaverley Excursion, the company that owns and operates the paddle steamer, said on its website: \"[The] Waverley made heavy contact while berthing at Brodick Pier on Thursday 3rd September and will be unable to undertake any further sailings this season.\n\n\"An investigation into the incident is ongoing.\"\n\nThis was the scene on the boat moments after it struck the pier\n\nPolice, paramedics, coastguard and rescue helicopters were called to the pier when the alarm was raised at 17.15.\n\nEyewitnesses reported seeing people falling over when the boat struck the pier earlier in the day.\n\nRita McLeod, who was waiting to board the Waverley, said she saw people with head injuries, and heard of one who required an air ambulance.\n\n\"We were actually queued up waiting to get in when it crashed,\" she said.\n\n\"It came in bow first. It came in far too fast. We saw a lot of people falling and there were people taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We saw a lot of people, pretty badly shaken, coming off.\"\n\nThe Caledonian Isles ferry was sent to pick up stranded passengers\n\nPassengers who had been waiting to board the paddle steamer had feared that they might have to spend the night at the terminal.\n\nBut Calmac's Caledonian Isles ferry was sent to pick them up late on Thursday night following discussions between Transport Scotland and the Marine and Coastguard Agency\n\nRobbie Drummond, managing director of CalMac, said: \"We were more than happy to help return passengers to the mainland and worked closely with agencies including Waverley Excursions, who transported everyone onwards once they landed in Ardrossan.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would like to extend my deep gratitude to the crew on the Caledonian Isles and at Brodick and Ardrossan\"", "The Prime Minister visited an HS2 construction site on Friday\n\nConstruction work on HS2 officially begins on Friday, with companies behind the controversial high-speed rail project expecting to create 22,000 jobs in the next few years.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said HS2 would \"fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity\".\n\nHe endorsed the rail link in February, with formal government approval granted in April despite lockdown.\n\nBut critics said HS2 will also cost jobs, and vowed to continue protesting.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce passenger overcrowding and help rebalance the UK's economy through investment in transport links outside London.\n\nHS2 Ltd chief executive Mark Thurston said the reality of high-speed journeys between Britain's biggest cities had moved a step closer.\n\nWhen the project was mooted in 2009, it was expected to cost an estimated £37.5bn and when the official price tag was set out in the 2015 Budget it came in at just under £56bn.\n\nBut an official government report has since warned that it could cost more than £100bn and be up to five years behind schedule.\n\nSome critics of HS2 describe it as a \"vanity project\" and say the money would be better spent on better connections between different parts of northern England. Others, such as the Stop HS2 pressure group, say it will cause considerable environmental damage.\n\nThe prime minister said HS2 was at the heart of government plans to \"build back better\" and would form \"the spine of our country's transport network\".\n\n\"But HS2's transformational potential goes even further,\" he added. \"By creating hundreds of apprenticeships and thousands of skilled jobs, HS2 will fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity across this country for years to come.\"\n\nHS2's main works contractor for the West Midlands, the Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture, has said it expects to be one of the biggest recruiters in the West Midlands over the next two years.\n\nUp to 7,000 skilled jobs would be required to complete its section of the HS2 route, it said, with women and under-25s the core focus for recruitment and skills investment.\n\nHS2 Ltd's Mr Thurston said the railway would be \"transformative\" for the UK.\n\n\"With the start of construction, the reality of high speed journeys joining up Britain's biggest cities in the North and Midlands and using that connectivity to help level up the country has just moved a step closer,\" he added.\n\nSpecial tunnelling machines will be needed for sections of the line\n\nCampaign group Stop HS2 said Boris Johnson and others who hail the creation of 22,000 jobs are \"rather less keen to mention that HS2 is projected to permanently displace almost that many jobs\".\n\nStop HS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin said: \"Trying to spin HS2 as a job creation scheme is beyond desperate. Creating 22,000 jobs works out at almost £2m just to create a single job.\"\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Breakfast programme, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps disputed those figures.\n\n\"I can't see how there's an argument that making it easier to get about this country is somehow going to destroy jobs, quite the opposite in fact. It's clearly going to make the economy level up\", he said.\n\n\"Find those left behind areas, that have found themselves too disconnected before and join it together.\"\n\nStop HS2 chairwoman Penny Gaines called the project \"environmentally destructive\" to wildlife: \"This is why there are currently hundreds of activists camped out along the HS2 route. We don't expect them to go away any time soon.\"\n\nHowever, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP), which fights for investment in the regional economy, said such major infrastructure projects are transformative and called for the planned extensions of HS2 to be started as soon as possible.\n\n\"Increasing capacity on the North's rail network and better connecting our towns and cities will be vital in the economic regeneration of the Northern Powerhouse - both now and long in the future,\" said Henri Murison, director of the NPP.\n\nThis is an important symbolic move for HS2, but in the real world it changes very little.\n\nWork preparing for the new line - demolishing buildings and clearing sites for example - has already been going on for the past three years. And in some areas, construction work has also begun.\n\nBut the arguments over whether or not the railway should actually be built are continuing to rage.\n\nThe government has long insisted that it will help re-balance the country's economy, by promoting investment outside London. It now says the jobs created by the scheme will support the post-Covid recovery.\n\nBut opponents claim that lockdown has undermined the case for HS2 - by showing how easily people can work remotely, and how little business travel is really needed.\n\nSame dispute, new arguments. But now shovels are - officially - in the ground.\n\nThe government has also defended itself against criticism that the new line will no longer be needed, as people travel less as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Shapps acknowledged more people are working at home, but said the government was looking at the country's long term transport needs:\n\n\"We're not building this for what happens over the next couple of years or even the next 10 years, whilst we're building it. We're building this, as with the west coast and the east coast main lines, for 150 years and still going strong.\n\n\"I think it actually shows a lot of faith in the future of this country,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland pulled off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 at the Ageas Bowl.\n\nChasing 163, Australia were cruising to victory, needing just 39 from 38 balls with nine wickets remaining.\n\nBut the dismissal of Steve Smith, one of two wickets to fall in Adil Rashid's final over, sparked a collapse of 4-9 in 14 deliveries.\n\nAshton Agar was run out off the final ball of the penultimate over, leaving the tourists needing 15 from the final six balls.\n\nMarcus Stoinis hit a six from the second delivery of Tom Curran's over but still needed five from the final ball. Curran perfectly executed a yorker to see England take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.\n\nEngland had earlier been grateful for 66 from Dawid Malan and 44 from Jos Buttler in their underwhelming 162-7.\n\nThe second match at the same ground is on Sunday, live on BBC One from 13:50 BST.\n• None Relive thrilling finish and watch the best moments\n\nEngland's bowling improved significantly from the beginning of the Australia innings but they were only able to take victory thanks to an implosion by the tourists.\n\nOpener David Warner and Aaron Finch plundered the bowling to begin with. putting on 98 as Mark Wood and Jofra Archer bowled too short - the batsmen repeatedly hitting fours square off the back foot.\n\nEven when Finch hit Archer to long-off to fall for 46, Smith looked comfortable. He pulled his first ball - a 94mph delivery from Wood - for four.\n\nWhat followed was remarkable. Smith top-edged a sweep off Rashid when on 18 and Maxwell hit the final ball of the leg-spinner's spell to extra cover - an error which proved crucial.\n\nWarner departed for 56 two balls later - bowled off his pads by Archer - and in the following over Alex Carey was bowled by a fast delivery from Wood.\n\nThe wickets fell and runs dried up. There was not a boundary hit after a Smith six in the 14th over until Stoinis' big hit over extra cover with five balls left.\n\nStoinis had attempted to play himself in, backing himself to hit the required runs from the final over. He cleared the ropes once but also missed two other deliveries trying to power the ball away. Curran held his nerve where the Australia all-rounder did not.\n\nThis was Australia's first competitive match for almost six months because of the coronavirus pandemic, one mitigating factor.\n\nEngland's total did not look enough at halfway, never mind when Warner and Finch were were seemingly racing to victory.\n\nButtler had given England a quick start, seven boundaries coming in his 29-ball knock, including two straight sixes off spinner Ashton Agar in a second over that went for 16 runs.\n\nEngland were 64-1 when Buttler hit leg-spinner Adam Zampa to deep mid-wicket and afterwards had a collapse of their own. Eoin Morgan's side lost 5-60 as canny Australia bowling, largely spin and slower balls, proved effective.\n\nIt was left to Malan, retained in his position at number three, to muster a testing score for the hosts.\n\nAs wickets fell around him he was calm. He batted with relative composure until launching an attack against Zampa in the 18th over. He hit two sixes - one over mid-wicket and one over long-off - in an over that cost 22 and boosted England's failing innings.\n\nIt was Malan's eighth score of 50 or more in 14 T20 internationals.\n\nEngland still have players to come back - Jason Roy and Ben Stokes were missing from this game - but Malan, who made a match-winning knock in the second T20 against Pakistan, is fast making himself undroppable.\n\n'Our bowlers bailed us out' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"We didn't bat particularly well tonight - Dawid and Jos did. We should have got more runs.\n\n\"Our bowlers bailed us out. The bowlers really came good in the last eight overs. I'm delighted the guys showed belief and courage to try to take wickets. It was great that we stuck to our guns.\n\n\"Tom Curran followed on from a fantastic winter. It's great to see him calm in execution in the past few overs.\"\n\nEngland bowler Tom Curran: \"That's why we train. You want to be given the ball in the tough moments and try to stand up when the team needs you. I'm really pleased to get over the line.\n\n\"Morgan is unbelievable. He's been the world's best captain for a number of years. He's calm. He backs us. He's class.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"We knew England would keep coming hard and we probably struggled to find the boundary in that 12 to 18-over mark. That's something to work on.\n\n\"I would probably be more critical of myself and Davey, who got us off to a good start but couldn't go on to make the match-winning contribution.\"\n\nMan of the match Dawid Malan: \"I don't know what the secret is, but it's working so far.\n\n\"This white-ball team has been the strongest England have ever had. I don't know where I slot in.\"\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "People arriving in Wales and Scotland from Portugal must now self-isolate for 14 days, but the rules covering England and Northern Ireland are unchanged.\n\nThe difference between the nations has been criticised as confusing.\n\nThe rules for Wales apply from 04:00 BST on Friday, while in Scotland they begin 24 hours later on Saturday.\n\nCases in Portugal have risen in the past week beyond the threshold at which ministers generally consider imposing 14-day mandatory self-isolation.\n\nThe Department for Transport said decisions around adding or removing countries from the quarantine list \"take into account a range of factors\" - including how many people are being tested.\n\n\"Portugal has drastically increased its testing capacity, as well as taking measures to control the spread of the virus,\" said a spokesperson, adding it would closely monitor the situation.\n\nThe latest quarantine rules introduced in Wales apply to travellers from Portugal, Gibraltar, six Greek islands and French Polynesia.\n\nThe six islands are Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (or Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nScotland has already reintroduced self-isolation measures for arrivals from Greece and has now added Portugal and French Polynesia to its list of countries requiring quarantine.\n\n\"This week's data shows an increase in test positivity and cases per 100k in Portugal,\" said Scottish justice minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nChanges to the rules for arrivals from Greece coming to England have been considered - but Greece will stay on its safe list for now.\n\nIn Portugal, the seven-day infection rate has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people. This is above the threshold of 20 which is when the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nGreece's rate overall is below the threshold at 13.8 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 2 September, down from 14.9 a week earlier.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday: \"There are no English additions or removals today. We continue to keep the travel corridor list under constant review and won't hesitate to remove countries if needed.\"\n\n\"Nonetheless, holidaymakers are reminded - 14-day quarantine countries can and do change at very short notice.\"\n\nHe said the government takes several factors into account, including the prevalence of the virus as well as the level and rate of change, how many tests the country is doing, the extent of the contained outbreak and the government's actions.\n\nNorthern Ireland's department of health also confirmed that NI would not make any further changes at present.\n\nThe changes have drawn criticism from industry experts as well as holidaymakers.\n\n\"The quarantine policy is in tatters and dividing the United Kingdom,\" said Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy firm The PC Agency.\n\n\"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria any more on when to add or remove a country.\n\n\"The current strategy has to change. The weekly reviews have been causing anxiety and financial pain for so many consumers and travel firms,\" he added.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: \"Days of speculation around this announcement meant many people rushed to pay extortionate prices for flights back to England to avoid having to quarantine on their return - only to now find out there was no need.\n\n\"The government knows this and yet it continues to offer no clarity around how these decisions are made.\"\n\nOne aviation boss described travelling abroad right now as \"quarantine roulette\" because the list of destinations which are affected keeps changing.\n\nBut the governments in Westminster, Edinburgh and Cardiff are now clearly at odds over which countries pose a clear risk.\n\nPortugal's infection rate is above the UK government's benchmark of 20 cases of the virus for every 100,000 people.\n\nBut the UK government has surprised us all and not added Portugal to the list for England. It's not clear why.\n\nGreece is even more complicated as the Welsh government is opting for a policy where only people arriving from certain Greek islands have to self-isolate while Scotland has introduced a quarantine for arrivals from across Greece.\n\nFor months the travel industry has been lobbying the UK government for an approach where they consider particular regions in a country but ministers in London are not keen on the idea.\n\nThe quarantine was already hard or impossible to police.\n\nBut discrepancies between different UK nations makes it even harder as someone could, theoretically, fly into Newcastle from Greece and drive into Scotland. That person should self-isolate for 14 days, but no-one will be checking.\n\nSome holidaymakers have told the BBC they have paid as much as £1,000 for flights to get home from Portugal in anticipation of the rules changing.\n\nKelly, from Birmingham, and her family changed their flights home from the Algarve from Saturday to Friday at a cost of £900 to avoid potential quarantine because she did not want her children to miss out on two weeks of school.\n\nThe 45-year-old said the situation was \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\n\"It's cost us a lot more money and it's money we didn't need to spend now. We've lost an extra night in our villa - we won't get that back - we've got a hire car, so we're taking that back a day early.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government just change the goalposts left, right and centre at the moment. It's embarrassing.\"\n\nDamian Martin from Swansea - who is currently on holiday in Lagos, Portugal - said he only arrived earlier on Thursday.\n\n\"Work had been full on so I decided to go,\" said Damian\n\n\"I had already switched my holiday from Spain and I won't be able to come back early,\" he said. \"I will be able to self-isolate, I think, but I work for a supermarket so will have to check in with them.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm supposed to be here eight nights. I might as well try to enjoy it.\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal. Most head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nDuring May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal or Greece? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A top ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the EU risks becoming irrelevant if it fails to act against Russia over the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.\n\nNorbert Röttgen said a major gas deal with Russia must now be reconsidered.\n\nThe Russian government has been widely condemned after Germany confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.\n\nHe is gravely ill in intensive care in Berlin's Charité hospital.\n\nMr Navalny was flown to the German capital after collapsing in pain on a flight in Siberia on 20 August. His supporters believe poison was put in his tea at Tomsk airport.\n\nMr Röttgen, chair of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee, demanded a tough EU response in the Navalny case. Novichok is an extremely toxic, military-grade weapon that experts say must have come from a state facility.\n\n\"Now, again, we are brutally confronted with the reality of the Putin regime, which treats people with contempt,\" Mr Röttgen told German public broadcaster ARD.\n\nHe noted that President Vladimir Putin had projected Russian power in Syria, Libya and Belarus, and said: \"The question is, are the Europeans always going to end up doing nothing? If so, then we'll become irrelevant, we won't be taken seriously.\"\n\nMembers of the Nato defence alliance will discuss the poisoning at a special meeting on Friday.\n\nMrs Merkel earlier said Mr Navalny was a victim of attempted murder and the world would look to Russia for answers.\n\nShe said there would be an \"appropriate joint response\" by the EU and Nato, describing the poisoning of Mr Navalny as \"an attack on the fundamental values and basic rights to which we are committed\".\n\nThe Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said poisoning someone with a nerve agent \"is considered a use of chemical weapons\". It called the alleged attack \"a matter of grave concern\" and pledged to help any state that asks for its help.\n\nThe Kremlin has not accepted the diagnosis in Germany, saying it has not seen German data on Mr Navalny's condition.\n\n\"There are no grounds to accuse the Russian state,\" Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Putin, told reporters, adding that Germany and other EU nations should not \"hurry with their assessments\".\n\nMr Röttgen warned that Germany would risk becoming dependent on Russia by completing Nord Stream 2, a controversial 1,225km (760-mile) gas pipeline owned by Russia's Gazprom.\n\nHe also warned that doing so would encourage Mr Putin to ignore Western protestations over the Navalny case and other attacks on his political opponents. Mr Röttgen is a candidate to succeed Mrs Merkel as chancellor next year.\n\nOn Tuesday Mrs Merkel reiterated her wish to see Nord Stream 2 completed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on any firm that helps Gazprom to complete the project.\n\nHowever, his critics are asking why he has not commented on the targeting of Mr Navalny.\n\nHis rival in the presidential race, Joe Biden, accused the Kremlin of \"an outrageous and brazen attempt on Mr Navalny's life\".\n\n\"Donald Trump has refused to confront Putin, calling him a 'terrific person',\" Mr Biden said.\n\nMr Navalny was flown to Berlin on an emergency flight from Omsk in Siberia\n\nMr Navalny was put into a medically induced coma after falling ill. His team says he was poisoned on President Putin's orders. The Kremlin has dismissed the allegation.\n\nA team of German specialists has found \"unequivocal proof\" that a Novichok nerve agent was used.\n\nThe Charité hospital says it expects Mr Navalny's recovery to take a long time and cannot rule out long-term after-effects, but the agent's blockage of his cholinesterase enzyme is declining.\n\nOn Wednesday the Kremlin spokesman called on Germany for a full exchange of information and foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova complained the Novichok allegations were not backed up by evidence.\n\nNovichok has been in the news before. It was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK in 2018. While they survived, a British woman later died in hospital. The UK accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out that attack.\n\nIn a co-ordinated move, 20 countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the latest attack as \"outrageous\". \"The Russian government must now explain what happened to Mr Navalny - we will work with international partners to ensure justice is done,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe EU has demanded a \"transparent\" investigation by the Russian government. \"Those responsible must be brought to justice,\" a statement read.\n\nThe US National Security Council (NSC) said the suspected poisoning was \"completely reprehensible\".\n\n\"We will work with allies and the international community to hold those in Russia accountable, wherever the evidence leads, and restrict funds for their malign activities,\" an NSC spokesman said.\n\nAlexei Navalny is a name President Putin refuses to say out loud.\n\nIt's an attempt to diminish his political significance, but the endless prosecutions, police detentions and giant fines Mr Navalny has faced over the years tell a different story about his impact.\n\nHe's certainly annoyed a lot of people, from those targeted by his anti-corruption investigations to Vladimir Putin himself. So it is possible someone wanted to resolve the \"Navalny problem\" for good.\n\nThe timing is largely irrelevant. Why now? Well, why not. But if whoever did this hoped to contain the fallout - a mysterious collapse, never explained by Russian doctors - the fact Navalny's team got him to Germany has blown that calculation.\n\nThe \"collapse\" is now a deliberate attack, and a major international scandal. The Kremlin response so far is familiar: deny, obfuscate, demand proof. Mr Putin's spokesman has even hinted that if Mr Navalny had been poisoned, then it must have happened in Germany because doctors here detected nothing suspicious.\n\nExpect to hear a lot more along those lines in the days to come.", "Portugal has been added to Scotland's quarantine list\n\nPassengers arriving in Scotland from Portugal after 04:00 on Saturday will have to self-isolate for 14 days, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nFrench Polynesia has also been added to Scotland's quarantine list.\n\nAnd travellers from Gibraltar have been warned that the territory was \"high up our watch list\" by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.\n\nEarlier this week Scotland announced similar quarantine restrictions for travellers from Greece.\n\nMinisters said they considered targeting regions of Portugal with the quarantine rule but ultimately decided a \"whole country approach\" was necessary.\n\nMr Yousaf said people should \"think very hard\" before embarking on non-essential travel during the pandemic.\n\n\"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases is a significant risk to public health,\" he added.\n\n\"I would also encourage people who have returned to Scotland from Portugal or French Polynesia in the last few days to be particularly careful in their social contacts and to ensure they stick to the FACTS.\n\n\"I am also concerned by the level of infections in Gibraltar and we will be monitoring the situation there very carefully.\"\n\nHe said they were in regular discussions with the other three governments in the UK.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation in all parts of the world and base the decisions we make on the scientific evidence available,\" he said.\n\n\"The requirement for travellers to quarantine for 14 days on arrival from a non-exempt country is vital to help prevent transmission of the virus and to suppress it - not doing so poses a significant risk to wider public health across Scotland.\"\n\nWhen Derek Burt's mother was diagnosed with MND six weeks ago, she asked for \"one more trip\" - a holiday with her family.\n\nWith trips to Florida and Croatia already cancelled, when quarantine restrictions were lifted two weeks ago they settled on Portugal.\n\nAlthough the virus rates seemed on the high-side, he \"assumed the government knew what they were doing\" and would not return the country to the quarantine list.\n\n\"How stupid was I to show any faith in our countries' decision-makers?\" he said.\n\nThey have had an amazing week, and his mother was able to fulfil her wish to watch her grandchildren playing in the pool of their villa.\n\nBut now the family from Dunfermline in Fife is racing to get home to beat the new restrictions that come into force at 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nMr Burt said he is \"incredibly frustrated\" by the decision of the Scottish and Welsh governments, describing it as a \"complete shambles\".\n\nThe Scottish government will monitor the situation in Gibraltar carefully\n\nThe decision follows the Welsh government's announcement that travellers to Wales from six Greek islands and mainland Portugal would have to isolate from 04:00 on Friday.\n\nHowever, arrivals to England and Northern Ireland from Portugal and Greece will not be subject to the same restrictions.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast that the different rules across the UK were confusing for travellers, and said it was similar to the way lockdown had been applied across the four nations.\n\nHe added: \"We look at the data and then we do speak - but I'm afraid quite often come to slightly different outcomes which I appreciate is confusing for people\".\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nThe seven-day infection rate in Portugal has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people.\n\nA seven-day rate of 20 per 100,000 is the threshold above which the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nHolidaymakers have only been able to travel from Scotland to Portugal without quarantine restrictions since 22 August, when it was added to the government \"exemptions\" list..\n\nIt follows the addition of Greece to Scotland's quarantine list, which came into force on Thursday;\n\nMinisters blamed the decision on a \"significant rise\" in coronavirus cases being brought into Scotland from people who had been to Greece.\n\nThe moves have been criticised by leading figures in the aviation industry, who have compared job losses in the industry to the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s.\n\nThey want to see Covid-19 testing at airports so passengers can leave quarantine early.", "Casinos are among the businesses that can reopen from Tuesday\n\nA host of businesses including soft play centres, bowling alleys and casinos can finally reopen across the north of England from Tuesday.\n\nExtra Covid-19 restrictions imposed on Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire are being eased.\n\nIt means skating rinks, conference centres and exhibition halls can also resume, with the exception of Bolton - where the infection rate remains high.\n\nThe easing brings the north in line with changes in the rest of England.\n\nThe relaxation of measures also applies to socially-distanced indoor shows and close-contact services such as facials.\n\nHowever, a ban on people from different households meeting indoors remains in all areas of Greater Manchester except in Stockport and Wigan.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he welcomed the easing of restrictions for businesses in the county but added it was \"understandable that this won't apply in Bolton for the time being\".\n\n\"We will be working hard with Bolton Council and partners to move to a position where the restrictions on business opening can be eased as soon as possible,\" he added.\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi, director of public health for Lancashire, said the \"further easing of the restrictions is due to the hard work of local people, businesses and local organisations\".\n\n\"It's still really important to follow the guidance and keep the cases down. This way you can avoid further restrictions coming back again in the future,\" he added.\n\nBeauty treatments such as facials can resume, the government as confirmed\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was glad to make the changes \"because local lockdowns are working to control the virus\".\n\n\"We are seeing improvements in the rates of infection thanks to the huge efforts made by local communities and authorities working alongside our effective test and trace system,\" he added.\n\nStricter lockdown rules were imposed on Greater Manchester, east Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire in July amid a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nBut these tightened measures are under constant review and certain areas have seen restrictions eased in recent weeks, while others have seen stricter rules introduced.\n\nLeeds was designated \"an area of concern\" earlier after its seven-day infection rate rose to 32.5 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe boroughs of Greater Manchester were put into a tightened lockdown in July together, but they're coming out of it at a different pace.\n\nBolton, Trafford and Stockport had been singled out for rules to be relaxed on Wednesday, but councils in Trafford and Bolton sounded the alarm over a recent rise in cases and the decision for those two areas was reversed.\n\nNow Bolton has recorded the highest rate of new coronavirus cases in England for the week to 1 September, with 265 cases, equivalent to 92 per 100,000 residents.\n\nOver in Lancashire, when people in the eastern part of county were told they should not meet indoors, Rossendale looked to have been pulled in simply because it was surrounded by areas with high rates of infection.\n\nFor two weeks at the end of June and beginning of July it didn't have any new cases at all and until recently it would only see a few a day.\n\nThat changed last week with a big spike on Friday 28 August as 16 positive tests were recorded in one day.\n\nUnder the latest changes to the restrictions, every pool, gym and sports facility will now be able to open across the country from Tuesday.\n\nIndoor swimming pools, including water parks, indoor fitness and dance studios, indoor gyms and sports courts and facilities will also be able to open in Leicester and the remaining parts of Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford.\n\nNewark and Sherwood, Slough and Wakefield will be removed from the Public Health England \"watchlist\" while Leeds, South Tyneside, Middlesbrough, Corby and Kettering have been added \"as areas of concern\".\n\nNorfolk, Rossendale and Northampton will be added as \"areas of enhanced support\", which means the government will work with local authorities to provide additional resources - such as testing or contact tracing - to help bring the numbers of infections down.\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.", "Ten wagons, each containing 75 tonnes of diesel, derailed and caught fire at Llangennech\n\nThere may be \"long-term effects\" from diesel spillage after a train derailed in Carmarthenshire, Natural Resources Wales has said.\n\nTen wagons, each containing 75 tonnes of diesel, derailed and spilled oil into the Loughor Estuary at Llangennech near Llanelli last week.\n\nHomes were evacuated and a major incident declared after the freight train derailed and burst into flames\n\nNRW said it had found evidence of diesel at various sites on the estuary.\n\nCockle beds and shell fisheries on the estuary have been closed since the spillage.\n\nThe fire lit up the sky in the surrounding area\n\nRobert Griffiths, a cockle picker and Secretary of the Burry Inlet Handgatherers Association said it was a difficult time for the industry.\n\n\"No work, no pay. If we don't go to work we don't get any money to pay our bills, our mortgages.\n\n\"Most of us don't know anything else. I've gathered cockles for over 25 years, some have been doing it over 40 years.\n\n\"That's all they've ever done. They have never had to fall back on something else, so they wait.\"\n\nRobert Griffiths says people in the cockle-picking industry cannot work\n\nThe estuary is part of the Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries Special Area of Conservation, and wildlife groups have already warned it could have a \"devastating impact\" on the environment.\n\nMr Griffiths said he was also worried about the effect the spillage would have on consumer confidence in their product, with suppliers turning away from the area.\n\n\"I suppose half the world knows now there's been an oil spill - due to the internet - in the Loughor Estuary.\n\n\"Is half the world going to buy a can of cockles because they may or may not have diesel in them? I don't know.\n\n\"They might turn around and say 'sorry boys, we've done a survey and our customers don't want them so we can't buy them'. It's hard.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales was not able to investigate the damage of the spill until the fire was put out, which took 33 hours.\n\nBritish Transport Police's initial probe has ruled out criminal intent, and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch is examining the cause of the crash.\n\nThe driver and engineer of the DB Cargo train escaped unhurt.\n\nOn Saturday, NRW said the spill was \"no longer confined to the upper reaches of the estuary and had been observed at many locations as far as Crofty\".\n\nCriminal intent has been ruled out\n\nIoan Williams, from the agency, said experts would continue monitoring the area over the next few weeks.\n\n\"There may well be long-term effects, we don't know yet is the bottom line.\n\n\"This may take a period of time… and also, as the diesel starts to come out of the sand and manage to come a bit further down the estuary, we may see impacts a bit later on.\n\n\"It's a big clean-up operation… the cost will be substantial.\n\n\"This is a very important area, of European importance, there are a raft of designations here.\n\n\"Penclacwydd isn't far from here, it's very important for migratory wildfowl, it's important for the mussels, the cockles etc… and we are concerned about the impact that this may have.\"\n• None Network Rail – we run, look after and improve Britain's railway The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Portugal had previously been removed from the UK's quarantine list on 20 August\n\nTravellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal will have to self-isolate for 14 days under new quarantine rules that came into force on Saturday morning.\n\nScotland and Wales have added the country to their \"quarantine list\" - while England and Northern Ireland have not.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was a confusing position but the Scottish government insisted it was acting on scientific advice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nThe rules became effective from 04:00.\n\nFrench Polynesia is also now on Scotland's list of countries requiring quarantine, while self-isolation rules for Greece have been operating since Thursday.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the decision to add Portugal came after coronavirus cases there rose above 20 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"We are in the midst of a global pandemic and the situation in many countries can change suddenly.\n\n\"Therefore, people should think very hard before committing to non-essential travel abroad.\n\n\"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases is a significant risk to public health.\"\n\nThe Scottish government was also closely monitoring the situation in Gibraltar, he added.\n\nBut the move was questioned by UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who told the BBC the Scottish government had decided to \"jump the gun\" earlier in the week by adding Greece to its quarantine list without using data from the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC).\n\nOn Portugal, he said the decision had failed to take into account the increased level of testing. He said the positivity rate - the proportion of positive tests - was lower than it was when Portugal was added to the travel corridor list.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government, however, said Mr Shapps made his decision to keep Portugal on the travel corridor list before studying the latest JBC data.\n\nTravellers returning to Scotland will be required to self-isolate even if they have flown back to an airport in England.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later downplayed the difference between UK nations when questioned during a visit to the West Midlands.\n\nWhile conceding the devolved administrations sometimes have different approaches, he insisted the UK was \"proceeding as one\".\n\n\"I think you will find if you dig below the surface of some of the surface differentiations you will find overwhelmingly the UK takes the same approach,\" he said.", "Eyewitnesses say the paddle steamer struck the pier\n\nA total of 24 people have been injured after the paddle steamer Waverley collided with Brodick Pier in Arran.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said \"a number have been taken to hospital\" following the incident.\n\nPeople stranded in Arran were later due to be returned to the mainland by an emergency sailing of a CalMac ferry.\n\nPolice, paramedics, coastguards and rescue helicopters were scrambled to the scene after the alarm was raised at about 17:15 on Thursday.\n\nMCA said 213 passengers and 26 crew were on board the vessel when it struck the pier.\n\nOne passenger, Graham McWilliams, told BBC Scotland's The Nine about the moment of collision.\n\nHe said: \"As we came into the pier, everything seemed quite normal.\n\n\"Then there was a sudden crash, a loud bang, and the boat stopped very quickly. I saw people falling and it was quite distressing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Waverley crash: 'I saw one lady fly past the window'\n\nHe added: \"There was a lady that I saw who literally flew past the window.\"\n\nMr McWilliams said that, several hours after the accident, passengers were still milling about the ferry terminal at Brodick.\n\nHe said it was unclear if they would be able to leave the island or whether accommodation could be found for them.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson later tweeted to say arrangements had been made for CalMac to operate an emergency sailing to take the Waverley passengers back to the mainland.\n\nRita McLeod, who was waiting to board the Waverley, said she saw people being taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We were actually queued up waiting to get in when it crashed,\" she said. \"It came in bow first. It came in far too fast.\"\n\n\"We saw a lot of people falling, a few people fell over. There were people taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We saw a lot of people, pretty badly shaken, coming off.\"\n\nThe ship was due to into Brodick at about 17.00 after leaving Greenock in the morning.\n\nA fire engine and other emergency services were visible from the terminal building\n\nAnother eyewitness saw the crash from the departure terminal as she waited to board.\n\nAnne Cochrane from Bishopbriggs near Glasgow, said: \"It just crashed into the pier when it was coming back from the Holy Isle. We're just stuck in the departure terminal. We've had no information.\"\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch has been informed of the incident.\n\nThe Waverley has just returned to service after undergoing repairs\n\nThe Waverley set sail for the first time in two years less than two weeks ago, an event which was itself delayed due to an \"unexpected technical and administration issue\".\n\nThe ship, described as the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, missed the 2019 season as it waited for urgent repairs.\n\nA funding appeal was launched in June 2019 and it hit its target in December after receiving a £1m grant from the Scottish government to help with the restoration.\n\nThis paddle steamer, built by A & J Inglis of Glasgow and first launched in October 1946, has been involved in accidents before.\n\nIt struck the breakwater at Dunoon with 700 passengers on board, 12 of whom suffered minor injuries, in June 2009\n\nIn July 1977 it was badly damaged when it struck rocks near Dunoon.\n\nIn 2017, it was involved in another incident when it crashed into the pier at Rothesay.", "Jens Stoltenberg said there was \"proof beyond doubt\" Mr Navalny was poisoned with novichok\n\nNato has called for Russia to disclose its Novichok nerve agent programme to international monitors, following the poisoning of activist Alexei Navalny.\n\nSecretary General Jens Stoltenberg said members were united in condemning the \"horrific\" attack.\n\nHe added there was \"proof beyond doubt\" that a Novichok nerve agent was used against Mr Navalny.\n\nBut Russia has dismissed the diagnosis given by doctors in Germany, where he is being treated.\n\nSpeaking after an emergency Nato meeting, Mr Stoltenberg said the Kremlin \"must fully co-operate with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on an impartial international investigation\".\n\n\"We also call on Russia to provide complete disclosure of the Novichok programme to the OPCW,\" he added.\n\nThe Soviet-era nerve agent was also used to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK in 2018. Britain accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out the attack, and - as part of a co-ordinated effort - 20 countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies. Russia has denied any involvement.\n\nHowever Mr Stoltenberg stressed that Mr Navalny's poisoning, which took place in Russia and not in a Nato member state, was different to that of the Skripals.\n\n\"We strongly believe that this is a blatant violation of international law [banning the use of any chemical weapons], so it requires an international response, but I will not now speculate about exactly what kind of international response,\" he said.\n\nMr Navalny has been a prominent opponent to Russia's President Vladimir Putin\n\nBut several senior Russian MPs have brushed off Nato's latest demands.\n\n\"Until experts have either confirmed or denied the use of chemical substances subject to the Chemical Weapons Convention, calls for involving the OPCW appear, in my view, politicised,\" said Konstantin Kosachev of Russia's Federation Council.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner, has long been the most prominent face of Russian opposition to President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe fell ill last month while onboard a flight from Siberia to Moscow. The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk and Russian officials were persuaded to let him be airlifted to Germany two days later.\n\nThe Kremlin says it has not seen German data on Mr Navalny's condition, and so does not accept the diagnosis of poisoning.\n\nSince the incident, the EU has demanded a \"transparent\" investigation by the Russian government. The US National Security Council, too, has pledged to \"work with allies and the international community to hold those in Russia accountable\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps says differences in UK quarantine rules are \"confusing\"\n\nDifferences in UK quarantine rules are \"confusing\" for travellers, Grant Shapps has admitted, as the four nations take varying approaches to countries with rising Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe transport secretary acknowledged people's frustrations, as Scotland and Wales asked arrivals from Portugal and parts of Greece to isolate, but England and Northern Ireland held off.\n\nWales' rules, including only six Greek islands, began at 04:00 BST on Friday.\n\nMr Shapps told BBC Breakfast the difference in quarantine rules was similar to the way lockdown had been applied across the UK.\n\n\"It is similar, unfortunately, with the quarantining where we look at the data and then we do speak, but, I'm afraid, quite often come to slightly different outcomes, which I appreciate is confusing for people,\" he said.\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nMr Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Scotland \"sort of jumped the gun\" by introducing restrictions for arrivals from the whole of Greece.\n\n\"I'm very keen and do try to coordinate... with the other administrations so we can both announce at the same time, and ideally both announce the same things, and this week that didn't work out,\" he said.\n\nThe seven-day infection rate in Portugal has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people, above the threshold of 20.\n\nMr Shapps explained that cases per 100,000 people was just one measure taken into account by the UK's Joint Biosecurity Centre, with the test positivity rate also a factor.\n\nThe proportion of tests proving positive in Portugal was lower than it was when quarantine restrictions were lifted last month, Mr Shapps added.\n\nBut the minister warned: \"As I constantly say… we will have to move quickly if the figures change.\"\n\nDerek Burt, from Dunfermline in Fife, was trying to organise last-minute travel back to the UK before Scotland's quarantine begins when he spoke to the BBC from the Algarve.\n\nHe said he booked a trip to Portugal with his terminally ill mother because he \"assumed the government knew what they were doing\" and would not return the country to its quarantine list.\n\n\"How stupid was I to show any faith in our countries' decision-makers?\" he said.\n\nSome holidaymakers due to return to England told the BBC they paid around £1,000 for flights to get home from Portugal in anticipation of the rules changing - but that did not happen.\n\nKelly, from Birmingham, and her family changed their flights home from the Algarve from Saturday to Friday at a cost of £900 to avoid potential quarantine because she did not want her children to miss out on two weeks of school.\n\n\"It's cost us a lot more money and it's money we didn't need to spend now,\" she said.\n\nRon, who was preparing to travel to Manchester from Faro Airport on Friday, told the BBC flights for three people cost over £1,000.\n\n\"It would be good if governments could all get together... and come up with one set of policies which are applied reasonably consistently,\" he said.\n\nWhile Wales' advice has already changed, arrivals to Scotland from Portugal and French Polynesia will also have to self-isolate from 04:00 on Saturday. Scotland has already reintroduced quarantine for arrivals from Greece.\n\nThe measures will affect those who reside in Wales and Scotland but return to the UK via England.\n\nPortugal, Greece and French Polynesia are still on England and Northern Ireland's lists of travel corridors.\n\nThe latest quarantine rules introduced in Wales, which also apply to travellers from Gibraltar, affect six Greek islands - Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos, Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nWelsh health minister Vaughan Gething told Today that Wales has seen 30 coronavirus cases from four different flights from Zakynthos, two of which landed in England.\n\n\"I did not feel that there was any course of action other than taking some form of action,\" he said.\n\nScotland reintroduced self-isolation measures for arrivals from Greece earlier in the week, and has since added Portugal and French Polynesia to its list of countries requiring quarantine.\n\n\"This week's data shows an increase in test positivity and cases per 100,000 in Portugal,\" said Scottish justice minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nIt may look confusing and it may leave holidaymakers and other travellers scratching their heads as to why the quarantine rules are different depending on where you live in the UK. But this is devolution in action.\n\nThe new emergency coronavirus legislation introduced earlier this year gave the devolved administrations new powers to tackle the pandemic, adding to their existing control over many domestic issues.\n\nTheir chief medical officers give ministers their own own advice, though they do confer with their counterparts and through UK-wide committees.\n\nEdinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast have already shown a willingness to move at their own pace over easing lockdown restrictions and reopening schools.\n\nWith the R number (the speed at which the virus is spreading or receding) rising above the overall UK level in Scotland, it is perhaps no surprise that Holyrood wants to take its own initiatives on quarantine.\n\nThe much-publicised flight from Greece to Cardiff, with several cases traced to passengers, is another illustration of why a devolved administration has taken action.\n\nGreece's rate overall is below the 20 cases per 100,000 threshold, at 13.8 in the seven days to 2 September, down from 14.9 a week earlier.\n\nNorthern Ireland will not make further changes to quarantine rules at present, its department of health said.\n\nThe variety of rules across the four UK nations has drawn criticism from industry experts.\n\n\"The quarantine policy is in tatters,\" said Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy firm The PC Agency.\n\n\"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches.\"\n\nIt comes as the level of coronavirus among the community in England remains \"unchanged\", according to Office for National Statistics estimates based on a survey during the week ending 25 August.\n\nAre you returning to Wales or Scotland from Portugal or Greece? Have you decided to return early to avoid quarantine? 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. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "Caerphilly county has seen the most infections per 100,000 people in Wales over the past week\n\nVisits to care homes in Caerphilly are to be stopped to protect residents from a rise in Covid-19 cases in the county.\n\nThe council said visits would cease with immediate effect.\n\nEarlier, a Public Health Wales official warned house parties and people failing to social distance has led to a worrying rise in cases.\n\nIn Caerphilly, 56 cases have been reported by Public Health Wales (PHW) over the past week, the highest number in Wales.\n\nResidents are being warned other coronavirus restrictions may return if the number of confirmed cases continue to rise across the area.\n\nThe council said the \"difficult\" but \"prudent\" decision to stop care home visits was \"not taken lightly\".\n\nCouncillor Carl Cuss, cabinet member for social services, said: \"We must put the health and wellbeing of our elderly and vulnerable residents first and I'm sure families will understand the pressing need to take this action.\n\n\"I fully appreciate that care home residents and their families will be very disappointed with this decision, but I would like to assure all concerned that the decision was taken in the best interest of protecting their health.\"\n\nThe council said care home visits would cease with immediate effect\n\nThe council said there would also be a temporary return to weekly testing at each care setting.\n\nEarlier on Friday, PHW's incident director for the virus Dr Robin Howe told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales the rise in the county should be a \"warning for the rest of Wales\".\n\nHe said: \"We've seen this uptick in cases getting to quite a worrying level in Caerphilly town, in Blackwood and other areas in the county so it's actually fairly widespread...\n\n\"People have not been following social distancing rules and having house parties and the like... it is a warning for the rest of Wales.\"\n\nHe said clusters had been seen elsewhere in the country: \"It's really how quickly we can identify these and bring them under control that will mark the success and whether we end up getting more such wider outbreaks.\"\n\nThe infection rate in Caerphilly over the past seven days has been recorded as 30.9 people per 100,000 population, the highest in Wales and far above the Welsh average of 7.4 per 100,000 people.\n\nA further 16 cases were reported on Friday in the county.\n\nJust below a quarter of the 233 new cases in Wales over the past week have been in Caerphilly.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted \"how quickly things can change\" if people do not social distance.\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\nBBC analysis of infection rates across the UK shows Caerphilly is currently ranked about 37th among 380 local authority areas.\n\nThe worst-hit areas in the last week are in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, with Bolton on 70 cases per 100,000 and Pendle on 77 cases.\n\nA mobile testing centre is being set up outside Caerphilly leisure centre\n\nThe chief executive of Caerphilly council tweeted to encourage people to use a new walk-in testing facility at Caerphilly Leisure Centre.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Christina Harrhy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emily Hartridge had built up a large social media presence on YouTube and Instagram\n\nA YouTuber killed in an e-scooter crash lost control due to an underinflated tyre, a coroner has concluded.\n\nTV presenter Emily Hartridge, 35, died instantly from multiple traumatic injuries when she was thrown under a lorry in Battersea.\n\nDr Fiona Wilcox said the scooter being \"unsuitably driven, too fast\" and the lack of air in the tyre had caused the crash.\n\nA record of inquest document seen by the BBC said the death was accidental.\n\nMs Hartridge, from Hambledon in Hampshire, was believed to have been the first person in the UK to be killed in a crash involving an e-scooter.\n\nHer \"10 Reasons Why\" videos on sex, relationships, love, gender and mental health, reached a YouTube audience of more than 354,000 subscribers.\n\nShe was on her way to a fertility clinic when she died near Queenstown Road roundabout on 12 July 2019.\n\nThe fatal crash happened at the junction of Queenstown Road and Queen's Circus\n\nThe inquest into her death was held remotely at Westminster Coroner's Court due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn her conclusions, senior coroner Dr Wilcox wrote: \"Ms Hartridge was riding an electric scooter on Queenstown Road when she lost control after passing over an inspector hatch in the cycle lane and was thrown under the path of an HGV.\n\n\"She died instantly of injuries sustained by the HGV driving over her.\n\n\"The scooter was being unsuitably driven, too fast and with an underinflated tyre and this caused the loss of control and her death.\"\n\nMs Hartridge's boyfriend Jake Hazell had bought the scooter for her as a present.\n\nIn February, he told the BBC he regretted buying it and said he was constantly reminded of her death as he \"sees them on the road all the time\".\n\nMr Hazell also said he did not blame the lorry driver for her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jake Hazell said earlier this year he wanted to speak openly about his mental health struggles since his girlfriend died\n\nMr Hazell said: \"For those who knew Emily she was just incredible - such an amazing person to be around and to call her my girlfriend was literally the best I felt in my life.\n\n\"But what she has taught me has got me through. I feel close to her, I still do the Instagram, still do the YouTube and continue her message that it is OK to have a tough time.\"\n\nAt the time of Ms Hartridge's accident, e-scooters were illegal to ride in the UK - unless on private land with landowner's permission.\n\nBut, on 1 August rental e-scooters became legal on roads in Great Britain in a bid to ease pressure on public transport amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nGuidance for e-scooter-for-hire firms was published by the Department for Transport (DfT) - but under the new rules the vehicles were still banned on pavements, would be limited to 15.5mph and it was recommended riders wore helmets.\n\nThe Met Police said nobody had been arrested over Ms Hartridge's death.\n\nThe use of privately-owned e-scooters in London is illegal on public roads, but if you stand on any street corner it won't be long before you see them.\n\nE-scooter usage has overtaken the regulation and many are of poor quality.\n\nBut policy is shifting - the government is allowing trials, in some areas like Milton Keynes, of rental e-scooters that means there are minimum safety standards and requirements.\n\nIt won't be long before those trials end up in London with many of the big operators jostling for that contract.\n\nIf those trials are deemed successful - who knows?\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.", "Andy Murray was overpowered by Felix Auger-Aliassime in the US Open second round, losing 6-2 6-3 6-4 in New York.\n\nMurray, 33, came back from two sets down in his first-round match on Tuesday but never threatened to do the same against the 20-year-old Canadian.\n\nHe was not able to create a break point against the 15th seed, who hit 52 winners to Murray's nine under the roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nAuger-Aliassime will face Britain's Dan Evans or Corentin Moutet next.\n\nThe British number one and France's Moutet must finish their second-round match on Friday after heavy rain stopped play on Flushing Meadows' outside courts.\n\n\"He got quite a lot of free points with the first serve, and then even when I was getting a racket on it he was able to dictate off the first shot of the rally,\" said Murray.\n\n\"Physically, I actually did pretty well I thought in the first round. But I think the more tournaments that you play, the more matches that you play, you build up that sort of robustness in your body which right now I don't really have.\"\n• None Konta knocked out of US Open by Cirstea\n\nAlthough this defeat was very one-sided, Murray can take plenty of positives from the past two weeks at Flushing Meadows, having won two matches at the Western and Southern Open before coming from two sets and a break down to overcome Nishioka on Tuesday.\n\nThat victory was his first Grand Slam singles match since a career-saving hip resurfacing operation in January 2019. After returning in doubles, he missed last year's US Open to focus on his singles return and was then ruled out of January's Australian Open with a pelvic injury.\n\nGiven all that, it was a monumental effort to win in nearly four hours and 40 minutes against Nishioka but the effect was apparent in Thursday's night session as Murray struggled to live with Auger-Aliassime's dazzling array of shots.\n\nThe Canadian completely dominated the first set, dictating play from the baseline and hitting 18 winners to Murray's one.\n\nMurray was more competitive in the second set but Auger-Aliassime broke in the eighth game and an ace gave him a two-set lead.\n\nHe then converted his fourth break point in the fifth game of the final set and while Murray kept fighting, he only delayed the inevitable with the Canadian serving out the win to love.\n\nMurray will now turn his attention to the clay and preparing for the delayed French Open, which is due to start on 27 September at Roland Garros.\n\nAuger-Aliassime, who the US Open boys' title in 2016, will try to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time when he faces Evans or Moutet.\n\nOn this evidence, the world number 21 will provide a tough test for most opponents if he manages to play at a similarly high standard.\n\nHis service game was particularly impressive against one of the game's great returners, hitting 24 aces and not allowing Murray to rack up a single break point.\n\n\"I think it's all come together. We've been away from tennis for five months and I've been working on my serve. Even with nerves I was able to serve well,\" said Auger-Aliassime.\n\n\"But in the back of your mind you know you are facing Andy Murray. You never know what tricks he's got in his pocket. To close it out is not easy. You're facing a great champion.\"\n\nA complete performance by the young Canadian offered Murray nothing in the way of encouragement.\n\nFifty-two winners flashed past him, 24 of them aces, and with his energy levels severely diminished by Tuesday's four-and-a-half-hour marathon, this was a bridge too far.\n\nMurray's emphasis will now be on rest, and the transition to clay for the French Open, which is likely to be his first appearance on the surface in more than three years.\n\nHe says he is more positive about his future than he was two months ago, but knows it will take many months before his body is properly ready for a gruelling Grand Slam fortnight.\n\nEvans with work to do\n\nEvans, seeded 23rd, trailed 4-6 6-3 6-5 in an entertaining contest when he and Moutet were forced off court at 7:20pm local time (00:20 BST) in New York.\n\nThe 30-year-old had fought off two set points for 77th-ranked Moutet in the third, but was a point away from holding serve and taking it into a tie-break when play stopped.\n\nNow they will return to court five - after fellow Briton Cameron Norrie's third-round match against Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina - at about 18:30 BST on Friday.\n\nWhich player the enforced overnight break will favour remains to be seen, with neither having momentum in a fourth set where there had already been four breaks of serve before Moutet missed his chances to clinch the third.\n\nBoth men showed their frustrations throughout a gripping match where numerous errors were punctured by occasional brilliance, leading to a series of emotional outbursts from each side of the court.\n\nA slow start saw Evans in danger of losing the opener at 4-2 down before he fought back to win the next four games and gain an early advantage.\n\nThe Briton found himself in the same losing position in the second set, only this time he was unable to recover as 21-year-old Moutet kept his focus to level.\n\nThe pair hit 40 unforced errors between them in an erratic third set where there were 15 break points contested and it remained delicately poised when they were taken off court after almost three hours of play.\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "Filming a partner during sex without consent is voyeurism, Appeal Court judges have ruled.\n\nTony Richards, from Cardiff, was jailed for filming two sex workers, but argued his conviction should be quashed as the filming happened in a private setting.\n\nRejecting his appeal, judges ruled that the women he recorded had had a reasonable expectation of privacy.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Wednesday's ruling \"clarified this point of law\".\n\nRichards, 40, of Heritage Drive, Caerau, was jailed in August for 15 months for two counts of voyeurism and three counts of possessing indecent images of children.\n\nThe Appeal Court's rejection of his appeal is likely to have consequences for other cases, according to the Centre for Women's Justice (CWJ).\n\nEmily Hunt launched a legal challenge against a decision not to bring a prosecution against a man she said filmed her without consent\n\nOne such case is that of a naked, sleeping woman who says she was filmed by a man without her consent, the CWJ says.\n\nEmily Hunt launched a legal challenge last year against the CPS's decision not to bring a prosecution against the man, who she said filmed her without consent in May 2015.\n\nThe CWJ, which represented Ms Hunt, said the CPS would no longer oppose her challenge and would review its earlier decision, following the latest ruling.\n\nMs Hunt said: \"This decision was the clear, obvious and commonsense answer to a question no-one else was asking: is it illegal to video someone naked without their consent?\n\n\"Because the answer is obvious: yes it is. And the court agreed.\"\n\nMs Hunt was given permission by the court to intervene in the case after the CWJ learned the CPS would be opposing Richards's appeal.\n\nThe ruling at the Court of Appeal will have ramifications for other cases\n\nCWJ director Harriet Wistrich said: \"We would like to know why the CPS chose to argue opposite points in two separate cases.\"\n\nA CPS spokesman said: \"What constitutes a 'private act' for the purposes of the offence of voyeurism had never been conclusively defined by a higher court.\n\n\"Now this new judgment has clarified this point of law, the CPS will review its position in the judicial review brought by Emily Hunt.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has admitted differences in UK quarantine rules are \"confusing\" for travellers\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has claimed Scotland \"jumped the gun\" by adding Greece to the quarantine list.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Scottish government moved Greece to the list of countries from where returning travellers have to self isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe Scottish government said its decisions on quarantine measures for travellers were based on the scientific evidence available.\n\nIt said judgements were made on how best to keep people in Scotland safe.\n\nMr Shapps also said that adding Portugal to the list had caused \"confusion\" and that Scotland and Wales had not taken the latest data into consideration.\n\nQuarantine for travellers coming from Portugal begins at 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nFrench Polynesia was also added to the list from 04:00 the same day.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, Mr Shapps said: \"On Wednesday the Scots - without using the joint bio-security centre data for this particular decision - decided that people from Greece would be excluded, and jumped the gun on that.\n\n\"It is their right to do it but it doesn't make the overall message any clearer.\"\n\nThe quarantine rule for travellers coming to Scotland from Greece came into force at 04:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe ruling also affects those coming in to English airports from those countries on the list, before travelling to Scotland.\n\nMr Shapps said \"ideally\" the UK government would try to co-ordinate with the other administrations on travel announcements but that this week \"it didn't work out\".\n\nThe UK is now split on its rules for Portugal. Quarantine for Welsh travellers began at 04:00 on Friday, Scots have to self-isolate from 04:00 on Saturday and English returners are not subject to any requirements to self isolate.\n\nPortugal, Greece and French Polynesia are still on England and Northern Ireland's lists of travel corridors.\n\nMr Shapps also claimed that the Scottish and Welsh governments may have made decisions on Portugal without seeing all the data.\n\nHe said: \"The Welsh administration had not noticed or not seen a second figure which is the percentage number of cases which test positive. That is really important because what we don't want to do is exclude countries for doing the right thing in carrying out lots of tests.\n\n\"When we brought Portugal into the travel corridor they had a test positivity rate of 1.8% but this week it was 1.6%, so the number had fallen.\"\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nThe seven-day infection rate in Portugal has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people.\n\nA seven-day rate of 20 per 100,000 is the threshold above which the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nHolidaymakers have only been able to travel from Scotland to Portugal without quarantine restrictions since 22 August, when it was added to the government \"exemptions\" list.\n\nThe Scottish government said that sometimes its decisions differed from those made by the other three governments.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"In the case of Greece, we had a worrying number of people in Scotland who tested positive for Covid-19 and who had returned from Greece within seven days of the onset of symptoms. We could not afford to ignore that growing threat to public health.\n\n\"In the case of Portugal, it was unfortunate that the UK government announced their decision yesterday before ministers from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland met and before considering the latest Joint Biosecurity Centre data. This indicated a significant rise in both the prevalence of the virus in Portugal and in test positivity.\"\n\nThe quarantine developments have been criticised by leading figures in the aviation industry, who have compared job losses in the industry to the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s.\n\nMike Tibbert, vice president of Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA) accused the Scottish government of playing games, with its \"half announcements and teasers\"\n\nHe said: \"The entire travel sector and the travelling public need consistency and clear, well timed messaging.\n\n\"But the toing and froing on the safe list versus quarantine is actually distracting from the main issue which is the total lack of immediate support for the travel sector and the complete absence of a strategic plan to save future travel.\n\n\"Once lost, our connectivity to the rest of the world - and consequently theirs to us - will disappear.\"", "La Boheme is being performed in a car park\n\nScottish Opera is beginning live performances again with a string of pop-up shows across the country - with musicians behind screens and singers staying three metres apart.\n\nWho could have imagined a year ago that the most anticipated live performance of 2020 would involve sitting in the car park of Scottish Opera's production centre as the rain poured down on a temporary canopy, and singers emerged from trailers with remnants of costumes and props from previous shows.\n\nThe musicians of the reduced orchestra were at least warm, tucked behind Perspex screens in the paint store.\n\nWelcome to music in the time of Covid.\n\nThis is an important milestone for Scottish Opera, the first national performing arts company to stage a live show for a real-life audience. Like everyone else, they've been making virtual work online, but this is a different thing entirely.\n\nThere is two metre social distancing for everyone - but it increases to three metres when performers are singing. That makes it hard for Rudolfo and Mimi in La Boheme to even get close enough to declare their love.\n\nYour tiny hand is frozen, he sings in one of the opera's most famous arias - but he can't possibly get close enough to tell.\n\nAnd anyway, everyone's hands are frozen after hanging around the car park for a couple of hours.\n\nBut instead of fighting against the pandemic and its restrictions, the team behind this new production embrace it - at least as much as they can.\n\nWhat might seem like a post-apocalyptic world where out-of-work artists, desperate to perform, scavenge for materials is actually strangely poignant, given the entire company have been in lockdown until now and many of the staff are freelance.\n\nIn a plush theatre, it's hard to share the despair of Puccini's struggling artists, or their fear of the sickness and poverty around them. But suddenly, it takes on a whole new meaning.\n\nEach of the national arts companies have their battles persuading taxpayers and successive governments that they have relevance and can reach a wide audience.\n\nOpera is often deemed elitist and expensive. For years, the company has attempted to broaden its appeal, to reach the young, the very young (with opera for babies) and those who would sooner be in a sports stadium than a theatre.\n\nBut Covid has set all that back. It will be months, maybe years, before any of the companies can reach the sort of numbers they did before.\n\nThe six performances of La Boheme in Glasgow will reach just over 100 people per night. But they're eager, even if it means sitting in a car park in the rain.\n\nTickets for the five initial shows were quickly snapped up, so much so that extra seating and an extra performance had to be added.\n\nThe performance will attract audiences of about 100 people\n\nThere's been a similar response to smaller pop up shows around the country, starting in Greenock on Friday, and it's not just audiences who have that pent-up enthusiasm for live performance. There isn't space or budget for a chorus, but regular singers are back as stewards for these shows.\n\nThe nearest model for this is not any of the grand productions staged at the Edinburgh International Festival, or in the Theatre Royal, but another tented production which was staged in Paisley two years ago.\n\nPagliacci was a massive outdoor production where members of the public sang alongside professional singers in a bold promenade production which was more Glastonbury than Glyndebourne, and showed how wide-reaching opera could be, and how much fun.\n\nHow much fun singing in the rain is going to be is anyone's guess... but after five months of lockdown, any singing is welcome.", "DaBaby, Lady Gaga and The Weeknd had some of the summer's biggest-selling songs\n\nDaBaby's Rockstar was the UK's biggest-selling song of the summer, says the Official Charts Company.\n\nNotching up 654,000 combined sales and streams over the summer, the brooding, guitar-driven rap song outsold hits by Lady Gaga and Harry Styles.\n\nIt was one of several best-sellers this summer to be boosted by TikTok, where it triggered a viral dance challenge.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest summer song, Jason Derulo's Savage Love, also started life on the video sharing app.\n\nOriginally an instrumental by New Zealand teenager Joshua Stylah (aka Jawsh 685), it was spotted by Derulo after it took off on TikTok.\n\nThe US star added vocals to the track, initially without crediting Stylah or obtaining permission for the sample. After Stylah signed a record deal with Columbia records, the song was released as a collaboration and climbed to the top of the charts.\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 Jason Derulo 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\nSavage Love achieved 566,000 chart sales over the summer, closely followed by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's Rain On Me, which had 515,000 sales.\n\nThe pop divas were closely followed by The Weeknd, whose hit single Blinding Lights continued to sell over the summer after reaching number one earlier in the year.\n\nAn even longer-standing hit was Harry Styles' mouth-watering Watermelon Sugar, which was the seventh most popular song of the summer, despite making its chart debut last November.\n\nThe Official Charts combined sales and downloads with video and audio streams to compile its list.\n\nDaBaby's Rockstar had previously been named the most-streamed song of the summer by Spotify, while on YouTube, the top performers were Korean pop band Blackpink, whose single How You Like That was played more than 450 million times in June, July and August.\n\nDaBaby, who comes from North Carolina, has proved to be a master of meme-based marketing, achieving early attention by walking around the South by Southwest festival in Texas wearing only jewels and an adult-sized nappy.\n\nInitially, his \"internet presence was definitely bigger than the music,\" he told the New York Times last year, boasting, \"I'm so good at marketing\".\n\n\"Once I knew I had them looking, I turned up with the music,\" he added. \"I knew what I was doing - it was premeditated.\"\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 DaBabyVEVO 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\nRockstar was his first UK hit, propelled by a dance craze focusing on the song's hook on TikTok.\n\nThe platform, which allows users to make 15-second videos set to music, has become an increasingly powerful tool for marketing music.\n\nHits like Doja Cat's Say So, Megan Thee Stallion's Savage, and Lil Nas X's Grammy-winning Old Town Road all gained early attention on the app.\n\nTik Tok's music team actively promotes trending songs, scouring submissions for undiscovered talent, and facilitating collaborations among musicians and prominent creators.\n\nFourteen of the UK's top 20 best-selling songs this summer were popular on TikTok before hitting the charts, boosting the profile of lesser-known artists like Gracey, Powfu and Beabadoobee alongside more established acts such as Drake.\n\nHowever, while record companies increasingly look to the app to seed new hits, the Chinese-owned firm has been accused of being a threat to US national security by the Trump administration.\n\nTikTok was given 90 days to be sold to an American firm or face a ban in the US, leading to the resignation of chief executive Kevin Mayer.", "Barcelona's all-time leading goalscorer Lionel Messi says he is staying because it is \"impossible\" for any team to pay his release clause and he does not want to face \"the club I love\" in court.\n\nThe Argentine, 33, sent a fax to Barca last Tuesday saying he wanted to exercise a clause in his contract which he said allowed him to leave for free.\n\nBut the club said his 700m euro (£624m) release clause would have to be met.\n\n\"I thought and was sure that I was free to leave,\" Messi told Goal.\n\n\"I told the president and, well, the president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I wanted to go or if I wanted to stay and in the end he did not keep his word.\n\n\"Now I am going to continue in the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay the 700m clause, and that this is impossible.\"\n• None Why I don't think we've heard the end of Messi saga - Balague column\n• None Football Daily podcast: Messi stays - but will things ever be the same?\n\nMessi, whose contract expires next summer, says the fact he did not tell Barca he wanted to leave before 10 June was crucial, and had he done so his release clause would not have had to be met.\n\n\"Now they cling to the fact that I did not say it before 10 June, when it turns out that on 10 June we were competing for La Liga in the middle of this awful coronavirus and this disease altered all the season,\" he added.\n\n\"There was another way and it was to go to trial. I would never go to court against Barca because it is the club that I love, which gave me everything since I arrived.\n\n\"It is the club of my life, I have made my life here.\"\n\nMessi's father Jorge had held talks in Barcelona this week and insisted his son could leave for free, only for La Liga to back Barca's stance over the release clause.\n\nManchester City were among the clubs linked with Messi when he made clear he wanted to end his 20-year stay at the Nou Camp, nine days after an 8-2 defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nThat result meant Barca ended the season with no silverware, and they replaced manager Quique Setien with former Everton and Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman.\n\nMessi is yet to train with his team-mates since Koeman's arrival and admits the club's lack of recent success influenced his decision to ask to leave.\n\n\"I looked further afield and I want to compete at the highest level, win titles, compete in the Champions League,\" he said.\n\n\"When I communicated my wish to leave to my wife and children, it was a brutal drama.\n\n\"The whole family began crying, my children did not want to leave Barcelona, nor did they want to change schools.\n\n\"I love Barcelona and I'm not going to find a better place than here anywhere. Still, I have the right to decide.\n\n\"I was going to look for new goals and new challenges. And tomorrow I could go back, because here in Barcelona I have everything.\"\n\n'This could get uglier' - analysis\n\nSo Messi is staying, but this saga is far from over.\n\nOne notable takeaway from his interview was his brutal assessment of club president Josep Maria Bartomeu, as he lamented: \"There has been no project or anything for a long time, they juggle and cover holes as they go along.\"\n\nBartomeu's tenure as president finishes in March but he will now come under heavy pressure to resign immediately, and it's hard to see how he and Messi can coexist in the same club after such a vicious character assassination.\n\nOf course, the big question also lingers: will Messi now leave on a free transfer next summer? If so, he will be allowed to negotiate his move in January, and that topic is sure to dominate headlines over the next few weeks.\n\nOne man in the middle of this is recently appointed coach Ronald Koeman, who has the task of somehow reintegrating the team's captain and key player within an utterly dysfunctional club still traumatised by the embarrassing 8-2 Champions League loss against Bayern Munich.\n\nAll the best, Ronald. This sorry story has a few more chapters to be written, and it could get uglier yet.\n\nFrom going to staying - a Messi timeline\n• 14 August - Messi and Barcelona are humiliated as they crash out of the Champions League with an 8-2 thrashing by eventual winners Bayern Munich in their one-off quarter-final tie.\n• 17 August - Head coach Quique Setien is sacked eight months after taking charge at the Nou Camp.\n• 18 August - Former Barca midfielder Ronald Koeman leaves his job as manager of the Netherlands to take over from Setien.\n• 25 August - Messi sends a burofax to Barca chiefs informing them he wishes to leave - with claims of disagreements between the player and the club of the validity of a contract clause which would allow him to go for free.\n• 30 August - Messi does not turn up for his scheduled Covid-19 test before Barcelona's start to pre-season training. Later, La Liga issues a statement siding with Barca in the dispute over whether Messi can depart for nothing.\n• 2 September - Messi and his father Jorge hold a meeting with Barca, and Jorge is reported in the Spanish press as saying it would be \"difficult\" for his son to stay at the Nou Camp.\n• 4 September - Messi's father writes to La Liga insisting his son is contractually allowed to leave Barcelona for free in the current transfer window. However, Messi later confirms his intention to stay because he does not want to take Barcelona to court.\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "The children, aged between one and eight, were found in a family home\n\nThe bodies of five children have been found in a flat in a large housing block in the western German city of Solingen, police say.\n\nPolice say they suspect the 27-year-old mother of killing the children before attempting to take her own life at a train station in nearby Düsseldorf.\n\nFew details have been provided, with no information about the cause of death.\n\nEmergency services were called to the residential block in the Hasseldelle area of the city on Thursday afternoon.\n\nResponding to call at about 13:45 local time (11:45 GMT), police said they arrived at the building in Solingen, in North Rhine-Westphalia state, to discover the bodies of five children - three girls and two boys - aged from one to eight.\n\nA sixth child, reportedly an 11-year-old boy, was said to have survived.\n\nThe children's grandmother, who lives 60km (37 miles) away in the city of Mönchengladbach, had alerted the emergency services, the German news website Bild reported.\n\nThe entrance to the block of flats has been sealed off and forensic officers are at the scene\n\nPolice spokesman Stefan Weiand said the children's mother had been \"seriously injured\" after throwing herself in front of a train in Düsseldorf and was being treated in hospital under police guard.\n\n\"Background and further details are not known at this point and that is what we are trying to find out,\" Mr Weiand told journalists, adding that police investigators were at the scene \"in full force\".\n\nPolice said they were hoping to learn more about the \"incredibly tragic occurrence\" after speaking with the mother.\n\nThe entrance to the block of flats in Solingen has been sealed off and images show police cars and ambulances lining the streets, with forensic officers also at the scene.\n\nA woman places a candle alongside a teddy at the residential building in Solingen, Germany\n\nThe mayor of Solingen, Tim Kurzbach, wrote on Facebook that he had visited the housing block where \"this terrible act took place\" after hearing the news.\n\n\"For me it is still incomprehensible,\" he wrote in the post, adding: \"Today is a day of mourning for all of Solingen.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, residents began leaving flowers and candles at the entrance to the building as a tribute.", "Henriett Szucs (left) and Mihrican Mustafa were subjected to \"very significant violence\", the trial heard\n\nA convicted sex offender has been found guilty of murdering two women whose bodies were found in his freezer.\n\nThe remains of Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa were discovered at Zahid Younis's flat in Canning Town, east London, in April 2019.\n\nProsecutors at Southwark Crown Court said Younis preyed on the vulnerable women, subjecting them to \"very significant violence\".\n\nHe received a life sentence, with a minimum jail term of 38 years.\n\nThe four-week trial heard police made the \"grim discovery\" when looking for the defendant at his home following a call about his welfare.\n\nHe was not in but officers gained entry and noticed the lockable freezer, around which flies were gathering.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Younis refused to return from the cells for sentencing, Ms Mustafa's family spoke outside the court\n\nMs Szucs, 32, originally from Hungary, was last seen alive in 2016 and was killed shortly before the defendant bought the freezer in November that year, the court heard.\n\nYounis's second victim, 38-year-old Ms Mustafa, was last heard from in May 2018.\n\nMs Szucs and Ms Mustafa were \"vulnerable women living somewhat chaotic lives\", including periods of homelessness and drug addiction, the court heard.\n\nJurors were told Younis purchased the freezer shortly after killing Ms Szucs \"for the sole purpose\" of concealing her body.\n\nZahid Younis was in an abusive relationship with Henriett Szucs, the court heard\n\nThe nature of the crime scene meant a cause of death could not be established, but the scientific evidence showed that the women had been subjected to serious violence before their deaths.\n\nThey had both suffered numerous rib fractures while Ms Szucs had sustained \"dreadful\" head injuries and Ms Mustafa's sternum and larynx had been fractured.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said the freezer had been forced open by one of the officers on \"an old-fashioned police hunch\" about what was inside it.\n\nHe said: \"He broke open the freezer and discovered what could only be seen, at the time, as only one body.\n\n\"It actually took the freezer being taken away and X-rayed for it to be seen there was another body underneath that. It was a gruesome discovery for the officers.\"\n\nThe Met's missing person inquiry into Mihrican Mustafa - which started in 2018 - did not examine vital phone evidence, which would have shown contact with Younis around the time she vanished\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding described Ms Szucs as someone who had been in abusive relationships before and was preyed upon by Younis.\n\nShe moved in with him - although Younis denied having a long-term relationship with her - and \"we have shown that she was really in love with him in her own way\", the detective said.\n\n\"She wrote him letters that we found. Unfortunately to him, she did not mean anything.\"\n\nThe court heard that Younis has several previous convictions for assaulting partners.\n\nA BBC investigation has identified a series of issues relating to the case:\n\nYounis, known as \"Boxer\", denied murder but did admit putting the women in the freezer, pleading guilty to two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body.\n\nHe claimed he was out when Ms Szucs died at his flat and did not tell police because he was \"panicking\".\n\nThe jury was told he paid a man to help him get Ms Szucs' body into the freezer and that his accomplice later blackmailed him into putting Ms Mustafa's corpse in the same place.\n\nJurors deliberated for over 16 hours before returning majority verdicts.\n\nYounis showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out while members of Ms Mustafa's large family, who attended every day of the three-week trial, said \"yes\" in the public gallery.\n\nHer older sister, Mel Mustafa, said: \"Thank you God, thank you.\"\n\nThe defendant refused to return to court from the cells for sentencing, during which Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb described him as an \"arch deceiver\" who had \"spent a lifetime destroying lives\".\n\nShe added he had shown no remorse about killing \"two beautiful and creative women\" and he might never be released from prison.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n• None How warnings about Heni and Jan's killer were missed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Restaurants have claimed more than 100 million meals under the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, Treasury figures show.\n\nDiners got a state-backed 50% discount on meals and soft drinks up to £10 each on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays during August.\n\nThe Treasury said restaurants have so far made 130,000 claims worth £522m, figures likely to rise as outlets have until the end of September to claim.\n\nRestaurant bookings surged during the scheme, especially on the final day.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"From the get-go our mission has been to protect jobs, and to do this we needed to be creative, brave and try things that no government has ever done before.\n\n\"Today's figures continue to show Eat Out to Help Out has been a success. I want to thank everyone, from restaurant owners to waiters, chefs and diners, for embracing it and helping drive our economic recovery.\"\n\nAbout 84,700 restaurants signed up for Eat Out to Help Out.\n\nAccording to data from booking site OpenTable, restaurant reservations rose by 53% compared with the Monday-to-Wednesday period in August 2019.\n\nIn July, restaurant bookings were down 54% on Mondays-to-Wednesdays, compared with July 2019.\n\nThe final day of the scheme, Monday 31 August, saw a 216% jump in bookings against the equivalent day in 2019, according to OpenTable.\n\nThe government has set aside £500m to fund Eat Out to Help Out. About 80% of hospitality firms stopped trading in April and 1.4 million workers were furloughed - the highest proportions of any sector - according to government data.\n\nRishi Sunak said that to support jobs the government needed \"to be creative and brave\".\n\nHowever, the scheme has critics. Some pubs and restaurants pulled out in August, citing increased hostility towards staff trying to cope with the increased demand and need for social distancing. Some outlets were concerned the scheme could pull in diners earlier in the week to the detriment of weekend trade.\n\nIn July, the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecast the scheme would most likely be a \"giveaway\" that benefitted those well-off enough to eat out. And anti-obesity campaigners said the scheme \"would be a green light to promote junk food\".\n\nHowever, Stephen Wall, managing director and co-founder of the Pho restaurant chain, said it \"has really been amazing. It has certainly benefited our early-week figures and seems to have encouraged the British public to dine out safely, as our restaurants are filling up and staying busy throughout the weekend, too.\"\n\nAnd Jes Staley, chief executive of Barclays, said spending data collected by the bank suggested the scheme had given a \"real boost\" to the hospitality sector.\n\nHe added: \"Consumer feedback was also very encouraging, with almost one in five planning to continue dining out more often... and a similar number saying that they will return to restaurants that they would not have visited otherwise.\"\n\nMr Sunak has ruled out extending the scheme, but some pub and restaurant chains, including Pizza Hut and Bill's, have said they will finance similar offers this month following the jump in demand.", "[L-R] Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, HRVY and Jacqui Smith will all hit the dancefloor\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has been confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThe 2020 series will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe contestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nThe BBC also confirmed they will be able to rehearse, perform and go home to their family each night - following government guidelines.\n\nJacqui Smith was confirmed as the final celebrity dancer on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe former Labour politician became the UK's first female home secretary in 2007 - under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - and has since worked as a political broadcaster.\n\n\"I was speechless with excitement at being asked to join Strictly - and that's very rare for me,\" said Smith.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, I got a bronze medal for Scottish Highland Dancing and it feels about time to return to dancing.\"\n\n\"I couldn't be in better hands with the Strictly team and I'm going to throw myself into the challenge. Watch out!\" she added.\n\nSmith is now the chair of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Children's Trust. She also has a podast, called For the Many, that she presents with broadcaster Iain Dale.\n\nHRVY has a social media following of more than 10 million\n\nHRVY was revealed as a contestant on the Kiss breakfast show and said he was \"so thankful to be taking part\".\n\nThe pop singer, whose real name is Harvey Leigh Cantwell, has more than a billion combined streams to his name.\n\nHe has a social media following of more than 10 million and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to fame after uploading his music videos to Facebook. He has since sold out UK and European tours and his debut album will be out later this year.\n\n\"Being on Strictly is going to be such an amazing experience and I'm so thankful to be taking part this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I think my mum is more excited that she'll be able to see me every Saturday night now!\"\n\nMaisie Smith is an actress and singer is best known for playing Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders.\n\n\"Get me in those sequins,\" she said, reacting to the news of her announcement.\n\n\"I can't wait to dive into the Strictly fancy dress box this winter!\"\n\nBefore storming into Albert Square as Bianca's daughter, Tiffany, Smith made her acting debut in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl - alongside Scarlett Johansson and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHer role in the long-running BBC soap saw her scoop the award for best dramatic performance from a young actress, at the 2009 British Soap Awards.\n\nJamie Laing returns to the show this year, after having to pull out of last year's series before it began due to an injury.\n\nHe became a household name in 2011 on the Channel 4 reality show, Made in Chelsea, and this year launched his own podcast, 6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer, alongside Spencer Matthews.\n\nHe also founded the sweets brand, Candy Kittens, in 2012.\n\n\"Here we go again, hopefully this time I can last long enough so my mum can see me dance,\" said Laing.\n\nHe added: \"The reason I'm doing it, is to make my mum proud but all I did last year was make her even more disappointed. Let's change that this year, can't wait!!\"\n\nJJ Chalmers' career as a Royal Marine Commando was cut short after he suffered life-changing injuries following an IED explosion in Afghanistan.\n\nThe blast crushed an eye socket, burst his eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, blew off two fingers on his left hand and left holes in his legs.\n\nAfter years of rehabilitation, including more than 30 operations, he went on to compete in the 2014 Invictus Games where he captained the Trike Cycling team and took home three medals.\n\nHe later embarked on a career in broadcasting, presenting coverage of the Rio Paralympics and anchoring BBC One's coverage of the Invictus Games.\n\nComparing Strictly to his military experience, he told ITV's Lorraine: \"I'm always looking for a challenge, I'm always looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone.\"\n\nDespite his injuries, Chalmers said he wanted to be treated like \"any other contestant\" and didn't want any \"special treatment\".\n\n\"Whoever I partner with they've got their work cut out,\" he added.\n\nBill Bailey is an comedian, actor and musician is known for appearances on TV shows like QI, Black Books and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.\n\n\"In these strange times we're living through, it feels right to do something different and take on a new challenge,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I haven't been to stage school and learnt to dance. I haven't lived for the dance... I'm not really Lord of the Dance. I'm caretaker of the dance,\" he joked. \"It's going to be quite a challenge but then that's what this is about, taking on a new skill.\"\n\nBailey, 55, made his name on the stand-up circuit before becoming a regular panel show guest, TV and film actor, documentary presenter, and host of the BBC sketch show Is It Bill Bailey?\n\nHe is also a classically-trained musician and has published a guide to British birds. On Wednesday, in a review of his first live gig for six months, The Daily Telegraph said he \"remains one of the funniest, most brilliantly original comedians in the UK\".\n\nClara Amfo, who hosts BBC Radio 1's late morning slot, aid she \"couldn't wait to fully embrace\" the experience of Strictly.\n\nIn recent years, Amfo has presented coverage of Glastonbury, the Brit Awards, Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Bafta TV Awards and The Proms.\n\n\"As we know this year has been a real challenge and escapism through dancing is something I know we all enjoy,\" she said.\n\n\"So to be taught by a pro and live a fantasy is something that I can't wait to fully embrace, see you on the dancefloor!\"\n\nRanvir Singh is Good Morning Britain's political editor and occasional host, and also appears on other ITV programmes including Loose Women, Tonight and Eat, Shop, Save. She is about to start co-hosting a new Sunday morning show, All Around Britain.\n\nSingh said she felt \"complete terror\" at the idea of taking part, likening it to \"embarking on a rollercoaster\".\n\nShe previously worked as a producer and reporter for the BBC for 12 years, and presented BBC North West Tonight.\n\nSingh said: \"The initial feeling of being confirmed for Strictly is one of complete terror - feels like embarking on a rollercoaster, where you really want to do it but you are equally scared.\n\n\"Hopefully after the first dance I will feel exhilarated rather than sick!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAward-winning actress and presenter Caroline Quentin is known for a range of acting roles, including Maddie in Jonathan Creek and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.\n\nShe has also starred in Kiss Me Kate, Life Begins and Life of Riley.\n\nHowever, arguably her most famous role was playing Dorothy in the hit 90s sitcom Men Behaving Badly.\n\nShe recently presented the documentary series Extraordinary Homes for BBC Two.\n\nQuentin said she was \"thrilled and terrified in equal measure to be taking part\" in this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe played as a cornerback/safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.\n\nBell then played for the Houston Texans, where he was named a recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, one of the league's highest honours. He finished his professional career with the New York Giants.\n\nBell now co-hosts The Jason & Osi Podcast with another former NFL star, Osi Umenyiora, and the pair appear as pundits on the NFL Show on the BBC.\n\n\"Strictly is the epitome of British television and this year, more than ever, I'm so proud and humbled to be participating,\" he said.\n\n\"Strictly was the first show I ever watched when I moved to the UK and I'm a massive fan. My six-year-old daughter never got the chance to see me run out on the field at an NFL game but she is very excited about me taking to the dance floor. I hope I can do her proud.\"\n\nSinger and actor Max George shot to fame as a member of boy band The Wanted.\n\nHis former bandmate, Jay McGuiness, previously won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.\n\nGeorge said he was \"buzzing to be on Strictly this year\", joking: \"I'm not really one for the dance floor, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Jay McGuiness set The Wanted's bar so low.\"\n\nThe Wanted had two number one singles in the UK - All Time Low and Glad You Came - with the latter reaching the top three in the US Billboard chart.\n\nAfter The Wanted took a break, Max moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and starred in the sixth season of Glee as Clint. He recently returned to music as a solo artist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Virgin Atlantic is to cut 1,150 more jobs after completing a £1.2bn rescue plan that will secure its future for at least 18 months.\n\nThe airline had already cut more than 3,500 jobs out of the 10,000 employees it had at the beginning of the year.\n\nThe airline said it had to cut costs in order to survive.\n\n\"Until travel returns in greater numbers, survival is predicated on reducing costs further and continuing to preserve cash,\" it said.\n\n\"The outlook for transatlantic flying, which is core to Virgin Atlantic's business, remains uncertain with US-UK travel curtailed,\" the airline said.\n\nIt said the past six months had been \"the most challenging in Virgin Atlantic's history\", and that \"regrettably the airline must go further one last time with changes at scale, to ensure it emerges from this crisis\".\n\nThe carrier added that a 45-day consultation period would begin on Friday with unions.\n\nTo try to cut down on crew redundancies, it said it would introduce a voluntary, company-financed furlough scheme for 600 crew members when the government-backed scheme ends in October.\n\nPilots union Balpa said that it hoped to avoid pilot redundancies.\n\n\"Every single job lost to this crisis is a tragedy and we are doing everything we can to mitigate job losses across the board,\" said Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton.\n\n\"Despite no help from government, their financing is now secure,\" he added.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has taken a dreadful toll on employment in the aviation industry.\n\nAirlines around the world have been haemorrhaging jobs, as they face a future in which fewer people travel, and fewer planes are able to fly.\n\nAnd it isn't just airlines. Aerospace firms, airports and groundhandling companies are also being forced to cut back.\n\nVirgin finds itself more exposed than many of its rivals, because it relies heavily on transatlantic traffic - and restrictions on travel to the US remain in force.\n\nThe company is hoping its £1.2bn rescue plan will enable it to ride out the storm. But to succeed, it still needs to turn itself into a much smaller business than it was just a few months ago.\n\nUS carrier Delta Air Lines, which owns 49% of Virgin Atlantic, said the rescue plan was \"an important part of protecting Delta's position in the UK, particularly in the critical London Heathrow market,\" as it vies against American Airlines and British Airways.\n\nThe pandemic has had a severe impact on the aviation industry as lockdowns and quarantines hit air travel. Airlines, airports and tour firms have collectively shed thousands of jobs.\n\nVirgin gained approval for its rescue plan from UK and US courts this week.\n\nThe £1.2bn deal involves £400m in new cash, half of which will come from its main shareholder, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group.\n\nVirgin Atlantic chief executive Shai Weiss said: \"Together, we have achieved what many thought impossible and that is down to the efforts and sacrifices of so many across the company.\"\n\nHe called for \"urgent government action\" to introduce passenger testing to help remove travel restrictions.\n\nSince the 16 March it has not been possible for many travellers from the UK to get into the US if they do not have US citizenship and if they have been in the UK, Ireland, the Schengen zone, Iran, Brazil, or China within the past two weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he \"can't be expected\" to agree with everyone who works with the government.\n\nFormer Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been appointed as an unpaid trade adviser to the UK government.\n\nBoris Johnson rejected claims Mr Abbott was not suitable for the role, despite criticism over past comments on women, LGBT people and climate change.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he did \"not agree with those sentiments\".\n\nMr Abbott, who negotiated trade deals for Australia when in power, will not take part in post-Brexit talks between the UK and other countries.\n\nInstead, he will advise the new Board of Trade, set up to help ministers and encourage firms to do more business internationally.\n\nMr Abbott was a prominent opponent of same-sex marriage in Australia's 2017 referendum on the issue and has been accused of making homophobic and misogynist comments in the past.\n\nHe has also described the idea of climate change as \"faddish\" and, last year, claimed the world was \"in the grip of a climate cult\".\n\nAsked about the new appointee's past comments, Mr Johnson said he could not be expected to agree with all the views of everyone who worked with the government.\n\nHe said Mr Abbott had been elected by the \"great, liberal democratic nation of Australia,\" adding: \"I think that speaks for itself.\"\n\nThis government has recently had the word \"U-turn\" lobbed at it, a lot. But there's been no change of heart here.\n\nWhile the appointment of Tony Abbott has sparked serious concern in some quarters, the government has on this occasion decided it doesn't want to back down.\n\nPerhaps it doesn't want to hand critics more \"U-turn\" ammunition. And ministers have argued that Mr Abbott will bring real trade expertise.\n\nBut there may also be a calculation in Downing Street, rightly or wrongly, that this is a \"Westminster bubble\" issue - a story that, in the end, won't do the government significant political damage.\n\nOther advisers to the Board of Trade will include former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt, ex-Conservative Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan and economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh.\n\nMr Abbott, who was prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, negotiated free-trade deals with Japan, China and South Korea.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he had \"real concerns\" and \"wouldn't appoint\" Mr Abbott if he were prime minister.\n\nTony Abbott at the launch of sister Christine Forster's book in June\n\nShadow international development secretary Emily Thornberry said Mr Abbott was \"the wrong\" choice \"on every level\" and had \"no experience of detailed trade negotiations, no understanding of Brexit, no belief in climate change, no concern for workers' rights\".\n\nA group of equality activists - including actor Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies - has written an open letter against Mr Abbott's appointment.\n\nIt says: \"This is a man who described abortion as 'the easy way out' and suggested that men may be 'by physiology or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command'.\"\n\n\"For all these reasons and more besides, this man is not fit to be representing the UK as our trade envoy,\" the letter adds.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Abbott had \"no place in any British government\".\n\nAnd the SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsten Oswald, called the appointment \"beyond indefensible\".\n\nBut Mr Abbott's sister, Christine Forster, defended him against claims of misogyny and homophobia.\n\n\"As a woman who has always been part of his life and who came out to him as gay in my early 40s, I know incontrovertibly that Tony is neither of those things,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"In reality he is a man of great conviction and intellect; an unabashed conservative but with great compassion, respect for others, and an indelible sense of doing what is right.\"\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\nThe Board of Trade will meet four times a year.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss, who will chair the body, said: \"At a time of increased protectionism and global insecurity, it's vital that the UK is a strong voice for open markets and that we play a meaningful role in reshaping global trading rules alongside like-minded countries.\"\n\nShe said she was bringing together \"a diverse group of people who share Britain's belief in free enterprise, democracy, and high standards and rules-based trade\".", "Brett Savage served in Afghanistan while in the Army\n\nThe parents of an Army veteran who is believed to have taken his life say he was failed by the Ministry Of Defence.\n\nBrett Savage, who was 32 and served in Afghanistan, had previously told BBC News NI that the army was not doing enough to help young soldiers when they returned to civilian life.\n\nHis body was found at his home in Newtownards at the weekend.\n\nHis parents Noel and Dolores Savage said that the Army \"did nothing\" to help their son.\n\n\"We are totally and utterly heartbroken,\" said Mrs Savage.\n\n\"He was my world. He would've done anything for anyone, he was so kind.\"\n\nBut he struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when he left the Army.\n\nBrett Savage's parents at his funeral on Friday\n\n\"The doctor said that he could be walking down the street and it could be a noise or a smell and it would set him off,\" explained his mother.\n\n\"He just couldn't control it.\n\n\"When they go back from tours like that, they should have someone who can help them deal with all the emotions, with what they've seen and been through. There's nothing, they're just left.\n\n\"I feel very sad for all the ones who are going through all of this and I hope that if what happened to Brett is made public it'll maybe help somebody else and maybe the Army will step back and think of what to do when they're in these situations.\n\n\"When they're in the Army, they have their meals at certain times, do things at set times, and once they're out they don't have that.\n\n\"They can't cope with all the anger and emotions and what they've been through so they really do need some counselling and help. There is no help.\"\n\nVeterans' charity Beyond The Battlefield was a huge support for Brett Savage, his family say.\n\n\"All the Army do is count Brett like a number,\" his father Noel said.\n\n\"When he came back [from war] with the problems, I wouldn't let him go back and all they wanted to do was get him back so he ended up going AWOL.\"\n\nHis father told BBC News NI that he carried \"his demons\" and on bad days he would \"lock himself away and watch Star Wars from start to finish or some movies\".\n\n\"That's how he got through those couple of bad days and then he would bounce in to us, asking his mum what there was to eat.\n\n\"The demons had gone then, until the next time.\n\n\"Unfortunately they kept coming back.\n\n\"He just couldn't fathom his demons that he carried, and he carried them big time. Unfortunately they got him in the end.\n\n\"We thought he was OK. He did say he would never do what he did.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show on Friday, Ulster Unionist MLA and former soldier Doug Beattie spoke about his relationship with Mr Savage.\n\nHe said his death was \"devastating\" and that suicide was not just a problem in the military, but was \"societal\".\n\nMr Beattie said he had served together with him in the Royal Irish Regiment in Afghanistan, and Mr Savage was later under his command as an army reservist in Belfast.\n\n\"He was a young, fit man, a good-looking guy. Really enjoyed life, had many friends. Was sociable, personable. A really great soldier. Kind hearted,\" he said.\n\n\"I also saw how the demons were affecting him, I saw how his mental health degraded over time. We attempted at times to try and give him help.\n\n\"You always think: 'Was there one more thing that I could do? Could I have reached out to him for a cup of coffee? Could I give him a phone call?'\n\n\"There will be people out there who knew Brett who will be saying exactly the same as me.\"\n\nMr Beattie said the possibility of the minister of defence working with the families of soldiers to help facilitate their return from combat was something that should be considered.\n\nIn 2016, Brett Savage took part in a BBC NI radio documentary Losing the Battle.\n\nThe programme examined some of the mental health challenges facing many young soldiers in Northern Ireland after they returned from recent wars.\n\nThe then 29-year-old reflected on his own post-war struggles after his military service with the Royal Irish Regiment in Afghanistan ended.\n\nHe said: \"I didn't expect my life to be like this now. Never. You know, I can't sleep and stuff. Stupid things remind me of things.\"\n\nJohnny Mercer, the Minister for Defence, People and Veterans, said he was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Savage's death.\n\n\"PTSD is a serious and debilitating condition. There is a range of help available, and I am determined to do all I can to make sure that veterans know where they can turn to in times of need.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it would be inappropriate to comment further until the coroner had concluded their investigation.\n\nThe chief executive officer of Beyond the Battlefield, a Northern Ireland-based veterans' charity which supported Mr Savage, described his death as \"untimely\".\n\nAnnemarie Hastings said Mr Savage had initially come to the charity seeking help and proceeded to assist the charity by reaching out to other veterans who were struggling after their military service ended.\n\nHis funeral service took place in Newtownards on Friday, not far from the local war memorial.\n\nFloral tributes have been placed at the memorial, one of them remembering Brett Savage as \"a warrior\".\n\nFor information and support on mental health, access the BBC Action Line.", "Vanity Fair said actor Robert Pattinson has tested positive for coronavirus - days after shooting resumed\n\nFilming for The Batman has been suspended again, days after it resumed following the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe pause in filming, confirmed by Warner Bros, is because lead actor Robert Pattinson has tested positive for the virus, according to US media.\n\nWarner Bros said a member of the production team was self-isolating but it did not say who.\n\nFilming began in Glasgow earlier this year but was halted due to the pandemic.\n\nA spokeswoman for the studios said: \"A member of The Batman production has tested positive for Covid-19, and is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is temporarily paused.\"\n\nVanity Fair said British actor Pattinson, 34, caught the virus days after shooting resumed near London, after a six-month delay to filming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Batman was seen with film crews at Glasgow's Necropolis cemetery\n\nThe Batman was initially due for release in June 2021 but has been delayed to October 2021.\n\nIn the latest film, directed by Matt Reeves, Twilight star Pattinson follows in the footsteps of Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton and George Clooney in playing the Gotham City superhero.\n\nPattinson, who also co-stars in the current cinema hit Tenet, has not commented on the reports.", "Attending primary school puts children and staff at no greater risk of contracting coronavirus than staying at home, a study of 131 schools suggests.\n\nTests to find out who had already had the virus found similar levels of antibodies in pupils and teachers.\n\nBut the study, of 12,000 adults and children in England, was carried out in June and early July, when there were very few cases around.\n\nExperts say more studies are needed, when all children are attending school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nFor the study, pupils and staff were tested during the last six weeks of the summer term when Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children could return to school.\n\nSince then, millions of children across the UK have returned to the classroom, with lessons resuming in England and Wales in the past few days. Schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland reopened last month.\n\nSchools now look very different to what students were once used to, with pupils being told to stay in their \"bubble\" groups, follow one-way systems and social distance when necessary. Staggered start times have also been introduced, and hand-washing stations and screens installed.\n\nBubbles vary widely between schools. Some primary schools treat each class as a separate bubble, while secondary schools often have bubbles composed of entire year groups - sometimes of up to 300 children.\n\nChildren with a new classroom lay-out at a school in Southwark, south London\n\nScientists from Public Health England, who led the study, found just three people (one child and two staff) tested positive for the virus - 0.02% of those swabbed.\n\nThere was no evidence that any of these three people passed the virus on to others they lived with or worked with. This reflects previous research by PHE showing low numbers of cases and outbreaks in schools.\n\nA separate sample of 2,100 staff and children, who were tested for antibodies, found 10.6% of pupils and 12.7% of staff had previously had coronavirus.\n\nThis could suggest that children are as likely as adults to be infected, rather than being less susceptible to the disease.\n\nBut because so few positive cases in children are detected, it confirms previous research that they are likely to experience mild symptoms, or none at all.\n\nThe study found children and staff who attended school more frequently were no more likely to test positive for antibodies than those who did not attend school, or went less often.\n\nThis could indicate that infection levels in schools are simply reflecting virus levels in the communities where people live.\n\nHowever, some groups were more likely to have antibodies - they were non-white, lived in the same house as a healthcare worker and had experienced symptoms.\n\nSecondary schools were not included in the study, so no conclusions can be drawn about older children.\n\nDr Shamez Ladhani, consultant epidemiologist, from Public Health England said: \"This is the largest study of its kind in the country and suggests attending preschool and primary school brings no additional risk to either staff or students.\n\n\"Although these results are preliminary, they should be very reassuring to parents who may be anxious about their children returning to school.\"\n\nDr Liz Whittaker, clinical lecturer and consultant paediatrician, from Imperial College London, said it was a \"good quality study\" but \"limited by timing\" as there was very low transmission of coronavirus during the period studied.\n\n\"It is essential that studies such as these continue over the next few months, and importantly, are also performed in secondary school and college settings,\" she added.\n\nProf Ravindra Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Cambridge, cautioned that schools would now be coping with two to six times more children, which could alter the results.\n\n\"There is less ability to socially distance than schools were able to in June. We must not be complacent and falsely reassured. We must ensure adequate monitoring and testing strategies to pick up infections in schools before they spread,\" he said.\n\nRegarding the finding that children were often asymptomatic, Prof Gupta said that meant \"children may still continue to attend school if we do not regularly test for the virus in schools\".\n• None National surveillance of pre-schools and primary schools for coronavirus infection in England The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the quarantine system is \"an important part of our repertoire\"\n\nCoronavirus testing at airports may give a \"false sense of security\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, after suggestions it could be used to cut quarantine times for travellers.\n\nMr Johnson said testing on arrival would only identify 7% of virus cases.\n\nIt comes after a senior Tory MP backed calls from the struggling aviation sector to introduce airport testing.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis said testing could cut quarantine times to \"less than five days\".\n\nBut speaking during a visit to Solihull, the prime minister rejected Mr Davis's comments, saying: \"The quarantine system that we have has got to be an important part of our repertoire, of our toolbox, in fighting Covid.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told a cabinet decision on whether to introduce airport testing has been repeatedly postponed and now may never happen.\n\nMr Johnson said while he understood \"the difficulties\" the airline industry was facing, \"93% of the time you could have a real false sense of security, a false sense of confidence when you arrive and take a test\".\n\nThe government said that percentage was based on modelling by Public Health England.\n\nPeople entering the UK face 14 days of self-isolation unless they are travelling from countries that are exempt - a decision determined by the four nations' separate authorities.\n\nMr Johnson also insisted the UK was \"overwhelmingly... proceeding as one\" with regards to quarantine rules, after his transport secretary admitted that different rules across the four nations were \"confusing\".\n\nEarlier, Grant Shapps defended the decision not to impose restrictions on people entering England from Greece and Portugal - despite Scotland and Wales deciding to do so.\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nMr Shapps said the four nations \"quite often come to slightly different outcomes, which I appreciate is confusing for people.\"\n\nIn Wales, people must now quarantine for two weeks if they arrive from Portugal, Gibraltar or six Greek islands: Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (also known as Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nArrivals to Scotland from Portugal and French Polynesia will have to self-isolate from 04:00 on Saturday. Scotland has already reintroduced quarantine for arrivals from Greece.\n\nThe rules apply to where passengers live, not where they fly back to - so a traveller flying to England who lives in Wales must abide by Welsh quarantine rules.\n\nPortugal, Greece and French Polynesia are still on England and Northern Ireland's lists of travel corridors.\n\nHeathrow's chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, has been urging the government to introduce airport testing since May, arguing it will help save the economy.\n\nSpeaking before the prime minister's comments, Mr Holland-Kaye told the BBC that on-site testing facilities had already been set up and they were \"waiting for the government to give us the go-ahead\".\n\n\"It is frustrating that the government just has not made a decision to get on with this, when governments in other countries in Europe are getting on and making it happen,\" he said.\n\nSome countries, such as Iceland, offer travellers a choice on arrival if they have stayed in areas with high virus levels - anyone entering must either self-quarantine for 14 days or get tested for Covid-19.\n\nIt comes as a further 10 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, according to the latest figures.\n\nAnother 1,940 people have tested positive for the virus, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 342,351.", "The level of coronavirus among the community in England remains \"unchanged\" for the week to 25 August, the Office for National Statistics suggests.\n\nIts latest survey of people in households estimates there were around 2,000 new cases of coronavirus per day.\n\nThis suggests that, despite outbreaks in some local areas, overall case numbers remain stable.\n\nThe ONS figures give one of the most accurate pictures of infections levels.\n\nThey are based on more than 151,000 swab tests collected from people at home, whether they have symptoms or not.\n\nBut there is always a margin for error in the figures because over the past six weeks of the study very few people have tested positive - just 71 from 68 households.\n\nThe figures also do not cover what is going on in hospitals or care homes, where infection rates are likely to be different.\n\nHowever, they continue to paint a picture of a stable level of infections among private households in England.\n\nThe ONS estimates that 27,100 people in the community had the virus during that week from 19 to 25 August.\n\nThis is similar to the estimate for the previous week and several weeks before that.\n\nIn Wales, during the week to 25 August, 1,400 people are estimated to have had Covid-19 - also unchanged from previous weeks.\n\nA different kind of test - an antibody test, using blood samples - which looks for evidence of people having previously had the infection, has been carried out on 7,000 people as part of the ONS study.\n\nResults suggest that around 6% of the population - or one in 17 people - have been infected with the coronavirus in the past.\n\nThis equates to 2.7 million people in England.\n\nThe R number for the UK is between 0.9 and 1.1, say the government's scientific advisors, which means the number of people with the virus is staying at a constant level.\n\nThe reproduction number or R is the average number of people that one infected person passes the virus onto.\n\nAn R number of 1 means that on average every person who is infected will infect one other person, meaning the total number of infections is stable.\n\nThis estimate of R is a guide to the general trend rather than a description of what is happening today.\n\nThe Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said the ONS data showed that the government's approach, using contact tracing and local restrictions, was working and was helping the country \"to safely return to normal\".\n\n\"This reassuring news is testament to the hard work of everybody in following social distancing guidelines to protect themselves, their loved ones and the NHS.\"\n\nMr Hancock added: \"I would urge everybody to continue to be vigilant - wash your hands, wear a face covering and keep social distance from those outside your household - so we can keep the virus at bay.\"", "The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections, scientists say.\n\nMost people are infectious only for about a week, but could test positive weeks afterwards.\n\nResearchers say this could be leading to an over-estimate of the current scale of the pandemic.\n\nBut some experts say it is uncertain how a reliable test can be produced that doesn't risk missing cases.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, one of the study's authors, said instead of giving a \"yes/no\" result based on whether any virus is detected, tests should have a cut-off point so that very small amounts of virus do not trigger a positive result.\n\nHe believes the detection of traces of old virus could partly explain why the number of cases is rising while hospital admissions remain stable.\n\nThe University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine reviewed the evidence from 25 studies where virus specimens from positive tests were put in a petri dish to see whether they would grow.\n\nThis method of \"viral culturing\" can indicate whether the positive test has picked up active virus which can reproduce and spread, or just dead virus fragments which won't grow in the lab, or in a person.\n\nThis is a problem we have known about since the start - and once again illustrates why data on Covid is far from perfect.\n\nBut what difference does it make? When the virus first emerged probably very little, but the longer the pandemic goes on the bigger the effect.\n\nThe flurry of information about testing and the R number creates confusion.\n\nBut however we cut it, the fact remains there are very low levels of infection in the UK overall, lower than a number of other European countries.\n\nWhere there are local outbreaks the system - by and large - seems to be having success in curbing them.\n\nAnd this comes after the opening up of society over the summer.\n\nOf course, the big question is what happens next, with schools back and winter around the corner.\n\nThere is a growing sense within the public health community that the UK is in a strong position - and certainly a return to the high levels of infection seen in the spring should be avoided.\n\nBut there is also extreme caution and an understandable desire for complacency not to creep in.\n\nThe PCR swab test - the standard diagnostic method - uses chemicals to amplify the virus's genetic material so that it can be studied.\n\nYour test sample has to go through a number of \"cycles\" in the lab before enough virus is recovered.\n\nJust how many can indicate how much of the virus is there - whether it's tiny fragments or lots of whole virus.\n\nThis in turn appears to be linked to how likely the virus is to be infectious - tests that have to go through more cycles are less likely to reproduce when cultured in the lab.\n\nBut when you take a coronavirus test, you get a \"yes\" or \"no\" answer. There is no indication of how much virus was in the sample, or how likely it is to be an active infection.\n\nA person shedding a large amount of active virus, and a person with leftover fragments from an infection that's already been cleared, would receive the same - positive - test result.\n\nBut Prof Heneghan, the academic who spotted a quirk in how deaths were being recorded, which led Public Health England to reform its system, says evidence suggests coronavirus \"infectivity appears to decline after about a week\".\n\nHe added that while it would not be possible to check every test to see whether there was active virus, the likelihood of false positive results could be reduced if scientists could work out where the cut-off point should be.\n\nThis could prevent people being given a positive result based on an old infection.\n\nAnd Prof Heneghan said that would stop people quarantining or being contact-traced unnecessarily, and give a better understanding of the current scale of the pandemic.\n\nPublic Health England agreed viral cultures were a useful way of assessing the results of coronavirus tests and said it had recently undertaken analysis along these lines.\n\nIt said it was working with labs to reduce the risk of false positives, including looking at where the \"cycle threshold\", or cut-off point, should be set.\n\nBut it said there were many different test kits in use, with different thresholds and ways of being read, which made providing a range of cut-off points difficult.\n\nBut Prof Ben Neuman, at the University of Reading, said culturing virus from a patient sample was \"not trivial\".\n\n\"This review runs the risk of falsely correlating the difficulty of culturing Sars-CoV-2 from a patient sample, with likelihood that it will spread,\" he said.\n\nProf Francesco Venturelli, an epidemiologist in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, which was hit hard by the virus in March, said there was \"not enough certainty\" about how long virus remains infectious during the recovering period.\n\nSome studies based on viral cultures reported about 10% of patients still had viable virus after eight days, he said.\n\nIn Italy, which had its peak earlier than the UK, \"for several weeks we were over-estimating cases\" because of people who acquired the infection several weeks before they were identified as positive.\n\nBut, as you move away from the peak, this phenomenon diminishes.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw at Imperial College London said PCR was a highly sensitive \"method of detecting residual viral genetic material\".\n\n\"This is not evidence of infectivity,\" he said. But the clinical consensus was that patients were \"very unlikely to be infectious beyond day 10 of disease\".\n• None Covid testing boss 'very sorry' for shortages", "The government has urged Whitehall bosses to \"move quickly\" to get more staff back into the office.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, it says it is \"strongly encouraging\" attendance through rota systems, arguing this would be \"hugely beneficial\".\n\nThe government says it wants 80% of civil servants to be able to attend their usual workplace at least once a week by the end of the month.\n\nBut unions have described the government's attitude as outdated.\n\nThey said most civil servants should expect to keep working from home until the end of the year, and they would consider strike action if staff were forced to return when it was unsafe.\n\nThe letter applies to staff in England, with those elsewhere in the UK expected to follow local guidance and continue working from home.\n\nIt follows criticism that too few civil servants working from home because of coronavirus have returned to their desks, despite the easing of lockdown.\n\nAccording to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there has been an increase in people travelling to work in the last two months, with fewer working exclusively from home.\n\nThey said 57% of working adults - out of 1,644 surveyed - reported that they had travelled to work at some point in the past seven days, while 20% had worked solely from home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does a 'Covid-secure' workplace look like?\n\nThousands of businesses that rely on passing trade are suffering while offices stand empty, Dame Carolyn Fairbairn from the CBI has said.\n\nBut Alex Brazier, the Bank of England's executive director for financial stability, has warned that the government should not expect a \"sharp return\" to \"dense office environments\".\n\nIn the letter, sent to permanent secretaries - the highest officials in government departments - Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and Alex Chisholm, chief operating officer of the Civil Service, say that \"getting more people back into work in a Covid-secure way will improve the public services we deliver\".\n\nThey add: \"We have seen a reduced level of social interaction among our colleagues, with the loss of some of the spontaneous interaction and cross-fertilisation between teams that drives innovation and sustained common purpose.\"\n\nBut they say staff safety \"remains our paramount concern\", and that workplace returns will be discussed with unions and staff groups.\n\nWorkplace guidance includes introducing one-way systems, staggered shift times and limiting the number of colleagues that staff members are exposed to in order to prevent the spread of the virus, such as only allowing a small number in lifts at any one time.\n\nThe letter goes on: \"Departments which are still below their departmental constraints should now move quickly to seek to bring more staff back into the office in a Covid-secure way, and take advantage of the return to schools this month and increased public transport availability.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has asked officials for a weekly update on progress.\n\nBoris Johnson is clearly worried about the impact of empty office districts in major cities - and has been urging people to discuss going back to the office, where it's safe to do so.\n\nSome Tory MPs want it to be the government's main priority now that schools are open again. They fear without movement soon, there could be extensive and lasting economic damage.\n\nEncouraging civil servants back into the office could be seen as leading by example, perhaps showing how a system might work for other employers.\n\nBut unions warn the workplace has changed forever and ministers would be better focussing on how to adapt to a new working world.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said this week that it estimated 30% to 40% would be able to return to the office by the end of the year.\n\nLeader Dave Penman accused ministers of \"sounding like Luddites\" in an era when technology made home working easier.\n\nMr Penman told BBC Radio 4's Today that one \"fundamental problem\" with the approach was that, on a practical level, government offices have a maximum capacity of around 50% because of coronavirus restrictions. He said the civil service was working \"very effectively\" from home.\n\nHe added it was \"quite clear\" that \"this is really about virtue signalling to the private sector that has already moved on\".\n\nAnd Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said he was prepared to consider industrial action \"as a last resort\" if workers' health and safety were \"put at risk\".\n\nMeanwhile, outsourcing firm Capita - a major government contractor - is planning to close more than a third of its offices in the UK permanently.", "An endangered white-handed gibbon: The right conservation strategies can save the day\n\nScientists have calculated how many mammals might be lost this century, based on fossil evidence of past extinctions.\n\nTheir predictions suggest at least 550 species will follow in the footsteps of the mammoth and sabre-toothed cat.\n\nWith every \"lost species\" we lose part of the Earth's natural history, they say.\n\nYet, despite these \"grim\" projections, we can save hundreds of species by stepping up conservation efforts.\n\nThe new research, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests that humans are almost entirely responsible for extinctions of mammals in past decades.\n\nAnd rates will escalate in the future if we don't take action now.\n\nDespite this \"alarming\" scenario, we could save hundreds if not thousands of species with more targeted and efficient conservation strategies, said Tobias Andermann of the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre and the University of Gothenburg.\n\nIn order to achieve this, we must increase our collective awareness about the \"looming escalation of the biodiversity crisis, and take action in combatting this global emergency\".\n\n\"Time is pressing,\" he said. \"With every lost species, we irreversibly lose a unique portion of Earth's natural history.\"\n\nA mammoth skull at auction in New York City: Many more could follow this extinct species' path\n\nThe scientists compiled a large dataset of fossils, which provided evidence for the timing and scale of recent extinctions.\n\nTheir computer-based simulations predict large increases in extinction rates by the year 2100, based on the current threat status of species.\n\nAccording to these models, the extinctions that have occurred in past centuries only represent the tip of the iceberg, compared with the looming extinctions of the next decades.\n\n\"Reconstructing our past impacts on biodiversity is essential to understand why some species and ecosystems have been particularly vulnerable to human activities - which can hopefully allow us to develop more effective conservation actions to combat extinction,\" said Prof Samuel Turvey of ZSL (Zoological Society of London).\n\nLast year an intergovernmental panel of scientists said one million animal and plant species were now threatened with extinction.\n\nScientists have warned that we are entering the sixth mass extinction, with whatever we do now likely to define the future of humanity.\n• None 'Billions of years of evolutionary history' under threat", "Daniel Prude died a week after he was restrained by police\n\nThe US police officers involved in the suffocation death of a black man were following their training \"step by step\", the officers' union chief said.\n\nDaniel Prude - who suffered from mental health issues - died after being put in a \"spit hood\", designed to protect officers from detainees' saliva.\n\nThe mayor suspended the seven Rochester Police officers involved on Thursday.\n\nMr Prude, 41, died in March but his death has just recently been reported after body camera video was released.\n\nHis death came two months before that of George Floyd, whose killing while in police custody sparked widespread outrage and incited national and international demonstrations against police brutality and racism.\n\nThe officers' suspension this week is the first disciplinary action taken in the wake of Mr Prude's death. Contract rules mean that the officers will still be paid while on leave, according to city officials.\n\n\"To me, it looks like they were watching the training in front of them,\" said Michael Mazzaeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club on Friday. \"If there's a problem with that, let's change it.\"\n\nMr Mazzaeo further defended the officers, saying they were in a difficult position trying to help someone who appeared to have a mental illness, and they did not intend to harm Mr Prude.\n\nThe spit hood is standard equipment for officers, he said.\n\nMr Prude's brother, Joe, has said he called police on 23 March as Daniel was showing acute mental health problems. When officers arrived, he had been running naked through the streets in a light snow.\n\nMr Prude died in March, but his death has only just been reported\n\nPolice body camera video obtained by the family shows Mr Prude lying on the ground as officers restrain him. Mr Prude, who was not carrying a weapon, can be seen complying with officers immediately.\n\nWhile sitting on the road, he becomes agitated, alternately asking for money or a gun.\n\nHe spits repeatedly on the ground, but does not appear to offer any physical resistance, according to the footage.\n\nAn officer says that Mr Prude told them he has Covid-19, and they place the spit hood on him.\n\nOne officer can be seen pressing down on Mr Prude's head with both hands, saying \"stop spitting\". Mr Prude stops moving and goes quiet, and officers note he feels cold.\n\nParamedics are called and Mr Prude is taken to hospital in an ambulance. His family took him off life support days later on 30 March.\n\nThe Monroe County medical examiner ruled Mr Prude's death a homicide caused by \"complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint\", according to a post-mortem examination.\n\nThe autopsy report also cited \"excited delirium\" and acute intoxication by phencyclidine, or the drug PCP, as contributing factors.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James' office has launched an investigation into Mr Prude's death and Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for the case to be concluded \"as expeditiously as possible\".", "Coverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nDan Evans succumbed to the precocious talent of Frenchman Corentin Moutet in four sets as Britain's interest in the US Open singles ended on Friday.\n\nThe second-round match resumed after Thursday's rain suspension with Evans looking favourite to go 2-1 up in sets after moving to 4-1 in the tie-break.\n\nBut Moutet, 21, battled back to take the third set, then took the fourth to a tie-break having been 4-1 down.\n\nThe 23rd seed's exit swiftly followed compatriot Cameron Norrie's third-round defeat by Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, also on court five.\n\nEvans said he played a \"pretty bad match\" and blamed himself for the defeat.\n\n\"I didn't play great over the two days,\" said the 30-year-old.\n\n\"I was up in the match on numerous occasions. I have nothing to blame apart from myself. You have to win those matches. You have to win them to be a good player and go up the rankings. From the positions I was in, I didn't do anything really well.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to Moutet, adding: \"His way of playing was awkward - I have to give him credit. He doesn't really have a game style or plan, and it's difficult. I thought today he served better. He makes you think twice about what you're going to do and play.\"\n\nMoutet will play Andy Murray's conqueror, Felix Auger-Aliassime, in the third round on Saturday.\n• None Zverev says he was told there was 'very little chance' Mannarino match would be played\n• None Djokovic cruises into US Open last 16\n• None Osaka comes through in three sets\n\nEvans seemed to play a mirror image of himself with the world number 77 explosive and quick around the court with plenty of variation in his play. They were also animated as they verbally expressed gripes both with themselves, each other and those in the crowd.\n\nIt was difficult to separate the pair on Thursday before their match was suspended, and on resumption it was no surprise Evans held his serve at 6-5 to take the third set into a tie-break.\n\nThe British number one raced into a 4-1 lead before errors on his forehand and backhand allowed Moutet to level and then move ahead as Evans found the net. A big first serve earned the 5ft 9in Frenchman the tie-break and the set.\n\nEvans regrouped and look a strong favourite to take the match into a decider by going into a 4-1 lead after breaking his opponent in the second game. But once again the plucky Moutet raised his level to break back in the seventh game with a delightful lob.\n\nEvans began to look exasperated while Moutet's service game was looking exceptional. The tie-break was a one-sided affair as the Briton's levels slumped, with a shot into the net handing his opponent victory.\n\nEarlier, Norrie led by a break in the third set but then lost 11 of the last 12 games as he fell to a 7-6 (7-2) 4-6 6-2 6-1 defeat in the third round in New York.\n\nThe unforced errors mounted for the 25-year-old in the final two sets, with Norrie making 57 overall.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nNorrie, ranked 76th, appeared to be establishing control in the match when he broke to lead 2-1 in the third set but world number 99 Davidovich Fokina levelled straight away and then ran away with the match as the Briton's performance dropped alarmingly.\n\nHe struggled desperately on serve in the closing stages, losing more than 60% of the points on his own delivery in the third set. The double faults then mounted at crucial stages in the fourth set with Norrie appearing to be having issues with his eyes.\n\nNorrie had fought back from two sets down and saved match points to beat ninth seed Diego Schwartzman in the first round, but he was not happy with the level of his performance then and certainly will not be with how he fell away against the 21-year-old.\n\nThe first two sets had been very competitive, if still error-strewn. After a break apiece, the first went to a tie-break which the Spaniard dominated, winning the last five points.\n\nNorrie saved three break points in the fourth game of the second set and then immediately pounced, chasing down a drop shot and sending a forehand down the line to go 3-2 up. After saving another break point at 5-4 up, a similar shot sealed the set for the Briton but it was to be largely downhill from there.\n\n\"I was real dehydrated and [my vision] got a little bit blurry at the start of the third when I broke. I was not really seeing the ball that clearly,\" Norrie said.\n\n\"Towards the end I managed to drink a little bit more and actually felt great in the fourth set but it was too late, he played freely and he played great.\"\n\nThere was success for Britain in the men's doubles second round with Joe Salisbury and American partner Rajeev Ram, the Australian Open champions, overcoming American brothers Ryan and Christian Harrison 6-2 6-4.\n\nDan Evans' versatility usually causes problems for others, but in this match he was often on the receiving end as Corentin Moutet zipped around the court to produce some breathtaking winners.\n\nThere is certainly no predictable pattern to the play of the 21-year-old left-hander, who has now matched his best Grand Slam performance.\n\nIt was a match Evans felt he should have won, and Cameron Norrie may feel similarly having gone an early break up in the third set.\n\nBut 11 of the last 12 games went Davidovich Fokina's way, as Norrie felt his eyesight deteriorate through dehydration.\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "People living nearby described hearing a \"huge explosion\" and said \"the whole place shook\"\n\nA large fire has broken out in an industrial building and people have been evacuated from the nearby area.\n\nOne resident of Hoo Marina, close to the blaze on Vicarage Lane, described hearing a \"huge explosion\" and an eyewitness said the \"place shook\".\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said about 200 people were removed from the area and advised others to keep windows and doors closed.\n\nCrews are to stay at the site overnight after the blaze started at 04:40 BST.\n\nThe flames could be seen from miles around, but no-one was injured.\n\nInvestigators are yet to establish how the fire started.\n\nMark Woodward, the incident commander for the fire service, said the building was used to store animal welfare equipment and some Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders had exploded in the blaze.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother eyewitness told BBC Radio Kent he heard \"two massive bangs\" at about 05:00.\n\n\"We thought it was a thunderbolt because the whole place shook,\" he said.\n\n\"All I could see in the background was a red ball of fire and we were all told to evacuate.\"\n\nResidents in the area were advised to keep windows and doors closed\n\nMr Woodward said the blaze had been \"well contained\" and the fire service was \"considering how best to extinguish it\".\n\nAt its height, 10 fire engines were tackling the flames, and a 200 metre cordon was in place.\n\nUK Power Networks confirmed it sent engineers to the area at 10:00 after receiving reports of an interruption to power supplies to 13 properties.\n\nThe power supply to 40 customers was also cut as work continued to reconnect supplies, the company said.\n\nA spokeswoman said the fire had damaged an overhead power cable.\n\nRoads in the area were closed off by Medway Council while emergency teams dealt with the blaze.\n\nNo-one was injured in the blaze\n\nMany residents were sent to the Village Institute in Hoo, where an emergency rest centre was set up.\n\nChris Hosegood said the fire had been intense.\n\n\"As we walked up Vicarage Lane we looked back and saw the black smoke and all of a sudden the big fireballs.\n\n\"We could feel the heat half way up the lane,\" she said.\n\nAt 18:30 BST three fire engines were still at the scene, with firefighters saying they would remain for another one or two days.\n\nMost residents have been allowed to return home.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: “People give a lot more information probably to their supermarkets than they will to the government.”\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it is \"common sense to move in the direction of digital IDs\" as part of efforts to fight coronavirus.\n\nMr Blair said there should be a record kept by the government of those vaccinated against the virus.\n\nThe government recently set out plans to change laws to enable the use of digital identity across the UK.\n\nAs prime minister, Mr Blair launched a compulsory ID card scheme, but it was scrapped by the coalition government.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newscast podcast, he said that once a coronavirus vaccine is in use \"you're going to want a record of the fact you've been vaccinated\".\n\n\"You'll want a record kept by the government of who's been vaccinated - this will be essential, again, to restoring confidence,\" he added.\n\nThe former PM argued that improvements in technology meant privacy issues \"can be dealt with\".\n\n\"You don't need a large amount of information,\" he said adding: \"People give a lot more information to their supermarkets than they do to the government.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Blair's comments, Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch - a civil liberties campaign group - said: \"The idea of digital ID and vaccination checks could easily lead to a health apartheid that few would expect of a democratic country.\n\n\"Digital IDs would lead to sensitive records spanning medical, work, travel, and biometric data about each and every one of us being held at the fingertips of authorities and state bureaucrats.\n\n\"This dangerous plan would normalise identity checks, increase state control over law abiding citizens and create a honey pot for cybercriminals.\"\n\nMr Blair's comments come after the government announced plans to update existing laws on identity checking to allow digital identity \"to be used as widely as possible\".\n\nIt is does not propose resurrecting the ID card scheme, but is \"exploring how secure checks could be made against government data,\" according to the government announcement.\n\nDigital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman said: \"Digital technology is helping us through the pandemic and continues to improve the way we live, work and access vital services.\n\n\"We want to make it easier for people to prove their identity securely online so transactions can become even quicker - it has the potential to add billions to our economy.\"\n\nMr Blair was a keen advocate of ID cards for all UK citizens, as a way of combating terrorism after 9/11, but it was later billed as an \"entitlement card\" to combat benefit fraud and illegal workers.\n\nThe former PM has argued since leaving office that ID cards are the only way to combat illegal immigration.\n\nThe ID card scheme began its rollout in November 2009, under Gordon Brown's premiership, but was scrapped in 2010 by the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government which saw it as an infringement of civil liberties.\n\nDuring his interview with Newscast, Mr Blair also argued that coronavirus quarantine policies were \"killing\" international travel.\n\nHe said he didn't think the 14 day quarantine period for those returning from certain countries abroad was \"necessary\".\n\n\"The question is not how you eliminate the risk, it is how you contain it,\" he added.\n\nMr Blair also said it was a \"mystery\" to him why there hadn't been a more coordinated international effort to tackle the virus. \"I honestly don't understand the reason for that not happening,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking of poorer countries in Africa, he said: \"They can't do lockdown, it's just not possible, but as a result of the global crisis they're facing real food security problems, real supply problems.\"\n\nOn vaccines, he said he hoped we \"do not end up in a situation where wealthy countries get the vaccines and poor countries are scrabbling for them. This wouldn't just be morally wrong, it would be totally against our own interests\".", "Pret a Manger is to offer customers up to five coffees a day if they sign up to a monthly subscription service.\n\nThe chain is hoping that the price tag of £20 is low enough to win back some of the business lost in the pandemic.\n\nBut city centres, saturated with coffee shops, remain relatively deserted as many office workers continue to work from home.\n\nPret has already announced it is closing 30 outlets and laying off a third of its staff.\n\nPret boss Pano Christou told the BBC's Today programme: \"There's no doubt that workers will come into the office less often than beforehand. Pret needs to adapt itself to the changes of customer patterns and that's where we've been very focused.\"\n\nAlthough many of the sandwich chain's outlets are in central London, Mr Christou said that 40% of its business was in London suburbs and the home counties, where customers were starting to return \"much more swiftly\".\n\nHe added that Pret had seen its delivery business grow tenfold through the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe coffee and sandwich chain is launching YourPret Barista next week as part of new digital strategy which it hopes will help revive its fortunes.\n\nBriony Raven, Pret's director of coffee and packaging, said the scheme aimed to help persuade customers to see Pret as the default choice, in the same way they do other subscription services such as Netflix.\n\n\"It's Pret's way of doing loyalty,\" she said. \"It's about giving people an easy choice, when they come back into their everyday routine.\"\n\nFor the fixed monthly fee a customer can select any \"barista prepared\" drink from a skinny soya latte to a smoothie, using their phone to access the subscription, up to five times a day, seven days a week.\n\nTo prevent misuse by anyone planning to get in a round of coffees for their friends and colleagues, each drink must be collected 30 minutes apart.\n\nConsumer expert Kate Hardcastle said the £20 fee, with a month's free introductory trial, was an \"impressively low-ball offer\", illustrating how desperate retailers are to win people back and build loyalty.\n\n\"There has been a significant rise in subscription models over lockdown, everything from socks to gin, so people are into the idea,\" she said.\n\n\"But it's not going to be easy to translate to the coffee shop. What was once the daily latte is now interrupted. It may be that trips to the office are only once or twice a week rather than daily. Consumers are also well aware there could be regional lockdowns, which may mean they don't want to commit big amounts upfront.\"\n\nThe scheme appears to be designed around the \"new normal\", at a price that is still attractive even if you're only going to the office twice a week, said Natalie Berg an analyst with NBK retail.\n\n\"Pret is betting you'll buy a sandwich with that coffee and it becomes habitual,\" she said.\n\n\"Once you become a member of any subscription you want to get value so you use it more, spend more. So if you are a member, it's unlikely you'll go into Starbucks.\"\n\nThe scheme is \"revolutionary\", Ms Berg added, and shows the firm has recognised it needs to be creative in the current circumstances.\n\nAs well as tempting people back in-store, it paves the way for Pret to offer a range of other services via the new digital platform, allowing it to engage with customers more personally and tailor services according to their spending habits.\n\nPret said it had a number of other innovations in the pipeline, including extending its evening meal offer and deliveries. It has also started selling Pret-branded coffee on Amazon.\n\nDo you plan on taking advantage of Pret's monthly subscription service for coffee? Get in touch: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A County Fermanagh man has been fined £1,000 for breaching Covid-19 travel rules - the first person in NI to be sanctioned in this way.\n\nIt is understood he went out socialising in Enniskillen on Sunday after returning from holiday in Spain, before later testing positive.\n\nPolice confirmed the fine was issued on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes as it emerged 23 prohibition notices have been issued to bars since they were allowed to reopen on 3 July.\n\nThe notices are issued if a premises breaks coronavirus regulations, and mean the business must rectify the breaches identified by police.\n\nIt does not necessarily mean a premises has to close.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said the notices were served at premises across all counties in Northern Ireland, and had been issued between 8 July and 2 September.\n\nBars with outside areas are able to serve alcohol on a table-service basis, while inside alcohol has to be served along with a meal, also on a table-service basis.\n\nAt the end of August Health Minister Robin Swann said there had been a \"blatant disregard\" for the regulations by some in the hospitality sector.\n\nThe reopening date for indoor pubs which only serve alcohol, theatres and private members' clubs has been pushed back due to the rise in cases of the virus.\n\nAnyone travelling to Northern Ireland from countries not on the so-called green list of exemptions is required to self-isolate for two weeks on arrival.\n\nIt is understood the man who was fined had recently returned from the Balearic Islands, as first reported by the Belfast Telegraph.\n\nACC Alan Todd said the management of Covid-19 travel rules was a matter for UK Border Force, and police acted on its recommendation about potential breaches.\n\nHe said police would also \"act on any significant concerns raised by members of the public\".\n\n\"As always, our approach remains to engage, explain and encourage and, only where necessary, enforce,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone needs to continue to follow the government's guidance to help suppress the transmission of the virus and support our NHS.\"\n\nHe added it was \"encouraging to see\" that there had been a high level of compliance with the mandatory quarantine on travellers to Northern Ireland.\n• None Could police fine me for exercising?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Hunt said she \"had a lightbulb moment\" that she was drugged\n\nA woman seeking what is thought to be the UK's first crowdfunded private rape prosecution says she hopes to lead the way for those \"let down\" by the courts.\n\nEmily Hunt from London, claims she was drugged and raped in 2015.\n\nPolice investigated, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) felt there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a case.\n\nMs Hunt has hired a barrister who believes there are grounds for a criminal prosecution.\n\nMs Hunt - who has waived her right to anonymity - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on the day of the alleged rape she woke up \"completely naked\" at 22:00 in a hotel room next to a man she had \"never seen\".\n\nHer last memory of that day was between 16:00 and 17:00, she said, when she had been having a meal with her father.\n\nWhen she \"finally came to\", she added, she had a \"light-bulb moment\" that she had been drugged.\n\n\"I'd never felt like that before. I'd lost five hours of my life and wound up somewhere where I didn't know how I got there.\"\n\nShe said she hid in the bathroom and phoned a friend, who rang the police.\n\nWith no memory of the encounter Ms Hunt was not aware they had had sex until police informed her they had found used condoms in the hotel room.\n\nThe man told police they had had sex but insisted it was consensual.\n\nMs Hunt believes it was rape as she would not have been in a state to consent.\n\nPolice told her the man had also \"filmed her naked and unconscious on the bed\" and carried out a sex act over her body.\n\nThe police referred her case to the CPS, who upon reviewing CCTV footage and toxicology tests decided there was not enough evidence to proceed.\n\nCCTV footage of Ms Hunt and the man showed them kissing and holding hands as they walked to the hotel after leaving a bar.\n\nToxicology tests, taken almost nine hours after her last memory, showed Ms Hunt was at least two times over the drink drive limit, but came back negative for any signs of the date rape drug GHB.\n\nMs Hunt believes the toxicology report was \"flawed\", and that CCTV footage - which she said showed her unable to stand without support - demonstrated how she could not have been in a position to give consent.\n\nShe estimated the cost of a potential private rape prosecution to be £50,000 - a sum she is hoping to crowdfund.\n\n\"It is an amazing thing that we as individuals can bring a criminal charge in a case where the system has let us down, that can result in a rapist going to jail,\" she said.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it \"carried out a thorough investigation following [Ms Hunt's] allegations\" and \"will always provide support to anyone who reports a serious sexual offence\".\n\nMs Hunt's complaints over its investigation were \"independently reviewed by the IPCC and not upheld\", it continued.\n\nThe CPS said \"having looked carefully at all the available evidence, a specialist prosecutor decided there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction in this case\".\n\nA further review - conducted at the request of Ms Hunt - \"upheld the original decision\", it added.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Pat Finucane, a 39-year-old Belfast solicitor, was shot dead in front of his wife and children\n\nThe UK government has been asked how it intends to comply with a Supreme Court ruling on the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.\n\nThe Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has demanded \"concrete information\" by 22 October.\n\nMr Finucane was shot by loyalist paramilitaries in front of his young family at their home in February 1989.\n\nIn 2019, the Supreme Court ruled there had not been a human rights-compliant inquiry into his death.\n\nBut the justices ruled out a public inquiry of the type demanded by the family and said it was for the state to decide \"what form of investigation, if indeed any is now feasible, is required\".\n\nA UK government spokesperson says it is committed to \"taking forward these important issues as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Committee of Ministers is a decision-making body made up of the ministers for foreign affairs of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.\n\nThe committee issued an eight-point document, which included a call for the authorities take a decision \"without delay\" on how to proceed.\n\nA general measure further expressed concern at the \"lack of detail\" in the government's approach to mechanisms to deal with the past.\n\nMr Finucane's widow Geraldine welcomed the statement, saying it was \"disappointing the UK government must be compelled in this way\".\n\n\"It would appear that the Committee of Ministers has now run out of patience and, like me, is demanding clear answers,\" she added.\n\nGeraldine Finucane has been involved in a long-running legal battle over her husband's murder\n\nDublin's Minister of Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has welcomed the decision in relation to both the Pat Finucane murder and the wider issue of legacy cases.\n\nThe Irish government said it was a \"matter of significant and increasing concern\" that the legislation to implement the Stormont House Agreement framework to deal with Troubles-related cases has not been progressed.\n\n\"Victims and survivors have had to wait for far too long for a suitable and effective system in Northern Ireland to deal with the legacy of the Troubles,\" the government said.\n\nMr Finucane was a high-profile solicitor and convicted members of the IRA were among his clients.\n\nIn February 2019, the Supreme Court judges said none of the inquiries into Mr Finucane's death, including the review carried out by Sir Desmond de Silva, had the capability \"of establishing all the salient facts\" about his killing or the liability of those who were responsible for his death.\n\nIn his 2012 review, Sir Desmond de Silva QC said the state had facilitated Mr Finucane's killing and made relentless efforts to stop the killers being caught.\n\nHowever, his report concluded there had been \"no overarching state conspiracy\".\n\nUpdate 9 October 2020: This article was amended to clarify the ruling of the Supreme Court with regard to a new investigation into the murder of Mr Finucane.", "Feargal Sharkey fronted Northern Irish punk band The Undertones, and in the 1980s had a huge hit as a solo artist with A Good Heart\n\nSinger Feargal Sharkey has criticised a water company for \"dumping\" thousands of hours' worth of sewage in a river.\n\nThe former Undertones front man, a \"life-long fly fisherman\", said the 12,734 hours of dumping in the River Kennet last year was \"utterly shocking\" and potentially illegal.\n\nThames Water acknowledged the duration of sewage discharge but said it was due to storms and so was \"heavily diluted\".\n\nIt added discharges into rivers stopped flooding in homes and streets.\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\nSharkey, who fronted punk band The Undertones and went on to have a successful solo career in the 1980s, said: \"The UK Government was taken to court in 2012 regarding dumping sewage and allowing water companies to dump sewage into rivers.\n\n\"The court ruled that that should not be allowed to happen, and in fact ruled that it should only possibly ever happen in what the court referred to as 'exceptional circumstances'.\n\n\"Using Thames Water's own monitoring data, we now know that last year they spent 12,734 hours dumping sewage into the River Kennet.\n\n\"Well can someone please explain to me what the exceptional circumstances were?\"\n\nThe River Kennet is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and is one of England's most important chalk streams\n\nOn Twitter, Sharkey described the 46-mile river - a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which runs from Malborough, Wiltshire, to Woolhampton, Berkshire - as \"one of the rarest habitats on earth\".\n\nA Thames Water spokesman said: \"We work hard to minimise storm discharges, while also looking at how we can improve the system for the future, including reducing groundwater infiltration and increasing capacity.\n\n\"We've also invested heavily in monitoring equipment to understand how frequently spills occur and help us plan improvements.\"\n\nHe added sewage discharges were not \"the only sources of pollutants\" but that \"animal faeces from livestock and wildlife, along with run-off from farms and roads, also contribute to the hazards\".\n\nSharkey said: \"In Thames Water you're talking about a company that has paid billions of pounds in dividends to shareholders. Perhaps they should have spent some of that money in maintaining and upgrading their sewage networks.\"\n\nA Thames Water spokesman said: \"Our shareholders are in it for the long term and have not taken a dividend for three years to prioritise investment in improving service for customers, and to protect the environment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, aged 83, is in hospital with early-stage double pneumonia after testing positive for coronavirus, Italian media report.\n\nHe spent the night in hospital in Milan for checks, having tested positive on Wednesday.\n\nEarlier his right-wing Forza Italia party said his condition was not a cause for concern, and \"he is fine\".\n\nThe media tycoon's partner and two of his children also tested positive.\n\nBerlusconi has been in self-isolation with his 30-year-old partner, the Forza Italia MP Marta Fascina, at his villa in Arcore near Milan, after holidaying in Sardinia.\n\nThe infection rate in Sardinia - famous for its Emerald Coast beaches - is higher than in much of Italy.\n\n\"A small precautionary hospitalisation was needed to monitor the progress of Covid-19 but he is fine,\" said Forza Italia senator Licia Ronzulli.\n\nLast month Berlusconi was at Villa Certosa, his luxury villa in Sardinia\n\nBerlusconi was transferred to an isolation ward at San Raffaele Hospital on Thursday night. Double pneumonia - inflammation of both lungs - is a common complication with Covid patients. The disease is generally more severe among the elderly and those with other medical conditions.\n\nBerlusconi, a billionaire who used to own AC Milan football team, remains popular in Italy and he has had many messages of support since being diagnosed.\n\nIn 2014 he was ordered to do a year of community service after being convicted of tax fraud. His business deals have long been under scrutiny, as have his romantic liaisons, including reports of raunchy \"bunga bunga\" parties.\n\nBerlusconi addressed party activists in Genoa by phone on Thursday, saying \"I'm continuing to work as best I can on the current election campaign\". Separately, he said he did not know how he had caught the virus.\n\nItaly will hold regional elections on 21-22 September, which had to be postponed at the height of the pandemic in Italy in spring.\n\nItaly has introduced swab tests for people arriving on the mainland from Sardinia\n\nLast month Berlusconi hosted businessman Flavio Briatore at his luxury Sardinia residence, Villa Certosa.\n\nMr Briatore, who tested positive for coronavirus in late August, owns a nightclub on the island called Billionaire and used to run the Benetton Formula One racing team.\n\nBerlusconi served as Italian prime minister four times and last year was elected to the European Parliament.\n\nAfter his conviction for tax fraud he was ejected from the Italian Senate and banned from public office. But later his ban was lifted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police colleagues and members of the public have left flowers and paid tribute to an officer who was killed in the early hours of Friday. He was shot at Croydon Custody Centre and died in hospital.\n\nThe officer has not been officially named.\n\nA 23-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital. It is thought he turned the gun on himself after shooting the officer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shops were closed for about three months, before reopening in June\n\nUK shoppers may have lost a total of nearly £100m in unused vouchers during the coronavirus lockdown, the consumer group Which? has estimated.\n\nA survey of 2,000 adults suggested a quarter of people possessed a voucher that expired during lockdown.\n\nMany retailers contacted customers and offered to extend them - but a third of those with an expiring voucher did not get an extension and lost the money.\n\nWhich? urged people who were unable to use their vouchers to contact the shop.\n\nIt also warned of the risks of buying new vouchers because some well-known retailers had recently collapsed - and added that further coronavirus restrictions could make it difficult to spend them.\n\nNon-essential shops and businesses closed in March for several months, as part of the government's lockdown restrictions to deal with the pandemic.\n\nMany shops automatically extended the time that customers could spend their vouchers - as well as extending their return periods.\n\nShops eventually reopened throughout June (in Northern Ireland first, followed by England, Wales and then Scotland) with some long queues outside stores.\n\nIn its survey carried out in August, Which? found that nearly half of people with an expiring voucher had it automatically extended.\n\nOne in seven - or 15% - of people with a voucher had to to request an extension, with one customer telling Which? that a company told them \"hard luck, basically\".\n\nBut 36% - which could equate to an estimated 3.1 million people, according to Which? - did not receive an extension on their shopping vouchers.\n\nWhich? says the unspent vouchers were worth £31.70 on average, meaning around £98m was likely to have been lost across the whole of the UK.\n\nThe consumer group advised anyone who has a voucher that expired during lockdown to contact the retailer.\n\n\"If you have a voucher you were unable to use it is worth contacting the company,\" said consumer rights expert Adam French.\n\n\"Anyone considering buying a voucher should be aware of the risks, as some well-known retailers have collapsed in recent months and further coronavirus restrictions could make it difficult to spend vouchers and gift cards.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shops left empty by the crisis have been given a new lease of life", "Students should not be made \"scapegoats\" for a wave of Covid outbreaks, says a lecturers' leader.\n\nJo Grady of the UCU university staff union said it was the \"completely predictable\" outcome of encouraging large numbers of students to return.\n\nWith universities in England starting term, she called for students to be able to study online from home.\n\nThe Department for Education says it is supporting universities to have a mix of online and face-to-face teaching.\n\nIn a further Covid outbreak, 1,700 students in two accommodation blocks at Manchester Metropolitan University have been told to stay in isolation for 14 days, after about 100 students tested positive.\n\nThe lecturers' union questioned the point of \"encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\".\n\nDr Grady said tough restrictions on students in Scotland and increasing warnings for students in England did not mean outbreaks were a consequence of \"reckless behaviour\" by students.\n\nInstead she said outbreaks were the result of universities pushing for \"massive numbers\" of students to come back to campuses for the \"university experience\" and to sign up for accommodation.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, they were mis-sold,\" Dr Grady told the BBC.\n\nShe said it was \"irresponsible\" of universities to have been \"luring students back on the basis that they can have a social life at university and that they can have face-to-face teaching\".\n\nRather than bringing back more students in England, she said more teaching should be put online and students should be able to study from home.\n\n\"I think there has to be an alternative to keeping students locked in absurdly expensive accommodation, rather than having them at home,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nShe called for students to be released from their housing contracts and for a way for them to be able to make a safe way home.\n\nDr Grady warned of an increasingly chaotic situation in universities and criticised the response of not letting students return home from their university accommodation.\n\nShe said this was based on a \"boarding school\" perception of university life, adding that it might be important for some students to be able to go home, for instance if they were homesick or living with people who they did not like or felt threatened by.\n\nDr Grady wants universities to reduce face-to-face teaching, but said some universities were only doing it \"surreptitiously\", because of fears \"their nearest competitor isn't doing it\".\n\nMost universities were expecting to deliver lectures online, but it is also thought some seminars could be \"live and interactive\" but delivered online.\n\nLiverpool Hope and Liverpool John Moores are among those that have publicly moved more teaching online.\n\nUniversities UK says it us up to each individual university to decide how they will bring back students and whether they will switch to online lessons.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working with universities and Public Health England on any measures needed to respond to Covid outbreaks.\n\n\"Protecting students' education and wellbeing is vital, so we are supporting universities to continue delivering a blend of online and face-to-face learning where possible in a Covid-secure way,\" said a department spokeswoman.\n\n\"As with other essential services, education staff should continue to go into work where necessary.\"", "Dame Carolyn will step down as CBI boss in November\n\nA post-Brexit trade deal \"can and must be made\", the organisation representing British businesses has said ahead of further UK-EU trade talks on Monday.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, the boss of the Confederation of British Industry, said it was the time for \"the spirit of compromise to shine through\".\n\nThe Brexit transition period, in which the UK has kept to EU trading rules, ends on 31 December.\n\nThe UK and EU are yet to agree a deal that will govern their future trade.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said a trade agreement with the EU must be done by 15 October if it is going to be ready for the start of 2021.\n\nBut despite this, talks have run into problems. There are still key points of disagreement - including, for example, on fishing.\n\nThe next official round of talks - the ninth since March - begins on 28 September.\n\nThe CBI carried out a survey of 648 companies which found only 4% said they would prefer no deal to be agreed on trade.\n\nAnd half of firms said the impact of dealing with the coronavirus had negatively affected their preparations for next year, when the transition period ends.\n\n\"Next week Brexit talks enter the 11th hour,\" said Dame Carolyn. \"Now must be the time for political leadership and the spirit of compromise to shine through on both sides. A deal can and must be made.\n\n\"Businesses face a hat-trick of unprecedented challenges - rebuilding from the first wave of Covid-19, dealing with the resurgence of the virus and preparing for significant changes to the UK's trading relationship with the EU.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is it so hard to reach a Brexit deal?\n\nShe added: \"A good deal will provide the strongest possible foundation as countries build back from the pandemic.\n\n\"It would keep UK firms competitive by minimising red tape and extra costs, freeing much-needed time and resource to overcome the difficult times ahead.\"\n\nAccording to BBC Europe editor Katya Adler, one EU diplomat said the two sides were \"90% there\" on agreeing technical issues.\n\nThe diplomat said the \"remaining 10% is political\" and \"if that can't be solved, then the 90% is irrelevant\".\n\nAny trade agreement will aim to eliminate tariffs and reduce other trade barriers. It will also aim to cover both goods and services.\n\nIf negotiators fail to reach a deal, the UK faces the prospect of trading with the EU under the basic rules set by the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\nIf the UK has to trade under WTO rules, tariffs will be applied to most goods which UK businesses send to the EU.\n\nThis would make UK goods more expensive and harder to sell in Europe. The UK could also do this to EU goods, if it chooses to.", "An investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive\n\nA six-year-old girl has died in hospital after she was struck by a falling tree at school.\n\nEmergency crews were called to Gosforth Park First School in Newcastle, at about 13:15 BST on Friday.\n\nNorthumbria Police said she died earlier on Saturday and her family was being supported \"at this incredibly difficult time\".\n\nAn investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nLeanne Lamb, head teacher, said: \"Our entire school community has been shocked and devastated by the tragic news that one of our pupils passed away during the night, as a result of injuries suffered from a falling tree in the school grounds.\n\n\"First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the child's family and friends as they come to terms with this tragic loss.\n\n\"As a school and community, we will take the time to mourn and are putting in place extra support for the staff and pupils, who are devastated by this incident.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is to give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme designed to ensure treatments for Covid-19 are distributed fairly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson made the announcement in a speech to the United Nations general assembly.\n\nHe called on world leaders to overcome their differences as he set out plans to prevent future global pandemics.\n\nHe also promised extra funding for the World Health Organization.\n\nMr Johnson told his foreign counterparts at the UN that the \"notion of the international community looks tattered\" after the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nHe called for states to \"reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts\", as he announced a plan, developed with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Wellcome Trust, to help stop future pandemics.\n\nThe proposals include developing a global network of \"zoonotic hubs\" to identify dangerous pathogens before they jump from animals to humans, as well as improving manufacturing capacity for treatments and vaccines.\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech on Saturday afternoon, the prime minister said: \"After nine months of fighting Covid, the very notion of the international community looks tattered.\n\n\"We know that we cannot continue in this way. Unless we unite and turn our fire against our common foe, we know that everyone will lose.\n\n\"Now is the time, therefore, here at what I devoutly hope will be the first and last ever Zoom UNGA, for humanity to reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts.\n\n\"Here in the UK, the birthplace of Edward Jenner who pioneered the world's first vaccine, we are determined to do everything in our power to work with our friends across the UN to heal those divisions and to heal the world.\"\n\nOther measures being proposed include designing a global pandemic early warning system, improving the ability to collect and analyse samples and distribute the findings.\n\nThe plan also calls for common protocols to be agreed on sharing data.\n\nMr Johnson is also proposing states reduce trade barriers on Covid-critical products, such as soap, to help the global response.\n\nThe £500m in aid funding will go to the Covax vaccines procurement pool, which aims to help poorer countries access a coronavirus jab when one is developed.\n\nThere are about 40 different coronavirus vaccines in clinical trials - including one being developed by the University of Oxford that is in an advanced stage of testing.\n\nA successful vaccine that can protect people from Covid-19 is still widely seen as the main exit strategy from the current restrictions on people's lives.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson said \"we must never cut corners\" or \"sacrifice safety to speed\" in the search for a vaccine.\n\n\"Because it would be an absolute tragedy if, in our eagerness, we were to boost the nut-jobs - the anti-vaxers, dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millions of lives,\" he said.\n\nThe PM also promised £340m to the World Health Organization over the next four years - a 30% increase on the previous period, making the UK one of its biggest donors.\n\nRomilly Greenhill, UK director of The One Campaign, which fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, said the British government was showing \"powerful leadership\" at a moment when it \"could not be more important\".\n\n\"It will give the global fight against Covid-19 a shot in the arm, helping ensure everyone, everywhere can access a vaccine.\"", "Police flanking one group outside the camp on Saturday\n\nAbout 150 protesters and counter-protesters have demonstrated outside an Army training camp in Pembrokeshire being used to house asylum seekers.\n\nThere was a visible police presence at the site in Penally, near Tenby.\n\nOne group of protesters carried banners including one which read \"not racist, not extremist, just concerned locals\". A second group has placards saying \"migrants and refugees welcome\".\n\nIt could house up to 230 asylum seekers while their claims are processed.\n\nSome asylum seekers are already being housed at the camp.\n\nSeveral protests have been staged in the area since it was revealed the site was one of several identified by the Home Office as suitable for asylum seekers.\n\nFirst Minster Mark Drakeford said the Penally camp had become a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nSome people are carrying banner reading \"migrants and refugees welcome here\"\n\nOne woman, who did not want to be named, said she \"wasn't racist\" but was concerned about the number of migrants being brought to the camp.\n\nSue Hagerty, one of the counter-protesters, said she was at the site to \"welcome\" the asylum seekers.\n\n\"The men who are coming here, the only different between them and us is luck, and I want to be here to welcome them,\" she said.\n\n\"If I was in that situation and I had to flee to another country, I would hope they would be here to welcome me.\"\n\nLast week, the Home Office said it was working to find suitable accommodation for asylum seekers, with facilities in the south-east of England under strain.", "Sir David Attenborough has attended a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace, hosted by the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nDuring his visit, the naturalist gave Prince George a fossilised giant tooth from an extinct shark.\n\nThe young prince looked captivated as he handled the tooth of a carcharocles megalodon, a shark that was once a sea predator.\n\nSir David and Prince William both campaign on environmental issues.\n\nThe event was held in the palace grounds to allow for social distancing.\n\nWilliam and the veteran broadcaster watched A Life On Our Planet, in which Sir David reflects on the defining moments of his life's work and the devastating changes he has witnessed.\n\nThe young prince was fascinated by the tooth, found by Sir David in the 1960s\n\nSir David, 94, chatted to the Duke and Duchess and their three children, Princes George and Louis, and Princess Charlotte, after the screening.\n\nHe was interviewed by Prince William at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2019, where he warned humanity needed to act fast to prevent parts of the natural world being annihilated.\n\nThe couple and Sir David have worked together on the environment - including on the Earthshot Prize, a cash reward for solutions to environmental problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. January 2019: Prince William and Sir David discuss he environment in Davos\n\nThe giant shark tooth given to Prince George was found by Sir David during a family holiday to Malta in the late 1960s.\n\nIt was embedded in the island nation's soft yellow limestone, and is about 23 million years old.\n\nCarcharocles megalodon is believed to have grown up to 15 metres in length, twice the length of the great white shark.\n\nDavid Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is released in cinemas on Monday and on Netflix on October 4.", "NHS staff hand out test kits to students at Glasgow University, where there has been a Covid-19 outbreak\n\nStudents have spoken of their worry and confusion at being locked down in their university halls, in a situation described by unions as \"shambolic\".\n\nUp to 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University and hundreds at other institutions, including in Edinburgh and Glasgow, are self-isolating following Covid-19 outbreaks.\n\nIn Manchester, students are being prevented from leaving by security.\n\nUniversities UK said the wellbeing of students was \"the first priority\".\n\nRobert Halfon, the conservative chairman of the Education Select Committee, said 3,000 students were in lockdown at universities from Dundee to Exeter.\n\nHe called for the government and its scientific advisers to reassure students and families by setting out the policy for England - and warned having students in lockdown at Christmas would cause \"huge anguish\".\n\nMr Halfon said universities should also consider discounts to students who were not being taught face-to-face.\n\nManchester Met said it had introduced a 14-day self-isolation period at its accommodation at Birley and Cambridge Halls after 127 students tested positive for the virus.\n\nSome students there said they were getting ready to go out on Friday night when they looked outside to see security guards and police, who told them they could not leave.\n\nFirst-year Joe Byrne said: \"We have had no warning, support or advice from the university about how we get food etc, and instead have been left completely in the dark and practically locked up against our will.\"\n\nMegan Tingey said she was not contacted by the university about the lockdown before police turned up outside her Birley Vine accommodation.\n\n\"It was quite scary and confusing,\" she said. \"No one's really told us much and then the police turn up as well with security outside.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother student, Ellie Jackson, told BBC News she had read about the halls lockdown in the local newspaper before receiving an email about it - and stressed the need for \"more guidance\" from the university.\n\nFor Ellie, it is the second period of self-isolation she and her five housemates have had to undertake.\n\n\"My course is all online - I haven't even been into university,\" she said. \"I could have done this at home. I don't think it's worth the money at the moment.\"\n\nIn a statement, Manchester Met said it had communicated with students \"as soon as we could but it was not possible to give significant advanced notice due to the requirement to implement the isolation almost immediately\".\n\n\"The communications we sent included details about how to access food and other provisions and we have been working with other partners, including local supermarkets, throughout the day to provide additional support,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nStudents in some halls are confined to their flats at Manchester Metropolitan University\n\nMeanwhile, students across all of Scotland have been told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants over the weekend and Universities Scotland has said students who socialise with anyone outside of their household risk losing their place at university.\n\nHundreds of students are isolating at Glasgow University because of two coronavirus clusters.\n\nThe university said it would offer a four-week rent rebate to all students in university residences in recognition of the \"difficult circumstances\" under which they were living.\n\nIt said those students would also be given £50 each to spend on food and it would invite local mobile food outlets to come to residences.\n\nA mobile testing unit has been set up at Murano Street Student Village in Glasgow\n\nReese Chamberlain, an international student at the University of Edinburgh, said his entire block at Holland House was \"locked down\" after a student tested positive.\n\n\"The situation is dire,\" he said. \"I already self-isolated when I arrived here and even then it was so difficult getting basic supplies.\"\n\nHe said there had been an \"exodus of students\" during the night on Friday, with more than 50 leaving the building.\n\nA spokesperson for the university said it was \"not asking for whole halls of student accommodation to self-isolate\" but there were currently \"a small number of positive cases\" and the university was providing care and support to those self-isolating.\n\nA sign reading \"students not criminals\" was displayed at Murano Street Student Village in Glasgow\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady described the lockdown at Manchester Met as \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc\".\n\nThere was \"no point encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\", she added.\n\nAnd the National Union of Students (NUS) said students should be able to return to their families because being \"trapped\" in university accommodation would only add to their anxiety at an already difficult time.\n\nIt called for universities to support students with food deliveries and provide access to mental health services.\n\n\"We must remember this is happening because the government and universities told students to return to campus and this shambolic situation now demands flexibility,\" the union said.\n\nStudents \"must be able to leave rental contracts, access online learning or defer, and do what it takes to prioritise their safety\", the statement added.\n\nThe Department for Education said the government was working closely with universities in England to ensure they were prepared for the return of students.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Students should follow the latest health advice, just like the wider public, which means they should stay at university in the event that they have symptoms; have to isolate; there are additional restrictions imposed locally; or there is an outbreak on campus or in their accommodation.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said students were \"not to blame\" for coronavirus outbreaks but backed universities taking disciplinary action as a \"last resort\" against those who broke the rules.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 139 institutions, said the health and wellbeing of students, staff and local communities was the first priority for universities, which would continue to follow government guidance.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the UK will give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme.\n\nThe Covax vaccines procurement pool, aims to help poorer countries access a coronavirus jab when one is developed.\n\nAddressing the United Nations General Assembly via a pre-recorded video, the prime minister said 'the health of every country depends on the whole world having access to a safe and effective vaccine'.", "The Black Cuillin is a range of high mountains, ridges and rocky pinnacles\n\nMore than 130 years ago two men began a years' long adventure to discover, climb and map Skye's famous Black Cuillin.\n\nThe range of mountains forms one of the world's best-known landscapes.\n\nIt also poses some of the toughest climbing challenges in Britain with its narrow ridges, pinnacles and rock buttresses - huge blocks of rock that jut out from the mountains.\n\nThe Cuillin has 11 Munros - mountains of more than 3,000ft, (914m). A 12th Munro, Blà Bheinn, is often considered as an outlier to the main range.\n\nIn the late 19th Century, Prof Norman Collie, a scientist specialising in chemistry who was born in Alderley Edge near Manchester, teamed up with Skye-born mountain guide John Mackenzie to explore the Cuillin.\n\nSome of the mountains had been climbed before, but the range of coarse dark rock was largely unknown territory.\n\nMountaineers of the time were often drawn to climbing in the Alps. Perhaps they were put off tackling the Cuillin because of the long scrambles over loose rocks to reach the start of an ascent.\n\nCollie was first inspired to tackle the Cuillin during a fishing trip to Skye with his brother in 1886.\n\nJohn Mackenzie had formed his extensive knowledge of the Cuillin from an early age\n\nThe brothers visited the Sligachan Hotel and they sat at a window with a view of the distinctive pyramid-shaped 964m (3,163ft) Munro, Sgurr nan Gillean. Collie was impressed by the sight of two figures climbing on the mountain.\n\nThe Collies made two unsuccessful attempts to climb the mountain before seeking out the help of a local guide and crofter, Mackenzie.\n\nBorn in the small crofting township of Sconser, he had first climbed Sgurr nan Gillean when he was just 10 years old.\n\nA statue dedicated to Collie and Mackenzie has been planned for 17 years\n\nA statue dedicated to the mountaineers has been unveiled in Glen Sligachan.\n\nThe glen splits the Black Cuillin from the smaller hills of the Red Cuillin.\n\nFriday's unveiling followed 17 years of planning and fundraising led by a group of volunteers.\n\nIndividuals, local businesses and relatives of both Collie and Mackenzie contributed towards the £120,000 cost.\n\nIt was made by local artist Stephen Tinney and cast in bronze in a foundry in Ireland.\n\nThe Collie and Mackenzie Heritage Group said: \"The sculpture represents mountaineering both past and present as the Cuillin continues to draw climbers from around the world.\n\n\"Equally, we have the story of the crofter and the chemist who through mountaineering created strong respect for each other despite the social divides of the period.\"\n\nWhen he was 14, Mackenzie was involved in the first ascent of the Cuillin's 973m (3,192ft) peak Sgurr a' Ghreadaidh and four years later accompanied another climber for the first ascent of 944m (3,097ft) Sgurr Dubh Mor.\n\nArmed with good advice from Mackenzie, Collie and his brother successfully summitted Sgurr nan Gillean on their third attempt.\n\nCollie would go on to climb mountains all over the world, including in the Alps, Himalayas and Rockies, but he kept being drawn back to the Cuillin.\n\nCollie and Mackenzie forged a friendship while exploring the range.\n\nCollie, left, and Mackenzie were the first men to climb many of the Cuillin's mountains and formibable rocky features\n\nCollie sought to accurately measure and map the mountain range and with Mackenzie struck new routes up Sgurr nan Gillean and they made first ascents of other mountains.\n\nSgurr Mhic Choinnich, one of the most challenging Munros to climb in the Cuillin, was named after Mackenzie.\n\nThe men also discovered a large block of rock which Mackenzie named the Cioch, while Collie named the rockface it sits on, Sron na Ciche.\n\nYears later, the Cioch was used for a sword fight scene featuring Sean Connery in the cult sci-fi film Highlander.\n\nA statue to the men being installed in Glen Sligachan\n\nCollie and Mackenzie are regarded to be among the greatest pioneering mountaineers of their time, venturing into tough, uncharted territory in tweed clothing, hobnail boots and rope and with little to no chance of being rescued if they got into difficulty.\n\nMackenzie was a mountain guide for 50 years. He died in 1933.\n\nCollie spent the last years of his life living on Skye and was a permanent resident of the Sligachan Hotel.\n\nHe often sat at the window where he first pondered an ascent of Sgurr nan Gillean. The room today is known as the Collie Lounge.\n\nSgurr nan Gillean was the last mountain Collie climbed and when he died in 1942 he was buried in a grave next to Mackenzie's at Struan within sight of the Cuillin.", "Kat Kingsley said she would be wary of giving out her personal details again\n\nA bus worker who sent \"creepy\" messages to a woman after getting her contact details from a test-and-trace form has been fired from the company.\n\nKat Kingsley, 25, from Hayle in Cornwall, went on the Original Tour bus in Windsor on 10 September.\n\nThree days later she received two messages from a member of staff saying he wanted to see her.\n\nA spokesman for the company said the employee had since been dismissed as a result of their investigation.\n\nThe company spokesman added the firm was also introducing a new system for test-and-trace, which meant personal data would be stored online and would not be accessible to staff.\n\nAs she got on the bus, Ms Kingsley said she gave her name and phone number to a staff member, who wrote them on a piece of paper as part of the NHS Test and Trace system.\n\nMs Kingsley said he later sent her text messages saying she had been \"living in his head\" and he admitted there was a risk to using \"data that's not supposed to be for me\".\n\nMs Kingsley described the messages as \"creepy\" and said she hoped his being fired would prevent others doing the same.\n\n\"He didn't resign, he went through the disciplinary process and I think he expected to keep his job but I got a call yesterday to say he had been fired,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it should teach him a lesson and hopefully deter anyone else who was considering breaching data [protection].\"\n\nThe messages were sent using the phone number Ms Kingsley had provided for the test-and-trace form\n\nThe Original Tour spokesman said the company's managing director would be speaking to Ms Kingsley \"to express to her our regret and apologies for the incident\".\n\nTest-and-trace launched in May in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe system is designed to be used to enable venues and services to contact people, using personal details given, if they may have come into contact with someone with Covid-19 while using their services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A defendant in Ohio made a daring escape from the courtroom while being sentenced for a drugs offence.\n\nNickolaus Garrison broke free of the deputies holding him and made a run for it - causing one officer to fly down the stairs head first.\n\nAfter three days at large, Garrison is now back in custody.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 1,700 university students have been told to self-isolate after 127 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nStudents at two Manchester Metropolitan University accommodation blocks have been told to stay in their rooms for 14 days, even if they have no symptoms.\n\nStudents said \"police and security were outside\" and self-isolation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nThe restrictions affect students in accommodation blocks at Birley campus and Cambridge Halls after \"127 students have tested positive with a number of others symptomatic or self-isolating\", Manchester City Council said.\n\nStudents across the city have been urged to attend virtual freshers' events and avoid big parties.\n\nBut some said they had no warning of a lockdown and are now trapped in halls of residence.\n\nStudents at two accommodation blocks are self-isolating for a fortnight\n\nMegan Tingy, who studies at Manchester Metropolitan, said on Friday \"We were getting ready to go out and looked out to security and police outside the halls. They say we can't leave.\n\n\"We haven't received any emails from university about this and they seem to be holding us in against our will.\"\n\nStudent Trisha Kakooza, who is from London, said: \"We had eight hours to go get food to last us for two weeks.\n\n\"We have to get any other food delivered, which is expensive.\n\n\"I have a job and it helps me make extra money since student finance isn't enough but now I can't go out to work.\n\n\"We can study remotely but I won't get paid by the agency I work for.\"\n\nChip Wilson, 19, said: \"We have been told we are not allowed to leave and, if we do, we cannot come back, so now we are all stuck inside.\n\n\"On top of all this, many of us here have Covid symptoms but we cannot get tests. We can only get drive-through tests and none of us have cars, and even if we did we can't leave now.\"\n\nMost parts of Greater Manchester have been subject to stricter restrictions since July after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe rate has also doubled in the city of Manchester to 1,026 positive tests in the week up to 22 September, compared to 515 cases in the previous week.\n\nThe lockdown comes as students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nNHS staff hand out test kits to Glasgow University students, who are also subject to restrictions\n\nJoe Barnes, who recently started at Manchester Metropolitan University, told BBC Breakfast that self-isolation had \"left the morale of my flat really low\".\n\nHe said lessons were being conducted online \"so theoretically I could go and study from home but that defeats the point - I've not just come for my studies but to meet new people and enjoy the experience.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've heard horror stories of massive parties in some of the halls around here… it is just frustrating that no one else could have foreseen that.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students said affected students should be able \"to return to their families if they wish, as being trapped in university accommodation will only add anxiety at an already difficult time\".\n\n\"All students affected must be supported by their universities with food deliveries, shopping and access to mental health services if needed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, said the Manchester incident was \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc on campuses across the UK\".\n\n\"We warned last month of the problems with moving thousands of students across the country and the time has come for urgent action from ministers and universities to protect staff and students.\"\n\nShe urged university leaders to drop face-to-face classes until the government improves the test-and-trace system.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"We are fully supportive of the [lockdown] decision.\n\n\"Services such as wellbeing support and the library will remain available to our students online.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nCouncillor Bev Craig, executive member for adult health and wellbeing for the city council, said: \"We understand that local residents may be concerned about this situation.\n\n\"We want to reassure them that the evidence so far suggests that transmission has been within the student community only and has not been more widespread.\"\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\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demand for coronavirus tests has almost trebled among young children in England this month - but only 1% were found to have the virus, figures show.\n\nIn the first two weeks of September, more than 200,000 under-nines were tested, according to government's test-and-trace programme.\n\nThat is nearly three times as many as in the previous fortnight.\n\nA large study review has also confirmed that children are less likely to be infected than adults.\n\nBut the role that children and adolescents play in transmitting the virus \"remains unclear\", it said.\n\nGovernment figures reveal that in England demand for tests increased across all age groups under 40, but was particularly noticeable among the under-20s.\n\nThis sharp rise in demand coincided with children returning to school in England.\n\nCombined with an increase in cases among young people and lab testing capacity being reached, this put pressure on the system and led to delays in accessing tests.\n\nOnly 1% of those children who had a test actually had the virus, compared with 3.5% in older age groups, including adolescents, and people in their 20s and 30s.\n\nSymptoms caused by colds and flu viruses shared around children who hadn't mixed for many months may have been a factor in the increased demand.\n\nAs winter approaches, when respiratory viruses are common and the symptoms overlap with coronavirus, even greater demand could be created among younger age groups.\n\nBut if children do become infected with the virus, they are at very low risk of becoming severely ill or dying from Covid-19.\n\nWriting in JAMA Pediatrics, a UK-led research team found that children and adolescents under the age of 20 had 44% lower odds of being infected with Sars-CoV-2 - the scientific name given to the coronavirus - than adults over 20. This was particularly apparent in children younger than 10.\n\nThis chimes with a previous finding that the under-20s are approximately half as susceptible to the virus as adults.\n\nThe latest review based its findings on 32 studies from 21 countries, mostly in East Asia and Europe, involving nearly 42,000 children and adolescents and 270,000 adults.\n\nBut the researchers were not able to come to any conclusions on whether children were any less likely to pass on the virus than adults.\n\nChildren are more likely to be asymptomatic when infected. The theory is that if they are not coughing or unwell with the virus, they are less likely to infect others.\n\nSo their role in transmission may be down to their risk of exposure, the quantity of the virus, or viral load, they develop, their behaviour and the social contacts they make across age groups.\n\nThe researchers said larger contact-tracing studies were needed to find out more about how the virus is spread by adults and children.\n\nNow that children throughout the UK are back at school, the need to understand this aspect of the virus is even more pressing.\n• None Coronavirus: Children 'half as likely to catch it'", "Natalya Romaniw stars in the opera, performed outdoors under social-distancing rules\n\nA night at the opera might summon up images of people in suits and ballgowns sitting in stalls and boxes overlooking a stage.\n\nBut when she performs in Europe's first drive-in opera this weekend, Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw will be singing to an audience sitting in their cars.\n\nMs Romaniw, from Swansea, is starring in Puccini's La bohème, in the grounds of London's Alexandra Palace.\n\nThe 32-year-old said she felt \"lucky to be performing again\".\n\nSince the start of the coronavirus pandemic, performances have been cancelled with many venues remaining closed due to social-distancing measures.\n\nThe retelling of La bohème is set in modern-day London\n\nMs Romaniw was playing in an English National Opera production of Madam Butterfly, also by Puccini, when lockdown hit and she was suddenly forced out of work.\n\n\"Not being able to perform has been heart-breaking, frustrating, and it's been a sad time for our industry as a whole,\" she said.\n\nThen the soprano secured one of the lead roles in a retelling of Puccini's most famous work, which tells of the tragic romance of writer Rodolfo and seamstress Mimì, who dies of a respiratory condition.\n\nBut, with social distancing measures in place, this is a night at the opera with a difference - people will watch from their cars or sit outside after arriving by bike or on foot.\n\nTo adhere to government guidelines, the production has a double cast, chorus and orchestra who have alternated through the run. They have rehearsed and performed in two separate bubbles, while maintaining social distance.\n\nNatalya Romaniw says the cast performed in bubbles ahead of outdoor live shows\n\n\"Of course, there'll be a massive change for the audience to see us distanced, but I'm hoping we will pull it off because it's such heart-rending music you can't not be involved,\" Ms Romaniw said.\n\n\"It's an exciting new concept and no doubt it'll come with its challenges as we are such a tactile industry, but it'll be a challenge we'll desperately want to rise to, because we've been away from it for so long.\"\n\nShe added: \"The anticipation to get back was a really exciting one and I'm really happy and feel lucky to be performing again.\"", "Llanelli is the first town in Wales being put under a lockdown without the rest of its county\n\nWales' first town-only lockdown has come into force.\n\nLlanelli in Carmarthenshire had restrictions imposed from 18:00 BST on Saturday, making it the first town hit with restrictions which do not apply to the rest of the surrounding county.\n\nWales' two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - will follow suit on Sunday evening following Covid-19 spikes.\n\nLlanelli MP Nia Griffith said lockdown would be \"a tricky time... but it's better to do it sooner than later\".\n\n\"What we don't want is to leave things too late and then wish we'd done more,\" she said.\n\n\"It will impact on different people in different ways but the general feeling is we that need to get on top of this.\"\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Breakfast on Saturday the situation was \"very serious\" and comparable with cases in February.\n\n\"We ended large parts of NHS activity about two weeks later. We had a full lockdown three-and-a-bit weeks later,\" he said.\n\nPeople in 13 ward areas in Llanelli cannot now leave town, or mix indoors with anyone outside their own household.\n\nThe town has seen 85 coronavirus cases over the past week - compared to 24 across the rest of Carmarthenshire.\n\nCarmarthenshire council leader Emlyn Dole said it was \"worrying to see how sharply the number of positive cases has risen in the Llanelli area\".\n\n\"Action has had to be taken to help stop the spread and break the chain of infections concentrated in this area to prevent a whole county lockdown,\" he said.\n\nMr Dole told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he thought the spike in cases was down to pubs and bars not \"paying as much heed to the restrictions as the rest of us\" in terms of social distancing.\n\nThe rate of infection across Llanelli has leapt to 152 cases per 100,000 of the population - it is just 18 per 100,000 for the rest of Carmarthenshire.\n\nIt places the town in the top three weekly infections rates across Wales, alongside Blaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000.\n\nMaria Battle, who chairs the Hywel Dda University Health Board serving south west Wales, said: \"Our local community has given us such tremendous support during the past few months.\n\n\"To protect the health of our people, including the most vulnerable, and to ensure our NHS resources are available to provide people with the care they need, we need the help of our Llanelli population and wider community now more than ever before.\"\n\nThere will be nine areas of Wales under restrictions\n\nExtra testing capacity is being introduced, with appointments at Parc y Scarlets, Ty'r Nant at Trostre, and the Carmarthen showground.\n\nHealth officials said there should be \"no reason for Llanelli residents to travel excessive distances for a test\".\n\nCardiff and Swansea go into lockdown from 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nSwansea hit a seven-day rate of 56 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 on Friday, while Cardiff reached 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford urged people to behave as if the new restrictions were already in place, but told LBC that arrest by the police was a last resort.\n\n\"If there are people who clearly deliberately flout the law you have to enforce,\" he said.\n\n\"Yes, with fines if necessary. But for us that's the last resort, not the first resort.\n\n\"In Caerphilly [the first area in Wales to face local lockdown] we have had very, very good levels of co-operation.\n\n\"My experience is people are wanting to do the right thing.\"\n\nCardiff Central Labour MP Jo Stevens also warned residents: \"Don't take this weekend to go on a massive bender.\n\n\"It's not going to be helpful,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"If people do that this weekend, it does risk further infection rates and that means we'll be in local lockdown for longer.\"\n\nThomas Beynon, manager at Three Cliffs Bay Holiday Park, Gower, said he was expecting to cancel about 380 bookings before the season ends in November due to the new lockdown in Swansea.\n\nHe said it was \"hugely deflating\" and meant \"strange times again\" after the business was hit by the national lockdown earlier this year.\n\nMr Beynon said customers had been \"very supportive\" by transferring bookings to next year rather than cancelling and seeking a refund.\n\n\"We are extremely humbled,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police across the UK \"are mourning a great loss,\" after an officer was shot dead at custody centre, the country's most senior police officer has said.\n\nA Met Police Sergeant died after being shot in the chest at the centre on Windmill Road, Croydon, shortly after 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nA 23-year-old male suspect is critically ill after apparently turning the gun on himself.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick offered her \"heartfelt condolences\" to the unnamed office's family.\n\nMs Dick said: \"The Met is a family. Policing is a family in London and across the UK and today we police we are all mourning a great loss.\n\n\"This terrible incident underlines once again how police officers face danger every day in their work to protect the public.\"\n\nShe added the Met was giving the officer's partner \"the best support we can\".", "Police said they had been called to break up \"numerous\" parties at the university's main halls of residence complex\n\nPolice have been called to break up a number of parties at the University of Edinburgh's main halls of residence.\n\nOfficers said they had dispersed \"numerous\" groups on Friday night at Pollock Halls of Residence, which houses about 1,900 students.\n\nStudents in Scotland are being told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in an attempt to slow a spate of coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nThe university said a \"small number\" of students had tested positive.\n\nSome of the positive cases are understood to be at one of the Holland House blocks, which is part of Pollock Halls.\n\nA Holland House resident, Reese Chamberlain, contacted BBC Scotland to say he had been told his entire block was \"locked down\" after a positive test was detected.\n\nA spokesperson for the university said it was \"not asking for whole halls of student accommodation to self-isolate\".\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed they were called to Pollock Halls of Residence, on the edge of the Holyrood Park, after \"informants\" raised concerns the parties were breaching regulations that prevent more than one household mixing indoors.\n\nInsp David Hughes told BBC Scotland: \"Police Scotland attended and we've spoken to a number of the parties and dispersed those individuals. [Officers] provided education and advice as to what is and what isn't in line with current regulations.\n\n\"From a police perspective, we've been relatively well received there. We have had some people who were unhappy with the regulations - but more the laws that are in force currently rather than the police response.\"\n\nInsp Hughes said officers had broken up a number of small parties of five to seven students with people who were \"clearly not from the same household\".\n\nNo arrests were made and no fines were issued, he said.\n\nStudents in Scotland have been told not to visit pubs or restaurants or to hold parties\n\nThe officer added: \"It must feel strange to people of that age and you can understand their frustrations in relation to the current regulations but overall the reason that that's there is to protect the health of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nCases of Covid-19 have surged in Scotland over the last two weeks, with 714 positive tests confirmed on Saturday.\n\nUniversities in Scotland pledged last week to make it \"absolutely clear\" to students that they should not be holding parties or socialising with people outside their accommodation.\n\nThey have also been told they cannot return home under coronavirus laws in Scotland as they are deemed to have formed a new household with those they are now living with.\n\nHowever, international student Mr Chamberlain said there had been an \"exodus\" of students supposed to be in isolation in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland the situation in his Holland House block was \"dire\".\n\n\"A Zoom meeting was just now held for affected students of the same household, where a representative told a small group of students that the entire building, not just the affected household, was to be locked down imminently, causing chaos in the community,\" he said.\n\n\"Food was not delivered until late afternoon leaving me hungry and without supplies for the first part of the day.\n\n\"Now people are panicking because no one has actually received any real details about this, and no-one knows how will it will be enforced either. Some are out and about getting supplies not knowing if this already goes against the rules.\"\n\nA first-year student living in another block at Pollock Halls told the BBC there was a \"pretty weird vibe\" around the university.\n\n\"There's always police here now. It feels like we're being watched 24-7 which is a bit scary,\" she said.\n\n\"My friend's in Holland House and she said that the whole of the Holland House blocks had been locked down and there's been people patrolling to make sure that no-one's leaving.\"\n\nSome students said they felt there were being watched \"24-7\" by police and security\n\nAngus Graham-Rack, a first-year at the University of Edinburgh, said the restrictions placed on students had been a \"kick in the teeth\".\n\n\"We were all encouraged to come to halls of residence and meet new people, yet are now are being criticised for doing so,\" he said.\n\n\"We are all left wondering why we even bothered moving here since nobody I know has had any face-to-face interactions with staff yet - we may as well have done the course from home.\n\n\"It feels like we've been completely cheated as we were promised at least some sort of a student experience in the midst of the pandemic, yet now we're essentially confined to our own flats with signs plastered around the building ordering us to not socialise.\"\n\nHealth teams are also dealing with a big outbreak among students at Glasgow University, where 172 students have tested positive.\n\nThere are also outbreaks among students in Dundee and Aberdeen.\n\nA University of Edinburgh it was working with NHS Lothian's Health Protection team to ensure students were provided with \"the information and support they need\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We are asking students who have attended parties recently to be vigilant regarding any Covid-19 symptoms and for all students to follow guidance as appropriate.\n\n\"We are continuing to monitor the situation, keeping our students and staff informed as appropriate, and following all Scottish Government guidance.\n\n\"We are providing care and support - including mental health support - to those self-isolating both in University-owned and private accommodation.\"", "Restrictions will now apply in Wales' capital city\n\nWales' two biggest cities have gone into lockdown, which started at 18:00.\n\nThe changed status of Swansea and Cardiff took the number of Welsh local authority areas under heightened Covid restrictions to eight.\n\nIt follows the first localised lockdown in Wales, in the town of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, which came into force on Saturday evening.\n\nIt means 1.5 million people - about half of Wales' population -are now under lockdown.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, it was confirmed that three other council areas - Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan - will face the same measures from 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe restrictions are the same as those affecting people living in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Caerphilly, which were already in lockdown.\n\nWhen asked if Wales could see a national lockdown, First Minister Mark Drakeford told the BBC's Politics Wales programme: \"We couldn't possibly rule it out.\n\n\"We're trying to do it in a way that balances both the health and the economic needs of Wales,\" he said.\n\nSwansea hit a seven-day rate of 56 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 on Friday, while Cardiff reached 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nBut the number in Llanelli was 152 cases per 100,000 - which is why the Welsh Government decided to bring in restrictions there a day earlier.\n\nThe whole of Carmarthenshire was not put into lockdown because the rate in the rest of the local authority area was 18.\n\nLlanelli town is in the top three places with the highest weekly infections rates, alongside Blaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000.\n\nRhossili and other Gower beauty spots are out of bounds for anyone from outside Swansea\n\nUnder the rules, nobody is able to enter or leave the affected areas without a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nPeople are allowed to travel outside their area for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThese include going to work if they are not able to work from home, to go to school, give care and buy food or medical supplies.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Matt Ratana moved to the UK in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later\n\nPolice investigating the fatal shooting of a police officer in south London say four crime scenes are being searched.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, from New Zealand, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in Croydon as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas reported hearing a loud explosion as a 23-year-old suspect, who is thought to have shot himself, remains in hospital.\n\nThe Met commissioner said 54-year-old Sgt Ratana would be \"sorely missed\".\n\nSpeaking at the National Police Memorial in central London, Dame Cressida Dick said she \"hadn't been surprised at all\" by the number of tributes paid to him.\n\nLondon's mayor, the Met Police's commissioner and the home secretary laid wreaths\n\n\"Matt was an extraordinary person... He had a wonderful personality and he was very good at his job,\" she said, adding that he was also a \"proud kiwi\".\n\nThe commissioner also laid a wreath at the National Police Memorial in central London alongside Home Secretary Priti Patel and London's Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nSgt Ratana will be remembered at the National Police Memorial Day Service, alongside the six other officers who have died on duty in the past 12 months.\n\nThe Reverend Cannon David Wilbraham, who is leading the service - taking place online this year - said the event will show their \"sacrifice is not forgotten\" and allow the public \"to recognise the dedication to duty and the courage displayed\".\n\nRespects were paid at East Grinstead Rugby Club during two separate minute's silence\n\nSilences have also been held at a number of rugby clubs, including at East Grinstead where the 54-year-old was head coach.\n\nThe West Sussex club's Vice Chairman Matt Marriot said they had to arrange two separate minute's silences because the \"interest has been pretty enormous\", with \"people coming from all over the country\".\n\nHe said Sgt Ratana \"wasn't just our coach... he was a role model, a mentor and often a father figure\".\n\n\"We're going to mourn him as a family member,\" he added.\n\nPC Sarah D'Silva, who plays for the club's women's team as well as working at Croydon Police Station, said it felt \"extremely poignant\" joining the minute's silence.\n\nShe wore her police uniform to pay her respects to the 54-year-old, who she described as \"an absolutely fantastic character, full of life, with the biggest smile you've ever seen\".\n\nThe 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nSgt Ratana was shot in the chest at Croydon Custody Centre at about 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the police were focusing on four crime scenes.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas, in Banstead, Surrey, reported hearing a loud explosion on Saturday morning.\n\nPeople living near the address in Park Road were woken by noises at about 05:40 BST.\n\nPolice guarded the entrance to a property on Park Road in Banstead\n\nThe BBC's Daniel De Simone said the Banstead address is down a long driveway and its land contains a series of concrete bunkers.\n\nMultiple police officers, including armed officers, were visible in the area and people had been informed that a controlled explosion had taken place, the BBC was told.\n\nA marked police car has been guarding the entrance to the property.\n\nPolice confirmed the other scenes undergoing searches are Croydon Custody Centre, where the shooting occurred, an area of London Road in Pollards Hill, where the suspect was initially arrested, and an address in Southbrook Road, Norbury.\n\nDescribing how the investigation was progressing, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cundy said: \"We have recovered the gun from the custody suite where Matt was shot.\n\n\"We also have CCTV from that custody suite which shows the events, and we have body-worn video of our police officers who were involved in the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the suspect.\"\n\nThe murder investigation is expected to focus on the motive for the killing.\n\nThe suspect remains in a critical condition is hospital.\n\nA rugby ball and police helmet are among the tributes which have been left outside the custody centre\n\nThe suspect had initially been arrested for an alleged drugs offence and possession of ammunition.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect - who was still handcuffed - with a metal detector, according to watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\n\"Several crime scenes\" were established on Friday and a cordon also remains in place around the Anderson Heights building in Norbury, south-west London, the Met has said.\n\nA concierge in the building told the BBC the 23-year-old suspect did not live in the block but was arrested outside it.\n\nAn area of London Road in Pollards Hill has been searched by forensic officers\n\nThe Met previously said the shooting was not terror-related.\n\nIt is believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police and his background may feature prominently in police inquiries, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nThe suspect had been referred to the anti-extremism government's Prevent programme, aimed to stop people joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.\n\nAs part of the IOPC investigation it is examining CCTV and police bodycam footage to establish how the shootings took place.\n\nThe watchdog said the suspect was in handcuffs, with his hands behind his back.\n\nA key part of that IOPC investigation will be to find out how thoroughly the suspect was searched before he was taken into custody.\n\nThe Met's chief said Sgt Ratana was \"highly respected\" among her officers\n\nSgt Ratana came to the UK in his early 20s in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nSgt Ratana, who had a partner and an adult son from a previous relationship, would have been eligible for retirement in two months.\n\nBoris Johnson was among those who paid tribute to the officer, tweeting: \"My deepest condolences go to the family, friends and colleagues of the police officer who was killed in Croydon last night.\n\n\"We owe a huge debt to those who risk their own lives to keep us safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick paid tribute to Sgt Ratana, saying he was \"big in stature, big in heart\"\n\nNew Zealand PM Ms Ardern previously released a statement saying: \"To all Matiu's whanau (Maori for extended family) across the world, we share your sorrow and have all our condolences.\"\n\nNew Zealand Police - where Sgt Ratana worked between 2003 and 2008 before returning to the UK - also sent their condolences, adding: \"Policing is a family.\"\n\nWhen he was not working, Sgt Ratana was heavily involved in rugby coaching.\n\nEngland Rugby paid tribute to the 54-year-old, saying he \"gave so much for our sport\".\n\nCrystal Palace Football Club held a minute's silence before their match against Everton on Saturday, to \"pay our respects to local police officer Sgt Matt Ratana\".\n\nA minute's silence was also held before the London derby between Millwall and Brentford.\n\nA minute's silence was held before Crystal Palace's match against Everton\n\nNeil Donohue, a friend of Sgt Ratana who runs a gym he used to attend, described him as \"inspirational\" and \"the nicest, most generous man you could meet\".\n\nHe told the BBC the 54-year-old had gone into \"the custody side [of policing] purely because he had had enough out on the streets and he thought it was his safest option, just to see him through to his retirement\".\n\n\"It's just absolutely tragic,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA number of police officers have turned their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respects.\n\nJohn Davies, a retired officer who worked with Sgt Ratana when he was based in Hillingdon, west London, said he was \"a truly remarkable, strong and unique individual\" who \"left an impression on all those he came into contact with\".\n\nDo you have any information you can share? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A sign on a pub window warns customers of the curfew\n\nPolice patrols have been stepped up across Scotland to ensure the smooth introduction of a new pub and restaurant curfew.\n\nAll hospitality must now close at 22:00 in the latest raft of measures designed to halt Covid transmission.\n\nScotland's chief constable promised extra policing as he urged citizens to act responsibly.\n\nHe also issued a blunt warning that organising, hosting or attending house parties was now breaking the law.\n\nThe Scottish government has revealed that 36% of positive cases handled by Test and Protect mention social exposure, through hospitality or socialising with friends and family.\n\nIt said the aim of the measures was to reduce the amount of time people can spend in licensed premises and therefore curtail the spread of the virus in high risk environments while still allowing businesses to trade.\n\nSoaring infection rates have prompted the introduction of strict measures on the hospitality industry across the UK.\n\nEvery pub has been ordered to observe the 22:00 curfew, with the threat of permanent closure for those who do not comply.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone from Police Scotland said extra patrols would be deployed around closing time to ensure the change was being adhered to.\n\nAt Friday's Scottish government coronavirus briefing he said: \"Additional officers will be deployed across Scotland to support colleagues from local authorities and to monitor compliance.\n\n\"I think it's important for me to say that the vast majority of licensees have acted with great responsibility during this very challenging period - I pay credit to them and undertake that policing will continue to support and work with the licensed trade.\"\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone warned people that house parties were now illegal\n\nHe said that officers would \"continue to use good sense\" when enforcing the new rules.\n\nHe also issued a stark warning over the temptation to spill from the pub to a gathering within a house.\n\nThe chief constable admitted that the curfew could see an increase in house parties or gatherings as customers refused to end their nights early.\n\nBut he made it clear this would not be tolerated.\n\nHe said: \"During this extraordinary time where people's freedoms, liberty and family relationships are subject to restrictions never seen before, it is right and proper that the police service looks to engage with people, explain what is required of them.\n\n\"If they refuse to do what their fellow citizens, their neighbours are doing, we will take enforcement action.\n\n\"What is absolutely clear is that house parties and house gatherings are not permitted under any circumstances, there can be no excuse for arranging or attending a house party.\n\n\"You must not organise, host or attend a house party or house gathering, it is against the law.\"\n\nWith local \"September weekend\" public holidays in many areas, the curfew marks one of a set of increased measures introduced to combat the rise of new infections.\n\nOn Friday there were 558 new positive cases of coronavirus reported in Scotland since in the previous 24 hours - the highest daily total since the outbreak began.\n\nOf these, 255 were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where there has been a significant outbreak at University of Glasgow student accommodation\n\nStudents were ordered to quarantine and stay away from pubs after an outbreak at Glasgow University's Murano Halls\n\nStudents at all Scottish universities have been told not to visit hospitality venues this weekend and Universities Scotland said students who go to parties or socialise with anyone outside their accommodation risks losing their place at university.\n\nUniversities will adopt a \"yellow card/red card\" approach to breaches of discipline, with students warned the consequences could include \"potential discontinuation of study\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she sympathised with students and she hoped disciplinary action would only be taken as a \"last resort\" against those who \"flagrantly\" broke the rules.\n\nThe Scottish government also said it appreciated how difficult it was for pubs and other hospitality outlets, but that restrictions were based on the fundamental need to reduce transmissions.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Recent management information from our Covid-19 case management system suggests that around 36% of cases mention social/recreational exposure, including hospitality or socialising with friends/family.\n\n\"Although this data has many caveats and limitations, and therefore cannot prove causality in terms of where transmission has taken place, it does help guide our response to help prevent transmission in such settings.\"\n\nThe hospitality curfew comes a week after the \"rule of six\" came into effect in Scotland, limiting all gatherings, including those in pubs and restaurants, to no more than six adults from two households.\n\nVenues are also forbidden from playing background music, must enforce strict rules on hygiene and distancing, and record customers' details for track and trace data.\n\nHospitality industry organisations said the latest restrictions were a \"potentially fatal blow\" for many business.\n\nIndoor visits between households are also banned across Scotland for the foreseeable future until the risk of transmission is reduced.\n\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The rate at which the Covid-19 virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.\n\nThe R number, indicating how fast the coronavirus epidemic is growing, has risen from 1.1-1.4 to 1.2-1.5.\n\nAn Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey estimated there were 9,600 new cases a day in England in the week to 19 September - up from 6,000 the week before and three times that being picked up by general testing.\n\nIt comes as more restrictions come into effect in parts of England and Wales.\n\nOn Friday, the daily number of positive cases in the UK picked up by coronavirus testing rose to a new high of 6,874, government figures show.\n\nA further 34 deaths were announced, although figures were not available for Scotland because of a power cut at the National Records of Scotland.\n\nInfection rates are highest in the north west of England and in London.\n\nAs infection rates rise, new restrictions are being brought into effect in the following areas:\n\nAn R or reproduction number above one means the epidemic is growing. It's a measure of how many extra people each coronavirus case is infecting,\n\nIn March, before any control measures were put in place, R was thought to be just under three.\n\nThe ONS's estimates of how much of the population is currently infected are based on testing a representative sample of people with or without symptoms.\n\nIt is different to the number published daily by the Department of Health and Social Care. That records positive cases in people with potential Covid symptoms who request tests.\n\nAnd in the week up to 19 September, the DHSC data showed roughly 3,000 positive tests a day in England - a total of 23,378.\n\nIn contrast, the ONS survey suggest there were actually 103,600 people in England with the virus, equating to an estimated one in 500 people in private homes.\n\nThe number does not include cases in hospitals and care homes.\n\nThe ONS said there was \"clear evidence\" of an increase in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in all age groups, but rates are currently highest in those aged 17-24.\n\nInfection rates are highest across the north of England and in London, with smaller increases seen in the Midlands.\n\nIn Wales, cases appear to have risen dramatically but because there are fewer people in the sample, there is a lot of uncertainty around the precise figure.\n\nBut central estimates suggest they could have risen almost seven-fold, from 1,500 people in total having Covid the previous week to more than 10,000.\n\nThe ONS has also begun surveying people in Northern Ireland, where early figures suggest one in 300 people had the virus in the period 6-19 September.\n\nThese figures only take us up to the end of last week, and as such may be an underestimate of the current situation.\n\nCases have been rising over the past few weeks, and have begun to translate to a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nData from the Covid Symptom Study app, run by King's College London and tech company ZOE, put the daily figure for England at 12,883 - higher than the ONS.\n\nIts figures are based on people who download and use the app, so it is not a random sample - but does include a larger number of positive tests.\n\nThe ZOE figures are also more up to date than the ONS's and so may be capturing more recent rises.", "The government has fixed a problem with its new NHS coronavirus app in England and Wales which meant many positive test results were not being logged.\n\nUsers were unable to record a positive test result, if they had booked a test elsewhere and not via the app.\n\nBut the Department of Health said everyone who tests positive can now log it, however they booked the test.\n\nHowever, people who test negative are still unable to share their result if they did not book it via the app.\n\nAnyone who books a test via the app has their result automatically logged whether it is positive or negative, according to the government.\n\nBut tests taken as a result of Office for National Statistics surveys, and those processed by a NHS Hospital or Public Health England lab, were initially not able to be shared on the app, regardless of the result.\n\nHowever, on Saturday, the Department of Health said anyone who accesses a test elsewhere will, if they test positive, receive a code to input to the app.\n\nHowever a code is only received if the test is positive. Those who enter that they have symptoms without entering a result find a self-isolation countdown begins.\n\nThe spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said now \"everyone who receives a positive test result can log their result on the app\".\n\n\"A minority of people, such as hospital patients, who were unable to log their positive result can now request a code when contacted by NHS Test and Trace to input on their app,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nThe ability to log a negative result is being looked into, she added, after user feedback suggested people wanted the ability to do so.\n\nPeople who have been using the app since its launch on Thursday, and who had already booked tests before downloading it, have found that they are unable to stop the self-isolation countdown after reporting symptoms if they then get a negative result, because it does not come with a code they can share.\n\nProf Deborah Ryan, who originally contacted the BBC, said: \"That's so confusing as the app doesn't tell you that can't enter a negative test booked outside it.\n\n\"And the app still tells you to quarantine if you entered symptoms. So this means I can't turn off the self-isolation alert in the app?\"\n\nThe self-isolation alert cannot be de-activated in this situation.\n\nIn Wales, lab test results come with notification tokens for the app, Ifan Evans, health director for digital technology and transformation, tweeted.\n\nThe Department of Health has said that using the app is \"entirely voluntary\" and advice to get a test or self-isolate cannot be enforced.\n\nTests booked via the app will have the results automatically shared with it, it said.\n\nAccording to the data analyst App Annie, the NHS Covid-19 app has been downloaded around 4m times so far.\n\n\"By downloading this app you are helping protect yourself and others. If you book your test via the app then the results will be automatically recorded in the app and the isolation countdown will be updated,\" said a DHSC spokesman.\n\nIf you are asked to self-isolate for 14 days because you have been in close contact with somebody who has tested positive, you are advised by health officials to do so even if you later test negative yourself.", "Students at Manchester Metropolitan University are isolating after more than 100 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMore than 1,700 students have been told to self-isolate. One told the BBC the situation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nSeparately, students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nPolice were called to break up several parties at the University of Edinburgh's main hall of residence on Friday night.\n\nSome students in Pollock Halls of Residence at the University of Edinburgh have also been told to \"lockdown\" because of a confirmed case of the virus.", "Molly Russell took her own life after looking at suicide and self harming content\n\nInstagram has passed thousands of pages of \"pretty dreadful\" material from the account of Molly Russell to her family's legal team, a court heard.\n\nThe 14-year-old killed herself in 2017 after viewing graphic images of self harm and suicide on the platform.\n\nA pre-inquest hearing on Friday was told not all the material had been studied yet as it was too difficult for lawyers and police to look at for long.\n\nA date for the inquest itself is yet to be set.\n\nThe inquest will look at how algorithms used by social media giants to keep users on the platform may have contributed to her death.\n\nOliver Sanders QC told Barnet's Coroner's Court how Instagram's parent company Facebook had recently released a \"significant volume\" of material relating to the case.\n\nHe said: \"We haven't been able to review it all yet. Some of it is pretty dreadful and it is not something that can be reviewed in a long sitting and certainly not late at night.\"\n\nHe added certain parts of the material had been redacted and lawyers and police were trying to find out why.\n\nThe court also heard the investigation was seeking the cooperation of Snapchat, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter, although until recently only Pinterest had co-operated fully.\n\nBut Snapchat could not disclose data without an order from a US court, WhatsApp had deleted Molly's account and Twitter was reluctant to handover material due to European data protection laws, the hearing was told.\n\nCoroner Andrew Walker said \"some or all\" of those social media companies could be named as interested parties in the inquest as they would be \"best placed\" to give technical information for the case.\n\nHe also asked for a psychologist with expertise in the potential psychological impacts of viewing extreme material to be appointed to give evidence.\n\nA further pre-inquest review is due to take place on 26 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A long-serving police officer has been shot dead at Croydon Custody Centre in south London.\n\nThe male sergeant was shot in the chest before the suspect turned the firearm on himself, sources have told the BBC.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, Sadiq Khan and Priti Patel all took part in the silence at New Scotland Yard, while colleagues of the killed officer gathered outside the Croydon Centre.", "Karl Robinson said the club had endured a difficult week - even before their coach wouldn't start\n\nAlcohol spray used on a football club's coach to protect against coronavirus left the driver unable to take players and staff to an away match.\n\nOxford United had to change at their hotel and travel to their game at Accrington Stanley by car.\n\nIt is thought some of the spray in the air was picked up by a device that stops the coach driver starting the vehicle if alcohol has been consumed.\n\nThe club started the game at the bottom of League One on Saturday.\n\nKarl Robinson, the club's head coach, told BBC Radio Oxford before the match: \"Our coach has just broken down so we've just had to get changed at the hotel and make our way.\n\n\"This week has certainly been sent to test us. We had four players test for Covid-19 on Thursday.\" He added that they also have \"flu going round\".\n\nBBC Radio Oxford's Nathan Cooper said: \"[Oxford have] got quite a technical bus that not many at this level have got.\n\n\"When you get on board it sprays a sort of alcohol gel - a fine mist spray - which obviously helps with the current situation, so it sterilises the bus. Somehow that ended up affecting the bus itself.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's a crazy thing to happen but first of all you've got to say hats off to the club for trying. Not every club at this level has been doing that.\"\n\nTesting players for coronavirus is not mandatory in the Football League.", "A man and woman wear masks in Cardiff, which will see stricter rules from Sunday\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK population is set to be under stricter coronavirus rules, as new measures come into force this weekend.\n\nFrom Saturday in England, households in Leeds, Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool are banned from mixing in each other's homes or gardens.\n\nIn Wales, Llanelli became subject to new rules at 18:00 BST, with Cardiff and Swansea to follow 24 hours later.\n\nIt comes as the rate at which the virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.\n\nThere have been 6,042 new coronavirus infections in the UK over the past 24 hours, according to the latest government figures - and 34 deaths among those who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 28 days.\n\nIt marks the fourth consecutive day that new infections across the UK have topped 6,000.\n\nScotland recorded 714 cases on Saturday, 156 more than on Friday and its highest number of cases confirmed in a single day since the start of the outbreak.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where meeting other households indoors is also not allowed, 319 new cases have set a new daily record, up from Friday's 273. However mass testing was not available during the spring, when deaths were at their peak.\n\nThe R number - which indicates how many people someone with coronavirus infects - has risen in the last week and is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.5. A number above 1 means the virus is spreading within the community.\n\nMeanwhile, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said \"immediate action\" was needed to get coronavirus back under control in the capital, amid a \"sharp rise\" in cases, hospital admissions and patients in intensive care units.\n\nOn Friday, London was added to the government's Covid-19 watch-list - with all boroughs classed as areas of concern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Leeds respond to the tighter rules\n\nIn England, the \"rule of six\" and a 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants applies nationally.\n\nBut extra restrictions are also in place in large parts of north-east and north-west England, West Yorkshire and the Midlands - where the infection rate is higher.\n\nThe latest rules for Leeds, Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool came into force at midnight and ban different households from mixing inside private homes or gardens.\n\nSupport bubbles are not affected and friends and family can still provide informal childcare for children under 14.\n\nPeople are also advised not to socialise with people they do not live with in any other settings, including bars, shops and parks.\n\nOn Saturday, Wales - where the R number is between 0.7 and 1.2 - saw its first town-only lockdown, with people in Llanelli in Carmarthenshire banned from leaving town or mixing indoors with anyone outside of their household.\n\nThe same rules will be brought in for Wales' two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - at 18:00 on Sunday. People will not be able to enter or leave the areas without a reasonable excuse, the Welsh government has said.\n\nIt means by the end of the weekend, about half of Wales' population will be under lockdown - 1.5 million people.\n\nAnd the total number of people across the UK living under stricter rules will stand at 17 million.\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford urged people in Cardiff to behave as if the new restrictions were in place until they came into force on Sunday.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething told Today restrictions were more focused on transmission in the home than the pub.\n\n\"We have good evidence it is contact in people's homes that is driving it primarily. That is then leaking into other areas where people have contact, including licensed premises,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he recognised \"the burden and impact these additional measures have on our daily lives but we must act collectively and quickly to bring down infections\".\n\nMeanwhile, students have spoken of their worry and frustration at being made to isolate in university accommodation, with little notice or guidance.\n\nUp to 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University were told to self-isolate for two weeks in their student halls, after a spate of positive tests for Covid-19.\n\nIn a bid to stop the virus spreading in Scotland, students have been told not to socialise with anyone outside of their accommodation or go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Dennis Skinner was an ever-present in British politics for the best part of five decades\n\nA song about a former Labour MP has been topping the Amazon download charts ahead of Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nDennis Skinner, the so-called Beast of Bolsover, lost the seat he had held since 1970, in December.\n\nThe track Tony Skinner's Lad, by musician Robb Johnson, is a tribute to the acerbic politician, who grew up in Derbyshire.\n\nMr Johnson said he had always \"admired\" the ex-MP and trade unionist.\n\nBy Friday evening the track remained at number one in the Amazon best sellers, ahead of Magic by Kylie Minogue and Ghosts by Bruce Springsteen.\n\nIt also reached number 37 on Apple's iTunes chart and 19 in the Official Singles Download Chart.\n\nHowever, the fact that download sales account for only about 4.8% of the overall music market might explain why the song did not feature at all in the Official Singles Chart Top 100.\n\nThe song is a mix of Mr Skinner's speeches and quips, and lyrics referring to his parents and upbringing in Derbyshire, before his arrival at parliament 50 years ago.\n\n\"We thought it would be lovely to get Dennis Skinner into the charts,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"I suppose it's done so well because that's an indication of the great respect he is held in.\n\n\"On many levels I've admired him as a principled people's delegate to parliament. I've admired his politics and admired him even more that he enjoys singing.\"\n\nRobb Johnson said the success is down to Mr Skinner's own popularity\n\nMr Skinner underwent hip surgery ahead of the overnight count in his Derbyshire constituency, in December.\n\nFilm maker Daniel Draper who made Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast, a 2017 documentary about the life and times of the ex-MP, produced the track's video.\n\n\"It's a catchy little ditty,\" he said.\n\n\"I speak to [Skinner's] partner Lois quiet regularly. He seems to be doing well.\n\n\"The family have all been in touch about the song and its video. I know Dennis has seen it and Lois said he really likes it.\"\n\nMr Skinner is known for his support for the miners throughout the 1984-85 strike and fighting for their pension rights.\n\nHe was also suspended from the House of Commons numerous times for what was deemed \"unparliamentary language\".\n\nDennis Skinner (middle) with Michael Foot (left) and Tony Benn (right) in Blackpool, in 1980\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 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nA long-serving police officer shot dead in a custody centre in south London has been named as Sgt Matiu Ratana.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Ratana, known as Matt, was shot in the chest in Croydon as a suspect, who was still in handcuffs, was being checked in.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick described the 54-year-old as \"talented officer\" who was \"big in heart\".\n\nAfter the shooting at about 02:15 BST the suspect, 23, is then thought to have shot himself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick paid tribute to Sgt Ratana, saying he was \"big in stature, big in heart\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the man was arrested on suspicion of possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply and possession of ammunition.\n\nHe is currently in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nPolice officers have been arriving at Croydon Police Station to pay their respects\n\nThe IOPC confirmed he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and had been taken to the custody centre in a police vehicle, before being escorted into the building.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect, who was still handcuffed, with a metal detector, the IOPC said.\n\n\"A non-police issue firearm, which appears to be a revolver, has been recovered from the scene. Further ballistic work will be required,\" said IOPC regional director Sal Naseem.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA minute's silence was held at 16:00 BST at New Scotland Yard and Croydon Police Station to pay tribute to Sgt Ratana, who was heavily involved in rugby coaching when he was not working.\n\nHe would have been eligible for retirement in just two months.\n\n\"Matt spent very nearly 30 years as a uniformed police officer serving the public of London,\" said Dame Cressida.\n\n\"He will be remembered so fondly in Croydon and missed there, as well as in the Met and the rugby world,\" she said.\n\nShe added that he \"leaves a partner and he leaves an adult son from a previous relationship. Our thoughts are with them.\"\n\nSgt Ratana joined the Met in 1991, having moved to the UK in 1989.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boy's High School's, a town north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nThe officer has been described as a professional and inspirational colleague\n\nHe served in various parts of London including Hackney and Selhurst, with his last posting as custody sergeant in Croydon, where he managed suspects who are brought into the cells.\n\n\"He worked in our detention command at Croydon but frequently volunteered for duty in custody suites across London,\" Dame Cressida added.\n\nSgt Ratana had led rugby teams in Worthing, close to Goring-by-Sea where he then lived and in East Grinstead, where he was living when he died.\n\nRyan Morlen, assistant head coach at East Grinstead Rugby Club, described him as \"an absolutely lovely bloke\".\n\n\"He is a bloke who is just so passionate about what he does - it does not matter whether you're the most talented or least talented, he will treat you equal,\" he said.\n\nSgt Ratana had taken part in weightlifting competitions\n\nEarlier, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said it was believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police.\n\nHe had been referred to the anti-extremism \"Prevent\" programme, though the Met said the murder inquiry was not being treated as terrorism-related.\n\nThe Met said a murder investigation was under way, but the shooting was not being treated as a counter-terrorism incident.\n\nDame Cressida said she understood \"the great concern about how this happened\" and that officers \"will establish the facts\".\n\n\"We owe it to Matt, his loved ones and all other officers. But we need to give investigators space to do their job,\" she said.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan earlier said the police were currently \"reviewing the safety of custody suites\" and \"there could be changes very soon\".\n\nTributes have been left outside Croydon Police Station\n\nPolice officers and members of the public have been arriving at Croydon Police Station during the day to lay tributes.\n\nThe owner of a gym in Lancing, Sussex, told the BBC how Sgt Ratana had helped when his business was going through financial difficulty.\n\nNeil Donohue, 54, said: \"He came in one day and gave me 200 quid out of the blue, I said no no, I can't accept that and gave it back to him.\n\n\"But the next day he wired it into my account. That's the sort of guy he was.\"\n\nA number of police officers have been turning their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respects.\n\nJohn Davies, a retired officer who worked with Sgt Ratana when he was based in Hillingdon, said he was \"a truly remarkable, strong and unique individual\" who \"left an impression on all those he came into contact with\".\n\nEast Grinstead RFC also released a tribute to their \"much-loved\" head coach.\n\n\"Matt was an inspiring and much-loved figure at the club and there are truly no words to describe how we are feeling,\" said Bob Marsh, the club's chairman, and the club's president Andy Poole.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir David will be seen in the Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet in October\n\nSir David Attenborough has broken Jennifer Aniston's record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on Instagram.\n\nAt 94 years young, the naturalist's follower count raced to seven figures in four hours 44 minutes on Thursday, according to Guinness World Records.\n\nHis debut post said: \"Saving our planet is now a communications challenge.\"\n\nLast October, Friends star Aniston reached the milestone in five hours and 16 minutes.\n\nIn his first video, the veteran broadcaster told followers: \"I am making this move and exploring this new way of communication to me because, as we all know, the world is in trouble.\n\n\"Continents are on fire. Glaciers are melting. Coral reefs are dying. Fish are disappearing from our oceans. The list goes on and on. Saving our planet is now a communications challenge.\"\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 davidattenborough This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe joins a varied list of public figures who have at some point held the record for the fastest to gain a million followers.\n\nSir David's total following rose to 2.5 million within 24 hours. However, he is some way behind the most-followed person overall - footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 238 million.\n\n\"Social media isn't David's usual habitat,\" wrote collaborators Jonnie Hughes, a BBC film-maker, and Colin Butfield, of the World Wildlife Fund. \"So while he's recorded messages solely for Instagram, like the one in this post, we're helping to run this account.\"\n\nSir David's Instagram debut precedes the release of a book and a Netflix documentary, both titled A Life On Our Planet.\n\nThe film will see him reflect on his career and the decline of the planet's environment and biodiversity, which he has observed first-hand.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Netflix This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSir David said he would use the platform to share videos explaining \"what the problems are and how we can deal with them\".\n\nSigning off, he invited viewers to \"join me - or as we used to say in those early days of radio, stay tuned\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Face coverings have been mandatory on public transport in England since 15 June\n\nFewer than 0.1% of people stopped by police for not wearing masks on trains received a fine, figures have revealed.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said it stopped 14,726 people from 15 July to 15 August for failing to comply, resulting in 14 fixed penalty notices.\n\nThe rules, introduced in June, state anyone travelling on public transport must wear a face covering.\n\nBTP said enforcement in the form of fixed penalty notices was only used as a \"last resort\".\n\nIt said, from 30 July to 8 September, officers recorded 50,729 \"interventions\" with passengers not wearing face coverings, with 3,545 - 7% - of those told to leave the train.\n\nThe figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, showed 37 fines had been issued between 15 June and 14 July. BTP said it did not hold complete data for how many people were stopped during that time.\n\nThe rules have led to rows on public transport, with some spilling over into violence.\n\nLast month, police said a train passenger was head-butted to the floor and repeatedly punched in the face for asking a fellow passenger to wear a face mask on a service between Slough and Langley in Berkshire.\n\nAnd in Bournemouth, a bus driver was hit over the head and kicked on the floor for refusing to let a man board without a face covering.\n\nMP Sammy Wilson was pictured on the London tube without a mask\n\nPoliticians have also been photographed breaking the rules.\n\nConservative MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger, apologised for forgetting to put on his face covering for a train journey from Hungerford to Paddington.\n\nDUP MP for East Antrim, Sammy Wilson, was also caught on camera by a fellow passenger on the London Underground without a mask.\n\nMr Wilson said he accepted he \"should have been\" wearing a face covering and he would \"accept whatever consequences there are\".\n\nA BTP spokesman said: \"British Transport Police has been working with rail industry staff since face coverings became mandatory on public transport in England on 15 June 2020 to engage with passengers, explain the importance of preventing the spread of the Covid-19 virus and encouraging people to wear face coverings.\n\n\"Enforcement, in the form of fixed penalty notices, has only been used as a last resort.\"\n\nRail campaign group Railfuture said it was difficult to strike a balance but said BTP had got it \"about right\".\n\nSpokesman Bruce Williamson said: \"We want a safe railway. We do not want to deter people from travelling.\n\n\"It looks like British Transport Police are doing this right. If fines are a last resort, it's good, they are not being heavy-handed.\"\n\nBTP has jurisdiction for the railway network in England, Scotland and Wales, which includes the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Croydon Tramlink, Midlands Metro, Glasgow Subway and part of the Tyne & Wear Metro.", "Police have clashed with demonstrators at a protest in central London against coronavirus restrictions.\n\nOfficers used batons to control the crowd, after bottles and water were thrown by demonstrators massed in Trafalgar Square.\n\nAt least three protesters and nine officers were injured, while 16 people were arrested.\n\nThe Met Police said the protest had been shut down because the crowd was not complying with social distancing.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, thousands gathered in central London to protest against the latest government rules, with very few wearing masks.\n\nProtests are exempt from the rule-of-six restrictions, but demonstrators must social distance; organisers must also submit a risk assessment.\n\nRules in England limit indoor and outdoor gatherings to six people, with some exceptions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters against the government's coronavirus restrictions were rallying in central London\n\nOfficers removed sound equipment and penned the crowd in Trafalgar Square as water and bottles were thrown at them by demonstrators - with some chanting \"pick your side\".\n\nPolice used batons against protesters, leaving some with visible injuries.\n\nReacting, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"The reckless and violent behaviour of some protesters has left hard-working police officers injured and put the safety of our city, which is at a critical moment in the fight against this virus, at risk. This is totally unacceptable.\n\n\"We cannot let the sacrifices Londoners have made be undermined by the selfish behaviour of a small number.\n\n\"Violence of this kind towards officers will not be tolerated and perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe Met said the vast majority of crowds had now dispersed.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Met said: \"Crowds in Trafalgar Square have not complied with the conditions of their risk assessment and are putting people in danger of transmitting the virus.\n\n\"This has voided their risk assessment and we have informed the event organisers they are no longer exempt from the regulations.\"\n\nPolice also confiscated a makeshift riot shield from one man.\n\nThe \"we do not consent\" rally came a week after a separate event which saw more than a dozen officers injured when a \"small minority\" targeted police and more than 32 arrests were made.\n\nCommenting on events on Saturday, Commander Ade Adelekan - who was leading the Met operation - said: \"As the crowds began to swell in Trafalgar Square, it became impossible for people maintain social distancing and keep each other safe.\n\n\"In the interest of public safety, officers then worked quickly to disperse crowds. I am grateful to those members of the demonstration who listened to officers and went home.\n\n\"However, I am very frustrated to see that nine officers were injured during clashes with a small minority of protestors. This is especially saddening in light of the injuries sustained by officers last weekend.\n\n\"We will be supporting those officers who were injured and I wish them a very speedy recovery.\"", "An airline union official says he believes that EasyJet is \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nIn a leaked recording obtained by BBC News, Martin Entwisle said the company was in a \"really, really dire situation.\"\n\nMr Entwisle made the comment after a meeting with the airline's chief financial officer, Andrew Findlay.\n\nEasyJet denies that Mr Entwisle's claims in the recording reflect what EasyJet or its finance officer said.\n\nThe meeting between Mr Entwisle, three other representatives of the pilots' union Balpa and senior EasyJet management took place two weeks ago.\n\nIn a subsequent presentation to EasyJet pilots, Mr Entwisle, an EasyJet captain and union rep, said, \"I think the easiest way to put it is that the company is hanging by a thread. The situation is dire.\n\n\"If we don't have a good summer next summer and make a considerable amount of money, we really are going to be out of a job.\"\n\nThe recording comes from the presentation, which was given by the union officials to their members as part of a process to encourage them to take up the airline's offer of part-time working in order to save jobs.\n\nThe language used by union rep Martin Entwisle is stark.\n\nHowever his presentation to fellow pilots at Easyjet, which was recorded and leaked to the BBC, is a pitch.\n\nEasyJet and Balpa were, at the time, in the process of thrashing out a deal to mitigate redundancies.\n\nAfter a prior meeting with Easyjet management, Mr Entwisle's overall message to colleagues is that these are such extreme times, that a deal, which would have seemed inconceivable six months ago, is their best bet.\n\nThe recording does shine a light on just how bleak this winter will be for Easyjet.\n\nBut there is nothing to suggest that the airline's predicament is any worse than that of any of its competitors.\n\nEvery airline has been burning cash for months and no-one can say when international travel will truly recover.\n\nThey've all restructured and flight schedules have been dramatically scaled back in the short to medium term.\n\nIt is vital for all of them that, by next summer, the situation has dramatically improved.\n\nLike all airlines, EasyJet had to take drastic measures in response to the pandemic. It placed around 80% of its pilots on the government's furlough scheme, and secured a £600m loan from the Treasury's emergency coronavirus fund. In May it announced that it planned to lay off up to 4,500 staff across Europe.\n\nBut the recording highlights other measures that EasyJet has apparently taken.\n\nThe airline, which at the start of the pandemic owned over 80% of its aircraft according to Mr Entwisle, has sold over 30% of them, and leased them back, to plough money into the company, and \"more aircraft are about to be sold\".\n\nEasyJet was forced to ground its entire fleet at the height of the pandemic\n\nMr Entwisle also said the winter is looking \"dire\" and will result in the airline cutting back significantly on its schedule. He claims that peak flying each day during the winter \"is not going to exceed 90 aircraft in the UK.\"\n\nThe aircraft have all been allocated to bases but \"some of it is absolutely horrendous - some bases are looking at in excess of 50 - 60% cuts, possibly this winter.\"\n\nEasyJet has previously said it was closing its bases at Newcastle and two London airports, Southend and Stansted.\n\nBalpa announced on Friday that it had reached agreement with EasyJet to avoid any compulsory redundancies. Sixty pilots have left voluntarily, while 1,500 have opted for part-time working, around 75% of all pilots at the airline.\n\nEasyJet employees protesting following the airline's decision to close its Stansted operations\n\nIn a statement EasyJet said: \"The recording does not reflect what EasyJet or its chief financial officer said. We have been clear the whole industry has been impacted by the pandemic, however, EasyJet has taken a prudent approach to capacity and the right actions on cash preservation.\n\n\"The airline continues to keep all liquidity options under review, but no decisions have been taken.\n\n\"Winter flying is always significantly lower than summer and EasyJet will continue with its prudent and dynamic approach to capacity over the winter. No decisions have been taken and we will update the market in due course.\"", "Public health teams are dealing with a number of large outbreaks among students in Scotland\n\nMore than 700 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Scotland in the last 24 hours.\n\nScotland's National Clinical Director Jason Leitch said the pandemic was now \"accelerating\" in Scotland.\n\nThe daily total of 714 is the highest number of cases confirmed in a day since mass testing began, and 156 more than Friday's figure.\n\nThe Scottish government said 11.5% of those newly tested in the past 24 hours had been positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19 has also risen by 10 to 99.\n\nThere were no further deaths reported in the past 24 hours, but one death was confirmed from the previous day, bringing the total to 2,511.\n\nMr Leitch said the trend in Scotland would now be for rises of \"300 to 400 to 600\" in the number of cases, rather than smaller increases.\n\n\"Our pandemic in Scotland is presently accelerating - and we need to manage it,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAround 3500 new cases have been confirmed in Scotland over the past seven days.\n\nThe current focus of Scotland's outbreak appears to be in Glasgow, which recorded a weekly case rate of 162.5 per 100,000 people on Thursday.\n\nThe rate is more than twice that of North Lanarkshire, which has the second highest rate among local authorities. It is also the highest seen in Scotland since the start of the outbreak in March.\n\nThe number of tests being carried out is far higher than at the peak of Scotland's outbreak in April - meaning more positive cases will be detected - but the percentage of positive tests is also rising.\n\nMr Leitch said restrictions on households mixing indoors, which were extended across the whole of Scotland on Tuesday, would take a while to have an affect.\n\n\"It's two, three weeks before you show any difference,\" he said.\n\n\"And we've now had universities and colleges back and you can see we now have hundreds of cases inside those institutions.\"\n\nPublic health teams in Scotland are currently dealing with a number of large outbreaks among students living in shared accommodation.\n\nMore than 170 students have tested positive in halls of residence at the University of Glasgow and there have been other outbreaks in Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS Fife has confirmed seven workers from Kettle Produce in Balmalcolm in Fife, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said all confirmed cases had mild symptoms and were currently isolating at home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Scottish yacht owner has described how his boat was attacked by three killer whales off the coast of Spain.\n\nGraeme Walker, his wife Moira and their friend Stephen Robinson were targeted early on Tuesday morning.\n\nMr Walker, from Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute, felt a sudden jolt as he was at the helm of the 48ft yacht, before spotting one of the orcas.\n\nThe retired chief financial officer told BBC Scotland: \"We realised they were after the boat.\"\n\nDuring their 45-minute ordeal, off Cape Finisterre, they prepared the life raft as the Promise 3 was rocked and spun round.\n\nThey later discovered a 1.5sq ft chunk had been bitten out of the fibreglass rudder.\n\nSpeaking from La Coruna, where the yacht is undergoing repairs, Mr Walker said: \"I felt a thump on the boat and the helm was pulled out my hand.\n\n\"I was not really sure what was happening, then one of the animals broke the surface, on the left hand side of the boat, for breath.\"\n\nThe yacht's rudder was badly damaged by the whales\n\nMr Walker admitted he had been worried because \"you never know how these things are going to play out\".\n\nHe added: \"None of us have ever been through anything like this before.\"\n\nHe believes two juvenile orcas were responsible for the initial attack but a third one, which was \"a lot bigger\", soon arrived on the scene.\n\nMr Walker called the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) in Finisterre who advised him to ensure the sail was down and the engine off.\n\nThe operator said the orcas would probably lose interest after 10 minutes - but they continued to attack the 12 tonne boat for 45 minutes.\n\nMr and Mrs Walker feared they might have to leave the yacht on a life raft\n\nMr Walker said: \"The boat would literally spin through 90 degrees when the animals came in. It was as pronounced as that.\n\n\"When they actually bit on the rudder and started shaking the rudder the wheel was spinning from side to side.\n\n\"You could not have touched it. You would have broken your arms.\"\n\nHis main fear was that a broken rudder could potentially have put a hole in the boat and resulted in it taking on water.\n\nMr Walker added: \"The good thing was it was light.\n\n\"If it had happened two hours earlier it would have been pitch dark, which would have been even more unpleasant.\"\n\nThe yacht is currently being repaired in La Coruna\n\nHe said everyone on board stayed calm and \"there was no screaming or bawling or anything like that.\"\n\nAt the time of the attack, the Walkers and Mr Robinson were 720 miles into a 1,600 mile journey from Almerimar in southern Spain to the Clyde coast of Scotland.\n\nOrcas are normally in the area where the attack happened to feed off tuna - but this is the first year they have been know to target boats.\n\nMr Walker said he first became aware of the problem after reading an article in The Guardian but did not realise the incidents had been so frequent.\n\nOn Tuesday the Spanish transport ministry banned boats of 15m or less from sailing close to the coast between Cape Prioriño Grande and Estaca de Bares point in Galicia for a week.\n\nDespite the restrictions he has been delayed in any event as his yacht will take a week to repair.\n\nWhen asked if, borrowing a famous line from Jaws, he now needs a \"bigger boat\", Mr Walker laughed and said it had crossed his mind.\n\nHe added: \"If I can get one that is steel then that might be the way to go.\"", "Pupils from better-off families found it easier to access learning during lockdown, says Mr Chalke\n\nPupil premium funding used to boost the education of the poorest children should be trebled, says the boss of a leading academy chain.\n\nDisadvantaged children were hit hardest by the lockdown, says Steve Chalke, founder of the Oasis Trust which runs 53 academies in England.\n\nThe learning gap between disadvantaged pupils and better off children \"has become a gulf\", he claims.\n\nThe government says it has already allocated £1bn to help pupils catch-up.\n\nBut Mr Chalke questions whether enough of this funding is earmarked for the pupils in most need.\n\nOasis Trust focuses on running schools in deprived areas, and Mr Chalke says he is particularly concerned by recent research which suggests pupils at schools like these fell further behind than better-off children during the lockdown.\n\nTheir teachers will have a tougher job of helping them catch up, he says.\n\nThe Chancellor has cancelled this autumn's budget to focus on emergency support during the pandemic.\n\nMr Chalke argues this support should include a fundamental rethink of the pupil premium, which was introduced by the coalition government in 2011 to boost the education of disadvantaged children.\n\nIt is a cash bonus paid to schools for any pupil who has been eligible for free school meals at any point during the previous six years, or for pupils who have been in care for more than six months continuously.\n\nMr Chalke argues more money is needed, specifically targeted at poorer pupils whose learning has been so badly harmed by the lockdown.\n\n\"Government should respond to the need before it causes irrevocable damage by trebling this funding, at least over the next three years, and focusing it on children living in persistent poverty and facing long-term disadvantage,\" he argues.\n\n\"It is vital that government makes this move now, to ensure that a generation of children, already disadvantaged before the Covid-19 lockdown but whose situations have deteriorated even further, are not completely abandoned, doomed to spend their lives struggling for opportunities their peers will have ready access to, rather than flourishing,\" he said.\n\nAcademy chain leader Steve Chalke, says government cash to help poor pupils catch-up is 'far too little'\n\nMr Chalke also says the government's £350m National Tutoring Programme which is aimed at helping the most disadvantaged pupils catch-up after the lockdown \"is far too little\".\n\nThis funding, for just one academic year, will not address the \"aching long-term need to narrow the disadvantage gap\", he says.\n\n\"It is the equivalent of a very poor quality sticking plaster being stretched across a wound that is far too deep to be healed by short-term interventions.\"\n\nMr Chalke argues that the whole designation of this money as \"catch-up funding\" is wrong.\n\n\"The focus on academic achievement, accompanied by a 'teach to the test' education strategy, fails totally to recognise the heart of the issue.\n\n\"Despite the fact that there is, at last, a focus on student wellbeing in the national curriculum, until we develop an education strategy that commits cash and learning time to working with the adverse and traumatic childhood experiences that many disadvantaged students suffer, and have suffered through lockdown, we are wasting public money.\n\n\"That's why the attainment gap has never been tackled successfully, despite the many millions already spent on improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said the best place for disadvantaged children was back in school, where the government's £1bn Covid catch-up package was \"tackling the impact of lost teaching time\".\n\nThis includes £350m for disadvantaged students through the National Tutoring Programme, \"which is in addition to our £2.4bn pupil premium to improve these pupils' attainment and outcomes,\" said the statement.\n\n\"Head teachers and school leaders are best placed to make decisions about their pupils and which of them need the most support,\" said the spokeswoman.", "Jo Malone said her former company's treatment of John Boyega was \"despicable\"\n\nJo Malone has criticised the perfume brand bearing her name for their treatment of the actor John Boyega.\n\nMalone is no longer personally associated with the company, having sold it to Estee Lauder in 1999.\n\nThe company, Jo Malone London, apologised after replacing the Star Wars actor in an aftershave advert for the Chinese market.\n\n\"I am so horrified and disgusted about what has been done to John,\" Malone told ITV's Lorraine on Friday.\n\n\"How dare somebody treat him [like that], and he finds out he is replaced on social media?\n\n\"They never spoke to him. That for me is utterly despicable and is disgusting.\"\n\nJo Malone London re-shot the advert the Star Wars actor made, in his home town of London, for broadcast in China.\n\nWhile the script for the aftershave commercial - which was originally conceived and directed by the British star - remained largely the same, it saw him replaced by another actor, Liu Haoran.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spot the difference: John Boyega advert and the Chinese version\n\nThe original version, entitled London Gent, showed Boyega hanging out with friends and family in Peckham, where he grew up, but they were also removed for Chinese audiences.\n\nBoyega stepped down as an ambassador for the company in protest over their decision.\n\nThe firm issued an apology to Boyega on Monday, saying: \"We deeply apologise for what, on our end, was a mistake in the local execution of the John Boyega campaign.\"\n\nJo Malone London reiterated their apology on Thursday, clarifying that the founder has not been involved with her former company since 2006.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Malone London This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer owner Malone expressed her dismay at being dragged into the situation on social media earlier this week.\n\nSpeaking to Lorraine on Friday, she added: \"From a personal level, I feel heartbroken by this and I don't know where to turn.\"\n\n\"This has gone global and my name has been associated,\" she went on. \"It's been done in my name but also people think it's me.\"\n\n\"If I'd have been standing in those shoes I promise you John this wouldn't have happened.\n\nMalone added: \"This man wasn't using his image to just promote something - he brought his creativity [to the advert].\"\n\nShe said Boyega \"brought his life story to people and to that brand and how dare somebody treat him [like that] and he finds out he's been replaced on social media. That's the bit that really gets to me.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "DIY items and homeware sales increased as lockdown meant we spent more time at home\n\nBritish retail sales have continued to increase for the fourth consecutive month, boosted by spending on household goods and DIY, according to official figures.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said retail sales volumes rose by 0.8% between July and August.\n\nSales are now 4% higher than in March, when a pandemic was declared.\n\n\"Retail sales continued to grow, further surpassing their pre-pandemic level,\" the ONS said.\n\n\"Sales of household goods thrived as the demand for home improvement continued and, despite a dip this month, online sales remained high,\" said Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS.\n\nSpending on household goods was particularly strong in August, with retailers reporting a 9.9% jump in sales of homeware products compared with the pre-pandemic levels seen in February.\n\nBut August's increase was smaller than the post-lockdown rebound seen in July, when retail sales volumes grew 3.6%.\n\nOnline sales also fell by 2.5% in August when compared with the previous month. But the strong growth in the number of customers shopping online during the pandemic has meant that sales were still 46.8% higher than in February.\n\nAlthough online retailers might have seen higher numbers of clicks in recent months, many High Street stores are still struggling to attract customers after lockdown measures were eased nationally.\n\nThe volume of items sold in clothing shops, for example, still stood 15.9% below February's pre-pandemic levels in August.\n\n\"Clothing stores continued to struggle with sales still well below their February level. Overall, the switch to greater online sales means the High Street remains under pressure,\" Mr Athow added.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: \"The recovery remains a mixed bag, with high growth in online sales, while city centre shops suffered as a result of low footfall.\"\n\nShe added: \"With further lockdowns looming, the government must provide clarity on the impact it will have for shops.\n\n\"Retailers have invested hundreds of millions making stores safe and secure for customers during the pandemic; this includes perspex screens, social distancing measures and additional hygiene measures. As such, retail remains a safe space for consumers, even under local lockdowns.\"\n\nWhile August saw some consumers returning to city centres to take advantage of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme, industry figures have suggested those areas might struggle to reach pre-pandemic levels of footfall.\n\nPaint is in, stilettos are out.\n\nThey may be our shopping bills, but they're being carefully scrutinised by the chancellor and the Bank of England. For retail sales make up about a quarter of our economy, an important guide to how well or not the recovery is going. And the level of spending is back above where it was prior to the pandemic.\n\nBut it's not just about how much, but why and what we are spending on. Is it a case of can't or won't?\n\nA drop in sales of clothing might reflect fewer people wanting or being able to browse on the High Street and put off by the inability to try on before you buy. If they think we are sitting on funds we can spend, measures like VAT cuts can give us the nudge to get out there and move the economy along.\n\nBut less spending on extra treats may also reflect lower incomes or nerves about job prospects. And that means we may need more support for saving and creating jobs - there are growing hints that we may hear more on that in the Budget\n\nAt this tricky time, a peek into the nation's shopping basket is more than just a nosy indulgence.\n\nEntrepreneur and ex-Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis told the BBC's Today programme: \"It's really interesting as you see the confidence in the consumer in travelling outside their house. Our business outside the metropolitan areas... is remarkably stronger than it is within.\n\n\"It's the fact that people lose the confidence to go far outside their normal area of habitat,\" he said.\n\n\"It will never be the same again - I really can't see our stores ever reaching the levels in metropolitan areas that they did before, because I think the genie's out of the bottle.\"\n\nM&S announced in August it will cut 7,000 jobs across stores and management\n\nSeveral High Street chains also announced job cuts in August as they battled to shore up their businesses during the pandemic.\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger announced it would cut 3,000 jobs, or more than a third of its workforce, while department store chains Debenhams and M&S said they would be cutting 2,500 and 7,000 jobs.\n\nLisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at PwC, said that the run-up to Christmas would be crucial for retailers.\n\n\"Retailers will be hoping that the fragile recovery is not derailed by more widespread lockdowns, rising unemployment or dented consumer confidence,\" she said.", "Some UK railway franchises could be nationalised when emergency deals set up during the coronavirus pandemic expire on Sunday.\n\nInsiders said talks between the government and train firms on new deals were going \"right to the wire\".\n\nThe government has pumped billions of pounds into the railways to cover the fall in ticket revenue from low passenger numbers during the pandemic.\n\nBut sources said some contracts could be handed back to the government.\n\nMany private operators are expected to remain in place under similar emergency arrangements, but some may decide to opt out.\n\nThe Department for Transport said discussions were \"ongoing\" and it wouldn't comment on commercially-sensitive negotiations.\n\nIn the House of Commons on Thursday Labour's Jim McMahon said it was \"absolutely staggering\" that Transport Secretary Grant Shapps did not have an update on the situation at such a late stage.\n\nA deadline of this Sunday has been in place since March when the current emergency contracts were signed.\n\nMr Shapps said it was right that the negotiations with nine different companies were not done \"in public\".\n\nSecuring new agreements, even ones which will probably only cover the short-term control and finances of the railways, is complicated by two main factors.\n\nThe first is that no-one can say when passenger numbers on the railways will return to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe second is the fact that certain train companies were losing money before the pandemic.\n\nIn fact, at the beginning of the year ministers were poised to announce an overhaul of Britain's railways.\n\nReliability on certain networks had been poor and some train companies were losing money.\n\nThe government took control of the operator Northern in January. South Western Railway was heading in a similar direction.\n\nBut when the pandemic hit, the contracts between the Department for Transport and private companies were suspended, not scrapped.\n\nIt means some financial obligations from that period remain.\n\nThat backdrop and the uncertainty about future passenger numbers, and therefore the commercial viability of the railways in the longer-term, means certain rail operators might be tempted to opt out.\n\nEven if all of the train operators sign-up to a series of new emergency contracts by Sunday, a longer-term deal still needs to be worked-out.\n\nThe Department for Transport is said to favour a shift towards a \"concessionary model\" for the railways, which is already in operation on Merseyrail and the London Overground.\n\nIt means private companies run services for a fixed fee and any loss or profit falls to the government in charge.\n\nThis system, which shifts risk away from private firms, is said to be favoured by train companies operating large, complicated commuter networks.\n\nOperators in charge of intercity networks want to maintain some of the commercial flexibility that they had in the past, over things such as pricing.\n\nHowever solving the longer-term conundrum is made harder by the resurgence of the virus and the uncertainty that adds over passenger numbers.\n\nFor now, government guidelines over social-distancing are supposed to limit passenger numbers on trains to around 40% to 50%.", "Mark D'arcy-Smith was having a drink with a friend when another customer used the pub's ordering app to send a banana to his table.\n\nHe's been speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat about his relief at seeing that customer convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence.\n\nMark, a 25-year-old black man, says staff at The Richmal Crompton Wetherspoon pub in Bromley, south-east London initially told him to take his complaint to head office.\n\nThe 30p banana was sent anonymously and police described the search for the sender as \"a painstaking investigation\".\n\nLouie Kincella, 20, was found guilty this week and ordered to pay £1280 in fines and court costs.\n\n\"It's been stressing me out in the last year that the investigation would not go as far as I hoped.\" Mark tells us.\n\n\"In the court I was with my dad and we both felt this massive weight lifted off our shoulders.\n\n\"It must have been the first time in ages that I got a good night's sleep.\"\n\nThe court hearing was the first time he had seen Kincella - and he was not what he expected.\n\n\"I was quite surprised as I had in my head what someone would look like.\n\n\"To see someone so young that was quite surprising to me.\"\n\nThe piece of fruit was sent to Mr D'arcy-Smith's table in the Richmal Crompton pub\n\nMark says he doesn't blame the server who brought the banana over but he had hoped the pub \"would be more supportive\".\n\n\"I can accept that not everyone is going to be knowledgeable of when something doesn't seem right.\n\n\"I was at peace with that. [I understand] they would have missed it.\"\n\nA Wetherspoon spokesman said the manager had met with Mr D'arcy-Smith \"to apologise to him, and the company does so once again now\".\n\nMark says police took the incident, in November last year, seriously from the start.\n\n\"From the get-go, when we first spoke [to police] they wanted to make sure they took it as seriously as I have.\n\n\"Whenever they did hit a road block they let me know that they were still investigating.\"\n\nMark works in consumer research and now wants to get back to focussing on his day job.\n\n\"You do hope [this means] you have less people feeling they can do what happened to me.\"\n\nKincella has been barred from the pub.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None Man fined for ordering banana for black man in pub", "Sir Van claims scientists are \"making up crooked facts\" to justify measures that \"enslave\" the population\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister has described three new songs by Sir Van Morrison that protest against coronavirus lockdowns as \"dangerous\".\n\nIn the lyrics, Sir Van claims scientists are \"making up crooked facts\" to justify measures that \"enslave\" the population.\n\n\"The new normal, is not normal,\" he sings. \"We were born to be free\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said if Sir Van had scientific facts he should present them.\n\nSir Van Morrison refers to a debunked Covid-19 conspiracy theory in one of his new anti-lockdown songs.\n\nThe track As I Walked Out includes the lyrics: \"Well on the government website from the 21 March 2020 / It said COVID-19 was no longer high risk\".\n\nIt's a reference to a UK government page that stated \"Covid-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK\".\n\nThat much is true - but that doesn't mean that coronavirus is harmless.\n\nThe HCID designation is given for very fatal diseases: for example Ebola, which kills more than 50% of infected people.\n\nCovid-19 was initially classified as HCID in January - when little was known about it.\n\nBy March, more information and testing prompted authorities to revise the classification.\n\nIt's now thought the Covid-19 fatality rate is closer to 1%. The danger, scientists say, is that it is also highly infectious, and there is no proven vaccine or treatment.\n\nThe government message was widely shared on social media, largely by coronavirus denialists and opponents of restrictions, who have cited it as \"evidence\" that the lockdown was based on a \"hoax\".\n\nMr Swann said: \"I don't know where he gets his facts. I know where the emotions are on this, but I will say that sort of messaging is dangerous.\n\n\"Our messaging is about saving lives.\n\n\"If Van wanted to sing a song about saving lives, then that would be more in keeping with where we are at the minute.\"\n\nHe added: \"If Van Morrison has counter-scientific facts that he's prepared to stand over, and have that debate with the chief scientific adviser, then I think that's how he should do it.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said Sir Van should sing about saving lives\n\nMr Swann has warned that Northern Ireland could again face tighter restrictions if new cases of Covid-19 continue to rise.\n\nNiall Murphy, a prominent solicitor who was critically ill with Covid-19, described the songs as \"offensive and dangerous\".\n\n\"I had a ventilator placed down my gullet while I was in an induced coma for 14 days, and the same time in recovery, and then in and out of intensive care and I would not want anybody to experience that,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"This very serious solemn public health message is being sullied by someone who should know better.\"\n\nSean McGovern, a consultant in emergency medicine, said that figures showed that Covid-19 is the second most common cause of death in Northern Ireland, behind only cancer.\n\nHe added that it was \"wrong to use celebrity status to dilute the message and create problems\".\n\nBelfast city councillor Emmet McDonough-Brown, of the Alliance Party, said he has asked the council to consider revoking Sir Van's freedom of Belfast over the songs.\n\nHowever, DUP MP Sammy Wilson has defended Sir Van and said he was \"raising an important point\".\n\n\"It's a debate which has been going on for a long, long time, that we do ask the kind of questions that he has asked in these songs - how much of our freedom do we give to the government and how much should the government rely on us to use our common sense?\"\n\nSir Van recorded the three songs recently in Belfast and England.\n\nNo More Lockdown is the most strident of the three tracks. \"No more lockdown / No more government overreach,\" the musician sings in the chorus. \"No more fascist bullies / Disturbing our peace.\n\n\"No more taking of our freedom / And our God given rights / Pretending it's for our safety / When it's really to enslave.\"\n\nSir Van has previously caused controversy by denouncing what he called the \"pseudoscience\" around coronavirus.\n\nLaunching a campaign to \"save live music\" on his website last month, the 75-year-old said socially-distanced gigs were not economically viable.\n\n\"I call on my fellow singers, musicians, writers, producers, promoters and others in the industry to fight with me on this. Come forward, stand up, fight the pseudoscience and speak up.\"\n\nSir Van said his new songs would be released at two-week intervals with the first, Born To Be Free, arriving on 25 September.\n\nIn a statement announcing the songs, the musician said: \"I'm not telling people what to do or think, the government is doing a great job of that already.\n\nSir Van said his new songs would be released at two-week intervals\n\n\"It's about freedom of choice, I believe people should have the right to think for themselves.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Swann urged people to \"listen to the health advice coming from the professionals - the chief medical officer and the chief scientific adviser.\n\n\"They are the people who see the dangers.\n\n\"I know whose message I would rather listen to, that's the message of the professional, Dr Michael McBride and Professor Ian Young.\"", "Hundreds of pupils have been sent home from Olchfa Comprehensive School\n\nHundreds of children at one of Wales' biggest schools have been sent home to self-isolate after a pupil tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nOlchfa Comprehensive School has sent letters to parents of those affected advising them of what they have to do.\n\nA total of 455 sixth formers must stay at home for two weeks. No staff are self-isolating.\n\nHead teacher Hugh Davies has told parents of other pupils at the Swansea school that they may still attend.\n\nSwansea Council said the rest of the school was running normally and the authority was working with Public Health Wales and NHS Wales' Test Trace and Protect service to ensure appropriate measures were in place to protect students, staff and the wider community.\n\nA spokesman said: \"All close contacts of the case have been identified and have received appropriate advice to self-isolate. Children who have not been identified as a close contact do not need to self-isolate and do not require testing for the virus.\"\n\nHead teacher Hugh Davies has written to parents about the matter\n\nThe letter to parents of children who were not close contacts of the child with the positive test also advised them to continue to keep an eye on their children as a precaution.\n\nIt said parents should be alert to any symptoms of Covid-19 and should self isolate if they develop symptoms.\n\nIt is believed that more than 50 schools across Wales have reported Covid-19 incidents to date.\n\nAll Year Seven children at two Newport secondary schools were told to self-isolate after pupils tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAt Bridgend's Bryntirion Comprehensive School, more than 200 pupils were sent home.\n\nIn Cardiff, eight children and three staff at Llanishen Fach Primary School were asked to self-isolate, while 57 youngsters and two employees at Whitchurch High School were also sent home.", "Footballer Lionel Messi can register his name as a trademark after a nine-year legal battle, the EU's top court has ruled.\n\nThe European Court of Justice dismissed an appeal from Spanish cycling company Massi and the EU's intellectual property office, EUIPO.\n\nThe Barcelona footballer first applied to trademark his surname as a sportswear brand in 2011.\n\nBut Massi argued the similarity between their logos would cause confusion.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that the star player's reputation could be taken into account when weighing up whether the public would be able to tell the difference between the two brands.\n\nIn doing so, it upheld a ruling by the EU's General Court in 2018 that the footballer was too well known for confusion to arise.\n\nMassi, which sells cycle clothing and equipment, was successful in its initial challenge to the Barcelona striker's application. But it lost out when Lionel Messi brought an appeal to the General Court, which ruled in his favour.\n\nMessi, 33, who wears the number 10 shirt, has been crowned world football player of the year a record six times and is the world's highest-paid soccer player, according to Forbes. It puts his total earnings for 2020 at $126m (£97m).\n\nIn August, he made headlines by sending a fax to his club declaring his intention to leave.\n\nBut when Barcelona responded by insisting that any team that took him on would have to honour a €700m (£624m) release clause, he changed his mind, saying he did not want to face \"the club I love\" in court.", "Prosecutors say Jerry Harris could face up to 30 years in prison\n\nJeremiah \"Jerry\" Harris, one of the stars of the Netflix documentary series Cheer, has been arrested and charged with producing child sex images.\n\nMr Harris, 21, allegedly enticed an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos of himself, the US attorney's office said.\n\nAccording to court records, Mr Harris admitted to soliciting and receiving explicit images from the minor.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the star has denied the allegations.\n\nMr Harris was arrested on Thursday morning and later appeared in court in Chicago.\n\nHe did not enter a plea. A judge said a hearing would be held on Monday to determine if he will stay in custody or be released on bail, according to US media reports.\n\nMr Harris featured prominently in the popular series Cheer, which followed a cheerleading team from Navarro College in Texas as they sought a national title.\n\nMr Harris is accused of soliciting images from the minor from December 2018 to March 2020.\n\nThe victim informed Mr Harris during their initial online encounter that he was 13 years old, a criminal complaint says.\n\nIf convicted on the federal child pornography charge, Mr Harris faces up to 30 years in prison.\n\nThe charge comes after a lawsuit was filed earlier this week, in which Mr Harris was accused of child sexual exploitation and abuse of two alleged male victims.\n\nA spokesperson told CNN at the time that \"we categorically dispute the claims\" and \"are confident that when the investigation is completed the true facts will be revealed\".\n\nBut court documents say Mr Harris admitted during an interview with law enforcement officials to soliciting and receiving explicit images from one of the minors and \"at least between 10 to 15 other individuals he knew were minors\".\n\nOfficials say investigations are ongoing and have called for anyone with more information to come forward.\n\nCheer was an instant success when it was released on streaming service Netflix in January, and recently won two Emmy Awards.\n\nMr Harris gained popularity for his enthusiastic \"mat talk\" - when cheerleaders on the sidelines shout encouragement to teammates during difficult stunts.\n\nEarlier this year, he interviewed celebrities on the Oscars red carpet for The Ellen DeGeneres Show.\n• None Inside the world of the UK's student cheerleaders", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 4 and 11 September. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs which can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nLinda Robertson from Longniddry discovered the Smoo cave in Durness on a staycation last week. \"What a wonderful site to behold,\" she said.\n\nA pine marten was Anne Patterson's \"surprise guest\" in her garden in Inverness. She said it was a lovely treat to see the animal so close.\n\nMary McClymont caught the sunrise at Coldingham Bay in the Borders just as the sun was rising, proving the early bird catches the... best pictures.\n\nEnd of an era: Glyn Booton was on his way to photograph the Queen of Scots steam train when he captured another great icon of its time on its journey to self-isolation along the A702.\n\nAndy Nicholson was out on a favourite walk on Craig Fonvuick above Killiecrankie looking up Glen Girnaig when he photographed this scene. He said the rainbow brought out the colours of the heather.\n\nTwo's company as a peacock butterfly and a bumblebee shared some space on a sedum plant in Joe Fitzpatrick's garden in Glenrothes.\n\nA horse and rider got the beach at Whiting Bay on Arran all to themselves as the evening sun sparkled on the water.\n\n\"Like a huge fire\" is how Ian Barnes from Lendalfoot describes this pic of the sun setting over the Mull of Kintyre, showing Ailsa Craig.\n\n\"I'm not sharing\". This cheeky face was caught chowing down on his lunch at Pollok Park by Rosie McGeachan from Glasgow.\n\nLinda Young from Dunfermline took a trip doon the watter in Glasgow in her RIB and passed the majestic Titan Crane which is 100 years old this year.\n\n\"Oi - got any peanuts?\" is what this gallus squirrel might be saying to Boss the beagle in a garden stand-off last week in Avonbridge, Falkirk. Gregor Wilson was there to witness the confrontation.\n\nTwo-year-old Daniel plays hide-and-seek in the bushes at his local park in Renfrew. His dad Allan tells us he had been asking to go there from the minute he woke up at 07:00, even in the rain.\n\nThis vision made Kevin Strachan look twice at the River Tay in Perth. Luckily, he had his camera ready to capture the \"snap\".\n\nGlasgow on a dreich night may be quiet and gloomy, but it's beautiful too, as seen by Graham Fraser.\n\nStuart Beattie spotted this solo hiker on the West Highland Way passing Buchaille Etive Mor, in a picture he calls \"96 miles of memories\".\n\nStephen Regel from Nottinghamshire must have been very quiet to not startle this little guy at Kinlochmoidart who was sniffing out some berry treats.\n\nIt must be lucky to find a double rainbow and a near-deserted beach and Andrew Bunyan found both at Seilebost beach on the Isle of Harris.\n\nItalian job: the Italian garden at Glamis Castle looks ready to star in its own movie - shot by Alan Fraser during a trip to visit relatives in the area.\n\nIt's not the USA. But there's definitely surfin' going on at Sandend beach on the Moray coast. Sam Ross caught these surfers, if not the wave, on a holiday to Cullen.\n\nCarl Taylor took this chilling picture at Bracklinn Falls in Callander just as the mist was coming down.\n\nA happy message from this painted pebble found by Joel Liwanag from Edinburgh on a marble bench after a long and tiring hike in Kinlochleven.\n\nBill Cameron from Lochaber is a lucky man. He got to see this stunning view of the remains of the old fort of Fort William at Loch Linnhe at sunset.\n\nMelissa Rarity from Ayr pretty much captured autumn in this one pic of a stunning tree in Fairlie Glen.\n\nHow accommodating of this stag to wander into Kim Gibson's shot from the Kingshouse Hotel in Glencoe just at the right time.\n\nCallum Kerr spotted the \"NHS Spitfire\" on Thursday as it toured Scotland's hospitals to show appreciation for workers' efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJane Sayliss spent hours watching the seals in Gruinard Bay, Wester Ross. She said this one seemed to wave at her before baring its teeth.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.", "The woman was transferred to another hospital during the cyber-attack\n\nGerman police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman died during a cyber-attack on a hospital.\n\nHackers disabled computer systems at Düsseldorf University Hospital and the patient died while doctors attempted to transfer her to another hospital.\n\nCologne prosecutors officially launched a negligent homicide case this morning saying hackers could be blamed.\n\nOne expert said, if confirmed, it would be the first known case of a life being lost as a result of a hack.\n\nThe ransomware attack hit the hospital on the night of 9 September, scrambling data and making computer systems inoperable.\n\nSuch attacks are one of the most serious threats in cyber-security with dozens of high profile attacks so far this year. The attackers can demand large payments in cryptocurrency Bitcoin in exchange for a software key that unlocks IT systems.\n\nThe female patient, from Düsseldorf, was due to have scheduled life-saving treatment and was transferred to another hospital in Wuppertal which is roughly 19 miles (30km) away.\n\nSome local reports suggest the hackers did not intend to attack the hospital and in fact were trying to target a different university. Once the hackers had realised their mistake it is reported they gave the hospital the decryption key without demanding payment before disappearing.\n\nDetectives have brought in cyber-security experts to ascertain whether there is a link between the hack and the patient's death, with the hospital also likely to be investigated.\n\nGermany's national cyber-security authority says it is on site at the hospital helping the hospital's IT staff rebuild systems.\n\nIts president Arne Schönbohm said hackers took advantage of a well-known vulnerability in a piece of VPN (virtual private network) software developed by Citrix, and warned other organisations to protect themselves from the flaw.\n\n\"We warned of the vulnerability as early as January and pointed out the consequences of its exploitation. Attackers gain access to the internal networks and systems and can still paralyse them months later.\n\n\"I can only stress that such warnings should not be ignored or postponed, but need appropriate measures immediately. The incident shows once again how seriously this risk must be taken.\"\n\nFormer chief executive of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre Ciaran Martin said: \"If confirmed, this tragedy would be the first known case of a death directly linked to a cyber-attack. It is not surprising that the cause of this is a ransomware attack by criminals rather than an attack by a nation state or terrorists.\n\n\"Although the purpose of ransomware is to make money, it stops systems working. So if you attack a hospital, then things like this are likely to happen. There were a few near misses across Europe earlier in the year and this looks, sadly, like the worst might have come to pass.\"\n\nLast month, technology giant Garmin is understood to have paid hackers a multi-million pound sum after its IT and production systems were taken offline in a ransomware attack.\n\nLaw enforcement agencies encourage victims not to pay ransoms arguing it fuels organised cyber-crime operations.", "Passengers who got out were \"unsure\" of what to do once they were on the wing\n\nPassengers were stuck on the wing of a plane during an emergency evacuation at Exeter airport, a report has found.\n\nCrew on the Flybe flight to Alicante on 28 February 2019 reported smoke filling the cabin and cockpit during take-off.\n\nAn Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report said passengers escaping via overwing exits faced a \"large drop\" to the ground.\n\nSome then re-entered the plane to find an alternative escape route, creating a \"bottle-neck\" in the cabin.\n\nOne hundred passengers and five crew members were on-board when a pilot noticed the smoke.\n\nSeveral passengers commented that they found the rear slides very steep and were surprised by how quickly they slid down them. One elderly passenger broke their ankle while exiting via one of the rear slides\n\nSome passengers who tried to leave via overwing emergency exits were \"unsure\" of what to do once outside and said it was unclear they were supposed to climb down, the report said.\n\nThe report said flaps on the wings which would have reduced the drop to the ground - which was more than 2m - were not fully deployed due to the speed the aircraft's engines were shut down.\n\nThis meant many were \"reluctant to jump or slide off the wing\" and some re-entered the cabin in order to get to the escape slides.\n\nAndy Feaver, who was at the front of the plane and exited via a slide, said it was \"scary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Feaver This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 saw people standing on the wings.\n\n\"A lot of ladies and older people couldn't jump off,\" he said.\n\n\"Imagine if there was a fire in there, obviously you are going to jump but I think you would have broken your legs because it was so high.\"\n\nThe report found the fumes were caused by cleaning chemicals left after overnight maintenance to the engine.\n\nAn internal investigation by Flybe, which went into administration in March, identified \"a lack of specific training or assisting documentation\" for engineers completing the task.\n\nThe AAIB made four safety recommendations relating to overwing exits.", "A rapid test can accurately diagnose a coronavirus infection within 90 minutes without needing a specialist laboratory, say scientists.\n\nThe study by Imperial College London showed the \"lab-on-a-chip\" gave comparable results to current tests.\n\nThe device is already being used in eight NHS hospitals to quickly identify patients who are carrying the virus.\n\nHowever, experts warn that the kit will not be a solution to the beleaguered Test and Trace programme.\n\nThe device, developed by the company DnaNudge, can be used by anyone capable of taking a swab of the nose or throat.\n\nThe swab is placed inside a disposable blue cartridge which contains the chemicals needed for the test.\n\nThis in turn is slotted into a shoebox-sized machine to perform the analysis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A device this small is effectively a laboratory\" - Prof Chris Toumazou, of DnaNudge, explains how the new test works\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet Microbe, compared results when samples from 386 people were given both the DnaNudge and standard laboratory tests.\n\n\"The performance was comparable, which is very reassuring when you're trying to bring in a new technology,\" said Prof Graham Cooke, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"Many tests involve a trade-off between speed and accuracy, but this test manages to achieve both.\"\n\nIf the lab tests said the patient was free of the virus, so did the rapid test. If the lab tests said the patient had the virus, the rapid test agreed 94% of the time.\n\nThe UK has already ordered 5,000 of the Nudgebox machines and 5.8 million of the disposable cartridges.\n\nHowever, there is a major drawback as each box can handle only one test at a time. So during a day, one box could perform around 16 tests.\n\nProf Cooke said: \"They are useful in clinical settings when you are trying to make a rapid decision.\"\n\nHe described a patient last week who was rapidly identified as having Covid and started on the drugs dexamethasone and remdesivir.\n\nThe tests could become even more useful for hospitals in the future as it is theoretically possible to test for coronavirus, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (a major reason young children are admitted to hospital) at the same time.\n\nHowever, the capacity issue means the test cannot solve the problems with NHS Test and Trace or help with Operation Moonshot and the plans for 10 million tests per day.\n\nTesting 60,000 people at a stadium ahead of a football match would require 60,000 boxes, but it may be useful at smaller venues.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, who was not part of the research and from the University of Warwick, said the technology was \"innovative\".\n\nHe added: \"The CovidNudge test could have an important role where near-patient, real-time decision-making is necessary, such as screening patients for admission to hospital or for surgery.\n\n\"[However,] this is not the answer to universal mass testing. \"", "Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival site\n\nA man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a music festival and filmed her as she died will not face a retrial after his manslaughter conviction was overturned.\n\nCeon Broughton, 31, gave Louella Fletcher-Michie, daughter of Holby City actor John Michie, a fatal dose of a drug at Bestival in Dorset in 2017.\n\nHe was released from jail after his manslaughter conviction was quashed at the Court of Appeal last month.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it was \"not taking the matter further\".\n\nThe family of Miss Fletcher-Michie declined to comment, but Mr Michie posted a photo of his daughter on Instagram with the caption: \"Truth stands When the law falls Love is eternal\".\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\nBroughton, 31, a rapper from Enfield, north London, was initially jailed for eight-and-a-half years in 2019 over the death of 24-year-old Miss Fletcher-Michie.\n\nHe had given her hallucinogenic class A drug 2-CP at the festival.\n\nHis conviction for supplying the drug stands.\n\nCeon Broughton had denied the manslaughter of his girlfriend Louella Fletcher-Michie\n\nShe was found dead in woodland, 400m from the festival's hospital tent in the early hours of 11 September.\n\nIn August, three judges at the Court of Appeal ruled to overturn the conviction of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nOn Thursday, Karen Harrold, head of the CPS Appeals and Review Unit, said: \"After careful consideration of the Court of Appeal judgment in the Ceon Broughton case, the CPS is not taking the matter further.\"\n\nShe said police and prosecution built the \"strongest case they could\", including an expert medical witness who said it was significantly likely that with medical intervention, Ms Fletcher-Michie would have survived.\n\nMs Fletcher-Michie's father is actor John Michie, who starred in Holby City and Coronation Street\n\n\"However, the appeal judgment makes it clear that it must be proven with certainty that it was a lack of medical intervention which was the cause of death, and sadly there is no further evidence available to provide the necessary certainty in this case,\" she said.\n\n\"We have met with the family of Ms Fletcher-Michie to explain this decision in full and our thoughts remain with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nA statement issued by Broughton's lawyers when his conviction was overturned said: \"Ceon remains devastated by her death.\n\n\"He has always wished that he could have done more to save her.\n\n\"He loved Louella and she him, but he knows that no words will ever be sufficient to convey his sense of responsibility for what happened or to begin to remove the pain that others have been caused.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Stevens co-founded the motor insurance company with his wife Heather in 1991\n\nA boss is giving his staff £10m as a thank-you to mark his retirement.\n\nThe gift from Admiral's Chief Executive David Stevens and his wife Heather will be shared between 7,500 staff in south Wales and 3,000 overseas.\n\nFull-time workers will get £1,000 with part-time staff receiving £500.\n\nMr Stevens, who co-founded the Cardiff-based motor insurance company with his wife in 1991, said he was \"proud and fortunate to have worked with a such a special group of people\".\n\n\"Saying thank you to all Admiral staff in this way is the right thing to do,\" he said.\n\n\"Their hard work and dedication has allowed Admiral to grow from a start-up to over 11,000 staff worldwide.\n\n\"And all of this while remaining a great place to work. Thank you from myself and my wife to everyone at Admiral.\"\n\nIt follows a similar gesture by former chief executive - and fellow co-founder - Henry Engelhardt who gave a £1,000 retirement thank you to full-time staff back in 2016, which at the time came to about £7m.\n\nMr Stevens is being succeeded as chief executive by Milena Mondini de Focatilis.\n\nAdmiral was launched selling car insurance over the phone in Cardiff with a team of just 57.\n\nIts other UK offices are in Swansea and Newport, with overseas sites in Spain, Italy, France, Canada, the US and India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how London celebrated the start of 2020\n\nLondon's New Year's Eve fireworks have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the mayor has revealed.\n\nAbout 100,000 people normally pack the streets around Victoria Embankment for the annual event.\n\nHowever, Sadiq Khan told LBC that \"we simply can't afford to have numbers of people congregating\".\n\nHe said they were instead \"working on something people can enjoy in the comfort and safety of their living rooms on TV\".\n\nAbout 100,000 people attend the event in central London every year\n\nMore than 12,000 fireworks feature in the display, which is set to music and watched by about 12 million people on TV. For the past five years the event has been ticketed due to high demand.\n\nExplaining the need for something to replace the fireworks, Mr Khan said London \"really can't lose that slot... because New Year's Eve is a really good opportunity for the rest of the world to see how wonderful our city is\".\n\nHe added that it was important to \"continue investing in our city\" to try to attract tourists \"particularly during a recession\".\n\nA replacement for the event will be announced \"in due course\", the mayor's office said\n\nThe decision to cancel the event has been called \"a hammer blow to central London\", by one Conservative London Assembly member.\n\nTony Devenish, the member for West Central, said it \"effectively warns visitors to stay away on New year's Eve, which will inevitably hurt local businesses\".\n\nA mayoral spokesperson told the BBC that City Hall was \"working up plans to ensure that we usher in the new year in London in a spectacular but safe way\", adding that an announcement would be made \"in due course\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "New restrictions aimed at halting the rise in coronavirus cases in north-east England have come into force, affecting almost two million people.\n\nThe temporary measures, which started at midnight, are to tackle \"concerning rates of infection\" in the region.\n\nThe rules affect Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and the County Durham council area.\n\nPubs and restaurants must shut early and household-mixing has been limited.\n\nResponding to the rise in infections, Newcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said: \"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas - in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new rules banning separate households from meeting each other at home or in private gardens have been introduced in Lancashire, Merseyside, parts of the Midlands and West Yorkshire.\n\nThe measures, due to take effect from Tuesday, will also mean shorter opening hours for pubs and restaurants in parts of Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nNorthumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham council areas are affected\n\nThe new measures for north-east England include:\n\nIt had been hoped that grandparents helping with childcare would be excluded from the restrictions - but they are not.\n\nMr Forbes tweeted that Newcastle City Council had \"specifically\" asked for this to be allowed.\n\nNorthumbria Police said it would provide a \"proportionate response\" to reports the rules being broken, and would assess the situation to determine the most appropriate course of action.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We will look to engage with people in the first instance, explaining the restrictions and encouraging them to follow the regulations.\n\n\"However, where necessary, we will take enforcement action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'These decisions have a real impact': Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms local lockdown in north-east England.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The data says that we must act now.\"\n\nHe said Sunderland currently had an infection rate of 103 cases per 100,000 people. In South Tyneside and Gateshead the latest published rates were 93.4 and 83.6 respectively.\n\nConcern has been raised about increased waiting times for coronavirus test results for people using community testing centres.\n\nIn Sunderland, drivers queued outside a Covid test centre, only to later find out it was empty.\n\nCouncils have requested additional funding to police the local lockdown\n\nCouncil leaders have also requested additional funding for policing, as well as extra testing facilities.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth echoed the need for more testing capacity to be available in areas where there were tightened restrictions.\n\nHe said it was urgent the government \"fixes testing, fixes tracing\" or we face a \"very bleak winter indeed\".\n\nCounty Durham's director of public health Amanda Healy said: \"If we do want to be able to continue to go to work, to schools, to keep in contact with relatives but stop an increase in the cases we have seen, we are really urging people to adhere to the guidance coming out today.\"\n\nGateshead Council leader Martin Gannon said: \"Nobody welcomes these things but I would think the vast majority of people recognise these are extremely difficult times and we all need to act and pull together.\"\n\nSmall businesses broadly welcomed the lockdown but called for more support to adapt to the new measures.\n\nSimon Hanson, North East development manager for the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"absolutely critical\" that small and micro businesses were given grant support quickly to help them adapt and provide cashflow.\n\nIt is estimated than 10 million people in the UK currently face additional coronavirus restrictions, with local lockdowns covering parts of Scotland, south Wales, the north west and north east of England, Yorkshire and the Midlands.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in one of the areas where restrictions are being reintroduced? How will you be affected? 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. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FM 'gives notice' that greater coronavirus restrictions are likely\n\n\"Hard but necessary\" decisions on further Covid restrictions may need to be taken to prevent another full-scale lockdown, Nicola Sturgeon has warned.\n\nThe first minister said the next few days would be \"critical\" in deciding which steps would be taken to stop the spread of Covid-19 in Scotland.\n\nShe said \"greater restrictions\" might be needed to \"interrupt\" that spread.\n\nAnd she said the introduction of more national restrictions would have to be considered.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the virus was on the rise and was spreading \"quite rapidly\".\n\n\"If we want to avoid another full-scale lockdown, doing nothing almost certainly isn't an option,\" she said.\n\n\"We have to consider now whether some national restrictions - we have national restrictions in place already, the six-two rule is a national restriction - do we need to have more national restrictions?\"\n\nThe new rule limiting social gatherings to a maximum of six people from two households came into effect on Monday.\n\nThere are currently tighter local restrictions in force in the west of Scotland which prevent people visiting each others' homes.\n\nTougher rules are being introduced in several parts of England, and the UK government is believed to be considering imposing fresh restrictions on the whole of England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that there had been 203 positive tests in Scotland in the past 24 hours, and that one person who tested positive had died. That took the total number of deaths in Scotland under the measurement being used to 2,502.\n\n\"The bottom line here is this virus is on the rise again,\" the first minister said.\n\n\"Cases are rising quite rapidly. The percentage of tests is not as high as March but is rising. And the R number is now above one.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had met a group of senior Scottish government officials to assess the situation and that discussions would take place with the four UK nations in the coming days.\n\nShe has asked the prime minister to stage a Cobra meeting this weekend, although it is understood that UK government has no plans to hold a meeting.\n\n\"The virus could get out of our grip again but it hasn't happened yet and we have time to prevent it from happening,\" she said. \"That is down to the government and all of us.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon warned that the country was following the path of France, which four weeks ago was in the same position that Scotland is now.\n\nIt is now seeing 10,000 new cases a day, with hundreds of people in intensive care and the number of deaths increasing.\n\n\"We must make sure we interrupt that and don't end up where they are now,\" she said. \"We are facing the risk again of exponential growth in Covid.\n\n\"No-one wants to see another full-scale lockdown.\n\n\"And above all we want to keep schools and childcare open because we know how important that is to the education and to the broader wellbeing of children and young people.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon asked people to abide by the current rules.\n\n\"It may well be that if we are to interrupt and break this growth we will have to do more in the next few weeks,\" she added.\n\n\"This weekend will be critical in the assessment of how best to do that.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives said he would support the introduction of any measures needed to help defeat the virus.\n\nDouglas Ross told BBC Scotland that every available option should be considered.\n\n\"We have seen the issues that we have if we don't get on top of it, and if we don't make the difficult decisions to reimpose some restrictions,\" he said.\n\n\"So everything that has to be done must be done to ensure we don't get a second wave of this pandemic that puts pressure on our hospitals and our NHS again.\n\n\"I support everything that can be done to support beating this terrible pandemic.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has also urged people to take part in a UK-wide Covid infection survey.\n\nUp to 15,000 people in Scotland will be tested every fortnight. Households will be randomly selected for the survey and invited to participate.\n\nThose taking part will do their own tests and some will be asked to provide blood samples.\n\nThe tests will continue for up to a year and will help scientists see how many people are infected with the virus over time and how many people will ultimately have the infection.", "The singer is known for songs like Brown Eyed Girl and Gloria, and classic albums including Astral Weeks\n\nSir Van Morrison has accused the government of \"taking our freedom\" in three new songs that protest against the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn the lyrics, he claims scientists are \"making up crooked facts\" to justify measures that \"enslave\" the population.\n\n\"The new normal, is not normal,\" he sings. \"We were born to be free\".\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, the prime minister said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another nationwide lockdown.\n\n\"I don't want a second national lockdown - I think it would be completely wrong for this country,\" Boris Johnson told MPs at the Commons Liaison Committee.\n\n\"So when I see people arguing against the rule of six or saying that the government is coming in too hard on individual liberties and so on - I totally understand that and I sympathise with that, but we must, must defeat this disease.\"\n\nRecorded \"recently\" in Belfast and England, Sir Van's three new songs sit in a familiar vein of jazz and bluesy R&B. However, the lyrics recall the angry young man who fronted Northern Irish rock group Them in the 1960s.\n\nNo More Lockdown is the most strident of the three tracks. \"No more lockdown / No more government overreach,\" the musician sings in the chorus. \"No more fascist bullies / Disturbing our peace.\n\n\"No more taking of our freedom / And our God given rights / Pretending it's for our safety / When it's really to enslave.\"\n\nAnother song references a widely-shared Facebook post, of a screenshot from a UK government website saying, \"Covid-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK\".\n\nWhile it is true that Covid-19 does not meet the criteria for an HCID - which typically has a high fatality rate (as much as 50% in the case of Ebola) - the disease is still considered highly infectious, with no specific vaccines or treatment currently available.\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister Robin Swann has described the new songs as \"dangerous\".\n\n\"I don't know where he gets his facts,\" said Swann. \"I know where the emotions are on this, but I will say that sort of messaging is dangerous.\"\n\nSir Van has previously caused controversy by denouncing what he called the \"pseudoscience\" around coronavirus.\n\nLaunching a campaign to \"save live music\" on his website last month, the 75-year-old said socially distanced gigs were not economically viable.\n\n\"I call on my fellow singers, musicians, writers, producers, promoters and others in the industry to fight with me on this. Come forward, stand up, fight the pseudo-science and speak up.\"\n\nSome socially-distanced gigs have been called off this week, after a spike in the number of coronavirus cases\n\nThe Brown Eyed Girl songwriter has already played three socially-distanced gigs this month, and has two shows at The London Palladium next week but he says these types of concerts are unsustainable and he is worried about the future of live music.\n\n\"This is not a sign of compliance or acceptance of the current state of affairs, this is to get my band up and running and out of the doldrum,\" he said.\n\nThe Music Venue Trust estimates that 400 grass roots venues in the UK are at the risk of closing.\n\nSir Van said his new songs would be released at two-week intervals with the first, Born To Be Free, arriving on 25 September.\n\nIn a statement announcing the songs, the musician said: \"I'm not telling people what to do or think, the government is doing a great job of that already.\n\n\"It's about freedom of choice, I believe people should have the right to think for themselves.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached the government for a response.\n\nAlso on Friday, former Stone Roses star Ian Brown released a new track questioning the motives behind the lockdown, and indeed a vaccine.\n\nLittle Seed Big Tree includes lyrics about a \"false vaccine\" and a \"plan to chip us all, to have complete control\" - a conspiracy theory that has repeatedly been debunked.\n\nThe track arrived just weeks after the Stone Roses singer caused a stir on social media, by tweeting: \"No lockdown, no tests, no tracks, no masks, no vax.\"\n\nAfter he doubled down on those comments online on Thursday evening, another Mancunian singer Liam Gallagher - who cites Brown as one of his heroes - replied, with a simple; \"Ian. Shut up x\"\n\nGallagher's older brother Noel this week said on a podcast that he is also refusing to wear a \"pointless\" mask, despite UK restrictions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rhondda residents have expressed their concerns about coronavirus as the county returns to lockdown\n\nThere is a \"high risk\" that a spike in covid cases will lead to more hospital admissions and deaths in locked down areas of Wales, it has been warned.\n\nDr Robin Howe, of Public Health Wales, said older people are being infected in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT).\n\nIt comes as people in Rhondda expressed frustration at becoming the second area in Wales to return to lockdown after Caerphilly on Thursday.\n\nStrict rules came into force at 18:00 BST for RCT's 240,000 residents.\n\nUnder the lockdown, they will not be able to enter or leave the county without a reasonable excuse, such as travel for work or education.\n\nPeople will be banned from meeting those outside their own households indoors and pubs, bars and restaurants will have to shut by 23:00.\n\nFigures released on Thursday reveal more than half of all Covid-19 hospital admissions in Wales are in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, which covers Caerphilly and Newport, and Cwm Taf Morgannwg, which covers RCT.\n\n\"There is a high risk that with the level of cases in Caerphilly and RCT we will see increased hospital admissions,\" Dr Howe told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"And we are seeing older age groups now being infected and there is obviously a sad risk that we may be seeing deaths.\n\n\"We would expect that hospital admissions would be increasing around about now and we are perhaps starting to see that in Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, and there may be deaths in the coming days.\"\n\nOn Thursday, residents could be seen forming a long queue outside a new mobile testing centre in Abercynon.\n\nIt follows an announcement on Wednesday by Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething, who pledged up to five extra mobile testing units for Covid-19 hotspots in Wales this week.\n\nColin Edrop, who owns The Bear Inn, in Llantrisant, said of the local lockdown: \"I'm not surprised, but it is frustrating because Llantrisant has been safe enough recently and other areas in RCT have made things worse.\n\n\"Shutting at 11 doesn't make a difference in my opinion, If people are going to get drunk they'll do it regardless.\n\n\"I would rather pubs be asked to close for two or three weeks so we can sort this all out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rhondda Cynon Taf lockdown: 'It's got to happen'\n\nMr Edrop said he would be \"happy to close if asked\", but added: \"We need to be making money, so I will remain open with strict safety measures.\n\n\"We're definitely not seeing groups of youngsters in our local area, certainly not seeing that - we have a much older crowd thankfully.\n\n\"But it is a nightmare to maintain social distancing, people have forgotten about social distancing.\"\n\nThe lockdown will be reviewed by the Welsh Government in two weeks' time\n\nMum-of-two Victoria Vaughan, from Pontypridd, said she thought the move was \"too little too late\".\n\n\"I'm not surprised that a local lockdown is coming, as I think the guidance over the past few weeks has been too relaxed and people have been complacent,\" she said.\n\n\"The guidance is very unclear, there's confusion over what we can and can't do, but at the moment it's still not firm enough in my view.\"\n\nMs Vaughan said it made \"no sense\" she could not see family but could go to the pub.\n\n\"Pubs should close, that's where the problem is, the guidance needs to be black or white - at the moment it's grey,\" she said.\n\n\"I rely heavily on my mum for childcare, she lives in Cardiff. If we can't see her, that will have a detrimental impact on my ability to work from home.\"\n\nTeleri Jones, who owns The Old Library Cafe in Porth, welcomed the announcement despite it being \"bad news for business\".\n\nShe said she had noticed a change in people's behaviour recently: \"People have been worrying, especially those with health issues.\n\n\"They had been staying away, then gradually we saw them come back. But last week was much quieter, and with all the talk on the news I can see it being even quieter this week.\"\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said some people not following Covid-19 guidelines had led to the spike.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"There must be some people who think they have got some kind of magic cloak of invisibility which means the virus won't touch them or anyone they know or love... and we've got some people who go into anarchy mode and decided they're going to do whatever they want to do.\n\n\"If the UK government doesn't get on top of this testing issue we will lose control of the virus… if we lose control then we lose control of the NHS... as we go into the winter that could be very dangerous.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru councillor for Ystrad, Elyn Stephens, said there was an \"overwhelming sense of frustration with the pubs remaining open\".\n\nPeople formed a long queue at the new Abercynon mobile testing unit on Thursday\n\nHe said some residents were now in their second lockdown after being flooded four times this year.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there had been a \"rapid\" rise in cases in RCT, with 82.1 infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe latest equivalent figure across Wales was 21.4 per 100,000.\n\nWednesday's rate of positive tests for the past week in RCT was 5.1% - the highest in Wales. Mr Gething previously warned a positive rate of 4% across Wales would trigger a national lockdown.\n\nFigures on Wednesday showed RCT's case rate had almost caught up with Caerphilly, which had 83.4 per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe restrictions have been imposed despite people in RCT having been asked to take extra precautions last week.\n\nA review of the lockdown will be held in two weeks.", "Nearly two in three workers are now commuting again, as some employers ask their staff to return to offices during the pandemic.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 62% of adult workers reported travelling to work last week.\n\nThat compares with 36% in late May, soon after the ONS began compiling the figures during lockdown.\n\nThe government has been encouraging workers to return to offices to help revive city centres.\n\nWhile the proportion of people travelling to work has increased, the ONS said 10% of the workforce remained on furlough leave.\n\nIt added that 20% of workers continued to do so exclusively from home.\n\nThe commuter data includes people who may be travelling to work exclusively, or they may be doing a mixture of commuting and working from home, the ONS said.\n\nBusiness groups have warned city centres could become \"ghost towns\" if more staff do not return, damaging small businesses that rely on passing trade from office workers.\n\nHowever, new research released on Thursday by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests that working from home could be a permanent fixture for many, following the pandemic.\n\nAccording to the survey of 1,000 employers, 37% believe staff will regularly avoid the journey into the office following Covid-19 - up from just 18% before the pandemic.\n\nCIPD chief executive Peter Cheese said: \"The step-change shift to home working to adapt to lockdowns has taught us all a lot about how we can be flexible in ways of working in the future.\n\n\"Employers have learnt that, if supported and managed properly, home working can be as productive and innovative as office working and we can give more opportunity for people to benefit from better work-life balance.\"\n\nHowever, he said it did not suit everyone and that organisations would have to design working arrangements around people's needs while \"also meeting the needs of the business\".\n\nThe ONS also found that about one in 10 workers are still furloughed under the government's job retention scheme. Under the scheme, workers placed on leave have been able to receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThat level is likely to fall in coming weeks as the government has started to scale back the amount of money it pays out to furloughed workers.\n\nCompanies who want to furlough their staff have had to pick up at least 10% of the bill since the beginning of September. In October, they will have to pay 20%.\n\nAlmost 10 million workers have been furloughed since March, but the scheme is set to end entirely on 31 October.", "People arriving from Singapore and Thailand in England and Scotland will not need to quarantine from Saturday morning, the government has said.\n\nThey have been added to the list of \"travel corridor\" countries.\n\nBut travellers coming from Slovenia and Guadeloupe will have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nBoth have also been added to Wales' quarantine list, while arrivals there from Gibraltar and Thailand will not need to self-isolate.\n\nThe changes come into force at 04:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said there had been \"a significant change in both the level and pace of confirmed cases of coronavirus\" in both Slovenia and Guadeloupe.\n\nData from Slovenia shows that its seven-day rate of cases is 29.1 per 100,000 people, up from 14.4 in the previous seven days.\n\nThe rate for Guadeloupe has risen more than six-fold in the past four weeks, the DfT said.\n\nWhen a country's rate rises above 20, the UK government considers imposing quarantine restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nTravellers who do not self-isolate when they are supposed to can be fined £1,000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, or £480 in Scotland.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps reminded passengers they were required by law to fill in a passenger locator form.\n\nThe form asks travellers to provide their contact details and UK address. Passengers can be fined up to £3,200 in England if they do not provide accurate contact details, or £1,920 in Wales.\n\n\"This is vital in protecting public health and ensuring those who need to are complying with self-isolation rules,\" Mr Shapps said.\n\nThe decision to remove quarantine restrictions for arrivals from Thailand and Singapore is unlikely to lead in a surge of people from England visiting as both countries are only allowing people to enter for a limited number of reasons, such as if they have a work permit or are the spouse or child of a resident.\n\nDenmark retained its quarantine exemption, despite its seven-day case rate being 33.8.\n\nThe DfT urged employers to be \"understanding\" of people returning from Slovenia and Guadeloupe, as they will need to self-isolate.\n\nThe statement gave no update on the possible introduction of testing at airports as a way of reducing quarantine requirements.\n\nThe travel industry has demanded this should take place urgently to avoid further job losses.\n\nEarlier this week, British Airways boss Alex Cruz called for trials to be held for passengers flying between London and New York.\n\nHe said \"this is imperative\", adding that the airline is \"still fighting for our own survival\".\n\nLast week, Sweden was made exempt from quarantine for Wales, England and Scotland.\n\nAt the same time, Portugal was placed back on England's quarantine list after a rise in infections.\n\nIt comes as coronavirus cases in the UK rose by 3,395 on Thursday, government figures showed, while deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test increased by 21.", "Boris Johnson, asked if the government had eased lockdown too quickly, suggested discipline in adhering to social distancing restrictions had slipped.\n\n\"If you look at what's happened over the last few months, I think the British people have done a amazing job,\" he said.\n\n\"They got that peak under control, they brought it right down, they brought the number of infections right down by discipline and everybody adjusting our behaviours and the way we go about our lives - hands, face, space.\n\n\"And I think probably, truth to tell, what's happened here and what alas has happened in so many other countries is that people find it difficult to keep this up.\"\n\nHe said it was \"very difficult to maintain that kind of discipline for a long time\".\n\nAnd if the \"rule of six\" in England or the tighter restrictions in parts of the UK do not work in curbing the spread of the virus, \"then of course we are going to have to take further measures\", the prime minister said.\n\n\"But be in no doubt that we will want to be explaining what we are doing, taking people with us as we go and what I don't want to do is go into a second national lockdown of the kind we had in March, April - I don't want to do that again.\"", "Forrest Gump won six Oscars including best actor for Tom Hanks\n\nWriter Winston Groom, whose novel Forrest Gump was made into the hugely successful Oscar-winning 1994 film starring Tom Hanks, has died aged 77.\n\nThe book, about the childlike optimism of a slow-thinking but kind-hearted man, won six Oscars including best film and actor, plus three Golden Globes.\n\nDirected by Robert Zemeckis and also starring Sally Field and Robin Wright, it made $683m (£526m).\n\n\"Saddened to learn that Alabama has lost one of our most gifted writers,\" she wrote on Facebook, referencing Groom's time at university there, graduating in 1965.\n\n\"While he will be remembered for creating Forrest Gump, Winston Groom was a talented journalist and noted author of American history. Our hearts and prayers are extended to his family.\"\n\nAlabama University called Groom \"one of our legends\".\n\nAfter gaining his degree, he was in the US Army, which included a tour of duty in the Vietnam War, before working as reporter. He wrote Forrest Gump in 1985 and it was published the following year.\n\nTom Hanks and Sally Field played mother and son in the film\n\nThe film, seen through the eyes of Forrest Gump, has the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson as a backdrop, along with the Vietnam War and Watergate.\n\nThroughout it all, Gump's main desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart, played by Wright.\n\nMemorable quotes from Forrest Gump include the famous advice from his mother: \"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.\"\n\nGroom went on to write a follow-up in 1995 called Gump and Co and also wrote non-fiction including a book on the American Civil War.", "Schools in poor parts of England will struggle the most to help their pupils catch-up after the lockdown, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe last 10 years have seen real-terms cuts amounting to 9% per pupil which fell hardest on schools in the poorest areas, says the IFS.\n\nAnd schools in poorer areas will get less of a boost from the extra £7.1bn earmarked for schools up to 2022-23.\n\nThe government says it is committed to \"levelling up\" educational opportunity.\n\nBut, according to this analysis, schools in poor areas will gain less than schools in more affluent areas from the government's education spending plans, leaving them \"badly placed\" to help their pupils catch-up on learning lost during lockdown.\n\nThe report authors want to see more of the extra funding targeted at the most disadvantaged areas.\n\nDuring lockdown the poorest pupils were the least able to access online learning or have quiet places to study and, because of this, IFS Research Fellow Luke Sibieta predicts \"a likely widening of educational inequalities\".\n\n\"Schools with more deprived pupils have seen the largest falls in spending over recent years and are set to see smaller funding increases than schools in more affluent areas from the government's new funding formula.\n\n\"Most of the Covid catch-up funding will be spread across all schools, regardless of disadvantage.\n\n\"This proves a strong case for greater targeting of additional funding to more deprived schools,\" Mr Sibieta said.\n\nOverall the extra cash will largely reverse the real-terms cuts of the last decade, and the funding plans will narrow the gap between the best and worst funded parts of the country, says the IFS.\n\nThe Department for Education says the lowest-funded schools will receive the greatest increases under its plans.\n\n\"We continue to target additional funding through the National Funding Formula for schools with high numbers of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\n\"Our £1bn Covid catch-up package on top of this is helping level up opportunity for every young person up and down the country,\" said the DfE in a statement.\n\nHowever, the analysis finds that the plans will deliver funding increases of three to four percentage points less to schools in the poorest areas than to those in wealthier areas up to 2021.\n\nIt follows a decade in which the funding advantage for schools in deprived areas has shrunk from 35% per pupil to 25%, the analysis found.\n\nThe researchers say the government's National Tutoring Programme for five to 16-year-olds is the only part of the new funding package to be targeted at more deprived schools.\n\n\"It is also not at a scale that will allow schools to address the inequalities that have widened during lockdown,\" says the IFS.\n\nJosh Hillman, Director of Education at the Nuffield Foundation which co-funded the research said that not only were the most deprived pupils more likely to be behind in their learning \"their families are also at greater risk of poverty, food insecurity and job losses\".\n\n\"This could further entrench the disadvantage these children face.\n\n\"As this research shows, it is therefore crucial that schools in deprived areas receive adequate and well directed funding so tat they can help to close the disadvantage gap and ensure all children can reach their potential.\"\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union said the study showed \"an historic failure of the nation's children\".\n\n\"It is also striking that despite government rhetoric of 'levelling up' the reverse is true.\"\n\nJulie McCulloch, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders said that while the £7.1bn in extra funding was welcome it would be \"largely absorbed\" by rising costs.\n\nShe said the government's refusal to reimburse the \"significant costs\" of Covid safety measures such as extra cleaning and more staff would put even more strain on budgets leaving even less money to spend on education.\n\n\"It is a desperate situation and the government has its head buried in the sand,\" said Ms McCulloch.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boats have been swept ashore and homes flooded by the storm\n\nStorm Sally has brought heavy rain and flooding to the Carolinas and Georgia, as it continues its path of destruction north from the US Gulf Coast.\n\nIt has already battered Florida and Alabama with rain and storm surges, downing power lines, turning roads into rivers and leaving homes submerged.\n\nOne person was killed, and hundreds of thousands are without power.\n\nSally has now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, but meteorologists warn that tornadoes are still possible.\n\nThe wind ripped the roof off this house in Perdido Key, Florida\n\nBesides the fatality reported in Orange Beach, Alabama, one person is also missing from the small coastal city in south-west Alabama, according to Mayor Tony Kennon.\n\n\"It was an unbelievably freaky right turn of a storm that none of us ever expected,\" he told the Washington Post.\n\nPensacola, Florida, 30m (48 km) east of Orange Beach, was also badly hit, with a loose barge bringing down part of the city's Bay Bridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That's my car... submerged\": Video shows flooded streets in Pensacola, Florida\n\nDowntown Pensacola was hit with up to 5ft of flooding and saw the highest storm surge on record. The storm brought \"four months of rain in four hours\" to the city, Pensacola fire chief Ginny Cranor told CNN.\n\nPictures show residents wading through waist-deep water, cars stranded in flooded streets, and homes entirely swamped by Wednesday's deluge.\n\nIn Gulf Shores, Alabama - near where Sally first made landfall as a hurricane on Wednesday - the storm sheared off the face of a beachside apartment complex. And 50 miles (80km) north-west in Mobile, Alabama, photos show the large steeple of El-Bethel Primitive Baptist Church toppled after the storm.\n\nSally hit Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 04:45 local time on Wednesday, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph (169 km/h).\n\nAccording to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph. The NHC says a Category 2 storm's \"extremely dangerous winds\" usually cause damage to homes and shallowly rooted trees.\n\nAs the storm moved north from the coast, some 550,000 residents in affected areas were left in the dark on Wednesday night, according to local reports.\n\nNow a post-tropical cyclone, the storm is expected to deposit up to 10in (25cm) of rain in Virginia and the Carolinas. It will likely cause widespread flash flooding, the NHC said on Thursday.\n\nMaximum wind speeds have decreased to 25mph as the storm moves north-east.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Armondo Moralez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSally is one of at least five storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Officials are running out of letters to name the hurricanes as they near the end of their annual alphabetic list.\n\nHave you been affected by Hurricane Sally? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Students at St Andrews University have been asked to observe a voluntary lockdown this weekend.\n\nPrincipal Sally Mapstone has written to the students, asking them to \"remain in your rooms as much as possible\".\n\nShe has also asked them not to party or go to bars and restaurants, and to avoid mixing with people outside their households.\n\nShe said the move was in response to Nicola Sturgeon's comments about preventing a national lockdown.\n\nIn her \"urgent and important message\" to students, Ms Mapstone said she appreciated that some people may think her actions were \"premature\".\n\nPrincipal Sally Mapstone said she was taking \"pre-emptive and pro-active\" action\n\nBut she said society had \"acted too slowly in the past\" and that thousands of people had died unnecessarily as a result.\n\n\"It is now very clear that rates of covid infection are surging again in various parts of this country, and it is very likely that we are very close to a form of further national lockdown,\" she wrote.\n\n\"The first minister of Scotland has today spoken of the urgent need to interrupt the chain of transmission of the virus.\n\n\"In these circumstances, I am writing to all of our students to ask you to please observe a voluntary lockdown this weekend, effective from 7pm this evening.\"\n\nThe principal said all events planned for this weekend would be postponed, including all planned sports activity, society activity and events at the Byre Theatre, main library and chapel.\n\nCatering will continue as normal in halls of residence.\n\n\"I must stress that this is pre-emptive and proactive action,\" she added.\n\n\"There is no evidence that the virus is surging in our community. Rather it is because as a country we are now in a very fast-moving phase where early intervention is key, and hours make a difference.\n\n\"We will be keeping this situation under close review all weekend, and I will keep you informed of any further measures that may be necessary. We expect further information and intervention from government over or just after the weekend.\"\n\nAbout 50 students were cleared from a beach in St Andrews last weekend\n\nYazmin Taylor, from Kent, is a third-year student at St Andrews.\n\n\"I think it's a good pre-emptive step,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not in reaction to something, it's before the situation worsens. I think that's the trend in Scotland - to act before the situation escalates.\"\n\nShe said she did not think the move was in reaction to police being called to a beach party at St Andrews Castle last weekend.\n\nIt is understood that the group was made up of students who were adhering to social distancing guidelines, and who left the area when requested.\n\n\"There's 9,000 students here so I think that most students are following the rules,\" Yazmin added.\n\nFourth year student Sabeeh Mirza, from Pakistan, said he had only just finished two weeks in quarantine.\n\n\"I understand the need, of course, and I'm glad that St Andrews is taking pre-emptive action. But giving us a two-hour notice to go into a complete lockdown, in my opinion, is quite unfair on the student population in general,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the region, at least as far as I am aware, there has been no rise in cases whatsoever. I think it has lowest in Scotland. I think some things can be manged better.\"\n\nDan Marshal, president of St Andrews Student Association, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme it was a welcome move.\n\n\"We've seen throughout this pandemic that it's really important to take early action and that taking action early has generally avoided loss of life and people getting ill, but also has avoided more strict and longer-lasting restrictions later on,\" he said.\n\n\"So this short-term intervention that's come early I think is broadly to be welcomed.\"\n\nHe also believed the vast majority of students had been following the rules.\n\n\"As far as I know, there's not been a great rise in cases in St Andrews and this really is a move that's designed to prevent any sort of infection taking hold,\" he added.\n\nEleven students at Napier University in Edinburgh have tested positive for Covid-19 following an outbreak at student accommodation.\n\nThe university is working closely with NHS Lothian's Test and Protect team, which is investigating the cluster at the Bainfield flats.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenagers speak of their \"guilt and disgust\" after being blackmailed online\n\n\"He's threatened to share those pictures with my friends unless I send him more.\"\n\nMia, 13, was duped into sending sexual photographs to someone she met online, who she has now found out is an adult posing as someone else.\n\nCharities including the NSPCC and Meic - a helpline for younger people in Wales - are concerned more young people are sharing naked images of themselves.\n\nThey both said staff have seen an increase since lockdown.\n\n\"Many young people want to send them because it has been normalised in terms of social media,\" said Sabiha Azad, who works on Meic's helpline for children and young people.\n\n\"Young people are at home alone and wanting intimacy and don't know how to explore it healthily, so they're being pressured into sending things,\" she said.\n\n\"You can even get girls sending pictures on to their friends first to check if they look OK, or boys sharing the photos they get sent with others to compare them.\"\n\nThe charities believe a significant increase in the time teenagers are spending online and a lack of face-to-face interaction has added to the pressure.\n\nYoungsters have been urged to speak to someone about any problems they encounter\n\nMs Azad added: \"Speaking about the consequences is so important because this is the time that they can be exploited.\"\n\nThe charities said most cases were believed to involve 14 to 16-year-olds, with a lot of people cropping out their heads from photographs.\n\nHowever, Ms Azad said they often forget about other identifiable markers such as wallpaper, birth marks or piercings.\n\nBeing pressured to send nudes is a sign of a controlling relationship and, despite campaigns to tackle this during lockdown, Ms Azad believes many risks to younger people - such as being blackmailed and threatened - have been overlooked.\n\n\"I think there's a danger of forgetting young people, especially during the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"I think that girls definitely see the repercussions of sending nudes more, they're much more likely to be referred to specialist services for support. One person developed an eating disorder following her image being shared because of the negative comments people made.\n\n\"It's a very intimate image being shared and it may be shared to your family members. It often goes through schools, so everyone in that year group will probably see it, if not more.\"\n\nSmart phones and iPads have made it easier for people to share images\n\nMia (not her real name) contacted ChildLine after she met her blackmailer on Instagram and developed an online relationship with him.\n\n\"He convinced me to send pictures of myself which were sexual,\" she said.\n\n\"Now he's threatened to share those pictures with my friends unless I send him more.\"\n\nMia said she was too scared to tell her mum in case she got into trouble.\n\nAnother victim, Chloe (not her real name), 14, met \"a good-looking boy\" on a teenage dating app who made her feel special while she was having a tough time at home.\n\nWhen he started asking for nude photos, she said she \"agreed as a joke to talk dirty instead\".\n\nYoungsters are meeting people in chat rooms who are adults posing as children\n\nBut when she became uncomfortable, she blocked him, only for him to get in touch on another app, threatening to publish her profile picture next to the dirty messages.\n\n\"I feel so guilty and disgusted for leading him on,\" she said.\n\n\"He made me feel special when no-one else did.\n\n\"I don't want anyone to find out, after all most of it was my fault. I don't know what to do and I feel so guilty.\"\n\nIt is illegal for under-18s to send or receive nudes, with NSPCC Cymru's Lucy O'Callaghan saying prevention was vital to tackle the issue.\n\n\"Once a young person has sent a sexual image, it's out of their control,\" she said.\n\n\"Whilst they're in a relationship, their boyfriend or girlfriend might promise not to send the image onwards, but sometimes when that relationship breaks down the other young person can share it and that might lead to it being shared again and again.\n\n\"Then that can lead to bullying from from other young people. Sometimes when young people send one image, they can experience blackmail to send further images. So they can find themselves in a sort of a kind of a catch-22 situation.\"\n\nShe urged young people to seek support from an adult.", "A care worker visits a client at home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, during the pandemic\n\nPeople visiting residents in care homes should be supervised at all times to ensure social distancing, according to a government winter plan for Covid-19.\n\nIt says visits must be limited and in \"areas of intervention\" they must be stopped altogether.\n\nSupport for care homes in the plan includes free personal protective equipment until next March.\n\nCouncils say the initiative is welcome, but there are significant gaps in funding.\n\nWriting to the heads of local authorities, Care Minister Helen Whately said \"now is the time to act\" to protect care homes.\n\nShe said visits are \"important for the wellbeing of residents and loved ones\" but that extra precautions are needed.\n\nThey include regular assessments by local authorities of whether visiting is safe in a particular area, with visits immediately halted in places listed as an \"area of intervention\", Public Health England's highest category of alert where local lockdown rules are imposed.\n\nIn every care home, visitors should be supervised \"at all times\" to ensure they keep to social distancing requirements and other infection control measures, the plan says.\n\nBefore the publication of the plan, Age UK said some people are \"dying of sadness\" in care homes because they have been cut off from loved ones for a prolonged period of time.\n\nCare homes in England were allowed to reopen again for family visits in July - as long as local authorities and public health teams said it was safe. A similar reopening of homes followed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynn hasn't seen her husband, who has dementia, for six weeks due to care home restrictions\n\nHowever, many homes have not yet fully reopened - either retaining strict rules over visitors or banning them completely.\n\nThe government has previously announced care homes would get £546m to try to reduce transmission of the virus as part of its winter plan.\n\nThe money will help to pay care workers their full wages when they are self-isolating, and ensures carers only work in one care home, reducing the spread of the virus.\n\nBBC social affairs correspondent Alison Holt said that for a sector still reeling from the high number of deaths, \"this plan is important\".\n\nProviding free PPE - such as masks - recognises the steep increase in the cost of supplies, she said.\n\nAnd a new role of chief nurse for social care, which will be created under the plan, \"should also provide a stronger national voice for the sector\".\n\nBut while welcoming the plan, some directors of council care services have said it does not address the need to pay care staff better.\n\nIt also does not provide the funding needed to meet the expected increase in demand, particularly for home care, over the winter, they added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How care home workers are trying to cope\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the government would do \"whatever is humanly possible\" to protect care homes \"so they are a place of sanctuary this winter\".\n\nMinisters have also promised to make people in care homes a priority for coronavirus tests - along with the NHS - amid ongoing issues with the UK's testing system.\n\nCoronavirus swept through UK care homes during the peak of the outbreak, with tens of thousands of deaths.\n\nAlmost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, Office for National Statistics figures published in July show. But only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the figures, there 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.", "A judge at Liverpool Crown Court said officers changing Cheryl Pile's clothes was \"an act of decency\"\n\nA woman who was changed out of vomit-soaked clothes after being arrested has failed in her bid to sue police.\n\nCheryl Pile \"emptied the contents of her stomach all over herself\" at a Liverpool Police station in April 2017.\n\nShe paid a £60 fine for being drunk and disorderly but brought a claim against the force alleging her human rights had been breached.\n\nA High Court judge rejected her case, and said changing her clothes had been \"an act of decency\".\n\nMr Justice Turner said the four female officers officers had \"not used more force than necessary\" and would have otherwise \"left the vulnerable claimant to marinade overnight in her own bodily fluids\".\n\nHe described her as having been \"too insensible with drink to have much idea of either where she was or what she was doing there\".\n\nDismissing Ms Pile's appeal, the judge said her claim had been brought \"to establish the liberty of inebriated English subjects to be allowed to lie undisturbed overnight in their own vomit-soaked clothing\".\n\nMs Pile had also claimed being monitored on CCTV while in a cell was a breach of her privacy.\n\nThe judge said this had been \"both lawful and necessary\" and it was \"fortunate\" she was being observed.\n\nA feed from the camera alerted officers when she later lost her balance, fell over, \"banged her head on the floor\" and was taken to hospital, he said.\n\nMr Justice Turner noted she had also \"abused an innocent taxi driver and behaved aggressively to police officers trying to do their job.\"\n\nHe said many would have found it to be a \"grotesque result\" if she had been awarded compensation \"because those same officers, as an act of decency, had then changed her into clean and dry clothing at a time when she was too drunk to know or care\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People formed a long queue at the new Abercynon mobile testing unit on Thursday\n\nThe UK health secretary should explain why people from England are being directed to a testing centre intended for people in locked-down Rhondda Cynon Taf, an MP has said.\n\nCynon Valley MP Beth Winter has written to Matt Hancock demanding to know why people from across the UK were being directed to a site in Abercynon.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it \"simply did not make sense\".\n\nThe UK government said it was \"working around the clock\" to increase capacity.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) became the second area in Wales to go into lockdown, after Caerphilly, following a rise in the rate of infection.\n\nOn Thursday, latest figures from Public Health Wales showed the area had overtaken Caerphilly with 83.7 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nDespite this, people from as far away as Weston-super-Mare, Bath and Bristol were given appointments at Abercynon.\n\nSpeaking to S4C's Newyddion 9 news programme, Janet Church, a receptionist at a GP's surgery in Bath, said she was not informed the testing centre was in an area that had been locked down.\n\nJanet Church, from Bath, and her daughter had no idea Rhondda Cynon Taf was in lockdown when they were allowed to book a test in Abercynon\n\n\"There was nothing whatsoever to say the county was under lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"Now you're telling me, I think it's disgusting. To come all this way and to be told this place is on lockdown. We didn't know.\n\n\"But my daughter's got symptoms so we're going to have to risk it. There was nothing nearer available.\"\n\nMother-of-two Marina Symonds, a school teacher who travelled from Bristol, was told she had to get tested after her son was sent from school having developed a cough.\n\nShe said: \"I was not aware the county was in lockdown. I feel a little bit anxious that I'm bringing my children to an area that possibly could be a higher risk for them than it is at home.\"\n\nCynon Valley MP Beth Winter says a second testing centre at Abercynon leisure centre \"was intended to be for residents of RCT only\"\n\nMs Winter acknowledged there was increased demand on testing sites across the UK, but blamed it on \"persistent and serious operational failures\" in the large private sector Lighthouse Laboratories.\n\nShe said a second testing centre at Abercynon Sports Centre \"was intended to be for residents of RCT only\".\n\n\"Rhondda Cynon Taf residents are being asked to make sacrifices and comply with new local restrictions to combat the transmission of the virus,\" she said.\n\n\"These restrictions are being actively undermined by a poorly designed system which is creating unnecessary travel in and out of the [county].\n\n\"In my view, testing centres in areas subject to local restrictions should be reserved exclusively to local residents in those areas.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was \"doing everything possible to overcome this challenge\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government's Department of Health and Social Care said an \"unprecedented\" 200,000 tests were provided in the last week, with the \"vast majority\" of those within six miles of people's home.\n\nA spokesperson said only people with symptoms should request a test.\n\n\"We're doing everything possible to overcome this challenge - including by bringing in new labs that can process tens of thousands of tests a day, opening new test sites, and trialling new rapid tests that will give results on the spot,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists are warning that, across Siberia, vast swathes of ground - normally frozen all year round - are thawing - with potentially devastating consequences for the climate. As it thaws, the earth is believed to be releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases, accentuating the problem of global warming.\n\nBBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has been to the remote Yakutia region to look at how thawing permafrost is affecting not just the climate, but the landscape and livelihoods in Siberia.", "The Immigration Enforcement unit has been repeatedly reorganised since being branded \"unfit for purpose\"\n\nThe Home Office has \"no idea\" what its £400m-a-year immigration enforcement unit achieves, meaning it is unprepared for Brexit, MPs have warned.\n\nThe cross-party Public Accounts Committee said a lack of diversity at the top of the department also risked a repeat of the Windrush scandal.\n\nIts policies may be based purely on \"assumption and prejudice\", it warned.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said it used a \"balanced\" approach to maintain \"a fair immigration system\".\n\nThe Home Office's 5,000-strong Immigration Enforcement directorate, and other parts of the system, have been repeatedly reorganised since being branded \"unfit for purpose\" 15 years ago by the then home secretary.\n\nThe latest massive changes will come in January to deal with the end of freedom of movement.\n\nIn the highly critical report, the influential committee said officials were reliant on \"disturbingly weak evidence\" to assess which immigration enforcement policies worked, and why.\n\nOfficials had no idea how many people are living illegally in the UK, no idea what their impact was on the economy and public services - and no means of countering claims that could \"inflame hostility\".\n\n\"We are concerned that if the department does not make decisions based on evidence, it instead risks making them on anecdote, assumption and prejudice,\" said the MPs.\n\n\"Worryingly, it has no idea of what impact it has achieved for the £400m spent each year.\"\n\nThe MPs said the the department showed too little concern over failures.\n\nIt risked a repeat of the Windrush scandal in which people with a right to be in the UK were treated as illegal immigrants because the Home Office had lost records of their status or did not believe the evidence they provided.\n\n\"The significant lack of diversity at senior levels of the department means it does not access a sufficiently wide range of perspectives when establishing rules and assessing the human impact of its decisions,\" said the MPs. \"Professional judgement cannot be relied upon if an organisation has blind spots, and the Windrush scandal demonstrated the damage such a culture creates.\"\n\nFrom January, unless the UK reaches a deal with Brussels, it will no longer be part of a system that obliges EU members to take back some migrants who have no right to be in another state.\n\nBut the MPs said they had been provided with \"no evidence\" that the Home Office had begun discussions \"internally\" or with EU nations over how to prepare for the possible impact of that change.\n\n\"Without putting new arrangements in place successfully,\" warned the MPs, \"There is a real risk that EU exit will actually make it more difficult to remove foreign national offenders and those who try to enter the country illegally.\"\n\nCommittee chairwoman Meg Hillier said: \"The Home Office has frighteningly little grasp of the impact of its activities in managing immigration.\n\n\"It accepts the wreckage that its ignorance and the culture it has fostered caused in the Windrush scandal - but the evidence we saw shows too little intent to change, and inspires no confidence that the next such scandal isn't right around the corner.\"\n\nMinnie Rahman, from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said the report \"paints a very accurate picture of a clueless, careless and cold-hearted Home Office\".\n\n\"We echo the PAC's call for urgent change. Immigration policy and practice must be based on robust evidence, proper staff training and a new culture of respect and care for individuals,\" she said.\n\n\"People's lives are in the Home Office's hands and in the context of Covid-19 and Brexit, there can be no more excuses.\"\n\nIn response to the report, a Home Office spokeswoman said: \"We have developed a balanced and evidence-based approach to maintaining a fair immigration system.\n\n\"Since 2010, we have removed more than 53,000 foreign national offenders and more than 133,000 people as enforced removals.\n\n\"On a daily basis we continue to tackle those who fail to comply with our immigration laws and abuse our hospitality by committing serious, violent and persistent crimes, with immigration enforcement continually becoming more efficient.\"", "Ripdorf fielded the minimum number of players needed to avoid paying a fine\n\nA German football team lost 37-0 to their local rivals after fielding only seven players who socially distanced throughout the match.\n\nRipdorf fielded the minimum number of players on Sunday because their opponents SV Holdenstedt II came into contact in a previous game with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nTheir team tested negative but Ripdorf said the conditions were not safe.\n\nIf Ripdorf had not played, they would have faced a €200 (£182) fine.\n\nThey had asked for the match - in the 11th tier of German football - to be postponed but the local association refused.\n\nRipdorf said they did not feel safe as at the time of the game 14 days had not yet passed since Holdenstedt players had come into contact with the person who tested positive.\n\nHoldenstedt's first team did not play in the match and the club fielded their second team.\n\nAt the beginning of the match, one of Ripdorf's players stepped onto the pitch, passed the ball to an opponent and the team then walked to the sidelines.\n\nRipdorf co-chair Patrick Ristow told ESPN: \"The Holdenstedt players did not understand. But we did not want to risk anything.\"\n\nHe added of his players: \"They did not go into direct duels and observed the social distancing rules, keeping two metres between them and Holdenstedt players.\"\n\nHoldenstedt did not hold back, scoring a goal every two or three minutes.\n\n\"There was no reason not to play this game,\" Holdenstedt coach Florian Schierwater said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething issues the threat of another national lockdown\n\nA bank holiday weekend party appears to be \"at the heart\" of a rapid rise in cases in Newport, ministers believe.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the party led to 18 new cases of coronavirus, with infected people then visiting other venues on nights out.\n\nPeople in Newport have been warned to look out for symptoms if they visited seven pubs and bars in the city on specific dates in September.\n\nNow health experts have warned people against parties during the hot weather.\n\nA spell of sunny weather has been forecast for the next week to 10 days after highs of 31C (88F) in the UK on Monday - with Wales' hottest spot in Aberystwyth as the temperature hit 27C (80F).\n\nNewport now has the third highest coronavirus rate in Wales after a surge in cases as Wales recorded its highest daily Covid-19 case rate since 19 May.\n\nThe health minister warned Wales could have to go into national lockdown if people's behaviour does not change.\n\nMr Gething said the rise in cases in Newport had been similar to that seen in Caerphilly county, which is now in a local lockdown.\n\n\"At the heart of it appears to be a party over the bank holiday weekend, which led to 18 new cases of coronavirus, many of whom visited other venues on nights out while infectious.\"\n\nThe outbreak in Caerphilly had also been pinned in part on individuals socialising in people's homes.\n\nPeople descended on Cardiff Bay during the sunny spell in August\n\nBarry Island was packed during the last heatwave in Wales\n\nMr Gething said it could be two weeks before a peak is seen in Caerphilly, and more people in their 40s and 50s were testing positive there.\n\nNow Public Health Wales (PHW) has called on people not be \"tempted\" into having a party in the sunshine this week.\n\n\"The warm and sunny weather forecast for this week may be a temptation to throw a party or meet up with friends and acquaintances,\" said Kelechi Nnoaham, chairman of PHW's incident management team.\n\n\"Please, don't be tempted and keep working with us by sticking to social distancing guidelines, so that we can protect older and vulnerable people from coronavirus.\"\n\nPeople in Newport have been warned of a local lockdown if Covid-19 cases continue to rise\n\nPeople in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil have been warned they face a lockdown unless the number of Covid-19 cases start to drop and PHW has revealed it is \"starting to see small numbers of hospital admissions of people with coronavirus\" across the Cwm Taf health board area.\n\nThe wearing of face masks has become compulsory in shops in Wales as the infection rate has surged, while no more than six people from extended households can meet indoors at any one time.\n\nBut rules to curb a rise in the number of coronavirus cases could be \"shutting the door after the horse has bolted\", an intensive care doctor in Newport has warned.\n\nPubs in Newport could be closed or have their opening hours restricted if they are linked to more Covid-19 cases\n\nIt comes after people who attended several bars in the city were told by PHW they should isolate and book a test immediately if they started to feel unwell.\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government could order pubs in Newport to close or restrict opening hours to stamp out transmission of the virus.\n\nHe said the situation in Merthyr Tydfil, which has also seen a rise in cases along with Rhondda Cynon Taff, was \"more complex\".\n\n\"There is a cluster of cases linked to people working in a company, we are also seeing cases linked to Caerphilly borough, as well as those associated with socialising without social distance and imported cases from holiday travel,\" he said.\n\nA lack of social distancing has been blamed for covid clusters in the Rhondda\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taff, the cases are \"largely centred on the lower Rhondda valley and are again linked to people socialising without social distancing and returning from holidays\".\n\nA small cluster of cases have also been linked to a caravan park.\n\nLast week people in the two areas were asked to take extra precautions, including only using public transport for essential purposes.\n\nStaying out of lockdown \"depends on the choices that each one of us is prepared to make\", the health minister said.\n\n\"The challenge is that we've seen some people relaxing too much perhaps and small instances where people know that they're breaking the rules and, in particular, larger social gatherings in people's homes, and a couple of businesses that have not enforced the rules in terms of where their customers behave.\"", "Dost is one of many Afghan interpreters who did not qualify for resettlement in the UK under the original scheme, but would now\n\nDozens more Afghan interpreters who worked with British forces in Afghanistan will be eligible to settle in the UK following a government decision to expand a relocation scheme.\n\nAbout 450 interpreters moved to the UK with their families under the original scheme, announced up in 2013.\n\nBut some of those who were ineligible said they were targeted by the Taliban.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said expanding the scheme was \"the honourable thing to do\".\n\nUnder the original scheme only those who had worked with the British on the frontline for a year or more, and were then made redundant, were eligible to apply.\n\nThis meant hundreds of Afghan interpreters who had worked for British forces in Helmand before they left in 2014 did not qualify for resettlement in the UK, leading to criticism from MPs and some former British military personnel.\n\nNow, following discussions between the defence and home secretaries, the government has announced an expansion of the resettlement scheme.\n\nIt means that Afghan interpreters who worked on the frontline with British troops for 18 months or more, between May 2006 and December 2014, but then resigned, will also be eligible to apply to resettle in the UK along with their families.\n\nMr Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the expansion of the relocation scheme on a joint visit at Stanford Military Training Area in Norfolk, where they saw British troops prepare for a deployment to Kabul working alongside former Afghan interpreters who are now living in the UK.\n\nMr Wallace described the rule change as a \"thank you\" to the interpreters for their loyal service.\n\nAbout 100 more Afghan former interpreters will be eligible to apply to resettle under the new rules.\n\nMs Patel said: \"It's right that we do right by them, the very people that have served alongside our forces in one of the most hostile and difficult places in the world.\"\n\nAfghan interpreters worked with the Army on the frontline in Helmand Province\n\nMr Wallace and Ms Patel met Dost, a former Afghan interpreter taking part in the training who had already claimed asylum in the UK.\n\nDost did not qualify under the initial scheme. He had worked in Helmand as an interpreter for several years but says he had to resign when he received threats from the Taliban.\n\nOne of his colleagues had also been kidnapped and killed.\n\nIn 2010, he made his own way to the UK, via Turkey and France, to claim asylum. But under the new rules he would now be eligible to apply to resettle in the UK.\n\nHe said he was \"very happy\" that the relocation scheme was being expanded, but added he was still worried about the safety of those left behind.\n\nThe expanded relocation scheme still excludes dozens of Afghans who worked for British forces.\n\nAli* is one of many Afghan interpreters who is still ineligible for resettlement in the UK, even with the rule change\n\nAny interpreter who fled to a third country will not be eligible to apply. Those who worked for British forces for less than 18 months will also not qualify.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to one Afghan interpreter who worked for the Army in Helmand for seven months in 2010.\n\nWe have given him an alias to protect his identity.\n\n\"Ali\" is now living in Kabul. He moved there with the help of the British embassy after he received threats from the Taliban.\n\nHe says the Taliban and the Islamic State group make no distinction as to how long you worked for western military forces like the British. He says they \"will kill you because you have worked for the infidel\".\n\nAli* has received threats from the Taliban since working for the British\n\nThe risk, Ali says, is the same for anyone who worked for the coalition, no matter how long.\n\nBritain does have a separate scheme for those who have suffered \"intimidation\", which in theory allows Afghan interpreters to be resettled in the UK.\n\nBut while a number of former interpreters, like Ali, have been relocated within Afghanistan, none has yet been moved to the UK under the intimidation scheme.\n\nMr Wallace and Ms Patel insist that door is not closed. They say each individual will still be assessed on a case by case basis.\n\nWhile former interpreters like Ali welcome the expansion of the resettlement scheme, they still fear for the future.\n\nThere are hopes for the peace talks now taking place with the Taliban. But those talks have also seen hundreds of Taliban fighters released from prison.\n\nFor Ali and his family, the threat has not gone away.", "Pubs and restaurants could be shut for a few weeks as part of stricter measures across England to slow the surge of coronavirus cases.\n\nThe government is considering a short period of tighter rules which could be announced in the next week, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nSchools and most workplaces would be kept open during those weeks.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC the government is \"prepared to do what it takes\" against Covid-19.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 4,322 confirmed cases of coronavirus - the first time the daily total of positive tests has exceeded 4,000 since 8 May.\n\nAnother 27 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nDescribed by the government as a \"circuit-break\", the measures being considered could involve re-introducing restrictions in public spaces for a period of a few weeks. Schools and workplaces would stay open.\n\nIdeas suggested by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) include closing some parts of the hospitality sector.\n\nNo 10 is also considering limiting the opening hours of pubs and restaurants across the country, as has already happened in some areas.\n\nMr Hancock said there had been an \"acceleration\" in cases in the last couple of weeks, with the number of people admitted to hospital doubling about every eight days.\n\nHe stressed it was \"critical\" that people followed social distancing guidelines and local lockdown rules, where they applied, to \"avoid having to take serious further measures\".\n\nThe Office for National Statistics' weekly infections survey for England and Wales, used by the government to base its decisions, estimates there were about 6,000 new cases a day in England in the week to 10 September.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the next few days will be \"critical\" to avoid another full-scale lockdown in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have all asked Boris Johnson for an emergency Cobra meeting to be called.\n\nAt a meeting on Wednesday night, the UK government's chief scientific adviser and medical adviser said they were forecasting a significant number of deaths by the end of October if there were no further interventions.\n\nBasic maths shows us how quickly coronavirus cases can, theoretically, soar.\n\nAround 4,000 infections a day, doubling every eight days, would be 128,000 new daily cases by the end of October.\n\nThat is not guaranteed to happen, and a change in our behaviour, the \"rule of six\" or restrictions like those in north-east England could improve the situation.\n\nThe point of a national \"circuit-break\" would be to achieve a controlled drop in the levels of coronavirus without needing a full lockdown.\n\nThis does two things, obviously it helps avoid having very high levels of the virus that could overwhelm hospitals.\n\nBut it also gives us more options. Any contact tracing programme or system of local lockdowns is far easier to implement when levels of the virus are low. The higher the number of cases, the fewer targeted measures the government has to use.\n\nThe problem is once the circuit-break is over, cases would begin to rise again and it may take multiple circuit breaks to get us through winter.\n\nMeanwhile, new rules have been announced for north-west England, the Midlands and West Yorkshire, to come into force from Tuesday, in an effort to control the spread of the virus.\n\nSimilar restrictions have already come into force in north-east England, affecting almost two million people, banning them from meeting people from other households and requiring restaurants and pubs to shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nBut it is understood the government turned down down a request from the local council in Leeds to bring in early closing for bars and pubs there.\n\nOther parts of the UK under local lockdown conditions include - including Birmingham, Greater Manchester, Caerphilly, and the Belfast council area.\n\nThe four nations of the UK are in charge of their own lockdown restrictions, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland implementing slightly different rules to England.\n\nThe health secretary said the government's current approach was \"targeted interventions\" and stressed \"a national lockdown was the last line of defence\".\n\n\"The strategy is to keep the virus down as much as is possible whilst protecting education and the economy,\" Mr Hancock added.\n\n\"And throw everything at the science which eventually is the way we're going to spring out of this.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is understood to be deeply reluctant to order another national lockdown, where everyone would be asked to stay at home and businesses to close.\n\nEarlier this week he described the potential impact of this on the economy as \"disastrous\". Chancellor Rishi Sunak is also understood to have warned ministers of the potential damage to the economy.\n\nThe government is also concerned about the impact of more restrictions on daily life on those who need treatment for non-Covid related illnesses.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this article? Do you have any questions? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Adnan Ahmed was convicted of five counts of threatening and abusive behaviour towards young women\n\nA so-called pickup artist who was jailed for targeting young women has had his conviction quashed on appeal.\n\nAdnan Ahmed - who called himself Addy A-game - secretly filmed himself approaching women in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.\n\nThe 39-year-old was convicted last October of threatening and abusive behaviour towards five women.\n\nBut three judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal have now ruled the verdict was a miscarriage of justice.\n\nPolice Scotland launched an investigation after his actions were revealed by the BBC's The Social in 2019.\n\nThe self-styled \"lifestyle coach\" would approach women in the street, often secretly filming the encounter and posting videos offering advice to other men.\n\nIn the videos, he offered tips on how to overcome \"last-minute resistance\" to sex.\n\nFive young women, aged between 16 and 21, gave evidence at his trial - saying that they been intimidated by Mr Ahmed in Glasgow city centre and in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adnan Ahmed, also known as Addy A-game, approaches women in the street\n\nAfter a jury found him guilty, Sheriff Lindsay Wood sentenced Mr Ahmed, of Maryhill, Glasgow, to two years in prison.\n\nHe was also put on the sex offenders register for 10 years.\n\nBut lawyers acting for Mr Ahmed told the Court of Criminal Appeal earlier this year that Sheriff Wood conducted an inappropriate \"cross examination\" of their client when he finished giving evidence.\n\nDefence advocate Claire Mitchell QC said the questions asked by Sheriff Wood to Mr Ahmed \"would have led the independent observer to reach the view that the sheriff had formed an adverse view of his credibility\".\n\nShe added that Sheriff Wood's conduct resulted in her client being denied a fair and impartial trial.\n\nIn a written judgement issued on Friday, the three judges agreed.\n\nLord Turnbull wrote: \"The trial sheriff engaged in an exercise which could only be described as cross-examination.\n\n\"The informed and impartial observer would readily have concluded that the sheriff had formed an adverse view on the credibility of the appellant's evidence.\n\n\"The result was a miscarriage of justice and the appeal against conviction on each charge must be upheld on this ground.\"\n\nAdnan Ahmed, appearing here in one of his online videos, claimed they were educational\n\nA BBC investigation into Mr Ahmed's activities revealed he was part of a global network of \"pick-up artists\" who practise what they call \"game\".\n\nYouTube has since removed hundreds of videos and deactivated two channels run by Addy A-Game and another group called Street Attraction.\n\nMr Ahmed's legal team also told the appeal court that Sheriff Wood failed to properly explain the rules of corroboration to jurors in the case.\n\nMs Mitchell also told the court that the sheriff was wrong to reject a defence motion to have some of the charges thrown out on the basis that there wasn't enough evidence to allow jurors to return guilty verdicts.\n\nIn his report to the appeal court, Sheriff Wood said he believed there was enough evidence on these charges to be considered by the jurors.\n\nBut the judges disagreed and said the evidence did not show that Mr Ahmed was guilty of threatening behaviour.\n\nLord Turnbull wrote: \"It does not seem to us that a polite conversational request or compliment can be construed as threatening merely because it is uninvited or unwelcome.\"\n\nThe appeal judges also criticised Sheriff Wood for his actions when Mr Ahmed's lawyers attempted to object to the questions asked by the judge.\n\nLord Turnbull wrote: \"In the present case counsel was correct to object to the sheriff's questioning when she did.\n\n\"It is unacceptable for a judicial office holder to address a responsible practitioner by telling her to sit down.\n\n\"Such behaviour carries the risk of demeaning the standing of the judiciary in the eyes of both the legal profession and of the public.\"", "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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Harding: It is “quite hard to give you an accurate figure” on the level of demand for coronavirus tests\n\nDemand for coronavirus testing is \"significantly outstripping the capacity we have\", head of NHS Test and Trace Baroness Harding has told MPs.\n\nShe told the science and technology committee that the return to school meant test demand in England from under-17s had doubled.\n\nShe also acknowledged that results were also taking \"slightly longer\".\n\nBut she said she was \"very confident\" of raising capacity to 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\n\"I am certain we will need more as we go beyond the end of October. We have plans to go beyond 500,000 a day,\" Baroness Harding said, before adding there was no formal target beyond the October deadline.\n\nThe test and trace programme has come under increasing pressure in recent days, with reports of people unable to access tests or being directed to test centres many miles away.\n\nFigures published on Thursday also showed the turnaround time for community tests was getting longer. Only a third of these tests came back in 24 hours in the week up to 9 September, compared to two-thirds a week earlier.\n\nIt comes as the UK reported another 3,395 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and a further 21 deaths were recorded within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of people calling 119 and visiting the website to book tests was three to four times the number of available tests, Baroness Harding told the committee - although she said that may exaggerate the problem as some people call repeatedly from different numbers.\n\nCommittee chairman Greg Clark said it was \"dispiriting\" that despite the \"entirely predictable\" circumstances of the return to schools and offices \"we haven't had the right capacity put in place\".\n\nBaroness Harding said they built the testing capacity for this autumn - which is now 242,817 a day - based on modelling from the Sage scientific advisory group.\n\n\"I don't think anybody was expecting to see the really sizable increase in demand that has happened over the last few weeks,\" she said.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, a GP and epidemiologist at Oxford University, told the committee that the testing strategy was \"utter chaos\" at the moment because other illnesses with Covid-like symptoms such as colds and flu had risen by 50% in children in September.\n\nHe said there was only a \"slight increase\" in hospital admissions and deaths, however, and increased testing may explain some of the rise in cases.\n\n\"What's happening at the moment is the language and the rhetoric is making people so fearful and terrorised that they're going beyond the guidance because they're so fearful of what's coming next,\" he said.\n\nAn unpublished study suggested that coughs and fevers from other winter viruses could rise to 445,000 a day in December, overwhelming test capacity.\n\nIn Sunderland, meanwhile, more than 100 people were left waiting at an empty car park where they said they had been booked in for Covid-19 testing, although no staff or equipment was there.\n\nBolton Council, which faces the highest levels of infection nationally, said it was \"incredibly frustrated\" after problems with the national booking system led to long queues and people with appointments being turned away.\n\nSimilar problems were reported in Lewisham, south London, where the approach to the centre was \"gridlocked\".\n\nBaroness Harding said testing was limited by the laboratory processing capacity, and that they had to restrict the number of people at centres because it would be \"very dangerous\" to send too many samples to the laboratory that would then go untested.\n\nAn NHS Test and Trace survey showed 27% of people seeking tests had no symptoms but had only been in contact with an infected person. Tests should only be provided for members of the public with a continuous cough, a high temperature or a change in sense of smell or taste.\n\n\"We don't want to push away people who are scared,\" Baroness Harding said. But she added that they must \"protect the capacity we have for the people who most need it\".\n\nThe current priorities for testing are NHS patients, NHS staff and care home residents and staff. Together these account for 50% of testing, she said.\n\nAfter that, areas with serious outbreaks are given priority. Baroness Harding said they were looking at putting key workers next, particularly teachers, \"but work is still ongoing\".", "The car had been driving along a highway near Ponoka in Alberta\n\nA Canadian man has been charged with dangerous driving for allegedly taking a nap while his self-driving Tesla car clocked up more than 90mph (150km/h).\n\nPolice said both front seats were fully reclined, and the driver and passenger were apparently asleep when they were alerted to the incident in Alberta.\n\nWhen police turned on emergency lights and other vehicles moved out of the way, the Tesla Model S sped up.\n\nThe 20-year-old driver from British Columbia is due in court in December.\n\nHe had initially been charged with speeding and handed a 24-hour licence suspension for fatigue, but was subsequently charged with dangerous driving.\n\nThe incident happened near Ponoka, some 100km south of Edmonton, in July.\n\n\"Nobody was looking out the windshield to see where the car was going,\" Police Sgt Darri Turnbull told CBC News.\n\nHe said that when they put on their emergency lights the Tesla accelerated, with vehicles ahead of it moving out of the way.\n\n\"Nobody appeared to be in the car, but the vehicle sped up because the line was clear in front.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've been in policing for over 23 years, and the majority of that in traffic law enforcement, and I'm speechless. I've never, ever seen anything like this before but of course the technology wasn't there.\"\n\nTesla cars currently operate at a level-two Autopilot, which requires the driver to remain alert and ready to act, with hands on the wheel.\n\nTesla founder Elon Musk has said he expects his vehicles to be completely autonomous, with little driver input needed, by the end of the year.\n\nHowever, he added that there were \"many small problems\" that would need solving through real-world testing.", "The owners said the support they had received was \"beyond expectation\"\n\nLiverpool's oldest surviving cinema is to reopen its doors after receiving \"overwhelming\" support following its closure announcement.\n\nThe owners of Woolton Picture House said in July it would permanently close because of the impact of Covid-19.\n\nHowever, they have now \"looked again\" at the \"sustainability\" of the business and decided \"a passion for cinema continues\".\n\nThe building was initially closed on 18 March by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nA statement on the cinema's Facebook page said it had been \"very heartwarming\" to see that the picture house was \"held so dear in the hearts and minds of so many\".\n\nIt said a fundraising page had been set up to support its reopening and it was \"truly thrilled\" to be announcing an opening date soon.\n\n\"The sense of community spirit and your words and actions of support have been beyond expectation and have illustrated very clearly that a passion for cinema continues within our community,\" it said.\n\nA plaque on the building celebrates it as \"the oldest surviving cinema in Liverpool\"\n\nThe single-screen cinema, which first opened on 26 December 1927, was originally built to host 800 people on wooden benches before more comfortable seating was added in the 1930s and has previously returned from two closures.\n\nHaving stayed open during World War Two, surviving the bombing of Liverpool, it was devastated by fire in the summer of 1958, but reopened three months later.\n\nIn 2006, the sudden deaths of its chief projectionist and owner in 2006 saw it closed again.\n\nIt reopened again in March 2007 and went on to feature in the 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy.\n\nIt also hosted the red carpet premiere of Indian blockbuster Madrasapattinam a year later.\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. Alligator bellows: The first pair of sounds are in ambient air; the second pair are in heliox\n\nHave you heard the one about the alligator that performed the party trick of breathing in helium so it could talk in a funny voice?\n\nIt's not that hilarious but then you'd be careful never to smile at a crocodilian.\n\nStephan Reber and colleagues performed the experiment to try to understand how alligators might communicate.\n\nIt was a serious piece of research but its slightly comedic aspects have just won the team an Ig Nobel Prize.\n\nTen such awards were handed out on Thursday by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research.\n\nThe annual Igs are intended as a bit of a spoof on the more sober Nobel science prizes.\n\nOther 2020 winners included the team that devised a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows; and the group that wanted to see what happened when earthworms were vibrated at high frequency.\n\nAll this kind of stuff sounds daft, but when you dig a little deeper you realise much of the research lauded by the Ig Nobels is actually intended to tackle real-world problems and gets published in peer-reviewed, scholarly journals.\n\nA real Nobel Laureate, Andre Geim (bottom-left), prepares to hand the Ig Nobel Acoustics Prize to Stephan Reber (middle-top) and his team\n\nDr Reber told BBC News he was honoured to receive the Ig.\n\nHis team's study had attempted to show that crocodilians and other reptiles could advertise their body size through their vocalisations - something that mammals and birds can do when they call out.\n\n\"The resonances in your vocal tract sound lower overall if you're larger because it's a larger space in which the air can vibrate. We didn't know if reptiles actually had resonances. Frogs, amphibians, don't for example. So we needed a proof of concept that crocodilians actually have resonances,\" he explained.\n\nThis was achieved by putting an alligator in an enclosed tank that could be filled alternately with normal air and a supply of oxygen and helium (heliox). The vibrations of the vocal tissues don't change but the noise the animals are able to make will, because the speed of sound is different in the different gas mixtures.\n\nThe analysis of the frequency spectrum confirmed alligators' body size does indeed correlate with the resonances they produce. \"Although whether the animals can pick up on these cues, I haven't tested,\" the Lund University, Sweden, researcher said.\n\nThis is the 30th year the Ig Nobels have been presented.\n\nTheir usual home is the Sanders Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US; and the event is always a riotous affair that involves lots of paper plane throwing and a small girl who shouts \"boring\" at anyone who talks for too long.\n\nBut the Covid-19 crisis forced this year's ceremony online.\n\nEven so, some traditions were maintained, like the involvement of real Nobel Laureates. Dr Reber's team was presented with its Ig by Andre Geim, the UK-based researcher who won the Physics Nobel in 2010 for his work on graphene.\n\nThe Prof is something of a superstar having also won an Ig earlier in his career for levitating frogs.\n\nHere's a full list of the 2020 Ig Nobel winners. Each winning team was given a cash prize - of a 10 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe.\n\nFor Acoustics: Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and Tecumseh Fitch, for inducing a female Chinese alligator to bellow in an airtight chamber filled with helium-enriched air.\n\nPsychology: Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.\n\nPeace: The governments of India and Pakistan, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other's doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door.\n\nPhysics: Ivan Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky, for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency.\n\nEconomics: Christopher Watkins, Juan David Leongómez, Jeanne Bovet, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Max Korbmacher, Marco Antônio Corrêa Varella, Ana Maria Fernandez, Danielle Wagstaff, and Samuela Bolgan, for trying to quantify the relationship between different countries' national income inequality and the average amount of mouth-to-mouth kissing.\n\nManagement: Xi Guang-An, Mo Tian-Xiang, Yang Kang-Sheng, Yang Guang-Sheng, and Ling Xian Si - five professional hitmen in Guangxi, China, who subcontracted a murder one to the other with none of them in the end actually carrying out the crime.\n\nEntomology: Richard Vetter, for collecting evidence that many entomologists (scientists who study insects) are afraid of spiders, which are not insects.\n\nMedicine: Nienke Vulink, Damiaan Denys, and Arnoud van Loon, for diagnosing a long-unrecognized medical condition: Misophonia, the distress at hearing other people make chewing sounds.\n\nMedical Education: Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan, for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.\n\nMaterials Science: Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, James Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Ashley Rutkoski, Michael Wilson, and Mary Ann Raghanti, for showing that knives manufactured from frozen human faeces do not work well.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The US has had nearly seven million confirmed Covid-19 cases\n\nUS health officials have rowed back on controversial advice issued last month that said people without Covid-19 symptoms should not get tested.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says anyone in close contact with a known infected person should take a test.\n\nFriday's \"clarification\" returns the CDC's stance on testing to its previous guidance, before the August alteration.\n\nReports said the controversial advice had not been given by scientists.\n\nSources quoted by the New York Times said it had been posted on the CDC website despite experts' objections.\n\nMost US states had then rejected the guidance, Reuters reported, in a stinging rebuke to the nation's top disease prevention agency.\n\nSome observers suggested the controversial move could have reflected a desire by President Donald Trump to reduce the growing tally of Covid-19 cases.\n\nAt a rally in June, Mr Trump told supporters he had urged officials to \"slow the testing down, please\". A White House official dismissed the remark as a joke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CDC director vs President Trump on face masks and vaccines\n\nHowever, administration officials denied any political motive, telling Reuters that the change reflected \"current evidence and best public health practices\".\n\nExperts welcomed the change of tack on Friday.\n\n\"The return to a science-based approach to testing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is good news for public health and for our united fight against this pandemic,\" said Thomas File, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.\n\nIn its \"overview of testing\" for healthcare workers the CDC now says: \"Due to the significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission, this guidance further reinforces the need to test asymptomatic persons, including close contacts of a person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection.\"\n\nIt advises people to take a test \"if you have been in close contact, such as within 6ft of a person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection for at least 15 minutes and do not have symptoms\".\n\nThe US has recorded nearly seven million cases of coronavirus, more than a fifth of the world's total. It has the world's highest death toll, with nearly 200,000 fatalities.", "Amal Clooney has quit her role as the UK's envoy on press freedom \"in dismay\" at the government's willingness to break international law over Brexit.\n\nThe human rights lawyer said it was \"lamentable\" for Boris Johnson to be contemplating overriding the Brexit agreement he signed last year.\n\nShe could not tell others to honour legal obligations when the UK \"declares it does not intend to do so itself\".\n\nThe PM says he does not want to use the powers in the Internal Market Bill.\n\nBut he says the legislation is necessary to give the government the power to protect the UK and, particularly, Northern Ireland if trade talks fail and the EU acts \"unreasonably\".\n\nIn her resignation letter, Mrs Clooney, who is married to Hollywood actor George Clooney, said she had accepted the job last year because of the UK's historic role in upholding the international legal order.\n\nBut she said the government's attempts to pass the Internal Market Bill, which passed its first hurdle in the Commons last week, made her position \"untenable\".\n\nShe said she had decided to quit after speaking to foreign secretary Dominic Raab and getting \"no assurance that any change of position is imminent\".\n\nShe added: \"It is lamentable for the UK to be speaking of its intention to violate an international treaty signed by the prime minister less than a year ago.\n\n\"It has become untenable for me, as Special Envoy, to urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so itself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says it was “the right decision\" for the “first-class lawyer” to stand down.\n\nMrs Clooney was appointed by Jeremy Hunt, Mr Raab's predecessor, during the final months of Theresa May's government and continued in the role after Boris Johnson took over in No 10.\n\nShe was the deputy chair of the high-level panel of legal experts which works with the UK and Canadian governments on their campaign to promote media freedom around the world.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who used to practice in the same barristers' chambers as Ms Clooney, said she had taken the right decision.\n\n\"I know Amal and she is a first class lawyer. I'm not surprised that she has quit because, like others, she's concluded that there is a conflict between a breach of international law - which the government seems intent on - and our reputation as a country in the world that abides by the rule of law,\" he said.\n\nHer resignation adds to a growing list of senior legal figures who have quit their roles in disquiet at the government's position.\n\nLord Keen resigned as Advocate General for Scotland on Wednesday, saying he found it \"increasingly difficult to reconcile\" his obligations as a lawyer with provisions in the legislation.\n\nThe government's most senior legal adviser - Sir Jonathan Jones, permanent secretary to the government legal department - had already resigned, as had the UK's envoy for the protection of religious freedoms, Tory MP Rehman Chishti.\n\nThe EU has demanded the government removes sections of the Bill which would give the UK the power to override agreements on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain and subsidies for NI companies.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted the powers, if they were ever used, would break the UK's treaty obligations under international law in a \"specific and limited\" way.\n\nThe prime minister has sought to quell a potential rebellion by Tory MPs next week by promising critics that the Commons will get a specific vote on the powers before the government can use them.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Lord Howard has said the PM needs to go further, saying it was a matter of principle and he doubted whether the Lords would back the bill as it stands.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid forward Gareth Bale arrived at Tottenham Hotspur's training ground on Friday as he neared a return to the club.\n\nWales international Bale, 31, is expected to rejoin Spurs on loan.\n\nHe flew into Luton Airport before travelling to the training ground in Enfield, north London.\n\nBale originally joined Spurs from Southampton in 2007 before moving to the Spanish giants for a then world record £85m in 2013.\n\nHe has gone on to score more than 100 goals for Real and won four Champions Leagues.\n\n\"Until I'm told Bale is a Tottenham player, I still think and feel and respect the fact he's a Real Madrid player,\" said Spurs boss Jose Mourinho.\n\nIt is also anticipated Real Madrid full-back Sergio Reguilon will complete his transfer to Tottenham on Friday. The 23-year-old Spain international played last season on loan at Sevilla, winning the Europa League.\n• None All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur's Amazon documentary reviewed\n\nBale's agent, Jonathan Barnett, told BBC Wales Sport on Wednesday that talks over a move were \"slowly progressing\".\n\nBarnett said: \"Gareth is closer to leaving Madrid than at any time in the last seven years. We are still negotiating. We shall see how it goes.\"\n\nSpurs boss Jose Mourinho refused to speculate on the discussions, saying: \"He is a Real Madrid player and I don't comment on players from other clubs. I have to respect that. It's better not to speak.\n\n\"I tried to sign him for Real Madrid, which was not possible to do during my time there. But the president followed my instinct and my knowledge and the season I left he brought Gareth to the club. It's not a secret, even Gareth knows that.\"\n\nIn July 2019, Real cancelled a deal for Bale to join Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning, and he played 20 times for the Spanish champions last season.\n\nTottenham were beaten 1-0 at home by Everton in their first game of the new Premier League campaign on Sunday.", "Actor Danny Masterson was arraigned on three rape charges at a court in Los Angeles\n\nActor Danny Masterson, best known for his role in the hit series That '70s Show, has appeared in court accused of raping three women in the early 2000s.\n\nHe is charged with raping the women, who were all in their 20s, between 2001 and 2003.\n\nMr Masterson, 44, denies the charges and has argued he was being persecuted for his high-profile membership of the Church of Scientology.\n\nIf convicted, the actor could face up to 45 years in prison.\n\nFree on $3.3m (£2.5m) bail since his arrest in mid-June, Mr Masterson made his first court appearance over the allegations in Los Angeles on Friday.\n\nWhile the actor did not enter a plea, his lawyer, Tom Mesereau, mounted a vigorous defence of his client, dismissing the charges against him as politically motivated.\n\nThe lawyer accused Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey of filing the charges for political gain ahead of a bid to retain her post in a November election.\n\n\"There have been repeated attempts to politicise this case,\" said Mr Mesereau, who also defended Michael Jackson against sexual misconduct allegations in a previous case. \"He is absolutely not guilty and we're going to prove it.\"\n\nMs Lacey is yet to comment, but Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller dismissed Mr Mesereau allegations as \"false\" and \"pure speculation, with no basis in fact\".\n\nActor Danny Masterson, pictured in 2017, has denied the allegations against him\n\nFriday's court hearing was attended by all three of Mr Masterson's accusers, while about 20 of the actor's supporters stood outside the courtroom, unable to enter due to coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Masterson first came to light in 2017, when the #MeToo movement that inspired women to go public with misconduct allegations was gathering momentum.\n\nMr Masterson was removed from The Ranch - the Netflix comedy in which he starred - over the allegations.\n\nAt the time, Mr Masterson denied the \"outrageous allegations\" and vowed to clear his name \"once and for all\".\n\n\"Obviously, Mr Masterson and his wife are in complete shock considering that these nearly 20-year-old allegations are suddenly resulting in charges being filed, but they and their family are comforted knowing that ultimately the truth will come out,\" his lawyer Mr Mesereau said in a statement.\n\nThe charges came after a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. Prosecutors did not file charges in two other cases due to insufficient evidence and the statute of limitations expiring.\n\nMr Masterson has been married to the actor and model Bijou Phillips since 2011.\n\nThat '70s Show - which also starred Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis - ran from 1998 to 2006, gaining huge international success.", "The boy was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave\n\nA teenager has been charged with attempted murder and firearms offences after a schoolboy was shot.\n\nThe victim was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on Monday.\n\nThe Year 11 Kesgrave High School pupil is in a critical condition.\n\nA 15-year-old boy from the Woodbridge area, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of injury.\n\nThe boy has been remanded in custody and will appear via video link before Norwich Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nOfficers conducted a thorough search of the area around Friends Walk\n\nThe victim sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.\n\nFriends Walk was reopened earlier on Tuesday following the completion of police searches in the area.\n\nPolice said a \"long-barrelled gun\" had been recovered.\n\nPolice said a large police presence would remain in the area\n\nA police spokesman said officers would \"continue to engage with school children, teachers, parents and local residents to provide reassurance\".\n\n\"The constabulary will also have a police pod located in Through Jollys that will provide a strong visible presence to local people,\" the spokesman added.\n\nSupt Kerry Cutler said: \"Everybody is shocked, Kesgrave is on the outskirts of Ipswich, it is almost a semi-rural area, it's very much a residential area, this is not something we've seen in that area before and people will be impacted by it.\n\n\"The investigation goes on and we're still appealing for anybody who saw anything or has any information to come forward.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's ambassador to the US quit after private comments about the Trump administration were leaked\n\nThe UK's former ambassador to the US has told BBC Newsnight he does not regret criticising Donald Trump in briefings later leaked to the media.\n\nKim Darroch quit last year after it emerged he described the US President's government as \"dysfunctional\", \"inept\" and \"divided\" in private letters.\n\nThe use of \"clear and direct\" language was not unusual for diplomats when reporting to ministers, he insisted.\n\nBut its disclosure to the media was a \"vindictive\" breach of trust, he said.\n\nLord Darroch left his post in July 2019 amid a huge diplomatic row over the leaking of a series of private cables, in which he had questioned the competence of the Trump administration and its handling of major foreign policy issues, such as relations with Iran.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Newsnight, to be broadcast at 22:45 BST on BBC Two, he said he accepted his position had become untenable after his observations became public, leading Mr Trump to describe him as a \"stupid guy\" and \"pompous fool\".\n\nBut he defended his conduct during his three years in Washington, saying it was the job of diplomats to report in unvarnished terms about the workings of foreign governments and how they could affect the UK national interest.\n\n\"I never regret the terms in which I'd reported,\" he said. \"I spent 40 years in the Foreign Office writing in these terms and people hitherto had thought it a strength and an asset.\n\n\"There is nothing unusual in reporting in clear and direct terms. Wikileaks shows American diplomats reporting in direct terms and the US embassy was reporting directly about how the UK government was handling Brexit.\"\n\nHe said he knew he was \"in trouble\" when a confidential letter sent in 2017 to a small group of colleagues, which described the early weeks of the Trump era as \"uniquely dysfunctional\", appeared in the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHe said he did not blame the newspaper for publishing the material but believed whoever had passed it onto them had acted in an \"irresponsible and vindictive\" way.\n\nIf their aim had been to get him replaced by a Brexit-supporting politician, such as the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, rather than another career diplomat, they clearly failed, he said.\n\n\"I blame the leaker taking highly classified information of the most damaging kind to me and to US-UK relations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If you're in the position of having to write in code because you can't trust your colleagues that way madness lies. You have to trust them and on this occasion that trust was misplaced.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police launched a criminal probe into the leaking of the material in August 2019, with Commissioner Cressida Dick describing it as a \"very serious crime\".\n\nBoris Johnson, who at the time of Lord Darroch's exit was vying to be the next Conservative leader and prime minister, was criticised for not coming out in support of the UK diplomat and insisting he must stay in post.\n\nLord Darroch said it would have been \"nice\" if Mr Johnson had done so but understood why he wanted to keep his \"options open\" given the ambassador had been left \"dangling\" by the row.\n\nReflecting on his time in Washington and the current state of US-UK relations, he said the US President was \"not a politician\" in the conventional sense and it was not a surprise that Mr Johnson was \"fascinated\" by him.\n\nAsked if some of Mr Trump's approach to politics had rubbed off on Mr Johnson, he said it may be influencing his current \"negotiating style\" over a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe PM has been criticised for threatening to change the terms of the legally-binding Withdrawal Agreement with the EU in the event the UK does not negotiate a trade deal.\n\n\"Trump famously said Theresa May should start Brexit negotiations by suing the EU, a mad dog negotiating style,\" Lord Darroch said.\n\n\"If you go back to the PM in 2018, he said if Trump was negotiating Brexit he would create chaos at the start and people would be outraged at what he was saying and there'd be huge rows and there might be a good outcome.\n\n\"We should think about that. That's when he was becoming dissatisfied with Brexit and now I watch the government conduct its future relationship I wonder if there's an element of Trump.\"\n\nLord Darroch, who became a member of the House of Lords in January, said he believed the so-called \"special relationship\" between the US and UK would remain strong whoever won November's presidential election.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson got on better with Mr Trump than his predecessor, this did not mean there would not be \"ups and downs\" if he were re-elected and that negotiations on a transatlantic trade deal would not be \"difficult\".\n\nAnd while Mr Trump's Democratic rival for the Presidency, Joe Biden, was an \"Anglophile\", he was vice-president in the Obama administration which famously said the UK would be at the \"back of the queue\" for a trade deal if it voted to leave the EU, added Lord Darroch.\n\n\"Biden said he'd have voted Remain so I have more questions about the relationship with a Democrat,\" he added.\n\nThe interview will be aired on BBC's Newsnight at 22:45 BST on BBC Two, or on iPlayer", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The names of the 22 victims were read out at the start of the inquiry\n\nSeveral people raised suspicions about the Manchester Arena suicide bomber in the minutes before he killed 22 people.\n\nSalman Abedi was reported to police and security ahead of the attack but one witness felt he was \"fobbed off\", a public inquiry has heard.\n\nThe witness had approached Abedi and asked him what was in his backpack while another said he thought he saw the suicide bomber praying.\n\nHundreds were injured in the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nInquiry proceedings began with Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court, reading the names of the 22 people who died on 22 May 2017.\n\n\"What happened that night was the most devastating terrorist attack in the UK for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"The inquiry will leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nFamilies, lawyers and chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders, a retired High Court judge, stood with heads bowed for a minute's silence before Mr Greaney's opening.\n\nSir John then formally opened the inquiry, adding \"this is an exercise in establishing the truth\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Roussos: ''It should be about transparency''\n\n\"If I conclude things went wrong then I shall say so, but we are not looking for scapegoats. We are searching for the truth,\" he said.\n\n\"The explosion killed 22 people, including children, the youngest was eight years old.\n\n\"Salman Abedi blew himself up in the explosion but he intended as many people as possible would die with him.\"\n\nThe most sensitive evidence is likely to be heard at closed hearings, with both press and public excluded because of the risk to national security.\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nHe was jailed for at least 55 years on 20 August for the 22 murders.\n\nThe inquiry will, among other things, look at the emergency response to the attack\n\nIn his opening statement, Mr Greaney told the inquiry \"experts consider that on 22 May there were missed opportunities to identify Salman Abedi as a threat and take mitigating action\".\n\nWhile there is evidence that suspicions were raised by members of the public in the minutes before the attack, \"no steward or British Transport Police (BTP) officer appear to have identified him as suspicious\", the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Greaney said experts concluded: \"If the presence of a potential suicide bomber had been reported, it is very likely that mitigating actions would've been taken that could have reduced the impact of the attack.\n\n\"This is because there was sufficient time between Abedi first being spotted by, and also reported to staff and his attack to effectively react.\"\n\nPaul Greaney QC read the names of each of those murdered by suicide bomber Salman Abedi during the first day of the inquiry\n\nOne member of the public, William Drysdale, spotted Salman Abedi and thought he was praying, less than an hour before he detonated his bomb.\n\nA second witness, Julie Merchant, approached BTP officer Jessica Bullough around 32 minutes before the deadly bombing to point out Abedi.\n\nMr Greaney said Ms Merchant cannot recall the details of the conversation with the officer but that it was \"to do with praying and political correctness\".\n\nThe officer cannot remember the conversation taking place, the hearing was told.\n\nShe was the first police officer to enter the City Rooms, where the bomb was detonated, after the attack, showing considerable bravery, Mr Greaney added.\n\nCCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nTwo more witnesses, known only as A and B, also saw a man matching Salman Abedi's description acting suspiciously.\n\nMr A challenged Abedi, asking him what he had in his backpack.\n\nThe witness then spoke to a Mohammed Agha, an employee of Showsec which provided security to the Arena on behalf of the venue's owners SMG, at 22.14, some 17 minutes before the detonation but said he was \"fobbed off.\"\n\nMr Agha spoke to colleague Kyle Lawler about the matter, eight minutes before the bomb went off.\n\nBut neither security control nor anyone else was informed about the suspicious activity, the hearing was told, although Mr Lawler said in a statement he tried to contact control but could not get through.\n\nHe then spotted the man get up and start walking towards the arena entrance.\n\nHis statement continued: \"I just froze and did not get anything out on the radio. I knew at that point it was too late.\"\n\nThe hearings will take place in a room specially converted from two courtrooms at Manchester Magistrates' Court\n\nMr Greaney also said expert evidence would be heard about risk assessments at the Arena.\n\n\"There was no effective risk assessments that considered the threats from terrorism at Manchester Arena in early 2017, despite the severe threat level,\" he said.\n\nThe possible role of Salman Abedi's family in radicalising the suicide bomber and his brother needs to be assessed, the inquiry also heard.\n\nHashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day after the bombing\n\nMr Greaney told the inquiry: \"Ismail Abedi, the brother of the killers, has been required by the inquiry legal team to answer a series of questions relating to what might, in general terms, be described as the issue of radicalisation.\n\n\"To date, he has declined to answer these questions on the basis that he maintains that his answers may tend to incriminate him.\"\n\nHe said similar requests to the brothers' parents, Ramadan and Samia, who are believed to be in Libya, \"have not been responded to, at least not in any substantive way\".\n\nThe chairman will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard by the inquiry, which is expected to take up to six months.\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.", "Would Andy Robertson help get the public health message to younger people? Image caption: Would Andy Robertson help get the public health message to younger people?\n\nDan Sanderson from the Telegraph asks if Lewis Capaldi or Andy Robertson might not be a better messenger for the TV and radio public health ads.\n\n\"Maybe Andy Robertson after a Scotland win last night?\" ponders the first minister.\n\nMs Sturgeon adds: \"We think about this all the time.\"\n\nThe government is very mindful about the types of message that works best with each part of the population.\n\nShe says there will soon be a marketing campaign aimed at young people.\n\nProf Leitch points out Andy Robertson has already done a video clip to help out.", "Lord Frost (left) and Michel Barnier (right) will meet on Tuesday for the latest round of trade talks\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator has called for \"realism\" from the EU ahead of the next round of trade talks beginning in London.\n\nLord Frost said there was \"still time\" for the two sides to agree a post-Brexit trade deal for next year.\n\nBut he said the EU needed to recognise the UK's negotiating position came from that of a \"sovereign state\".\n\nHis words follow a pledge from Boris Johnson to walk away from the talks if a deal isn't done by 15 October.\n\nThe EU said it would \"do everything in [its] power to reach an agreement\" with the UK, but \"will be ready\" for a no-deal scenario.\n\nThe exchange also comes after No 10 revealed it would be introducing new legislation on customs rules in Northern Ireland, in case the negotiations fail.\n\nThe announcement has led to concerns from Brussels that the UK would not deliver on the withdrawal agreement, made ahead of its exit from the bloc in January.\n\nBut the government said the legislation would only result in \"minor clarifications\" and it was committed to the earlier deal.\n\nThe transition period - which sees the UK following a number of the EU's rules while the two sides try to negotiate a trade deal - is due to end on 31 December.\n\nIf a deal is not made and ratified by parliaments across Europe by then, the UK will move onto trading with the bloc on World Trade Organisation rules, which would involve tariffs. Critics fear this would damage the economy.\n\nMr Johnson has ruled out any extension to the talks and, despite both sides admitting to little progress recently, he has set a deadline of mid-October - when the European Council is due to meet.\n\nIn an email to Conservative Party members on Monday, the prime minister said if there was no agreement by that date, \"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris looks at where the UK and EU are struggling to agree on their future relationship\n\nLord Frost, who has led the UK's team of negotiators in talks since March, will meet his opposite number from the EU, Michel Barnier, on Tuesday at the start of the eighth round of talks between the two sides.\n\nHe was introduced as a peer for the first time in the House of Lords earlier, having been ennobled by Mr Johnson in July.\n\nLord Frost was introduced in the House of Lords earlier\n\nSpeaking ahead of his meeting with Mr Barnier, Lord Frost promised to \"drive home our clear message that we must make progress this week if we are to reach an agreement in time\".\n\nLord Frost added: \"We have now been talking for six months and can no longer afford to go over well-trodden ground. We need to see more realism from the EU about our status as an independent country.\n\n\"As we have done from the beginning in public and in private, I will reinforce our simple, reasonable request for a free trade agreement based on those the EU has signed before with like-minded partners.\"\n\nLord Frost said the UK had \"listened closely\" to the bloc's team and \"signalled flexibility\" on where it can move, but added: \"We have repeatedly made clear that key elements of our position derive from the fundamentals of being a sovereign state, and it's time for the EU to fully recognise this reality.\"\n\nHe said the UK was \"ramping up\" preparations for a no-deal outcome, but also said he hoped progress could be made this week.\n\nBeyond all the talk, there is a genuine frustration in government that the EU is yet to treat the UK as if it were a fully sovereign country.\n\nThat's matched on the EU side by similar irritation that the UK won't budge.\n\nBut the bad tempers do not necessarily mean that a deal won't be reached.\n\nAnd all the blood curdling vows don't mean that in the end there won't be compromise.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Dan Ferie said the EU had \"engaged constructively and in good faith\" with the talks so far and would be \"fully concentrated on making the most out of this week's negotiating round\".\n\nBut, while he said the bloc shared the UK's \"desire to reach a deal quickly\", it should be \"in line with the EU's long-term economic and political interests\".\n\nMr Ferie added: \"The EU has made numerous constructive proposals to move the negotiations forward.\n\n\"And Michel Barnier has repeatedly said that there needs to be enough time later this year for the European Parliament and the Council to have their say on any agreement.\n\n\"Whether or not there is an agreement in place by the end of the year, the UK's decision to leave the single market and the customs union will inevitably create barriers to trade across border exchanges that do not exist today.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland played out a dreary deadlock with Denmark in Copenhagen as the Nations League meeting turned into a drab non-event.\n\nHarry Kane almost won it for England in the dying seconds when he went round Denmark keeper Kasper Schmeichel, only to see his shot cleared off the line by Mathias Jorgensen - but such a poor quality encounter barely deserved a dramatic finale.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate will have hoped for some talking points on the pitch after the off-field distraction that saw young duo Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood sent home for breaking Covid-19 protocols in Iceland.\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers captain Conor Coady made a measured England debut while Leeds United's Kalvin Phillips had a quiet introduction - and Aston Villa midfield man Jack Grealish finally got his long-awaited bow with 14 minutes left.\n\nDenmark had the better chances until Kane's late effort, with England keeper Jordan Pickford saving well from Kasper Dolberg in the first half and Christian Eriksen shooting over when well placed late on.\n\nEngland were sterile and conservative, creating very little apart from a Kane header off target and a low shot from Raheem Sterling that brought a smart save from Schmeichel before that late chance.\n\nArsenal youngster Ainsley Maitland-Niles became England's fourth debutant in the final minutes on a night of very little excitement.\n• None 'Southgate must address lack of productivity, positivity and ambition'\n• None Trust needs to be rebuilt with Foden and Greenwood - Southgate\n• None Football Daily podcast: England are dull and drab in Denmark\n\nEngland's ploy of playing a three-man central defence and effectively two holding midfielders in Phillips and Declan Rice afforded Denmark the sort of respect that might be better reserved for more elite sides.\n\nIt set the tone for a disappointing England performance, lacking in ambition and threat and one which would not have have deserved the late victory Kane almost gave them.\n\nThere is the usual context that this is effectively a pre-season game in an international guise for England's players but there was no excuse for such a lifeless display lacking in energy.\n\nEngland's attacking trio of Kane, Sterling and the anonymous Jadon Sancho were nowhere near their best but they could point to the fact that they were cut off from any sort of supply line by the manner of Southgate's set-up.\n\nThe team itself had an experimental air but there was no escaping England should have done much better than this.\n\nWolves captain Conor Coady was no shrinking violet as he made his England debut, making his presence felt and heard even before kick-off.\n\nAs silence fell on the largely deserted Parken Stadion in the seconds before the start, Coady's voice was heard bellowing instructions to his new England colleagues.\n\nThe 27-year-old looked at home with England, urging team-mates on throughout and shouting tactical instructions. He also played well and can be very satisfied with his first taste of senior international football, playing his part in the clean sheet.\n\nIt was a more subdued night for 24-year-old Leeds midfielder Phillips but it is worth remembering this is a player entering international football before even making his debut in the Premier League.\n\nEngland's system was not ideal for him and there were times in the first half when the game passed him by but he showed composure on the ball and did not waste possession, improving in the second half.\n\nGrealish can finally got the opportunity that will delight his many supporters but he had little time to influence affairs, apart from a couple of trademark jinking runs that came to nothing.\n\nMost debutants in competitive game since 1962 - match stats\n• None This was England's sixth goalless draw in 43 matches under Gareth Southgate - as many as Roy Hodgson played out in 56 games in charge. The last England manager to oversee more 0-0s was Bobby Robson (17).\n• None England managed just two shots on target, their fewest since their behind-closed-doors match against Croatia in October 2018 (also two).\n• None England have kept a clean sheet in five successive competitive matches for the first time since another run of five ending in March 2017.\n• None Denmark have kept a clean sheet in six of their past eight matches in all competitions, conceding just three goals in this time.\n• None England's first shot on target in this game came in the 70th minute courtesy of Raheem Sterling - it was the longest they had to wait since a World Cup match against Costa Rica in 2014 (80th minute).\n• None This was the first time the England men's team has named four debutants in a non-friendly match since October 1962 in a European Championship qualifier against Poland (Ray Charnley, Chris Crowe, Mike Hellawell, Alan Hinton).\n• None Phillips was the first Leeds United player to start for England since Danny Mills in 2003, while Coady was the first Wolves player to start for England since Steve Bull in 1990.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Attempt missed. Simon Kjaer (Denmark) header from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Robert Skov with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt missed. Robert Skov (Denmark) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andreas Christensen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Behind the scenes of their title triumph\n• None Can you truly be one or the other?", "More than 170 new cases were reported in total, with 91 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde\n\nNew coronavirus cases have been detected in every mainland health board area in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have been 176 positive tests across the country since Monday, including 91 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - where visiting restrictions are in force.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also said that three people had died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThis is the highest number of deaths by that measure since 30 June, she said.\n\nAs well as the 91 cases in the Greater Glasgow area, 32 were detected in NHS Lanarkshire and 16 in NHS Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nThe remainder were spread across the other mainland health boards - although there were no new cases in the Western Isles, Orkney or Shetland.\n\nThe Scottish government imposed new lockdown restrictions on Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire on Monday evening, and extended existing restrictions in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire for a further seven days.\n\nThe measures bar 1.1 million people in those areas from visiting other households and prohibit them from visiting homes in other local authorities.\n\nNew cases per 100,000 people, a key figure in the decision to impose local restrictions, have risen across Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nIn West Dunbartonshire, there were more than 60 new cases per 100,000 people in the area, almost double the rate when visiting restrictions were imposed.\n\nThe same was true in Glasgow city, which had 22 new cases per 100,000, but has seen an increase to more than 44.\n\nIn Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire, the rate is 32.4 and 29.5 respectively.\n\nMeeting in pubs, restaurants and outdoor areas is still permitted - although the Scottish government said the situation would be monitored in the coming days.\n\nDirector of public health for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Dr Linda de Caestecker, warned that the rise in cases in some local authorities could be driven by the hospitality industry.\n\nShe said: \"When we examine the rate per 100,000 population it is highest in West Dunbartonshire where many cases relate to family gatherings and parties.\n\n\"The next highest rate is in Glasgow city where more cases are associated with visits to bars and restaurants.\"\n\nThe government said it was also keeping the situation in Inverclyde and Lanarkshire under review - although Ms Sturgeon said a rise in the number of cases in the two areas did not yet warrant additional restrictions.\n\nThe overall incidence rate of the virus in Scotland as a whole was 20 cases per 100,000 people, Ms Sturgeon said - although the figure was slightly higher for the five council areas which are under stricter measures.\n\nThere are tougher restrictions on visiting in five local authorities\n\nMs Sturgeon said the latest statistics were further evidence that the \"really unwelcome\" decision to impose more lockdown restrictions was a \"proportionate\" response to rising coronavirus cases.\n\nThe first minister also told her daily coronavirus briefing that she did not expect to be able to announce any further easing of restrictions elsewhere in the country when the Scottish government reviews its guidance on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon has already said she is unlikely to be announcing any further lockdown easing this week\n\nShe added: \"At this time obviously we want to do everything possible to avoid the situation where more restrictions that have been lifted have to be re-imposed.\n\n\"The key to avoiding that rests with all of us - the decisions we make as individuals, still affect the safety and well being of our communities.\n\n\"So please do everything you can to avoid creating a bridge for the virus to cross over from one person to another, one household to another.\"\n\nThe first minister also criticised the \"really dangerous delusion\" that rising numbers of cases among younger people should not be a concern.\n\nShe said: \"The risk of a young person getting seriously ill or dying is thankfully lower, but it is not zero, and I would ask people of all ages to remember that.\n\n\"If transmission becomes established in the younger population, it will eventually reach the older and more vulnerable population. So to younger people, please think about your loved ones as well as yourselves, which I know everybody does.\n\n\"And to older people, be even more vigilant about hygiene and distancing if you're spending time with young relatives who may have been in pubs and restaurants.\"", "The company which installed cladding blamed for fuelling the Grenfell Tower fire has told an inquiry into the blaze that it did not check the design met fire safety requirements.\n\nRay Bailey, director of Harley Facades, said the firm relied on architects and building control officers to make sure designs were safe.\n\nHe accused supplier Celotex of misleading his firm about its safety.\n\nThe fire safety consultation is due to close on 12 October.\n\nThe fire at the west London tower block killed 72 people in 2017.\n\nA key question at this stage of the inquiry is how the companies involved allowed highly combustible cladding to be fitted to the outside of the 24-storey tower.\n\nMr Bailey said his firm was deceived that the insulation used on the project was safe for high-rises.\n\nHe said Polyisocyanurate (PIR) foam rigid insulation boards became widely used in construction around a decade ago.\n\nAsked about how much he knew about their fire risk, he said: \"When we were asked to use Celotex on Grenfell Tower, we were of the mindset that these new special super duper insulation products were acceptable providing they met certain criteria.\n\n\"Celotex made a big, big deal about their products being suitable, specifically designed for building over 18 metres.\n\n\"They used the term, which is very misleading now looking back, 'Class 0 throughout'.\"\n\nA Class 0 fire safety certificate is the minimum requirement for external surfaces of buildings.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"I think we carried out all possible reasonable checks... we didn't believe for one second that they would attempt to mislead us on this.\"\n\nHarley Facades managed the technical design and installation of cladding boxes that were added to frames on the building's exterior, to protect insulation panels from the rain.\n\nHowever under questioning from Richard Millett QC, Ray Bailey said he did not believe the \"buck stopped\" with the company for the safety of the design.\n\nHe said \"there is a raft of layers with Harley, with the architect, with the fire consultants, with building control to ensure that the... design is compliant.\"\n\nStephanie Barwise QC, a lawyer for a group of survivors and the bereaved, has previously accused Celotex of promoting its Rs5000 insulation despite senior executives knowing it should have been recalled after safety tests.\n\nCraig Orr QC, representing Celotex, previously said its marketing literature promoted the use of Rs5000 on buildings taller than 18 metres only on a \"rainscreen cladding system with the specific components\" used when it passed a fire safety test, and that it stipulated any changes to those components would \"need to be considered by the building designer\".\n\n\"The rainscreen cladding system described in Celotex's marketing literature bore no resemblance to the rainscreen cladding system installed at Grenfell Tower,\" he added.\n\nCelotex was marketed for use on tall buildings when used with a specific combination of other materials, despite being combustible.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis says Northern Ireland customs rules legislation do “break international law in a very specific and limited way”\n\nA government minister has said a new bill to amend the UK's Brexit deal with the EU will \"break international law\".\n\nConcerns had been raised about legislation being brought forward which could change parts of the withdrawal agreement, negotiated last year.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis conceded it would go against the treaty in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nFormer PM Theresa May warned the change could damage \"trust\" in the UK over future trade deals with other states.\n\nThe permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones, has announced he is resigning from government in light of the bill, making him the sixth senior civil servant to leave Whitehall this year.\n\nSir Jonathan, who is the government's most senior lawyer, is understood to have believed the plans went too far in breaching the government's obligations under international law.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer condemned the bill and accused No 10 of \"reopening old arguments that had been settled\", saying the \"focus should be on getting a [trade] deal done\" with the EU.\n\nNo 10 revealed on Monday that it would be introducing a new UK Internal Market Bill that could affect post-Brexit customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nDowning Street said it would only make \"minor clarifications in extremely specific areas\" - but it worried some in Brussels and Westminster that it could see the government try to change the withdrawal agreement, which became international law when the UK left the EU in January.\n\nThe row also comes at the start of the eighth round of post-Brexit trade deal talks between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe two sides are trying to secure a deal before the end of the transition period on 31 December, which will see the UK going onto World Trade Organisation rules if no agreement is reached.\n\nIrish Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, called Mr Lewis' comments \"gravely concerning\", adding: \"Any unilateral departure from the terms of the withdrawal agreement would be a matter of considerable concern and a very serious step.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says planned government legislation over Northern Ireland is “wrong”\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator, Lord David Frost, called for \"realism\" from his EU counterparts, saying he would \"drive home our clear message that we must make progress this week if we are to reach an agreement in time\".\n\nThe EU said it would \"do everything in [its] power to reach an agreement\" with the UK, but \"will be ready\" for a no-deal scenario.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson said if a deal hadn't been done by the time the European Council meets on 15 October, the two sides should \"move on\" and accept the UK's exit without one.\n\nShadow Northern Ireland secretary, Louise Haigh, said it was \"deeply concerning\" that the prime minister \"appeared to be undermining the legal obligations of his own deal\" with the introduction of the new law while the negotiations are taking place.\n\nThe text of the new bill will not be published until Wednesday, although the government has confirmed it will deal with the issue of the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol - an element of the withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nThe practicalities of the protocol - which will deal with issues of state aid (financial support given to businesses by governments) and whether there needs to be customs checks on goods - is still being negotiated by a joint UK and EU committee.\n\nBut Mr Lewis said the bill would take \"limited and reasonable steps to create a safety net\" if the negotiations failed.\n\nSpeaking during an urgent question on the bill, chair of the Justice Committee and Tory MP Bob Neill said the \"adherence to the rule of law is not negotiable\".\n\nHe asked Mr Lewis: \"Will he assure us that nothing proposed in this legislation does or potentially might breach international obligations or international legal arrangements?\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary replied: \"Yes. This does break international law in a very specific and limited way.\"\n\nHe said the government was still working \"in good faith\" with the EU joint committee to overcome its concerns for the future of trade in Northern Ireland, but said there was \"clear precedence for UK and indeed other countries needing to consider their obligations if circumstances change\".\n\nSir Bob later told BBC Radio 4's PM the decision was \"troubling\", adding: \"Britain is a country which prides itself on standing by the rule of law... whether it is inconvenient or convenient for us.\n\n\"Whatever we seek to do, if we find something we signed up to 'inconvenient', I am afraid this doesn't mean we can renege on our contract... as that would damage our reputation long term.\"\n\nThis was an extremely unusual statement - a minister standing up in Parliament to say the government is planning to break international law.\n\nBrandon Lewis told the House of Commons that \"there are clear precedents for the UK and other countries needing to consider their international obligations as circumstances change\".\n\nThat may suggest, says Catherine Barnard, professor of law at the University of Cambridge, that the government is looking at Article 62 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which enables a state to get out of its treaty obligations when circumstances change radically.\n\nBut those changed circumstances have to be pretty dramatic - something like the dissolution of Yugoslavia, when a recognised country ceases to exist.\n\nIn the case of the Northern Ireland Protocol, it is less than a year since the government negotiated the treaty in full knowledge of the sensitivity of the situation.\n\nAnd if the government does go ahead with legislation which appears to contradict the withdrawal agreement?\n\n\"There is a chance,\" says Prof Barnard, \"that the EU will decide to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism in the withdrawal agreement, which could lead to arbitration and a case before the European Court of Justice.\"\n\nTheresa May - who stood down as prime minister last year after her own Brexit deal failed to get the support of Parliament - said: \"The United Kingdom government signed the withdrawal agreement with the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"This Parliament voted that withdrawal agreement into UK legislation. The government is now changing the operation of that agreement.\"\n\n\"How can the government reassure future international partners that the UK can be trusted to abide by the legal obligations of the agreements it signs?\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, also called it a \"sad and shocking state of affairs for our country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris looks at where the UK and EU are struggling to agree on their future relationship\n\nSammy Wilson, who acts as Brexit spokesman for the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, said he was \"pleased\" to have the new bill that could deal with some of the issues that could affect his constituents - such as state aid and customs checks.\n\nBut he said the DUP had \"warned ministers of the impact of the withdrawal agreement\" early on, saying it was a \"union splitting, economy destroying and border creating agreement that has to be changed and replaced\".\n\nHe added: \"We will judge this bill on whether it delivers on these kind of issues.\"\n\nHowever, Claire Hanna, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MP for Belfast South, said the protocol was \"a symptom… of four years of terrible political decision making\".\n\nShe added: \"It is now the law. This government is obliged to implement it in full.\"\n\nShe also \"cautioned\" Mr Lewis \"not to use the threat of a border on the island of Ireland or the hard won impartiality of the Good Friday Agreement as a cat's paw in this or any other negotiation.\"\n\nBut former Conservative leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, said the act that brought the withdrawal agreement into law in the UK allowed the government to \"reserve the right to make clarifications under the sovereignty clause\".\n\nMr Lewis agreed, saying the law would \"clarify... the points about what will apply in January if we are not able to get satisfactory and mutually suitable conclusions\" in negotiations.\n\nHe added: \"It is reasonable and sensible to give that certainty and clarity to the people and businesses of Northern Ireland.\"", "Kirsty Coy-Martin has recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after 23 years serving as a police officer, including many years on a child abuse investigation team.\n\nShe says teaching her therapy dog, Scooter, how to surf has changed her life.\n\nShe now hopes to bring surf therapy to the emergency services.\n\nIf you are concerned about any of the issues in this video, information and support is available at BBC Action Line.", "Tredomen is among the testing centres that have seen long queues\n\nThere are fears of a shortage of coronavirus tests as people rush to get symptoms checked in Caerphilly county, GPs have said.\n\nThe county is being placed in lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, following a spike in cases.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the queues at the pop-up test centre in the town were \"horrific\".\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said testing had picked up the levels of community transmission.\n\nBut he acknowledged a UK-wide testing programme was facing challenges in coping with demand.\n\nChief executive of Caerphilly council, Christina Harrhy, urged people to only get tested if they were showing symptoms.\n\nDr David Bailey, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales and a GP in Caerphilly, said: \"The queues at the pop-up centre in Caerphilly yesterday were horrific, although we understand people were all getting tested.\n\n\"The capacity seems to be struggling across the UK, and people being sent across the country is hardly helpful with keeping people local and staying socially distanced.\"\n\nCaerphilly county has had more new cases in the past week - 98 - than anywhere else in Wales and more than the area has seen since the end of April.\n\nCommunity testing started in the county at the weekend, a total of 450 people were tested and 19 were positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn Bridgend county, people spoke of trying to book a test at a drive-through centre or a mobile unit via a UK online system, but being told their nearest available slot was at Bristol Airport, more than 60 miles away.\n\nWhile Andy, from Caerphilly, said he was unable to get a test for his two sons after they developed a cough.\n\n\"My partner took them down to the testing site at the leisure centre, but there was a three-hour queue. That was at 8am.\n\n\"She was told to go up to the new centre up in Penallta. She made her way up there, and there were already hundreds of cars.\n\n\"She was waiting in the queue and she was told at that point that if she didn't have ID for the children they couldn't be tested - how are you going to have ID for children with you?\"\n\nShehzad Malik was offered a test for his mother miles away after she developed a chest infection\n\nShehzad Malik, from Cardiff, also had problems while trying to get a test for his parents.\n\nHe said his mother was advised to get a test by her GP after developing a chest infection, but after hours of struggling with the system, was offered a test more than an hour's drive west of Cardiff.\n\nHe said: \"Yesterday I tried several times to book a drive-through test at my nearest test centre but to no avail.\n\n\"Once I had found the correct link I filled in the relevant information and each time I tried submitting the information online the page would not load to offer me a test.\n\n\"I kept trying online to get an appointment, almost every half hour from 2pm to 10pm, and the site kept crashing.\n\n\"Eventually, at about 22:15, I was able to upload all the information and was offered a Covid test in Carmarthen, 55 miles from my home in Cardiff.\"\n\nPeople will not be able to leave Caerphilly borough without good reason\n\nIn Gwynedd, GPs spoke of patients being sent miles to get tested after being concerned about symptoms, including shortness of breath, persistent coughs, and high temperatures.\n\nDr Huw Gwilym, who was on call at the Waunfawr surgery, said: \"There are examples of patients in Waunfawr being offered tests in Telford [125 miles], Oswestry [67 miles] and Aberystwyth [70 miles],\" he said.\n\n\"We are very concerned about the situation because it is unfair to ask people with Covid-19 symptoms, who are ill and should self-isolate, to travel for hours by car to get a test. We didn't expect such problems months into the pandemic.\"\n\nDr Eilir Hughes said people were requesting home tests but being told there were non avalaible\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP in Nefyn, Gwynedd, said he was concerned people were being \"put off\" going to get tested due to being asked to travel miles from their homes.\n\n\"There are several reports that people are being offered a test in Manchester [125 miles] or Aberystwyth [75 miles] whilst they live here on the Llŷn Peninsula,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is the nearest TTP testing centre is Llandudno [55 miles] which in itself is too far. People then request home tests and they are told they've ran out of stock.\n\nMr Gething said there were \"challenges\" about the way the UK-wide Lighthouse testing labs were running \"and its ability to cope with demand\".\n\nIn the most recent week for which figures are available 9,904 tests were processed in NHS Wales labs, while 26,067 were sent to Lighthouse labs.\n\nHe said: \"These are issues that my team have been raising through official levels. And I'm hoping to speak to other health ministers across the UK within the next day or two if possible - we sought a meeting today with colleagues in Northern Ireland as well - to be able to run through what is actually happening.\n\n\"None of us want to see people being asked to travel large distances which for some people won't be possible.\"\n\nMr Gething said mobile testing in Caerphilly had seen a large number of people attending.\n\nThat allowed the Welsh Government \"to pick up the levels of community transmission from people outside the clusters we've already been able to identify\", he said.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have raised this issue with the UK government, which runs the Lighthouse Lab testing system and we expect these issues to be resolved quickly to ensure people in Wales who have suspected coronavirus symptoms can receive a test as close to home as possible.\n\n\"We have recently announced £32m to increase capacity to process tests at laboratories in Wales, which includes extending our regional labs to 24-hour operation and six new 'hot labs' at hospitals across Wales. This investment will increase our testing resilience ahead of the winter.\"", "Maria Kolesnikova told BBC Russian last month that \"to understand exactly what's going on, you really have to be here\"\n\nA detained Belarus opposition leader prevented officials from forcibly expelling her to Ukraine by tearing up her passport and throwing it out of a car window at the border, colleagues who travelled with her have said.\n\nOn Monday Maria Kolesnikova was forced into a van by masked men in Minsk.\n\nShe is one of three women who joined forces to challenge President Alexander Lukashenko in August's election.\n\n\"She was pushed into the back seat (of the car), she yelled that she wasn't going anywhere,\" Ms Kolesnikova's colleague Anton Rodnenkov told a news conference in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Tuesday.\n\nMr Rodnenkov said he and another colleague had been kidnapped on Monday, driven between buildings, and interrogated with hoods over their heads and their hands tied.\n\nThey accepted an offer to leave Belarus with Ms Kolesnikova but when the car reached the border she refused to cross. The two men told journalists they did not know where she was now.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, officials in Belarus had claimed that Ms Kolesnikova was detained while trying to cross into Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, in an interview with Russian media on Tuesday, President Lukashenko insisted he would not step down from power.\n\nDozens of people were arrested in fresh protests in Minsk, the capital. In recent weeks thousands have faced down violence and threats of arrest in demonstrations against Mr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ivan Kravtsov says Ms Kolesnikova tore her passport into pieces and then climbed through the rear car window\n\nThe EU has demanded the release of all political prisoners and says it is planning to impose sanctions.\n\nMs Kolesnikova is the last of three women leading the opposition to Mr Lukashenko to remain inside Belarus.\n\nThe main opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, says she won 60-70% of the election in places where votes were properly counted. She fled to Lithuania after she was detained in August.\n\nOn Monday, witnesses saw masked men seize Ms Kolesnikova on a street in central Minsk and push her into a minibus. Anton Rodnenkov and his colleague Ivan Kravtsov were abducted while driving to her flat following reports of her disappearance, they told reporters in Kyiv.\n\nOfficials threatened to prosecute them until the two men accepted an offer to leave Belarus with Ms Kolesnikova.\n\n\"What they were interested in was getting Maria Kolesnikova outside the country. They said this was necessary to de-escalate the situation in Belarus,\" Mr Kravtsov said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What lies behind the Belarus protests?\n\nThe three were taken to the border with Ukraine by men in plain clothes early on Tuesday morning, Mr Rodnenkov said.\n\nBut when the car reached a checkpoint between the two countries, Ms Kolesnikova prevented her deportation by ripping up her passport and throwing away the pieces, he said.\n\n\"It was clear that she was being taken by force, she was resisting,\" Mr Rodnenkov said.\n\n\"She climbed, climbed from the car and she walked proudly to Belarusian territory,\" Mr Kravtsov said, adding: \"She's really a hero. You must understand that. She's very dedicated to what she's doing now.\"\n\nLast month Ms Kolesnikova told BBC Russian in an interview: \"To understand exactly what's going on, you really have to be here.\"\n\nThe Belarusian leader said if he stood down his supporters would be \"slaughtered\"\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya has called for her colleague to be immediately freed.\n\n\"By kidnapping people in broad daylight, Lukashenko is showing his weakness and fear,\" she said in a statement.\n\nAnother female activist, Olga Kovalkova, announced on Saturday she had fled to Poland amid threats of imprisonment.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Mr Lukashenko told Russian reporters that Ms Kolesnikova had been held for \"violating the rules on crossing the state border\".\n\nIn a sit-down interview, the long-term leader was quoted as saying he would not step down.\n\nHe conceded that some Belarusians might be \"fed up\" with his rule but he was adamant that he wouldn't leave office, according to the journalists.\n\nHe also asserted that he was the only person who could \"defend\" Belarus.\n\nAlexander Lukashenko calls Vladimir Putin \"big brother\" in this interview and he's increasingly dependent on Russia for support. But his comments reveal a confidence that Moscow needs him, too.\n\n\"You know what we agreed with the Russian establishment and leadership?\" he asked the panel of Russian state TV reporters on the sofas before him. \"That if Belarus breaks, Russia will be next.\"\n\nBack me up, Mr Lukashenko seemed to be saying to Moscow, and your own people won't get any bad ideas about ousting a long-standing leader through popular protests.\n\nAs usual, he claimed the unrest in Belarus was fomented by hostile outside forces, mainly America, via the internet.\n\nBut with opposition to his rule strong and persistent, Mr Lukashenko is now heavily reliant on his security forces.\n\nSo he had a message for them too. If I go, he argued, the riot police would be \"slaughtered, torn to pieces. And what have they done wrong?\"\n\nMr Lukashenko has twice appeared brandishing a gun during mass protests against his rule, and he told the reporters it was meant to show he had not fled.\n\nHe has accused Western powers of interference and is expected to visit Moscow \"in the coming days\" amid claims by Lithuania that he is planning deeper integration with Russia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 73-year-old great-grandmother has turned into an unlikely hero for demonstrators in Belarus", "File photo of an Indian Border Security Force guard near the India-China border\n\nChina has accused Indian troops of illegally crossing a disputed Himalayan border and firing \"provocative\" warning shots at patrolling soldiers.\n\nChina's military said its soldiers were \"forced to take countermeasures\", though it is not clear what they were.\n\nIndia rejected the allegations and accused Chinese troops of firing in the air during the face-off in the high-altitude Ladakh region.\n\nRelations between the countries have steadily deteriorated in recent months.\n\nIndia said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had tried to approach a forward Indian position near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and \"fired a few rounds in the air in an attempt to intimidate [our] own troops\".\n\n\"At no stage has the Indian army transgressed across the LAC or resorted to use of any aggressive means, including firing,\" the statement from India's military said.\n\nThe allegations of firing, if true, would be the first time in 45 years that shots had been fired there.\n\nA 1996 agreement between both countries bars the use of guns and explosives from the Line of Actual Control, as the disputed border is known, although soldiers have clashed there before.\n\nAccording to Chinese state media outlet the Global Times, the Indian troops had \"illegally crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) into the Shenpao mountain region near the south bank of Pangong Tso Lake\", quoting senior colonel Zhang Shuili, a spokesperson of the PLA.\n\nIndia's move \"seriously violated related agreements reached by both sides, stirred up tensions in the region... and is very vile in nature\", said Mr Zhang.\n\nBut India's statement added that the army was \"committed to maintaining peace\", adding that it was also \"determined to protect national integrity and sovereignty at all costs\".\n\nThe incident reportedly took place near the Pangong lake\n\nThe PLA spokesperson also called on the Indian side to \"immediately stop dangerous moves, withdraw personnel who crossed the LAC... and punish the personnel who fired the provocative shot\".\n\nThe tense confrontation comes just one day after India's military alerted Chinese officials of reports that five Indian civilians had been kidnapped by Chinese troops from an area near the disputed border.\n\nIndian cabinet minister KIren Rijiju tweeted on Tuesday that the PLA had responded to India's message.\n\n\"They have confirmed that the missing youths from Arunachal Pradesh have been found by their side,\" he said, adding that arrangements were being made to hand them over to Indian authorities.\n\nTensions rose in June when 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a violent skirmish with Chinese forces. Local media outlets said then that the soldiers had been \"beaten to death\".\n\nIn August, India accused China of provoking military tensions at the border twice within one week. Both charges were denied by China, which said that the border standoff was \"entirely\" India's fault.\n\nThe Line of Actual Control is poorly demarcated. The presence of rivers, lakes and snowcaps mean the line can shift.\n\nThe soldiers on either side - representing two of the world's largest armies - come face to face at many points. India has accused China of sending thousands of troops into Ladakh's Galwan valley and says China occupies 38,000sq km (14,700sq miles) of its territory. Several rounds of talks in the last three decades have failed to resolve the boundary disputes.\n\nThe two countries have fought only one war, in 1962, when India suffered a humiliating defeat.", "British employers planned more than 300,000 redundancies in June and July, as the coronavirus outbreak took its toll on the workplace.\n\n1,784 firms made plans to cut nearly 150,000 jobs in July, almost a sevenfold increase on July 2019.\n\nThe figures were obtained by a BBC Freedom of Information request.\n\nIn June 1,888 employers filed plans for 156,000 job cuts, a sixfold increase on the previous year.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown and the resulting record-breaking economic downturn closed restaurants and shops and brought travel to a standstill, forcing many firms to cut staff.\n\nA spokesman for the government stressed that it had already protected 9.6 million jobs through the Job Retention Scheme, as well as paying out billions in loans and grants to thousands of businesses.\n\n\"We are continuing to support livelihoods and incomes through our Plan for Jobs to ensure that nobody is left without hope or opportunity. This includes a £1,000 retention bonus for businesses that can bring furloughed employees back to work,\" he said.\n\n\"We are also creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, and supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"\n\nBoots, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Zizzi owner Azzurri, and furniture retailer DFS were among the household names to announce redundancy plans in July. A survey found that one in three firms expected to make some staff redundant between July and September.\n\nFirms planning 20 or more redundancies at a single \"establishment\" must by law notify government via a form called HR1, saying how many posts they want to lose.\n\nBoth the number of firms filing notice and the number of positions at risk gives a strong early indication that large numbers of jobs are likely to go in coming months.\n\nBig high street names were among the companies announcing redundancies in July\n\nThe furlough scheme, where the government temporarily pays the wages of workers, is coming to an end in October, raising fears that employers will have to cut even more jobs later in the year.\n\n\"The reason this data is so useful is that all our other official data is coming through with a time lag,\" said Nye Cominetti, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation think tank.\n\n\"This puts policy makers in a really challenging situation. The main government support schemes are coming to an end, but in terms of the official data, we still don't know how big the jobs crisis is, or where we're heading as we move into the autumn.\"\n\nHe added that the data, taken alongside other business surveys and forecasts, paints \"a fairly bleak and consistent picture of the next couple of months\".\n\nEmployers planning fewer than 20 redundancies don't have to file notice, so the overall totals of redundancies being planned will be higher than these figures.\n\nOfficial employment statistics, which are typically a few months behind what is happening on the ground, don't yet show a big increase in the unemployment rate or redundancies.\n\nHowever, the government's own spending watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that in a worst-case scenario, unemployment could hit four million next year.\n\nCompanies in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.\n\nAre you currently on furlough from your job? Are you facing redundancy? Do you work in the retail, construction and hospitality sectors? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A \"sharp rise\" in coronavirus cases in recent days in the UK is \"concerning\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told MPs that the increase had been across the whole country rather than in localised \"hotspots\", but there was \"no inevitability\" of a second spike.\n\nThe government's scientific advisers have given stark warnings, after 2,948 new UK cases were recorded on Monday.\n\nDowning Street said it would not rule out reducing the number of people who could meet in groups in England.\n\nAsked whether the government was considering a change in guidance, the prime minister's official spokesman said the regulations were being kept under review.\n\nThe guidance in England currently says two households can meet indoors. Outdoors up to six people from different households can meet - or up to 30 people from two households.\n\nMinisters have singled out young people in particular for not following social-distancing rules.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said Covid-19 rates are now rising, especially amongst people aged between the ages of 17 and 29.\n\nHe warned that if people stopped social distancing then \"Covid comes back\".\n\nBut another expert cited the government's \"confused messaging\" and said it was unfair to blame the young.\n\nOn Sunday 2,988 new cases were announced - the highest figure since 22 May.\n\nAt the peak of the virus in spring official figures showed there were 6,000 cases a day, although testing was largely only taking place in hospitals.\n\nEstimates suggest there were around 100,000 cases a day at that point.\n\nMr Hancock told MPs on the Commons Health Select Committee it was \"so important that people take their responsibilities seriously, and people don't become relaxed about this virus\".\n\nHe said the government's strategy was clear, with the first line of defence being social distancing, followed by testing and tracing, and then local action.\n\nHe added: \"I have taken quite robust action in areas where there are local spikes. I don't like doing that but I don't resile from doing it because it is necessary.\"\n\nHe also told the committee that the first \"credible\" cases of coronavirus reinfection were starting to be seen.\n\n\"Through genomic analysis you can see it is a different disease to the one the person got the first time around,\" he said.\n\n\"But in all the cases that I have seen it has been an asymptomatic second infection that has been picked up through asymptomatic testing.\"\n\nOn Monday Mr Hancock warned the UK could see a second spike in coronavirus cases if young people did not follow the rules.\n\nHis comments were echoed by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, who said there was a particular responsibility on younger people to follow government guidelines on Covid-19, so that infection rates would not spike again.\n\n\"We have to keep hammering the message home. Of course the people in those age categories are unlikely to become extremely unwell as a result of having the virus.\n\n\"But they are able to pass it on to others,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on younger people to not just stay at home, obviously to go out and go to work and to enjoy pubs and restaurants, but to do so in accordance with the guidelines.\"\n\nMr Jenrick also said the UK was entering a \"period of particular concern\" with the number of coronavirus cases rising, adding \"we all have to be very cautious\".\n\nHowever, Prof Susan Michie, a behavioural expert on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), was critical of the government's \"confused messaging\" over the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nShe told the BBC News Channel that the constant changing of the guidance and variations between nations had left young people \"very confused about what it is they are and aren't meant to be doing\".\n\nShe said ministers had almost signalled \"go out and about as usual\" to young people by lifting restrictions and added it was unfair to then say \"actually you are the problem\" rather than take any responsibility as a government for the messaging.\n\nAnother Sage member, Prof Andrew Hayward, told Radio 4's Today programme he was worried that the rise in virus cases over the last few days might \"get out of hand\" if control measures were not taken seriously.\n\nHe added: \"Generally it is local outbreaks, but there is also very worrying increases in cases, particularly over the last few days.\"\n\nOn Monday, his Sage colleague Prof Van Tam described the latest change in coronavirus infections across the UK as a \"great concern\", adding: \"People have relaxed too much. Now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this a continuing threat to us.\"\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty reiterated concerns raised by his deputy Prof Van-Tam about a rise in cases.\n\nHe tweeted: \"We have, through the extraordinary efforts of the whole population, got Covid rates right down. They are now rising again especially in those aged 17 to 29.\n\n\"If we stop social distancing Covid comes back.\"\n\nMeanwhile, official weekly figures show the number of deaths linked to coronavirus have fallen to their lowest level since mid-March.\n\nA total of 101 deaths were registered during the week ending 28 August, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe Sage scientists' warnings come as more parts of the UK face tougher restrictions following a rise in the number of cases.\n\nIn Wales, the county borough of Caerphilly is to be placed under a local lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, lasting until at least October.\n\nWelsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething blamed a breakdown in social distancing, especially among extended households.\n\nStricter rules on visiting other people's homes were also extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland from midnight.\n\nMeanwhile, council leaders in north-east England have said the average number of new cases in the region has doubled to about 80 per day, in just over a week.\n\nA joint statement from seven council leaders said: \"We have seen cases where individuals with symptoms have had a test, then gone out and infected others before getting their results - reckless and selfish behaviour.\"", "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.", "It is thought that a million people have been detained in camps in Xinjiang, China\n\nDisney is under fire for shooting its new film Mulan in parts of China where the government is accused of serious human rights abuses.\n\nThe final credits thank a government security agency in Xinjiang province, where about 1m people - mostly Muslim Uighurs - are thought to be detained.\n\nThe film was already the target of a boycott after its lead actress backed a crackdown on Hong Kong protesters.\n\nDisney has not commented on the row over the locations and the credits.\n\nChina says its detention camps in Xinjiang are necessary to improve security.\n\nThe live-action film, which is one of the biggest releases of the year, is a remake of the 1998 animated story of a young girl who takes her father's place in the army.\n\nBut fans in some Asian countries called for a boycott after Chinese-born actress Liu Yifei made comments supporting Hong Kong's police who have been accused of violence against pro-democracy protesters in recent months.\n\nThen, on Monday, social media users noticed that in the credits Disney thanked a number of government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in the city of Turpan and the \"publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe public security bureau in Turpan is tasked with running China's \"re-education\" camps where Uighurs are held in detention, China expert Adrian Zenz told the BBC.\n\nThe \"publicity department\" named by Disney is responsible for producing state propaganda in the region, he adds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC visits the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\"\n\nIt is believed that one million Uighur people have been forcibly detained in the high-security prison camps in recent years.\n\nLeaked documents and testimonies from camp survivors reveal that inmates are locked up, indoctrinated and punished, claims which China has dismissed as \"fake news\".\n\nIn 2018 a BBC investigation found evidence of security compounds built in the desert in Xinjiang.\n\nMr Zenz described Disney as \"an international corporation profiteering in the shadow of concentration camps\".\n\nThe World Uyghur Congress tweeted \"in the new Mulan, Disney thanks the public security bureau in Turpan, which has been involved in the internment camps in East Turkistan.\"\n\nActivist Shawn Zhang also criticised the company, writing \"how many thousands of Uighur were put into camps by Turpan Bureau of Public Security when filming Mulan there?\"\n\nTurpan was the site of the first \"re-education camps\" where Uighur women wearing veils or men wearing beards were detained, Mr Zenz explained. The public security bureau is also responsible for managing construction of the camps and hiring police to staff them, he added.\n\nThe earliest evidence of \"re-education\" work of Uighurs in Turpan is from August 2013, Mr Zenz claims.\n\nIn June, he issued a report which uncovered evidence that China was forcing Uighur women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices, a practice that China denies.\n\nChina says it is fighting the \"three evil forces\" of separatism, terrorism, and extremism in Xinjiang and says the camps are voluntary schools for anti-extremism training.\n\nIn 2017 Mulan director Niki Caro posted photos on Instagram from the capital of Xinjiang. The production team behind the film also told the Architectural Digest magazine that they spent months in Xinjiang to research filming locations.\n\nHong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has also condemned Disney, tweeting that viewers watching Mulan are \"potentially complicit in the mass incarceration of Muslim Uighurs\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Wong 黃之鋒 😷 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A director of the government's test and trace programme in England has issued a \"heartfelt\" apology for problems with the coronavirus testing system.\n\nIn a tweet, Sarah-Jane Marsh explained it was the laboratories, not the testing sites themselves, that were the \"critical pinch-point\".\n\nThis comes as scientists have sounded the alarm about rising coronavirus cases.\n\nA new Lighthouse lab is due to open in Loughborough in about a fortnight.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there had been a \"a problem with a couple of contracts\" which would take a matter of weeks to be \"sorted in the short term\".\n\nBut he said he had \"already put in certain solutions\" to make sure people didn't have to travel more than 75 miles for a test.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the testing programme was \"on the verge of collapse\".\n\nMs Marsh works as a deputy to Dido Harding, heading up the \"test\" element of the test and trace scheme.\n\nThe programme aims to find coronavirus cases through testing and, once confirmed, track down their contacts and tell them to isolate, in order to contain the virus.\n\nSome people with symptoms have struggled to access testing in recent days, raising concerns these efforts will be hampered.\n\n\"All of our testing sites have capacity, which is why they don't look overcrowded,\" Ms Marsh explained.\n\nInstead, appointments were restricted because of a blockage in processing capacity in the labs.\n\nCarly in Manchester was left \"angry and disappointed\" after she tried to book a test for her seven-year-old son, who had a fever and a cough.\n\n\"I tried 30 or 40 times before I was able to get through and then I was told there were no appointments.\n\n\"At every point I was told everywhere's rammed to capacity.\"\n\nBut when she did manage to get a space at a testing centre at Manchester airport, she says there was \"absolutely no-one there\".\n\nSome found the option of applying for a home kit was unavailable, only to be offered a drive-through testing appointment more than 100 miles from their home.\n\nRachel from Cardiff was directed to Dundee, more than 300 miles away, when she tried to apply for a test for her two sons, who had developed bad colds including symptoms she feared could be coronavirus.\n\nShe wasn't given the option of a home test.\n\nGavin on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland was directed more than 450 miles away to Portadown in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Sir Keir described \"heart-breaking stories\" from people who have been unable to get a test, found the website \"crashing\" or have been \"told to go miles and miles to get a test\".\n\n\"Nobody could argue that that's good governance,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the prime minister had to \"take responsibility\" for problems with the system and encouraged him to \"get on\" with holding a press conference on coronavirus.\n\nBut the Department of Health and Social Care insisted that NHS Test and Trace was \"working\" - with capacity the \"highest it has ever been\" and laboratories processing more than a million tests a week.\n\nA spokeswoman said there was \"significant demand\" for tests but new slots and home testing kits were \"made available daily\".\n\n\"We are targeting testing capacity at the areas that need it most, including those where there is an outbreak, as well as prioritising at-risk groups - and we recently announced new laboratory facilities and new technology to process results even faster,\" she said.\n\nLast week, the BBC revealed the government was reducing the numbers of tests available in some parts of the country in order to make enough available where there were outbreaks.\n\nFollowing this, Mr Hancock pledged that no-one would have to drive more than 75 miles for a test from Friday 4 September.\n\nHe told the BBC there had been \"operational challenges\".\n\nIn Parliament on Tuesday, he said: \"I appreciate that 75 miles is far longer than you'd want to go and the vast majority of tests are much closer than that.\"\n\nThere have been suggestions some of the reduced capacity is down to schools in Scotland reopening, causing additional demand for tests.\n\nThis could worsen as term has started for children across the UK.\n\nMs Marsh went on to tweet that additional labs were to due to open \"imminently\", alongside an expansion of non-laboratory based tests such as the two rapid test kits that were rolled out in hospitals from the beginning of August.\n\nIn a 28 August letter to Mr Hancock seen by the BBC, chairs of the South East's strategic co-ordinating groups, responsible for responding to emergencies, described the government's approach as \"short sighted and flawed\".\n\nThe group of chairs representing the South East, the most populous region in the UK, said they understood that testing sites were facing \"increasing demand and that laboratory capability has been matched to the areas of current high levels of prevalence\".\n\nThe South East is currently an area of relatively low prevalence.\n\nBut they said this would \"impede\" their view of infection rates in their communities and result in a \"lack of forewarning when infections rise in our areas\".\n\nThey asked for \"clear, honest, ongoing communication\" on the current state and prioritisation of testing capability.", "The arts are at the \"point of no return\" following damage from the coronavirus pandemic, Lord Lloyd-Webber has said.\n\nThe composer and theatre impresario told MPs it would be economically \"impossible\" to run theatres with social distancing.\n\n\"We simply have to get our arts sector back open and running,\" he told the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee.\n\n\"We are at the point of no return.\"\n\nIn July, Lord Lloyd-Webber staged a concert at the London Palladium as an experiment to see whether socially-distanced performances were viable.\n\nHe spent £100,000 on the pilot project in the hope that it could allow the theatre business to get up and running.\n\nHe hoped to prove that theatres could open safely at full capacity. However, the concert had to take place with hundreds of empty seats to comply with the government's social distancing guidelines.\n\nLord Lloyd-Webber staged a socially-distanced Beverley Knight concert at the London Palladium in July\n\nSince then, two major new indoor theatre productions have opened in London, but also with limited audience capacity. Most theatres, including those in the West End, are yet to reopen.\n\n\"There comes a point now when we really can't go on much more,\" Lord Lloyd-Webber said.\n\n\"Theatre is an incredibly labour-intensive business. In many ways putting on a show now is almost a labour of love.\n\n\"Very few shows hit the jackpot in the way a Hamilton, Lion King or Phantom of the Opera do.\"\n\nHe added that theatre productions were \"not like cinema, you can't just open the building\".\n\nThe government announced a £1.57bn support package earlier this year to support the arts, which was widely welcomed by the industry.\n\nBut Lord Lloyd-Webber stressed the importance of naming a date when theatres can reopen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Lloyd Webber has previously said 'theatre can’t run with social distancing’\n\nHe also discussed the \"critical\" importance of clean air. \"I am absolutely confident that the air in the London Palladium and in all my theatres is purer than the air outside,\" he said.\n\nHe also suggested he could move his forthcoming production of Cinderella from the UK to a different location \"where people are being a little more helpful\". It was originally due to open in London's West End this month.\n\nRebecca Kane Burton, chief executive of the LW Theatres, the company that runs Lord Lloyd-Webber's venues, added: \"We don't want to open theatres on a socially distanced basis. I have no intention of opening buildings at 30% capacity.\"\n\nRecent months had been \"devastating and catastrophic\" for the sector, she said.\n\n\"It's a really bad, catastrophic time and we need to find a way out of it. It was disheartening that the pilot wasn't later seen as a way to getting full reopening.\"\n\nShe added: \"We need the time to plan. We can't switch on theatre like a tap. Christmas is hanging in the balance as we speak.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden has suggested rapid testing could provide part of a solution for theatres\n\nA DCMS spokeswoman said the government was \"working flat out to support our world class performing arts sector through challenging times\".\n\nShe said: \"Our unprecedented £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund builds on £200m in emergency public funding to stabilise organisations, protect jobs and ensure work continues to flow to freelancers. This funding will support organisations of all sizes across the country, including theatres.\n\n\"Performances indoors and outdoors can now take place with a socially distanced audience and we are working at pace with the industry on innovative proposals for how full audiences might return safely as soon as possible. We also want the public to show their support by visiting theatres as they start to reopen.\"\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday at the weekend, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the government was working on a project that would see some theatre return in time for pantomime season at Christmas.\n\nHe also suggested rapid testing could help ensure the return of theatres. \"Testing is the short-term key until we find a working vaccine. We're making exciting advances in quick turnaround testing, where on-the-day coronavirus tests could give people who test negative a pass to visit the theatre that evening,\" he wrote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC News Channel, actor Simon Callow said that kind of testing is \"the dream\", adding: \"That's exactly the kind of thing we need to be exploring.\"\n\nHe also said the furlough scheme - which has helped some in the arts industry - should be extended beyond October. That was echoed by the director of the Theatres Trust, Jon Morgan.\n\n\"Without an early date for theatres to re-open fully and with the furlough scheme ending in October we will see further redundancies and the permanent closure of more theatres,\" he said in a statement.\n\nScene Change's This Is No Pantomime campaign launched earlier this week\n\nLucy Noble, artistic and commercial director of the Royal Albert Hall and chair of the National Arenas Association, told the DCMS Committee there were \"huge consequences to venues not being able to put performances on... serious financial consequences\".\n\nShe added: \"All venues are on their knees financially... When Oliver Dowden announced the £1.57 billion rescue package, the Royal Albert Hall was hailed as one of the crown jewels that this package would save.\n\n\"We have been told we are not eligible for any of the grant at all.\n\n\"We are only eligible to take a loan. We've already taken £10m worth of loans. We'd rather not get into any more debt.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Donald Trump delivered his Labour Day news conference from the White House\n\nDonald Trump and Joe Biden have been trading insults over each other's position on a vaccine for Covid-19.\n\nPresident Trump again hinted that a vaccine might be available before the November presidential election and accused his Democratic rivals of \"reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric\".\n\nMr Biden expressed scepticism that Mr Trump would listen to the scientists and implement a transparent process.\n\nThe US has six million cases of coronavirus, the highest in the world.\n\nThe virus has also claimed nearly 190,000 lives and fuelled a major recession, double-digit unemployment and sagging consumer confidence.\n\nLast week it emerged the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had urged states to consider \"waiving requirements\" in order to be able distribute a vaccine by 1 November - two days before the 3 November election.\n\nNo vaccine has yet completed clinical trials, leading some scientists to fear politics rather than health and safety is driving the push for a vaccine.\n\nBoth Mr Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have questioned the president's credibility on the issue. Ms Harris said on Sunday she would not trust Mr Trump's word that a vaccine was safe, and Mr Biden also questioned whether the wider public would trust him too.\n\n\"He has said so many things that aren't true I am worried that if we do have a really good vaccine people are going to be reluctant to take it,\" Mr Biden said in Pennsylvania on Monday, Labour Day.\n\nJoe Biden was speaking while on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania\n\nBut he added that: \"If I could get a vaccine tomorrow, I'd do it. If it cost me the election I would do it. We need a vaccine and we need it now. We have to listen to the scientists.\"\n\nMr Trump, who is trailing in the polls, hit back at a White House news conference, calling Mr Biden \"stupid\" and Ms Harris \"the most liberal person in Congress... not a competent person in my opinion\".\n\nHe said they \"would destroy this country and would destroy this economy\", and added that they \"should immediately apologise for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now\".\n\nThe president, at times asking journalists to take off their face masks when asking questions, again suggested a vaccine could be ready next month.\n\n\"We're going to have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special date,\" he said.\n\nThe top US infectious diseases expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, has said that it is unlikely but \"not impossible\" that a vaccine could win approval in October, and Stephen Hahn of the Food and Drug Administration said it might be \"appropriate\" to approve a vaccine before clinical trials are complete if the benefits outweighed the risks.\n\nBut both scientists, the White House and the executives of five top pharmaceutical companies have made clear there will be no compromises on safety and effectiveness of a vaccine.\n\nThree vaccine trials in the US are in their final stages - each involving 30,000 people who will get shots, three weeks apart, and will then be monitored for coronavirus infections and side effects for anywhere from a week to two years, the Associated Press reports.", "People in several countries have been sharing a link to a webpage connected to the World Bank saying it shows test kits for Covid-19 were being exported in 2017, long before the disease was known to exist.\n\nThe claim on social media is that this is evidence the pandemic was planned all along – but this is false and we can settle any doubts about what’s going on.\n\nThe page is genuine and includes trade information under the heading “Covid-19 test kits exports by country in 2017”. So you can understand why this might have caused some confusion.\n\nIt’s from a database run by international organisations including the World Bank. According to the World Bank, the page was created to make it easier to find all of the previously existing products that are now being used for Covid-19.\n\nAll the medical devices listed on the site have had other uses for many years, but they were re-labelled to ease the tracking of items that are particularly important to tackle coronavirus.\n\nThe title of the page has been amended to “medical kits” and to avoid further misunderstanding includes a disclaimer that says, “The data here track previously existing medical devices that are now classified by the World Customs Organization as critical to tackling Covid-19.”\n\nThe claim appears to have emerged on English-language Facebook late last week and then spread across Twitter, Instagram and Reddit over the weekend.\n\nOver the past few days it has also been shared in Italian, German, Polish, Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch and other languages.\n\nThe allegations have also been amplified by opponents of vaccination and supporters of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps says the government now has the “data and capacity” to add and remove islands from quarantine list.\n\nTravellers arriving in England from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday, Grant Shapps has said.\n\nThe islands affected are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos (also known as Zante).\n\nThe government says islands can be treated differently from their mainland countries if infection rates differ.\n\nBut airlines have been critical of the time it has taken - Easyjet's boss said the change was \"too little, too late\".\n\nSpeaking to MPs in the Commons, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said the government would use better data to pinpoint risks on popular islands.\n\nHe said that would provide \"increased flexibility\" to add or remove them from the quarantine list for England - distinct from mainland destinations - as infection rates change.\n\nHe said this would \"help boost\" the UK's travel industry while continuing to keeping the travelling public safe.\n\nMr Shapps said the coronavirus infection rate was still too high in Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands to remove them from the list of destinations from where travellers returning to England must quarantine.\n\nTravellers returning to England from Santorini must self-isolate for 14 days\n\nHe said the government was \"working actively on the practicalities\" of using coronavirus testing to cut the 14-day quarantine period for people arriving in the UK from high-risk countries.\n\nPurely testing people on arrival \"would not work\", Mr Shapps said, but quarantine combined with testing was \"more promising.\"\n\n\"My officials are now working with health experts with the aim of cutting the quarantine period without adding to infection risk or infringing our overall NHS test capacity,\" he said.\n\nHe added that if someone was unable to quarantine for 14 days after returning to the UK \"it might be best not to travel\".\n\nBeth Maybury, who is on holiday is Crete, says she feels more comfortable there than in the UK because it is \"less crowded\".\n\nThe 24-year-old from Leeds, who will return to England before the quarantine deadline, said: \"Bars etc just seem a lot quieter, the hotel seems not even at half capacity so there's plenty of room round the pool or beach. There just seems to be a lot more awareness in terms of masks too.\"\n\nKarl Brown, who is on holiday in Santorini with partner Lauren, says he \"can't believe\" it is on the quarantine list because the island is \"quiet\" and social distancing is in place.\n\nThe couple are due to fly back on Wednesday and say they are trying to change their flight as they are due back at work.\n\nDevolved governments set their own travel rules and there are variations across the UK nations on some countries, including Greece.\n\nTravellers arriving in Wales from six Greek islands must already quarantine - these islands are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Paros and Antiparos and Zakynthos.\n\nThe Scottish government has imposed quarantine restrictions on the whole country of Greece. Northern Ireland currently has Greece on its list of countries exempt from quarantine.\n\nFor months, the UK government has been lukewarm about the idea of only applying travel quarantine on a regional basis.\n\nLast week it came under sustained pressure from bosses in the aviation sector.\n\nThey're desperate to know when international travel might recover in a meaningful way.\n\nOne airport boss was scathing, accusing the government of \"overseeing the demise of UK aviation\".\n\nThe Welsh government also then decided its travel quarantine would, in the case of Greece, be managed on a regional level, with six Greek islands added to its list.\n\nThe UK government says its decision to regionalise quarantine now for England is driven by improved availability of data at a regional level in countries abroad.\n\nBut the change isn't silencing the critics.\n\nEasyjet is the latest big name in travel to lay into the government. Its boss told me the situation is too confusing and much of the damage has already been done.\n\nHis warning to ministers: come-up with a substantial recovery plan for UK aviation or much of the damage to the sector will be permanent.\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon described the government's handling of the pandemic as \"chaotic\", saying that \"for months\" there had been no restrictions on travellers entering the UK.\n\n\"By the time restrictions were introduced, we were one of only a handful of countries in the world who had failed to take action,\" he said.\n\nJohan Lundgren, the boss of airline Easyjet, told the BBC the government's latest change to its quarantine rules was \"too little, too late\", as the peak of the summer holiday season had passed.\n\n\"This is something we have argued for a long time - it should not have been a blanket instrument when it comes to quarantine. It should be based on risk and on a much more targeted approach,\" he said.\n\nHe urged the government to devise a plan for UK aviation, warning that the sector would not recover in a meaningful way without one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nA spokesman for British Airways' owner IAG said it was \"evident\" in July that islands should be treated separately and the government was \"too slow in making obvious decisions\".\n\n\"For most families, summer is now over and the damage to the industry and the economy is done,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to get on with (testing). We are way behind other countries on what has to be a more nuanced approach.\"\n\nAirport Operators Association chief executive Karen Dee welcomed the change in approach but said it was unlikely to significantly improve consumer confidence, while quarantine was \"devastating the UK aviation industry\".\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, which represents UK carriers, said a testing regime was \"urgently required\".\n\nHeathrow Airport welcomed the announcement that testing to shorten quarantine was being considered by the government and that air bridges to islands would be used where appropriate.\n\n\"If introduced, these vital policy changes would show the government understands how critical the restoration of air travel is to this country's economic recovery,\" a statement said.", "Supermarket chain Morrisons is to make thousands of temporary staff permanent as a surge in demand for online deliveries fuelled by the coronavirus pandemic continues.\n\nIceland also says that it has taken on thousands of staff.\n\nRivals such as Tesco are hiring more staff to support internet shopping after the lockdown accelerated the shift from visiting stores to online.\n\nMorrisons' decision coincides with a rise in coronavirus cases in the UK.\n\nThe UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain is expected to announce the move on Thursday.\n\nMorrisons had about 97,000 workers before the pandemic and took on 45,000 extra temporary staff during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAbout 25,000 of those staff are still working for the supermarket, and more than 6,000 have already been given permanent jobs.\n\nMorrisons is expected to announce on Thursday - when it publishes its interim results - that it plans to make thousands more temporary positions permanent in the coming weeks.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Morrisons has been playing its full part in feeding the nation and that has required the largest recruitment drive our company has ever seen.\"\n\nSince March, supermarkets have seen a huge increase in demand, especially for online deliveries.\n\nOut of those 25,000 extra staff, Morrisons uses 9,000 to pick and deliver to deal with the surge in online demand.\n\nAs well as its own delivery service, Morrisons also partners Amazon and Deliveroo, and recently announced that customers could do a full Morrisons food shop on Amazon UK.\n\nExtra staff have also been needed in Morrisons supermarkets to keep them running properly, and to make sure the supermarkets conform to coronavirus safety guidelines.\n\nSupermarket chain Iceland said on Tuesday that it will have created more than 3,000 jobs between March this year and Christmas to cope with demand for home deliveries.\n\nIt said that lockdown in particular had boosted online orders, and that demand \"shows no sign of slowing down as the weather shifts over the coming weeks and months\".\n\nIt is also increasing its delivery fleet by just under a third.\n\nIceland added that it was partnering with UberEats in London to make deliveries from its Hackney store.\n\nThe closure of many High Street shops during the pandemic helped to drive up online sales, and for some firms that demand has continued.\n\nTesco said in August that it would create 16,000 new permanent jobs after \"exceptional growth\" in its online business.\n\nAmazon said last week that it would create a further 7,000 jobs this year to meet growing demand. In June, delivery firm DPD and B&Q owner Kingfisher said they would be hiring thousands more staff.\n\nHowever, many more thousands of people have lost their jobs in the UK.\n\nData obtained by the BBC showed that British employers planned more than 300,000 redundancies in June and July,\n\nAnd the government's Job Retention Scheme, which has protected 9.6 million jobs throughout the coronavirus lockdown, is due to come to an end in October.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nThe weekly mass participation Parkrun events are set to resume in England by the end of October.\n\nParkrun events were suspended worldwide in March because of the global coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEvents will operate within Parkrun's government-approved Covid-19 framework, though there have been \"minimal changes\" to its operating model.\n\nParkrun said it was a \"watershed moment to drive change\" in creating a \"healthier and happier planet\".\n\nParkrun's chief executive Nick Pearson said they \"are not able to commit to the same timeline across the other Home Nations\" due to current restrictions across Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"However, we are aware of the implications of only opening in England and are continuing our work to overcome the challenges that this presents,\" he added.\n\nThe Parkrun movement was founded in Bushy Park, London in 2002 by Paul Sinton-Hewitt and is now in 22 countries.\n\nRunners or walkers can take part in 5km events on Saturday mornings while 2km junior events take place on Sunday mornings. Events are free and are run by volunteers.\n\nThere are 729 different locations across the UK staging the weekly events and more than two million runners have taken part.\n\nPearson added: \"Everything in life comes with a risk, and we know and accept that we cannot remove all risks from the Parkrun environment. However, it is also important to balance the public health benefits of reopening our events, against the associated public health risks.\n\n\"We now believe, having spent considerable time gathering and understanding the evidence, that the benefits to reopening Parkrun far outweigh the risks.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracy Higginbottom said she had never experienced such aggression in more than 20 years\n\nA paramedic spat at by a patient was left feeling \"contaminated, broken and defeated\" and had to take a month off work to recover.\n\nTracy Higginbottom was assaulted on a night shift in north Cornwall in July.\n\nShe said she has \"never experienced\" that level of aggression before as the patient \"kicked and spat everywhere\".\n\nMore than 100 ambulance workers were physically assaulted on duty since lockdown, South Western Ambulance Service said.\n\nThere were 106 physical assaults reported between 23 March and 23 August, compared with 77 during the same time period in 2019.\n\nMs Higginbottom, who has been in the ambulance service for more than 20 years, said: \"Violence and aggression appear to be escalating, and is something we have to deal with as a part of our job. But I've never experienced anything quite like this.\"\n\nShe explained the patient was \"out of control and vulnerable\" after taking drugs and alcohol.\n\n\"It really kicked off in the ambulance. She was swearing, kicking and spitting everywhere.\n\n\"Afterwards I felt very distressed and traumatised. So I took some time out, because you need to be in the right frame of mind in my role.\"\n\nMs Higginbottom is now back at work and has decided not to press charges.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in Bolton have spoken of their \"shock\" and \"disappointment\" at the new coronavirus restrictions.\n\nResidents have been barred from pubs, bars and cafes with only takeaways allowed.\n\nAll hospitality venues will close between 22:00 BST and 05:00 each day.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock blamed some pubs for spreading the virus in the Greater Manchester town which now has \"the highest case rate in the country.\"\n\n\"I have seen lots of drunk young people, hugging with no social distancing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is sad it has come to this and I'll lose a lot of money because of this.\n\n\"But if that's what we need to do, then that's what I'll do.\n\n\"We need to follow the rules to get rid of this terrible virus.\n\n\"Losing even one person is too much.\"\n\nThe landlady of the Ye Olde Man & Scythe pub, which dates back to 1251, spoke of her \"shock\" at the speed of the decision.\n\nLandlady Sonya Couperthwaite pulling a pint in one of the oldest pubs in Britain\n\nSonya Couperthwaite, 54, said: \"The way they shut us down, it's like a guillotine coming down on us.\n\n\"They could have given us 24 hours notice, so we could have let our customers know.\n\n\"I am really, really shocked.\"\n\nPeople have been queuing for coronavirus tests in Bolton\n\nLocal resident David Ellis, 72, said: \"It's a massive disappointment and shame for the town.\n\n\"A lot of people just are not taking this seriously and now it's come to this.\"\n\nThe Elephant & Castle pub will close during the tougher restrictions\n\nManager of The Elephant & Castle Steve Coyle said: \"We are disappointed but not surprised.\n\n\"We are not going to operate as a takeaway so we are just going to close - probably for a few weeks.\n\n\"We had all the measures in place including track and trace, social distancing and taking staff temperatures three times a day.\n\n\"But we could see we were swimming against the tide.\"\n\nHilary Martin, who owns Earthlings cafe, said: \"I'm in shock. I've only just heard.\n\n\"I don't know whether we are going to stay open as a takeaway or what this will mean for us.\n\n\"But this is the last thing we needed after all the hits we've taken in the last few months.\"\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 former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wildfires rage across thousands of acres in California\n\nWildfires have burned through a record number of acres in California this year as firefighters continue to battle several large blazes across the state.\n\nThe state's department of forestry and fire protection, Cal Fire, says more than two million acres have burned, more than the size of Delaware.\n\nOne fire, El Dorado, which has spread over 7,000 acres, was started by a gender reveal party, officials say.\n\nLos Angeles County reported its highest ever temperature of 49.4C (121F) on Sunday. Although temperatures are expected to drop from Tuesday onwards it may bring strong winds which could fan the flames, the National Weather Service warns.\n\nMore than 14,000 firefighters continue to battle 24 fires across the state, Cal Fire said.\n\nThe largest blaze, known as the Creek Fire, has burned more than 78,000 acres since it broke out in the Sierra Mountains on Friday, and the authorities said none of it had been contained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One blaze, dubbed the Creek Fire, has swept across thousands of acres in the Sierra National Forest\n\nThe fire has burned at least two dozen dwellings in the town of Big Creek, the Los Angeles Times reports. More than 200 hikers had to be airlifted out of the popular Mammoth Pool Reservoir after becoming trapped by flames on Saturday.\n\nValley Fire in San Diego County has burned through more than 10,000 acres, and prompted the evacuation of the remote town of Alpine; while Bobcat fire in Angeles National Forest has destroyed nearly 5,000 acres and saw the evacuation of the Mount Wilson Observatory.\n\nCal Fire blamed a \"smoke-generating pyrotechnic device, used during a gender reveal party\" for starting the The El Dorado fire in San Bernadino County. Gender reveal parties are celebrations announcing whether expecting parents are going to have a girl or a boy. In recent years, several large-scale parties have gone wrong, even resulting in the death of a woman in 2019.\n\nTens of thousands of acres are ablaze\n\nThe governor has declared a state of emergency in five counties\n\n\"Cal Fire reminds the public that with the dry conditions and critical fire weather, it doesn't take much to start a wildfire\", the tweet read.\n\nPeople who cause fires \"can be held financially and criminally responsible\", it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCalifornia has seen nearly 1,000 wildfires since 15 August, often started by lightning strikes.\n\nCal Fire said that, not only had two million acres already burned this year, but there had been eight fatalities and more than 3,300 structures destroyed. In 2018, 1.96 million acres were burned - the highest since Cal Fire began tracking numbers in 1987 - the Associated Press reports.\n\nCal Fire spokesman Lynne Tolmachoff told AP that it was alarming how early the fires had begun this year. \"It's a little unnerving because September and October are historically our worst months for fires. It's usually hot, and the fuels really dry out. And we see more wind events\".\n\nStates of emergency have been issued in five Californian counties - Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, San Bernardino and San Diego - and people have been urged not to hike, after one hiker died.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Malibu Search Rescue This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland forward Mason Greenwood says he \"only has himself to blame\" after being dropped over a breach of coronavirus quarantine guidelines in Iceland.\n\nManchester United's Greenwood, 18, and Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden, 20, were told to leave Gareth Southgate's squad on Monday.\n\nBoth players had made their senior international debuts in Saturday's 1-0 Nations League victory in Reykyavik.\n\nGreenwood said: \"I can only apologise for the embarrassment I have caused.\"\n\nHe added: \"In particular, I want to apologise to Gareth Southgate, for letting him down, when he had shown great trust in me.\"\n\n\"Playing for England was one of the proudest moments in my life and I only have myself to blame for this huge mistake.\n\n\"I promise my family, the fans, Manchester United and England that this is a lesson I will learn from.\"\n\nAccording to reports in Icelandic and other media, Foden and Greenwood allegedly met two women in a separate part of the hotel away from where the England team were staying.\n\nSouthgate described the players as \"naive\", adding: \"It's a very serious situation and we have treated it that way and have acted as quickly as we have been able to.\n\n\"We have dealt with it appropriately. I recognise their age but the whole world is dealing with this pandemic.\"\n\nIn a social media post on Monday, Foden said missing England's next match on Tuesday, against Denmark in the Nations League, \"hurts\" and he will \"learn a valuable lesson from this error in judgement\".\n\n\"I made a poor decision and and my behaviour didn't meet the standards expected of me,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I apologise to Gareth Southgate, to my England team-mates, to the staff, supporters and also to my club and my family.\"\n\nThe Football Association has launched a \"full investigation\" and apologised to the Football Association of Iceland, saying it is \"taking the appropriate steps\".\n\nA Reykjavik Metropolitan Police spokesperson told BBC Sport that Greenwood and Foden were both fined 250,000 Icelandic krona (£1,360).\n• None Behind the scenes of their title triumph\n• None Can you truly be one or the other?", "The legislation would give the UK government powers to spend cash on infrastructure in Wales\n\nPlans for a new law giving the UK government more powers to spend in Wales have been published.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill would transfer powers from the EU to the UK government to spend on areas such as economic development, infrastructure and sport.\n\nThe Welsh Government accused its UK counterpart of \"stealing powers\" from devolved governments.\n\nBut UK ministers said the law would allow them to replace existing EU funding programmes.\n\nFrom next year, powers which had been held by the EU will be transferred to the governments around the UK.\n\nThe UK government says the draft law is aimed at ensuring trade within the United Kingdom can continue \"unhindered\" under these new arrangements.\n\nMuch attention has been focused on the fact that the legislation could override key elements of UK ministers' Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nIn addition, the legislation will give ministers in Whitehall powers to spend money to replace EU funding programmes on areas that would otherwise be devolved to the Welsh Government.\n\nThe new spending powers include infrastructure, economic development, culture, sport, and support for educational, training and exchange opportunities.\n\nA senior UK government cabinet minister insisted the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19 and support businesses and communities right across the UK\".\n\nMichael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said: \"These new spending powers will mean that these decisions will now be made in the UK, focus on UK priorities and be accountable to the UK Parliament and people of the UK.\"\n\nMichael Gove said the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"vital\" that seamless trade continued between the four nations, and that \"investment must continue to flow unhindered\".\n\nBut the Welsh Government Minister for European Transition Jeremy Miles said the powers would \"sacrifice the future of the union by stealing powers from devolved administrations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the bill \"provides ammunition to those people who would favour the breakup of the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"I'm in favour of a UK Common Market and I'm in favour of a UK-wide state aid regime, but the proposals in the white paper are absolutely not the right way to go about it,\" he told Sky News.\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"This bill is the single biggest assault on devolution since its creation.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC later on Wednesday, Mr Hart said he found it \"pretty strange\" that Labour Welsh ministers and Plaid Cymru objected to UK government plans to spend money in Wales.\n\n\"Seems to me they're more anxious about protecting their little political clique in Cardiff than they are actually doing something about economies we tried to recover from Covid and move on from Brexit,\" he said.\n\nWales has been eligible for £375m a year from EU funds with the management shared between the EU and the Welsh Government.", "University students have been telling the BBC how they were only told that most of their courses in the coming term will be taught online after paying hundreds of pounds for accommodation far from home.\n\nSara is a third year student from Leeds, studying international development at King's College London, at a cost of £9,250 for the year. She says she was told her course would be completely online this term on 1 September - the day she began paying almost £3,000 for her accommodation.\n\nSara moved home to Leeds in March, at the start of lockdown, She says she has hardly had any lectures since February, when university staff went on strike.\n\nIn an email, seen by the BBC, she was then told \"all teaching for final year students\" will be online this term - including seminars and dissertation supervisions. In-person teaching in her second term \"will depend on the Covid-19 situation closer to the time\".\n\nIt's left her feeling short-changed. \"If I knew that we were going to be online for the first semester I wouldn't have got accommodation for this term at all,\" Sara says.\n\nShe says she's had little guidance about what campus life will look like and whether she will need to - or be able to - spend any time there.\n\n\"Do I need to be in London or not? Do I need to go in or not? There's no point in [just] sitting in my house,\" she says. \"I do think there should be some kind of reduction with everything online. You still get an education but they should reduce the amount you're paying.\"\n\nThe University of St Andrews also announced at the end of August that it was planning to phase in in-person teaching over the first seven weeks of term. It said only classes deemed to be \"essential\" would initially take place in-person.\n\nHowever, many students moving into halls for their first year had already signed their contracts by the time the announcement was made, while many second and third year students in private accommodation signed contracts months ago.\n\nLottie, a third-year student in philosophy and history of art, says the university had initially encouraged students to return to the town.\n\n\"In June or July, they said that all students should plan to come back to St Andrews at the start of term and it would be dual teaching - everything they could do in person they would do, with the rest online.\n\n\"They did say they would give people the option to study completely online from home, but when you applied to do that you needed to have a specific reason.\"\n\nRhiannon, another student at St Andrews studying international relations, is paying £525 a month for a room in a shared house.\n\n\"Our house has been empty since March. I would have stayed at home, and cancelled my rental contract. I actually tried to negotiate with my landlord in June because of the uncertainty and the landlord was completely inflexible.\"\n\nThe University of St Andrews said the first fortnight of term would have no in-person teaching, other than laboratory-based classes, classes in medicine and some practical classes. In-person teaching would then be phased in from week three to five, but would be limited to small group tutorials and seminars \"where the physical presence in a classroom is preferred to support the educational experience\".\n\nThe university currently plans to deliver \"all small group tutorials, seminars and classes smaller than 35 students in person\" from week seven of the term.\n\nIt blamed the sudden change on increased student numbers this year. \"The late changes to the way A-level and Higher exam results were calculated have obliged us to admit significantly more entrants than would otherwise have been the case,\" Principal Sally Mapstone said in a letter to staff and students.\n\n\"Our teaching arrangements are hugely important, but we are also focusing extremely closely on safety beyond the classroom, and how we support and ensure the safe behaviour of our student community in town,\" Mrs Mapstone added.\n\nKing's College London told the BBC it was \"prioritising the safety of our students and staff, by developing a flexible approach to the start of the new academic year\".\n\n\"Where possible, and it is safe to do so, we are planning for some small group teaching to take place on campus,\" the university said.\n\nStudents at several other universities have also contacted the BBC with similar stories. One said she only found out her course had moved online four days after her enrolment.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 137 universities in the UK, said it expected the vast majority of universities to retain some in-person teaching. \"A recent survey by UUK suggested that 97% of respondents are planning some in-person teaching for the new academic year in line with government and public health guidance.\n\n\"In addition, the overwhelming majority are providing some in-person social activities and support and wellbeing. Most students will experience a blended offer of online and in-person underpinned by a safety first approach,\" it said.\n\nBut the National Union of Students called on universities to be \"honest and clear about the practicality of studies resuming\" and to \"provide support with housing, finances, digital learning, support services and transport if circumstances change\".\n\nNUS president Larissa Kennedy said government officials needed to offer a \"bigger package of financial support for student renters - many of whom have struggled to pay rent and fallen into arrears.\"", "Shoppers in Caerphilly, which is subject to a local lockdown\n\nExpect to see the prime minister back at the lectern, possibly with one of his top scientific advisers, once again, urging the population to take care.\n\nIt won't mark the beginning of another national lockdown. Nor will it be the start of a new draconian regime.\n\nBut do expect to hear the prime minister emphasising the need for the public to follow the existing rules - being careful about social contact with people, isolating if ill, and (what seemed in the early days almost quaint advice in the face of a distant threat), to wash your hands.\n\nAnd there will be a reduction in the numbers of people who are allowed to gather in groups indoors and outdoors in England from 30 down to six.\n\nThe reason for what may seem like a change of tone from the PM? Simple, the government is worried.\n\nIn the last four or five days there has been a significant rise in the number of coronavirus cases. It's not a gradual gentle drift upwards, but a sharp and obvious spike. The rate of positive tests is going up particularly among the 17-21s, but noticeable too among people in their 40s.\n\nAnd rather than appearing to be only a problem in particular areas, the increase is relatively consistent across the country - 79 local authorities in England, for example, reported weekly case rates above 20 per 100,000.\n\nThose factors mean there is deep concern in Number 10 that the statistics could be flagging the beginning of a generalised second wave of the pandemic.\n\nIt's important to say, the death rate is still very low. This could be the beginnings of a surge that has very different outcomes to the last terrible toll.\n\nBut in the early stages of the pandemic, the government had precious little information about what was going on. Since the early spring, a lot of effort has gone across government to gathering data to monitor how the disease is spreading. An early warning system was created, and it is flashing red.\n\nThere is a huge amount of guesswork about why the increase might be occurring, but there is no settled view on the specific factors. There is some evidence that some people who test positive are not always isolating.\n\nAnd as we can all see in daily life, there is a gradual but noticeable increase in people being out and about. And simply, more contacts mean more risk of spread of the disease.\n\nSo as the health secretary has done in recent days, the government is likely on Wednesday to focus on trying to choke off the rise in cases.\n\nThe recent zeal to get as many people as possible back to work may slightly fade. But millions of people in the last couple of months have had a taste of life returning to normal.\n\nPersuading people again to comply fastidiously to the rules won't be an easy task.", "EasyJet says it is expecting to fly fewer passengers because consumer confidence has been hit by UK coronavirus quarantine measures.\n\nThe airline expanded its schedule to 40% of its normal capacity last month, but now says it expects that to fall.\n\n\"Customer confidence to make travel plans has been negatively affected\" by \"constantly evolving government restrictions\", EasyJet said.\n\n\"We know our customers are as frustrated as we are,\" it added.\n\nOn Monday, the government added seven Greek islands to the quarantine list which means people return to England from these locations will have to isolate for 14 days.\n\nJohan Lundgren, the boss of EasyJet, told the BBC on Monday that the latest change to the quarantine rules - which means islands can be treated differently from their mainland countries if infection rates differ - was \"too little, too late\", as the peak of the summer holiday season had passed.\n\n\"This is something we have argued for a long time - it should not have been a blanket instrument when it comes to quarantine. It should be based on risk and on a much more targeted approach,\" he said.\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\nIn the airline's latest statement, Mr Lundgren said: \"Following the imposition of additional quarantine restrictions to seven Greek islands and the continued uncertainty this brings for customers, demand is now likely to be further impacted and therefore lower than previously anticipated,\"\n\n\"We now expect to fly slightly less than 40% of our planned schedule over the current quarter.\"\n\nThe airline said this would be achieved by \"continued schedule thinning as we continue to focus on profitable flying\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nEasyJet, like other airlines, has been hit hard by lockdowns and travel restrictions around the world, with many announcing job cuts.\n\nIt has previously said it will cut up to 30% of its workforce - about 4,500 jobs - as it struggles with the effects of the pandemic.\n\nEasyJet said that in view of \"the continued level of uncertainty\", it would not be maintaining any forward-looking financial guidance for this financial year or the next.\n\n\"We know our customers are as frustrated as we are with the unpredictable travel and quarantine restrictions,\" said Mr Lundgren.\n\n\"We called on the government to opt for a targeted, regionalised and more predictable and structured system of quarantine many weeks ago so customers could make travel plans with confidence.\"\n\nHe added that it was difficult to overstate the impact that \"the pandemic and associated government policies\" had had on the whole industry.\n\nMr Lundgren called on the government to provide \"sector-specific support for aviation\", with a package of measures including the removal of Air Passenger Duty for at least 12 months.", "The rise in coronavirus cases across the UK has been laid firmly at the door of young people. Around half of new cases in recent weeks have been diagnosed in people in their 20s and 30s.\n\nSignificant numbers of cases have also been identified in people in their 40s and 50s, as well as teenagers.\n\nThat compares to the early days when most of the confirmed cases were in the older age groups.\n\nBut that was because the UK was largely only testing in hospitals. Younger adults are very unlikely to be sick enough to need hospital treatment, so they hardly showed up in the official figures.\n\nIf you look at results from antibody testing, to see if they had been exposed to the virus, the younger age groups were just as likely as older groups - if not more - to have been exposed.\n\nSo what is happening now appears to be simply a case of the virus re-establishing itself in a group that is the least at risk of serious complications, hence there are no signs of a significant increase in hospitalisations.", "More than 1.1 million people are now affected by tougher restrictions on home visits after they were extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland.\n\nThe measures came into force in East Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire at midnight after a rise in cases.\n\nThe rules had already been reimposed in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire last week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said acting quickly now could \"stem the tide of transmission\" in the area.\n\nBut she has warned that there is a \"definite trend\" of rising case numbers across Scotland.\n\nMeasures were reimposed in parts of the greater Glasgow area last week in response to a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nPeople are being told not to host people from other households inside their own homes, or visit another person's home.\n\nMeetings in pubs and restaurants and outdoor areas are still permitted - although the Scottish government said the hospitality sector would be monitored in the coming days to see whether restrictions should be extended.\n\nA further 78 positive cases were reported in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The hope is that we will stem the tide\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"too early\" to say whether the fresh lockdown had had any effect on cases.\n\nThe measures are targeted at household meetings, with Ms Sturgeon saying it was \"still the view of public health teams that the significant factor driving transmission is people meeting up in their own homes\".\n\nShe said local authorities in the area would \"pay close attention to hospitality\" and would encourage people to act responsibly while using bars and restaurants.\n\nThe widened restrictions - which also mean there should only be \"essential\" visits to people in hospitals and care homes - will be reviewed in a week's time.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the measures are not yet being extended to Lanarkshire or Inverclyde - noting that levels of infection were \"significantly lower\" in Inverclyde.\n\nThe restrictions will now apply to apply to 179,000 people living in Renfrewshire and 108,000 in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe city of Glasgow has a population of 633,120, while there are 95,530 people in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"regrettable we are in this position\", but that the measures banning household visits were \"considered proportionate but also the most effective\".\n\nShe added: \"If we act quickly and preventatively now, we can stem the tide of transmission and avoid having other restrictions put in place.\"\n\nThe first minister had earlier warned that a continuing rise in Covid-19 cases in Scotland could see her government \"put the brakes\" on the planned easing of some restrictions.\n\nAn average of 152 positive tests have been recorded each day over the past week - compared to 14 per day six weeks ago.\n\nThe number of hospital admissions and deaths has not risen as sharply, although Ms Sturgeon warned that \"this may just be a matter of time\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An air ambulance was called to the scene\n\nA 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition after he was shot on the way to school.\n\nOfficers were called just after 08:40 BST to the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, where a person was later seen receiving medical treatment.\n\nKesgrave High School said it had been told the incident involved one of its Year 11 students. The victim, who was shot once, was flown to hospital.\n\nSuffolk Police have arrested a boy, 15, in connection with the shooting.\n\nThe suspect, who is said to be from the Woodbridge area, was arrested by armed police on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police cordons remain in place around the Grange Farm estate\n\nAn Essex and Herts Air Ambulance landed on an area of grass and took off just before 10:00.\n\nPolice said they were treating the shooting \"as an isolated incident\" and do \"not believe there is any wider threat to the local community\". The Suffolk force said it was thought a single shot was fired in the incident.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rob Jones said: \"Following this serious incident our priority is to keep everyone safe.\"\n\n\"There will be more police officers on patrol and to provide reassurance in the area and I would ask for anyone with information about this incident to come forward,\" he added.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson told the House of Commons: \"I think we're all shocked and saddened to learn about the incident in which a young person was seriously hurt on their way to school in Suffolk today.\n\n\"Our thoughts are very much with the young person, their family and the whole school community at this very difficult time.\"\n\nEyewitness Andy Watts told the BBC he was out walking his dog when he heard \"a gunshot and then I heard a great big scream\".\n\n\"It sounded like scaffolding falling down originally because it was a big, big crash,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw them working on the young lad over on the green; he was over there for quite a while while they were attending to him, a lot of ambulance staff and paramedics working on him.\"\n\nPhil Bennett, 38, said his father lived near the scene in Kesgrave and heard a gunshot.\n\nMr Bennett said he drove to check on his parents at their home in Lyon Close after seeing vague details of the incident on Facebook and becoming concerned.\n\n\"My dad heard a gunshot,\" he said. \"He's a retired paramedic - he's heard a lot of gunshots in his time, so he stayed indoors.\n\n\"The next thing he knew there were police piling in, then it's a scene of crime.\n\n\"It's hard to believe this has happened 100 metres from my mum's front door, that someone's been shot. It's terrible what's going on.\"\n\nKesgrave is a small town on the edge of Ipswich that has grown rapidly over the past 20 years.\n\nIt has two primary schools and a high school and is packed with families. I've been to the scene of the shooting, in the heart of the town's Grange Farm estate, and the sense of shock about what's happened is palpable.\n\nThis is a tight-knit community where many people know and look out for each other. The police have reassured people that this is an \"isolated incident\" but the feeling of concern remains.\n\nKesgrave High, which said the pupil was on his way to school at the time of the incident, said in a statement: \"Students in school are safe and we are managing the situation in constant, close communication with the police.\"\n\nIt is understood Monday was the first day back at school for its Year 11 pupils following the coronavirus lockdown and the summer holiday.\n\nFriends Walk and Through Jollys have been closed off and there is a partial closure in Ropes Drive. Police have urged the public to avoid these areas.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twenty members of staff at Craigavon Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19\n\nThe chief executive of the Southern Health Trust has apologised following the death of a fourth haematology patient at Craigavon Area Hospital who had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nShane Devlin said he and the trust were \"truly sorry for what has happened\".\n\nFollowing the death on Monday, Health Minister Robin Swann announced a level three Serious Adverse Incident (SAI) investigation.\n\nSeven patients on the Haematology ward remain \"very unwell\".\n\nFourteen patients on the the ward were confirmed to have the virus in a cluster identified last week, while another patient on Ward 3 South also tested positive.\n\nTwenty one members of staff, across the two wards, tested positive for Covid-19 and a further 56 are also self-isolating because of potential contact with the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health revealed on Tuesday there had been a further two deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoth were men living in the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon area. One of them was over 80 years of age and the other was aged between 60 to 79.\n\nThe death toll recorded by the department now stands at 567.\n\nA further 40 positive cases of Covid-19 have been recorded, bringing the total to 7,908.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, health authorities reported one further coronavirus-related death and 307 new cases of Covid-19 in their latest daily figures.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths in the Republic to 1,778 and the total of confirmed cases to 30,080.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann says questions must be answered about the outbreaks at Craigavon Hospital\n\nThe chief executive of the Southern Trust said the organisation would co-operate fully with the SAI review which has been announced.\n\nMr Devlin told Good Morning Ulster the trust \"will be investigating thoroughly to understand what has happened, to make sure we can learn, because we need to learn\".\n\nHe said he was confident the outbreaks at Craigavon Area Hospital are now \"under control\".\n\n\"There is still a considerable human impact and we need to work with families to get through that,\" he added.\n\nHe said the important thing was to try and pin-point how the virus had entered the hospital wards in the first place.\n\nSDLP MLA for Newry and Armagh Justin McNulty said it has been \"devastatingly traumatic for the families involved\".\n\nHe has spoken to some of those who have lost family members and told Good Morning Ulster they \"want answers and they deserve answers\".\n\n\"Their loved ones went into hospital Covid-free and the virus has been transmitted to them inside the ward,\" he said.\n\n\"They are really angry about that and feel that their loved ones should still be with them.\"\n\nMr McNulty described a meeting with Mr Devlin to discuss the deaths as \"frank and blunt\".\n\nHe said he had relayed some concerns raised by the families of those who died about \"some inconsistencies that didn't sit well with them\".\n\nThe SDLP MLA said he was hopeful the independent inquiry would get to the bottom of what caused the outbreak, and that lessons will be learned.\n\n\"This ward, the patients are immuno-compromised. You would hope there would have been a ring of steel around the ward, but sadly that wasn't the case.\n\n\"We might never get an explanation for how the virus got into the ward, but hopefully the investigation will unearth that.\"", "The posters put up in Skin Kerr salon in Bootle have since been taken down\n\nA beauty salon that banned coronavirus talk and said Covid-19 does not exist is being investigated by police.\n\nSkin Kerr salon in Bootle put posters in its window and posted online stating masks weren't being worn by staff as \"you can't catch what doesn't exist\".\n\nMerseyside Police said officers would visit the salon on Aintree Road to \"remind\" the owner and staff of their responsibilities around Covid-19.\n\nThe shop window posters and social media posts have now been taken down.\n\nSefton Council said its environmental health team will also visit and the owners are due to meet with the council on Wednesday.\n\nCabinet member Councillor Paulette Lappin said the salon's stance was \"disappointing\".\n\n\"If the situation cannot be resolved satisfactorily during this meeting, and we are not satisfied that measures to keep customers and staff safe are in place, we will consider taking formal enforcement action,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement Sefton Council said coronavirus had been the cause of death for over 1,000 people in Merseyside hospitals and reminded local businesses and their customers of the importance of following the Government's COVID-19 guidance.\n\nSefton Community Policing Superintendent Graeme Robson said: \"My officers will be visiting the salon to speak to the staff and manager and reminding them of their continued responsibilities around Covid-19 and the safety and wellbeing of their staff and customers.\n\n\"We continue to remind the public and our local businesses that they should be continuing to follow the current Government guidance around social distancing, face coverings and test and trace.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to contact Skin Kerr for a response.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The existing Velindre Cancer Centre is based in Whitchurch - and the new facility would be close to this site\n\nLeading doctors and specialists have expressed \"deep concern\" about plans for a new cancer centre and have called for an independent review.\n\nFifty-seven cancer experts said they have concerns for patient safety at the new Velindre centre in Cardiff, which is due to open in 2022.\n\nIn a letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething they said the £180m centre would not be fit for purpose.\n\nThe group of medical professionals said modern cancer treatments needed a range of services onsite, including surgery and intensive care.\n\nThey also argued the new centre should be located alongside an existing hospital and called for clarity on how the original decision to build a new stand-alone centre near the existing Velindre facility, in Whitchurch, was reached.\n\nThe letter, signed by surgeons, radiologists, GPs, anaesthetists and palliative care specialists, was also sent to Wales' chief medical officer, the local member of the Senedd Julie Morgan and the chief executive of the Welsh NHS.\n\nArtist's impression of the new Velindre Cancer Centre in Whitchurch\n\nThe letter said: \"We are committed to transforming cancer care for patients in south east Wales and believe there is an exceptional opportunity to get this right.\"\n\nIt adds the \"limitation of the proposed approach has already been apparent through review of other stand-alone cancer centres\", including Mount Vernon in Middlesex.\n\nSteve Ham, chief executive of Velindre University NHS Trust, said: \"We are continuing to work with our patients, clinicians and health board partners to further strengthen the model to ensure it is always fit for purpose. This will include independent external advice.\"\n\nThe trust in a statement added: \"We, like all our colleagues across the south east Wales area, have the interests of our patients at the heart of everything we do.\n\n\"We believe that the future model will improve the quality and safety of care; enhance patient experience; and improve the equity of access to treatment and research.\"\n\nOpposition to the new centre has largely centred on environmental concerns until now, with some people not happy about plans to build it at a local beauty spot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People attended a socially distanced protest on the green space earmarked for a new cancer hospital.\n\nThere have been demonstrations and an online petition to try and save the Northern Meadows, an area of grassland and woods in the Whitchurch area of the city.\n\nBut there are also many supporters of the scheme.\n\nThe Velindre Trust has thousands of backers on its own online platforms and has said 60% of the land would continue to be available to the local community.\n\nThe trust added: \"We are committed to securing a future for the fields as a community asset.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said that the minister had responded to the letter confirming that the Velindre trust would seek independent advice on the clinical model for the new cancer hospital.\n\n\"The chief medical officer is also discussing the management of acutely unwell cancer patients with health board medical directors to ensure the current model of delivery is fit for purpose,\" said a spokesperson.", "Harry Harvey, an experienced walker, has now been reunited with family and friends\n\nAn 80-year-old hiker who went missing for three days in the Yorkshire Dales has spoken at a press conference arranged in a bid to track him down.\n\nHarry Harvey spent three nights wild camping after becoming separated from a walking group between Gunnerside and Tan Hill, North Yorkshire, on Saturday.\n\nA major search took place including police, the RAF and rescue dogs.\n\nHe was spotted by a wildlife photographer on Tuesday morning, who saw him waving at her near Keld.\n\nMr Harvey was about six miles (10km) from where he was last seen.\n\nHe was then taken by Land Rover to the nearby Tan Hill Inn, where he was reunited with family and friends at the press conference.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Mr Harvey was reunited with family at the Tan Hill Inn\n\nSpeaking to journalists Mr Harvey, from Tynemouth in Tyne and Wear, said: \"I just got separated by getting caught in a really heavy hailstorm, a howling gale of wind.\n\n\"By the time I got my kit on it was getting really dark, so I missed what I would say was a turning. I had a plan B straight away, find somewhere safe to camp, put my tent up, keep warm, and that was it.\n\n\"The biggest problem I had was getting to Tynemouth from Keld, because I only had £21.05 in my pocket.\"\n\nMr Harvey said he had \"three good nights wild camping\".\n\n\"The place where we got separated was absolutely desolate, there was no chance of putting a tent up that's for sure, so I had to find somewhere safe, which is what I did.\"\n\nMr Harvey said he was never worried as he had \"all the kit and all the training\", adding he would rather not have the attention which he said was \"not my scene at all\".\n\nThe experienced hiker, who was reported missing on Sunday afternoon, said he could see search teams but did not realise they were looking for him.\n\nMr Harvey went missing in an area between Gunnerside Gill (pictured) and Tan Hill\n\nHis family said the past three days had been \"torture\" and they could not put the worry they had into words.\n\n\"We know he is experienced, but not three nights, that's taking it a little bit to the extreme,\" they said.\n\nInsp Mark Gee, from North Yorkshire Police, said: \"This is fantastic news. I want to thank all the search volunteers for their time, as well as gamekeepers, estate owners, farmers and local residents for their help and understanding.\n\n\"Thanks also to the Tan Hill, who looked after the volunteers and Mr Harvey's family.\"\n\nAnnette Pyrah, the photographer who found him, said she cried when she realised it was Mr Harvey.\n\n\"I was out taking photographs of grouse and instead of grouse I found Harry,\" she said.\n\n\"I had passed Tan Hill with a very heavy heart because I knew he hadn't been found and I thought after three days he's not going to be found. It was quite upsetting to see the police and sniffer dogs.\n\n\"I just looked up at the fell and this gentleman waved at me. I got out of my car and I said, 'Are you Harry? Have you been missing for three days?' And he said yes. And I started crying.\"\n\nMs Pyrah said he had a nasty bump on the head where he had fallen into a stream, but apart from that he was fit and well.\n\n\"I got him some help for his head and he rang his wife, which was the main thing,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jacob Billington was out with friends when he was stabbed on Sunday\n\nA 23-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre has been named as Jacob Billington.\n\nMr Billington was attacked in Irving Street in the early hours of Sunday while he was out with old school friends, police said.\n\nSeven other people were injured at four locations over a period of 90 minutes.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.\n\nWest Midlands Police said Mr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was on a school reunion night out with friends.\n\nOne of the group, also 23, was seriously injured and remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nIn a statement Mr Billington's family said: \"Jacob was the light of our life and we have been devastated by his loss.\n\n\"He was a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met.\n\n\"He lit up every room with his boundless energy and witty humour and the loss of such a special person will be felt by all who knew him for years to come.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice were first called out just after 00:30 BST on Sunday at Constitution Hill, where a man sustained a superficial injury.\n\nAbout 20 minutes later they were sent to Livery Street, near Snow Hill railway station, where they found a 30-year-old man with critical injuries and a woman who was also hurt.\n\nAt 01:50, officers were despatched to Irving Street, where Mr Billington was found with fatal injuries and his friend seriously hurt.\n\nAbout 10 minutes later, police were called to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, to find a 22-year-old woman had been critically injured and two men less badly hurt.\n\nPolice initially reported the critically injured man's age as 19 and the critically injured woman's as 32.\n\nThe attacks happened at four locations across Birmingham city centre\n\nThe suspect was arrested at an address in the Selly Oak area of the city at about 04:00 on Monday and remains in custody.\n\nThree other people, two men and a woman, from the same property were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Jacob's family and friends after receiving such shocking news, particularly for those who were sharing their night out with him.\n\n\"It's utterly shocking that a friends' reunion should end so brutally.\n\n\"Equally the families of the other victims have been left devastated by the events of Sunday morning and we are working hard to discover what led to the apparently random attacks.\"\n\nQuestions have been raised about how the suspect was able to move around the city for 90 minutes.\n\nResponding to this, Chief Constable Dave Thompson said: \"Engaging in an ill-informed critique of this investigation, particularly at such an early stage, is both unhelpful and simply makes the job of the police harder.\"\n\nMr Thompson described the knife attacks as \"extraordinary\", adding: \"These are events quite unlike anything I have seen on our streets before.\"\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.", "Fortnite and Apple have been locked in legal battle since August\n\nApple has fired back against claims by the maker of the Fortnite game that its control of the App Store gives it a monopoly.\n\nIn a response to the August lawsuit filed by Epic Games, Apple called those arguments \"self-righteous\" and \"self-interested\".\n\nIt denied that its 30% commission was anti-competitive and said the fight was \"a basic disagreement over money\".\n\nApple also said Epic Games had violated its contract and asked for damages.\n\nThe filing is the latest in a legal battle that started last month, after Fortnite offered a discount on its virtual currency for purchases made outside of the app, from which Apple receives a 30% cut.\n\nIn response, Apple blocked Epic's ability to distribute updates or new apps through the App Store, and Epic sued, alleging that Apple's App Store practices violate antitrust laws.\n\nThe court allowed Apple's ban on updates to continue as the case plays out, but the existing version of Fortnite still works, as does Epic's payment system.\n\nApple had said it would allow Fortnite back into the store if Epic removed the direct payment feature to comply with its developer agreement.\n\nBut Epic has refused, saying complying with Apple's request would be \"to collude with Apple to maintain their monopoly over in-app payments on iOS.\"\n\nIn its filing, Apple said Epic has benefited from Apple's promotion and developer tools, earning more than $600m (£462m) through the App Store.\n\nApple accused the firm, which it noted is backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, of seeking a special deal before ultimately breaching its contract with the update.\n\n\"Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store,\" it said in the filing.\n\nThe legal battle between the two companies comes as Apple faces increased scrutiny of its practices running the App Store.\n\nAt a hearing in Washington over the summer, politicians also raised concerns that Apple's control of the app store hurt competition.\n\nThe European Union is also investigating whether Apple's App Store practices violate competition rules.\n\nApple has denied those claims, arguing that its App Store has made it easier and cheaper for developers to distribute products.", "Hundreds were injured in the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert\n\nOnly one paramedic was at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing for the first 40 minutes after the explosion, an inquiry into the attack was told.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb as 14,000 fans left the arena in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry heard the sole paramedic had arrived in the arena foyer 18 minutes after the bomb went off.\n\nBut at least eight ambulances had arrived nearby after 40 minutes.\n\nLead counsel Paul Greaney QC said the public inquiry would have to consider whether lives were lost as a result of a failure to co-ordinate the response of emergency services.\n\nWithin 10 minutes of the bomb exploding at 22:31 BST, 12 British Transport Police (BTP) officers had run into the arena foyer carrying first aid.\n\nCasualties were carried out on makeshift stretchers and only one actual stretcher was used on the night of the attack.\n\nThe final person was evacuated from the City Room - where the bombing happened - at 23:40 on a stretcher \"made of cardboard and a crowd control barrier\".\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nThe inquiry also heard how John Atkinson, who was killed in the bombing, was only evacuated from the scene 46 minutes after the blast on a makeshift stretcher to a triage area nearby.\n\nHe remained there for another 24 minutes but chest compressions were only started on him one hour and 15 minutes after he was first injured in the blast.\n\n\"The issue of John Atkinson's survivability is, as we shall explore, a significant issue for the inquiry to consider,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nThe inquiry was told BTP had primary responsibility for policing in the arena foyer and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was not aware \"at an organisational level\" of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\n\"On the face of it that may seem surprising,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nHe said BTP had \"primacy\" in this area due to the proximity of Victoria Station and the inquiry must consider whether that affected preparedness for any terror attack.\n\nThe inquiry will, among other things, look at the emergency response to the attack\n\n\"There is a legitimate question about whether it was appropriate that BTP, who specialise in the railways, should take the lead,\" he added.\n\nFollowing the blast, BTP declared a major incident at 22:39 but they did not communicate this to GMP and there was no attempt to integrate communications at the arena.\n\nThe inquiry heard the BTP officer, who thought he was acting as operational commander, was in Blackpool when the bomb went off.\n\nHe took a taxi to Manchester but \"by the time he arrived the need for an immediate response had long since passed\".\n\nMr Greaney said it appeared \"no one acted as a BTP operational commander for the policing response to the bombing\".\n\nGMP did not declare a major incident until 01:00 on 23 May, the inquiry heard.\n\nThe second day of the hearing was told there had been multi-agency exercises rehearsing for a terror attack, including one in 2016 for an incident at the Trafford Centre.\n\nMr Greaney said \"experts have expressed serious concerns about whether the necessary lessons were learned from it\".\n\nThe hearings will take place in a room specially converted from two courtrooms at Manchester Magistrates' Court\n\nAnother exercise, held in July 2016, rehearsed for an attack in the City Room at the arena - the exact scene of the attack in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is seeking to establish whether BTP took part in that exercise.\n\nThe first fire engine, which had stretchers, arrived at Manchester Arena two hours and six minutes after the explosion.\n\n\"An important issue for the inquiry to investigate will be how that came to pass and whether it made any difference,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nBut he told the inquiry it was \"important we acknowledge the pressure that those who responded were under\".\n\n\"The inquiry process must not be used to vilify those who did their best on the night but made mistakes and could have done better,\" he added.\n\nCCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nBTP officer Jessica Bullough, who was first to enter the foyer, described the scene of the attack as like a \"war zone\".\n\nTwo minutes after the explosion, PC Bullough radioed through, saying \"it's definitely a bomb - people are injured - at least 20 casualties\".\n\nShe then \"made the first of a number of requests for ambulances\".\n\nThe inquiry was told that 24 minutes later another officer radioed to control, saying \"you're going to hate me - where's our ambulances please?\".\n\nControl replied, saying \"we don't know. We're calling them again\".\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nHe was jailed for at least 55 years on 20 August for the 22 murders.\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\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.", "Police remain at the scene in Grange Farm, Kesgrave\n\nA \"long-barrelled gun\" has been recovered by police investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old boy on his way to school.\n\nThe victim was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on Monday.\n\nThe Year 11 Kesgrave High School pupil is in a critical condition and a 15-year-old boy is under arrest.\n\nSupt Kerry Cutler said police were not looking for anyone else in connection with the shooting.\n\nShe said: \"We have arrested an individual that we believe is involved in the incident and we also recovered a weapon.\"\n\nThe suspect, who is said to be from the Woodbridge area, was arrested by armed police on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nDetectives have been granted a superintendent's extension to detain him for questioning for an additional 12 hours.\n\nA police cordon is in place at Friends Walk\n\nSupt Kerry Cutler said police were not looking for anyone else in connection with the shooting\n\nSuffolk Police said the two boys were known to each other and there was nothing to suggest the shooting was linked to organised criminality.\n\nThe force said a boy was seen getting into a car following the attack.\n\nOfficers added that a car had been seized and \"a long-barrelled firearm was recovered from inside it\".\n\nA temporary police station has been set up in Kesgrave and Supt Cutler said there was a large police presence, including officers from other forces.\n\nPolice said a large police presence would remain in the area\n\nSupt Cutler said: \"Everybody is shocked, Kesgrave is on the outskirts of Ipswich, it is almost a semi-rural area, it's very much a residential area, this is not something we've seen in that area before and people will be impacted by it.\n\n\"The investigation goes on and we're still appealing for anybody who saw anything or has any information to come forward.\"\n\nSuffolk Police said it was thought a single shot was fired on Friends Walk, off Through Jollys.\n\nFriends Walk remains closed off as police searches continue. Through Jollys and Ropes Drive reopened on Monday evening.\n\nThe injured boy was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.\n\nA neighbour, who did not want to be named, said the victim's parents tended to the boy after he had been shot.\n\n\"They were very distraught, nothing like this ever happens in the estate,\" he said.\n\nFormer paramedic Richard Bennett, who lives near the scene, said he heard the gunshot and thought \"what on earth was going on\".\n\n\"As the day went on the tragedy unfolded, a 15-year-old boy had been shot, it's unbelievable,\" he said.\n\nEllie, whose brother is in the same year as the victim at Kesgrave High, said local people were in \"disbelief\".\n\nShe said: \"I've grown up here and went to Kesgrave High and I had an absolutely blissful experience there, and this area in Kesgrave it's thought of as such a safe place, there's children everywhere, there's families everywhere, it's not somewhere you'd ever think this would happen.\"\n• None Pupil shot on way to school in critical condition\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "HMRC is now reviewing 27,000 \"high risk\" cases where abuse or fraud is suspected\n\nUp to £3.5bn in Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme payments may have been claimed fraudulently or paid out in error, the government has said.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs told MPs on the Public Accounts Committee it estimates that 5-10% of furlough cash has been wrongly awarded.\n\nLatest data shows the programme has cost the government £35.4bn so far.\n\nThe scheme has paid 80% of the wages of workers placed on leave since March, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nSpeaking to MPs on Monday, HMRC's permanent secretary, Jim Harra, said: \"We have made an assumption for the purposes of our planning that the error and fraud rate in this scheme could be between 5% and 10%.\n\n\"That will range from deliberate fraud through to error.\"\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee estimates that a total of £30bn in tax was lost in 2019 due to taxpayer error and fraud.\n\nBoth HM Treasury and HMRC were ordered to appear in front of MPs to explain how they were intending to reduce the problem.\n\n\"What we have said in our risk assessment is we are not going to set out to try to find employers who have made legitimate mistakes in compiling their claims, because this is obviously something new that everybody had to get to grips with in a very difficult time,\" said Mr Harra.\n\n\"Although we will expect employers to check their claims and repay any excess amount, what we will be focusing on is tackling abuse and fraud.\"\n\nSo far, 8,000 calls have been received to HMRC's fraud telephone hotline. HMRC is now looking into 27,000 \"high risk\" cases where they believe a serious error has been made in the amount an employer has claimed, he added.\n\nMr Harra advised that any employee who feels that their employer may have been fraudulently claiming furlough money can report it to HMRC by filling in a form on its website.\n\n\"While we can't get involved in any relationship between the employee and employer, we can certainly reclaim any grant that the employer is not entitled to, which includes grants they have not passed on in wages to their employees.\"\n\nThis is the first time that HMRC has spoken publicly about potential fraud affecting the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\nSwetha Ramachandran, investment manager at GAM Investments, told the BBC: \"The speed with which they wanted to expedite this programme in order to ensure that this was available to employers, to minimise the damage that could have been caused, means there was always a likelihood that this was going to happen.\n\n\"So I don't think it's that surprising.\"\n\nShe said other government programmes, such as the Bounce Back Loans scheme or the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans scheme, might suffer from similar problems.\n\n\"That won't probably emerge for a few months,\" she added.\n\nHMRC's Jim Harra: \"We will be focusing on is tackling abuse and fraud.\"\n\nIn July, centre-right think tank Policy Exchange warned that fraud and error could cost the government between £1.3bn and £7.9bn.\n\nThe think tank said the government's financial rescue scheme were vulnerable to scams because of the size of the packages and the speed at which measures were rushed through to save people and businesses from economic ruin.\n\nThe calculation is based on expected fraud rates for government expenditure from the Cabinet Office and the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nThe report said the true value lost to fraud may be closer to the higher end of the estimate \"due to the higher than usual levels of fraud that accompany disaster management\".\n\nIt said: \"This is a serious squandering of public finances and properly resourced post event assurance will be required to reassure the public that every possible step has been taken to reduce this level of fraud.\"\n\nAt the time, a government spokesman said it was committed to \"extensive post payment reviews of stimulus and support payments, to find fraud and recover money for the taxpayer\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We will restrict all hospitality to takeaways only\"\n\nTighter coronavirus restrictions have been introduced in Bolton, including only allowing takeaways and curtailing nightlife, after a rise in cases.\n\nAll hospitality venues will be limited to takeaway and must be closed to customers between 22:00 BST and 05:00 each day.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the town in Greater Manchester had \"the highest case rate in the country.\"\n\nA further 2,460 new coronavirus cases were reported across the UK on Tuesday.\n\nOverall, there have been 8,396 new cases reported since Sunday.\n\nA further 32 deaths within 28 days of a positive test across all settings were recorded on Tuesday - with the average number of daily deaths over the past week now around 11.\n\nMinisters and government advisers expressed concern over a \"sharp rise\" in cases and a \"heartfelt\" apology was issued following shortages in England's testing system.\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons on Tuesday: \"Unfortunately, after improving for several weeks, we've seen a very significant rise in cases in Bolton.\n\n\"The rise in cases in Bolton is partly due to socialising by people in their 20s and 30s. We know this from contact tracing.\n\n\"And through our contact tracing system we've identified a number of pubs at which the virus has spread significantly.\"\n\nHe said there were 120 cases per 100,000 in Bolton, which had already been under stricter lockdown measures.\n\nThe new measures, which came into force as Mr Hancock addressed the Commons, include:\n\nSchools in Bolton will continue to welcome pupils as usual, Bolton Council said.\n\nCouncil leader Cllr David Greenhalgh said: \"This is not something we want to do, but it is clear the virus is currently moving round the borough uncontrolled and so we need to halt the transmission rate.\"\n\nMuhammad Memon, 37, who owns Kids World clothing shop in Bolton town centre, said he had real fears about keeping his business afloat in light of the new restrictions.\n\n\"Town is empty. Four big retailers have shut down near me since lockdown,\" he said. \"There is no footfall.\"\n\n\"I am praying for help from the government,\" he added.\n\nThe Alma Inn pub and music venue in Bolton announced on Facebook it would now close permanently, two days after it said a customer tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nAs well as restricting hospitality venues, Mr Hancock said visitor limits will also be put in place in care homes in Bolton.\n\nThe health secretary said: \"I want us to learn the lesson from Spain, America and France - not to have to learn the lesson all over again ourselves through more hospitalisations and more deaths, and take this action locally in Bolton.\"\n\nThe move comes after plans to ease restrictions in Bolton were scrapped last week following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nMr Hancock also told MPs that a strict local lockdown in Leicester had resulted in a \"very significant\" drop in cases, with measures there to be reviewed on Thursday.\n\nDemand at local coronavirus testing sites in Bolton has led to queues of people and cars\n\nIt came as students at universities across Greater Manchester, including in Bolton, have been warned they face sanctions if they break rules to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson's official spokesman was asked whether the government was considering a change in guidance on household gatherings across England.\n\nThe spokesman said it was being kept under review and that ministers would not hesitate to act if needed.\n\nGuidance in England currently says two households can meet indoors. Outdoors up to six people from different households can meet - or up to 30 people from two households.\n\nThe UK government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said Covid-19 rates are now rising, especially amongst people between the ages of 17 and 29.\n\nHe warned that if people stopped social distancing then \"Covid comes back\".\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van Tam added: \"People have relaxed too much. Now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this is a continuing threat to us.\"\n\nAlthough there has been a sharp rise in coronavirus cases reported in the last few days, the 30 deaths recorded on Tuesday are unrelated.\n\nIt takes time from becoming infected to developing symptoms. Someone who is very sick in hospital with coronavirus and who sadly dies will have caught the infection weeks before.\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock told MPs that a \"sharp rise\" in coronavirus cases in recent days had been across the whole country rather than in localised \"hotspots\".\n\nOther parts of the UK are also facing tougher restrictions.\n\nStricter rules on visiting other people's homes were also extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland from midnight.", "The Duke of Sussex has paid back the cost of refurbishing Frogmore Cottage near Windsor Castle.\n\nThe cost, estimated at £2.4m in 2018-19, was covered by taxpayers through the Sovereign Grant, but the duke and duchess said they would repay it when they stepped back from royal duties.\n\nPrince Harry's spokesman said he had paid the bill in full by making a contribution to the grant.\n\nThe property will remain a UK residence for the duke and his family.\n\nIt comes days after the couple announced they had reached a deal with Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\nFrogmore Cottage sits in a secluded spot on the Queen's Windsor estate in Berkshire\n\nFrogmore Cottage should have been a rather lovely family home. Instead it became one of the reasons why, eventually, Harry and Meghan left Britain and the official side of the Royal Family.\n\nThe cost of renovation - £2.4m in 2018-19, with more to come after that - provoked critical commentary, and a wave of largely illusory stories about what the money had been spent on.\n\nJust as the couple were setting up their first place together and creating a home for their child, they were subject to what they thought was unfair and intrusive comment.\n\nFor decades, taxpayer funding has been a sticky subject for the Royal Family; it is a point of purchase for critics, who point to the Sovereign Grant and to the costs of security and ask whether the monarchy lives extravagantly and provides value for money.\n\nIn the negotiations over the couple stepping back from royal duties early this year, money - inevitably - was a serious issue.\n\nIt was Harry and Meghan who announced that they would repay the cost of renovating Frogmore Cottage. In such way a line is drawn, and the couple may perceive themselves to be free of any of the obligations they once laboured under.\n\nAnd Frogmore Cottage stands empty, a rather lonely monument to an unhappy chapter in the royal story.\n\nThe duke's spokesman said of the repayment: \"This contribution as originally offered by Prince Harry has fully covered the necessary renovation costs of Frogmore Cottage, a property of Her Majesty The Queen, and will remain the UK residence of the duke and his family.\"\n\nLast year's royal accounts showed the cost of the renovations was £2.4 million and was covered by the grant.\n\nIt is the money given to the Queen by the government and pays for the salaries of the royal household, official travel and upkeep of palaces.\n\nThe payment is based on the profits of the Crown Estate, a property business owned by the monarch but run independently.\n\nRevenue from the Crown Estate does not belong to the Queen, but goes straight to the Treasury which then grants it back to the Queen as a Sovereign Grant to support the monarch's official business.\n\nHarry and Meghan agreed to pay back the money as part of the plans drawn up when they quit as senior working royals in March.", "The 27-year-old was arrested at a property in Selly Oak in the early hours of Monday\n\nA man has been charged with murder and seven counts of attempted murder, after a series of stabbings across Birmingham city centre.\n\nZephaniah McLeod, aged 27, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, is due in court on Wednesday, West Midlands Police said.\n\nJacob Billington, 23, was killed and seven others injured at four locations over a period of 90 minutes on Sunday.\n\nMr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was stabbed in Irving Street while enjoying a night out with friends.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded he died of a stab wound to the neck.\n\nMr Billington had been working as a library intern at Sheffield Hallam University and was also a drummer in a band.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"Jacob was a Sheffield Hallam graduate and had joined the library as a graduate intern, where his warmth and enthusiasm made him a greatly valued member of our team.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with his family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nHis friend, Michael Callaghan, also 23 and a fellow band-mate, was seriously injured in the attack in Irving Street and remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nBoth men had previously attended Sacred Heart Catholic College in Crosby, where prayers were said on Monday evening for their families.\n\nIn a statement, the school said: \"We are saddened at the events in Birmingham which took Jacob's life and left Michael critically injured.\n\n\"We are praying for Michael's recovery and will never forget Jacob, his life touched so many in our school.\"\n\nJacob Billington, who was out with friends, was stabbed to death in Birmingham\n\nA 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, remains critical but stable in hospital.\n\nAnother man, aged 30, remains in a serious condition in hospital, while four others have been discharged.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Munro said: \"Since these tragic events unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning we've had a team of officers working non-stop on the investigation.\n\n\"Our driving focus is to secure justice for the victims, their family and friends. Our sympathies remain with everyone who's been impacted by these terrible crimes.\"\n\nThree people arrested early on Monday at an address in Selly Oak on suspicion of assisting an offender have all been released pending investigation, police said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People need to \"start taking this very seriously again\" – Prof Jonathan Van Tam\n\nThe latest \"big change\" in coronavirus infections across the UK is of \"great concern\", England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Jonathan Van Tam said people have \"relaxed too much\" over the summer and \"we have got to start taking this very seriously again\".\n\nIf not, the UK will have \"a bumpy ride over the next few months\", he warned.\n\nHe said that infections among younger people in EU countries had later filtered through to older age groups.\n\nFrance and Spain are among a number of European countries that have seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, after lockdown restrictions were eased and testing for the disease was ramped up.\n\nOn Monday, Spain became the first country in western Europe to record 500,000 infections, after tallying more than 26,000 new infections over the weekend.\n\nProf Van Tam's comments came as more parts of the UK are to face tougher restrictions following a rise in the number of cases.\n\nOn Sunday UK authorities announced 2,988 new cases - the highest figure since 22 May, while a further 2,948 cases were reported in the 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nStricter rules on home visits will be extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland from midnight.\n\nIn Wales, the county borough of Caerphilly is to be placed under a local lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\n\"People have relaxed too much, now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this a continuing threat to us,\" Prof Van Tam said.\n\nThe rise in cases we have seen over the past two days seems like quite a large jump.\n\nBut it is still well short of where we were in the spring.\n\nThe official figures show we hit 6,000 cases a day at points, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nTesting was only largely taking place in hospitals so virtually none of the infections in the community were being picked up.\n\nEstimates suggest there were about 100,000 cases a day at the peak.\n\nSo the fact that we have got close to 3,000 a day now when mass testing is available (albeit clearly not picking up every case) means we are a long way from where we were.\n\nBut there is alarm within government.\n\nWhile the majority of cases are in younger age groups, the more they rise the harder it becomes to keep the virus away from more vulnerable people.\n\nProf Van Tam added that hospital admissions and deaths were \"at a very low level\" in the UK and the rise in cases was most prominent among those aged between 17 and 21 - but the country risks following the trajectory of some EU countries.\n\n\"Where case numbers rise initially in the younger parts of the population they do in turn filter through and start to give elevated rates of disease and hospital admissions in the older age groups, and we know that then becomes a serious public health problem,\" he said.\n\n\"The fact that 17 to 21-year-olds are not becoming ill means they are lucky, but they also forget because the disease is not severe for them that they are potent spreaders.\"\n\nProf Van Tam added that the trend had moved away from \"specific hotspots\", such as the one that occurred in Leicester last month.\n\nInstead, \"there is a more general and creeping geographic trend across the UK that disease levels are now beginning to turn up\".\n\nHe urged public health officials and politicians to think about how the virus is managed not in the short term, but over the next six months and \"until the spring\".\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said it was a \"blunt warning\" about the spread of the virus from Prof Van Tam, who implied the next week would be critical as officials and ministers studied the emerging data.\n\n\"This is a wake up call for the public to get real about social distancing from a medical leader who is clearly worried,\" our correspondent added.\n\nIt comes after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced a change in England's quarantine policy, adopting an approach which allows islands to be treated differently to a country's mainland.\n\nHe said travellers arriving in England from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThey are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos (also known as Zante).", "The government will later publish plans which could override key elements of its Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will set out how powers currently held by the EU will be shared out after the post-Brexit transition period ends.\n\nBut it has faced a backlash from senior Tories and prompted the resignation of a top civil servant.\n\nIt comes as the talks over a trade deal with the EU continue in London.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill could override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement that secured the UK's exit from the EU in January.\n\nMinisters say it is needed to prevent \"damaging\" tariffs on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if negotiations with the EU on a free trade agreement fail.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have warned it risks undermining the UK's reputation as an upholder of international law.\n\nTobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the UK would \"lose the moral high ground\" if the government went through with the changes.\n\nTom Tugendhat, chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said: \"Our entire economy is based on the perception that people have of the UK's adherence to the rule of law.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock insisted the changes were necessary to protect the Northern Ireland peace process if the UK failed to get a free trade deal with the EU.\n\n\"The decision we've made is to put the peace process first, first and foremost as our absolute top international obligation,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nA former Cabinet minister, involved in putting together the Withdrawal Agreement, reacted furiously to Mr Hancock's claim.\n\nThe former minister, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"I cannot allow anyone to get away with saying the government is doing this to protect the peace process. This does the precise opposite.\n\n\"It is about the internal market in the UK and is more likely to lead to a hard border [between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland] which will imperil the peace process.\"\n\nThe permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones, has resigned from his role over concerns about the government breaching its obligations under international law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis has said the bill contains powers that would break international law.\n\nIn the Commons on Tuesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis admitted the bill would break international law in a \"very specific and limited way\".\n\nIt would allow the UK government to \"dis-apply\" the EU legal concept of \"direct effect\" - which gives EU law supremacy over UK law in areas covered by the Withdrawal Agreement - in \"certain, very tightly defined circumstances,\" he told MPs.\n\nThe Scottish government, meanwhile, has said it will not consent to a change in the law along these lines, arguing that it would undermines devolution.\n\nThe bill has also been attacked by the Welsh Brexit minister, Labour's Jeremy Miles, who accused the government of \"stealing powers from devolved administrations\".\n\n\"This bill is an attack on democracy and an affront to the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nThe legislation will see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland handed powers in areas such as air quality and building efficiency currently regulated at EU level.\n\nIt will also set up a new body - the Office for the Internal Market - to make sure standards adopted in different parts of the UK do not undermine cross-border trade.\n\nThe new body will be able to issue non-binding recommendations to the UK Parliament and devolved administrations when clashes emerge.\n\nHowever, plans to hand UK ministers extra powers to ensure the application of customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland have prompted a row over the UK's legal obligations in its exit deal.\n\nUnder the UK's withdrawal agreement, Northern Ireland is due to stay part of the EU's single market for goods in a bid to avoid creating a hard border with the Irish Republic.\n\nIn parallel with talks over a post-Brexit trade deal, the UK and EU are negotiating the precise nature of new customs checks that will be required.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused Downing Street of \"reopening old arguments that had been settled\" and said the government should instead focus on securing a deal with the EU.\n\nFormer Conservative PM Theresa May warned the legislation could damage \"trust\" in the UK over future trade deals with other states.\n\nAnd French MEP Nathalie Loiseau said: \"The prime minister has promised to put a tiger in the tank in the negotiations. It seems for the time being he is putting an elephant in the china shop.\"\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "The quake was felt at about 09:45 BST in the town of Leighton Buzzard\n\nAn earthquake with a magnitude 3.3 has been felt across several towns in England.\n\nPeople living in Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire said they felt it at about 09:45 BST.\n\nCarly Jan Smith, 31, in Dunstable, said it was \"really strong\" and lasted for about two seconds. Her whole room went from \"side to side\", she said.\n\nThe British Geological Survey said it struck just north of Leighton Buzzard.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Geological Survey This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBedfordshire Police said there were no reports of injuries, although it had received a large number of calls.\n\nAcross the border in Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley Police tweeted that is was not a major incident, adding that \"extra resources have been drafted in to clean up the mess created by the duty inspector's coffee\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Richard Luckett, of the British Geological Survey, confirmed the quake, saying: \"It was very minor on a global scale, but still quite large for the UK.\n\n\"We get about two of these a year.\"\n\nHe said there was a slight chance of aftershocks \"but they are very likely not to be felt\".\n\nBritish Geological has released the seismograms for the Leighton Buzzard 3.3 magnitude event\n\nJohn Yorke, a computer programmer in Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire, said: \"It felt like one subtle jolt to the house which made the windows vibrate.\n\n\"My initial thought was to look out of the window expecting to see a car had crashed into our property. I haven't felt anything like it before.\"\n\nMs Smith of Dunstable told BBC Three Counties Radio: \"I was in my room and I thought my stepdad was doing something in the garage because the whole room just went from side to side, really strongly.\n\n\"It was like the foundation beneath me had kind of jolted.\"\n\nKaren Cursons, a 56-year-old town councillor, added: \"We've been in Leighton Buzzard for 34 years and I have never felt anything like that.\"\n\nChristine Sawyer, who lives in a mobile home in Caddington, said it had left her \"really scared\" as she feared her property had broken off its mooring.\n\n\"The whole place shook, it felt like something had hit the side of the home,\" she said. \"My dog shot out of her chair.\"\n\nGavin Prechner was working from home in Leighton Buzzard.\n\nHe said: \"It felt like a car had crashed into my house, but then the rumbling and shaking continued.\n\n\"No damage to report apart from a hairline crack in the paint work in my upstairs office and some pictures looking wonky on the wall.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's most senior lawyer is to quit his post over plans which could modify the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nIt is understood Sir Jonathan Jones, permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, was unhappy with a new bill to be unveiled on Wednesday.\n\nHe has resigned and will leave his post before his five-year term was due to end next April.\n\nHe is the sixth senior civil servant to announce his exit this year.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Sir Jonathan believed the plans went too far in breaching the government's obligations under international law.\n\nA spokesman for the Attorney General's Office confirmed Sir Jonathan had resigned but did not comment further.\n\nThe Financial Times, which first reported the story, linked his departure to \"suggestions that Boris Johnson is trying to row back on parts of last year's Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe newspaper added people \"close to Sir Jonathan said he was 'very unhappy' about the decision to overwrite parts of the Northern Ireland protocol\".\n\nThe resignation comes as the UK government is due to unveil an Internal Market Bill that could affect post-Brexit customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder the UK's exit deal, Northern Ireland is due to stay part of the EU's single market for goods in a bid to avoid creating a hard border with the Irish Republic.\n\nIn parallel with talks over a post-Brexit trade deal, the UK and EU are negotiating the precise nature of new customs checks that will be required.\n\nOn Tuesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the bill would provide the UK with a \"safety net\" in case the talks to iron out border arrangements fail.\n\nHe told MPs the bill would break international law in a \"very specific and limited way\" by giving UK ministers the power to override EU law in \"tightly defined circumstances\" if border negotiations broke down.\n\nBut he insisted the UK's \"leading priority\" was to try to work out the application of the protocol through negotiation with the EU.\n\nWhether you loathe the government's abrasive style or love its ruthlessness, far from seeking a peaceful conclusion to Brexit, for No 10 there are plenty of fights still to have.\n\nAnd that may mean accelerating the number of top civil servants who are cleared out - or clear off of their own volition.\n\nSix permanent secretaries - who head government departments - have gone now.\n\nGiven the importance of the principle of the rule of law, one former permanent secretary told me Jonathan Jones' departure is \"absolutely massive, by far the most important yet\".\n\nAnd few at Westminster believe there won't be more to come.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nSir Jonathan is the latest permanent secretary - a senior civil servant leading a government department - to leave office this year.\n\nRowena Collins Rice, director general at the Attorney General's Office, will also be leaving her post, the government confirmed earlier on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Kim Darroch: \"The idea that you could unilaterally rewrite part of the agreement is just unacceptable\"\n\nShe is expected to take up a new public role. Her departure was the result of a \"process dating back several months,\" officials said.\n\nAt the beginning of September, Simon Case was appointed as cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, after his predecessor Sir Mark Sedwill stood down.\n\nSir Mark's exit followed reports of tensions between him and senior members of Mr Johnson's team.\n\nSir Jonathan, who is a QC, was knighted in December 2019 for his legal services to the government. The honour recognised his work on constitutional issues and the EU Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nIn response to Sir Jonathan's resignation, the shadow attorney general, Lord Charlie Falconer, said he was \"an impressive lawyer and a loyal civil servant\".\n\nHe added: \"If he can't stay in public service, there must be something very rotten about this government. This resignation indicates that senior government lawyers think that the government is about to break the law.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Brexit spokesperson Christine Jardine said it was \"unsurprising\" Sir Jonathan has resigned, given the government's approach.\n\n\"Any government figure of any integrity would be appalled at these plans,\" she added.\n\nDave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union - which represents senior civil servants - said both ministers and officials were obliged to uphold the rule of law.\n\n\"It's extraordinary that the government's most senior legal adviser has decided he has no choice but to resign over an issue that he presumably believes conflicts with his own and ministerial obligations,\" he added.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran, has been told she has to face another trial.\n\nThe charity worker is nearing the end of her five-year sentence for spying charges, which she has always denied.\n\nIranian state media said she was brought before a revolutionary court in the country's capital Tehran on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the new charge, which has not been made public, was \"indefensible and unacceptable\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in April 2016 while travelling to visit her parents with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denies.\n\nEarlier this year, she was given temporary leave from prison because of the coronavirus outbreak and has been living at her parents' house with an ankle tag.\n\nBefore her arrest, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe lived in London with her husband Richard.\n\nHer MP, Tulip Siddiq, said she had spoken to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe. \"I've been in touch with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and can confirm that she was taken to court this morning and told she will face another trial on Sunday,\" she said.\n\n\"I know many people are concerned about her welfare and I'll keep everyone updated when we have more information.\n\n\"This is an extremely worrying development, and I know many people are concerned about Nazanin's welfare.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband describes how his daughter Gabriella is coping without her mother\n\nThe MP added: \"The last four years have been excruciating for her husband Richard and her daughter Gabriella, who is growing up without a mother.\n\n\"The United Nations have recognised Nazanin's imprisonment as arbitrary and unlawful, and any further court case is clearly unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe has previously expressed fears that she could face a second court case when her sentence ends.\n\nHe said she and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nThe human rights group, Amnesty International, said it appeared Iranian authorities were \"playing cruel political games with Nazanin\".\n\n\"Nazanin has already been convicted once after a deeply unfair trial, and there should be no question of her being put through that ordeal again,\" the charity's UK director Kate Allen said.\n\n\"As a matter of absolute urgency the UK government should make fresh representations on Nazanin's behalf, seeking to have any suggestion of a second trial removed.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"Iran bringing new charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is indefensible and unacceptable.\n\nWe have been consistently clear that she must not be returned to prison.\"\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted: \"Nazanin has already served most of her sentence for a crime she didn't commit.\n\n\"This is hostage diplomacy and Iran needs to know that Britain will not stand for it.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and the UK government have always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe said he pushed the PM to be \"brave\" in regards to Iran", "If you have travelled on a motorway in the UK, there's a good chance you stopped at a Roadchef services\n\nA widow is calling on the UK government to act to allow thousands of victims of a share scandal to finally receive tax-free compensation.\n\nWorkers at Roadchef motorway services won a legal battle in 2014 after losing millions when shares in an employee scheme were transferred.\n\nIt then emerged a further £10m had been taken in taxes.\n\nIn 2018, that cash was returned - but a continuing dispute with tax officials means no full payout has been made.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs said it was working to bring the case to a conclusion.\n\n\"There's a lot of people who've died and haven't had the money,\" said Eleanor Nicholls, from Llanelli in Carmarthenshire.\n\nHer husband Michael was one of the workers who should have benefited.\n\nHe was one of more than 200 beneficiaries in Wales alone - with over 4,000 across the UK due payouts from the share scheme.\n\nHe worked for 18 years at the Pont Abraham Roadchef services, where the M4 ends at junction 49.\n\nBut the former steelworker died in February 2010 from lung cancer aged 68.\n\nMore than 10 years on, Eleanor is still waiting for the compensation.\n\nMichael Nicholls died aged 68 - his wife is still waiting for the share benefit payments he was due\n\nBack in 1998, when the scandal was uncovered, the GMB union estimated average payouts from the share scheme should have been about £90,000 for eligible workers.\n\nMost got about £2,300 at the time.\n\n\"We both worked tirelessly to put money aside for our children's future,\" said Eleanor, who is now 74, as she reflected on the decade since her husband died.\n\n\"I worked in a care home and he did the night shift at Roadchef so there was always someone in the house to look after my elderly mother, who was starting to get dementia.\n\n\"Ten years ago, we'd needed a break and managed to get to Spain.\n\n\"Michael was taken ill when we were away but I thought it was the hot weather.\n\n\"When we came home he went to have a chest X-ray and the doctor called me in and told me 'your husband is a very sick man'. It was two tumours, one on the lung and one on the brain.\n\n\"He only lasted six weeks.\"\n\nThere were more hard blows to follow for Eleanor and her family.\n\n\"Months later my mother died. All the money we'd saved for our retirement had to go to pay for the two funerals,\" she said.\n\n\"The money from Roadchef would have really helped.\n\n\"It could have eased the stress and anxiety at wondering if I could afford to stay in the home that myself, Michael and our family had worked so hard for over all these years, and the beautiful memories that we shared there.\"\n\nRoadchef is the third largest roadside services firm in the UK, operating sites such as Pont Abraham where Michael Nicholls worked\n\nIn 1986, the managing director of the motorway service chain was Patrick Gee.\n\nHe wanted to see workers benefit from an employee share scheme - where workers have a share of the ownership - not unlike how retailers such as John Lewis operate.\n\nHe established what was due to become the UK's very first Employee Share Ownership Plan - where staff could earn shares in the firm based on their length of service.\n\nBut then the Roadchef head died unexpectedly at the age of just 43.\n\nHis successor was Timothy Igram Hill, who managed to take control of the employees' shares, making him an estimated £27m when he sold the company to Japanese investors in 1998.\n\nBut the company secretary at the time, Tim Warwick, blew the whistle on his boss, and spent the next quarter of century helping those who had lost out from his home in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nSadly he died suddenly in August in hospital in Cardiff, without seeing the dispute fully resolved.\n\nThe fight had also been taken up by the trust that that had originally been established to manage the scheme for the workers - and the Roadchef Employees Benefits Trust Limited (REBTL) sued Mr Igram Hill.\n\nWhile there was no suggestion he had acted illegally, in January 2014 the High Court ruled that Mr Ingram Hill had breached his fiduciary duty to Roadchef employees.\n\nAn out-of-court settlement was reached between him and REBTL in 2015, with hopes the matter was then resolved.\n\nBut then it emerged £10m of the share money had been handed over to HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs remains in dispute over compensation\n\nLegislation passed in 2003 should have meant employee share schemes like this are tax free.\n\nBut because the cash assets had already been taken from the original scheme five years earlier, it appeared the Roadchef workers had fallen through a legal gap.\n\nThen in 2018, HMRC returned the taxed cash to the trustees.\n\nHowever, a dispute still remains: Should those due to receive compensation be expected to pay tax individually on those payments?\n\nNo say the beneficiaries, backed by campaigners, trustees and a group of cross-party MPs.\n\nUntil this matter is finally resolved, the victims of this scandal are still waiting - 25 years after it happened.\n\nStill waiting: Eleanor Nicholls wants the dispute to be resolved after 25 years\n\n\"Michael died 10 years ago and I've been fighting all this time to get what's owed,\" she said.\n\n\"It's upsetting for me to have this all in my mind and re-do it all again. There's so much pressure on me. I get letters and think 'is this it? Has it finally been sorted out?'\n\n\"But all the letters say is 'sorry, sorry'. It's frustrating. I try to put it at the back of my mind, but it's hard.\n\n\"Bring it to an end, that's what I'd say to the government. We can't keep going on month after month, year after year like this.\n\n\"My husband's not here to see it and he would have just wanted to enjoy ourselves.\"\n\nShe has had the backing of her local MP, Labour Shadow Welsh Secretary Nia Griffith: \"Former Roadchef workers and their families, like Mrs Nicholls, need to get this money that is owed to them as soon as possible.\n\nThe share fund dispute is \"scandalous\" says Llanelli MP Nia Griffith\n\n\"It is scandalous that they have had to wait so long.\"\n\nThe company Roadchef said the share scheme trust established in the 1980s operates independently and it is not involved in the management of REBTL. It stressed it continues to \"support the trustees' efforts to resolve this matter\".\n\nA statement on the firm's website added: \"Subsequent delays relating to taxation have been a source of frustration for all concerned, and we hope to see a resolution as soon as possible.\"\n\nAn official for HM Revenue and Customs told BBC Wales: \"Due to taxpayer confidentiality, we cannot comment on the specifics of the case, but are working to bring it to a conclusion.\"", "A quadcopter has been recorded releasing a payload of little bags, which Israeli police suspect contained \"a dangerous drug\", over Tel Aviv.\n\nIt followed activists who seek to legalise the drug in Israel promising free cannabis from the air on social media.\n\nWhile medical use of cannabis is permitted in the country, recreational use remains illegal.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nRaheem Sterling's late penalty gave England victory as they started their Uefa Nations League campaign in Iceland - despite the hosts squandering the chance to rescue a point by missing an injury-time spot-kick.\n\nIn an chaotic end to a largely dull encounter, Sterling looked to have secured three points for manager Gareth Southgate's side when he rolled in an 89th-minute spot-kick after his shot was handled by Sverrir Ingason, who was then sent off after receiving a second yellow card.\n\nEngland, who had earlier been reduced to 10 men after Kyle Walker was also sent off for second yellow card, had to survive that last-gasp scare when Iceland were awarded a penalty for Joe Gomez's foul but Birkir Bjarnason was wildly off target.\n\nEngland made hard work of the win against a stubborn and well-organised Iceland but were the better and more positive side.\n\nSouthgate's team, playing their first game since the 4-0 win in Kosovo in November, showed understandable rustiness with the Premier League restart still a week away and England were frustrated further when Walker was dismissed for a second yellow card with 20 minutes left.\n\nWalker's recall was marred by his challenge on Arnor Traustason - but England had an even bigger cause for complaint when an early goal from captain Harry Kane was ruled out for offside. There was no VAR for this game and replays showed Kane was onside as he pounced on Sterling's left-wing cross.\n\nThis was a lifeless affair behind closed doors against the side who humiliated England at Euro 2016 and Southgate will have learned little despite giving a debut to Manchester City's Phil Foden and introducing Manchester United teenage striker Mason Greenwood for his debut late on - but he will take the victory before Tuesday's game in Denmark.\n• None How you rated the players\n\nThere was very little positive for England in this match other than the victory itself but it must also be placed in the context of when this game was being played and its circumstances.\n\nThis was almost like a behind-closed-doors pre-season friendly in an international guise so it comes as no surprise that England lacked the sort of sharpness and inspiration that would have come with more match practice.\n\nSouthgate will have been delighted to give Foden the first of many England caps while Greenwood will also have enjoyed his taste of international action during his cameo after coming on as a substitute for Kane.\n\nSterling calmly rolled in the penalty that eventually gave England their opening Nations League win but Southgate will not have welcomed Walker's rash challenge, irrespective of the level of contact, that brought him his second yellow card and the clumsy foul by Gomez that almost threw Iceland that injury-time lifeline.\n\nEngland, as a plus, were patient and probing and, despite the colourless nature of the game, deserved the win, even though it arrived so late.\n\nEngland move on to face Denmark in Copenhagen on Tuesday buoyed by these opening three points and Southgate will have been delighted to spend so much time with his players after the international hiatus as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe was able to watch some of the younger players he introduced into the squad at close quarters and may be able to see them in England action once more against the Danes.\n\nIceland were defiant, as they always are, rigid in defence and lacking in attacking ambition, willing to simply keep England at arm's length and maybe land a counter-punch.\n\nThey almost did with that late penalty but England survived to make a winning restart to their international calendar.\n• None All three of England's victories in the Nations League have been by a different one-goal margin (3-2 v Spain, 2-1 v Croatia, 1-0 v Iceland).\n• None Iceland have lost all five of their Nations League games by an aggregate score of 1-14.\n• None Iceland failed to have a single shot on target in this match, while Sterling's winning penalty was England's only attempt on target in the second half.\n• None Sterling's goal was his 13th in all competitions for England, but his first from the penalty spot. He has had a hand in 17 goals in his last 12 appearances for England (11 goals, 6 assists).\n• None Danny Ings made his first appearance for England since October 2015 - 1,790 days ago. It is the longest gap between England games for an outfield player since Lee Dixon went 1,911 days between 1993 and 1999.\n• None Walker became the first England player to be sent off since Sterling v Ecuador in June 2014.\n• None Greenwood and Foden both made their England debuts in this match - it is the first time a Manchester United and a Manchester City player have earned their first England caps in the same game since September 1992 v Spain (Paul Ince and David White).\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Birkir Bjarnason should be disappointed.\n• None Joseph Gomez (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Joseph Gomez (England) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Goal! Iceland 0, England 1. Raheem Sterling (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Second yellow card to Sverrir Ingason (Iceland) for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Penalty conceded by Sverrir Ingason (Iceland) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Offside, Iceland. Birkir Bjarnason tries a through ball, but Jón Dadi Bödvarsson is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Outsourcing firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently, the BBC understands.\n\nThe firm, which is a major government contractor, is to end its leases on almost 100 workplaces.\n\nBusiness lobby group CBI has warned that the fall in office working is damaging city centre economies.\n\nIt comes as the government prepares to launch an advertising campaign encouraging more people to return to workplaces.\n\nThe BBC understands that Capita, which manages London's congestion charge, has been looking at various measures to help it simplify its business for some time, such as embracing more flexible working, which is supported by its employees.\n\nSo far, Capita has decided not to renew leases on 25 offices.\n\nA Capita spokesman said: \"We take seriously the responsibilities we have to the communities in which we operate and are mindful of the impact that potential office closures could have on small businesses.\n\n\"Capita's 45,000 employees work in offices spread right across towns and cities in the UK - we are committed to that continuing both now and in the long term.\n\n\"Following dialogue with our employees it has become very clear that they would like to work in a more flexible way, which will involve increased working from home, but they will still spend a significant amount of their time working from offices that are based in the heart of our local communities.\"\n\nAccording to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which represents HR professionals, there was a taboo around flexible working prior to the pandemic - but seeing how employees worked from home during the coronavirus lockdown has opened the eyes of many employers.\n\nFlexible working is no longer viewed as being taboo by employers, showing a shift from \"presenteeism\"\n\n\"It's the biggest experiment we've ever had in homeworking,\" the CIPD's chief executive Peter Cheese told the BBC in an interview in July. \"Bosses are starting to shift towards judging output, rather than the number of hours spent in front of the computer.\"\n\nA recent BBC study found 50 major UK employers had no plans to return all staff to the office full time.\n\nWhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson is keen to reassure the public that it is safe for more people to return to workplaces, the CIPD is more circumspect about ensuring that employees do not feel pressured to do so.\n\nThe CIPD wants employers to consider:\n\n\"Working from home has proved to be a great success for many individuals and organisations. Recent CIPD research found that a majority of employers believe that homeworkers are either as productive as other workers, or more productive,\" said Mr Cheese.\n\n\"However, it's important that all employers take steps to support their employees' mental health and address concerns they may have while they work from home.\"\n\nThe CIPD says managers should be regularly checking in with their staff, discussing their well-being and wherever possible, ensuring decisions over working from home or returning to the workplace \"are based on individual choice and preference\".\n\nBut the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) warned this week that the thousands of local businesses relying on the passing trade of office workers are suffering.\n\nCity centres could become \"ghost towns\" if employees do not return to work, stressed CBI boss Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\nBoth the CBI and the CIPD are in favour of using effective test and trace systems.\n\nHowever, an increasing number of employers say that home working - which was initially brought in as a temporary measure in lockdown - could become a more permanent state of affairs.\n\nLloyds Bank is reviewing its office space needs after concluding its staff worked well from home during lockdown\n\nThe law firm Linklaters said this week that all of its 5,300 staff could spend up to 50% of their time working remotely from now on.\n\nLloyds Banking Group is reviewing its office space needs and working practices after concluding that most of its 65,000 staff have worked effectively from home during the crisis.\n\nOthers including NatWest, Fujitsu, Facebook, Twitter and HSBC have also said they plan to allow much more flexible working in future.\n\nExperts say it could allow firms to cut their rent and utilities costs, while offering employees a better work-life balance.\n\nHowever, the CIPD doesn't feel that masses of white-collar workers will end up working from home permanently as a cost-cutting measure.\n\nInstead, it thinks office spaces will become places where just some staff are based, or that employees work in the office at different times and on different days on a rotation, and that the office space will be used more for face-to-face meetings.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland pulled off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 at the Ageas Bowl.\n\nChasing 163, Australia were cruising to victory, needing just 39 from 38 balls with nine wickets remaining.\n\nBut the dismissal of Steve Smith, one of two wickets to fall in Adil Rashid's final over, sparked a collapse of 4-9 in 14 deliveries.\n\nAshton Agar was run out off the final ball of the penultimate over, leaving the tourists needing 15 from the final six balls.\n\nMarcus Stoinis hit a six from the second delivery of Tom Curran's over but still needed five from the final ball. Curran perfectly executed a yorker to see England take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.\n\nEngland had earlier been grateful for 66 from Dawid Malan and 44 from Jos Buttler in their underwhelming 162-7.\n\nThe second match at the same ground is on Sunday, live on BBC One from 13:50 BST.\n• None Relive thrilling finish and watch the best moments\n\nEngland's bowling improved significantly from the beginning of the Australia innings but they were only able to take victory thanks to an implosion by the tourists.\n\nOpener David Warner and Aaron Finch plundered the bowling to begin with. putting on 98 as Mark Wood and Jofra Archer bowled too short - the batsmen repeatedly hitting fours square off the back foot.\n\nEven when Finch hit Archer to long-off to fall for 46, Smith looked comfortable. He pulled his first ball - a 94mph delivery from Wood - for four.\n\nWhat followed was remarkable. Smith top-edged a sweep off Rashid when on 18 and Maxwell hit the final ball of the leg-spinner's spell to extra cover - an error which proved crucial.\n\nWarner departed for 56 two balls later - bowled off his pads by Archer - and in the following over Alex Carey was bowled by a fast delivery from Wood.\n\nThe wickets fell and runs dried up. There was not a boundary hit after a Smith six in the 14th over until Stoinis' big hit over extra cover with five balls left.\n\nStoinis had attempted to play himself in, backing himself to hit the required runs from the final over. He cleared the ropes once but also missed two other deliveries trying to power the ball away. Curran held his nerve where the Australia all-rounder did not.\n\nThis was Australia's first competitive match for almost six months because of the coronavirus pandemic, one mitigating factor.\n\nEngland's total did not look enough at halfway, never mind when Warner and Finch were were seemingly racing to victory.\n\nButtler had given England a quick start, seven boundaries coming in his 29-ball knock, including two straight sixes off spinner Ashton Agar in a second over that went for 16 runs.\n\nEngland were 64-1 when Buttler hit leg-spinner Adam Zampa to deep mid-wicket and afterwards had a collapse of their own. Eoin Morgan's side lost 5-60 as canny Australia bowling, largely spin and slower balls, proved effective.\n\nIt was left to Malan, retained in his position at number three, to muster a testing score for the hosts.\n\nAs wickets fell around him he was calm. He batted with relative composure until launching an attack against Zampa in the 18th over. He hit two sixes - one over mid-wicket and one over long-off - in an over that cost 22 and boosted England's failing innings.\n\nIt was Malan's eighth score of 50 or more in 14 T20 internationals.\n\nEngland still have players to come back - Jason Roy and Ben Stokes were missing from this game - but Malan, who made a match-winning knock in the second T20 against Pakistan, is fast making himself undroppable.\n\n'Our bowlers bailed us out' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"We didn't bat particularly well tonight - Dawid and Jos did. We should have got more runs.\n\n\"Our bowlers bailed us out. The bowlers really came good in the last eight overs. I'm delighted the guys showed belief and courage to try to take wickets. It was great that we stuck to our guns.\n\n\"Tom Curran followed on from a fantastic winter. It's great to see him calm in execution in the past few overs.\"\n\nEngland bowler Tom Curran: \"That's why we train. You want to be given the ball in the tough moments and try to stand up when the team needs you. I'm really pleased to get over the line.\n\n\"Morgan is unbelievable. He's been the world's best captain for a number of years. He's calm. He backs us. He's class.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"We knew England would keep coming hard and we probably struggled to find the boundary in that 12 to 18-over mark. That's something to work on.\n\n\"I would probably be more critical of myself and Davey, who got us off to a good start but couldn't go on to make the match-winning contribution.\"\n\nMan of the match Dawid Malan: \"I don't know what the secret is, but it's working so far.\n\n\"This white-ball team has been the strongest England have ever had. I don't know where I slot in.\"\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "Police and anti-immigration protesters have clashed outside the entrance to Dover harbour.\n\nAt one point, several officers restrained a person on the ground and in total 10 people were arrested.\n\nIt came as rival protests over migrants reaching the UK in small boats took place in the town.\n\nThe Kent Anti-Racism Network said it wanted to show \"solidarity\" with refugees, while opposing groups want \"to protect Britain's border\".\n\nA message was beamed on to the White Cliffs overnight by humanitarian charity Freedom From Torture.\n\nIt read: \"Rise above fear. Refugees welcome.\"\n\nPolice concentrated their officers in Market Square and at the railway station, and officers on horseback are also monitoring the situation.\n\nA group of about 60 people shouting \"freedom\" moved along Dover seafront, with many wearing Union flag masks and carrying flags.\n\nBut, addressing a crowd of about 100, Peter Keenan from Kent Refugee Help said when society sees people who are fleeing war and turns them away \"that says something about the state of your society\".\n\nHe continued: \"We are not those people.\"\n\nThe protest was in response to migrants crossing the Channel in boats\n\nIn a tweet, the Port of Dover had warned there was disruption on the A20 because of the protest and advised the local community to consider alternative routes and travellers to allow plenty of time for their journeys.\n\nProtesters blocked the dual carriageway in both directions, leaving traffic at a standstill, with some singing Rule, Britannia! as they marched towards the town.\n\nThere were further clashes with a group of at least 50 police officers by the A20.\n\nOfficers moved protesters along the road towards the town centre.\n\nBy about 15:00 BST, all protesters had largely dispersed with the last few pushed towards the train station.\n\nAt least 5,196 people have crossed the English Channel in about 318 boats in 2020.\n\nA sign was beamed on to the cliffs by campaigners\n\nPolice made ten arrests in total, on suspicion of racially aggravated public order, violent disorder and assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nOfficers said inquiries were ongoing to identify any further offences.\n\nBefore the protests, Ch Supt Nigel Brooks said: \"As a force, it is our responsibility to facilitate peaceful protests, however we will not tolerate violence or disorder.\"\n\nIt is thought groups from across the country travelled to Dover.\n\nProtesters gathered around the A20 and the harbour\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke had urged people to \"stay away\" to prevent a second wave of coronavirus.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said it had been aware of the protests and had contingency plans in place to minimise any potential disruption.\n\nFigures compiled by the BBC show at least 5,196 people crossed the Channel in about 318 boats in 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alain Cocq, 57, suffers from a rare illness which causes the walls of his arteries to stick together\n\nFacebook says it will block a Frenchman suffering from an incurable condition from livestreaming his own death.\n\nAlain Cocq, 57, planned to broadcast his final days after starting to refuse food, drink and medicine on Saturday.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron had earlier denied his request for euthanasia.\n\nMr Cocq wants the law changed in France to allow terminally ill people to die as they wish. Some groups, including the Catholic Church, oppose euthanasia on moral grounds.\n\n\"The road to deliverance begins and believe me, I am happy,\" Mr Cocq posted on Facebook early on Saturday morning from his bed at home in Dijon, after announcing he had \"finished his last meal\".\n\n\"I know the days ahead are going to be difficult but I have made my decision and I am calm,\" he added.\n\nMr Cocq suffers from a degenerative disease, which causes the walls of his arteries to stick together.\n\nBut Facebook blocked the plan to livestream his death, stating that it did not allow portrayals of suicide.\n\n\"Although we respect [Mr Cocq's] decision to want to draw attention to this complex question, following expert advice we have taken measures to prevent the live broadcast on Alain's account,\" a Facebook spokesman told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"Our rules do not allow us to show suicide attempts.\"\n\nMr Cocq posts from his bed, where he is confined\n\nMr Cocq said Facebook was blocking his broadcasts until 8 September. He called upon his supporters to lobby the social media platform to change its stance.\n\n\"It is up to you now,\" he said.\n\nIn July, Mr Cocq penned a letter to Mr Macron, asking the president to allow him to die \"with dignity,\" describing his \"extremely violent suffering\".\n\nMr Macron said he was \"moved\" by the letter, but could not grant the request as he was \"not situated above the law\".\n\nEuthanasia is a controversial topic in France, with many supporting a right to die with dignity, while others - particularly religious conservatives - have opposed calls for its decriminalisation.", "The premises licence holder failed to co-operate fully, the council said\n\nA bar has been ordered to shut for \"blatantly disregarding\" social distancing measures.\n\nWolverhampton City Council said Blossoms in the city centre \"regularly failed to identify and implement adequate control measures\".\n\nCapacity levels at the venue in North Street have been \"continually exceeded\", the local authority added.\n\nThe bar's licence holder also failed to co-operate with the police and the council, officers said.\n\nOfficers at the council will work with the venue to \"implement a scenario where the premises can safely reopen\".\n\nCouncillor Steve Evans said: \"The licence holder's actions are causing a serious and imminent threat to public health.\n\n\"The closure of the premises is in response to regular and serious breaches of social distancing as well as other inadequate controls resulting in the potential spread of coronavirus.\"\n\nHe said the council was taking a \"zero-tolerance approach to those who flout the rules\".\n\nSupt Simon Inglis said: \"We do not make decisions to support such closure action lightly as we recognise the impact on the local economy and the wider community.\n\n\"However, it is absolutely clear that the way the venue is currently being run presents a significant risk to public health and preventing further harm has to take priority.\"\n\nFigures show the number of coronavirus cases in Wolverhampton for the week to 31 August was 27, down from 45 the seven days prior.\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.", "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.", "Portugal had previously been removed from the UK's quarantine list on 20 August\n\nTravellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal will have to self-isolate for 14 days under new quarantine rules that came into force on Saturday morning.\n\nScotland and Wales have added the country to their \"quarantine list\" - while England and Northern Ireland have not.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was a confusing position but the Scottish government insisted it was acting on scientific advice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nThe rules became effective from 04:00.\n\nFrench Polynesia is also now on Scotland's list of countries requiring quarantine, while self-isolation rules for Greece have been operating since Thursday.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the decision to add Portugal came after coronavirus cases there rose above 20 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"We are in the midst of a global pandemic and the situation in many countries can change suddenly.\n\n\"Therefore, people should think very hard before committing to non-essential travel abroad.\n\n\"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases is a significant risk to public health.\"\n\nThe Scottish government was also closely monitoring the situation in Gibraltar, he added.\n\nBut the move was questioned by UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who told the BBC the Scottish government had decided to \"jump the gun\" earlier in the week by adding Greece to its quarantine list without using data from the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC).\n\nOn Portugal, he said the decision had failed to take into account the increased level of testing. He said the positivity rate - the proportion of positive tests - was lower than it was when Portugal was added to the travel corridor list.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government, however, said Mr Shapps made his decision to keep Portugal on the travel corridor list before studying the latest JBC data.\n\nTravellers returning to Scotland will be required to self-isolate even if they have flown back to an airport in England.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later downplayed the difference between UK nations when questioned during a visit to the West Midlands.\n\nWhile conceding the devolved administrations sometimes have different approaches, he insisted the UK was \"proceeding as one\".\n\n\"I think you will find if you dig below the surface of some of the surface differentiations you will find overwhelmingly the UK takes the same approach,\" he said.", "Police are treating the fire outside Allan McGregor's home as deliberate\n\nA police investigation is under way after a car belonging to Rangers player Allan McGregor was deliberately set on fire in the driveway outside his home.\n\nThe incident happened on Thursday at about 22:40 at the goalkeeper's house in the outskirts of Glasgow.\n\nA total of three fire engines were sent to the incident to extinguish the flames. No one was injured.\n\nPolice Scotland said the fire was \"being treated as wilful\" and its investigation was ongoing.\n\nIn a statement the force said they were made aware of the vehicle fire outside a property on Thursday night.\n\nThey added: \"The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service attended, nobody was injured and the fire is being treated as wilful.\n\n\"Inquiries are ongoing. Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101 quoting incident number 3735 of 3 September.\"", "Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital has been recruiting recovered Covid-19 patients to volunteer inside its coronavirus wards to help patients there.\n\nUnder the pilot scheme, they visit patients in moderate or serious condition, who would otherwise be in isolation. The volunteers help the patients eat or just lend a listening ear.\n\nThe hospital believes the project to be the first of its kind in the world. And it is likely to be closely watched, given the still unclear science on how much antibody immunity recovered Covid-19 patients have.", "A notice in the window of the Pollokshaws Road KFC restaurant that has temporarily closed\n\nA branch of KFC in Glasgow has been closed after six members of staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe fast food restaurant on Pollokshaws Road has been shut for two weeks as a precaution, the company confirmed.\n\nAll of the affected staff are currently self-isolating at home and KFC said it has been liaising with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nA notice posted on the window of the branch said it was currently closed due to a \"technical issue\".\n\nThe outbreak comes after restrictions on movements were reintroduced in Glasgow on Wednesday after a spike in cases in the area.\n\nA spokesman for KFC said: \"Six team members at our Pollokshaws restaurant have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\n\"They're currently self-isolating at home in line with government guidance and it goes without saying we're wishing them a full and speedy recovery.\n\n\"We've been in close contact with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and we've taken the decision to close the restaurant for two weeks as a precaution.\"\n• None FM warns that virus is spreading again in Scotland", "City centres could become \"ghost towns\" if the prime minister does not do more to encourage workers to go back to the office, the head of the CBI says.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn said allowing staff to work from home had helped keep firms afloat during the pandemic.\n\nBut as offices stood empty, thousands of local businesses that relied on the passing trade were suffering, she said.\n\nIt comes as a BBC study found 50 major UK employers had no plans to return all staff to the office full time.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Dame Carolyn said the UK's offices were \"vital drivers\" of the economy, supporting thousands of local firms, from dry cleaners to sandwich bars.\n\n\"The costs of office closure are becoming clearer by the day. Some of our busiest city centres resemble ghost towns, missing the usual bustle of passing trade.\n\n\"This comes at a high price for local businesses, jobs and communities,\" she said.\n\nShe said getting people back into offices and workplaces should be \"as important\" as the return to school, and directly appealed to Boris Johnson to \"do more to build confidence\".\n\nThis could include using \"effective test and trace\" systems or a campaign to encourage commuters back on to public transport.\n\nIn July, the government dropped its formal advice that people should work from home if possible. At the time, Boris Johnson told people to \"start to go back to work now if you can\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, an increasing number of employers say that home working - which was initially brought in as a temporary measure in lockdown - could become a more permanent state of affairs.\n\nThe law firm Linklaters said this week that all of its 5,300 staff could spend up to 50% of their time working remotely from now on.\n\nLloyds Banking Group is reviewing its office space needs and working practices after concluding that most of its 65,000 staff have worked effectively from home during the crisis.\n\nOthers including NatWest, Fujitsu, Facebook, Twitter and HSBC have also said they plan to allow much more flexible working in future.\n\nExperts say it could allow firms to cut their rent and utilities costs, while offering employees a better work-life balance.\n\nDame Carolyn acknowledged home working had worked well for many and was likely to remain \"an option\".\n\nBut she warned of \"serious downsides\" including a lack of opportunities to train young people and foster better work and productivity in certain types of business.\n\nThe impact on local businesses has also been stark. Sandwich chain Pret a Manger - which relies on a lunchtime work crowd - said in June it was shutting 30 outlets and cutting 1,000 jobs amid a slump in demand. It has also cut its staff's hours.\n\n\"It's time for the UK to bring its workplaces back to life or we will look back with regret at the jobs lost, training missed and communities harmed,\" Dame Carolyn said.\n\nSome businesses catering to office workers have stayed afloat by adapting the way they operate.\n\nRich Bool, who works for the mobile coffee franchise Cafe2U in Chippenham told the BBC's Wake Up To Money that when offices closed he had to find new ways of approaching his customers.\n\n\"Some of that has been actually going to residential streets, where our normal clients ... are at home, working, and asked me to call and deliver to them\".\n\nAccording to Mr Bool, this attracted curious neighbours, who were also working at home and needed a break from the laptop.\n\n\"We almost created the new water cooler moment on the pavement,\" he said.\n\nSam Barber, a partner at Workshop, which offers co-working spaces in the centre of Winchester, says she has seen a significant increase in enquiries from people who no longer want to commute to London.\n\nShe told Wake Up to Money she sees a role for her company in bringing people back into the city centre.\n\n\"If we know that we can get people out of their offices, their bedrooms, wherever it is they're working, and into a flexible working space a couple of days a week ...then they're going to be shopping in local shops, they're going to be going to the local coffee shops.\"", "The president has previously said he does not believe the US has a systemic racism problem\n\nUS President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to stop racial sensitivity training, labelling it \"divisive, anti-American propaganda\".\n\nA memo to government agencies says it has come to his attention that millions of dollars of taxpayers' money have funded such \"trainings\".\n\nThe document says these sessions only foster resentment in the workforce.\n\nMr Trump has previously said he does not believe systemic racism is a problem in the US.\n\nThe memo comes amid the social justice protests that have swept the nation in recent months.\n\nFriday's two-page document from Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is addressed to the heads of federal executive departments and agencies.\n\n\"All agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on 'critical race theory,' 'white privilege,' or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil,\" it says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe memo says that \"according to press reports, employees across the Executive Branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told that 'virtually all White people contribute to racism' or where they are required to say that they 'benefit from racism'.\"\n\nAgain citing press reports, the text says that some of the training sessions \"have further claimed that there is racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most qualified person should receive a job.\n\n\"These types of 'trainings' not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce.\"\n\nIt was not clear which reports Mr Vought was referring to or what prompted the memo. But such training sessions have been highlighted by the Discovery Institute, a conservative non-profit think tank based in Seattle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One thing Americans find hard to talk about\n\nChris Rufo, one of its research fellows, told Fox News this week that the US Department of Treasury is among federal agencies that have hired such trainers.\n\nMr Rufo says his public records requests show these sessions have included teaching employees that white people uphold America's system of racism, and sending white male executives to mandatory training in which they write letters of apology to minorities.\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who will challenge Mr Trump for the White House in November, has vowed to fight systemic racism if elected.\n\n\"For generations, Americans who are black, brown, Native American, immigrant, haven't always been fully included in our democracy or our economy,\" the former vice-president said in July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he \"can't be expected\" to agree with everyone who works with the government.\n\nFormer Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been appointed as an unpaid trade adviser to the UK government.\n\nBoris Johnson rejected claims Mr Abbott was not suitable for the role, despite criticism over past comments on women, LGBT people and climate change.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he did \"not agree with those sentiments\".\n\nMr Abbott, who negotiated trade deals for Australia when in power, will not take part in post-Brexit talks between the UK and other countries.\n\nInstead, he will advise the new Board of Trade, set up to help ministers and encourage firms to do more business internationally.\n\nMr Abbott was a prominent opponent of same-sex marriage in Australia's 2017 referendum on the issue and has been accused of making homophobic and misogynist comments in the past.\n\nHe has also described the idea of climate change as \"faddish\" and, last year, claimed the world was \"in the grip of a climate cult\".\n\nAsked about the new appointee's past comments, Mr Johnson said he could not be expected to agree with all the views of everyone who worked with the government.\n\nHe said Mr Abbott had been elected by the \"great, liberal democratic nation of Australia,\" adding: \"I think that speaks for itself.\"\n\nThis government has recently had the word \"U-turn\" lobbed at it, a lot. But there's been no change of heart here.\n\nWhile the appointment of Tony Abbott has sparked serious concern in some quarters, the government has on this occasion decided it doesn't want to back down.\n\nPerhaps it doesn't want to hand critics more \"U-turn\" ammunition. And ministers have argued that Mr Abbott will bring real trade expertise.\n\nBut there may also be a calculation in Downing Street, rightly or wrongly, that this is a \"Westminster bubble\" issue - a story that, in the end, won't do the government significant political damage.\n\nOther advisers to the Board of Trade will include former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt, ex-Conservative Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan and economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh.\n\nMr Abbott, who was prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, negotiated free-trade deals with Japan, China and South Korea.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he had \"real concerns\" and \"wouldn't appoint\" Mr Abbott if he were prime minister.\n\nTony Abbott at the launch of sister Christine Forster's book in June\n\nShadow international development secretary Emily Thornberry said Mr Abbott was \"the wrong\" choice \"on every level\" and had \"no experience of detailed trade negotiations, no understanding of Brexit, no belief in climate change, no concern for workers' rights\".\n\nA group of equality activists - including actor Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies - has written an open letter against Mr Abbott's appointment.\n\nIt says: \"This is a man who described abortion as 'the easy way out' and suggested that men may be 'by physiology or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command'.\"\n\n\"For all these reasons and more besides, this man is not fit to be representing the UK as our trade envoy,\" the letter adds.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Abbott had \"no place in any British government\".\n\nAnd the SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsten Oswald, called the appointment \"beyond indefensible\".\n\nBut Mr Abbott's sister, Christine Forster, defended him against claims of misogyny and homophobia.\n\n\"As a woman who has always been part of his life and who came out to him as gay in my early 40s, I know incontrovertibly that Tony is neither of those things,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"In reality he is a man of great conviction and intellect; an unabashed conservative but with great compassion, respect for others, and an indelible sense of doing what is right.\"\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\nThe Board of Trade will meet four times a year.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss, who will chair the body, said: \"At a time of increased protectionism and global insecurity, it's vital that the UK is a strong voice for open markets and that we play a meaningful role in reshaping global trading rules alongside like-minded countries.\"\n\nShe said she was bringing together \"a diverse group of people who share Britain's belief in free enterprise, democracy, and high standards and rules-based trade\".", "Attending primary school puts children and staff at no greater risk of contracting coronavirus than staying at home, a study of 131 schools suggests.\n\nTests to find out who had already had the virus found similar levels of antibodies in pupils and teachers.\n\nBut the study, of 12,000 adults and children in England, was carried out in June and early July, when there were very few cases around.\n\nExperts say more studies are needed, when all children are attending school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nFor the study, pupils and staff were tested during the last six weeks of the summer term when Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children could return to school.\n\nSince then, millions of children across the UK have returned to the classroom, with lessons resuming in England and Wales in the past few days. Schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland reopened last month.\n\nSchools now look very different to what students were once used to, with pupils being told to stay in their \"bubble\" groups, follow one-way systems and social distance when necessary. Staggered start times have also been introduced, and hand-washing stations and screens installed.\n\nBubbles vary widely between schools. Some primary schools treat each class as a separate bubble, while secondary schools often have bubbles composed of entire year groups - sometimes of up to 300 children.\n\nChildren with a new classroom lay-out at a school in Southwark, south London\n\nScientists from Public Health England, who led the study, found just three people (one child and two staff) tested positive for the virus - 0.02% of those swabbed.\n\nThere was no evidence that any of these three people passed the virus on to others they lived with or worked with. This reflects previous research by PHE showing low numbers of cases and outbreaks in schools.\n\nA separate sample of 2,100 staff and children, who were tested for antibodies, found 10.6% of pupils and 12.7% of staff had previously had coronavirus.\n\nThis could suggest that children are as likely as adults to be infected, rather than being less susceptible to the disease.\n\nBut because so few positive cases in children are detected, it confirms previous research that they are likely to experience mild symptoms, or none at all.\n\nThe study found children and staff who attended school more frequently were no more likely to test positive for antibodies than those who did not attend school, or went less often.\n\nThis could indicate that infection levels in schools are simply reflecting virus levels in the communities where people live.\n\nHowever, some groups were more likely to have antibodies - they were non-white, lived in the same house as a healthcare worker and had experienced symptoms.\n\nSecondary schools were not included in the study, so no conclusions can be drawn about older children.\n\nDr Shamez Ladhani, consultant epidemiologist, from Public Health England said: \"This is the largest study of its kind in the country and suggests attending preschool and primary school brings no additional risk to either staff or students.\n\n\"Although these results are preliminary, they should be very reassuring to parents who may be anxious about their children returning to school.\"\n\nDr Liz Whittaker, clinical lecturer and consultant paediatrician, from Imperial College London, said it was a \"good quality study\" but \"limited by timing\" as there was very low transmission of coronavirus during the period studied.\n\n\"It is essential that studies such as these continue over the next few months, and importantly, are also performed in secondary school and college settings,\" she added.\n\nProf Ravindra Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Cambridge, cautioned that schools would now be coping with two to six times more children, which could alter the results.\n\n\"There is less ability to socially distance than schools were able to in June. We must not be complacent and falsely reassured. We must ensure adequate monitoring and testing strategies to pick up infections in schools before they spread,\" he said.\n\nRegarding the finding that children were often asymptomatic, Prof Gupta said that meant \"children may still continue to attend school if we do not regularly test for the virus in schools\".\n• None National surveillance of pre-schools and primary schools for coronavirus infection in England The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The level of coronavirus among the community in England remains \"unchanged\" for the week to 25 August, the Office for National Statistics suggests.\n\nIts latest survey of people in households estimates there were around 2,000 new cases of coronavirus per day.\n\nThis suggests that, despite outbreaks in some local areas, overall case numbers remain stable.\n\nThe ONS figures give one of the most accurate pictures of infections levels.\n\nThey are based on more than 151,000 swab tests collected from people at home, whether they have symptoms or not.\n\nBut there is always a margin for error in the figures because over the past six weeks of the study very few people have tested positive - just 71 from 68 households.\n\nThe figures also do not cover what is going on in hospitals or care homes, where infection rates are likely to be different.\n\nHowever, they continue to paint a picture of a stable level of infections among private households in England.\n\nThe ONS estimates that 27,100 people in the community had the virus during that week from 19 to 25 August.\n\nThis is similar to the estimate for the previous week and several weeks before that.\n\nIn Wales, during the week to 25 August, 1,400 people are estimated to have had Covid-19 - also unchanged from previous weeks.\n\nA different kind of test - an antibody test, using blood samples - which looks for evidence of people having previously had the infection, has been carried out on 7,000 people as part of the ONS study.\n\nResults suggest that around 6% of the population - or one in 17 people - have been infected with the coronavirus in the past.\n\nThis equates to 2.7 million people in England.\n\nThe R number for the UK is between 0.9 and 1.1, say the government's scientific advisors, which means the number of people with the virus is staying at a constant level.\n\nThe reproduction number or R is the average number of people that one infected person passes the virus onto.\n\nAn R number of 1 means that on average every person who is infected will infect one other person, meaning the total number of infections is stable.\n\nThis estimate of R is a guide to the general trend rather than a description of what is happening today.\n\nThe Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said the ONS data showed that the government's approach, using contact tracing and local restrictions, was working and was helping the country \"to safely return to normal\".\n\n\"This reassuring news is testament to the hard work of everybody in following social distancing guidelines to protect themselves, their loved ones and the NHS.\"\n\nMr Hancock added: \"I would urge everybody to continue to be vigilant - wash your hands, wear a face covering and keep social distance from those outside your household - so we can keep the virus at bay.\"", "Protesters opposed to Covid-19 restrictions have gathered in Edinburgh as figures showed the highest weekly rise in cases since May.\n\nCoronavirus sceptics, vaccine conspiracy theorists and those opposed to mandatory mask-wearing staged a rally at Holyrood.\n\nIt comes as figures showed almost a thousand people tested positive for the virus this week in Scotland.\n\nIn the past seven days there were 994 confirmed cases.\n\nThe figure is almost double the 507 new cases in the week previous.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch described the protesters as \"deeply irresponsible\".\n\nHundreds of protesters joined the rally outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nHe said: \"I honestly do not understand it.\n\n\"I think it is irresponsible - do they think we're making it up? 194 countries are making up a viral pandemic.\n\n\"I would love to have not lived through the last six months, both in my job and what we have had to do to our country and many others.\n\n\"I think it is deeply irresponsible.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters marched to the parliament building in Edinburgh with flags and placards for the Scotland Against Lockdown protest, organised by the Saving Scotland Facebook group.\n\nA post advertising the event said it was \"time to stand up together, and listen to real scientific evidence in regards to the health of the Scottish people.\"\n\nThe group said lockdown was causing \"more harm than the virus\" and that Scots should say \"no to mandatory vaccines and masks. No to secondary lockdowns.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it had been aware of the demonstration and that officers had provided a \"proportionate response\" and no arrests had been made.\n\nIn the past 24 hours, the number of cases in Scotland rose by 141. There were no new deaths.\n\nThe figures showed the biggest rise was in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area where 68 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe last time weekly cases exceeded the current total was 17 May, although there have been changes to the Scottish government's reporting of figures since then, including incorporating the results of home testing kits from July.\n\nThe number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 overall in Scotland now stands at 21,189 and the number of infected patients who have died remains at 2,496.\n\nAccording to the government's latest figures, NHS Lanarkshire saw another 20 cases - an increase on the 16 announced on Friday when it warned the region was close to having to reintroduce restrictions, similar to those imposed on other parts of western Scotland.\n\nNHS Grampian, where the Aberdeen bar cluster was identified last month, has recorded an increase of just two new cases.\n\nA total of seven cases have been discovered in Ayrshire and Arran, 14 in the Forth Valley, six in the Highlands, eight in Tayside and 14 by NHS Lothian.\n\nA single new case was identified by both NHS Borders and NHS Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe number of tests carried out fell to 15,618 - the lowest total since 24 August.\n\nThe number of new confirmed cases represents 1.5% of newly tested individuals, say the figures.\n\nAs of Friday night, two people were in intensive care with coronavirus and a further 251 infected people were in hospital, although that figure includes patients who may not be receiving treatment for the disease.", "Bolton residents are asked not to mix or use public transport unless absolutely necessary\n\nTougher measures are being introduced in Bolton in an effort to stop coronavirus cases rising and prevent a full local lockdown.\n\nThe infection rate in the area has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people per week - the highest in England.\n\nThose aged between 18 and 49 account for more than 90% of cases.\n\nAnnouncing new and immediate measures affecting transport and social mixing, council bosses pleaded for \"everyone in Bolton to play their part\".\n\nResidents have been asked to only use public transport for essential purposes, which means travel to education, work, and essential matters such as hospital appointments.\n\nPeople have also been told not to mix with other households in any setting indoors or outdoors anywhere, except in their support bubble.\n\nIn a joint statement, council leader David Greenhalgh and chief executive Tony Oakham said: \"It has been a tough period for individuals, families and businesses but we don't want to throw away all our hard work by allowing the infection rate to rise even higher.\n\n\"Now, more than ever, we need everyone in Bolton to play their part.\n\n\"Nobody wants these restrictions to remain a moment longer than necessary and we believe these new measures will keep everyone safe and help avoid a full lockdown in Bolton.\"\n\nDr Helen Lowey, director of Public Health for Bolton Council, said: \"We are carrying out extra testing including giving out home testing kits, and are carrying out extra site visits to support businesses to be Covid secure, and carrying out enforcement where necessary.\n\nBolton's move comes as other parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire move out of stricter lockdown measures.\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. It is one of the world's longest and slowest pieces of music\n\nFans have flocked to a church in Germany to hear a chord change in a musical composition that lasts for 639 years.\n\nIt is the first change in the piece, As Slow As Possible, in seven years.\n\nThe work is by the avant-garde American composer, John Cage.\n\nIt began 19 years ago with a pause lasting nearly 18 months. The change of chord took place on the specially built organ on which the composition is being performed.\n\nThe Saint Burchardi Church in the city of Halberstadt started playing the music in 2001 and the last note change took place in 2013.\n\nThe music As Slow As Possible will end in 2640\n\nThe score is made up of eight pages of music, to be played at the piano or organ - very slowly.\n\nBut the wait for the next scheduled chord change will be quick in comparison - with 5 February 2022 slated as the date.\n\nThe piece will end in 2640.\n\nCage, who died in 1992 at the age of 79, wrote the piece in the 1980s.\n\nThe composer is arguably most famous for 4'33\".\n\nThe three-movement composition from 1952 is for any combination of instruments, but instructs performers not to play them. Listeners instead hear the sound of the surrounding environment during the four minutes and 33 seconds the work lasts.", "The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections, scientists say.\n\nMost people are infectious only for about a week, but could test positive weeks afterwards.\n\nResearchers say this could be leading to an over-estimate of the current scale of the pandemic.\n\nBut some experts say it is uncertain how a reliable test can be produced that doesn't risk missing cases.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, one of the study's authors, said instead of giving a \"yes/no\" result based on whether any virus is detected, tests should have a cut-off point so that very small amounts of virus do not trigger a positive result.\n\nHe believes the detection of traces of old virus could partly explain why the number of cases is rising while hospital admissions remain stable.\n\nThe University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine reviewed the evidence from 25 studies where virus specimens from positive tests were put in a petri dish to see whether they would grow.\n\nThis method of \"viral culturing\" can indicate whether the positive test has picked up active virus which can reproduce and spread, or just dead virus fragments which won't grow in the lab, or in a person.\n\nThis is a problem we have known about since the start - and once again illustrates why data on Covid is far from perfect.\n\nBut what difference does it make? When the virus first emerged probably very little, but the longer the pandemic goes on the bigger the effect.\n\nThe flurry of information about testing and the R number creates confusion.\n\nBut however we cut it, the fact remains there are very low levels of infection in the UK overall, lower than a number of other European countries.\n\nWhere there are local outbreaks the system - by and large - seems to be having success in curbing them.\n\nAnd this comes after the opening up of society over the summer.\n\nOf course, the big question is what happens next, with schools back and winter around the corner.\n\nThere is a growing sense within the public health community that the UK is in a strong position - and certainly a return to the high levels of infection seen in the spring should be avoided.\n\nBut there is also extreme caution and an understandable desire for complacency not to creep in.\n\nThe PCR swab test - the standard diagnostic method - uses chemicals to amplify the virus's genetic material so that it can be studied.\n\nYour test sample has to go through a number of \"cycles\" in the lab before enough virus is recovered.\n\nJust how many can indicate how much of the virus is there - whether it's tiny fragments or lots of whole virus.\n\nThis in turn appears to be linked to how likely the virus is to be infectious - tests that have to go through more cycles are less likely to reproduce when cultured in the lab.\n\nBut when you take a coronavirus test, you get a \"yes\" or \"no\" answer. There is no indication of how much virus was in the sample, or how likely it is to be an active infection.\n\nA person shedding a large amount of active virus, and a person with leftover fragments from an infection that's already been cleared, would receive the same - positive - test result.\n\nBut Prof Heneghan, the academic who spotted a quirk in how deaths were being recorded, which led Public Health England to reform its system, says evidence suggests coronavirus \"infectivity appears to decline after about a week\".\n\nHe added that while it would not be possible to check every test to see whether there was active virus, the likelihood of false positive results could be reduced if scientists could work out where the cut-off point should be.\n\nThis could prevent people being given a positive result based on an old infection.\n\nAnd Prof Heneghan said that would stop people quarantining or being contact-traced unnecessarily, and give a better understanding of the current scale of the pandemic.\n\nPublic Health England agreed viral cultures were a useful way of assessing the results of coronavirus tests and said it had recently undertaken analysis along these lines.\n\nIt said it was working with labs to reduce the risk of false positives, including looking at where the \"cycle threshold\", or cut-off point, should be set.\n\nBut it said there were many different test kits in use, with different thresholds and ways of being read, which made providing a range of cut-off points difficult.\n\nBut Prof Ben Neuman, at the University of Reading, said culturing virus from a patient sample was \"not trivial\".\n\n\"This review runs the risk of falsely correlating the difficulty of culturing Sars-CoV-2 from a patient sample, with likelihood that it will spread,\" he said.\n\nProf Francesco Venturelli, an epidemiologist in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, which was hit hard by the virus in March, said there was \"not enough certainty\" about how long virus remains infectious during the recovering period.\n\nSome studies based on viral cultures reported about 10% of patients still had viable virus after eight days, he said.\n\nIn Italy, which had its peak earlier than the UK, \"for several weeks we were over-estimating cases\" because of people who acquired the infection several weeks before they were identified as positive.\n\nBut, as you move away from the peak, this phenomenon diminishes.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw at Imperial College London said PCR was a highly sensitive \"method of detecting residual viral genetic material\".\n\n\"This is not evidence of infectivity,\" he said. But the clinical consensus was that patients were \"very unlikely to be infectious beyond day 10 of disease\".\n• None Covid testing boss 'very sorry' for shortages", "Protesters gathered outside the sites - including Broxbourne in Hertfordshire - owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation\n\nExtinction Rebellion (XR) activists have delayed the distribution of several national newspapers after blocking access to three printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch.\n\nProtesters targeted Newsprinters presses at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, Knowsley in Merseyside, and near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the action by demonstrators across the country was \"unacceptable\".\n\nXR used vehicles along with individual protesters chaining themselves to structures to block roads to the presses\n\nThe Sun tweeted to report copies of the paper would be delayed arriving at newsagents, adding the blockade was an \"attack on all the free press\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Sun This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Sun\n\nThe presses print the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp titles including the Sun, the Times, the Sun on Sunday, the Sunday Times, and the Scottish Sun. They also print the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the London Evening Standard.\n\nDemonstrators have accused the papers of failing to report on climate change.\n\nXR used vehicles to block roads to the printing plants, while individual protesters chained themselves to structures.\n\nVans were covered with banners with messages including \"Free the truth\" and \"Refugees are welcome here\".\n\nSome protesters chained themselves to bamboo structures to block the road outside the building in Hertfordshire\n\nBoris Johnson said on Twitter: \"A free press is vital in holding the government and other powerful institutions to account on issues critical for the future of our country, including the fight against climate change.\n\n\"It is completely unacceptable to seek to limit the public's access to news in this way.\"\n\nShadow Secretary of State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport, Jo Stephens, said: \"People have the right to read the newspapers they want.\n\n\"Stopping them from being distributed and printers from doing their jobs is wrong.\"\n\nAnd Home Secretary Priti Patel tweeted the overnight action by XR was an \"attack on democracy\".\n\nNewsprinters also condemned the protests as an \"attack on all of the free press\", which it said had affected workers going about their jobs and others such as newsagents who faced \"financial penalty\".\n\n\"Thanks to other industry partners, printing was transferred to other sites,\" it said.\n\nA protest near Motherwell passed peacefully with no arrests, police said\n\nTelegraph editor Chris Evans earlier emailed staff to say that although the paper was not XR's primary target, it was \"severely affected\".\n\nHe told them: \"I'm also very concerned - and I hope you are too - by the attack on free speech.\n\n\"Whatever your politics you should be worried by this. There are also questions for the police who perhaps placed the right of these few people to protest above the right of the rest of the people to read a free press.\"\n\nHertfordshire Police said officers were called to Great Eastern Road near the Broxbourne plant at about 22:00 BST, where they found about 100 protesters who had \"secured themselves to structures and one another\".\n\nBy 06:00 delivery lorries had still been unable to leave the site to distribute papers.\n\nOfficers said 50 people had been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.\n\nProtesters at the Knowsley site had been cleared by about 10:30 BST\n\nChief Constable Charlie Hall said the group's action had been \"an intentionally disruptive and unacceptable protest that had been pre-planned and carefully co-ordinated to create prolonged disruption to local businesses\".\n\nHertfordshire officers arrived \"within five minutes of the initial report\", he said, however, \"the nature of the protest required highly specialist resources and cutting equipment in order to safely remove the protesters from their locations\".\n\nEach one had to be individually released from a bamboo structure they had erected, Mr Hall added.\n\nAlthough business had resumed at the site, he said officers would remain there to monitor the area.\n\nMerseyside Police tweeted on Saturday morning that officers were at the Knowsley plant.\n\nThe site had been cleared of protesters by about 10:30 and 30 people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.\n\nPolice Scotland said in a statement the protest at the Eurocentral plant near Motherwell \"was peaceful and there were no issues\".\n\nXR has accused the newspapers and their owners of \"failure to report on the climate and ecological emergency\" and \"polluting national debate\" on dozens of social issues.\n\nThe Federation of Independent Retailers condemned the demonstrations, saying members left without supplies of papers were having \"to deal with angry customers who are unable to get their daily newspaper\".\n\nNational president Stuart Reddish said it also meant retailers were unable to get papers to elderly and vulnerable customers.\n\n\"Newsagents have played a critical role during Covid-19 in getting newspapers into the hands of readers and this is not helpful at a time when every sale counts,\" he added.\n\nExtinction Rebellion accused some of the papers of failing to report on climate change\n\nExtinction Rebellion has planned 10 days of action and is calling on the government to do more to act on climate change.\n\nIn an updated statement following the latest protest, a spokesman said: \"We are in an emergency of unprecedented scale and the papers we have targeted are not reflecting the scale and urgency of what is happening to our planet.\n\n\"To any small businesses disrupted by the action this morning we say, 'we're sorry. We hope that our actions seem commensurate with the severity of the crisis we face and that this day of disruption successfully raises the alarm about the greater disruption that is coming'.\"\n\nOn Thursday, more than 300 people were arrested during protests in central London.\n\nMeanwhile, climate change protesters have been warned they risk large fines if they fail to comply with coronavirus rules banning gatherings of more than 30 people.\n\nA procession of activists that set off walking from Brighton a week ago was due to march the final stretch to Parliament later.\n\nThe Met Police said risk assessments of the march in Westminster \"did not meet the required standard\" and have banned XR from taking a 20ft model boat named after teenage activist Greta Thunberg to the streets of Westminster.\n\nAt about 14:45 on Saturday a group accompanying the boat posted a video on social media saying members had been \"stopped on the A3 just after Kennington Park, by a lot of police and 14 police vans\".\n\nXR protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square in London had been largely dispersed, police said, and a spokeswoman for the Met Police said officers were also in Euston where a protester had locked themselves to a crane.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tony Abbott said he was \"proud\" to be helping the UK make the most of its \"post-Brexit opportunities\"\n\nTony Abbott has said he is looking forward to contributing his \"expertise\" in global commerce to his new role as a trade adviser to the UK government.\n\nThe former Australian PM was appointed to the unpaid role on Friday, despite criticism over his past comments on women, LGBT people and climate change.\n\nMr Abbott, who led Australia from 2013-15, posted on Twitter that he was \"only too keen\" to help the UK.\n\nBut Labour said he should have been disqualified from the role.\n\nMr Abbott will advise the new Board of Trade, set up to help ministers and encourage firms to do more business internationally, but will not be involved in post-Brexit talks between the UK and other countries.\n\nHis appointment has drawn criticism from opposition parties and equality activists, including Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, who said his past comments meant he was not \"fit\" for the role.\n\nThe former Australian PM opposed same-sex marriage in Australia's 2017 referendum and has been accused of making homophobic and misogynistic comments in the past.\n\nHe has also described the idea of climate change as \"faddish\", and last year claimed the world was \"in the grip of a climate cult\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he did \"not agree with those sentiments\", but rejected suggestions he was unsuitable for the role.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, Mr Abbott said: \"A UK-Australia trade deal, maximising the movement of goods, services and people is clearly in the best interests of both our countries.\n\n\"It's important for the wider world that Britain make the most of its post-Brexit opportunities and I am proud to be playing a part.\n\n\"My government finalised trade deals between Australia and China, Japan and Korea. I'm looking forward to bringing that expertise to bear as Britain works towards mutually-beneficial improvements with its major trading partners.\"\n\nBut Labour shadow trade secretary Emily Thornberry told Radio 4's Today programme Mr Abbott should have been disqualified from the role.\n\nShe said: \"First is his history of offensive statements towards women, LGBT people, minority groups - the list is so long and so despicable that I think it speaks to his character and his values, and I don't think that's a character we should have representing Britain around the world.\n\n\"But secondly, I just don't think that he's the right person to advise Britain on its trade policy.\n\n\"He was never involved in detailed trade negotiations. There were many people who did the spade work, and he turned up and signed them. And he thinks that issues like climate change and workers' rights aren't important.\"\n\nAlexander Downer, a former Australian high commissioner to the UK, rejected suggestions his ally Mr Abbott was a misogynist.\n\nHe told Today: \"He is not a misogynist, he has appointed many women to positions - he was appointed to this position by a woman.\n\n\"I don't think it stacks up, I think it's just party politicking.\"\n\nMr Downer added that the \"huge\" trade deals achieved while Mr Abbott was PM had been a \"remarkable achievement\".\n\nOther advisers to the Board of Trade will include former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt, ex-Conservative Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan and Anne Boden, founder of the online-only bank Starling.\n\nMs Boden tweeted that she was \"pleased\" to be advising the Board of Trade, and that it was \"important\" to have \"challenging voices\" speaking to ministers.\n\nBut the financial technology expert added that she supported diversity and \"so did this woman\", linking to a 2012 speech by another former Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, in which she accused Mr Abbott of being a misogynist in the Australian parliament.\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\nThe UK is currently looking to agree its own trade agreements for the first time in more than 40 years after leaving the European Union in January.\n\nIt is conducting negotiations with the US, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.\n\nThe Board of Trade will meet four times a year.\n\nThe Department for International Trade has stressed that advisers to the board will have \"no direct role in striking trade deals\".\n\nTrade Secretary Liz Truss said: \"The new Board of Trade will play an important role in helping Britain make the case for free and fair trade across the UK and around the world.\"", "A temporary test centre is open outside the town's leisure centre daily until Tuesday at 18:00 BST\n\nResidents are being warned to increase social distancing to avoid \"another harsh lockdown\" after a spike in cases.\n\nCaerphilly's Member of the Senedd, Hefin David, made the comments with 62 cases reported locally in the past week, the highest number in Wales.\n\nA walk-in test centre opened outside Caerphilly Leisure Centre on Saturday for people with symptoms to get tested.\n\n\"This is in the hands of the community,\" Mr David told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"If people get back to serious social distancing, hand washing, limiting contact, we can get back to where we were.\n\n\"People have to take this seriously.\"\n\nVisits to care homes in Caerphilly have stopped to protect residents following the increase in cases.\n\nMr David said the results from tests at the temporary centre \"will guide what happens next and decisions that will be taken after that\".\n\n\"The thing I desperately don't want to see is another harsh lockdown...as we had in March,\" he said.\n\n\"The only way we are going to avoid doing that is if we get back to that disciplined process that we had and were doing so well at.\"\n\nOn Friday, a health official blamed \"having house parties and the like\" for a rise in cases in Caerphilly town, Blackwood, and other areas.\n\n\"People have not been following social distancing rules,\" said Dr Robin Howe, from Public Health Wales.\n\nThe infection rate in Caerphilly over the past seven days has been recorded as 34.2 people per 100,000 population, the highest in Wales and far above the Welsh average of 8.4 per 100,000 people.\n\nA further 14 cases were reported on Saturday in the county, taking the number of cases to 62.\n\nJust below a quarter of the 264 new cases in Wales over the past week have been in Caerphilly.\n\nThe testing centre outside Caerphilly Leisure Centre is open 08:00-16:00 BST on Saturday and Sunday and until 18:00 on Monday and Tuesday.\n\n\"This temporary testing centre will help us learn more about the rate of infection in Caerphilly, and will help us protect the residents of Caerphilly and Gwent,\" said Mererid Bowley, interim director of Public Health for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has urged Whitehall bosses to \"move quickly\" to get more staff back into the office.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, it says it is \"strongly encouraging\" attendance through rota systems, arguing this would be \"hugely beneficial\".\n\nThe government says it wants 80% of civil servants to be able to attend their usual workplace at least once a week by the end of the month.\n\nBut unions have described the government's attitude as outdated.\n\nThey said most civil servants should expect to keep working from home until the end of the year, and they would consider strike action if staff were forced to return when it was unsafe.\n\nThe letter applies to staff in England, with those elsewhere in the UK expected to follow local guidance and continue working from home.\n\nIt follows criticism that too few civil servants working from home because of coronavirus have returned to their desks, despite the easing of lockdown.\n\nAccording to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there has been an increase in people travelling to work in the last two months, with fewer working exclusively from home.\n\nThey said 57% of working adults - out of 1,644 surveyed - reported that they had travelled to work at some point in the past seven days, while 20% had worked solely from home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does a 'Covid-secure' workplace look like?\n\nThousands of businesses that rely on passing trade are suffering while offices stand empty, Dame Carolyn Fairbairn from the CBI has said.\n\nBut Alex Brazier, the Bank of England's executive director for financial stability, has warned that the government should not expect a \"sharp return\" to \"dense office environments\".\n\nIn the letter, sent to permanent secretaries - the highest officials in government departments - Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and Alex Chisholm, chief operating officer of the Civil Service, say that \"getting more people back into work in a Covid-secure way will improve the public services we deliver\".\n\nThey add: \"We have seen a reduced level of social interaction among our colleagues, with the loss of some of the spontaneous interaction and cross-fertilisation between teams that drives innovation and sustained common purpose.\"\n\nBut they say staff safety \"remains our paramount concern\", and that workplace returns will be discussed with unions and staff groups.\n\nWorkplace guidance includes introducing one-way systems, staggered shift times and limiting the number of colleagues that staff members are exposed to in order to prevent the spread of the virus, such as only allowing a small number in lifts at any one time.\n\nThe letter goes on: \"Departments which are still below their departmental constraints should now move quickly to seek to bring more staff back into the office in a Covid-secure way, and take advantage of the return to schools this month and increased public transport availability.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has asked officials for a weekly update on progress.\n\nBoris Johnson is clearly worried about the impact of empty office districts in major cities - and has been urging people to discuss going back to the office, where it's safe to do so.\n\nSome Tory MPs want it to be the government's main priority now that schools are open again. They fear without movement soon, there could be extensive and lasting economic damage.\n\nEncouraging civil servants back into the office could be seen as leading by example, perhaps showing how a system might work for other employers.\n\nBut unions warn the workplace has changed forever and ministers would be better focussing on how to adapt to a new working world.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said this week that it estimated 30% to 40% would be able to return to the office by the end of the year.\n\nLeader Dave Penman accused ministers of \"sounding like Luddites\" in an era when technology made home working easier.\n\nMr Penman told BBC Radio 4's Today that one \"fundamental problem\" with the approach was that, on a practical level, government offices have a maximum capacity of around 50% because of coronavirus restrictions. He said the civil service was working \"very effectively\" from home.\n\nHe added it was \"quite clear\" that \"this is really about virtue signalling to the private sector that has already moved on\".\n\nAnd Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said he was prepared to consider industrial action \"as a last resort\" if workers' health and safety were \"put at risk\".\n\nMeanwhile, outsourcing firm Capita - a major government contractor - is planning to close more than a third of its offices in the UK permanently.", "An endangered white-handed gibbon: The right conservation strategies can save the day\n\nScientists have calculated how many mammals might be lost this century, based on fossil evidence of past extinctions.\n\nTheir predictions suggest at least 550 species will follow in the footsteps of the mammoth and sabre-toothed cat.\n\nWith every \"lost species\" we lose part of the Earth's natural history, they say.\n\nYet, despite these \"grim\" projections, we can save hundreds of species by stepping up conservation efforts.\n\nThe new research, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests that humans are almost entirely responsible for extinctions of mammals in past decades.\n\nAnd rates will escalate in the future if we don't take action now.\n\nDespite this \"alarming\" scenario, we could save hundreds if not thousands of species with more targeted and efficient conservation strategies, said Tobias Andermann of the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre and the University of Gothenburg.\n\nIn order to achieve this, we must increase our collective awareness about the \"looming escalation of the biodiversity crisis, and take action in combatting this global emergency\".\n\n\"Time is pressing,\" he said. \"With every lost species, we irreversibly lose a unique portion of Earth's natural history.\"\n\nA mammoth skull at auction in New York City: Many more could follow this extinct species' path\n\nThe scientists compiled a large dataset of fossils, which provided evidence for the timing and scale of recent extinctions.\n\nTheir computer-based simulations predict large increases in extinction rates by the year 2100, based on the current threat status of species.\n\nAccording to these models, the extinctions that have occurred in past centuries only represent the tip of the iceberg, compared with the looming extinctions of the next decades.\n\n\"Reconstructing our past impacts on biodiversity is essential to understand why some species and ecosystems have been particularly vulnerable to human activities - which can hopefully allow us to develop more effective conservation actions to combat extinction,\" said Prof Samuel Turvey of ZSL (Zoological Society of London).\n\nLast year an intergovernmental panel of scientists said one million animal and plant species were now threatened with extinction.\n\nScientists have warned that we are entering the sixth mass extinction, with whatever we do now likely to define the future of humanity.\n• None 'Billions of years of evolutionary history' under threat", "Daniel Prude died a week after he was restrained by police\n\nThe US police officers involved in the suffocation death of a black man were following their training \"step by step\", the officers' union chief said.\n\nDaniel Prude - who suffered from mental health issues - died after being put in a \"spit hood\", designed to protect officers from detainees' saliva.\n\nThe mayor suspended the seven Rochester Police officers involved on Thursday.\n\nMr Prude, 41, died in March but his death has just recently been reported after body camera video was released.\n\nHis death came two months before that of George Floyd, whose killing while in police custody sparked widespread outrage and incited national and international demonstrations against police brutality and racism.\n\nThe officers' suspension this week is the first disciplinary action taken in the wake of Mr Prude's death. Contract rules mean that the officers will still be paid while on leave, according to city officials.\n\n\"To me, it looks like they were watching the training in front of them,\" said Michael Mazzaeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club on Friday. \"If there's a problem with that, let's change it.\"\n\nMr Mazzaeo further defended the officers, saying they were in a difficult position trying to help someone who appeared to have a mental illness, and they did not intend to harm Mr Prude.\n\nThe spit hood is standard equipment for officers, he said.\n\nMr Prude's brother, Joe, has said he called police on 23 March as Daniel was showing acute mental health problems. When officers arrived, he had been running naked through the streets in a light snow.\n\nMr Prude died in March, but his death has only just been reported\n\nPolice body camera video obtained by the family shows Mr Prude lying on the ground as officers restrain him. Mr Prude, who was not carrying a weapon, can be seen complying with officers immediately.\n\nWhile sitting on the road, he becomes agitated, alternately asking for money or a gun.\n\nHe spits repeatedly on the ground, but does not appear to offer any physical resistance, according to the footage.\n\nAn officer says that Mr Prude told them he has Covid-19, and they place the spit hood on him.\n\nOne officer can be seen pressing down on Mr Prude's head with both hands, saying \"stop spitting\". Mr Prude stops moving and goes quiet, and officers note he feels cold.\n\nParamedics are called and Mr Prude is taken to hospital in an ambulance. His family took him off life support days later on 30 March.\n\nThe Monroe County medical examiner ruled Mr Prude's death a homicide caused by \"complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint\", according to a post-mortem examination.\n\nThe autopsy report also cited \"excited delirium\" and acute intoxication by phencyclidine, or the drug PCP, as contributing factors.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James' office has launched an investigation into Mr Prude's death and Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for the case to be concluded \"as expeditiously as possible\".", "Coverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nDan Evans succumbed to the precocious talent of Frenchman Corentin Moutet in four sets as Britain's interest in the US Open singles ended on Friday.\n\nThe second-round match resumed after Thursday's rain suspension with Evans looking favourite to go 2-1 up in sets after moving to 4-1 in the tie-break.\n\nBut Moutet, 21, battled back to take the third set, then took the fourth to a tie-break having been 4-1 down.\n\nThe 23rd seed's exit swiftly followed compatriot Cameron Norrie's third-round defeat by Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, also on court five.\n\nEvans said he played a \"pretty bad match\" and blamed himself for the defeat.\n\n\"I didn't play great over the two days,\" said the 30-year-old.\n\n\"I was up in the match on numerous occasions. I have nothing to blame apart from myself. You have to win those matches. You have to win them to be a good player and go up the rankings. From the positions I was in, I didn't do anything really well.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to Moutet, adding: \"His way of playing was awkward - I have to give him credit. He doesn't really have a game style or plan, and it's difficult. I thought today he served better. He makes you think twice about what you're going to do and play.\"\n\nMoutet will play Andy Murray's conqueror, Felix Auger-Aliassime, in the third round on Saturday.\n• None Zverev says he was told there was 'very little chance' Mannarino match would be played\n• None Djokovic cruises into US Open last 16\n• None Osaka comes through in three sets\n\nEvans seemed to play a mirror image of himself with the world number 77 explosive and quick around the court with plenty of variation in his play. They were also animated as they verbally expressed gripes both with themselves, each other and those in the crowd.\n\nIt was difficult to separate the pair on Thursday before their match was suspended, and on resumption it was no surprise Evans held his serve at 6-5 to take the third set into a tie-break.\n\nThe British number one raced into a 4-1 lead before errors on his forehand and backhand allowed Moutet to level and then move ahead as Evans found the net. A big first serve earned the 5ft 9in Frenchman the tie-break and the set.\n\nEvans regrouped and look a strong favourite to take the match into a decider by going into a 4-1 lead after breaking his opponent in the second game. But once again the plucky Moutet raised his level to break back in the seventh game with a delightful lob.\n\nEvans began to look exasperated while Moutet's service game was looking exceptional. The tie-break was a one-sided affair as the Briton's levels slumped, with a shot into the net handing his opponent victory.\n\nEarlier, Norrie led by a break in the third set but then lost 11 of the last 12 games as he fell to a 7-6 (7-2) 4-6 6-2 6-1 defeat in the third round in New York.\n\nThe unforced errors mounted for the 25-year-old in the final two sets, with Norrie making 57 overall.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nNorrie, ranked 76th, appeared to be establishing control in the match when he broke to lead 2-1 in the third set but world number 99 Davidovich Fokina levelled straight away and then ran away with the match as the Briton's performance dropped alarmingly.\n\nHe struggled desperately on serve in the closing stages, losing more than 60% of the points on his own delivery in the third set. The double faults then mounted at crucial stages in the fourth set with Norrie appearing to be having issues with his eyes.\n\nNorrie had fought back from two sets down and saved match points to beat ninth seed Diego Schwartzman in the first round, but he was not happy with the level of his performance then and certainly will not be with how he fell away against the 21-year-old.\n\nThe first two sets had been very competitive, if still error-strewn. After a break apiece, the first went to a tie-break which the Spaniard dominated, winning the last five points.\n\nNorrie saved three break points in the fourth game of the second set and then immediately pounced, chasing down a drop shot and sending a forehand down the line to go 3-2 up. After saving another break point at 5-4 up, a similar shot sealed the set for the Briton but it was to be largely downhill from there.\n\n\"I was real dehydrated and [my vision] got a little bit blurry at the start of the third when I broke. I was not really seeing the ball that clearly,\" Norrie said.\n\n\"Towards the end I managed to drink a little bit more and actually felt great in the fourth set but it was too late, he played freely and he played great.\"\n\nThere was success for Britain in the men's doubles second round with Joe Salisbury and American partner Rajeev Ram, the Australian Open champions, overcoming American brothers Ryan and Christian Harrison 6-2 6-4.\n\nDan Evans' versatility usually causes problems for others, but in this match he was often on the receiving end as Corentin Moutet zipped around the court to produce some breathtaking winners.\n\nThere is certainly no predictable pattern to the play of the 21-year-old left-hander, who has now matched his best Grand Slam performance.\n\nIt was a match Evans felt he should have won, and Cameron Norrie may feel similarly having gone an early break up in the third set.\n\nBut 11 of the last 12 games went Davidovich Fokina's way, as Norrie felt his eyesight deteriorate through dehydration.\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "Thousands of students are preparing to return to university after the coronavirus lockdown\n\nA leading epidemiologist has warned the country is at a \"critical moment\" in the coronavirus pandemic, as students prepare to return to universities.\n\nDame Anne Johnson, of University College London, told the BBC data showed the highest number of detected infections was in young people.\n\nIt comes after government scientific advisors said \"significant outbreaks\" linked to universities were likely.\n\nUniversities have said steps are being taken to minimise risks on campuses.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Dame Anne, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at UCL, said: \"We are now seeing the highest number of infections or at least detected infections in younger people aged 20 to 29 and also going up to 45-year-olds.\"\n\nShe added that the data was \"not surprising\", as young people, she said, were more likely to have socialised with friends and family after lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nThe latest figures from Public Health England (PHE) showed the highest coronavirus case rates were among 15 to 44-year-olds.\n\nIn the regions with the highest overall rates, and with most local authorities on its local lockdown watchlist, young working adults aged between 20 and 29-years-old were most affected.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded 1,813 new infections, while 12 more people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's scientific advisory group, Sage, said in a document published on Friday there was a \"significant risk\" that higher education \"could amplify local and national transmission\".\n\n\"It is highly likely that there will be significant outbreaks associated with higher education, and asymptomatic transmission may make these harder to detect,\" the report added.\n\nIt comes as Bolton is placed under tougher coronavirus measures to stop the rising infection rate, now the highest in England at 99 cases per 100,000 people per week. People aged 18 to 49 account for 90% of cases.\n\nAnd in Leeds officials are urging young people to take responsibility for controlling the spread of coronavirus following an increase in house parties in the city.\n\nThe city has been added to the lockdown watchlist - along with Middlesbrough, South Tyneside, Corby and Kettering - meaning people there could face tougher restrictions if the number of infections continues to increase.\n\nCouncil leader Judith Blake said there had been an increase in music events, house parties and illegal raves, adding fines of £10,000 were being issued, and urged caution at a time when university students were set to return.\n\n\"We feel there is a bit of a complacency coming in. What we are seeing is the numbers are changing, and actually more young people are testing positive and they are spread around the city,\" she said.\n\nPolice and the council in Leeds issued seven fines to organisers of illegal raves last weekend\n\nDame Anne told the Today programme it was \"going to be incredibly important to communicate to young people the risks of transmitting coronavirus\", with particular emphasis on maintaining social distancing.\n\nShe said it should be highlighted \"that we need to avoid those situations where we have a lot of close contact, keep distanced\".\n\n\"When we can't do that wear face coverings, wash hands, and isolate when we're sick,\" she said.\n\nDame Anne also stressed the importance of infection control among vulnerable communities, particularly in care homes and hospitals.\n\nConcerns have also been raised that students could spread the virus when they travel from their family homes to university campuses.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an associate professor at the University of Warwick and expert in infection modelling, told BBC Breakfast that the UK was mostly dealing with \"really local\" outbreaks, but the movement of students across the country could cause a wave of infection, especially as they return to families for Christmas.\n\nUniversities were trying to minimise the risk on campuses with strategies including online teaching, grouping students together within year groups, and putting in place local testing and tracing policies, he said.\n\nHe said that small group teaching was still happening in person, but would take place inside large lecture theatres to allow for social distancing.\n\nThe scientific advisory group Sage has advised universities to consider providing dedicated accommodation facilities to enable students who test positive to quarantine and minimise the risk of an outbreak.\n\nUniversities have also been urged to work with local authorities in addition to conducting their own test and trace programmes.", "A senior Bank of England official has cast doubt on the government's drive to get workers back to the office as coronavirus curbs are eased.\n\nAlex Brazier, the Bank's executive director for financial stability, said a \"sharp return\" to \"dense office environments\" should not be expected.\n\nSocial distancing guidelines in the workplace and public transport capacity were two factors holding people back.\n\n\"We should expect a more phased return,\" he told a committee of MPs.\n\n\"I feel safe coming to work, but I quite understand why many people might not,\" he said in evidence to the Treasury Committee.\n\n\"It's not possible to use office space, particularly in central London and dense places like that, with the intensity that we used to use it.\n\n\"It's not possible to bring lots of people back very suddenly.\"\n\nMr Brazier's remarks come after the government launched an ad campaign encouraging people to go back to the workplace.\n\nBusiness leaders have warned of economic damage being done to city centres as people stay away from offices.\n\nLast week, head of the CBI Dame Carolyn Fairbairn said the prime minister needed to do more to get workers to return, warning of a \"high price for local businesses, jobs and communities\".\n\nSome have warned city centres could become \"ghost towns\"\n\nHowever, an increasing number of employers say that home working - which was initially brought in as a temporary measure during lockdown - could become a more permanent state of affairs.\n\nThe law firm Linklaters, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest, Fujitsu, Capita and Facebook are among those who plan to allow much more flexible working in the future.\n\nMeanwhile, 50 of the biggest UK employers questioned by the BBC said they had no plans to return all staff to the office full-time in the near future.\n\nOne of the main reasons given for the lack of a substantial return was that firms could not see a way of accommodating large numbers of staff while social distancing regulations were still in place.\n\nThis week, the government launched a campaign asking employers to reassure staff it is safe to return by highlighting measures taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut there was confusion when Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he cared more about how employees performed than where they were working, contradicting other ministers.\n\nOn Wednesday, during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, Boris Johnson made several references to the need to get people back to work, saying he and his colleagues were working to get the country and the economy \"back on its feet\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman recently said: \"The message from the PM is he recognises the importance that returning to work has in stimulating the economy, and that's why we have changed the guidance to give employers more discretion in how employees can work safely.\"", "Police and the council issued seven fines to organisers of illegal raves last weekend\n\nYoung people in Leeds are being urged to take responsibility for controlling the spread of coronavirus following an increase in house parties in the city.\n\nLeeds was added to the Public Health England areas of concern as Covid rates rose to 32.5 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nCouncil leader Judith Blake said there had been an increase in music events, house parties and illegal raves adding fines of £10,000 were being given.\n\nShe urged caution at a time when university students were set to return.\n\nThe city council said infections were broadly spread across its local communities, suggesting they were linked to social and leisure activities rather than single sites - with increasing numbers among people aged between 18 and 34.\n\nMs Blake said it was premature to talk about a lockdown at this stage but the city was approaching a tipping point and restrictions would be considered.\n\n\"Unfortunately we have seen a rise in house parties, but we are working with police,\" Ms Blake said.\n\n\"Last weekend we issued, with the police, seven of the £10,000 fines for organisers of illegal raves.\"\n\nThe fines are part of newly-introduced legislation aimed at deterring illegal music events.\n\nElsewhere in West Yorkshire, Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale feature on Public Health England's watchlist of areas that have seen infection rates increase.\n\nPolice issued a photograph of one event was shut down last weekend in Kitson Road, Leeds, following reports that it was in breach of coronavirus restrictions.\n\n\"We feel there is a bit of complacency coming in,\" Ms Blake said.\n\n\"This virus isn't going to be contained just among younger people.\n\n\"The fact is that the social distancing measures have been working, but if we relax and it starts to spread back into the older more vulnerable communities we are going to see increased hospitalisation and all the things we saw at the beginning of the virus.\"\n\nShe said the council had been working with the universities ahead of the return of students later this month.\n\n\"We want to really get across that the virus is still with us,\" Ms Blake said.\n\nThe West Yorkshire city has been named alongside South Tyneside, Corby, Middlesbrough and Kettering as an area for concern.\n\nWakefield, Neward and Sherwood, and Slough were all removed after case numbers fell.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mass arrests as crowds chant 'go away' to Belarus president\n\nBelarus police carried out mass arrests as tens of thousands of people again gathered for protests calling on leader Alexander Lukashenko to step down.\n\nMore than 50 people were detained on Sunday, rights groups said.\n\nVideo footage appeared to show police spraying an irritant directly into the faces of protesters in one city.\n\nIt was the 50th day of protests following August's disputed presidential vote. Earlier this week Mr Lukashenko held a secret inauguration.\n\nThe electoral commission says Mr Lukashenko won a sixth term with more than 80% of votes. But the opposition says he cheated and that they won the election with at least 60% of the vote.\n\nSeveral EU countries and the US say they do not recognise Mr Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus.\n\nFor the seventh straight weekend Minsk saw a mass protest\n\nPolice admitted using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse what they called \"disobedient\" protesters in the eastern city of Gomel on Sunday.\n\nBut local media footage circulating online showed officers spraying a substance directly into people's faces. Many of the protesters were women, who retreated while shouting \"fascists\".\n\nActivists say at least 50 people were detained by police on Sunday\n\nMeanwhile in the capital Minsk, where tens of thousands of people gathered for the seventh straight weekend of protests, riot police pulled people out of crowds and hauled them away in vans, a Reuters news agency witness said.\n\nMr Lukashenko was quietly inaugurated on Wednesday morning, without any of the usual pre-publicity and fanfare.\n\nThe man who has ruled the former Soviet republic for 26 years said Belarus needed security and consensus \"on the brink of a global crisis\", an apparent reference to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"I cannot, I have no right to abandon the Belarusians,\" he added, without making reference to the mass rallies demanding his resignation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 73-year-old great-grandmother has turned into an unlikely hero for demonstrators in Belarus\n\nHis main rival for president, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, and other key opposition figures are currently in self-imposed exile in neighbouring countries following a wave of arrests amid the demonstrations.\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya said on Wednesday that Mr Lukashenko was \"neither a legal nor a legitimate head of Belarus\".", "Students should not be made \"scapegoats\" for a wave of Covid outbreaks, says a lecturers' leader.\n\nJo Grady of the UCU university staff union said it was the \"completely predictable\" outcome of encouraging large numbers of students to return.\n\nWith universities in England starting term, she called for students to be able to study online from home.\n\nThe Department for Education says it is supporting universities to have a mix of online and face-to-face teaching.\n\nIn a further Covid outbreak, 1,700 students in two accommodation blocks at Manchester Metropolitan University have been told to stay in isolation for 14 days, after about 100 students tested positive.\n\nThe lecturers' union questioned the point of \"encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\".\n\nDr Grady said tough restrictions on students in Scotland and increasing warnings for students in England did not mean outbreaks were a consequence of \"reckless behaviour\" by students.\n\nInstead she said outbreaks were the result of universities pushing for \"massive numbers\" of students to come back to campuses for the \"university experience\" and to sign up for accommodation.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, they were mis-sold,\" Dr Grady told the BBC.\n\nShe said it was \"irresponsible\" of universities to have been \"luring students back on the basis that they can have a social life at university and that they can have face-to-face teaching\".\n\nRather than bringing back more students in England, she said more teaching should be put online and students should be able to study from home.\n\n\"I think there has to be an alternative to keeping students locked in absurdly expensive accommodation, rather than having them at home,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nShe called for students to be released from their housing contracts and for a way for them to be able to make a safe way home.\n\nDr Grady warned of an increasingly chaotic situation in universities and criticised the response of not letting students return home from their university accommodation.\n\nShe said this was based on a \"boarding school\" perception of university life, adding that it might be important for some students to be able to go home, for instance if they were homesick or living with people who they did not like or felt threatened by.\n\nDr Grady wants universities to reduce face-to-face teaching, but said some universities were only doing it \"surreptitiously\", because of fears \"their nearest competitor isn't doing it\".\n\nMost universities were expecting to deliver lectures online, but it is also thought some seminars could be \"live and interactive\" but delivered online.\n\nLiverpool Hope and Liverpool John Moores are among those that have publicly moved more teaching online.\n\nUniversities UK says it us up to each individual university to decide how they will bring back students and whether they will switch to online lessons.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working with universities and Public Health England on any measures needed to respond to Covid outbreaks.\n\n\"Protecting students' education and wellbeing is vital, so we are supporting universities to continue delivering a blend of online and face-to-face learning where possible in a Covid-secure way,\" said a department spokeswoman.\n\n\"As with other essential services, education staff should continue to go into work where necessary.\"", "Prince Charles spoke ahead of the online service to mark National Police Memorial Day\n\nPrince Charles has led tributes to police officers who have died in the line of duty including a sergeant who was shot dead two days ago.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said Sgt Matiu Ratana's death was the \"latest heartbreaking evidence of the risks\".\n\nThe 54-year-old who died after being shot by a handcuffed suspect was remembered during an online service for National Police Memorial Day.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said \"we own them a huge debt\".\n\nThe Met commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the death of a police officer on duty was a \"rare thing\".\n\nShe said her thoughts were with grieving families as six other officers who have died on duty in the past 12 months were also remembered.\n\nSgt Ratana, from New Zealand, is the eighth police officer in the UK to be shot dead in the past 20 years.\n\nHe died in hospital on Friday after a shooting in Croydon Custody Centre. A 23-year-old suspect, who is thought to have shot himself, remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nMatt Ratana died in hospital after being shot as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody\n\nPrince Charles, who made an address ahead of the online service, said: \"I particularly wish to remember those officers who have so tragically lost their lives since we met in Glasgow last year.\n\n\"The dreadful incident in Croydon on Friday is the latest heartbreaking evidence of the risks faced by our officers daily.\n\n\"I would like to send my deepest sympathy to the families of each of these officers who have given their lives.\"\n\nReverend Cannon David Wilbraham led the 20-minute service online where a candle was lit to those who had died.\n\nThe service which included serving police officers, Prime Minister Boris Johnson would have been held at Lincoln Cathedral before coronavirus restrictions saw it move online.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The police officers we remember today represent the very best of us. They laid down their lives to prevent us from coming to harm and we own them a huge debt.\"\n\nPC Andrew Harper married his childhood sweetheart Lissie four weeks before his death\n\nFamily members, including Lissie Harper wife of PC Andrew Harper also took part in the video that was recorded in advance.\n\nPC Harper, 28, died after he suffered sustained catastrophic injuries when he was dragged behind a getaway car in Berkshire last August.\n\nReverend Wilbraham said: \"In some ways it is all the more poignant for being online.\n\n\"The reality of loss must often be felt most in the home.\"\n\n\"It is a sharp focus on the dangers that are faced,\" he added.\n\nDavid Wilbraham, National Police chaplain, said the online memorial was \"a meaningful, emotive service\"\n\nJohn Apter, of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: \"National Police Memorial Day ensures that police officers who gave their all are never forgotten.\n\n\"We must always remember them, their commitment and ultimate sacrifice to public service.\"\n\nThe service is held each year on the nearest Sunday to St Michael's Day, the patron saint of police.\n\nA small service was held at Lincoln Cathedral with Chief Constable Bill Skelly, Reverend Tanya Lord and Phil Clark from the Police Federation, where a candle was lit to those who had died in service.\n\nDame Cressida had earlier laid a wreath at the National Police Memorial in central London with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nAll three stood for a minute's silence to remember officers who had lost their lives while on duty.\n\nThe 2020 memorial service was due to be held at Lincoln Cathedral\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American football legend Joe Montana and his wife have rescued their nine-month-old grandchild from a kidnapping attempt, authorities say.\n\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the couple confronted a woman who had entered their home and grabbed the child from a playpen.\n\nAfter a \"tussle\", officials said the couple were able to retrieve the child.\n\n\"Scary situation, but thankful that everybody is doing well,\" the Hall of Fame quarterback tweeted.\n\n\"We appreciate respect for our privacy at this time,\" he added.\n\nMontana, who is now 64, spent most of his career with the San Francisco 49ers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He was nicknamed \"the Comeback Kid\" during his heyday in the 1980s, because he was famous for setting up winning last-minute touchdowns.\n\nMontana played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1979 to 1992\n\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said a female intruder entered the couple's home in Malibu on Saturday evening and grabbed their sleeping grandchild.\n\nThe four-time Super Bowl champion and his wife Jennifer \"attempted to de-escalate the situation\" and asked the woman to give the child back, before \"a tussle ensued and Mrs Montana was able to safely pry the child out of the suspect's arms\", the sheriff's department said.\n\nThe suspect, identified as Sodsai Dalzell, fled the scene but was then caught and charged with kidnapping and burglary.", "Shadow justice secretary David Lammy has said that the introduction of a 22:00 curfew for pubs in England has led to people \"bubbling out of pubs\" at the same time.\n\nThe Labour MP said that drinkers were \"hanging around towns and they're potentially spreading the virus\".\n\nMr Lammy questioned the \"science\" behind the new restrictions, saying: \"It's not clear where that came from.\"\n\nBut the culture secretary said: \"There is definitely science behind it.\"\n\nOliver Dowden, speaking to BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, insisted: \"That's why we're requiring people to be seated in pubs and restaurants, so that stops the flow of them to and from the bar.\n\n\"We are reducing the closing times to stop people staying later and drinking.\"\n\n\"And the point about all of this is that everyone has their part to play. If we all play by the rules, we can ensure that there are not further, more draconian restrictions,\" the culture secretary added.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, which came into force on Thursday, all pubs, bars and restaurants in England are to shut no later than 22:00 each night. They are also restricted to table service only.\n\nBut concerns have been raised by both businesses and community groups that the new curfew encourages customers to all leave at once and to carry on drinking together at one person's home.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liverpool Nightlife CIC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrewer and pub chain Greene King told the BBC: \"Without the usual slow 'wind-down' time that pubs would see with a gradual closure, customers were all leaving at once which presented more of a challenge for the pub teams managing people's safety on exiting the premises.\n\n\"We have also seen examples of people leaving our pubs to buy alcohol in shops to drink elsewhere,\" its statement said.\n\nIt is calling on the government to reconsider many of the measures - which were introduced since the number of Covid-19 infections started to increase again.\n\nThey urged additional help for the hospitality industry: \"The measures have not been well thought through and the combined impact of [the curfew], the challenges of table service-only and the fact that the government are unfairly targeting the hospitality sector has had a cumulative negative impact.\"\n\nPub chain operator Mitchells & Butlers, which runs brands like All Bar One, said it was too early to tell what impact the curfew might have on trade, although \"it creates an additional challenge as it forces customers to leave all at once rather than dispersing gradually\".\n\nA spokesman said it presented an extra hurdle \"in what are already very challenging and uncertain times for our industry\".\n\nThe boss of the Wetherspoon pub chain has also questioned the introduction of the 22:00 curfew.\n\nTim Martin said on Tuesday: \"The main problem with the 22:00 curfew is that it's another random and arbitrary move by the government, which lacks logic or scientific credibility.\"\n\nHe said that it would reduce sales for \"hard-pressed\" pubs and restaurants, while also increasing \"the level of unsupervised socialising\" at home and elsewhere.\n\nSpeaking on the Marr show, Prof Mark Woolhouse, who sits on the government's advisory body that models pandemics, said that modelling of the effect of the new curfew had not been carried out to his knowledge.\n\nHe explained: \"The models do not have the sort of granularity that you can explore in detail for closing times for pubs, or even different versions of the rule of six that we now have around the country.\n\n\"So those sorts of things have to be judgement calls based on the public health evidence.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Business said: \"These measures strike a balance between saving lives by protecting our NHS and the most vulnerable and minimising the wider impact on the economy and schools.\n\nShe said the government had taken \"immediate action\" as the latest data suggested a \"considerable rise\" in the infection rate from within the hospitality sector in recent weeks.\"\n\n\"We've acted decisively to support the hospitality sector throughout the coronavirus outbreak, and will keep all measures under constant review,\" she added.\n\nAfter falling from their April peak, confirmed new coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since early August.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded a further 5,693 cases and 17 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths recorded over the weekend tends to be lower than during the week because of reporting delays.", "Sri Lanka says it is sending 21 containers of waste back to the UK after they were found to contain hazardous material.\n\nCustoms officials said hospital waste was discovered in many of the 263 containers imported by a private firm.\n\nThe shipment was meant to be made up of used mattresses, carpets and rugs for potential recycling.\n\nMost of the containers have been stored in warehouses, with only a small amount of material having been re-exported.\n\nThe authorities said there was also plastic and polythene waste in the containers.\n\nLegal action was taken after the Sri Lanka authorities impounded the material in 2018.\n\nOfficials said the 21 containers left Sri Lanka on Saturday.\n\nCustoms spokesman Sunil Jayaratne said the original importation breached international and EU rules and regulations on hazardous waste and its disposal.\n\nEngland's Environment Agency said it was committed to tackling illegal waste exports.\n\nAn EA spokesperson said: \"We are in contact with the Sri Lankan authorities and have requested more information which would allow us to launch a formal investigation.\"\n\nSeveral other countries in the region have recently begun to return waste imported from foreign countries.\n\nIn January, Malaysia returned 42 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to the UK.", "Dame Carolyn will step down as CBI boss in November\n\nA post-Brexit trade deal \"can and must be made\", the organisation representing British businesses has said ahead of further UK-EU trade talks on Monday.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, the boss of the Confederation of British Industry, said it was the time for \"the spirit of compromise to shine through\".\n\nThe Brexit transition period, in which the UK has kept to EU trading rules, ends on 31 December.\n\nThe UK and EU are yet to agree a deal that will govern their future trade.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said a trade agreement with the EU must be done by 15 October if it is going to be ready for the start of 2021.\n\nBut despite this, talks have run into problems. There are still key points of disagreement - including, for example, on fishing.\n\nThe next official round of talks - the ninth since March - begins on 28 September.\n\nThe CBI carried out a survey of 648 companies which found only 4% said they would prefer no deal to be agreed on trade.\n\nAnd half of firms said the impact of dealing with the coronavirus had negatively affected their preparations for next year, when the transition period ends.\n\n\"Next week Brexit talks enter the 11th hour,\" said Dame Carolyn. \"Now must be the time for political leadership and the spirit of compromise to shine through on both sides. A deal can and must be made.\n\n\"Businesses face a hat-trick of unprecedented challenges - rebuilding from the first wave of Covid-19, dealing with the resurgence of the virus and preparing for significant changes to the UK's trading relationship with the EU.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is it so hard to reach a Brexit deal?\n\nShe added: \"A good deal will provide the strongest possible foundation as countries build back from the pandemic.\n\n\"It would keep UK firms competitive by minimising red tape and extra costs, freeing much-needed time and resource to overcome the difficult times ahead.\"\n\nAccording to BBC Europe editor Katya Adler, one EU diplomat said the two sides were \"90% there\" on agreeing technical issues.\n\nThe diplomat said the \"remaining 10% is political\" and \"if that can't be solved, then the 90% is irrelevant\".\n\nAny trade agreement will aim to eliminate tariffs and reduce other trade barriers. It will also aim to cover both goods and services.\n\nIf negotiators fail to reach a deal, the UK faces the prospect of trading with the EU under the basic rules set by the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\nIf the UK has to trade under WTO rules, tariffs will be applied to most goods which UK businesses send to the EU.\n\nThis would make UK goods more expensive and harder to sell in Europe. The UK could also do this to EU goods, if it chooses to.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBusinesses in Wales hit by coronavirus will be offered £140m in grants, Economy Minister Ken Skates has said.\n\nNearly two-thirds of Wales' population are now living under lockdown after new measures were brought in at 18:00 BST.\n\nNeath Port Talbot (NPT), Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan have joined eight other areas in lockdown, affecting almost two million people in total.\n\nThe country's two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - had restrictions applied on Sunday evening.\n\nThe new rules mean no travel outside council boundaries other than for work, education or medical emergencies, with no indoor mixing allowed and no alcohol sales after 22:00.\n\nConwy, Denbighshire, Wrexham, Flintshire, Anglesey and Carmarthenshire are being \"closely monitored\" by Public Health Wales, meaning if cases continue to rise they could also face lockdowns.\n\nMr Skates said two new separate schemes would help businesses in those affected areas, similar to those announced in England.\n\n\"This £140m will no doubt make the difference between business survival and business death for thousands of enterprises,\" he said.\n\n\"It will make the difference between employment and unemployment for thousands more workers.\"\n\nThe first scheme, worth £60m, will be targeted at areas hit by this month's rolling announcements of local lockdowns.\n\nIt will offer grants of between £1,000 and £1,500 to businesses with a rateable value under £50,000 that can demonstrate a material impact because of the new restrictions.\n\nA second scheme, worth £80m, will provide larger grants to firms across Wales that can demonstrate plans for post-coronavirus recovery. Of that money, £20m has been earmarked for tourism and hospitality businesses.\n\nCafes and bars are particularly feeling the strain of having fewer customers\n\nMr Skates also said there was a \"significant gap\" in unemployment between Wales and the rest of the UK.\n\nDespite predictions Wales would be \"worst hit\", the rate of unemployment in Wales from May to July was 3.1%, compared to 4.1% for the whole of the UK, latest figures show.\n\nMr Skates said that difference was because Wales had \"the most generous package\" of support for businesses and was the \"equivalent of 15,000 jobs saved\".\n\nWelcoming the UK government's new Job Support Scheme, he added that \"direct interventions\" by the Welsh Government had secured more than 100,000 jobs.\n\nIn response, Welsh Secretary of State Simon Hart said the UK government had \"directly supported more than 500,000 jobs\" through its job support schemes.\n\nNeath Port Talbot has gone into lockdown, with restrictions stretching along the M4 corridor from Newport to Swansea\n\nThe new measures, introduced on Monday evening, mean half of Wales' 22 local authorities are now under local lockdown rules.\n\nNPT council leader Rob Jones said the area was seeing rising case rates.\n\n\"We need the help of everyone across Neath Port Talbot to prevent the increasing spread of coronavirus and to bring the infection rates back down.\"\n\nBut wedding planner Gail Windley told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast it was an \"incredibly frustrating\" time for everyone involved in weddings.\n\nWedding planner Gail Windley says one bride she is working with would be \"glad to get it over with\"\n\n\"The rug is being pulled from under your feet constantly,\" said Ms Windley, who lives in Neath Port Talbot.\n\nShe said one bride she was working with was \"very stressed\" and would be \"glad to get it over with\".\n\n\"A wedding is a milestone in your life - that's how your ancestors will trace you back - so it's heart-breaking to be involved in that and see it.\"\n\nTorfaen council leader Anthony Hunt said the local lockdown strategy was working in neighbouring Caerphilly and Newport, where he said numbers had \"dropped dramatically\".\n\nA businesswoman in Cwmbran said she was hoping the local lockdown would not affect her too much.\n\nRosa Newton says she feels better prepared this time round\n\n\"The majority of customers are local to Torfaen and I do online as well, so I am hoping, fingers crossed, that it's not too bad,\" said Rosa Newton, who owns an antiques and vintage shop in Cwmbran.\n\nMs Newton said she felt \"better prepared\" for tighter restrictions this time than she did for the national lockdown in March.\n\n\"Within the shop, it's all face masks, hand sanitiser - I feel safe and I feel my customers are safe,\" she said.\n\n\"I will switch to more online shopping. We have to just switch and do what we can as a business to keep going really.\"\n\nLiam Lazarus and his partner Bethan run a cafe in Swansea.\n\n\"It's crazy - it feels like the goal posts are changing in the industry all the time,\" he said.\n\n\"We were getting into a nice rhythm, so now this is happening we are taking a step back.\"\n\nCardiff Airport will remain open despite the Vale of Glamorgan going into lockdown\n\nCardiff Airport, near Rhoose in Vale of Glamorgan, will remain open despite the county going into lockdown because it is \"a vital part of the transport infrastructure in Wales\", according to interim CEO Spencer Birns.\n\n\"Local lockdown restrictions state that residents of areas in lockdown should not travel outside the area, unless there is a reasonable excuse to do so,\" he said.\n\n\"For those travelling from areas not in lockdown, there are currently no legal restrictions about travelling to the airport, as long as rules are obeyed when they do so.\"\n\nResidents of Pontypool will be affected by the latest changes\n\nVale of Glamorgan council leader Neil Moore said it had not been an easy decision but pointed to the rate of infection rising above 33 people per 100,000 in the county borough.\n\nBlaenau Gwent on 304.9 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 227.1 per 100,000 currently have the highest rates of infection.\n\nEleven council areas and one town in Wales will be subject to extra restrictions from Monday night\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"With restrictions now impacting on two thirds of the population of Wales, I appeal to Welsh Government to give careful consideration to using more hyper-local measures where possible, focusing on specific clusters. \"This would be far more effective with a properly functioning and robust testing system of course, which highlights why this needs to be achieved with real urgency.\"\n\nWelsh local lockdown rules mean extended households are not allowed and people are barred from leaving or entering the council boundaries without a reasonable excuse.\n\nPeople are allowed to travel outside the area for a limited number of reasons including going to work if they are not able to work from home, to go to school, give care or buy food or medical supplies.\n\nBlaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport and Rhondda Cynon Taf were already under lockdown, while Llanelli in Carmarthenshire became the first town to have restrictions imposed which do not apply to the wider county.\n\nCardiff and Swansea both went into lockdown at 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the position in the \"north of Wales continues to be mixed\".\n\nA meeting with the leaders of all six councils in the area will take place in the next week.\n\n\"If we need to take action, we will, but the position isn't as clear there yet as it has been in the south and I want to make sure that we look at it with the detail it deserves,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\nThe Conservative MP Simon Baynes's Clwyd South constituency falls within a large part of rural Denbighshire, one of the north Wales authorities with a rising rate of infection.\n\nHe used a speech in the House of Commons earlier on Monday to congratulate the UK government on consulting with Welsh counterparts on the latest covid measures introduced in England.\n\nLabour MPs criticising the UK government's approach to coronavirus should \"consider how the Welsh Government has dealt with many issues,\" he said.\n\nHe said many criticisms such as being \"late to lockdown\" were \"similar approaches as those taken by the Welsh Government\".\n\n\"We are all learning as the pandemic evolves... of course there are bumps in the road,\" he added.", "An investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive\n\nA six-year-old girl has died in hospital after she was struck by a falling tree at school.\n\nEmergency crews were called to Gosforth Park First School in Newcastle, at about 13:15 BST on Friday.\n\nNorthumbria Police said she died earlier on Saturday and her family was being supported \"at this incredibly difficult time\".\n\nAn investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nLeanne Lamb, head teacher, said: \"Our entire school community has been shocked and devastated by the tragic news that one of our pupils passed away during the night, as a result of injuries suffered from a falling tree in the school grounds.\n\n\"First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the child's family and friends as they come to terms with this tragic loss.\n\n\"As a school and community, we will take the time to mourn and are putting in place extra support for the staff and pupils, who are devastated by this incident.\"\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray's return to the clay proved to be a chastening experience as he lost in straight sets to Stan Wawrinka in the French Open first round.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was well below the level of 2015 champion Wawrinka, who eased to a 6-1 6-3 6-2 victory.\n\nMurray's exit came after British number one Dan Evans lost to Japan's Kei Nishikori in a fluctuating five-setter.\n\nEvans has lost on all three appearances in the main draw at Roland Garros after a 1-6 6-1 7-6 (7-3) 1-6 6-4 defeat.\n\nBritish number three Cameron Norrie and qualifier Liam Broady are left to carry the flag in the men's singles.\n\nMurray out of sorts on clay return\n\nExcitement and a sense of disbelief greeted the draw which pitted Murray against fellow three-time Grand Slam champion Wawrinka - who the Scot faced in his last match on clay over three years ago.\n\nFor Murray, it was a remarkable twist of fate which even left him \"amused\". He had not played on the surface since a brutal five-set semi-final against Wawrinka at Roland Garros in June 2017.\n\nThat proved to be the start of the hip trouble which left him needing two major surgeries and on the verge of retirement last year.\n\nWawrinka, 35, has also seen his career stalled by a knee injury in recent years and it led to plenty of intrigue about how a poignant reunion between the two veterans at Roland Garros would pan out.\n\nUltimately, it did not end up being much of a contest as 16th seed Wawrinka ruthlessly dismissed an out-of-sorts Murray.\n\nThe Briton had beaten Wawrinka when they met in the European Open final in Antwerp in October, but a repeat result never looked likely.\n\nThe Swiss has climbed back up the rankings after finding form and fitness, showing why in a one-sided first set where he broke serve three times and won two thirds of the points.\n\nMurray's first-serve percentage was down at a lowly 21% and that was punished by Wawrinka, whose heavy ball-striking was too much for Murray to handle.\n\nEven though Murray's service game slightly improved, he continued to look flat and unable to rouse the spirit which has seen him turn matches around so often in the past.\n\nAfterwards, Murray said he was trying to be calmer on court after regularly showing his frustration during matches in the recent Cincinnati Masters and US Open.\n\n\"It was something that was brought up to me and I tried to sort of keep my emotions in check,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know whether that affected me in any way or not, but that was probably why it was quieter than usual.\"\n\nWawrinka maintained his level in the second and third sets as he continued to punch holes in Murray's defence, ending up with 42 winners as he cruised to victory in one hour and 37 minutes.\n\nThe match was played on a cold evening under the new floodlights on an open Court Philippe Chatrier, but Murray said the conditions were not a factor for his below-par performance.\n\n\"I didn't play well. I served under 40% first serves in the court, which is just not good enough against anyone, and especially someone as good as Stan,\" he said.\n\n\"You want to be serving in the 60%, that sort of region. You won't see many players serve under 40% the rest of the tournament.\"\n\nMurray had not played a clay-court match for more than three years before this one.\n\nHe prioritised the US Open while Wawrinka was getting in some clay-court practice on the Challenger Tour. But the difference between the two was still stark.\n\nMurray accepts he will never physically be the same as he was, and performances like this do make you wonder whether he can ever have the impact he would dearly love to have at Grand Slams.\n\nMotivation may come in the form of Sweden's former world number one Mats Wilander, who asked on Eurosport whether Murray still has the right to be taking wildcards from young players.\n\nThe aim for the rest of the season is to play as much as possible - starting with back-to-back indoor tournaments in Cologne next month.\n\nEvans still searching for an elusive Roland Garros win\n\nEvans admitted he could not have been handed much tougher a draw than Nishikori, who is ranked one place below the Briton after injury problems at 35th in the world.\n\nSo it proved. Once the obvious disappointment subsides, Evans will be able to take heart from a gritty display where he continued to hang in and show flashes of his quality.\n\nThe 30-year-old from Birmingham admits clay is not his favourite surface and, with Nishikori not quite in peak condition, it transpired to be an engaging and unpredictable battle between the pair.\n\nEvans initially looked more comfortable in the drizzle, allowing him to make the quicker start in a 29-minute opening set.\n\nWith the event taking place in autumn rather than its usual spot in May-June, the vastly different conditions have been a big talking point going into the tournament.\n\nBoth Evans and Nishikori were wrapped up in hoodies and long sleeves during the warm-up, with the Japanese player continuing to look cold in an uninspired first-set display where he won just 12 points.\n\nHowever, the match swung back in Nishikori's favour in a second set which mirrored the opener and then Evans had to battle to force a tie-breaker in a third lasting almost an hour and a half.\n\nThat momentum continued in his favour as Nishikori's level dropped again in the fourth and it led to a decider that nobody would have dared predict.\n\nNishikori, though, has a remarkable winning record in five-set matches - standing at 23-6 coming into this one. And, after surviving an Evans fightback from 3-0 down, again showed his steeliness to come through the decisive moments.\n\nTrailing 30-0 at 5-4, Nishikori remained focused and increased the intensity to break Evans' serve to clinch victory in three hours and 49 minutes.\n• None Has it gone too far?", "Mr Swinney told BBC Scotland it was \"appropriate that we look at contingencies\"\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney has confirmed contingency planning has started on potential changes to the Scottish election timetable.\n\nThe vote for the Scottish parliament is due to take place on Thursday 6 May 2021.\n\nSpeaking on the Politics Scotland programme, Mr Swinney said \"the focus\" was on sticking to that date.\n\nBut he said that \"it's appropriate that we look at contingencies in case that is not practical\".\n\nThe past week has seen additional restrictions put in place to deal with an upsurge in Covid-19 cases.\n\nAfter more than 700 new positive tests were reported on Saturday, Scotland's National Clinical Director Jason Leitch said the pandemic was now \"accelerating\" in Scotland.\n\n\"There's a great deal of uncertainty about the period that lies ahead,\" Mr Swinney said.\n\nBut he stressed that the intention was to work within the existing election timetable if at all possible.\n\n\"The government's plan - and parliament's plan - is that the election should take place as scheduled on the first Thursday in May.\n\n\"Obviously there are some contingencies being looked at by parliament, by all parties, and obviously they will continue to discuss these issues.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister emphasised the importance of people being allowed to vote.\n\nHe added: \"It's vital that we have that democratic process to enable the people of Scotland to choose their government and - certainly from the government's point of view - we want the election in May to go ahead as timetabled already.\"", "Barry Island is one of the major tourist attractions in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThree more counties are to be placed under local lockdowns on Monday, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nNeath Port Talbot, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan will have tighter Covid-19 restrictions from 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nIt means half of Wales' 22 local authority areas will be under local lockdowns, after rules came into force in Cardiff and Swansea on Sunday.\n\nAlmost two million people in Wales - two-thirds of the population - will be under local lockdowns.\n\nVale of Glamorgan council leader Neil Moore said it had not been an easy decision but pointed to the rate of infection rising to 34.4 people per 100,000 in the county borough.\n\n\"We have taken a decision today for early and preventative action,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the main reasons for this is that the sooner we stop the increase in transmission, the sooner the restrictions can be lifted.\n\n\"We must now all work together to make that possible.\"\n\nBlaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000 currently have the highest rates of infection.\n\nNeath Port Talbot will go into lockdown, meaning counties along the M4 corridor from Newport to Swansea will be under restrictions\n\nNeath Port Talbot council leader Rob Jones said: \"These restrictions are being imposed to protect public health, to protect you and your loved ones, and to stop people dying.\n\n\"Rates are much higher in local authority areas which border our county borough but we are now seeing rising rates here in Neath Port Talbot.\n\n\"We need the help of everyone across Neath Port Talbot to prevent the increasing spread of coronavirus and to bring the infection rates back down.\"\n\nMr Jones also urged people against panic buying, adding: \"There is no need to be concerned about stocks running low.\"\n\nTorfaen council leader Anthony Hunt said: \"I know the introduction of restrictions is always a difficult decision, but it is a decision I support in order to protect people's health and to try and break the chain of transmission in Torfaen and stop the situation from getting worse.\n\n\"We have already seen this strategy work effectively in Caerphilly and Newport where numbers have dropped dramatically due to people adhering to the new rules.\"\n\nCwmbran is one of the towns which will be affected by restrictions in Torfaen\n\nWelsh local lockdown rules mean extended households must end and people are not allowed to leave or enter the council boundaries without a reasonable excuse.\n\nPeople are allowed to travel outside the area for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThese include going to work if they are not able to work from home, to go to school, give care, or buy food or medical supplies.\n\nBlaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport and Rhondda Cynon Taf were already under lockdown, while Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, became the first town to have restrictions imposed which do not apply to the wider county.\n\nCardiff and Swansea both went into lockdown at 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nEleven council areas and one town in Wales will be subject to extra restrictions from Monday night\n\nFrom Monday evening, almost 1.9m of Wales' 3.1m people will be subject to local coronavirus rules.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"We are now taking further action and placing three more areas under local restrictions in south Wales - Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen, and the Vale of Glamorgan - because we are seeing rising rates in these three areas. These areas also share borders with local authority areas where rates are much higher.\n\n\"Introducing restrictions in any parts of Wales is always an incredibly difficult decision for us to make. But we're acting to protect people's health and to try and break the chain of transmission and stop the situation from getting worse.\n\n\"This is not a regional lockdown - this is a series of local restrictions in each local authority area to respond to a specific rise in cases in each area, which have distinct and unique chains of transmission.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said: \"The first minister might not want it to be described as a 'regional lockdown' but with two million people in the south Wales corridor now under some form of restrictions that's unfortunately what it is.\"\n\nHe called for a more targeted approach - \"local not regional\" - and said there needed to be urgent financial support for businesses affected.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Drakeford said a meeting would take place next week with leaders of councils in north Wales, where he said the position \"continues to be mixed\".\n\n\"If we need to take action, we will, but the position isn't as clear there yet as it has been in the south and I want to make sure that we look at it with the detail it deserves,\" he added.", "Sir David Attenborough has attended a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace, hosted by the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nDuring his visit, the naturalist gave Prince George a fossilised giant tooth from an extinct shark.\n\nThe young prince looked captivated as he handled the tooth of a carcharocles megalodon, a shark that was once a sea predator.\n\nSir David and Prince William both campaign on environmental issues.\n\nThe event was held in the palace grounds to allow for social distancing.\n\nWilliam and the veteran broadcaster watched A Life On Our Planet, in which Sir David reflects on the defining moments of his life's work and the devastating changes he has witnessed.\n\nThe young prince was fascinated by the tooth, found by Sir David in the 1960s\n\nSir David, 94, chatted to the Duke and Duchess and their three children, Princes George and Louis, and Princess Charlotte, after the screening.\n\nHe was interviewed by Prince William at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2019, where he warned humanity needed to act fast to prevent parts of the natural world being annihilated.\n\nThe couple and Sir David have worked together on the environment - including on the Earthshot Prize, a cash reward for solutions to environmental problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. January 2019: Prince William and Sir David discuss he environment in Davos\n\nThe giant shark tooth given to Prince George was found by Sir David during a family holiday to Malta in the late 1960s.\n\nIt was embedded in the island nation's soft yellow limestone, and is about 23 million years old.\n\nCarcharocles megalodon is believed to have grown up to 15 metres in length, twice the length of the great white shark.\n\nDavid Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is released in cinemas on Monday and on Netflix on October 4.", "NHS staff hand out test kits to students at Glasgow University, where there has been a Covid-19 outbreak\n\nStudents have spoken of their worry and confusion at being locked down in their university halls, in a situation described by unions as \"shambolic\".\n\nUp to 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University and hundreds at other institutions, including in Edinburgh and Glasgow, are self-isolating following Covid-19 outbreaks.\n\nIn Manchester, students are being prevented from leaving by security.\n\nUniversities UK said the wellbeing of students was \"the first priority\".\n\nRobert Halfon, the conservative chairman of the Education Select Committee, said 3,000 students were in lockdown at universities from Dundee to Exeter.\n\nHe called for the government and its scientific advisers to reassure students and families by setting out the policy for England - and warned having students in lockdown at Christmas would cause \"huge anguish\".\n\nMr Halfon said universities should also consider discounts to students who were not being taught face-to-face.\n\nManchester Met said it had introduced a 14-day self-isolation period at its accommodation at Birley and Cambridge Halls after 127 students tested positive for the virus.\n\nSome students there said they were getting ready to go out on Friday night when they looked outside to see security guards and police, who told them they could not leave.\n\nFirst-year Joe Byrne said: \"We have had no warning, support or advice from the university about how we get food etc, and instead have been left completely in the dark and practically locked up against our will.\"\n\nMegan Tingey said she was not contacted by the university about the lockdown before police turned up outside her Birley Vine accommodation.\n\n\"It was quite scary and confusing,\" she said. \"No one's really told us much and then the police turn up as well with security outside.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother student, Ellie Jackson, told BBC News she had read about the halls lockdown in the local newspaper before receiving an email about it - and stressed the need for \"more guidance\" from the university.\n\nFor Ellie, it is the second period of self-isolation she and her five housemates have had to undertake.\n\n\"My course is all online - I haven't even been into university,\" she said. \"I could have done this at home. I don't think it's worth the money at the moment.\"\n\nIn a statement, Manchester Met said it had communicated with students \"as soon as we could but it was not possible to give significant advanced notice due to the requirement to implement the isolation almost immediately\".\n\n\"The communications we sent included details about how to access food and other provisions and we have been working with other partners, including local supermarkets, throughout the day to provide additional support,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nStudents in some halls are confined to their flats at Manchester Metropolitan University\n\nMeanwhile, students across all of Scotland have been told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants over the weekend and Universities Scotland has said students who socialise with anyone outside of their household risk losing their place at university.\n\nHundreds of students are isolating at Glasgow University because of two coronavirus clusters.\n\nThe university said it would offer a four-week rent rebate to all students in university residences in recognition of the \"difficult circumstances\" under which they were living.\n\nIt said those students would also be given £50 each to spend on food and it would invite local mobile food outlets to come to residences.\n\nA mobile testing unit has been set up at Murano Street Student Village in Glasgow\n\nReese Chamberlain, an international student at the University of Edinburgh, said his entire block at Holland House was \"locked down\" after a student tested positive.\n\n\"The situation is dire,\" he said. \"I already self-isolated when I arrived here and even then it was so difficult getting basic supplies.\"\n\nHe said there had been an \"exodus of students\" during the night on Friday, with more than 50 leaving the building.\n\nA spokesperson for the university said it was \"not asking for whole halls of student accommodation to self-isolate\" but there were currently \"a small number of positive cases\" and the university was providing care and support to those self-isolating.\n\nA sign reading \"students not criminals\" was displayed at Murano Street Student Village in Glasgow\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady described the lockdown at Manchester Met as \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc\".\n\nThere was \"no point encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\", she added.\n\nAnd the National Union of Students (NUS) said students should be able to return to their families because being \"trapped\" in university accommodation would only add to their anxiety at an already difficult time.\n\nIt called for universities to support students with food deliveries and provide access to mental health services.\n\n\"We must remember this is happening because the government and universities told students to return to campus and this shambolic situation now demands flexibility,\" the union said.\n\nStudents \"must be able to leave rental contracts, access online learning or defer, and do what it takes to prioritise their safety\", the statement added.\n\nThe Department for Education said the government was working closely with universities in England to ensure they were prepared for the return of students.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Students should follow the latest health advice, just like the wider public, which means they should stay at university in the event that they have symptoms; have to isolate; there are additional restrictions imposed locally; or there is an outbreak on campus or in their accommodation.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said students were \"not to blame\" for coronavirus outbreaks but backed universities taking disciplinary action as a \"last resort\" against those who broke the rules.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 139 institutions, said the health and wellbeing of students, staff and local communities was the first priority for universities, which would continue to follow government guidance.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nManny Pacquiao's special assistant says that the eight-weight world champion hopes to fight Conor McGregor in 2021.\n\nJayke Joson added that a \"huge portion\" of Pacquiao's earnings would go to help coronavirus victims in the 41-year-old's native Philippines.\n\nFormer two-weight UFC champion McGregor, 32, tweeted on Friday that the the Irishman would be \"boxing Pacquiao next in the Middle East\".\n\n\"We don't deny it,\" Joson said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nWhile nothing has been signed yet, he added that negotiation between the two camps \"is now starting to move on\" and that both fighters are \"getting ready for this one epic last boxing fight\".\n• None McGregor: Who next after UFC 246? Khabib, Mayweather, Masvidal, Usman or Pacquiao?\n\nPacquiao is the only boxer ever to hold world titles in eight different divisions and in his last fight in July 2019 he beat Keith Thurman to become the oldest welterweight champion in history.\n\nHe now has a 62-7 record, with two draws, while McGregor's last fight - a win over Donald Cerrone at UFC 246 in January - gave him a 22-4 record in mixed martial arts.\n\nHis only previous professional boxing fight was a loss to Floyd Mayweather in August 2017.\n\nThe Las Vegas fight was one of the richest bouts in boxing history and generated more than £450m through 4.3m pay-per-view buys in North America, second only to 4.6m for Mayweather's win over Pacquiao in 2015.", "Additional police officers trained in combating cyber crime are to be deployed in Scotland.\n\nPolice Scotland has also announced plans to establish a \"centre of excellence\" for cyber crimes, with at least 150 specialist staff.\n\nIts focus will be on offences such as child sexual abuse, fraud, and the sharing of indecent images.\n\nThe force has said online sexual crimes against children have increased during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJune was the busiest month ever for reported child sexual abuse.\n\nPolice Scotland recorded 226 crimes, an increase of 21% on the same month the previous year.\n\nDeputy chief constable Malcolm Graham said: \"The nature of crime is changing and Police Scotland needs to change with it. The online space is becoming a bigger part of the front line of policing every day.\n\n\"As well as keeping people safe on the streets, our officers and staff are keeping children safe on their computers and smartphones in every community in Scotland.\n\nMr Graham added: \"While cyber crimes are under-reported, we know we are stopping vulnerable people from being defrauded and adapting our techniques in response to criminals who are doing the same.\"\n\nThe centre for excellence is intended to bring together 100 officers and staff already working in cyber criminality and a further 50 staff initially.\n\nThere are further plans for this number to increase.\n\nThe cyber crime strategy will be put before the Scottish Police Authority board later this week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 1,700 university students have been told to self-isolate after 127 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nStudents at two Manchester Metropolitan University accommodation blocks have been told to stay in their rooms for 14 days, even if they have no symptoms.\n\nStudents said \"police and security were outside\" and self-isolation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nThe restrictions affect students in accommodation blocks at Birley campus and Cambridge Halls after \"127 students have tested positive with a number of others symptomatic or self-isolating\", Manchester City Council said.\n\nStudents across the city have been urged to attend virtual freshers' events and avoid big parties.\n\nBut some said they had no warning of a lockdown and are now trapped in halls of residence.\n\nStudents at two accommodation blocks are self-isolating for a fortnight\n\nMegan Tingy, who studies at Manchester Metropolitan, said on Friday \"We were getting ready to go out and looked out to security and police outside the halls. They say we can't leave.\n\n\"We haven't received any emails from university about this and they seem to be holding us in against our will.\"\n\nStudent Trisha Kakooza, who is from London, said: \"We had eight hours to go get food to last us for two weeks.\n\n\"We have to get any other food delivered, which is expensive.\n\n\"I have a job and it helps me make extra money since student finance isn't enough but now I can't go out to work.\n\n\"We can study remotely but I won't get paid by the agency I work for.\"\n\nChip Wilson, 19, said: \"We have been told we are not allowed to leave and, if we do, we cannot come back, so now we are all stuck inside.\n\n\"On top of all this, many of us here have Covid symptoms but we cannot get tests. We can only get drive-through tests and none of us have cars, and even if we did we can't leave now.\"\n\nMost parts of Greater Manchester have been subject to stricter restrictions since July after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe rate has also doubled in the city of Manchester to 1,026 positive tests in the week up to 22 September, compared to 515 cases in the previous week.\n\nThe lockdown comes as students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nNHS staff hand out test kits to Glasgow University students, who are also subject to restrictions\n\nJoe Barnes, who recently started at Manchester Metropolitan University, told BBC Breakfast that self-isolation had \"left the morale of my flat really low\".\n\nHe said lessons were being conducted online \"so theoretically I could go and study from home but that defeats the point - I've not just come for my studies but to meet new people and enjoy the experience.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've heard horror stories of massive parties in some of the halls around here… it is just frustrating that no one else could have foreseen that.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students said affected students should be able \"to return to their families if they wish, as being trapped in university accommodation will only add anxiety at an already difficult time\".\n\n\"All students affected must be supported by their universities with food deliveries, shopping and access to mental health services if needed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, said the Manchester incident was \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc on campuses across the UK\".\n\n\"We warned last month of the problems with moving thousands of students across the country and the time has come for urgent action from ministers and universities to protect staff and students.\"\n\nShe urged university leaders to drop face-to-face classes until the government improves the test-and-trace system.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"We are fully supportive of the [lockdown] decision.\n\n\"Services such as wellbeing support and the library will remain available to our students online.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nCouncillor Bev Craig, executive member for adult health and wellbeing for the city council, said: \"We understand that local residents may be concerned about this situation.\n\n\"We want to reassure them that the evidence so far suggests that transmission has been within the student community only and has not been more widespread.\"\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\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Llanelli is the first town in Wales being put under a lockdown without the rest of its county\n\nWales' first town-only lockdown has come into force.\n\nLlanelli in Carmarthenshire had restrictions imposed from 18:00 BST on Saturday, making it the first town hit with restrictions which do not apply to the rest of the surrounding county.\n\nWales' two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - will follow suit on Sunday evening following Covid-19 spikes.\n\nLlanelli MP Nia Griffith said lockdown would be \"a tricky time... but it's better to do it sooner than later\".\n\n\"What we don't want is to leave things too late and then wish we'd done more,\" she said.\n\n\"It will impact on different people in different ways but the general feeling is we that need to get on top of this.\"\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Breakfast on Saturday the situation was \"very serious\" and comparable with cases in February.\n\n\"We ended large parts of NHS activity about two weeks later. We had a full lockdown three-and-a-bit weeks later,\" he said.\n\nPeople in 13 ward areas in Llanelli cannot now leave town, or mix indoors with anyone outside their own household.\n\nThe town has seen 85 coronavirus cases over the past week - compared to 24 across the rest of Carmarthenshire.\n\nCarmarthenshire council leader Emlyn Dole said it was \"worrying to see how sharply the number of positive cases has risen in the Llanelli area\".\n\n\"Action has had to be taken to help stop the spread and break the chain of infections concentrated in this area to prevent a whole county lockdown,\" he said.\n\nMr Dole told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he thought the spike in cases was down to pubs and bars not \"paying as much heed to the restrictions as the rest of us\" in terms of social distancing.\n\nThe rate of infection across Llanelli has leapt to 152 cases per 100,000 of the population - it is just 18 per 100,000 for the rest of Carmarthenshire.\n\nIt places the town in the top three weekly infections rates across Wales, alongside Blaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000.\n\nMaria Battle, who chairs the Hywel Dda University Health Board serving south west Wales, said: \"Our local community has given us such tremendous support during the past few months.\n\n\"To protect the health of our people, including the most vulnerable, and to ensure our NHS resources are available to provide people with the care they need, we need the help of our Llanelli population and wider community now more than ever before.\"\n\nThere will be nine areas of Wales under restrictions\n\nExtra testing capacity is being introduced, with appointments at Parc y Scarlets, Ty'r Nant at Trostre, and the Carmarthen showground.\n\nHealth officials said there should be \"no reason for Llanelli residents to travel excessive distances for a test\".\n\nCardiff and Swansea go into lockdown from 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nSwansea hit a seven-day rate of 56 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 on Friday, while Cardiff reached 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford urged people to behave as if the new restrictions were already in place, but told LBC that arrest by the police was a last resort.\n\n\"If there are people who clearly deliberately flout the law you have to enforce,\" he said.\n\n\"Yes, with fines if necessary. But for us that's the last resort, not the first resort.\n\n\"In Caerphilly [the first area in Wales to face local lockdown] we have had very, very good levels of co-operation.\n\n\"My experience is people are wanting to do the right thing.\"\n\nCardiff Central Labour MP Jo Stevens also warned residents: \"Don't take this weekend to go on a massive bender.\n\n\"It's not going to be helpful,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"If people do that this weekend, it does risk further infection rates and that means we'll be in local lockdown for longer.\"\n\nThomas Beynon, manager at Three Cliffs Bay Holiday Park, Gower, said he was expecting to cancel about 380 bookings before the season ends in November due to the new lockdown in Swansea.\n\nHe said it was \"hugely deflating\" and meant \"strange times again\" after the business was hit by the national lockdown earlier this year.\n\nMr Beynon said customers had been \"very supportive\" by transferring bookings to next year rather than cancelling and seeking a refund.\n\n\"We are extremely humbled,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of students are isolating in university accommodation including at Glasgow University\n\nThe culture secretary has defended students going back to university in England after a union labelled the situation \"shambolic\".\n\nOliver Dowden told the Andrew Marr Show it was important students did not \"give up a year of their life\" by not going.\n\nLabour has called on the government to consider pausing the return after Covid outbreaks meant thousands of students had to isolate in their accommodation.\n\nA scientist who advises the government said the situation was \"inevitable\".\n\nMr Dowden said: \"Young people have paid a huge price during this crisis and I think it is only fair to try and get them back - we have got clear guidelines for them to follow.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 5,693 cases and 17 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths recorded over the weekend tends to be lower than during the week because of reporting delays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oliver Dowden: \"They are going to university and paying the fees accordingly\".\n\nProf Mark Woolhouse, who sits on the government's pandemic modelling group SPI-M, said the situation was \"entirely predictable\" and had been modelled.\n\nHe said students were not to blame for the outbreaks and with students converging from around the country it was \"inevitable there would be some spread\".\n\nModelling showed the risk areas were first-year halls of residence and face-to-face teaching, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, three more Welsh counties are to face tighter coronavirus restrictions on Monday - which will mean almost two-thirds of the Welsh population will be under local lockdowns.\n\nStudents have been told to isolate in their accommodation at several universities in England and Scotland, including around 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University - where students said they were being prevented from leaving by security guards and police.\n\nEllie Jackson, a first-year at Manchester Met, said: \"We knew it would be different but we didn't think it would be this different.\n\n\"We've been told, if we leave, we can't come back.\"\n\nFellow student Jaimick Shah said his flatmates had all tested negative but still had to isolate. \"We're struggling to get food because everyone is trying to order it at the same time,\" he said.\n\nManchester Met said it had communicated with students \"as soon as we could but it was not possible to give significant advanced notice due to the requirement to implement the isolation almost immediately\".\n\nThe university said it was \"urgently preparing a care package\" and financial support for affected students to ensure they had the essentials they needed.\n\nThe local University and College Union branch said it had raised concerns that \"the mass return of students would inevitably see institutions become Covid incubators\" - but it said these warnings went unheeded.\n\nIn Scotland there are outbreaks at the University of Glasgow, where 600 students have been isolating, as well as at universities in Dundee, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions in Scotland currently ban people from visiting other households in their home - meaning students cannot return home to another address in Scotland from university accommodation for a short stay without a reasonable excuse, such as a family emergency.\n\nHowever, new guidance issued by the Scottish government clarifies that students can return home on a long-term basis.\n\nStudents who have been told to self-isolate can return home if they need support to do so, including physical, financial or mental health support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Lammy MP: \"The government is now threatening to lock them up at university\"\n\nSome students have questioned why they were told to return to their university accommodation when most of their teaching is being done remotely - and why they are still required to pay full tuition fees.\n\nMr Dowden said students' experience at the start of this term was \"not as it would be\" due to the crisis, but that they should still pay tuition fees as they were being taught.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr if students should get their fees back, Mr Lammy said: \"It's clear that there are actually lots of universities struggling financially so there's a balance here to be struck. Many of us have gone online, the key now is to get students online successfully and for them to have face-to-face [tuition] where it is safe to do so.\"\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Kate Green told BBC Breakfast the government should consider pausing the start of term while an \"effective, efficient testing system\" was put in place, with students given a choice of learning from home if they felt safer there.\n\nLarissa Kennedy, president of the National Union of Students, said the union had \"long called for online learning to be the default\".\n\n\"If [students'] quality of learning is severely impacted then we also need to see tuition fees reimbursed,\" she said.\n\nShe said students should be able to be released from rental contracts at their university accommodation and receive rent rebates so they could remain at home if they wished.\n\n\"We must remember this is happening because the government and universities told students to return to campus and this shambolic situation now demands flexibility,\" the union said.\n\nThousands more students in England are turning up for the new university term this weekend - but the big question is whether they should be heading in the opposite direction and studying from home.\n\nIs it wise or fair for universities to bring students back if they're at increasing risk of being in a Covid outbreak and having to self-isolate?\n\nAccommodation blocks, with shared facilities and filled with young people wanting to socialise, have already seen a wave of outbreaks. So should the brakes be applied to stop this pattern repeating itself?\n\nAfter recruiting record numbers of students and promising them a mix of online and face-to-face teaching, it would be a very awkward U-turn for universities to switch back to the academic equivalent of working from home.\n\nAnd would that mean refunds on accommodation and tuition fees?\n\nThere are likely to be some chaotic days ahead - and some big decisions to be made about whether to cut numbers on campus. And students must wonder how they've gone from being cooped up at home all summer to now being cooped up in university.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock wrote to directors of public health on Wednesday about the return of universities.\n\nIn the letter, tweeted by Sheffield's director of public health Greg Fell, ministers said they should formulate \"a robust outbreak plan\" in collaboration with higher education providers.\n\nIn the case of local restrictions, they said public health directors should ensure measures in response, such as closing some or all face-to-face learning \"do not lead to a migration of students away from their term-time accommodation back to their family homes\".\n\nAre you a student? How are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "People eligible for the flu vaccination are to be offered appointments at new drive-through centres in Edinburgh.\n\nThe centres have opened as a direct response to the Covid-19 crisis. Walk-in clinics will be available for those without a car.\n\nThey should be able to vaccinate up to 500 people each day. They will operate every weekend until December.\n\nInterim deputy chief medical officer Dr Nicola Steedman has urged people to ensure they get the flu jab.\n\nShe said it could avoid the risk of contracting coronavirus and flu at the same time, which she described as \"extremely serious\".\n\nThe Edinburgh centres have been set up by the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP).\n\nIts chief officer Judith Proctor said: \"This is the first time a drive-through model has been used for vaccinations in Scotland, and could provide a blueprint for how to deliver vaccination programmes successfully in the future.\n\n\"Details of where people can go to receive a flu vaccine will be available on the NHS Inform website.\"", "Paris is to put up a statue of a black woman involved in a 1802 rebellion against slavery on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.\n\nThe woman, named only Solitude, was captured and possibly executed.\n\nOpening a public garden in her honour on Saturday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo called Solitude a \"heroine\" and a \"strong symbol\".\n\nFrance's history of slavery has been under new scrutiny, in part because of the US Black Lives Matter protests.\n\nThere has been soul-searching over public commemoration of colonial figures such as 17th-Century statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who codified overseas slavery and is remembered by a statue outside the national parliament in Paris.\n\nBut President Emmanuel Macron has spoken against removing statues or names of controversial figures, offering instead a \"clear-headed look at our history and our memory\".\n\nVery little is known for sure, with just one brief written mention in a 19th-Century history of Guadeloupe, according to Unesco.\n\nThat account records that Solitude, a mixed-race woman, was arrested among \"a band of insurgents\" during an uprising against slavery - which had been reinstated by Napoleon after being abolished during the French Revolution.\n\nShe was sentenced to death, the history notes, but allowed to give birth before being \"tortured\" - an ambiguous term which could mean she was indeed put to death, through flogging for example.\n\nSolitude was portrayed in a 1972 work of fiction by French writer André Schwarz-Bart and a statue already honours her in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe.\n\nThe Solitude Garden is located on Place du Général Catroux in north-western Paris, where a statue will be erected in time.\n\nWhile a statue of a black woman would be rare in the French capital, it would not be unprecedented. The US entertainer and French Resistance agent Josephine Baker (1906-75) has been honoured by both a square and a monument.", "Police said they had been called to break up \"numerous\" parties at the university's main halls of residence complex\n\nPolice have been called to break up a number of parties at the University of Edinburgh's main halls of residence.\n\nOfficers said they had dispersed \"numerous\" groups on Friday night at Pollock Halls of Residence, which houses about 1,900 students.\n\nStudents in Scotland are being told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in an attempt to slow a spate of coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nThe university said a \"small number\" of students had tested positive.\n\nSome of the positive cases are understood to be at one of the Holland House blocks, which is part of Pollock Halls.\n\nA Holland House resident, Reese Chamberlain, contacted BBC Scotland to say he had been told his entire block was \"locked down\" after a positive test was detected.\n\nA spokesperson for the university said it was \"not asking for whole halls of student accommodation to self-isolate\".\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed they were called to Pollock Halls of Residence, on the edge of the Holyrood Park, after \"informants\" raised concerns the parties were breaching regulations that prevent more than one household mixing indoors.\n\nInsp David Hughes told BBC Scotland: \"Police Scotland attended and we've spoken to a number of the parties and dispersed those individuals. [Officers] provided education and advice as to what is and what isn't in line with current regulations.\n\n\"From a police perspective, we've been relatively well received there. We have had some people who were unhappy with the regulations - but more the laws that are in force currently rather than the police response.\"\n\nInsp Hughes said officers had broken up a number of small parties of five to seven students with people who were \"clearly not from the same household\".\n\nNo arrests were made and no fines were issued, he said.\n\nStudents in Scotland have been told not to visit pubs or restaurants or to hold parties\n\nThe officer added: \"It must feel strange to people of that age and you can understand their frustrations in relation to the current regulations but overall the reason that that's there is to protect the health of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nCases of Covid-19 have surged in Scotland over the last two weeks, with 714 positive tests confirmed on Saturday.\n\nUniversities in Scotland pledged last week to make it \"absolutely clear\" to students that they should not be holding parties or socialising with people outside their accommodation.\n\nThey have also been told they cannot return home under coronavirus laws in Scotland as they are deemed to have formed a new household with those they are now living with.\n\nHowever, international student Mr Chamberlain said there had been an \"exodus\" of students supposed to be in isolation in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland the situation in his Holland House block was \"dire\".\n\n\"A Zoom meeting was just now held for affected students of the same household, where a representative told a small group of students that the entire building, not just the affected household, was to be locked down imminently, causing chaos in the community,\" he said.\n\n\"Food was not delivered until late afternoon leaving me hungry and without supplies for the first part of the day.\n\n\"Now people are panicking because no one has actually received any real details about this, and no-one knows how will it will be enforced either. Some are out and about getting supplies not knowing if this already goes against the rules.\"\n\nA first-year student living in another block at Pollock Halls told the BBC there was a \"pretty weird vibe\" around the university.\n\n\"There's always police here now. It feels like we're being watched 24-7 which is a bit scary,\" she said.\n\n\"My friend's in Holland House and she said that the whole of the Holland House blocks had been locked down and there's been people patrolling to make sure that no-one's leaving.\"\n\nSome students said they felt there were being watched \"24-7\" by police and security\n\nAngus Graham-Rack, a first-year at the University of Edinburgh, said the restrictions placed on students had been a \"kick in the teeth\".\n\n\"We were all encouraged to come to halls of residence and meet new people, yet are now are being criticised for doing so,\" he said.\n\n\"We are all left wondering why we even bothered moving here since nobody I know has had any face-to-face interactions with staff yet - we may as well have done the course from home.\n\n\"It feels like we've been completely cheated as we were promised at least some sort of a student experience in the midst of the pandemic, yet now we're essentially confined to our own flats with signs plastered around the building ordering us to not socialise.\"\n\nHealth teams are also dealing with a big outbreak among students at Glasgow University, where 172 students have tested positive.\n\nThere are also outbreaks among students in Dundee and Aberdeen.\n\nA University of Edinburgh it was working with NHS Lothian's Health Protection team to ensure students were provided with \"the information and support they need\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We are asking students who have attended parties recently to be vigilant regarding any Covid-19 symptoms and for all students to follow guidance as appropriate.\n\n\"We are continuing to monitor the situation, keeping our students and staff informed as appropriate, and following all Scottish Government guidance.\n\n\"We are providing care and support - including mental health support - to those self-isolating both in University-owned and private accommodation.\"", "Labour is \"very sympathetic\" to a bid by Conservative MPs to increase parliamentary scrutiny over coronavirus restrictions in England, shadow justice secretary David Lammy has said.\n\nTory Sir Graham Brady wants MPs to have a say on changes to lockdown rules.\n\nEx-Commons Speaker John Bercow and Steve Baker, a former Brexit minister, have also spoken in favour of the move.\n\nThe government says it wants to work with MPs while ensuring ministers can react quickly to suppress the virus.\n\nIt has also said MPs will get the chance to vote retrospectively on the 'rule of six', which puts a limit on the number of people at social gatherings.\n\nMr Lammy told the BBC's Andrew Marr he was \"very sympathetic\" to the amendment.\n\n\"We need more transparency... and we should be debating the regulations and rules for the country,\" he said.\n\nHowever he avoided committing support to Sir Graham, pointing out that Labour would table its own amendment and would wait and see if it was selected by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle this week.\n\nIn March, Parliament passed the Coronavirus Act. It gave the government powers to respond to the pandemic, including moves such as postponing local elections, closing down pubs and allowing courts to use live links.\n\nThe powers granted by the act were time-limited and can only be extended with the House of Commons' approval.\n\nMPs will be asked to renew the powers on Wednesday but several have expressed concern and Sir Graham has tabled an amendment that would give Parliament a say over new national restrictions before they are brought into force.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme Conservative MP and former Brexit Minister Mr Baker said: \"How do people think that liberty dies? It dies like this with government exercising draconian powers, without parliamentary scrutiny in advance, undermining the rule of law by having a shifting blanket of rules that no-one can understand.\"\n\nBBC parliamentary correspondent Mark D'arcy says the initial steer is that it is unlikely the Speaker would select Sir Graham's amendment, meaning it would not be put to a vote.\n\nBut, he says, the Speaker does consider the breadth of support for an amendment, including its level of cross-party appeal, so support from Labour figures would influence his decision.\n\nSir Graham, who is chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, has support from a wide spectrum of MPs including 50 other Conservatives, an ex-party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and former-Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman.\n\nThe DUP also supports the move, while the SNP is said to be considering it.\n\nThe amendment also has support from Mr Bercow, former Speaker of the House of Commons.\n\nSpeaking to The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4, he said the House of Commons had initially been prepared to \"cut the government some slack\" given the circumstances.\n\nBut, he said, since then 50 laws with potential and actual criminal sanctions had come into force, without Parliament having a say.\n\n\"That cannot continue if we are to call ourselves a democracy,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said he would \"almost certainly\" vote for the amendment and accused the government of failing to come to Parliament \"when it should have done\".\n\nHowever he added that the amendment \"did not go far enough\" arguing that the original Coronavirus Act \"failed people\".\n\nSpecifically he pointed to a clause in the law which took away parts of councils' duty to provide care for disabled people.\n\n\"For the government to legislate to take away peoples' rights to care I think is outrageous,\" he said.\n\nThe government has said it is \"determined to take the right steps to protect\" those who are most vulnerable to the disease and that the care provisions implemented in the Coronavirus Act are only intended to be used when absolutely necessary.\n\nThe numbers don't look good for Downing Street.\n\nForty-plus Conservative MPs, combined with opposition parties, is enough to overturn Boris Johnson's majority.\n\nAnd there are now easily enough Tories behind the Brady amendment - while opposition groups are making some supportive sounds, albeit at various volumes.\n\nHowever, a big question mark hangs over this particular political showdown; namely whether the amendment will even be selected by the Speaker.\n\nBut even if this amendment falls, the grievance doesn't.\n\nIt's not hard to find an unhappy Tory MP wandering around Westminster at the moment.\n\nSome think that the dial has moved too far back towards restricting people's liberty.\n\nOr that parliament is being all-too-often ignored by ministers; even eroded as a democratic institution.\n\nThere's a view too that policies might emerge in better shape if they were stress-tested by the Commons.\n\nA counter argument is that - in an emergency - ministers don't want to hang about waiting for Parliament's permission to act.\n\nNo. 10 knows it's facing trouble and has been trying to stress that it's engaging with MPs.\n\nBut some of those MPs are past the point of being \"engaged\" with. They want a real say.", "Restrictions will now apply in Wales' capital city\n\nWales' two biggest cities have gone into lockdown, which started at 18:00.\n\nThe changed status of Swansea and Cardiff took the number of Welsh local authority areas under heightened Covid restrictions to eight.\n\nIt follows the first localised lockdown in Wales, in the town of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, which came into force on Saturday evening.\n\nIt means 1.5 million people - about half of Wales' population -are now under lockdown.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, it was confirmed that three other council areas - Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan - will face the same measures from 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe restrictions are the same as those affecting people living in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Caerphilly, which were already in lockdown.\n\nWhen asked if Wales could see a national lockdown, First Minister Mark Drakeford told the BBC's Politics Wales programme: \"We couldn't possibly rule it out.\n\n\"We're trying to do it in a way that balances both the health and the economic needs of Wales,\" he said.\n\nSwansea hit a seven-day rate of 56 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 on Friday, while Cardiff reached 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nBut the number in Llanelli was 152 cases per 100,000 - which is why the Welsh Government decided to bring in restrictions there a day earlier.\n\nThe whole of Carmarthenshire was not put into lockdown because the rate in the rest of the local authority area was 18.\n\nLlanelli town is in the top three places with the highest weekly infections rates, alongside Blaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000.\n\nRhossili and other Gower beauty spots are out of bounds for anyone from outside Swansea\n\nUnder the rules, nobody is able to enter or leave the affected areas without a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nPeople are allowed to travel outside their area for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThese include going to work if they are not able to work from home, to go to school, give care and buy food or medical supplies.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "I'm probably the only person around at BBC Llandaff that can remember the building that stood here before Broadcasting House.\n\nBaynton House, a ramshackle red sandstone Victorian mansion, seemed slightly spooky to me as a child, but if the original BH was a Scooby-Doo style haunted house, its replacement was straight out of Thunderbirds or Stingray.\n\nWhen the new BH opened in the 1960s, everything about it screamed modernity with its plate glass walls, bare concrete pillars and sleek space-age lines.\n\nInside though, something of the old lingered on, as tweedy men with pipes battled it out with bright young graduates from Oxbridge and the University of Wales, determined to drag Wales kicking and screaming into the second half of the 20th Century.\n\nBetween them they built the closest thing Wales has ever had to a dream factory.\n\nThe range of output in those early years was extraordinary to our eyes. C2, the home of television news for the whole of the building's existence, also housed children's programmes - Wales Today was regularly broadcast under the beady eyes of various teddy bears and gonks sitting at the far end of the studio.\n\nNext door, the enormous C1 was home over the years to Ryan and Ronnie, David Lloyd George, Crimewatch, the entire population of Cwmderi and all those election and referendum night marathons.\n\nTelevision was always slightly out on a limb at BH though. Radio sat at the heart of the building with its grandly named Concert Hall, home to an orchestra that seemed to change its name as often as it did conductors before becoming the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.\n\nStudio 2 was the home of radio audience discussion programmes and panel games, while the drama studio was packed with doors, windows and much else besides, required when sound effects had to be manufactured rather than played in.\n\nBack in the early days, with just a handful of TV channels and radio stations, people would watch or listen to pretty much anything and the programme makers were probably a bit freer to experiment than we are today.\n\nIt's hard to imagine BBC Wales choosing to broadcast half-hour programmes of Anglo-Welsh poetry in peak time today, but back in the 1970s, that's exactly what they did.\n\nBut then, those were the days when, as one manager put it, \"the BBC sailed on a sea of Chablis\". Maybe poetry seemed like a good idea after one glass too many!\n\nUltimately though, broadcasting is about people, not buildings, and in its later years, BH had come to resemble one of those grand old ocean liners, limping along on one engine and where nothing seemed to work quite as it should.\n\nFor most of us, the excitement of the new outweighs nostalgia for the old and, just as BH was cutting edge when it opened, the new studios in Central Square are state-of-the-art facilities.\n\nThat's not to say that there won't be the odd tear shed when the last programme has been broadcast from Llandaff, when the last dream has been dreamed and the factory is closed down for ever.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How BBC Wales' headquarters has changed over the years", "Matt Ratana moved to the UK in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later\n\nPolice investigating the fatal shooting of a police officer in south London say four crime scenes are being searched.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, from New Zealand, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in Croydon as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas reported hearing a loud explosion as a 23-year-old suspect, who is thought to have shot himself, remains in hospital.\n\nThe Met commissioner said 54-year-old Sgt Ratana would be \"sorely missed\".\n\nSpeaking at the National Police Memorial in central London, Dame Cressida Dick said she \"hadn't been surprised at all\" by the number of tributes paid to him.\n\nLondon's mayor, the Met Police's commissioner and the home secretary laid wreaths\n\n\"Matt was an extraordinary person... He had a wonderful personality and he was very good at his job,\" she said, adding that he was also a \"proud kiwi\".\n\nThe commissioner also laid a wreath at the National Police Memorial in central London alongside Home Secretary Priti Patel and London's Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nSgt Ratana will be remembered at the National Police Memorial Day Service, alongside the six other officers who have died on duty in the past 12 months.\n\nThe Reverend Cannon David Wilbraham, who is leading the service - taking place online this year - said the event will show their \"sacrifice is not forgotten\" and allow the public \"to recognise the dedication to duty and the courage displayed\".\n\nRespects were paid at East Grinstead Rugby Club during two separate minute's silence\n\nSilences have also been held at a number of rugby clubs, including at East Grinstead where the 54-year-old was head coach.\n\nThe West Sussex club's Vice Chairman Matt Marriot said they had to arrange two separate minute's silences because the \"interest has been pretty enormous\", with \"people coming from all over the country\".\n\nHe said Sgt Ratana \"wasn't just our coach... he was a role model, a mentor and often a father figure\".\n\n\"We're going to mourn him as a family member,\" he added.\n\nPC Sarah D'Silva, who plays for the club's women's team as well as working at Croydon Police Station, said it felt \"extremely poignant\" joining the minute's silence.\n\nShe wore her police uniform to pay her respects to the 54-year-old, who she described as \"an absolutely fantastic character, full of life, with the biggest smile you've ever seen\".\n\nThe 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nSgt Ratana was shot in the chest at Croydon Custody Centre at about 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the police were focusing on four crime scenes.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas, in Banstead, Surrey, reported hearing a loud explosion on Saturday morning.\n\nPeople living near the address in Park Road were woken by noises at about 05:40 BST.\n\nPolice guarded the entrance to a property on Park Road in Banstead\n\nThe BBC's Daniel De Simone said the Banstead address is down a long driveway and its land contains a series of concrete bunkers.\n\nMultiple police officers, including armed officers, were visible in the area and people had been informed that a controlled explosion had taken place, the BBC was told.\n\nA marked police car has been guarding the entrance to the property.\n\nPolice confirmed the other scenes undergoing searches are Croydon Custody Centre, where the shooting occurred, an area of London Road in Pollards Hill, where the suspect was initially arrested, and an address in Southbrook Road, Norbury.\n\nDescribing how the investigation was progressing, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cundy said: \"We have recovered the gun from the custody suite where Matt was shot.\n\n\"We also have CCTV from that custody suite which shows the events, and we have body-worn video of our police officers who were involved in the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the suspect.\"\n\nThe murder investigation is expected to focus on the motive for the killing.\n\nThe suspect remains in a critical condition is hospital.\n\nA rugby ball and police helmet are among the tributes which have been left outside the custody centre\n\nThe suspect had initially been arrested for an alleged drugs offence and possession of ammunition.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect - who was still handcuffed - with a metal detector, according to watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\n\"Several crime scenes\" were established on Friday and a cordon also remains in place around the Anderson Heights building in Norbury, south-west London, the Met has said.\n\nA concierge in the building told the BBC the 23-year-old suspect did not live in the block but was arrested outside it.\n\nAn area of London Road in Pollards Hill has been searched by forensic officers\n\nThe Met previously said the shooting was not terror-related.\n\nIt is believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police and his background may feature prominently in police inquiries, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nThe suspect had been referred to the anti-extremism government's Prevent programme, aimed to stop people joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.\n\nAs part of the IOPC investigation it is examining CCTV and police bodycam footage to establish how the shootings took place.\n\nThe watchdog said the suspect was in handcuffs, with his hands behind his back.\n\nA key part of that IOPC investigation will be to find out how thoroughly the suspect was searched before he was taken into custody.\n\nThe Met's chief said Sgt Ratana was \"highly respected\" among her officers\n\nSgt Ratana came to the UK in his early 20s in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nSgt Ratana, who had a partner and an adult son from a previous relationship, would have been eligible for retirement in two months.\n\nBoris Johnson was among those who paid tribute to the officer, tweeting: \"My deepest condolences go to the family, friends and colleagues of the police officer who was killed in Croydon last night.\n\n\"We owe a huge debt to those who risk their own lives to keep us safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick paid tribute to Sgt Ratana, saying he was \"big in stature, big in heart\"\n\nNew Zealand PM Ms Ardern previously released a statement saying: \"To all Matiu's whanau (Maori for extended family) across the world, we share your sorrow and have all our condolences.\"\n\nNew Zealand Police - where Sgt Ratana worked between 2003 and 2008 before returning to the UK - also sent their condolences, adding: \"Policing is a family.\"\n\nWhen he was not working, Sgt Ratana was heavily involved in rugby coaching.\n\nEngland Rugby paid tribute to the 54-year-old, saying he \"gave so much for our sport\".\n\nCrystal Palace Football Club held a minute's silence before their match against Everton on Saturday, to \"pay our respects to local police officer Sgt Matt Ratana\".\n\nA minute's silence was also held before the London derby between Millwall and Brentford.\n\nA minute's silence was held before Crystal Palace's match against Everton\n\nNeil Donohue, a friend of Sgt Ratana who runs a gym he used to attend, described him as \"inspirational\" and \"the nicest, most generous man you could meet\".\n\nHe told the BBC the 54-year-old had gone into \"the custody side [of policing] purely because he had had enough out on the streets and he thought it was his safest option, just to see him through to his retirement\".\n\n\"It's just absolutely tragic,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA number of police officers have turned their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respects.\n\nJohn Davies, a retired officer who worked with Sgt Ratana when he was based in Hillingdon, west London, said he was \"a truly remarkable, strong and unique individual\" who \"left an impression on all those he came into contact with\".\n\nDo you have any information you can share? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray says he will not \"just brush aside\" a comprehensive three-set defeat by Swiss 16th seed Stan Wawrinka in the French Open first round.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot won just six games in what was the joint heaviest Grand Slam defeat of his career.\n\nIt was his first appearance on a clay court since June 2017 following the hip injury which almost led to retirement.\n\n\"I should be analysing that hard and trying to understand why the performance was like that,\" he said.\n\nFormer world number one Murray looked flat throughout the 6-1 6-3 6-2 defeat and was punished as fellow three-time Grand Slam champion Wawrinka hit through him in a clinical display.\n\nA low first-serve percentage of 37% heavily contributed to the defeat, with Murray making 26 unforced errors and landing just 10 winners.\n\nThat led to his most comprehensive loss at a major since Rafael Nadal beat him 6-3 6-2 6-1 in the 2014 French Open semi-finals.\n• None Murray and Evans out of the French Open\n\nSeveral players have been critical of the conditions at Roland Garros, which is being played in colder and damper weather with the tournament having been moved back from its usual May-June slot because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe introduction of a new, heavier ball has also led to some complaints.\n\nMurray's match was played under floodlights on an open Court Philippe Chatrier on a chilly Parisian night, but he said the conditions were not a factor in his below-par performance.\n\n\"I don't feel like that's a valid reason,\" said Murray, who will next play at two indoor events being held in Cologne next month.\n\n\"Maybe to not enjoy the matches as much when it's like that, but not in terms of it affecting your performance in any way.\n\n\"I need to have a long, hard think about it.\n\n\"It's not for me the sort of match I would just brush aside and not give any thought to.\"\n\nAfterwards, former Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander questioned Murray's future and suggested on Eurosport that the Briton should \"stop taking wildcards\" from younger players.\n\nMurray, who replied with a sarcastic 'thumbs up' on Instagram to the Swede's comments, earlier said that while he would not be able to return to his physical peak, he remained confident he still had the technical ability to compete.\n\nHe pointed to his win over Germany's world number seven Alexander Zverev at the Cincinnati Masters last month as a case in point.\n\n\"There have been matches that I have played since I came back where I hit the ball well,\" Murray said.\n\n\"I know it wasn't the best match at times, but Zverev was a couple of points away from winning the US Open, and I won against him the week beforehand.\n\n\"It's going to be difficult for me to play the same level as I did before. I'm 33 now and I was ranked number one in the world, so it's difficult with all the issues that I have had. But I'll keep going.\"\n\nBroady and Norrie carry British hopes in the men's draw\n\nMurray's defeat followed the exit of British number one Dan Evans, who lost a fluctuating five-setter against former world number four Kei Nishikori, earlier on the opening day of the tournament on Sunday.\n\nThat leaves qualifier Liam Broady and British number three Cameron Norrie as the nation's only remaining hopes in the men's singles.\n\nBroady, 26, qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career at the 12th attempt.\n\nHis reward for winning three qualifying matches at Roland Garros is an opener against Czech Jiri Vesely at about 14:00 BST.\n\nNorrie, ranked 77th, follows Broady on court 10 against Colombian world number 153 Daniel Galan.\n• None Has it gone too far?", "Students at Manchester Metropolitan University are isolating after more than 100 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMore than 1,700 students have been told to self-isolate. One told the BBC the situation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nSeparately, students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nPolice were called to break up several parties at the University of Edinburgh's main hall of residence on Friday night.\n\nSome students in Pollock Halls of Residence at the University of Edinburgh have also been told to \"lockdown\" because of a confirmed case of the virus.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nJamie Vardy scored a hat-trick as Leicester City inflicted a remarkable defeat on Manchester City to go top of the Premier League.\n\nDespite going behind to a superb fourth-minute strike by former Foxes midfielder Riyad Mahrez, the visitors responded in stunning fashion.\n\nVardy levelled with a penalty before the break after he had been fouled by Kyle Walker, and he then sealed his second treble against Pep Guardiola's side from the spot, after he had cleverly turned home Timothy Castagne's cross to make it 2-1.\n\nJames Maddison scored for the first time since 1 January when he curled home a stunning fourth for Leicester.\n\nAnd although Nathan Ake pulled one back with his first goal since a £40m summer move from Bournemouth, a third Leicester penalty - this time converted by Youri Tielemans because Vardy had already gone off - completed a memorable afternoon for Brendan Rodgers' Foxes, who have started a top-flight season with three successive wins for the first time.\n\nIn contrast, Guardiola was suffering his worst home defeat as City boss, with his team now in the bottom half of the table.\n• None 'They were lucky' - Rodri says 'football was not fair' to Man City in Leicester defeat\n• None Reaction to Manchester City v Leicester and live text coverage of Sunday's Premier League games\n\nFor most of the opening period, the possibility of Leicester returning to the top of the table appeared remote.\n\nBut with Vardy they always have a chance. Even at the age of 33, the striker remains frighteningly fast.\n\nWalker is no slouch but the England right-back was panicked into making a rash challenge when the Leicester forward got ahead of him inside the box. Vardy's powerful spot-kick gave Ederson no chance of keeping it out.\n\nHis second penalty was equally emphatic after another City defender, Eric Garcia, had got himself into the wrong position as he tried to challenge Vardy.\n\nIn between, Vardy tucked home a poacher's effort Leicester's most celebrated old boy, Gary Lineker, would have been proud of. The supplier was Castagne, who is turning into a very astute purchase, given how willing the Belgian is to push forward from his right-back role as manager Rodgers demands.\n\nMaddison's return adds the dimension the Foxes lacked so badly as their 2019-20 season petered out into a relatively disappointing fifth-place finish.\n\nThe only sour note for the visitors were injuries to midfielder Dennis Praet and defender Jonny Evans.\n\nThe latter in particular may prompt some hard thinking among the Leicester hierarchy, given they had a £30m bid for Burnley centre-back James Tarkowski turned down on Friday.\n\nIt is now just a matter of time before Benfica defender Ruben Dias completes his move to the Eithad. And on this evidence, the Portugal international cannot come soon enough. The fee will be about £65m, with centre-back Nicolas Otamendi going the other way for about £13.7m in a separate deal.\n\nGuardiola has made the purchase of a right-sided central defender a priority before the transfer window closes on 5 October. He does not trust either Otamendi or England international John Stones in that role - and he knows if the situation is not addressed, the chances of City overhauling Liverpool are almost non-existent.\n\nAgainst Leicester, Eric Garcia, wearing a headguard to protect the 16 stitches he sustained during a training ground incident that kept him out of the season opener at Wolves, started in the position earmarked for 23-year-old Dias.\n\nIn defence, it was an orthodox role in a four-man backline. But as soon as the hosts were in possession - which was fairly often - Garcia became the central component of a back three, which skipper Fernandinho was part of, allowing Walker and Benjamin Mendy to turn into wing-backs.\n\nGarcia's future is unclear. The 19-year-old Spaniard has a year left on his contract, has refused to sign another and wants to go back to Barcelona.\n\nGuardiola spoke earlier this month about the need to deserve a new contract.\n\nThat requires his team to compete for trophies - and to do that they will need to perform a lot better than this.\n\nWith Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Aguero definitely missing next Saturday's trip to Leeds United, City need to solve their problems in attack, given Raheem Sterling failed to make much of an impact as a false nine and 17-year-old Liam Delap cannot be expected to shoulder the burden given his lack of experience.\n\nGuardiola will spend some time pondering the problem. However, given they have only played two games, he will do so with his team in 13th place, which is virtually unheard of in recent times.\n\nLeicester's best ever start - the stats\n• None It is the first time in 686 games that a side managed by Guardiola has conceded five goals.\n• None It is also the first time in 438 games at Etihad Stadium that City have let in five goals.\n• None This was only the second time Guardiola has lost his opening home game of a league season as a manager.\n• None Leicester have won their opening three games of a top-flight season for the first time.\n• None The Foxes have scored 12 goals in the Premier League this season, the most by a team in their first three matches since Manchester City (12) and Manchester United (13) in 2012-13.\n• None Leicester are the first Premier League side to score three penalties in a game, while Manchester City are the first side to concede three spot-kicks in the same fixture since Tottenham in October 2014.\n• None Vardy has now scored eight league goals against Manchester City since Guardiola took charge in 2016.\n• None Vardy is the only player to score two hat-tricks against sides managed by Guardiola.\n• None Since his Premier League debut in August 2014, Vardy has won more (19) and scored more (22) penalties than any other player in the competition.\n\nManchester City go to Burnley in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday (19:00 BST), before travelling to Elland Road to play newly promoted Leeds in the Premier League on Saturday (17:30).\n\nLeicester's next game is at home to West Ham United in the league on Sunday (12:00).\n• None Offside, Leicester City. James Justin tries a through ball, but Kelechi Iheanacho is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 2, Leicester City 5. Youri Tielemans (Leicester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Benjamin Mendy (Manchester City) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 2, Leicester City 4. Nathan Aké (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (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 is too high. Assisted by Ferran Torres.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Substitution, Leicester City. Christian Fuchs replaces Jonny Evans because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Has it gone too far?", "Matt Ratana moved to the UK in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later\n\nThe suspect in the murder of a police officer in south London is Louis De Zoysa, the BBC has been told.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Matiu Ratana, 54, died in hospital after being shot at the Croydon custody centre as a handcuffed suspect was taken into custody on Friday morning.\n\nMr De Zoysa, 23, from Norbury, who is thought to have shot himself, is critically ill in hospital.\n\nAnother man has been arrested on suspicion of supplying a firearm.\n\nOfficers made the arrest at about 02:00 BST in Norwich. The man is currently in custody.\n\nPolice have not been able to speak to the man suspected of shooting Sgt Ratana.\n\nHe had initially been arrested for an alleged drugs offence and possession of ammunition.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect - who was still handcuffed - with a metal detector, according to watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe second arrest came as Sgt Ratana was remembered by friends and teammates at East Grinstead Rugby Club, where he was head coach.\n\nThe West Sussex club's vice chairman Matt Marriot said they had to arrange two separate minute's silences because the \"interest has been pretty enormous\", with \"people coming from all over the country\".\n\nHe said Sgt Ratana, who was known as Matt, had been \"a role model, a mentor and often a father figure\", and the club mourned him \"as a family member\".\n\nPC Sarah D'Silva, who plays for the club's women's team as well as working at Croydon Police Station, said it felt \"extremely poignant\" joining the minute's silence.\n\nShe wore her police uniform to pay her respects to Sgt Ratana, who she described as \"an absolutely fantastic character, full of life, with the biggest smile you've ever seen\".\n\nThe club's vice chairman said people had travelled from across the country to pay their respects\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, speaking at the National Police Memorial in central London earlier, said she \"hadn't been surprised at all\" by the number of tributes paid to him.\n\n\"Matt was an extraordinary person... he had a wonderful personality and he was very good at his job,\" she said, adding that he was a \"proud Kiwi\".\n\nPrince Charles also paid tribute to Sgt Ratana during a National Police Memorial Day service, saying his death was the \"latest heartbreaking evidence of the risks\".\n\nLondon's mayor, the Met Police's commissioner and the home secretary laid wreaths\n\nOfficers have been focused on four crime scenes in London and Surrey as part of the investigation, including the house where Mr De Zoysa's parents live.\n\nSearches continue at Croydon Custody Centre, where the shooting happened, an address in Park Road, Banstead, Surrey, and an address in Southbrook Road, Norbury.\n\nThe search of another scene in Pollards Hill, where the suspect was initially arrested, has ended and cordons have been removed.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas, in Banstead, Surrey, reported hearing a loud noise on Saturday morning, and were later told a controlled explosion had taken place.\n\nThe Banstead address is down a long driveway and its land contains a series of concrete bunkers. A marked police car has been guarding the entrance to the property.\n\nPolice guarded the entrance to a property on Park Road in Banstead\n\nSgt Ratana was shot in the chest at Croydon Custody Centre at about 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said police had \"recovered the gun from the custody suite where Matt was shot\".\n\n\"We also have CCTV from that custody suite which shows the events, and we have body-worn video of our police officers who were involved in the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the suspect,\" he added.\n\nThe murder investigation is expected to focus on the motive for the killing.\n\nMore flowers and tributes have been left outside Croydon Custody Suite\n\nThe force has previously said the shooting was not terror-related.\n\nIt is believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police and his background may feature prominently in police inquiries, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nThe suspect had been referred to the government's Prevent programme, aimed at stopping people joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.\n\nThe 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nSgt Ratana came to the UK in his early 20s in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nThe officer, who had a partner and an adult son from a previous relationship, would have been eligible for retirement in two months.\n\nNeil Donohue, who was a friend of the officer and runs a gym he used to attend, said Sgt Ratana had gone into \"the custody side [of policing] purely because he had had enough out on the streets and he thought it was his safest option, just to see him through to his retirement\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Karl Robinson said the club had endured a difficult week - even before their coach wouldn't start\n\nAlcohol spray used on a football club's coach to protect against coronavirus left the driver unable to take players and staff to an away match.\n\nOxford United had to change at their hotel and travel to their game at Accrington Stanley by car.\n\nIt is thought some of the spray in the air was picked up by a device that stops the coach driver starting the vehicle if alcohol has been consumed.\n\nThe club started the game at the bottom of League One on Saturday.\n\nKarl Robinson, the club's head coach, told BBC Radio Oxford before the match: \"Our coach has just broken down so we've just had to get changed at the hotel and make our way.\n\n\"This week has certainly been sent to test us. We had four players test for Covid-19 on Thursday.\" He added that they also have \"flu going round\".\n\nBBC Radio Oxford's Nathan Cooper said: \"[Oxford have] got quite a technical bus that not many at this level have got.\n\n\"When you get on board it sprays a sort of alcohol gel - a fine mist spray - which obviously helps with the current situation, so it sterilises the bus. Somehow that ended up affecting the bus itself.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's a crazy thing to happen but first of all you've got to say hats off to the club for trying. Not every club at this level has been doing that.\"\n\nTesting players for coronavirus is not mandatory in the Football League.", "A deal for the Premier League to support lower-league clubs during the coronavirus pandemic \"could be reached this coming week\".\n\nPlans for some fans to return to stadiums from 1 October will not go ahead because of the rising number of coronavirus cases, and it is feared the postponement could have a \"devastating\" impact on clubs.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden told the Andrew Marr Show that England's top flight needs to \"start looking after the football family as a whole\".\n\nHe added that he was hopeful an agreement could be made over the coming days.\n\n\"I've been in touch with the Premier League a lot over the past few days. They are working closely with the EFL (English Football League) to see how they can support them,\" said Dowden.\n\n\"The prime minister and I have been clear: the Premier League needs to start looking after the football family as a whole, and indeed they are having productive conversations.\n\n\"I am hopeful that they will reach a deal this coming week in relation to that, and then beyond that, look across at all sports.\"\n\nThe fan pilot programme, which had already been restricted to 1,000 people per game in September, has been paused. Dowden said there had been no positive cases from pilots that had already taken place but, under advice from the chief scientific adviser and the chief medical officer, \"it would not be wise to undertake any further easements\".\n\n\"It's not just in the stadium, it's the journey to and from the stadium as well. At each of those points there are chances for further social interaction and risk of virus spreads, so right now is not the time to do it,\" he added.\n\nDowden added that the Premier League \"appreciates\" its help is needed to support EFL clubs and that he is confident an agreement will soon be reached.\n\nIn response, Huddersfield Town chief executive Mark Devlin posted on social media: \"But Mr Dowden, irrespective of Premier League support, you need to let us start welcoming back fans and business partners into a safe stadia environment.\n\n\"So much work had been done on making our stadia as Covid safe as possible, you now need to let us all get on with it.\"\n\nIt is not yet known when fans will be able to return, with existing government restrictions likely to remain in place for six months.\n\nBut Dowden said the government was working with clubs and medical advisers to seek \"further innovations\" to decrease risks.\n\n\"We are continuing to explore what would be the ideal solution in the absence of a vaccine, which would be if you have large amount of in-day testing to give people a so-called freedom pass to be able to go into those stadiums,\" he said.\n\n\"We are exploring that. We are exploring further technological innovations. But we are also looking at how we can support the clubs through this difficult period.\"\n\nThe BBC was told earlier this month the EFL expected to be given details by the Premier League about what financial assistance it might offer by the end of September.\n\nWhile the Premier League will continue advancing solidarity payments earlier than normal, BBC Sport understands that, while accepting the need for speed and to be flexible in its approach, it is not completely clear what the EFL is asking for beyond a £250m 'bailout'.\n\nBBC Sport has been told the Premier League needs detailed analysis of what money is needed, for whom and precisely why. Without this, the organisation is reluctant to hand over a cheque at a time when its clubs are feeling huge financial pressure given they are losing the most in terms of fans being absent from stadiums.\n\nRespected football finance blogger Swiss Ramble posted on Thursday that the combined losses of Premier League clubs through the absence of matchday income would be at least £830m if no fans were allowed into stadiums for the remainder of the 2020-21 season.\n\nThat figure is regarded as a minimum as it does not take into account sums paid by fans buying merchandise on a matchday because that is calculated in a different revenue stream.\n• None Has it gone too far?", "A man and woman wear masks in Cardiff, which will see stricter rules from Sunday\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK population is set to be under stricter coronavirus rules, as new measures come into force this weekend.\n\nFrom Saturday in England, households in Leeds, Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool are banned from mixing in each other's homes or gardens.\n\nIn Wales, Llanelli became subject to new rules at 18:00 BST, with Cardiff and Swansea to follow 24 hours later.\n\nIt comes as the rate at which the virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.\n\nThere have been 6,042 new coronavirus infections in the UK over the past 24 hours, according to the latest government figures - and 34 deaths among those who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 28 days.\n\nIt marks the fourth consecutive day that new infections across the UK have topped 6,000.\n\nScotland recorded 714 cases on Saturday, 156 more than on Friday and its highest number of cases confirmed in a single day since the start of the outbreak.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where meeting other households indoors is also not allowed, 319 new cases have set a new daily record, up from Friday's 273. However mass testing was not available during the spring, when deaths were at their peak.\n\nThe R number - which indicates how many people someone with coronavirus infects - has risen in the last week and is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.5. A number above 1 means the virus is spreading within the community.\n\nMeanwhile, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said \"immediate action\" was needed to get coronavirus back under control in the capital, amid a \"sharp rise\" in cases, hospital admissions and patients in intensive care units.\n\nOn Friday, London was added to the government's Covid-19 watch-list - with all boroughs classed as areas of concern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Leeds respond to the tighter rules\n\nIn England, the \"rule of six\" and a 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants applies nationally.\n\nBut extra restrictions are also in place in large parts of north-east and north-west England, West Yorkshire and the Midlands - where the infection rate is higher.\n\nThe latest rules for Leeds, Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool came into force at midnight and ban different households from mixing inside private homes or gardens.\n\nSupport bubbles are not affected and friends and family can still provide informal childcare for children under 14.\n\nPeople are also advised not to socialise with people they do not live with in any other settings, including bars, shops and parks.\n\nOn Saturday, Wales - where the R number is between 0.7 and 1.2 - saw its first town-only lockdown, with people in Llanelli in Carmarthenshire banned from leaving town or mixing indoors with anyone outside of their household.\n\nThe same rules will be brought in for Wales' two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - at 18:00 on Sunday. People will not be able to enter or leave the areas without a reasonable excuse, the Welsh government has said.\n\nIt means by the end of the weekend, about half of Wales' population will be under lockdown - 1.5 million people.\n\nAnd the total number of people across the UK living under stricter rules will stand at 17 million.\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford urged people in Cardiff to behave as if the new restrictions were in place until they came into force on Sunday.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething told Today restrictions were more focused on transmission in the home than the pub.\n\n\"We have good evidence it is contact in people's homes that is driving it primarily. That is then leaking into other areas where people have contact, including licensed premises,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he recognised \"the burden and impact these additional measures have on our daily lives but we must act collectively and quickly to bring down infections\".\n\nMeanwhile, students have spoken of their worry and frustration at being made to isolate in university accommodation, with little notice or guidance.\n\nUp to 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University were told to self-isolate for two weeks in their student halls, after a spate of positive tests for Covid-19.\n\nIn a bid to stop the virus spreading in Scotland, students have been told not to socialise with anyone outside of their accommodation or go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn extra 400,000 hectares of English countryside will be protected to support the recovery of nature under plans announced by Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister made the commitment at a virtual United Nations event.\n\nHe joined a global pledge from 65 leaders to reverse losses in the natural world by the same date.\n\nNational parks, areas of outstanding natural beauty and other protected areas make up 26% of land in England.\n\nMr Johnson promised the government would increase the amount of protected land in the UK to 30% by 2030.\n\nThe environment is a devolved matter but the government has said it will work with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as landowners, to increase the amount of protected land across the UK.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister signed the Leaders' Pledge for Nature, which includes commitments to prioritise a green recovery following the coronavirus pandemic, deliver ambitious biodiversity targets and increase financing for nature.\n\nMr Johnson said countries must turn \"words into action\" and \"agree ambitious goals and binding targets\".\n\n\"We can't afford dither and delay because biodiversity loss is happening today, it is happening at a frightening rate,\" he said.\n\n\"If left unchecked, the consequences will be catastrophic for us all.\"\n\n\"Extinction is forever - so our action must be immediate,\" he added.\n\nWorld leaders have often come together to strike deals over climate change, but a top level commitment on nature is much more rare.\n\nEnvironmentalists are delighted - they say nature is in freefall and urgently needs protection as roads, railways, housing and farmland cover the Earth.\n\nBut they say Boris Johnson must lead by example. They point out that around half of existing Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the UK are in poor condition, many through lack of funding.\n\nWhat's more, measures to protect wildlife in the Environment Bill are becalmed in the Commons for want of parliamentary time.\n\nCampaigners say if the UK is really taking nature seriously it must avoid trade deals that damage wildlife.\n\nIt must also clamp down on imports of food that have caused environmental destruction overseas - such as beef farming in the Amazon.\n\nMartin Harper, the RSPB's director of global conservation, said the 30% commitment could be a \"huge step towards addressing the crisis our wildlife is facing\".\n\n\"However, targets on paper won't be enough,\" he said. \"Those set a decade ago failed because they weren't backed up by action.\"\n\nMr Harper said the pledge must be put into domestic law \"as part of a suite of goals to restore the abundance and diversity of our wildlife, in every country in the UK\".\n\nCraig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said it was a \"good start\" but \"a much greater level of urgent action\" was needed to put nature into recovery, including rescuing wildlife sites currently in decline.\n\nHe said many National Parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty were \"severely depleted of wildlife because of overgrazing, poor management or intensive agricultural practices\", while around half of sites of special scientific interest were \"in a poor state and suffering wildlife declines\".", "The Prince of Wales has highlighted the impact of the pandemic on young people, saying it is a \"particularly difficult time to be young\".\n\nIn a rare article, published in the Sunday Telegraph, Prince Charles suggested there could be one million young people \"needing urgent help\".\n\nAnd he said the challenge of helping those in need was \"unquestionably vast, but it is not insurmountable\".\n\nThere have been many warnings over the impact of the virus on young people.\n\nResearchers warned that education gaps between richer and poorer pupils widened during the lockdown, while experts said the drop in face-to-face contact could damage teenagers in the long-run.\n\nAnd young people have also been hit hardest by unemployment, figures show.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, Prince Charles said: \"For anyone, this is a difficult time - but it is a particularly difficult time to be young.\"\n\nHe compared the current situation to \"other times when hope was scarce\" - citing the concerns over youth unemployment in the 1970s that prompted him to set up his charity the Prince's Trust.\n\nThe charity helps people aged between 11 and 30 seek employment opportunities and life skills.\n\n\"This year, we celebrate the fact that over the last nearly 45 years, we have helped a million young people to change their lives for the better,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An uncertain future: Young people and the pandemic\n\nBut he later added: \"Over all these years since the trust was launched, there has never been an easy time.\n\n\"However, there has never been a time as uniquely challenging as the present, when the pandemic has left perhaps another million young people needing urgent help to protect their futures.\n\n\"The task ahead is unquestionably vast, but it is not insurmountable.\"\n\nPrince Charles - who himself tested positive for the virus early on in the pandemic - set up the Young People Relief Fund to provide extra support to young people affected by the impact of the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles speaks for the first time since contracting the coronavirus in a recorded video message in support for the charity Age UK\n\nIt comes as thousands of students at universities across the UK are in lockdown following coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nMany students have expressed worry and confusion about the situation.\n\nMeanwhile, although schools reopened at the start of term, England's children's commissioner warned that around 400,000 pupils were still out of school.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty has previously warned that children are more likely to be harmed by not returning to school than if they catch the virus.", "A Bank of England (BoE) policymaker has defended the potential use of negative interest rates, which could take the cost of borrowing below zero.\n\nSilvana Tenreyro told the Sunday Telegraph that evidence from other countries was \"encouraging\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the BoE governor played down the prospect of taking rates below zero, insisting it just needed to make sure it could do so if needed.\n\nThe Bank has so far responded to the pandemic by cutting rates to just 0.1%.\n\nIf interest rates are negative, the BoE charges for any deposits it holds on behalf of the banks. That encourages banks to lend the money to business rather than deposit it.\n\nIn an interview with the newspaper, Ms Tenreyro - an external member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee - said that evidence from other European countries and Japan suggested that negative interest rates had succeeded in cutting firms' borrowing costs and that banks would cope with the extra pressure on their finances, despite coronavirus.\n\nThe term \"interest rates\" is often used interchangeably with the Bank of England base rate.\n\nDescribed as the \"single most important interest rate in the UK\", the base rate determines how much interest the Bank of England pays to financial institutions that hold money with it, and what it charges them to borrow.\n\nHigh Street banks also use it to determine how much interest they pay to savers, as well as what they charge people who take out a loan or mortgage.\n\nThe Bank of England usually lowers interest rates when it wants people to spend more and save less.\n\nIn theory, taking interest rates below zero should have the same effect. But in practice, it's a bit more complicated.\n\n\"There has been almost full pass-through of negative rates into lending rates in most countries,\" Ms Tenreyro said.\n\nShe added that \"banks adapted well\" and that their profitability had increased where the policy had been introduced.\n\nBut earlier this week, BoE Governor Andrew Bailey played down the idea of taking rates below zero in the near future, and described the experience of other countries as a \"mixed bag\".\n\nMr Bailey said on Tuesday: \"It would be a cardinal sin in my view if we said we had a tool in the box which we didn't think could be operationally used.\n\n\"Yes it's in the tool bag, but that doesn't mean we're going to use negative rates,\" he added.\n\nThe Bank said in August that it was taking a closer look at the case for cutting interest rates even further. In September it also said that it would take a detailed look at how negatives interest rates might work in practice during the last three months of the year.\n\nIt has already cut interest rates to 0.1%, a record low, and pumped billions of pounds into the UK economy in a bid to fight the coronavirus-induced downturn.\n\nMs Tenreyro also said that the potential for more local lockdowns could, however, slow down or \"interrupt\" the UK's economic recovery.\n\nShe suggested it will be shaped like an \"interrupted, incomplete V\", at odds with other more upbeat forecasts.\n\nSpeaking on a British Chambers of Commerce web conference on Tuesday, Mr Bailey also urged caution over the \"hard yards ahead\" as the UK faces a rising number of Covid-19 infections.\n\nHe said: \"The latest news, that we are seeing a very unfortunate, faster return of Covid-19, is extremely difficult news for all of us and the whole country.\n\n\"That does reinforce the downside risks we have in our forecasts.\n\n\"The Bank of England will do everything we can within our remit and powers to support the businesses and people of this country.\"\n• None Speedy return to workplace 'not possible'", "World champion Josh Taylor knocked out Apinun Khongsong in an incredible first round to defend his WBA and IBF light welterweight titles.\n\nThe Scot, 29, struck the Thailand fighter with a left-hand body shot to send the undefeated 24-year-old crumpling to the canvas. Khongsong was eventually taken by stretcher from ringside in London's York Hall.\n\nTaylor now moves closer to a fight with WBO and WBC title holder Jose Ramirez on his quest to become the undisputed world champion.\n\n\"I felt it [the punch] sinking in straight away,\" he told BT Sport.\n\n\"I didn't know it had hurt him to that extent until I saw him on the floor.\n\n\"He [Khongsong] was the heaviest puncher I have ever been in with. I could feel the weight of his power. That switched me on to take my time and be patient.\n\n\"It was a great shot but I'd like to have shown what we've been working on in the gym. But you don't get paid overtime. I can go and get a pint and a pizza.\"\n\nIt took just two minutes and 41 seconds for the contest to be over, with Taylor's fierce hook to the gut the first real blow landed by the Prestonpans fighter.\n\nInstead, it was the largely unknown but undefeated IBF mandatory challenger who started on the front foot.\n\nBoth men came into the bout unscathed after 16 fights, with Khongsong - 13 knockouts to his name - fighting outside of Asia for the first time. With no partisan crowd there to cheer on Taylor, there was an air of the unknown as to what challenge he would face.\n\nThe early exchanges suggested it may be a tricky one. The man from Bangkok appeared lively, with Taylor forced to be patient as his opponent attempted to take the initiative. However, it did not take long for the world champion's moment to arrive.\n\nWith his opponent against the ropes, his guard high and a right hook missing its target, the Scot swung a thudding blow to the ribs. There was little delay as Khongsong slid to the floor.\n\nThe response from him was minimal as he writhed on the deck during the count, Taylor standing in the opposite corner, arms stretched out.\n\nAnd as he should. His dream fight is now almost within touching distance. Ramirez, and a truly iconic contest, may well be next.\n\n\"I want Jose Ramirez next, 100%,\" he added. \"He's a very good champion, hungry like myself, on the top of his game. I want that fight now; I feel I've got the beating of him.\n\n\"I've never ducked anyone, but to be honest I would rather wait until the fans are back, a fight of that magnitude would be better in front of a crowd.\"", "Police have clashed with demonstrators at a protest in central London against coronavirus restrictions.\n\nOfficers used batons to control the crowd, after bottles and water were thrown by demonstrators massed in Trafalgar Square.\n\nAt least three protesters and nine officers were injured, while 16 people were arrested.\n\nThe Met Police said the protest had been shut down because the crowd was not complying with social distancing.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, thousands gathered in central London to protest against the latest government rules, with very few wearing masks.\n\nProtests are exempt from the rule-of-six restrictions, but demonstrators must social distance; organisers must also submit a risk assessment.\n\nRules in England limit indoor and outdoor gatherings to six people, with some exceptions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters against the government's coronavirus restrictions were rallying in central London\n\nOfficers removed sound equipment and penned the crowd in Trafalgar Square as water and bottles were thrown at them by demonstrators - with some chanting \"pick your side\".\n\nPolice used batons against protesters, leaving some with visible injuries.\n\nReacting, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"The reckless and violent behaviour of some protesters has left hard-working police officers injured and put the safety of our city, which is at a critical moment in the fight against this virus, at risk. This is totally unacceptable.\n\n\"We cannot let the sacrifices Londoners have made be undermined by the selfish behaviour of a small number.\n\n\"Violence of this kind towards officers will not be tolerated and perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe Met said the vast majority of crowds had now dispersed.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Met said: \"Crowds in Trafalgar Square have not complied with the conditions of their risk assessment and are putting people in danger of transmitting the virus.\n\n\"This has voided their risk assessment and we have informed the event organisers they are no longer exempt from the regulations.\"\n\nPolice also confiscated a makeshift riot shield from one man.\n\nThe \"we do not consent\" rally came a week after a separate event which saw more than a dozen officers injured when a \"small minority\" targeted police and more than 32 arrests were made.\n\nCommenting on events on Saturday, Commander Ade Adelekan - who was leading the Met operation - said: \"As the crowds began to swell in Trafalgar Square, it became impossible for people maintain social distancing and keep each other safe.\n\n\"In the interest of public safety, officers then worked quickly to disperse crowds. I am grateful to those members of the demonstration who listened to officers and went home.\n\n\"However, I am very frustrated to see that nine officers were injured during clashes with a small minority of protestors. This is especially saddening in light of the injuries sustained by officers last weekend.\n\n\"We will be supporting those officers who were injured and I wish them a very speedy recovery.\"", "First-time buyers - often cited as the lifeblood of the UK housing market - are becoming less likely to buy a home than movers, researchers predict.\n\nFor more than a year, the highest proportion of sales were to people buying for the first time, according to property portal Zoopla.\n\nBut the squeeze on mortgage lending and increased interest from movers will change the dynamic this year and next.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has changed conditions in the UK housing market.\n\nLockdown led to many people reconsidering their domestic arrangements, particularly as they have spent more time working from home.\n\nGardens and space, as well as proximity of family, have risen on the priority list. That has led some existing homeowners to look around for an alternative property.\n\nFirst-time buyers, in contrast, have seen their options squeezed as lenders tighten their criteria for granting a mortgage - demanding larger deposits and guarantees of secure employment.\n\nThe result, according to Zoopla, is that home movers will become the more likely buyers at the end of this year and next year.\n\nPent-up demand, and government incentives such as a stamp duty holiday, led to property portals and estate agents reporting a surge in interest when lockdown restrictions were lifted.\n\nThis resulted in some people, like Alex Phillips, buying their first home.\n\nThe 27-year-old teacher bought a terraced house in Newport in August, on the same street as the primary school he attended as a child.\n\n\"The situation meant viewings were not straightforward, but it all went through in two months,\" he said.\n\n\"I did not want to be in limbo and for this to be a starting point.\"\n\nHe said a mortgage adviser helped him secure a home loan with a 10% deposit, which he said was \"vital\" for affordability.\n\nIn August, agreed sales of homes with two bedrooms or fewer, excluding central London, were up 36% compared with the same month last year, according to property portal Rightmove.\n\n\"These types of homes are finding a buyer within 53 days on average, which is seven days quicker than last year,\" said Rightmove's director of property data, Tim Bannister.\n\nThis demand is expected to fade as mortgage restrictions feed through.\n\nZoopla research suggested demand from first-time buyers was already dropping following the post-lockdown peak, whereas demand from movers was \"holding steady\" at 37% higher than pre-Covid levels.\n\n\"First-time buyers have been a driving force of housing sales over the last decade,\" said Richard Donnell, research and insight director at Zoopla.\n\n\"They remain a key buyer group but lower availability of higher loan to value mortgages and increased movement by existing homeowners means a shift in the mix of home buyers into 2021.\"\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "Residents of Lake Jackson have been told to boil water before drinking it\n\nResidents of Lake Jackson, Texas, have been warned about using tap water after a deadly brain-eating microbe was found in the city's public water supply.\n\nTests confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri in the system. The amoeba can cause an infection of the brain, which is usually fatal.\n\nInfections are rare in the US, with 34 reported between 2009 and 2018.\n\nOfficials in Lake Jackson said they were disinfecting the water supply but did not know how long this would take.\n\nEight Texas communities were originally told on Friday night not to use their water supply for any reason except to flush toilets. The warning was lifted on Saturday for everywhere but Lake Jackson, a city of more than 27,000 residents.\n\nAuthorities in Lake Jackson later said that people could begin using the water, but must boil it before drinking it. Residents were also told to take other measures, including not allowing water to go up their noses while showering or bathing.\n\nThe city warned that children, elderly people, and people with weakened immune systems were \"particularly vulnerable\".\n\nOfficials said they were flushing the water system, and would then carry out tests to ensure the water was safe to use.\n\nAn investigation into the city's water supply began after a six-year-old boy contracted the microbe and died earlier this month, Lake Jackson City Manager Modesto Mundo told reporters.\n\nNaegleria fowleri occurs naturally in freshwater and is found around the world. It usually infects people when contaminated water enters the body through the nose and then travels to the brain.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says infection typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in \"warm freshwater places\".\n\nThe CDC says people cannot get infected by swallowing contaminated water, and it cannot be passed from person to person.\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\nAn infection was previously confirmed in the US state of Florida earlier this year. At the time, health officials there urged locals to avoid nasal contact with water from taps and other sources.", "Personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks and disposable gloves, is being left as litter, says Keep Wales Tidy\n\nAction is needed to limit the use of \"unnecessary\" single-use plastic during the pandemic, campaigners have said.\n\nDuring lockdown many chains banned the use of reusable cups for safety reasons, while disposable face masks have been found dropped on beaches.\n\nMicroplastics expert Dr Christian Dunn said the damage of single-use plastic \"would last forever\" and government action was needed.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working to reduce environmental impact.\n\nIn the aftermath of what has been called the Blue Planet effect, companies vowed to cut packaging and the use of disposable cups, with people encouraged to refill and reuse to cut single-use plastic.\n\nThe Welsh Government wants to send zero waste to landfills by 2050, with 70% of waste being recycled.\n\nBut when the coronavirus pandemic hit, some refill schemes were paused, due to concerns about the spread of the virus, and community groups across Wales reported an increase in litter.\n\nDr Dunn, head of The Plastic Research Centre of Wales at Bangor University, said while plastic was an important tool in preventing the spread of the virus and saving lives, the pandemic marked a \"back step\" in the fight against pollution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown: Litter and brawling on hottest day of the year\n\nDr Dunn said, while businesses struggled to keep afloat and people tried to stem the curb of the virus, some sadly had more to worry about than reusing cups.\n\nBut he said the rise in litter, especially of single-use plastic such as bottles and single-use masks, would have a lasting impact.\n\n\"The hope for all of us involved is that this is a blip, and when things return to some sort of normality, things will settle down,\" he said.\n\nSince 14 September, the wearing of face coverings has been mandatory in indoor public spaces across Wales.\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends people use three layer fabric masks in communities, unless they are vulnerable, high risk or in a medical setting.\n\nBut disposable surgical masks contain plastic and cannot be recycled, with Welsh Government guidance telling people to put them in their household bin.\n\nBut Dr Dunn said while single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) was vital to help curb the spread of Covid-19 in medical environments, most people did not need to use them in their daily lives.\n\nDr Dunn said the Welsh Government needed to issue a clear public message or introduce a levy to stop throw-away masks being cheaper for the general public than reusable ones.\n\n\"While we need to be very conscious of the health implications, we cannot allow ourselves to be distracted,\" he said.\n\n\"Covid will eventually go away, plastic waste won't, it's here forever.\"\n\nClare Reed said she found a discarded face covering on a beach in Rhyl\n\nClare Reed, of the Marine Conservation Society, said a lot of progress was made before the pandemic to reduce single-use plastic, and then it was if it was \"all forgotten\".\n\nMs Reed said she found a discarded face mask on a beach in Rhyl, and the damage on the environment and wildlife was \"horrific\".\n\n\"I like to see the best in people, they may be falling out of people's pockets, but if you drop a mask today it will remain in the environment for many, many years,\" she said.\n\nAt least 2.5 billion coffee cups are thrown away each year in the UK, according to a UK government report published in 2018.\n\nWhile there is no official guidance barring the use of reusable cups, in March, at the start of the pandemic, many coffee chains banned the use of reusable cups due to safety reasons.\n\nIn July, 119 experts from across the globe signed a statement, concluding reusable containers posed no threat to the public during the pandemic.\n\nThe statement, organised by Greenpeace, claims there is no reason cups, bottles and jars cannot be used as long as they are thoroughly washed, but retailers should adopt \"contact-free\" systems for customers' reusable bags and cups.\n\nWhile some chains, including Starbucks, are now accepting them with systems for baristas not to touch the cups, many other independent chains are still only using disposable cups.\n\nThe Foodservice Packaging Association (FPA) said while there were strict hygiene rules in place in businesses, there was no guarantee a customer had washed their cup or bottle properly, and they could have been handled by many people.\n\nExecutive director Martin Kersh said businesses had spent a fortune on PPE to keep staff and customers safe, and many independents could not afford any more restrictions, expense or alternative systems to allow for reusable cup use.\n\n\"We don't want to take that independent fish and chip shop over the edge, we want them to survive, they're really struggling to do this,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW), in charge of handling the pandemic, was unable to comment on the safety of reusable cups.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had encouraged people to use reusable washable face coverings \"wherever possible\", and had promoted the responsible disposal of masks in campaigns.\n\n\"There has been an increase in single-use items during the coronavirus pandemic and we are working with businesses to help reduce their environmental impact and to support recycled and re-usable alternatives,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We are committed to reducing unnecessary single-use plastic in Wales and we are currently consulting on proposals to ban several commonly littered items.\"", "Yuko Takeuchi had taken the lead role in many TV series and films, including Miss Sherlock\n\nAward-winning Japanese actress Yuko Takeuchi has been found dead at her Tokyo home at the age of 40.\n\nShe was reportedly found by her actor husband Taiki Nakabayashi at their home in Shibuya Ward. Her death was confirmed at hospital.\n\nPolice launched an investigation, suspecting that the actress took her own life, Japanese media reported.\n\nMs Takeuchi was popular in Japan, known for the 1998 horror film Ringu which was adapted by Hollywood as The Ring.\n\nIn a statement, her talent agency Stardust Promotion said it was \"stunned and saddened by the news\".\n\nThe actress also played a female Sherlock Holmes in the 2018 HBO series Miss Sherlock, which was broadcast in several countries including the US.\n\nFor three years in a row, between 2004 and 2007, Ms Takeuchi won best actress in a leading role at the Japanese Academy Awards.\n\nAlong with her long list of acting credits, Ms Takeuchi's warm, smiling, woman-of-the-people image made her popular with advertisers, Variety Magazine reports.\n\nAlthough suicide has not been confirmed in Ms Takeuchi's case, it has been the cause of death for a number of Japanese talents recently, including the actress Sei Ashina earlier this month, actor Haruma Miura in July and wrestling star Hana Kimura in May.\n\nJapan has long battled one of the highest suicide rates in the industrialised world although figures have dropped since preventative measures were introduced more than a decade ago.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations which offer advice and support, click here. In the UK you can call for free, at any time, to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. In Japan you can get help here.", "The events had been expected to attract about 20,000 people to Southampton\n\nPublic health officials have cancelled two boat shows hours before they were due to start over coronavirus fears.\n\nBOATS2020, and the smaller sailing show MDL Ocean Village, were due to start in Southampton on Friday, with an expected 20,000 visitors over the next 10 days.\n\nThe organisers of BOATS2020 said they were told at about 18:30 BST that the event could not go ahead.\n\nSouthampton City Council said the decision was \"regrettable\" but made with public safety in mind.\n\nLesley Robinson, chief executive of British Marine, which organised BOATS2020, said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the cancellation, \"especially receiving the news at the eleventh hour before opening\".\n\nShe added: \"Alongside our exhibitors, we were ready to open a show that exceeded all safety requirements. We are truly perplexed as to why we are unable to run the show at least until Monday in line with the government restrictions imposed yesterday.\n\n\"Public health and safety come first and naturally, as the show organiser, British Marine must comply with all guidance.\"\n\nBritish Marine's chief executive Lesley Robinson said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the late cancellation\n\nAbout 230 boats had been brought to the city for the show.\n\nSouthampton City Council's director of public health, Debbie Chase, said: \"In Southampton and the South East, we have seen a lower rate of COVID-19 transmissions since lockdown ended.\n\n\"However, the national picture shows a concerning rise in cases, and with these events set to attract around 20,000 people from different parts of the UK over a 10-day period, it's important we act now to reduce the risk of infection.\"\n\nShe added: \"The decision, while regrettable, has been made after detailed analysis of the public health risks and discussions with our colleagues and partner agencies within the city. COVID-19 is still very much with us and we all need to stay alert, particularly at this sensitive time.\"", "The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd has appeared in court for the first time.\n\nDerek Chauvin was filmed pressing his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes before he died in May.\n\nThree other former officers are charged with abetting and aiding murder.", "Restrictions will begin in the second city on Tuesday\n\nHouseholds in Birmingham have been banned from mixing in new lockdown measures announced following a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe rate of infection has more than doubled in the city in a week to 90.3 cases per 100,000.\n\nThe measures also cover neighbouring Sandwell and Solihull, affecting more than 1.6 million people in total.\n\nThe restrictions will begin on Tuesday, it was announced at a regional meeting of council leaders.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"We never take these decisions lightly but social gatherings can spread the virus quickly and we need residents to abide by the new rules to break the chains of transmission.\"\n\nUnder the new rules, people are banned from meeting others who are not in their household or support bubble, indoors or in private gardens.\n\nBirmingham City Council confirmed people could still go out to shops, restaurants and other venues, in a maximum group of six from more than one household, but told people to be \"vigilant\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Birmingham residents have reacted to the new lockdown restrictions\n\nCouncil leader Ian Ward said data showed \"the infection rate has risen mainly due to social interactions, particularly private household gatherings\".\n\nFollowing earlier confusion around restrictions for the hospitality sector, Mr Ward tweeted: \"To clarify the situation, we have now agreed with government that the household restrictions which will come into force next Tuesday will not affect the hospitality sector (bars restaurants and cafes).\"\n\nHe said: \"You can continue to go to restaurants and pubs in a maximum group of six so that would allow you to meet another household.\n\n\"The reason for this difference is the data and information is telling us it's household gatherings together in one home where they are spreading the virus.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said the restrictions were not about \"prevention of schools, workplaces, transport\" but about mixing of households.\n\nThe new rules on household mixing in the three areas will run alongside wider restrictions coming into force in England on Monday, banning social gatherings of more than six people.\n\nElsewhere in England on Friday, it was announced:\n\nBirmingham has one of the highest infection rates in England\n\nBirmingham's coronavirus infection stands at 90.3 cases per 100,000 people as of the week to 8 September. The rate has more than doubled from 35.9 per 100,000 the previous week.\n\nAccording to the government's more local data, Birmingham is home to five of the top 10 neighbourhoods with the highest number of positive cases in England.\n\nMany of these areas saw spikes in the latest week of available data, compared to the week previously - reflecting the overall trend for the city.\n\nSpringfield and Hall Green West, in the south east of the city, had the most cases with 42, a sharp rise on the previous full week, when only 11 were recorded.\n\nWake Green East and Moseley Bog, just south of Springfield, went from recording between 0 to 2 cases for the past four weeks, to 29 most recently.\n\nMr Ward said the virus has not \"weakened\", calling it \"relentless\".\n\nWith 892 cases in the latest seven-day period, he said there had been \"an increase of hospital admissions with Covid-19 and an increase in cases in care homes\".\n\nHe added: \"If a venue doesn't look safe and you're not asked for your contact details, take your business elsewhere.\"\n\nMr Ward also said there were currently no plans to postpone the start of the academic year for university students, with thousands expected back to the city's five universities in the coming weeks.\n\nChief Constable of West Midlands Police Dave Thompson said he understood it had been a \"tough time\", but urged people to act responsibly.\n\nEsabella's restaurant in Warwick Road, Solihull, has closed voluntarily after 25 people tested positive for the virus, one of them a staff member.\n\nBethany Kendle is due to move back to Birmingham and start a new job\n\nBethany Kendle is due to move back to Birmingham for a new job after spending lockdown with her parents in Hertfordshire.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who celebrates her 23rd birthday on Saturday, said she had planned to see old friends from her time at university.\n\n\"It's frustrating, everybody was just starting to spread their wings and it's all taken away again,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm living in a flat with two friends from university, so it's not the end of the world.\"\n\nMs Kendle, who graduated from the University of Birmingham earlier this year, said she found the rules \"quite vague\".\n\n\"People don't really know what's going on,\" she said. \"It's a difficult line to draw, especially when different parts of the country have different rules.\"\n\nSolihull and Sandwell are also affected by the new restrictions\n\nThe new restrictions are designed to stop the transmission of the virus in people's homes which is thought to be behind the increase in cases across the West Midlands conurbation.\n\nWe'll know if it's working if the infection rate starts to drop over the next few weeks.\n\nHealth officials have described this as a critical moment in the battle against the virus and hospitals are again starting to see small numbers of seriously ill Covid-19 patients.\n\nPolice will move from an approach of engagement to enforcement of the rules, but with more than 1.6 million people now covered by these restrictions, there will have to be an element of trust that they can be followed.\n\nAbby Stapleton is due to study psychology at Birmingham City University\n\nStudent Abby Stapleton, 19 and from Coventry, is due to move into halls of residence at Birmingham City University at the weekend and said the rise in cases had made her nervous.\n\n\"For the minute it is not too strict, I'm still able to move around for things that are necessities, but I'm nervous over catching it, it is a lot higher than Coventry,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Attenborough met some of the few remaining gorillas in the Virunga Mountains at the time some 40 years ago\n\nSir David Attenborough returns to our screens this weekend with a landmark new production.\n\nThe tone of the programme is very different from his usual work.\n\nFor once Britain's favourite naturalist is not here to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on Earth but to issue us all with a stark warning.\n\nThe one-hour film, Extinction: The Facts, will be broadcast on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.\n\n\"We are facing a crisis\", he warns at the start, \"and one that has consequences for us all.\"\n\nWhat follows is a shocking reckoning of the damage our species has wrought on the natural world.\n\nThere are the stunning images of animals and plants you would expect from an Attenborough production, but also horrific scenes of destruction.\n\nIn one sequence monkeys leap from trees into a river to escape a huge fire.\n\nIn another a koala limps across a road in its vain search for shelter as flames consume the forest around it.\n\nPangolins are trafficked in great numbers for their scales\n\nThere is a small army of experts on hand to quantify the scale of the damage to the ecosystems of the world.\n\nOf the estimated eight million species on Earth, a million are now threatened with extinction, one expert warns.\n\nSince 1970, vertebrate animals - birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and amphibians - have declined by 60%, another tells us.\n\nWe meet the world's last two northern white rhinos.\n\nThese great beasts used to be found in their thousands in Central Africa but have been pushed to the brink of extinction by habitat loss and hunting.\n\n\"Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale told by conservationists,\" says James Mwenda, the keeper who looks after them, \"but I have lived it, I know what it is.\"\n\nJames Mwenda: 'Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale'\n\nJames strokes and pets the giant animals but it becomes clear they represent the last of their kind when he tells us that Najin and Fatu are mother and daughter.\n\nSpecies have always come and gone, that's how evolution works. But, says Sir David, the rate of extinction has been rising dramatically.\n\nIt is reckoned to be now happening at 100 times the natural evolutionary rate - and is accelerating.\n\n\"Over the course of my life I've encountered some of the world's most remarkable species of animals,\" says Sir David, in one of the most moving sequences in the film.\n\n\"Only now do I realise just how lucky I've been - many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever.\"\n\nSir David is at pains to explain that this isn't just about losing the magnificent creatures he has featured in the hundreds of programmes he has made in his six decades as a natural history film-maker.\n\nThe loss of pollinating insects could threaten the food crops we depend on. Trees and other plants regulate water flow and produce the oxygen we breathe. Meanwhile, the seas are being emptied of fish.\n\nThere is now about 5% of trawler-caught fish left compared with before the turn of the 20th century, one expert says.\n\nTwo female rhinos are the last of their kind\n\nBut the pandemic provides perhaps the most immediate example of the risks of our ever-increasing encroachment into the natural world, as we have all been learning in the most brutal fashion over the last six months.\n\nThe programme tracks the suspected origins of coronavirus to populations of bats living in cave systems in Yunnan province in China.\n\nWe see the Chinese \"wet market\" in Wuhan which specialises in the sale of wild animals for human consumption and is thought to have been linked with many of the early infections.\n\nThe programme is uncompromising in its depiction of the crisis in the natural world, admits Serena Davies, who directed the programme.\n\n\"Our job is to report the reality the evidence presents,\" she explains.\n\nBut the programme does not leave the audience feeling that all is lost. Sir David makes clear there is still cause for hope.\n\n\"His aim is not to try and drag the audience into the depths of despair,\" says Ms Davies, \"but to take people on a journey that makes them realise what is driving these issues we can also solve them.\"\n\nWe see one of the most celebrated moments in all the films Sir David has made in his long career, the moment he met a band of gorillas in the mountains on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.\n\nGorillas face many threats but there is hope for their recovery\n\nA young gorilla called Poppy tries to take off his shoes as he speaks to the camera.\n\n\"It was an experience that stayed with me,\" says Sir David, \"but it was tinged with sadness, as I thought I might be seeing some of the last of their kind.\"\n\nThe programme makers have been back to Rwanda and, after a long trek, spot Poppy's daughter and granddaughter in the deep forest scrub.\n\nWe learn that the Rwandan government has worked with local people to protect the animal and that the gorillas are thriving.\n\nThere were 250 when Sir David visited in the 1970s, now there are more than 1,000.\n\nIt shows, says Sir David, what we can achieve when we put our minds to it.\n\n\"I may not be here to see it,\" he concludes, \"but if we make the right decisions at this critical moment, we can safeguard our planet's ecosystems, its extraordinary biodiversity and all its inhabitants.\"\n\nHis final line packs a powerful punch: \"What happens next\", says Sir David, \"is up to every one of us.\"\n\nYou can see David Attenborough's, Extinction: The Facts, on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.", "The EU is demanding the UK ditches plans to change Boris Johnson's Brexit deal \"by the end of the month\" or risk jeopardising trade talks.\n\nThe UK has published a bill to rewrite parts of the withdrawal agreement it signed in January.\n\nThe EU said this had \"seriously damaged trust\" and it would not be \"shy\" of taking legal action against the UK.\n\nBut cabinet minister Michael Gove said the UK had made it \"perfectly clear\" it would not withdraw the bill.\n\nThe government says Parliament is sovereign and can pass laws which breach the UK's international treaty obligations.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said \"trust and confidence are and will be key\", after the latest round of UK-EU trade talks wrapped up in London on Thursday.\n\nHis UK counterpart David Frost said \"significant\" differences remained over a free trade deal, but added discussions would continue in Brussels next week.\n\nThe source of the EU's concern is Mr Johnson's proposed Internal Market Bill, which was published on Wednesday.\n\nIt addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - an element of the withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe bill proposes no new checks on goods moving from Northern Ireland to Great Britain. It gives UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe publication of the bill prompted emergency talks between Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and Maros Šefčovič, the European Commission Vice-President.\n\nAfter two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage, however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none.\n\nFollowing the discussions, the EU issued a strongly-worded statement warning that the withdrawal agreement was a legal obligation, adding that \"neither the EU nor the UK can unilaterally change, clarify, amend, interpret, disregard or disapply the agreement\".\n\nThe EU rejected the UK's arguments that the bill is designed to protect peace in Northern Ireland arguing that \"it does the opposite\".\n\nMr Šefčovič said that if the bill were to be adopted, it would constitute an \"extremely serious violation\" of the withdrawal agreement and of international law.\n\nHe urged the government to withdraw the bill \"by the end of the month\", adding that the withdrawal agreement \"contains a number of mechanisms and legal remedies to address violations of the legal obligations contained in the text - which the European Union will not be shy in using\".\n\nGermany's UK ambassador said he had not experienced \"such a fast, intentional and profound deterioration of a negotiation\" in his diplomatic career.\n\n\"If you believe in partnership between the UK and the EU like I do then don't accept it,\" he tweeted.\n\nMichael Gove arrives at the Cabinet Office ahead of talks with EU officials\n\nIn its response, the UK government said it would \"discharge its treaty obligations in good faith\", but added that \"in the difficult and highly exceptional circumstances in which we find ourselves, it is important to remember the fundamental principle of parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\n\"Parliament is sovereign as a matter of domestic law and can pass legislation which is in breach of the UK's treaty obligations. Parliament would not be acting unconstitutionally in enacting such legislation.\n\n\"Treaty obligations only become binding to the extent that they are enshrined in domestic legislation. Whether to enact or repeal legislation, and the content of that legislation, is for Parliament and Parliament alone.\"\n\nMr Gove \"said that, during the talks, he had \"made it perfectly clear that we would not be withdrawing this legislation\", adding that the government was \"absolutely serious\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will be formally debated by MPs in Parliament for the first time on Monday, 14 September.\n\nIt has come under increasing criticism from Conservative parliamentarians.\n\nFormer party leader Lord Howard said it would damage the UK's \"reputation for probity and respect for the rule of law\", while former Chancellor Lord Lamont asked ministers to \"think again\".\n\nBut Mr Gove said: \"I'm looking forward to the second reading of the bill next week. It's an opportunity for the government to set out in detail why we have this legislation.\"\n\nHe promised to fight for \"unfettered access for goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nMr Johnson has defended the bill, saying it would \"ensure the integrity of the UK internal market\" and hand power to Scotland and Wales, while protecting the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nBut critics say the move will damage the UK's international reputation after a minister admitted the plans break international law.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to consider \"the reputational risk that it's taking in the proposed way forward\".\n\nMeanwhile, the latest round of formal talks over a post-Brexit trade deal concluded in London on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Barnier said the EU had \"shown flexibility\" in an effort to \"find solutions\", but the UK had not \"not engaged\" on some \"major issues\".\n\nFor the UK side, Lord Frost said \"challenging areas remain and the divergences on some are still significant\".\n\nHe said the UK negotiators \"remain committed\" to reaching a deal by the middle of October and officials would \"continue discussions\" next week.", "Jean-Sébastien Jacques has been Rio Tinto's chief executive since 2016\n\nThe boss of Rio Tinto, Jean-Sébastien Jacques, will step down following criticism of the mining giant's destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites.\n\nIn May, the world's biggest iron ore miner destroyed two ancient caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.\n\nThe company went ahead with blowing up the Juukan Gorge rock shelters despite the opposition of Aboriginal traditional owners.\n\nIt sparked widespread condemnation from shareholders and the public.\n\nOn Friday, the company said in a statement: \"Significant stakeholders have expressed concerns about executive accountability for the failings identified.\"\n\nThe board said Mr Jacques would remain as the chief executive until March or until a successor was appointed.\n\nOther senior executives, including the heads of the miner's iron ore and corporate relations divisions, will also leave the company at the end of the year.\n\nThe caves - seen as one of Australia's most significant archaeological research sites - had shown evidence of continuous human habitation dating back 46,000 years.\n\nThey sat above about eight million tonnes of high-grade iron ore, with an estimated value of £75m (A$132m; $96m).\n\nJuukan Gorge cave sites, seen before and after the destruction\n\nAustralia's parliament is currently holding an inquiry into the miner's actions.\n\nRio Tinto also held its own inquiry earlier this year, after which the company cut bonuses for directors and began attempts at repairing relations with Aboriginal communities.\n\n\"What happened at Juukan was wrong and we are determined to ensure that the destruction of a heritage site of such exceptional archaeological and cultural significance never occurs again at a Rio Tinto operation,\" said chairman Simon Thompson.\n\nArtefacts found at the caves include a 28,000-year-old animal bone tool and a 4,000-year-old belt made of plaited human hair. DNA testing had directly linked it to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) people - the traditional owners of the land.\n\nAfter the caves were destroyed, a PKKP representative, John Ashburton, said losing the site was a \"devastating blow\".\n\n\"There are less than a handful of known Aboriginal sites in Australia that are as old as this one... Its importance cannot be underestimated,\" he said.\n\nLast week it was revealed that in the days running up to the caves' destruction in May, Rio Tinto hired lawyers in case opponents tried to seek injunctions to stop them.\n\nAlthough the company said it had permission for the work under Aboriginal heritage laws, critics said it suggested the miner was aware of the site's cultural importance.\n\nIn June, rival miner BHP also halted its plans to expand its mine in the Pilbara region in June following the outcry over Rio's actions.\n\nLast month, Rio Tinto said it had cut Mr Jacques' bonus by £2.7m. It also said Chris Salisbury, chief executive of iron ore, and Simone Niven, group executive of corporate relations, would lose more than half a million pounds each.\n\nBut Tom Stevenson, investment director at Fidelity International, said Rio Tinto's actions had been \"slow and misguided\".\n\n\"It was slow because when it knew the significance of those sites it could have reversed its position and it didn't,\" he said.\n\n\"And it is misguided because when it cut bonuses recently it effectively put a price on something which is basically priceless and I think that that was tin-eared really. I'm not surprised that we've moved onto this stage where the chief executive felt that he had to go.\"\n\nThe cultural value of the Juukan Gorge shelters is huge and so is the loss.\n\nThis decision to let the CEO go could be seen as a vindication after months of ongoing pressure from traditional landowners, other Aboriginal groups and shareholders who refused to stand for the destruction of one of Australia's most important archaeological sites.\n\nThe scandal also highlights the great imbalance of power between Australia's influential mining industry and traditional landowners; and what the government's responsibility should be to ensure the protection of historical and ancestral sites.\n\nLast month Mr Jacques and two senior executives were stripped of their multimillion-dollar bonuses for 2020. The move seemed to have backfired.\n\nMany saw cutting the pay of already very high-earning executives as showing a clear lack of touch, and nowhere near a satisfactory retribution for those responsible for overseeing community relations.\n\nRio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson said that the mining giant was determined to regain the trust of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people and other traditional owners.\n\nBut given how they've handled this scandal, it's hard to see that happening any time soon.", "The family of Breonna Taylor has said it is worried about a \"cover-up\" in the case of her killing in March.\n\nThe 26-year-old emergency medical technician was fatally shot when officers stormed her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, on a search warrant for drugs.\n\n\"There are questions [that] still aren't answered,\" says her aunt Bianca Austin. \"We feel like we're just being lied to.\"\n\nLouisville Police did not respond to an interview request from the BBC.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A scammer explains to Kafui Okpattah how the fake licence scheme works\n\nScammers on social media who claim to work for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency are selling \"full driving licences\" for £600, a BBC News investigation has found.\n\nThey claim to have inside access to driving test centres which allows them to book and pass practical driving tests without clients being present.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - which has responsibility for driving tests - said that was not possible.\n\nThey are money-making scams, it said.\n\nIt is illegal to drive without a valid licence. The punishment for doing so includes a fine of up to £1,000, up to six points on your licence and a possible disqualification.\n\nThe licence vendors claim to supply their clients with a plastic licence card and test certificate at their home address.\n\nThey also send clients an image of what appears to be their updated driving licence status as shown on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) \"view your licence\" webpage.\n\nThe client's driving status reads \"full driving licence\", which suggests they are on the DVLA database as registered to drive - despite having paid for their licence instead of taking and passing a driving test.\n\nBBC News has discovered that these images are fraudulent mock-ups of the DVLA's \"view your licence\" webpage and that the licence numbers clients are issued with are not on the agency's database.\n\nThe BBC sent the examples of the licences to the DVLA.\n\nIn response, the DVLA said: \"Only DVLA can issue a driving licence. We can confirm that the examples seen are not genuine.\"\n\nThe licence vendors advertise their service on social media platforms such as Instagram, but urge any potential clients to message them privately on WhatsApp.\n\nBBC News has acquired screenshots of text messages between clients and the licence vendors.\n\nThey show the vendor asking for personal details such as the client's address, date of birth and a passport photo - information the seller says is required to issue a licence.\n\nText messages seen by the BBC also show the licence vendor discussing payments with his clients and them thanking him for his service.\n\nTo find out more about how the scammers operate, BBC News sent text messages to a vendor posing as a potential client. The vendor is asked if the DVLA would find out but is assured they wouldn't because \"we [the vendors] work for DVLA\".\n\nIn a phone call with the BBC, which was covertly recorded, the vendor went into more detail about how the fraud is carried out.\n\n\"We usually book your test for you and pass it without you actually being there but it's gonna look like you were there\" he said.\n\n\"If you do wanna go ahead, I'll need your full name and provisional licence number.\"\n\nThe vendor suggested he was able to cheat the driving test and pass people without them being present, allowing them to have their licence updated to a \"full driving licence\".\n\nHe also told the BBC he could start the process that same day and everything would be done in \"five to seven days\".\n\nIn a statement responding to the BBC's investigation, the DVLA said: \"We are aware of these offers and are investigating similar claims.\n\n\"We have so far found no evidence to suggest these claims are true or anything more than money-making scams.\"\n\nScarlett (not her real name) tried to acquire a driving licence from the vendor.\n\nShe told the BBC she came across his account on Instagram and \"paid £500 for him to pass my driving test\".\n\nScarlett says that despite having paid the vendor, all she received was an image of her licence details.\n\n\"I checked the [licence] details he sent me but it was all fake,\" she says. \"I never received no licence just that picture.\n\n\"If you've found him, can you get my money back? I want my money back.\"\n\nBBC News has learnt of several others, like Scarlett, who've tried to acquire a driving licence from a licence vendor.\n\nThey come from different parts of the country, including Liverpool, Birmingham, North Yorkshire, Bradford and London.\n\nIn its statement to the BBC, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency warned members of the public against attempting to acquire licences illegally.\n\n\"The driving test is there to make sure all drivers have the skills and knowledge to use the roads safely and responsibly; trying to circumvent it is illegal and a serious danger to road users,\" it said.", "A bust-up with Brussels was always a possible feature of this autumn.\n\nBut when EU top brass and their officials arrived in London this morning, it was not inevitable that it would come today.\n\nThere were whispers yesterday that one or other of the sides might flounce out - but \"wait and see\" seemed the order of the day.\n\nLate last night, chatter from sources in Brussels suggested they were unwilling to rise to what they see as the UK's provocation, to \"take the bait\", as it was expressed to me.\n\nBut after two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none. The chances therefore of talks, that matter so much to our economy, moving very far are almost zilch - and therefore the chances of a deal are falling away.\n\nRemember last autumn, day-after-day-after-day the language between the two sides became more heated, brinkmanship more risky, the government's moves more audacious, and then, suddenly, a deal was done.\n\nAnd despite the EU's extraordinary statement, and serious stumbling blocks in the talks, the UK chief negotiator, Lord Frost, has now announced that the trade talks will still go ahead next week.\n\nThe added complication here is that the government can't be sure at all that their plans to change the Northern Irish parts of the existing treaty will pass through Parliament.\n\nResistance in the Lords is inevitable and while it's hard to gauge the final number, there is likely to be a rebellion from Tory MPs too.\n\nBut Downing Street right now is confident that MPs will back the plans in the end.\n\nWilling to forgo a trade deal - if that's what their changes mean - rather than back down on their plans, having chosen to take what insiders admit is a nuclear option, for now, they are willing to stand back and watch the explosion.", "Stevie Lee (centre) was a member of the wrestling group Half Pint Brawlers, pictured here in 2011\n\nJackass star and TNA wrestler Stevie Lee has died at the age of 54.\n\nLee appeared in Johnny Knoxville's 2010 reality comedy film Jackass 3D, and was known in the ring as Puppet.\n\nHe died unexpectedly at home on Wednesday, his family confirmed on a GoFundMe page set up to help cover his funeral costs.\n\n\"Puppet has put smiles across the world with his hardcore attitude and lifestyle,\" a family statement read.\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\nStevie Lee Richardson appeared in the third big-screen outing for Knoxville's hit TV show, which saw a group of friends play dangerous stunts on each other.\n\nIn the film, Lee performed a stunt that involved pulling a gun on fellow TNA wrestler, Jeff Jarrett.\n\nThe movie topped the US box office 10 years ago, with opening weekend takings of $50m (£31.4m).\n\nLee's other on-screen credits included American Horror Story and Oz the Great and Powerful.\n\nHe was also a member of the wrestling group Half Pint Brawlers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A teacher whose brother previously won the £500,000 prize has gone one better to win the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?\n\nDonald Fear, 57, used just one 50/50 lifeline to become the first £1m winner in 14 years.\n\nBrother Davyth, who teaches geography, appeared on the show in September last year.\n\nMr Fear said his brother was his \"hero and best friend\". \"Other way around now,\" said presenter Jeremy Clarkson.\n\nThe history and politics teacher's final question on Friday's pre-recorded show was: \"In 1718, which pirate died in battle off the coast of what is now North Carolina?\"\n\nThe options were Calico Jack, Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Captain Kidd.\n\nMr Fear, who lives in Telford, said he had taught piracy to a group of Year 8 students about eight years ago, and remembered the date of 1718.\n\n\"You don't be a history teacher for 33 years without knowing a few dates, and the date 1718 and Blackbeard leapt out at me instantly.\"\n\nClarkson expressed his amazement at the history teacher's knowledge throughout his run of 15 correct answers.\n\n\"It's like sitting next to the internet in a pink shirt,\" he said, describing him as \"an encyclopaedia with a moustache\".\n\nMr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show's 22-year history.\n\nAfter his win, the father of four celebrated by going on a caravan holiday along the Northumberland coast with his wife of 33 years, nurse Debs.\n\nAnd his elder brother Davyth has also been part of his celebrations.\n\n\"He is so pleased for me,\" said Mr Fear.\n\n\"We went to spend a night in a hotel with our wives last week and got absolutely plastered and he kept poking me saying how pleased and how overjoyed he was by it.\"\n\nMr Fear said he wanted to give at least 70% of his winnings to his family and spend the rest on a \"comfortable retirement\".\n\nAnd that retirement is due to begin soon - since winning the jackpot, he has resigned from Haberdashers' Adams Grammar school in Newport, Shropshire.\n\nBut he said: \"The rules are you have to go at the end of a term.\n\n\"Actually, I never investigated the possibility of whether it would be possible not to go back at all - but how unfair to my A-level students that would be?\"\n\nMr Fear added: \"I was planning to go in two years anyway just before my 60th birthday.\n\n\"As it is, I'm going just after my 58th.\"", "A new Covid-19 contact-tracing app will be launched across England and Wales on 24 September, the government has announced.\n\nThe app will let people scan barcode-like QR codes to register visits to hospitality venues and will implement Apple and Google's method of detecting other smartphones.\n\nBusinesses are being asked to display QR code posters to support the app.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock described the launch as \"a defining moment\".\n\nThe first version of the NHS contact-tracing app, intended for the whole of the UK, was trialled on the Isle of Wight in May but later abandoned.\n\n\"We need to use every tool at our disposal to control the spread of the virus including cutting-edge technology,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\n\"The launch of the app later this month across England and Wales is a defining moment and will aid our ability to contain the virus at a critical time.\"\n\nAccording to the latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics, there were an estimated 3,200 new cases a day in England during the first week of September, compared with 2,000 the week before.\n\nSome hospitality venues have already been using their own QR code-based systems for test and trace but are now being asked to switch to the NHS version instead.\n\nUniversities, hospitals, leisure premises, civic centres and libraries are being asked to display posters in communal areas such as cafes, where people gather for longer than 15 minutes.\n\nAn alternative system, such as a handwritten register, must also be maintained for visitors who do not have smartphones, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nWelsh Health and Social Services Minister Vaughan Gething said launching a joint app with England was \"the most practical option\".\n\nHe added that the move reflects \"movement across our shared border\".\n\n\"It makes sense to use the same app, working in exactly the same way, regardless of which country you're in.\"\n\nIt has had a long and troubled gestation but the team behind the NHS Covid-19 app are hoping that they've finally got it right at a time when it can make a significant contribution to limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nBack in April, an app seemed to be a key weapon in the government's armoury but since Baroness Dido Harding took over the Test and Trace programme, it's been relegated to the \"cherry on the cake\".\n\nAround the world there are still doubts amongst those working on contact tracing apps about just how good Bluetooth is as a way of measuring the distance between people.\n\nBut the fact that pubs, restaurants and other hospitality businesses are now being told they have to do a better job of logging contact details of visitors presents an opportunity.\n\nThey may now see having QR codes for visitors as a simple way of complying with the rules, and that could encourage take-up of the app.\n\nThere has been some confusion about whether businesses will be complying with the rules on collecting customer data if they rely on the app. But I've been told that they will be compliant even though the nature of the app means none of the data will be visible either to them or to the authorities.\n\nScotland launched its own app on Thursday that has already been downloaded nearly 600,000 times.\n\nThe Protect Scotland app informs people if they have been in close contact with someone who later tests positive.\n\nNorthern Ireland was the first part of the UK to launch a contact-tracing app - StopCOVID NI was officially launched at the end of July.\n\nIn England, from Monday, social gatherings will be limited to up to six people - in a measure dubbed \"the rule of six\".\n\nIt has been criticised by some Conservative MPs who have said it should be subjected to more parliamentary scrutiny.\n\nScotland and Wales - which along with Northern Ireland have devolved powers to set their own coronavirus restrictions - also reduced the size of social gatherings to six people from Monday.\n\nIn Scotland, children under the age of 12 will not count towards the total, and in Wales the rule will not apply to children under 11 and up to 30 people can still meet outside.\n\nThe new measures followed a sustained rise in coronavirus cases, with over 2,000 positive cases recorded across the UK on five consecutive days this week.", "Wales' first minister says he's \"reluctant\" to give a date for when the new restrictions could be lifted.\n\nMark Drakeford said the situation will be reviewed and measures will be eased if they are \"no longer proportionate to the problem\".\n\nBut he stressed: \"If it remains necessary it will remain in force and if that does take us to the rest of this year, and regrettably, that is what we will have to do.\"\n\nMr Drakeford added families should still be able to get together over Christmas under the measures announced today.\n\n\"As far as Christmas in Wales is concerned, it's important to just identify another difference between our position and that across our border, which is that the figure of six does not include young children in Wales children under the age of 11 are not included\", he said.\n\n\"So family gatherings where children, parents and sometimes grandparents will work together to get together for Christmas will still be allowed in Wales.\"", "Trials for 43,000 defendants are being listed for next year and some for 2022\n\nA judge has claimed he was put under \"improper and undue influence\" to keep a defendant in custody.\n\nJudge Keith Raynor refused to extend the time a teenager charged with drugs offences could be held in custody before his trial.\n\nWoolwich Crown Court heard Tesfa Young-Williams was charged with serious drug offences last October and had been in custody for 321 days because of delays.\n\nThat is 139 days beyond the custody time limit (CTL), the judge said.\n\nRefusing the further extension on Tuesday, Judge Raynor ruled government measures which include the creation of 10 Nightingale courts - temporary courts to help tackle the number of outstanding cases - were slow, not proportionate, lacked funding and that alternative, adequately-funded measures which would have worked were not adopted.\n\nIn a highly unusual move, Judge Raynor has made public communications with a senior judge in the lead-up to Mr Young-Williams' CTL hearing.\n\nJudge Raynor said he felt \"pressurised into granting the CTL extension application\" and \"was subjected to improper and undue influence to make a ruling extending the CTL in the case of R v Tesfa Young-Williams\".\n\nThe judge has now been told he will not be hearing a CTL application in another case but has said he wants to issue a formal complaint.\n\nCustody limits are in the spotlight because the Covid pandemic has led to an increased backlog of cases causing more defendants on remand awaiting trial to have their custody limits extended.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, the backlog of crown court cases has risen by 6,000 to 43,000.\n\nThe government has announced it will extend CTLs from six to eight months from the end of September. It also expects to have 250 usable jury trial rooms by November, as part of a so-called \"criminal courts recovery plan\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards a range of measures, including more Nightingale courts.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the distance between the senior judiciary and ministers is becoming too close.\n\nCriminal barrister Kirsty Brimelow QC said: \"The judiciary and the government are separate and distinct, so where there is a closeness between senior judiciary and government on policy, as there is here on custody time limits, there is real constitutional concern that this may compromise the independence of the judiciary.\"\n\nJudge Raynor's actions are exceptional and the senior judge he has criticised has said it would not be appropriate to comment.\n\nHowever, the allegations put the relationship between senior judges and the government firmly under scrutiny.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has announced a \"truce\" on enforcement action for tenants facing eviction in England and Wales this Christmas.\n\nIt also said that evictions will not be enforced in areas subject to local lockdowns as the pandemic continues.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick added that it has increased notice periods to six months in an \"unprecedented measure\".\n\nCampaign group Generation Rent said the government \"must offer [renters] more.\"\n\nThe government confirmed that court proceedings for evictions in England and Wales would restart on 21 September after being suspended for six months due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nBut under new measures announced on Thursday, evictions will not be enforced by bailiffs if a local area is in lockdown that includes restrictions on gathering in homes.\n\nBailiffs will also be told that they should not enforce possession orders over Christmas, other than in \"the most serious circumstances\", such as cases involving domestic abuse or antisocial behaviour.\n\nThe government has not yet confirmed which dates the \"winter truce\" will cover for tenants in England and Wales.\n\n\"We have protected renters during the pandemic by banning evictions for six months - the longest eviction ban in the UK,\" Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said.\n\n\"To further support renters we have increased notice periods to six months, an unprecedented measure to help keep people in their homes over the winter months.\n\n\"It's right that we strike a balance between protecting vulnerable renters and ensuring landlords whose tenants have behaved in illegal or anti-social ways have access to justice.\"\n\nThe new measures are aimed at ensuring potentially vulnerable tenants are not forced out of their homes \"at a time when public and local authorities may be dealing with an increased demand for services\", a statement said.\n\nMinisters extended the ban on evictions for four weeks in August, but campaign groups and housing charities had hoped that more would be done for renters who have seen a loss in income during the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Batchelder: \"I don't know what the future holds\"\n\nAlicia Kennedy, director at Generation Rent, said: \"It is welcome that renters will not face eviction by bailiffs around Christmas or where there are lockdown measures.\n\n\"But outside that, thousands of renters who have had eviction notices during the pandemic still have no assurance from the government whether they can stay in their home.\n\n\"Those who have lost income will find it difficult to find a new home so face many months of uncertainty, getting deeper into debt.\"\n\nOne survey by homelessness charity Shelter suggested that more than 170,000 private tenants have been threatened with eviction by their landlord or letting agent, and 230,000 in England have fallen into arrears since the pandemic started.\n\nHowever, landlord groups have previously said that their members have been left \"powerless\" in dealing with the non-payment of rent.\n\nSome have called for more help in England to reduce the financial pressures on landlords, in addition to mortgage holidays.\n\nChris Norris, policy director for the National Residential Landlords Association, welcomed news that the courts would begin to hear possession cases again from 21 September.\n\n\"It is vital that this happens so that landlords can begin to take action against anti-social tenants, those committing acts of domestic violence and those with rent arrears that have nothing to do with Covid-19,\" he said.", "Delphine Boël wants the same rights as her half siblings, her lawyer says\n\nThe love child of the former Belgian King Albert II is hoping a court will grant her the same rights and titles as her father's legitimate children.\n\nArtist Delphine Boël, 52, has taken her case to the appeals court in Brussels.\n\nKing Albert finally admitted he was Ms Boël's father in January this year, having fought her paternity claim for more than a decade.\n\nHer mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, claims she had an 18-year affair with Albert before he was king.\n\nRumours of an illegitimate child first emerged in 1999 in an unauthorised biography about Albert's wife Queen Paola, prompting a royal scandal and enduring media gossip in Belgium.\n\nMs Boël first alleged on the record that King Albert was her biological father during a 2005 interview, but it was not until he abdicated in 2013 - when he lost his immunity to prosecution - that she opened court proceedings.\n\nHer lawyer said on Thursday that she was seeking the same rights as Albert's three other children, Philippe, now King of Belgium, Prince Laurent and Princess Astrid.\n\n\"Delphine's position isn't that she wants or doesn't want to be princess,\" said Marc Uyttendaele.\n\n\"She doesn't want to be a cut-price child, she wants to have exactly the same privileges, titles and capacities as her brothers and her sister.\"\n\nReports suggest her children would also be eligible for a royal title if the court rules in her favour.\n\nAlbert's lawyer says she can only be given the title \"princess\" by royal decree, not by a court.\n\nPrincess Paola of Belgium (later Queen Paola) and Prince Albert of Belgium with their children in 1969\n\nBaroness Longchamps says the affair with the then Prince Albert of Liège lasted between 1966 and 1984, and he was a presence during Ms Boël's childhood.\n\nFollowing his older brother's death in 1993 at 62, Albert unexpectedly came to the throne.\n\nHe held the position until July 2013, when he announced his abdication - citing ill health - and was replaced by his son, Philippe.\n\nThe 86-year-old had resisted court orders to undergo DNA testing until he was facing fines of €5,000 per day (£4,611; $5,918, at current exchange rates) for refusing to do so.\n\nIn January, he announced he accepted Ms Boël as his fourth child after he \"learnt the results of the DNA tests\".\n\nMr Uyttendaele said at the time the admission was a \"relief\" for Ms Boël. \"Her life has been a long nightmare because of this quest for identity,\" he told RTL television.\n\nBelgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Albert was sworn in as the sixth king of the Belgians on 9 August 1993", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's alleged killer Anne Sacoolas drove on the \"wrong side of the road for 20 seconds\" before the fatal crash, her lawyers said.\n\nBut she was \"otherwise driving cautiously and below the speed limit\", her legal representatives added.\n\nThey have issued a statement detailing the 43-year-old's side of the story.\n\nThe American was charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a crash in August 2019 which resulted in 19-year-old Mr Dunn's death.\n\nMrs Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity following the collision outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.\n\nShe was able to return to her home country, sparking controversy.\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\nAccording to her lawyers, Ms Sacoolas \"instinctively\" began driving on the right-hand side, and could not see Mr Dunn due to \"the crest of a small hill\".\n\nIn a public statement, they said: \"Anne did everything she could to assist Harry. After the accident, she ran from her car and tried to help him.\n\n\"Anne then saw another motorist approach and flagged her down for more support.\n\n\"The other motorist immediately called for the emergency services and Anne made calls to alert the police from the nearby air force base.\n\n\"Tragically, it took over 40 minutes for the ambulance to arrive and nearly two hours passed before Harry was admitted to the hospital.\n\n\"Anne did not leave the scene until she was instructed to do so by the UK authorities.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas's legal representatives also made an on-the-record statement regarding her position on the prospect of a virtual trial.\n\nThey said: \"We have been and remain willing to discuss a resolution, including the possibility of virtual proceedings, with the UK authorities.\"\n\nReacting to the suspect's statement and speaking on behalf of Mr Dunn's family, their spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"The parents have noted the statement issued this evening on behalf of Mrs Sacoolas.\n\n\"Their position is that these issues should not be aired in any form other than a court of law.\n\n\"Once again, they invite her to do the right thing and return to the UK to answer to the charges laid against her.\"\n\nMr Dunn's alleged killer returned to the US on a commercial flight after the US Embassy \"informed the Foreign Office of this decision and instructed Anne to return home\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in December but an extradition request submitted by the Home Office was refused in January.\n\nThe US State Department has since said the decision to reject the request was \"final\".", "Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nIn a Zoom call with around 250 of them, he said the party must not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nThe EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.\n\nAnd a Tory MP has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would affect trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Parliament has threatened to scupper any UK-EU trade deal if the bill becomes UK law.\n\nThe two sides have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf it became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks.\n\nBut the government has rejected this demand, arguing the measures in the bill are needed to protect the integrity of the UK and the peace process in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn his Zoom call with MPs on Friday, the prime minister did not take questions and a poor signal meant the video and audio connections were lost for several minutes.\n\nHe called for \"overwhelming support\" for the bill, describing it as \"absolutely vital\" to \"prevent a foreign or international body from having the power to break up our country\".\n\nMr Johnson added that he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\".\n\nBut he said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nBBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young said Tory MPs were \"looking for a sign of compromise\" from Mr Johnson, as they \"simply can't believe the government is prepared to break international law\", but the prime minister \"dug his heels in\".\n\nIn a column in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson accused the EU of reinterpreting the Withdrawal Agreement to \"destroy the economic and territorial integrity of the UK\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK, to cut it off,\" he said.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call.\n\nHe is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAt around the same time as the prime minister was speaking, the European Parliament announced it would \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the withdrawal agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted parts of the bill, which would go against a treaty signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nThere is unease over this within the Conservative Party, with former leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major urging Mr Johnson to think again.", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier is in London this week for Brexit talks\n\nWhen it comes to Brexit, all negotiations are inter-linked: EU-UK trade talks, the process to implement their divorce deal, negotiations on fishing rights and Brussels' deliberation on UK financial service.\n\nWhat happens in one area very much affects progress in the others. You cannot separate them entirely.\n\nWhich is why this week, as the war of words and wills between Brussels and Downing Street raged over the government's threat to throw a grenade at key parts of the divorce deal, everyone's thoughts turned immediately to the trade talks between the two sides.\n\nIn fact, they limp on. Negotiations are set to resume in Brussels on Monday. This, despite the EU ending the week by threatening Downing Street with legal action unless it rowed back on its threats to the Withdrawal Agreement by the end of the month.\n\nThe government insists it will not budge. So it is significant that the EU stopped short of threatening to press the nuclear button - shutting down trade talks altogether.\n\nWhy is that, when we know the EU is furious?\n\nFirst of all, Brussels still wants a deal with the UK, if at all possible, this autumn.\n\nSecondly, the sense in Brussels is that the government is trying to provoke the EU into abandoning the trade negotiations.\n\n\"We're not going to give them that satisfaction,\" a high-level EU diplomat told me. \"We refuse to be manipulated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK vs EU: Johnson and Michel Barnier set out competing visions on trade\n\nSo, despite bitter arguments over legislation on the one hand, and a huge list of outstanding issues still to be ironed out in bilateral trade talks; despite time and trust running out on both sides; neither the EU nor the UK seem to want to be the first ones to walk out the door.\n\nIt is still possible, of course, that the government's bill is stopped in the House of Lords or even beforehand by rebel MPs.\n\nIt is possible for the EU and UK to iron out their differences over the divorce deal and in trade talks. Concessions can always be \"dressed-up\" to look like victories, after all.\n\nIt has been done before. Remember last autumn? Finding agreement on the divorce deal seemed nigh on impossible - until it was not and a deal was signed.\n\nBut, right now that feels like a long shot. The chatter on both sides of the Channel is that \"no deal\" is becoming more likely by the day.", "US President Donald Trump and his political rival Joe Biden have been marking the 19th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.\n\nAlmost 3,000 people died when four hijacked airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and - after passengers fought back - the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.\n\nBoth Mr Trump and Mr Biden visited the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville on Friday, but at different times.\n\nRead more: US commemorates 19th anniversary of 9/11", "The restrictions affect seven areas in and around Glasgow\n\nTougher restrictions on home visits have been extended to Lanarkshire.\n\nPeople living in the area are not able to meet other households in their homes.\n\nSimilar measures are already in place in Glasgow, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThe extension to North and South Lanarkshire means the restrictions now cover more than 1.75 million people in the west of Scotland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon had earlier said that the number of new cases in the region was \"causing some particular concern\".\n\nA total of 205 positive cases of Covid-19 have been identified by Test and Protect in Lanarkshire in the past week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is clearly regrettable that these restrictions need to be extended to people living in Lanarkshire.\n\n\"I understand that this will not be welcome news for people living in these areas, especially ahead of the weekend, but we must act now to protect people and get more control over the virus in the area.\"\n\nThe restrictions will be reviewed next Friday, while those affecting the five other council areas will be reviewed on Monday.\n\nMore than 1.1 million people in the west of Scotland were already covered by the home visit restrictions. North and South Lanarkshire have a combined population of more than 661,000 people.\n\nThere have been 205 positive cases of the virus in Lanarkshire in the last week\n\nPeople living in the areas should also not visit someone else's home, no matter where it is - although those in extended households can continue to meet indoors.\n\nPeople from different households can continue to meet outdoors, and in pubs and restaurants, as long as they follow the guidance.\n\nOnly essential indoor visits will be allowed in hospitals and care homes, although outdoor visits to care homes will still be permitted.\n\nIf anyone is identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive, their full household should self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nPublic health officials in Lanarkshire had warned last week that restrictions could be imposed if cases continue to rise.\n\nGabe Docherty, director of public health for NHS Lanarkshire, said: \"Although we enter into these restrictions with a heavy heart, I wholeheartedly welcome them.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Sturgeon announced a reduction in the number of people who could meet, either indoors or outdoors, in Scotland.\n\nNo more than six people from two different households are allowed to gather together, although children under the age of 12 do not count towards the total.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing on Friday that she had asked for advice on whether it would be possible to allow children from more than two households to meet in some circumstances - for example at birthday parties.\n\nShe said she hoped this could be clarified in the coming days.\n\nThe planned opening of theatres, live music venues and indoor soft play centres, which had been due to happen next Monday, has also been delayed until at least 5 October.", "Former Tory minister criticises lack of debate on virus laws\n\nAs we've reported, a number of Conservative backbenchers have been criticising the government's new coronavirus restrictions. Former minister Sir Christopher Chope is the latest to voice his concerns, telling the Commons earlier that MPs should have been able to debate the introduction of the \"draconian\" new measures. A new so-called \"rule of six\" is being introduced on Monday, limiting the number of people who can socialise together indoors or outdoors in England to six people. However, the statutory instrument needed to enact the rule change has yet to be laid before Parliament. Sir Christopher said he was \"very concerned about the lack of opportunity for people, the public first of all, to see the text of these new regulations, and I'm also concerned about the continuing reluctance of the government to give any opportunities to members to debate this\". He added: \"What we are talking about is the most draconian introduction of new restrictions on our liberty, with criminal sanctions, and we need to be made aware of what's happening and given the opportunity of debating it.\" Responding, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said \"the country should also know what's going on\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Google and Twitter have said they are clamping down further on misinformation online ahead of the US elections.\n\nMessaging platforms expect a flood of false claims and misleading posts ahead of the November vote.\n\nTwitter said it plans to more aggressively label and remove election-related tweets that are inaccurate.\n\nSearch engine Google said it would screen more auto-complete results to avoid voters being misled, particularly over reports claiming an early victory.\n\nOne of the concerns is that the widespread use of mail ballots in the US election due to the coronavirus pandemic could cause significant delays in tallying results. Experts fear this could allow misinformation to gain traction.\n\nOn Thursday, Google said that incorrect information about election results would not show up in searches.\n\nTwitter's changes could also affect tweets claiming victory before election results have been certified, along with misleading posts about ballot tampering.\n\nSocial media firms have been under pressure to combat misinformation after US intelligence agencies determined Russia used their platforms to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.\n\n\"We will not permit our service to be abused around civic processes, most importantly elections,\" Twitter wrote in its blog. \"Any attempt to do so - both foreign and domestic - will be met with strict enforcement of our rules, which are applied equally and judiciously for everyone.\"\n\nOn Friday, Microsoft warned that hackers with ties to Russia, China and Iran were attempting to snoop on people and groups involved with the US 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe US tech firm said the Russian hackers who breached the 2016 Democratic campaign were again involved.\n\nLast week, Facebook said it had dismantled a small network of accounts and pages that were part of a Russian influence operation.\n\nThe company said the campaign was linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA), an organisation close to the Russian government and accused of interference in the 2016 US election.\n\nTwitter also suspended five accounts from the same network. The operation centred around PeaceData, which claimed to be a non-profit news website in English and Arabic.\n\nThe messaging platform has clashed in recent months with President Donald Trump, who has posted frequently about potential fraud in the coming election while criticising Twitter for flagging his posts.\n\nIn Google's changes to auto-complete results, which predict what users are searching for, it will remove predictions \"that could be interpreted as claims for or against any candidate or political party\".\n\nIt will also remove the function that attempts to predict and complete search terms when people look up the status of voting locations, voting requirements or methods. Users will still be able to search for this information however.\n\nLast week, Facebook said it was creating a label for posts by candidates or campaigns that made premature claims of victory. It also said it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before Election Day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome male voice choirs fear they will never sing again due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe body representing more than 90 Welsh choirs said social distancing rules and fears about members' safety posed an \"existential threat\".\n\nBeaufort Male Choir has begun rehearsing outdoors in a rugby club stand to ensure their safety.\n\nBut the choir's secretary said restrictions needed to be relaxed to allow safe rehearsals indoors.\n\nMale voice choirs have long been symbolic of Wales' cultural heritage and epitomise its reputation as a land of song.\n\nSince lockdown was announced in March, all choirs have had their rehearsals and concerts cancelled.\n\nIt has led to a loss of income for some, but all have missed the social activity that came with weekly rehearsals and tours.\n\nChris Evans had a \"tear in his eye\" when he heard the choir sing for the first time since lockdown\n\nChris Evans is secretary of the Beaufort Male Choir in Ebbw Vale and is also secretary of the Welsh Association of Male Choirs (WAMC).\n\nHe said: \"It's an existential issue for some. One, the demographics in choirs and in male choirs are quite old. So it means that there will be choristers who don't want to sing again.\n\n\"And if you're only a small choir and 50% of you decide they don't want to do it again, that means that existence is a challenge.\"\n\nHe added some choirs were struggling for venues in which to practise, and choirs had lost money over the summer.\n\nBeaufort Male Choir rehearsed last week for the first time since March in the stand at Ebbw Vale RFC, so the men could socially distance.\n\nBeaufort Male Choir, pictured with Tom Jones for the One Show in 2015, have had to rehearse separately during lockdown\n\nDuring lockdown the choir had been unable to rehearse, but members had been practising at home with recorded instructional videos from its musical director.\n\nMr Evans said rehearsals at the rugby ground had been an emotional reunion: The first song that they sang last week was [the Welsh hymn] Gwahoddiad.\n\n\"I wasn't singing because I was running the mask store, but it brought tears to the eyes... it was brilliant to sing again.\"\n\nThe choir, pictured before the pandemic, hopes to return to performances next year\n\nThe Welsh Association of Male Choirs surveyed its members about the pandemic and its report said:\n\nBeaufort's long choral history dates back to 1869 - this undated photo is one of those found by Chris Evans in the archives\n\nPresident of Beaufort Male Choir, Labour's Member of the Senedd for Blaenau Gwent Alun Davies, wants better guidance on rehearsals that would enable safe indoor practice sessions over the winter.\n\n\"There is nobody here who wants to break rules, and there is nobody here who wants to see people become ill as a consequence of what I am suggesting.\n\n\"But what we are looking at is having an element of normality that will be especially important as we face a winter, and those long dark cold months.\"\n\nDespite concerns for the future, the WMAC said 50% of the choirs it surveyed had begun booking concerts for 2021.\n\nIn the meantime, it said efforts were ongoing to keep in touch with members and encourage virtual rehearsals.", "Drone footage shows streets of houses that have been completely wiped out by wildfires in the US state of Oregon.\n\nSome residents have been allowed to return to where their houses once stood and are realising the extent of the damage to their communities.", "The film appears to show a boy at the wheel of a lorry, apparently on the M1 near Dungannon\n\nA 37-year-old man has been released on bail after a video appearing to show a boy driving a lorry on a motorway in Northern Ireland was shared online.\n\nIt is believed the incident happened on the M1 eastbound at Dungannon.\n\nPolice had appealed for anyone who recognised the boy or the voice in the video to contact them.\n\nThe man was arrested in Cookstown, County Tyrone, suspected of aiding and abetting driving while disqualified by reason of age.\n\nHe was also questioned on suspicion of cruelty to children.", "Public health officials have warned of \"worrying signs\" of infection among the elderly, as an official measure indicated the UK's epidemic is growing again.\n\nThe R number was raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March.\n\nAny number above one indicates the number of infections is increasing.\n\nThe number of new daily confirmed UK cases of the virus rose to 3,539 on Friday - an increase of more than 600 on the previous day.\n\nThe virus is still at much lower levels across the UK than at the peak in April, but a study of thousands of people in England found cases doubling every seven to eight days.\n\nIt found a marked rise in infections in the north and among young people.\n\nYvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said although younger people made up the greatest share of new cases, \"we're now starting to see worrying signs of infections occurring in the elderly, who are at far higher risk of getting seriously ill\".\n\nA PHE report says there has been \"a particularly steep increase\" in positive test results in the over-85s and, in the north-west of England, a rise in people from that age group being admitted to hospital.\n\nHowever, though cases are rising, the number of patients in hospital remains largely flat at 863.\n\nOf those, 78 are on ventilators, according to the latest government figures.\n\nMs Doyle warned people to follow social distancing rules, wash their hands regularly and wear a face covering in enclosed spaces.\n\nMeanwhile, Birmingham will become the latest area to bring in new restrictions after a spike in cases.\n\nHowever, lockdown restrictions will be eased further in Leicester on Tuesday to bring rules for businesses in the city more in line with the majority of England, the Department of Health said.\n\nThe city has been subject to tighter Covid-19 restrictions since 29 June after a rise in cases.\n\nAcross the UK, new laws on how many people can socialise are being introduced from Monday in an attempt to hold back the rise in infections.\n\nThe \"rule of six\" will restrict indoor and outdoor gatherings in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice warned there was a \"real risk\" some people would treat this weekend as a \"party weekend\" before the new restrictions come in.\n\nJohn Apter, national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said that would be \"incredibly irresponsible\" at a time of increasing cases and officers would \"make no apology\" for fining people where appropriate.\n\nThe rise in the R (reproduction) number - which describes how many others each infected person passes the virus on to - is one of several measures indicating the virus is spreading more widely in the UK.\n\nIf the R number is higher than one - as now - the numbers infected are growing, with higher numbers indicating that cases are multiplying more quickly.\n\nThree other large studies have also indicated a widespread resurgence of coronavirus across the UK population.\n\nThe UK is entering a new stage of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSince lockdown, we have been deciding how to react to falling cases. But now the R number has gone above the crucial level of 1 for the first time since March and is backed up by reams of data showing cases are growing again.\n\nThis is not just contained to hotspots like Bolton - one government adviser told me the rise was widespread across the country.\n\nThey said today was a \"wake-up call\" for the nation. There are already some signs that the number of people being admitted to hospital is starting to rise.\n\nBut this is not a repeat of the build-up to lockdown. Cases are at a much lower level and they are growing more slowly.\n\nPre-lockdown, the R number was around three and cases were doubling every three to four days. It is around half that now.\n\nCoronavirus is going to be a major challenge until we have a vaccine.\n\nSo the defining question as we head into a potentially difficult winter is how to balance keeping the virus in check with getting on with our lives.\n\nThe REACT study of more than 150,000 volunteers in England, one of the three new sources of data on community levels, found \"accelerating transmission\" at the end of August and start of September.\n\nIt said levels of infection were rising across England but particularly in the north east, north west and Yorkshire.\n\nAnd there were increases in positive cases in all age groups up to the age of 65, with highest rates of growth in 18-24 year olds.\n\nProf Paul Elliott, director of the study at Imperial College London, said the data clearly showed \"a concerning trend in coronavirus infections\" where cases are growing quickly across England and \"no longer concentrated in key workers\".\n\nHe said there was evidence of \"an epidemic in the community\" which was not the result of more people being tested.\n\nThe second set of data, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates there were 39,700 new cases of the virus in England during the first week in September - 11,000 more than the previous week.\n\nThe ONS bases its figures on thousands of swab tests carried out in households, whether people have symptoms or not.\n\nIt estimated no increase in cases for the same week in Wales, but First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced people must now wear face masks in shops in response to rising case numbers in recent days.\n\nKatherine Kent, from the ONS infection survey, said the results suggested \"an increase in Covid-19 infections in England during recent weeks, with higher infection rates among 17-34 year olds\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned that the average number of cases in Scotland has been \"more than trebling every three weeks\" with some areas of particular concern, including Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nAnd the third set of figures, from the Covid symptom study app, which tracks the health of nearly four million people in the UK, also suggests a growth in new cases since the end of August - the first time since mid-June there has been a significant rise in numbers.\n\nProf James Naismith, from the University of Oxford, said younger people would also have been affected to the same extent in January if testing had been available.\n\n\"We know that medical treatment and scientific advances have improved significantly, thus even with infection rates as bad as March and April, there will be many fewer deaths.\n\n\"The more people wash their hands and practise social distancing - especially by and around the vulnerable - the lower the number of deaths and illness we will see,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The judge described it as a \"sophisticated operation\" run from the Walton area of Liverpool\n\nEighteen people have been jailed for their part in a gang that flooded north Wales with drugs.\n\nThey were arrested in September 2019 as part of the largest operation of its type ever carried out by North Wales Police.\n\nA judge at Mold Crown Court described it as a \"sophisticated operation\", involving encrypted mobile phones, lie detectors and even a plot to attack a former gang member who had fallen out of favour.\n\nPolice seized drugs with a street value of £2.1m.\n\nThe reach of the gang, based in Liverpool, stretched to Aberdeen and Cornwall.\n\nIt was an operation described as a classic example of a \"county lines\" conspiracy.\n\nThe group behind the supply, led by Colin Jones, were violent and were specifically targeted by police due to the threat posed to public safety.\n\nColin Jones and Richard Anderson met to exchange a white Mercedes car for cocaine in October 2018\n\nOfficers had spent nearly three years investigating the gang, right to the very top.\n\nColin Jones, based in Walton in Liverpool, was described as a drugs wholesaler who rarely got his hands dirty.\n\nWhen he was arrested, police found he had nine phones, and two encrypted devices. He hired lie detector specialists to check out his colleagues.\n\nAs well as selling drugs, he swapped them for sports cars.\n\nAnthony Stagg and Tony Stagg in Towyn to meet Colin Jones in August 2018\n\nColin Jones had a team of call handlers who answered what the gang called \"the Echo Line\".\n\nIn a three-month period in 2018, the hotline took over 100,000 calls. Police estimated it was selling several thousand pounds of drugs a day.\n\nDrugs were also sent up and down the UK, sometimes in packages sent from local post offices in Liverpool.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt one point the violence was turned on one of their former conspirators. Colin Jones and David Rawling were secretly recorded talking to an unknown hit man arranging an attack on Lee Murray.\n\nOfficers stepped in and stopped the attack, but believed a gun would have been involved.\n\nJudge Niclas Parry spent three days sentencing the gang. He said they had controlled a significant portion of the drugs trade in Deeside, casting a blight on the community.\n\nColin Jones was sentenced to 21 years in total with the other gang members given sentences from four to 15 and a half years.\n\nPolice say it is a significant victory against the supply of drugs from big cities into north Wales - but it remains a fight that will continue in the months to come.", "Four men aged 19 to 23 have been arrested in southern Italy in connection with the rape of two British girls, police say.\n\nPolice said the girls called officers at 03:30 on Tuesday to say they were attacked just after midnight.\n\nThe alleged incident happened in Marconia di Pisticci, in the Basilicata region, during a party in a villa. The girls were taken to hospital.\n\nThere was \"extreme brutality and cruelty\" in the attack, officers said.\n\nFour other men are also being investigated by officers in connection with the incident.\n\nPolice said the girls say they were initially approached by two of the men under investigation, whom they did not know.\n\nThey were then approached by other men at the party who \"took advantage\" of the fact the girls had been drinking, the statement said.", "The Challenger 2 tank has not been upgraded since 1998\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has quashed speculation that the Army will mothball all its tanks.\n\nLast month, the Times reported military chiefs were considering the idea, under plans to modernise the armed forces.\n\nBut Mr Wallace told the BBC \"the idea that tanks won't be there for the Army, upgraded and modernised, is wrong\".\n\nHowever, he admitted a government review would mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment to invest in cyber, space and other new technologies.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Middle East, Mr Wallace said there would be a shift to forward-deploy British military forces around the world to protect UK interests and its allies.\n\nMr Wallace said a joint squadron of RAF and Qatar Typhoon jets would be based in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.\n\nHe announced a £23.8m investment in a UK logistics hub in the Port of Duqm to support more British army training in Oman, and which could be used to base the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.\n\nHe also confirmed that RAF jets would continue to target the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with 23 strikes against extremist targets since March 2020.\n\nLast month, the Times reported on plans to mothball the Army's ageing 227 Challenger tanks as part of the government's integrated defence and security review - described as the most important defence review since the end of the Cold War.\n\nMr Wallace confirmed the review would mean \"letting go of some equipment that isn't serving any purpose or overmatched by adversaries\".\n\nHe said that would mean investing in new equipment for the RAF, Royal Navy and the Army. But he signalled that any cuts would not be as dramatic as some have reported.\n\nThat still leaves open the possibility of a reduction in the number of tanks. But Mr Wallace said that getting rid of all of them was not going to happen.\n\n\"We're going to make sure we have an armed forces fit for the 21st Century and meets our obligations to Nato and elsewhere…\n\n\"We are not scrapping all the British army's tanks and we will make sure the ones we maintain are up to date, lethal and defendable.\"\n\nMr Wallace said Britain also needed to meet the threat of long-range artillery and drones, which have recently been used by Russia against Ukraine to destroy its heavy armour.\n\nBen Wallace said his first duty was to make sure he delivered up-to-date equipment\n\nThe new port facilities at Duqm will triple the size of the existing UK base in Oman. They will also be used for British army training in Oman.\n\nThere's been speculation that the Army could switch its training for tanks from Canada to the Gulf state.\n\nWhile in Qatar, Mr Wallace also visited the US-led coalition headquarters co-ordinating the air campaign against the group calling itself the Islamic State.\n\nDespite IS losing most of its territory in Iraq and Syria, Mr Wallace said the threat was \"not going to go away\".", "Scammers on social media who claim to work for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency are selling \"full driving licences\" for £600, a BBC News investigation has found.\n\nKafui Okpattah got one suspected scammer to explain to him how he could obtain a licence without having to attend the test.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - which has responsibility for driving tests - has said the scheme is not possible.", "Schools across Bristol will take part in the study\n\nA major research project to track coronavirus infections in schools and help head teachers prevent disruption is being piloted in Bristol.\n\nThe study aims to understand exactly how pupils transmit the virus, whether or not they are symptomatic.\n\nThe University of Bristol study will saliva-test 4,000 pupils and 1,000 staff from schools across the city once a month for six months.\n\nIt should provide vital information on how schools should deal with outbreaks.\n\nIt comes as some schools across the country have sent groups of pupils home to self-isolate after positive cases were found.\n\nSome have had to close temporarily for deep cleaning in an attempt to manage the risks.\n\nIt is just a week or so since schools re-opened after a sixth-month gap due to lockdown.\n\nExperts say children are less susceptible to infection than adults, and their symptoms are generally milder.\n\nBut more data is needed to fully understand the role children play in transmitting the virus.\n\nProf Caroline Relton, an epidemiologist at the University of Bristol, said researchers should be able to identify children with coronavirus, who do not show symptoms.\n\nShe said: \"The main thrust of the study is to understand the rates of infections and to jump on them very quickly, so we're giving heads the tools to spot infections early and to keep their schools open, and so permit the continuity of education.\"\n\nProf Caroline Relton hopes the study will help minimise disruption to education\n\nSchools and the NHS Test and Trace system will receive the data to help map infections in the city.\n\nResearchers will also work with schools, looking at attendance data, seating plans and timetables to help them put appropriate measures in place.\n\nSt Mary Redcliffe and Temple School in Bristol, where all pupils returned last week, is one of the first schools to become involved in the study.\n\nRipley, in Year 10, is just starting her GCSEs and will be volunteering for a test.\n\n\"I want to take part in it because I think it would be really useful to get tested even if you don't have any of the symptoms, to be extra sure,\" she said.\n\nReuben, in Year 8, thinks pupils might be surprised by a positive test but it would be useful to know.\n\n\"The benefits are you know you can take precautions. You can quickly isolate and help others stay safe and keep yourself safe.\"\n\nElijah, in Year 11, will take his GCSEs next summer and is keen that his year group faces the least possible disruption to their learning.\n\n\"We've had quite lot of months off school so keeping school open for our year right now is probably the best thing that can happen, so it will just mean a lot to everybody,\" he said.\n\nHead teacher Elisabeth Gilpin said: \"We were able to work with the scientists, to say: 'What do head teachers need to be able to keep their schools safe and to keep them open and to minimise the chance of closing?'\n\n\"So for us to get testing of a large percentage of the school population, even the asymptomatic people is just so exciting.\"\n\nHead teacher Elisabeth Gilpin says she is excited the school is taking part in the study\n\nStaff have also welcomed being part of the study.\n\nJean Miller, a receptionist at the school, is keen to take part: \"I've got grandchildren and I had glandular fever twice so my immune system isn't quite what it was and to know we have got the testing and we're as safe as we can possibly be is massively reassuring.\"\n\nA second study, by academics at Imperial College, will carry out at a deeper investigation of a number of confirmed cases in schools.\n\nThey aim to identify whether both symptomatic and asymptomatic children transmit the virus as well as looking at possible means of transmission both at school and within households.\n\nBoth studies are funded by the National Institute for Health Research and UK Research and Innovation.", "New designs are being trialled that still \"pop\" when they open\n\nThe distinctive Pringles tube is being re-designed after criticism that it’s almost impossible to recycle.\n\nThe current container for the potato-based snack was condemned as a recycler’s nightmare.\n\nIt's a complex construction with a metal base, plastic cap, metal tear-off lid, and foil-lined cardboard sleeve.\n\nThe Recycling Association dubbed it the number one recycling villain – along with the Lucozade Sports bottle.\n\nNow Pringles' maker Kellogg's is trialling a simpler can – although experts say it’s not a full solution.\n\nThe existing version is particularly troublesome because it combines so many different materials\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 90% of the new can is paper. Around 10% is a polyal (plastic) barrier that seals the interior to protect the food against oxygen and moisture which would damage the taste.\n\nBut how about the lid? Well, two options are on trial in some Tesco stores – a recyclable plastic lid and a recyclable paper lid. Kellogg's says these lids will still produce the distinctive \"pop\" associated with the product.\n\nSimon Ellin from the Recycling Association told BBC News: \"The Pringles tube has been a bastion of bad design from the recyclers' point of view.\n\n\"This new version is an improvement, and we broadly welcome it.\n\n\"But, frankly, if they are going to stick to a plastic lid that’ll just add to problems with plastic pollution - people on picnics leave them behind and they find their way into streams and the sea. That plastic lid has got to go.\"\n\nThe Recycling Association said many manufacturers needed to rethink their packaging\n\nKellogg's says its packaging must be airtight, or the food inside will be wasted.\n\nThe new designs have been 12 months in the making. Pringles have a shelf life of 15 months - and three million cans are made across Europe every day.\n\nMr Ellin said the polyal-coated card might be recyclable but the product would need to be tested in recycling mills.\n\nAnd what of the much-criticised Lucozade Sports bottle? Mr Ellin said its unchanged basic design was still a big problem, as machines found it hard to differentiate the plastic in the bottle and the plastic that makes up its outer sleeve.\n\nHe called on the makers, Suntory, to reduce the size of the external sleeve, as it has with the new Ribena bottle.\n\nThe firm said it was planning to do this for the new year.\n\nSuntory said it was working on a new material made entirely from seaweed extract that was 100% edible, biodegradable and compostable.\n\nEnvironmentalists say that trivial changes like these won't solve the world's ecological crises - but on a large scale they'll make a contribution.", "The court heard Hajar Al Fahad \"was trying to portray herself beyond her means\"\n\nA woman stole a passenger's suitcase containing £76,000 worth of designer clothes and jewellery from a train.\n\nHajar Al Fahad, 26, learned the woman was wealthy after striking up a conversation with her on a London to south Wales train.\n\nShe admitted taking the suitcase containing items by Chanel and Cartier as the train arrived at Cardiff Central station, the city's crown court heard.\n\nAl Fahad was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for a year.\n\nIt wasn't until she reached her destination 40 miles away in Swansea that the victim realised her suitcase was missing.\n\nHajar Al Fahad's address was traced through her train ticket bought at Paddington station\n\nProsecutor Andrew Davies said the pair began talking when Al Fahad placed her luggage on top of the victim's.\n\nPolice traced the mother of two, of Llanrumney in Cardiff, through her purchase of a train ticket at London's Paddington station.\n\nOfficers found the majority of the items from the suitcase, which came to a total value of £76,559.\n\nHajar Al Fahad took photographs of herself wearing the items she had stolen\n\nA search of Al Fahad's mobile discovered internet searches for the items in the suitcase and photographs of herself wearing the items she had stolen.\n\nWhen questioned she said the suitcase was hers and later claimed the luxury goods inside were counterfeit.\n\nThe court heard Al Fahad \"added an element of fantasy\" to her conversation with the woman on the train in September 2018, by claiming she was wealthy herself and had a cleaner.\n\nMitigating, Tim Petrides said: \"She was trying to portray herself beyond her means and an element of fantasy came into the conversation.\n\n\"She has described her actions as a 'moment of madness' and in her own words to me, 'sorry is not enough'.\"\n\nHajar Al Fahad discovered her fellow passenger was wealthy in a chat on a London to Wales train\n\nJudge Catherine Richards said she accepted Al Fahad did not set out to steal from anyone but carried out an opportunistic theft.\n\nAs well the suspended sentence, the defendant was ordered to carry out a 20-day rehabilitation activity requirement and 150 hours unpaid work.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peloton, which won an early celebrity fanbase for its exercise bikes and remote workout classes, has seen demand surge during the pandemic.\n\nThe firm's global membership base hit 3.1 million at the end of June, more than double a year earlier, as gym closures due to Covid-19 increased demand for at-home workouts.\n\nThe jump in sign-ups lifted revenue to $607m (£474m), up 172% year-on-year.\n\nBut it has also strained supply, prompting lengthy waits for equipment.\n\nThe firm had said it was slashing prices for its existing treadmill and bike, cutting the cost of the bike from $2,245 to $1,895 in an effort to make their products more accessible.\n\nThe move coincided with the launch of new, more expensive, versions of the same pieces of equipment.\n\nBut the firm, which relies on purchases of its machines fitted with touchscreens for most of its sales, said it did not expect delivery delays to improve much before the end of the year.\n\n\"Demand... remains strong and member engagement remains elevated, despite improving weather and the gradual reopening,\" chief executive John Foley said on an analyst call after the firm shared its quarterly results on Thursday.\n\nPeloton said the number of \"connected fitness\" subscribers, who access its remote classes via one of the firm's machines, jumped to more than 1.09 million at the end of June, up 113% in comparison with the same period last year.\n\nThose members are also working out more - averaging more than 24 workouts per month, compared to 12 one year ago.\n\nThe growth propelled the firm to its first quarterly profit of $89m, versus a loss of $47.4m last year.\n\nMr Foley told analysts he was not worried about demand subsiding after the pandemic, given the opportunities for global expansion.\n\nPeloton said it expected the number of subscribers to exceed 2 million over the next 12 months and forecast revenue for its next financial year of at least $3.5bn.\n\nThe results shared by the firm exceeded analyst expectations, prompting shares to rise 7% in after-hours trade.", "Emergency crews were sent to the scene in Newquay after the officer suffered the burns\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a police officer who has been left with severe burns to his arms and legs.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the officer was sent to Trevenson Road in Newquay, Cornwall, over reports a man was \"behaving aggressively\".\n\nThe officer suffered the \"severe but non life-threatening\" burns at the scene and has been taken to Treliske Hospital by air ambulance.\n\nA man, 30, from Newquay is in custody.\n\nCh Supt Ian Drummond-Smith said officers were called after a man who was living in a field without permission refused to leave when asked by bailiffs.\n\nHe described it as a \"very serious incident\", adding \"My thoughts are with our officer.\"\n\nHe said colleagues attended the scene \"within minutes\", and were assisted by members of the public and the bailiffs \"in bringing this to a safe resolution\".\n\nThe unnamed 51-year-old officer - a former Army soldier - suffered some significant burns to his body, Mr Drummond-Smith said.\n\n\"To the best of my knowledge his face was not burnt,\" he said.\n\n\"He is conscious, he is sat up in his hospital bed and he's talking to us on the telephone - he is in good spirits,\" he added.\n\nThe officer's colleagues posted a Twitter message on his behalf thanking \"all those who have sent kind messages of support\".\n\nCh Supt Ian Drummond-Smith said the officer had minor burns and some significant burns\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the incident was \"truly appalling and unacceptable\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with the brave officer and his loved ones at this time,\" she said.\n\nThe police officer had been sent to Trevenson Road when he was attacked\n\nFormer inspector at the force Dave Meredith said he had \"the privilege of working alongside this officer for over a decade\".\n\n\"You could find no better police officer and friend. All the best and get well soon mate,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Concerns were raised over social distancing at the Department for Work and Pensions office in Leeds\n\nA government office failed to do enough to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a health and safety inspection found.\n\nWorkers were pictured gathered around a desk at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in Leeds where there have been two confirmed Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found management had failed to ensure social distancing was maintained.\n\nThe DWP said it had taken \"urgent action to rectify all issues identified\" at the Quarry House office.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the majority of DWP employees in Leeds have been working from home but there have still been hundreds of people in the office, located inside a landmark building on the eastern edge of the city centre.\n\nThere has been a recruitment drive at the DWP amid a rise in Universal Credit claimants due to coronavirus, a whistleblower told the BBC.\n\nQuarry House in Leeds is known locally as \"The Kremlin\" because of its imposing architecture\n\nThe whistleblower has been working at home for the DWP but said he was concerned for his health when returning to the building, which is also home to parts of the NHS.\n\nHe said: \"I hear stories about people congregating, not following outlaid guidance. In an office so big it is difficult to monitor 24/7.\n\n\"People I have spoken to are nervous about a return, they and I feel it is not yet safe enough to go back.\n\n\"The office was busy pre-Covid, I don't know where everyone would operate from in normal times let alone in a virus outbreak.\"\n\nThe HSE inspected the office on 27 August after receiving a report of a \"workplace concern\". During the visit photographs were taken, including one of workers standing close together.\n\nThe report compiled following the inspection said: \"You are failing to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of your employees/agency staff at work because you have not implemented necessary measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\"\n\nThe DWP had risk assessed for the office being about 50% full, which the HSE said \"may be ambitious and unrealistic\", leading to a risk of \"congestion\" and making it more difficult to maintain social distancing.\n\nThe BBC has seen leaked messages showing the office has had at least two positive coronavirus cases among staff.\n\nTwo emails have recently been sent to workers saying people had been sent home from the affected floors and deep cleans carried out.\n\nCharles Law, industrial officer with the PCS union, said: \"It's extremely worrying for our members who work for the department, especially if they're expected to stop being at home and come into the workplace.\n\n\"It's shocking that the HSE would do such a damning report on a flagship DWP office and we're extremely concerned for the safety of our members.\"\n\nThe HSE confirmed that following the visit an official letter, known as a Notification of Contravention, was sent to the DWP.\n\nIn this letter, the DWP was warned a fee would need to be paid because of \"material breaches\" of health and safety law.\n\nIt was given a deadline of Tuesday 15 September to confirm action had been taken to remedy the issues highlighted in the report.\n\nIn a statement, a DWP spokesperson said: \"We take the health and safety of staff extremely seriously and have implemented Covid-secure measures across our sites to ensure they comply with government guidelines.\n\n\"We have taken urgent action to rectify all issues identified by the HSE.\"\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 UK government should consider a targeted extension of its furlough scheme, MPs have said.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis risks mass long-term unemployment and viable firms could go under without support, the Treasury Select Committee has warned.\n\nHowever, a blanket retention of the scheme would not be good value for money, it added.\n\nThe Treasury said it would \"continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment.\"\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is due to end on 31 October. Under it, workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first, this was all paid for by the government. But firms had to start making a contribution to wages in September as the scheme began to wind down.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said that extending furlough past October would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak also ruled out an extension, instead saying that firms will be given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still in employment at the end of January.\n\nBut the committee's chairman, Mel Stride, said the chancellor \"should carefully consider targeted extensions\" to the scheme.\n\n\"The key will be assisting those businesses who, with additional support, can come through the crisis as sustainable enterprises, rather than focusing on those that will unfortunately just not be viable in the changed post-crisis economy.\"\n\nIn the second report of its inquiry into the economic impact of Covid-19, the committee also warned that the pandemic risked widening the gender pay gap due to the differences in hours of paid work in lockdown - especially if work patterns are changed permanently.\n\nThe MPs also said people should be able to reskill, and that small businesses should be able to fully participate in the government's Kickstart Scheme, which aims to create work placements for young people on universal credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) trade body said with the furlough scheme winding down, \"policymakers will need to look closely at measures to stem mass unemployment, including a successor scheme.\"\n\nFSB national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"The priority should be protecting viable small businesses - and all the jobs they provide - that have been disproportionately [hit] by the coronavirus crisis, including those caught by local lockdowns, subject to continued national restrictions, or with staff that have directly suffered because of Covid.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julie changed jobs before lockdown - then became unemployed and ineligible for the furlough scheme\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which campaigns on living standards, said that \"extending support for the hardest-hit sectors of the economy will be essential to limit the rise in unemployment Britain faces in the months ahead.\"\n\nTorsten Bell, the think tank's chief executive, said: \"This authoritative account of the economic impact of coronavirus should be required reading for Treasury officials planning the Autumn Budget against the highly uncertain backdrop of rising coronavirus case numbers.\n\n\"The chancellor will need to reconsider his plans to swiftly phase out support given the painful reality that the economic crisis is here to stay.\"\n\nThis week leading business groups warned that the UK risks a second wave of job cuts and a slower economic recovery if it does not extend its furlough scheme.\n\nGermany, Belgium, Australia and France have all decided to extend or launch new wage support schemes into next year.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown told the BBC that the UK should emulate other countries' short-term working schemes.\n\nMr Brown said the end of the furlough scheme on 31 October was a \"cliff-edge\" that could trigger \"a tsunami of unemployment\".\n\n\"The government's got to change course here,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nShort-term working schemes would allow firms to reduce employees' working hours while keeping them in jobs, with the state topping up their salaries.\n\n\"You have got to send a signal that unemployment matters,\" he said. \"We don't want to destroy any more capacity and skills in the economy.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said that by the time the UK scheme closes it will have helped to pay for 9.6 million jobs.\n\n\"We will continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're helping employees get back to work, where they want to be, through a £1,000 retention bonus.\n\n\"And we are creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart Scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, and supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate has been at 3.9% since the lockdown was introduced.\n\nBut the Bank of England expects that rate to double to 7.5% by the end of the year when the government-funded support schemes come to an end.\n\nThousands of job cuts have already been announced by firm such as Rolls-Royce, Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, Pizza Express, British Airways and BP.", "Maria Zakharova posted this photo from the White House, with Sharon Stone's crossed legs below it\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has issued a rare apology to his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic for a senior Russian official's Facebook post which angered Mr Vucic.\n\nMr Vucic told Serbian TV about the apology and the Kremlin confirmed it.\n\nForeign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted a photo of Mr Vucic sitting opposite President Donald Trump in the White House and below it a photo of actress Sharon Stone's legs.\n\nThe provocative screenshot of the crossed legs came from the film Basic Instinct, in a scene where Sharon Stone's character briefly exposes herself.\n\nMs Zakharova's post said Mr Vucic looked as if he was being interrogated by President Trump.\n\n\"If you are invited to the White House but your chair stands like you are in an interrogation, you should sit like in the picture number 2. Whoever you are. Just trust me,\" Ms Zakharova wrote.\n\nMaria Zakharova was thought to be taking aim at Serbian-US ties\n\nOn Sunday she updated the post with an apology, saying her comments had been misunderstood. She said she was taking aim at American \"arrogance\", not the Serbian leader.\n\nOn Thursday Mr Vucic told Serbian TV: \"President Putin has never apologised to me for anything, and neither has [Russian Foreign Minister] Sergei Lavrov. But both did.\"\n\nMr Vucic said he had spoken to Mr Putin by phone, and he added: \"I think we have good relations and for me this was a passing, unimportant incident.\"\n\nMs Zakharova's post came after Mr Vucic had signed a co-operation deal with Kosovo at the White House, and has been seen as a sign of Russian irritation with Serbian-US ties.\n\nSerbia has long been a key ally of Russia's in the Balkans, and neither country recognises Kosovo's independence.\n\nMr Vucic was furious with Ms Zakharova's post. In televised comments he said \"Maria Zakharova speaks mostly about herself, and the primitivism and vulgarity she showed speaks of her, and by God, of those who placed her there\".\n• None Putin given lavish welcome in Serbia", "State for International Trade Liz Truss speaking to Japan\"s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi at the Department for International Trade\n\nThe UK has struck its first major post-Brexit trade pact after signing a deal with Japan that aims to boost trade between the countries by about £15bn.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said it was a \"historic moment\".\n\nShe said it would bring \"new wins\" for British businesses in manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries.\n\nCritics said while the deal may be of symbolic importance it would boost UK GDP by only 0.07%, a fraction of the trade that could be lost with the EU.\n\nFriday's deal still needs approval by Japan's parliament, which the country's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi forecast would be passed by January.\n\nMs Truss said the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement means 99% of exports to Japan will be tariff-free.\n\n\"The agreement we have negotiated - in record time and in challenging circumstances - goes far beyond the existing EU deal, as it secures new wins for British businesses in our great manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries,\" she said.\n\n\"From our automotive workers in Wales to our shoemakers in the North of England, this deal will help build back better as we create new opportunities for people throughout the whole of the UK and help level up our country.\"\n\nShe added that, strategically, the deal was an important step towards joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership and placing Britain at the centre of a network of free trade agreements.\n\nMajor Japanese investors in the UK such as Nissan and Hitachi would benefit from reduced tariffs on parts coming from Japan and streamlined regulatory procedures, the UK's trade department statement said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said Brexit gives Britain the freedom to strike trade deals with other countries around the world.\n\nBusiness leaders welcomed the agreement, but stressed that securing a deal with the EU remained the most important goal.\n\nThe director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, Adam Marshall, called the announcement a milestone, but added: \"Whilst this agreement is undoubtedly cause for celebration, securing a Free Trade Agreement with the EU remains critical to the future of businesses in the UK.\n\n\"We urge ministers to redouble their efforts to reach a comprehensive partnership with our largest trading partner at a crucial time in the negotiations.\"\n\nThe CBI also hailed the agreement, with director general Carolyn Fairbairn saying this \"breakthrough moment\" can be the first of many.\n\n\"It's a huge opportunity to secure new Japanese investment across a wider range of sectors and UK regions,\" she said.\n\nYou can almost hear the sighs of relief echoing around Westminster and within the business community.\n\nAfter weeks of wrangling, the first deal of the Brexit era has been struck, which ensures that 99% of British goods can enter Japan without tariffs, or extra charges.\n\nBut ultimately, this deal largely mirrors the agreement which already exists between the EU and Japan. And with trade with Japan accounting for just 2% of the UK's total, the expected boost to GDP of 0.07% over the long term is a tiny fraction of what might be lost from leaving the EU.\n\nAnd there is good reason for Japan cooperating to ensure this deal was secured in record time. It stands to get the lions share, 80%, of the total estimated £15bn boost to trade for both countries.\n\nEven then, the talks haven't been as speedy or straightforward as initially hoped - which may not bode well for negotiations elsewhere.\n\nAbout 99% of exports between the two nations will be tariff-free under the deal, with a particular focus on the food and drink, finance and tech sectors.\n\nManufacturing parts coming from Japan will benefit from reduced tariffs, as will British pork, beef and salmon travelling in the opposite direction.\n\nJapan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said: \"It was a very tough negotiation, but we reached the agreement in principle in about three months, at an unusually fast pace.\n\n\"While maintaining the high levels of access to the British market under the Japan-EU EPA, we improved our access to the British market on train cars and some auto parts.\"", "Some Tory MPs have criticised England's latest coronavirus rules that legally ban gatherings of more than six people.\n\nEx-minister Steve Baker said the action amounted to \"arbitrary powers without scrutiny\" and MP Desmond Swayne said it was \"outrageous\" not to have a Parliamentary debate.\n\nBBC Newsnight understands some MPs want the rules to be reviewed more often.\n\nThe health secretary says the new rules in England will not be kept in place \"any longer than we have to\".\n\nIt comes as coronavirus infections have increased in recent weeks in the UK, according to estimates from Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe government's latest R number - which measures the virus' ability to spread - is between 1 and 1.2 which means the epidemic is growing.\n\nAnd households in Birmingham will be banned from mixing under measures announced on Friday. The city has the second highest rate of Covid-19 infection in England, behind Bolton.\n\nMeanwhile, a Covid-19 contact-tracing app will be launched across England and Wales on 24 September, the government has announced.\n\nFrom Monday, the law change in England will ban more than six people meeting anywhere socially indoors or outdoors - dubbed the \"rule of six\".\n\nIt will not apply to schools, workplaces or Covid-secure weddings, funerals and organised team sports.\n\nThe rule will be enforced through a £100 fine if people fail to comply, doubling on each offence up to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nThe measures include the introduction of \"Covid-secure marshals\", to help ensure social distancing in town and city centres.\n\nScotland and Wales will also cut the number of people to allowed to meet up to six from Monday, amid concern over a sustained rise in cases.\n\nBut in Scotland children under the age of 12 will not count towards the total, and in Wales the rule will not apply to children under 11 and up to 30 can still meet outside.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt said there was a \"sour mood\" on the Tory benches, adding: \"Tory MPs do accept the government does need to introduce some measures to control the virus, but they want to clip the government's wings and that means demanding a greater role for Parliament.\"\n\nHe said senior Conservative backbenchers are lobbying Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle - who accused the government this week of bypassing Parliament - to make sure that legislation is being reviewed every month, not every six months.\n\nConservative MP Steve Baker described the new restrictions as \"madness\".\n\n\"When you look at the draconian nature of the imposition on the British people, the shifting and uncertain legal environment, the lack of scrutiny and what has changed about this disease, I think it's time now to say that this is not a fit legal environment for the British people,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It's time to move to a voluntary system, unless the government can demonstrate otherwise and it is time for us to start living like a free people.\"\n\nHe said the decision to have Covid marshals \"will turn every space in Britain in the equivalent of going into airport security where we are badgered\".\n\n\"I'm not willing to live like this,\" he added.\n\nAnother ex-minister Sir Desmond Swayne said it was \"outrageous\" the laws had \"been made without consultation in Parliament\" and without any debate.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told BBC Newsnight his party was \"obviously concerned about civil liberties as well\" and when the original piece of coronavirus legislation went through Parliament \"we did raise our concerns\".\n\n\"But we also are aware we are in the midst of the biggest public health crisis we've faced for over 100 years and we understand that decisive and upsetting, difficult action has to be taken,\" he said.\n\nAnnouncing the detail of the rule change in England on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said \"we must act\" to avoid another lockdown, amid a rise in virus cases.\n\nMr Johnson said the rules had \"become quite complicated and confusing\" and the government was \"simplifying and strengthening\" them after feedback from police and the public.\n\nThe new \"rule of six\" means:\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday the intention to return fans to stadiums from 1 October will be reviewed and pilot test events in September will be restricted to 1,000 fans.\n\nBut on Friday the Premier League wrote to the government to say its clubs will defer holding test events \"until a sufficient number of fans are allowed back to enable thorough trials to take place\".", "Artwork: D-Orbit's carrier platform has cameras that could also look for nearby space debris\n\nNew approaches to tracking satellites and debris in orbit are to get a boost from the UK Space Agency.\n\nUKSA is giving over £1m to seven firms to help advance novel sensor technologies and the smart algorithms needed to interpret their data.\n\nFinding better ways to surveil objects moving overhead has become a high priority issue.\n\nWith more and more satellites being launched, there's growing concern about the potential for collisions.\n\nA big worry is the burgeoning population of redundant hardware and junk in orbit - some 900,000 objects larger than 1cm by some counts, and all of it capable of doing immense damage to, or even destroying, an operational spacecraft in a high-velocity encounter.\n\nThe projects being supported by UKSA come from a mix of start-ups and more established companies.\n\nThe overriding goal is to improve ways to spot, characterise and track objects.\n\nUltimately, this is information which could be fed into the automated traffic management systems of the future that will keep functioning satellites out of harm's way.\n\nDeimos is developing technologies to track space objects from the UK\n\n\"We've known for a long while that the space environment is getting more difficult, more cluttered,\" said Jacob Geer from UKSA. \"Space surveillance and tracking is one of the key things we can do to keep safe those satellites we rely on now, and to make sure certain orbits don't become inaccessible for future generations because there's too much debris in them.\n\n\"We had 26 proposals come to us and I think we've selected a good cross-section of ideas in the seven companies we're supporting,\" he told BBC News.\n\nWhile a lot of these projects are still at the lab stage, D-Orbit's work is dedicated to pushing the capability of some of its hardware already in space.\n\nThe company recently launched a vehicle to carry and deploy a clutch of small satellites. This vehicle uses cameras to photograph its surroundings and to map the stars for the purposes of navigation.\n\nD-Orbit has the idea of using the cameras' imagery to also identify passing junk.\n\n\"One of the challenges in using star trackers is filtering out objects that are not supposed to be there - obviously, because you're trying to compare what you can see against a star catalogue,\" explained D-Orbit's Simon Reid. \"And, of course, it's those extra objects which in principal are the things that are potentially debris.\"\n\nThe funding announcement also coincides with the signing of a new partnership agreement between the Ministry of Defence and UKSA to work together on space domain awareness.\n\nBoth have valuable assets and interests in orbit that need protecting. And for the UK taxpayer, this investment was recently deepened with the purchase out of bankruptcy of the OneWeb satellite broadband company.\n\nThe UK government is now the part owner of one of the biggest spacecraft networks in the sky. OneWeb has so far launched 74 satellites in its communications constellation, with plans to put up thousands more.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Millions of pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth present a significant threat to UK satellite systems which provide the vital services that we all take for granted - from mobile communications to weather forecasting.\n\n\"By developing new AI and sensor technology, the seven pioneering space projects we are backing today will significantly strengthen the UK's capabilities to monitor these hazardous space objects, helping to create new jobs and protect the services we rely on in our everyday lives.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The bodies of 29 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nFour people have been jailed in Vietnam for their roles in the death of 39 migrants found in a lorry in Essex, according to state media reports.\n\nThe men, women and children were discovered in a refrigerated trailer in Grays on 23 October.\n\nThe four defendants were found guilty of \"organising, brokering illegal emigration\" after a one-day trial in Ha Tinh, VnExpress reported.\n\nThe state media outlet said one victim paid $22,000 for the illegal journey.\n\nThe four defendants, aged between 24 and 36, were given sentences ranging from two-and-a-half to seven-and-a-half years.\n\nThe bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered at an industrial estate soon after the lorry arrived in the UK on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nTen teenagers, two of them 15-year-old boys, were among the dead.\n\nAn inquest heard their medical cause of death was asphyxia and hyperthermia.\n\nLast month haulier Ronan Hughes, 40, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, admitted manslaughter and conspiring to assist unlawful immigration at the Old Bailey while Eamonn Harrison, 23, of Mayobridge, County Down, denied 39 charges of manslaughter.\n\nGazmir Nuzi, 42, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, pleaded guilty to a single charge of assisting unlawful immigration on or before 11 October 2019 and 18 April 2020.\n\nEarlier this year, lorry driver Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon, County Armagh, pleaded guilty to 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nMr Harrison now faces a trial expected to last five weeks starting on 5 October with three others.\n\nGheorghe Nica, 43, of Langdon Hills, Basildon, Essex, denies 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nValentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham, and Christopher Kennedy, 23, of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, have each denied conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people\n\nThe family of a 15-year-old girl killed in the Manchester Arena bombing have shared how their \"hearts have been shattered into a million pieces\".\n\nThe loved ones of Megan Hurley presented a \"pen portrait\" of their \"amazing girl\" during the second week of the inquiry into the 2017 attack.\n\nThe portraits give each family the chance to present an insight into the lives of those who died.\n\nTwenty-two people died when a bomb was detonated as people left the arena.\n\nA slideshow of photographs documenting Megan's life were displayed on screen at Manchester Magistrates' Court as the family's lawyer read out words from her loved ones.\n\nMegan Hurley, from Liverpool, was 15 when she was killed in the attack\n\n\"Since the horrendous day in May 2017 our lives have been ruined for forever,\" her family wrote in their statement.\n\n\"Our hearts have been shattered into a million pieces. The pain we feel day in and day out, year upon year.\n\n\"Losing Megan has left an enormous and irreparable void in our lives. We miss you more than words can say, Megan.\n\n\"You will forever be our beautiful beauty queen.\"\n\nDeborah Hutchinson, mother of 19-year-old Courtney Boyle, from Gateshead, told the inquiry that she can still see her daughter's smile as she left the car that night.\n\n\"I will never forget the laughing in the car. As she left to get into the foyer she was complaining,\" she added.\n\n\"She was cold, all wrapped up in a blanket which was nothing unusual for Courtney.\"\n\n\"She had a beautiful heart and always put others first,\" she said.\n\nKelly Brewster was described as \"fun-loving, kind and thoughtful\"\n\nKelly Brewster was a \"larger than life\" character\" despite being \"tiny at just 5ft\", her family told the inquiry.\n\nThe 32-year-old, from Sheffield, was \"fun-loving, kind and thoughtful... but everyone knew she had to be taken seriously when she put her sky-scraper heels on\".\n\nThe family said she was \"so excited\" on the day of the Ariana Grande concert because her and her \"soulmate\" Ian Winslow had had an offer accepted on a new four-bedroom home that morning.\n\nThey said the couple were planning to have a baby and had already planned which room was going to be Ian's daughter's bedroom and the nursery.\n\n\"Kelly was the happiest she had ever been,\" the inquiry heard.\n\nFigen Murray, the mother of Martyn Hett, also presented a \"pen portrait\" to the inquiry.\n\nShe said the 29-year-old, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, had \"the most incredible passion for life\" and an \"energy that was exhausting at times\" living at \"100 miles an hour\".\n\n\"He had this catching charisma about him,\" she said. \"Everybody just loved him.\"\n\n\"He was proud of who he was, he believed in who he was.\"\n\nShe said his loss left \"this absolutely massive, gaping hole inside my soul.\"\n\nMartyn Hett was due to fly to America for the trip of a lifetime two days after the bombing\n\nThe inquiry comes more than three years after the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, which left hundreds more injured.\n\nIt was due to start in June, but was delayed by the trial of Salman Abedi's brother Hashem, who was jailed for at least 55 years for 22 murders on 20 August.\n\nThe commemorative hearings are expected to conclude on 23 September.\n\nThe inquiry was set up to examine the background to the attack and the response of the emergency services.\n\nIts chairman, Sir John Saunders, will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\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.", "Ex-Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has been jailed for two years for sexually assaulting two women.\n\nElphicke, 49, the former MP for Dover, was convicted of groping the women in similar situations, nine years apart.\n\nHe denied the charges, but was found guilty of one count of sexual assault in 2007 and two further counts in 2016, after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nThe judge told Elphicke he was a \"sexual predator who used your success and respectability as a cover\".\n\nWithin minutes of his jailing, Elphicke confirmed he would appeal against his conviction, arguing he had not had a \"fair trial\".\n\nMrs Justice Whipple said Elphicke's denials had left his victims faced with the ordeal of giving evidence in court.\n\n\"They told the truth, and you told a pack of lies - not only to the jury, but your wife, the whips and the police,\" she told him during the sentencing hearing.\n\nDespite the fact the defendant's wife Natalie - the current Dover MP - ended their marriage when he was convicted in July, she agreed he had not had a fair trial and confirmed she would support his appeal.\n\nCharlie Elphicke's wife Natalie, the MP for Dover, supported him during the trial\n\nBefore Elphicke was sentenced, the court heard victim impact statements from both of the women he attacked.\n\nHis first victim, who was attacked at the then MP's London home in 2007, said his actions had had a \"lasting impact\" on her life, leaving her cautious of being around men.\n\nHe had forced the woman on to a sofa and groped her breast while trying to kiss her, before chasing her and chanting \"I'm a naughty Tory\", his trial had heard.\n\nThe second victim, a parliamentary worker aged in her 20s, said the assaults in 2016 left her with a feeling of \"fear and helplessness\".\n\n\"He stole a large part of my self-worth and self-esteem,\" she said in a statement read to the court.\n\nElphicke sexually assaulted her twice, the first involving him attempting to kiss her and groping her breast.\n\nIn the second assault several weeks later, he ran his hand up the inside of her thigh towards her groin.\n\nIan Winter QC, defending, had argued Elphicke should not be jailed because he had \"fully and completely\" learned his lesson.\n\n\"Shortly, Mr Elphicke's descent into total disgrace will be complete,\" Mr Winter said.\n\nAs well as his marriage ending he is estranged from his daughter as a result of the conviction, he added.\n\n\"The only further degradation would be to lose his liberty,\" Mr Winter said.\n\nElphicke had come to court with 34 character witnesses, including from some \"serving members of parliament,\" Mr Winter added. The names of the MPs were not disclosed in court.\n\nMrs Justice Whipple said she \"considered carefully\" whether the sentence should be suspended.\n\n\"[But] bearing in mind the gross breach of your position of power... I am satisfied that appropriate punishment can only be achieved by immediate custody,\" she said.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Elphicke said his lawyers had begun an attempt to overturn the conviction.\n\n\"I know that I am innocent of any criminal wrongdoing and will continue to fight to clear my name,\" Elphicke said in a statement.\n\nMrs Elphicke confirmed she supported an appeal against conviction and \"today's excessive sentence,\" adding that \"the court seems to be on a bit of a mission\".\n\nThere was \"no doubt that Charlie behaved badly,\" but he had been denied a fair trial, she said.\n\nHe was suspended by the Conservatives when \"serious allegations\" were passed to police in November 2017, but the whip was restored ahead of a confidence vote against then-Prime Minister Theresa May in 2018.\n\nHe was again suspended after being charged with the three counts of sexual assault on 22 July 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "GP Nina Abel, with her two children, could not get a prioritised test for medical staff where she lives in Wiltshire\n\nPeople trying to get Covid-19 tests have spoken of their frustration over the length of time to book, distance to travel and delays after they arrive.\n\nOne testing site in Abercynon, south Wales, reportedly ran out of kits.\n\nMany families had travelled there from England while some Welsh residents had been offered tests in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there were ongoing test issues at a UK-wide level, while contractors Serco said the Abercynon backlog had been cleared.\n\nAn official at the site told BBC Wales it had closed for a few hours while they fetched more tests from Swansea.\n\nNina Abel, from near Chippenham in Wiltshire, had a 90-minute drive with her children, aged five and two, to Abercynon in Rhondda Cynon Taf for a booked appointment at 09:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\n\"I spent all day yesterday refreshing the government website every 15 minutes to try to get appointments for my five-year-old, who's been in school over the last week,\" she said.\n\nDr Abel, a GP, is meant to be in work on Wednesday, but could not get a prioritised test through her local clinical commissioning group.\n\nShe was told to wait until 12:30 BST for the test in Abercynon because of delays after being informed there were no tests available at her appointed time.\n\n\"It's a deeply frustrating situation,\" she said.\n\nOn keeping her children fed and entertained in a car park, she added: \"I've only got snacks but we've got Frozen 2.\"\n\nOther people who travelled to Abercynon, in the south Wales valleys, had similar tales to tell.\n\nHannah Summers, from Bristol, drove earlier on Tuesday for an hour and 20 minutes for an appointment at 09:30 BST.\n\n\"We finally managed to get an appointment yesterday,\" she said.\n\n\"My daughter, who is five, has a heavy cold and it's turned into classic Covid symptoms.\n\n\"I tried from 3pm. We were offered Bristol but [the system] timed out and crashed,\" she said.\n\n\"This was our closest option. I work in early years and I'm a childminder so I've had to cancel everything.\"\n\nHer daughter Maia is with her for a test while her twin has stayed at home with their father.\n\nMs Summers said: \"The novelty is wearing off. I'm not sure I've got enough food.\n\n\"It's put all of us on hold. I can't go back to work until I get a negative result.\"\n\nShe said she had been told her QR code would still be valid for a test \"around midday\" despite it being for an 09:30 slot.\n\nMs Summers described the situation as \"chaotic\", adding: \"The online site is still showing Abercynon as having availability. So another load of people will have turned up.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Milosh family have driven for two hours from near Taunton to get to Abercynon\n\nKelwicki and Justina Milosh from Wellington near Taunton, Somerset, had come with their three children aged nine, seven and five on the two-hour journey for tests after their seven-year-old developed a cough.\n\nThe couple both work in manufacturing and do not know if they will get paid while they get the tests done.\n\n\"We just had to find a toilet in Abercynon,\" Mr Milosh said.\n\n\"We've got water and snacks, but obviously if we have to wait until 12:15 we need something else. It took ages to book this - five hours at least.\n\n\"I was told yesterday people had come from London.\"\n\n\"Plenty of kids getting a cold or a little cough. They normally get colds in September when they go back to school.\n\n\"What if next week one of my other kids get a cough?\"\n\nLynette and Adrian Jones from Neath were given tests in Abercynon but had initially been offered tests in Warminster, 100 miles away\n\nWhile families from England spoke of delays and long journeys to Wales, a Welsh couple said it was \"ridiculous\" that they were offered tests in England.\n\nLynette and Adrian Jones, from Neath, condemned the system as a \"shambles\" after they were asked to go to Warminster, in Wiltshire, 100 miles away.\n\nThey said they were unable to get a test in closer centres to their home such as Margam or Swansea's Liberty Stadium.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taff council leader Andrew Morgan said he was aware of reports of people \"struggling to book a test in a local testing centre\" in the area, which has been struggling to avoid a local lockdown over case numbers.\n\n\"It is absolutely vital that capacity is increased to further develop our understanding of the prevalence of the virus in communities and identify any clusters that may exist to inform the test and trace operation,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile in north Wales, Julia Massey from Abergele in Conwy said she had to \"fight\" to get a Covid-19 test for her daughter aged 11 and son, aged seven, who both started displaying symptoms last week.\n\nWhen she went online to book tests, she was told the nearest were several hours away in Oldham, Greater Manchester.\n\nShe eventually managed to get her children tested at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, but staff there told her they were \"only to test where absolutely necessary\".\n\n\"We're following the guidelines, but people seem really reluctant to allow us to have a test.\n\n\"And until we do, the children can't go back to school and I can't go back to work.\"\n\nA Serco spokesman for the Abercynon site said: \"It was closed for a short period because of operational issues but it reopened and the backlog has all been cleared.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"The problems people have been experiencing when trying to book a test are directly related to the ongoing UK-wide issues with the Lighthouse Lab system, which we urgently need to see resolved at a UK level.\n\n\"The health minister [in Wales] has repeatedly raised this with the [UK government's] secretary of state for health.\n\n\"We are moving as much NHS Wales testing capacity as we can into areas where testing is needed the most, as well as taking urgent action to switch over testing facilities to Welsh laboratories to further increase capacity while the UK government resolves these issues with the Lighthouse Lab system.\"", "Addiction services in England could struggle to cope with \"soaring\" numbers of people misusing alcohol, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is warning.\n\nMany adults are drinking more since the coronavirus pandemic began, data shows.\n\nThe college estimates that in June, more than 8.4m people in England were drinking at higher-risk levels, up from 4.8m in February.\n\nIt says deep cuts made to addiction services could mean patients will miss out on life-saving care.\n\nThe rise in risky drinking comes at a time when more people addicted to opiates are seeking help from addiction services, says the college, referring to National Drug Treatment Monitoring System statistics showing 3,459 new adult cases in April - up 20% from 2,947 in the same month the previous year.\n\nGuidelines advise people drink no more than 14 units of alcohol (equivalent to six large glasses of wine or six pints of beer) a week, spreading consumption over three days or more.\n\nDrinking too much can damage your liver and increases the risk of other health conditions such as heart disease and stroke.\n\nPeople with alcohol use disorder are more likely to develop serious complications if they catch Covid-19.\n\nThe college is asking the government to invest millions more in addiction services.\n\nProf Julia Sinclair, chair of the college's addictions faculty, said: \"Covid-19 has shown just how stretched, under-resourced and ill-equipped addiction services are to treat the growing numbers of vulnerable people living with this complex illness.\n\n\"There are now only five NHS inpatient units in the country, and no resource anywhere in my region to admit people who are alcohol dependent with co-existing mental illness.\n\n\"Drug-related deaths and alcohol-related hospital admissions were already at all-time highs before Covid-19. I fear that unless the government acts quickly we will see these numbers rise exponentially.\"\n\nLaura Bunt from the drug, alcohol and mental health charity We Are With You said: \"Social isolation and a lack of a human connection is a big factor behind why some people turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism, so clearly the pandemic continues to be really tough for many people.\n\n\"When you consider that the UK had some of the highest levels of alcohol-related harms in Europe even before the lockdown in March, the need for government action now is clear.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We have increased their funding this year, providing over £3.2 billion to spend on public health services like addiction.\n\n\"We support evidence-based approaches to reduce the health-related harms of drug misuse and, as part of our NHS Long Term Plan, alcohol care teams will be introduced in hospitals where alcohol-related admissions are high, intervening in 50,000 cases over five years to reduce harm.\"\n\nIf you are concerned about addiction, BBC Action Line has help and support.", "German carmaker Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, has agreed to pay $1.5bn (£1.2bn) to resolve US government claims that it designed its diesel vehicles to cheat air pollution tests.\n\nThe firm was investigated for installing software to evade emissions laws in 250,000 Mercedes cars and vans.\n\nUS officials said they hoped the fine would deter future misbehaviour.\n\nDaimler called the deal an \"important step\" towards resolving diesel proceedings but denied the claims.\n\n\"By resolving these proceedings, Daimler avoids lengthy court actions with respective legal and financial risks,\" the company said.\n\nIn addition to the $1.5bn settlement with US authorities, Daimler said it had agreed to pay $700m to settle a class action lawsuit brought by owners.\n\nIt also disclosed \"further expenses of a mid three-digit-million EUR amount to fulfil requirements of the settlements.\"\n\nThe deals, which Daimler had said it was nearing last month, conclude an investigation that the US started in 2016, after \"defeat devices\" were discovered through testing.\n\nOfficials said that an $875m fine included in the $1.5bn settlement with authorities is the second-largest civil penalty the US has ever imposed under its Clear Air Act and the largest if measured on a per-vehicle basis.\n\nDaimler has also agreed to fix the affected cars, which were sold between 2009 and 2016, at no cost to their owners. US officials said that commitment was worth about $400m.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, Andrew Wheeler, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, said: \"The message we are sending today is clear: We will enforce the law.\n\n\"If you try to cheat the system and mislead the public, you will be caught. Those who violate public trust in pursuit of profits will forfeit both.\"\n\nThe penalties are the latest in a wide-ranging scandal that has cast a cloud over the motor industry since 2015, when Volkswagen admitted to installing secret software on vehicles sold in the US.\n\nThe system allowed the cars to emit up to 40 times legally permitted emissions and evade detection during tests.\n\nVolkswagen later admitted the devices affected more than 11 million vehicles globally. The company more than $20bn to resolve claims in the US alone.\n\nBut investigations soon widened to other companies, including Ford, Mitsubishi, and Nissan.\n\nIn 2018, Daimler recalled more than 700,000 vehicles in Europe that had \"defeat devices\" installed. BMW and Porsche have also recalled cars over the issue.\n\nFiat Chrysler in Europe were raided this summer over the matter. The firm agreed to an estimated $800m settlement to resolve civil claims in the US in January.\n\nDaimler said the US settlement concerned vehicles that were not sold in the same configurations in Europe.", "Hitachi has said it will suspend work on a multi-billion-pound UK nuclear project because of rising costs.\n\nThe decision puts thousands of jobs at risk if the £13bn plant at Wylfa Newydd in Anglesey, north Wales, is scrapped.\n\nThe Japanese firm had been in talks with the UK government since June about funding for the project, which was being built by its Horizon subsidiary.\n\nThe government said it had failed to agree terms with Hitachi. The nuclear industry said it was \"disappointing\".\n\nHitachi said it would also suspend work on another site, in Oldbury in Gloucestershire, \"until a solution can be found\".\n\nAbout 9,000 workers had been expected to be involved in building the two nuclear reactors, which were due to be operational by the mid-2020s.\n\nHitachi said the decision would cost it an estimated 300bn yen (£2.1bn) as \"extraordinary losses\".\n\nIt said it was suspending the project \"from the viewpoint of its economic rationality as a private enterprise\".\n\nHinkley, Moorside, Wylfa, Oldbury, Bradwell and Sizewell were identified as the sites for the most significant national wave of new nuclear power construction anywhere in the world.\n\nOf those six - only one is under construction, three have been abandoned and two face an uphill battle to get the green light.\n\nUnder those circumstances you might think the government would be embarrassed that its energy policy was in disarray. But it's not.\n\nThe collapse of the Wylfa and Oldbury projects today (following the abandonment of Moorside) is evidence of some new economic realities that have seen government enthusiasm for new nuclear fade.\n\nThe first and most obvious is the cost of building the darn things.\n\nThe Nuclear Industry Association says the UK has six sites that are licensed to build new nuclear power stations and eight sites that are currently generating power.\n\nHowever, it said that only one of the eight currently operating are due to be in use by 2030.\n\nThe GMB union warned of an energy crisis.\n\nDuncan Hawthorne, chief executive of Hitachi's Horizon subsidiary, said the Anglesey site remained \"the best site for nuclear development in the UK\" and that the company would \"keep the option to resume development in future\".\n\nThe new nuclear plant had been intended to have a generating capacity of 2,900 MW and have a 60-year operational life.\n\nThe decision puts the UK's nuclear policy under fresh scrutiny.\n\nIn November, plans to build a nuclear power station at Moorside in Cumbria were halted after Toshiba announced it was winding up its NuGeneration subsidiary, which was behind the project.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said: \"As the Business Secretary [Greg Clark] set out in June, any deal needs to represent value for money and be the right one for UK consumers and taxpayers.\n\n\"Despite extensive negotiations and hard work by all sides, the government and Hitachi are unable to reach agreement to proceed at this stage.\"\n\nThe department added that the land was owned by Hitachi, which had indicated it wished to retain ownership while it discussed future options with the government.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the government's nuclear strategy was now \"lying in tatters\" and had \"escalated into a full-blown crisis\".\n\nThe news was greeted with dismay by the Nuclear Industry Association.\n\nTom Greatrex, chief executive of the association, said it was \"disappointing, not just for the Wylfa Newydd project but for Anglesey and the nuclear industry as a whole\".\n\n\"The urgent need for further new nuclear capacity in the UK should not be underestimated, with all but one of the UK's nuclear power plants due to come offline by 2030.\"\n\nSource: House of Commons Library except when other source given and BBC Reality Check\n\nJustin Bowden, the GMB union's national secretary for energy, said the decision raised \"the very real prospect of a UK energy crisis\".\n\n\"While the government has had its head up its proverbial backside over Brexit, vital matters like guaranteeing the country's future energy supply appear to have gone by the wayside.\"\n\nThe CBI described the news as a \"significant blow to the UK's future energy supply plans\".\n\nMatthew Fell, the CBI's chief UK policy director, said: \"The government has to demonstrate it is committed to meeting our climate change targets by supporting new low-carbon power supply.\n\n\"The loss of new nuclear projects could leave us more heavily dependent in the long run on fossil fuels, which could risk our legally binding climate targets.\"\n\nThe government says it has a range of options for meeting future energy demand, including renewables, storage, interconnectors, new nuclear and more.\n\nIf the Wylfa Newydd project is scrapped, it leaves the Hinkley Point power station in Somerset as the only new UK reactor still being built.\n\nThere are plans for new plants at Bradwell and Sizewell, but neither is currently under construction.\n\nThe British and Japanese prime ministers met earlier this month and Theresa May said she had raised the issue with her counterpart.", "Online grocer Ocado says its switch to delivering Marks & Spencer food has been \"successful\" and demand is rising despite a rocky start.\n\nThe firm, which previously delivered for Waitrose, had to cancel some orders when its new partnership launched on 1 September, angering customers.\n\nBut it said launch day had been its \"biggest forward order day to date\" amid excitement about the new tie-up.\n\nAverage shopper baskets have also grown by about five items since then.\n\nIt comes as the firm reported a 50% jump in sales for the third quarter of the year at its Ocado Retail business, in which M&S holds a 50% stake.\n\nOcado said it had benefited from continued strong demand for online shopping during lockdown, with weekly orders climbing 10% in the 13 weeks to 30 August.\n\nSome customers criticised Ocado when it launched its M&S range, saying orders made weeks earlier had been cancelled at the last minute.\n\nThe retailer also halted orders from its staff as it tried to clear an order backlog.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, the firm said customers had \"responded positively to the switchover\", with \"demand for the new range driving both an increase in the number of products in customer baskets and strong forward demand\".\n\nIt added: \"The weighting of M&S products in the average Ocado basket is higher than Waitrose prior to the switchover, reflecting positive customer reaction to the addition of M&S to the range.\"\n\nAnalysts said the results were not only promising for Ocado, but also for M&S. Last year, some warned the retailer might have overpaid for its stake in the partnership at a time when its business was struggling.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, an equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"This could bode well for Marks & Spencer, whose sales could do with a boost, and who staked a lot on this deal paying off.\n\n\"98% of customers are already shopping at M&S, though, so it will be interesting to see how many of these sales will have simply transferred from stores.\"\n\nOcado, which booked a pre-tax loss of £214.5m in 2019, said it expected strong underlying earnings of £40m this year because of continued demand for its services.\n\nBut it added: \"Uncertainties remain over the scale, and duration, of the ongoing impact of social distancing restrictions in the UK.\"\n\nThe firm has said the shift to online shopping during the pandemic could mean a \"permanent redrawing\" of the retail landscape.\n\nIn July boss Tim Steiner said that 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\".", "Tiger King's Carole Baskin's debut on Dancing With The Stars was overshadowed by an advert shown in the break.\n\nIt was paid for by the family of the Netflix star's ex-husband Don Lewis, who is missing and presumed dead.\n\nThe family asked viewers to pass on information about his disappearance or Carole Baskin's alleged involvement.\n\nIn the Tiger King series, it was suggested she fed him to tigers at Big Cat Rescue - something she has denied multiple times.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by Dancing With The Stars\n\nCarole Baskin was given the opportunity to appear on ABC's Dancing With The Stars after the success of the documentary earlier this year.\n\nIn Monday night's debut she performed a paso doble with pro dancer Pasha Pashkov that opened with him locked in a cage with stuffed tigers.\n\nIt was given 11 by the judges but it was the advert in the commercial break that got the biggest reaction online.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Law Offices of Phillips & Hunt This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video 2 by Law Offices of Phillips & Hunt\n\nIt featured Don Lewis' three daughters - Gale, Lynda and Donna - plus his former assistant, Anne McQueen.\n\nIn the short film the eldest daughter Donna says: \"We need to know what happened to our father.\"\n\nThe family lawyer John Phillips also speaks and specifically names Carole Baskin.\n\n\"Don Lewis mysteriously disappeared in 1997, his family deserves answers, they deserve justice. Do you know who did this or if Carole Baskin was involved?\" he asks.\n\nThe family then offer a $100,000 (£78,000) reward for information and asked viewers to call a phone line.\n\nDon Lewis went missing 23 years ago. He disappeared a day before a scheduled trip to Costa Rica, and was declared legally dead in 2002.\n\nThe star of Tiger King, Joe Exotic, has repeatedly accused Carole of killing Don Lewis to get his money\n\nHe and Baskin started an animal sanctuary together in Tampa, Florida, which later became Big Cat Rescue Corporation. They were married at the time of his disappearance, but he had filed for a restraining order against her two months earlier.\n\nTheories about what happened to him formed part of the hit Netflix series, including suggestions that Baskin, who received most of his $6m (£4.5m) estate, was responsible for his disappearance.\n\nShe has strongly and repeatedly denied having anything to do with it.\n\n\"The unsavoury lies are better for getting viewers,\" she has said.\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. \"I'm a victim but feel like an inconvenience\"\n\nA dentist who was secretly stalked by a former patient has spoken of his shock that he was not told immediately his stalker had been released from custody.\n\nProsecutors said Thomas Baddeley - who was found with a \"murder kit\" - could only be charged with a minor offence because his victim Dr Ian Hutchinson had been unaware he was being stalked.\n\nA scheme for informing victims when an offender is released did therefore not apply, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nThey said protocols had been followed.\n\nBaddeley, 42, from Bristol, secretly stalked the dentist for more than four years and was jailed for a total of 16 months in August after admitting stalking without fear, harm or intimidation and two counts of possessing offensive weapons.\n\nAn indefinite restraining order was imposed, including a ban on entering parts of Monmouthshire, with Baddeley facing up to five years' imprisonment if he breaches it.\n\nThomas Baddeley is now subject to an indefinite restraining order\n\nEarlier this month Chepstow dentist Dr Hutchinson told BBC Wales he felt \"let down by the law\" that Baddeley could not be charged with a more serious offence despite conducting \"systematic surveillance\" and having a \"murder kit\" of weaponry, bleach and plastic sheeting in his car.\n\nDr Hutchinson had been assured he would be informed when Baddeley was released, which was expected to happen sometime in the coming weeks.\n\nBut following the BBC Wales report he received a call from the probation service to let him know Baddeley had in fact been released straight after sentencing nearly four weeks earlier, due to time served on remand and delays hearing the case.\n\nGwent Police special protection officers are now discussing security measures with Dr Hutchinson - including the option of changing his identity and moving away.\n\nA crossbow was among the weapons found in Thomas Baddeley's car\n\nDr Hutchinson said it had left him feeling angry with the system and as a victim he had been treated as an \"inconvenience\".\n\nHe called for changes to the law to better reflect the risk posed by his stalker.\n\n\"Going equipped to commit a burglary is an offence. But going equipped to murder isn't. And that is just not acceptable,\" he said.\n\nThe victim \"could not have been more let down\", said Victims' Commissioner Dame Vera Baird\n\nThe Victims' Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, said, \"As a victim this dentist could not have been more let down by the criminal justice system.\n\n\"I think the laws proved quite inadequate - he was clearly going to do serious harm if he had carried through what he wanted to do, and there is no charge that represents that.\"\n\nDame Vera said she was now considering raising this with the attorney general, and Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville-Roberts has written to the director of public prosecutions to see if this case is indicative of a wider problem.\n\n\"You get no reassurance from any of this,\" added Dame Vera.\n\n\"From the inadequacy of the charge, the weakness of the sentence which follows, and then the absolute failure to tell him that theoretically this man is out, and not far away.\"\n\nStalking can escalate quickly, said Katy Bourne, police and crime commissioners' national lead on stalking\n\nKaty Bourne, the police and crime commissioners' national lead on stalking, was herself a victim of the crime.\n\nShe said victims must be safeguarded throughout the criminal justice process.\n\n\"Often the perpetrator may not actually approach the victim physically, but it's the fear of what they might do that really weighs heavily on the victim's mind,\" she said.\n\n\"I've spoken to victims [who] feel they'll only be taken seriously if something physical happens against them.\"\n\nThe Home Office said they were determined to tackle stalking.\n\n\"We introduced stalking protection orders in January, which protect victims and address the perpetrator's behaviour at the earliest opportunity,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We've also doubled the maximum sentences for stalking and harassment to 10 years.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's only the beginning of getting full justice\": Breonna Taylor's mother reacts to the settlement\n\nOfficials in Louisville, Kentucky have agreed to pay $12m (£9.3m) to the family of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed in her home by police.\n\nTaylor was 26 when she was shot at least five times and killed on 13 March during a mistaken drugs raid.\n\nHer name has featured prominently in anti-racism protests in recent months.\n\nLonita Baker, a lawyer for Taylor's family, called the settlement just one \"layer\" in the effort to seek justice, and praised new police reforms.\n\n\"Justice for Breonna is multi-layered,\" said Ms Baker at a press conference on Tuesday alongside Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.\n\nShe called the agreement \"tremendous, but only a portion\" of what the family hopes for, including the arrest of the officers involved in her death.\n\n\"Today what we did here was to do what we could do to bring a little bit of police reform and it's just a start,\" continued Ms Baker.\n\n\"But we finished the first mile in the marathon and we've got a lot more miles to go to until we achieve and cross that finish line.\"\n\nThe settlement includes a series of police reforms in the city, including a requirement that all search warrants be approved by a senior officer and giving a housing credit to officers who move to low-income neighbourhoods they patrol in the city.\n\nIn a short statement, Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer called for criminal charges against the officers and asked people to continue to say her daughter's name publicly in advocacy for police reforms.\n\nThe settlement is the largest financial sum paid in a police misconduct case in the city's history, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"\n\nTaylor's killing was propelled into the spotlight once again with the death George Floyd, an African-American man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for minutes during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May.\n\nShortly after midnight on 13 March, three officers entered Taylor's apartment by executing a no-knock search warrant - a court document that authorises police to enter a home without warning.\n\nTaylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were reportedly asleep as the commotion began.\n\nThe officers exchanged fire with Mr Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911 in the belief that the drug raid was a burglary. The officers - who fired more than 25 bullets - said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded.\n\nTaylor, a decorated emergency medical technician, was 26 when she died.\n\nDuring the exchange, Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot eight times and later died.\n\nNo drugs were found on the property.\n\nThe lawsuit filed by Taylor's family accuses the officers of battery, wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence. It also says the officers were not looking for her or her partner, but for an unrelated suspect who did not live in the complex.\n\nHer family has also accused police of leading the raid as a plot to gentrify her neighbourhood. The city's mayor dismissed the allegation as \"outrageous\" and \"without foundation or supporting facts\".\n\nOne of the officers involved in the raid, Brett Hankison, was fired in June. The other two - Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove - were placed on administrative leave.\n\nThe city's police chief was also fired in June after a separate police shooting.\n\nA grand jury could soon decide whether criminal charges should be filed against any of the officers.\n\nUntil Freedom, a social justice organisation that has held rallies for Taylor, released a statement saying: \"No amount of money will bring back Breonna Taylor.\"\n\n\"True justice is not served with cash settlements,\" the group added. \"We need those involved in her murder to be arrested and charged. We need accountability. We need justice.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Louisville's city council voted unanimously in favour of banning no-knock warrants. Similar legislation that would ban the warrants nationwide was introduced in the US Congress.", "The Fitness+ service can be viewed on an iPhone, iPad or via an Apple TV set-top box\n\nApple has unveiled a new personalised workout subscription service alongside new smartwatches and tablet computers.\n\nFitness+ collects health data gathered by an Apple Watch and then displays it alongside workout videos shown on a larger display.\n\nThe platform will compete with existing fitness apps on iOS from Peloton, Les Mills and Fiit.\n\nIt also poses a challenge to Fitbit, whose wearables benefit from their own health-coaching subscription service.\n\nAs many had forecast, Apple decided to hold back details of its next iPhones for a separate event.\n\nThe iPhone 12 was not unveiled but may have snuck in an appearance in a shot of Apple's labs\n\nLike some of its rivals, Fitness+ also allows competitive users to see how their own efforts compare with others who have completed the same fitness routine previously.\n\n\"Health-tracking continues to be a major focus for Apple, and its new Fitness+ service signals its intent to generate more revenue from its products in this area,\" commented Leo Gebbie from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\nFitness+ will initially launch in six countries including the US and UK before the end of 2020.\n\nIt will cost £10 per month or £80 per year as a standalone service, which can be shared among members of the same family.\n\nFitness+ features cycling, dance, treadmill and yoga routines among others\n\nAlternatively, it can be purchased alongside other Apple services - including iCloud storage, Arcade video games and Apple Music - for about £30 per month - as part of the top tier of a bundle of services called Apple One.\n\nOther mixes of services can be subscribed to for lower fees.\n\n\"Support for 10 different workouts with and without equipment, and the fact it is being sold at a family price will make Fitness+ very attractive,\" said Carolina Milanesi from the Silicon Valley-based consultancy Creative Strategies.\n\n\"And I don't think bundling it with the other services is anti-competitive, as you are seeing other services do the same thing - for example Disney's Hulu TV service in the US with Spotify.\"\n\nSpotify, however, has suggested the bundles are another example of Apple abusing its \"dominant position\" and has called on regulators to intervene.\n\nChief executive Tim Cook introduced the virtual event from Apple's headquarters in California\n\nBut one personal trainer said he did not see the new service as competition for one-on-one sessions with an online coach.\n\n\"The real results come from support, accountability and understanding human behaviour, and being able to tailor a fitness regime to an individual so that it is sustainable,\" Sam Wake told the BBC.\n\nApple unveiled two new ranges of smartwatches: the high-end Series 6 Watch and lower-priced Watch SE.\n\nThe Series 6 introduces a blood-oxygen sensor to help manage conditions that affect the heart and lungs.\n\nIt measures SpO2 levels, which indicate how much oxygen is being carried by the user's red blood cells from the lungs to other parts of their body.\n\nApple suggested this could potentially act as means to detect the early onset of respiratory problems, although its small print says the feature is \"not intended for medical use\".\n\nSamsung, Huawei and Fitbit already sell smartwatches that provide the same facility. However, their ability to offer it has depended on the approval of local health regulators.\n\nApple has published a list of where it will offer the feature, confirming it includes the UK and most other countries.\n\nThe SE model lacks the new sensor, uses a slower processor and does not have an \"always-on\" display, but otherwise offers most of the features found in the more expensive model.\n\nThe new smartwatches can be customised with a cartoon-like character resembling the owner\n\nThese include sleep-tracking and a new facility targeted at children called Family Set-up. It can be set to trigger automatic location notifications to a child's parents when the wearer visits familiar places like their grandparents or school.\n\nIt also makes it possible to assign a unique phone number to a Watch, rather than using one that already belongs to an iPhone.\n\n\"A logical use would be for a parent to give a child a cellular-enabled Apple Watch so they can remain in contact,\" commented Mr Gebbie.\n\n\"We expect to see hand-me-down Watches used in this scenario, rather than a device bought specifically for this purpose.\"\n\nThe Series 6 range starts at £379 and SE at £269.\n\nApple's new iPad Air is the first product from the firm to be based on a new chip-manufacturing process that promises more processing power and better energy efficiency thanks to the fact that transistors can be packed together more densely than before.\n\nApple typically launches its new chips inside its iPhone before its iPads, but this year the release of its new handsets have been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe company suggested the A14 processor would make it easier to edit 4K videos and do motion-tracking of real-world objects for augmented reality apps.\n\nThe machine has a fingerprint sensor built into one of its side buttons to reduce the size of the bezels, and also introduces a USB-C port, which until now had been limited to the more costly iPad Pro range.\n\nThe new iPad Air also has a slightly larger screen than before - 10.9in (27.7cm) - but it costs £100 more, starting at £579.\n\nThe firm also unveiled a new lower-priced basic iPad that uses the older A12 chip. It starts at £329, which is £20 less than before.\n\nDemand for tablets across the wider tech industry has risen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as consumers increasingly used them for entertainment, home schooling and remote working.\n\nShipments in the April-to-July quarter were up 19% on the same period in 2019, according to research firm IDC, with Samsung, Amazon and Huawei among those making even bigger gains.\n\nAccording to IDC's figures, Apple's iPads remain the market leader, but only saw a 2% annual gain.\n\n\"Apple kept its volume but its rivals made strides via the opportunistic sale of cheaper devices,\" commented IDC's Marta Pinto.\n\nApple also announced that iOS 14 - the latest version of its mobile operating system - would be released on Wednesday,\n\nThis came as a surprise to many developers, who thought they had more time to submit corresponding new versions of their products to Apple's App Store.", "Junior civil servants asked to work on Brexit policy that they fear might break the law, have been advised to inform their managers, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe email advice - from senior civil servants in a major government department - sets out what staff should do if they are asked to work on a policy which might be \"inappropriate\".\n\nIt follows the publication of the Internal Market Bill, which ministers accept contains provisions which would break international law as agreed between the UK and EU,\n\nOne departmental e-mail is explicit that it is being sent following \"the government's announcement that it would break international law\"- the e-mail advises officials that if they should feel uncomfortable about what they are being asked to do, they must raise it with their superiors.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis last week confirmed to the House of Commons that should the full provisions of the bill be enacted, it would break the commitments the government made as part of the treaty it signed with the EU and therefore, would run counter to international law \"in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nHowever, civil servants' conduct is governed by the civil service code, which makes clear that civil servants must \"comply with the law and uphold the administration of justice\".\n\nThis has led to some disquiet within elements of the service that they may be asked to enact policies which run counter to their own code of behaviour.\n\nThe emails seen by Newsnight encourage staff to reacquaint themselves with the code and says that if they are concerned they are \"being asked to do something inappropriate by a fellow civil servant or a minister you should raise it with your line manager immediately\".\n\nIt is a very unusual move for senior civil servants to advise their colleagues to potentially refuse ministerial instruction.\n\nIt potentially raises the prospect of renewed tension between ministers and the service as the Brexit process continues.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nFrank Lampard says his expensively reshaped Chelsea side \"have to have intentions to be up there\" with champions Liverpool after they began their campaign with victory at Brighton.\n\nChelsea finished 33 points adrift of the Reds last season and lost both league fixtures against them but have spent around £200m this summer.\n\nTimo Werner - signed from RB Leipzig - and his Germany team-mate Kai Havertz - brought in from Bayer Leverkusen - made their debuts for a side forced to work hard for their win in Monday's game at Brighton.\n\nWerner was pacy and prominent in the victory, winning a 23rd-minute penalty when he was hauled down by Brighton keeper Mat Ryan, Jorginho scoring the resulting spot-kick.\n\nThe new signing had ice strapped to his leg at full-time following the collision to win the penalty but said he would be fit to face Liverpool in Sunday's game at Stamford Bridge.\n\nBrighton lost summer signing Adam Lallana to injury before the break but were back on level terms after 54 minutes when Leandro Trossard's 20-yard shot squirmed past Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.\n\nChelsea regained their lead two minutes later when Reece James ripped a 25-yard right-foot shot high past Ryan.\n\nBrighton should have equalised when Lewis Dunk somehow headed wide at the far post, paying the price for the miss when Kurt Zouma's shot was deflected past Ryan by Adam Webster.\n\n\"We definitely want to close that gap to Liverpool - we have to have intentions to be up there even though it is a big ask to win [the title],\" said Lampard, who has also signed midfielder Hakim Ziyech and defenders Xavier Mbuyamba, Malang Sarr, Ben Chilwell and Thiago Silva this summer.\n\n\"We are behind, it's step by step. Hopefully we can make big strides.\"\n• None How you rated the players\n\nRusty Chelsea will take the points\n\nLampard will be delighted to leave Brighton win three points after what was a mixed performance, perhaps understandable for the first Premier League outing of the season.\n\nLampard got what he wanted, apart from a debut goal, from Werner as he was a constant menace, always on the move and looking to use his speed to get behind the Brighton defence. He had no trouble adjusting to the tempo of the Premier League and there seems little doubt goals will come.\n\nHavertz was a more low-key presence on the right side of midfield in front of James but he worked hard in his 79 minutes and drew warm applause from Lampard for one lengthy recovery run back into his own penalty area to clear danger.\n\nChelsea were without injured left-back Chilwell, signed for £50m from Leicester City, and Silva as he has only just joined training and Lampard will be keen to get that influential duo into a defence that still looks vulnerable.\n\nTariq Lamptey's crosses caused trouble all night and Chelsea were grateful for that headed miss by Dunk at the far post when it looked easier to score.\n\nAnd once again there were questions over keeper Kepa, who got close to Trossard's shot but allowed it to creep in.\n\nIt seems his time is running out as Chelsea's first-choice goalkeeper, with the £20m signing of Rennes' Edouard Mendy apparently imminent.\n\nBrighton can take some satisfaction through the pain of a defeat that will leave manager Graham Potter bitterly frustrated.\n\nThe Seagulls acquitted themselves very well and had the game's outstanding performer in former Chelsea right-back Lamptey, who was industrious and creative in a top-class display.\n\nAnd the momentum appeared to be with Brighton when Trossard scored a deserved equaliser - only for them to concede a second within two minutes from James' thunderous finish.\n\nBrighton then wasted the best chance of the game when Dunk headed wide and were unable to recover as Chelsea re-established a two-goal lead.\n\nThis was, however, a very respectable performance. On the down side, Potter is facing the issue he must have feared when he signed Lallana from Liverpool.\n\nLallana is a great asset when fit - but therein lies the problem. He did not last the first half and has now failed to play 90 minutes in the Premier League since he faced Middlesbrough for Liverpool in May 2017.\n\n'We'll get better and better' - what they said\n\nBrighton manager Graham Potter to BBC Sport: \"The performance was good in many aspects; we more than matched Chelsea for long periods. I'm disappointed with the opening goal, but errors can happen. We were heavily punished with a wonder strike - and ultimately, if you concede three times it's hard to win football matches.\n\n\"You have moments against the big teams that you need to have go your way and we need to learn from that. But there are positives. Adam Lallana was enjoying the game, he brings that personality, we are pleased with what he has brought to us and we just have to help him get on the field more often.\"\n\nChelsea manager Frank Lampard to BBC Sport: \"To come to Brighton and win is a tough ask. We've only had a few days, so I didn't expect the kind of football we want to play. We had to do some of the more difficult things - resilience, throwing yourself in front of the ball, so I'm pleased.\n\n\"We've had a lot of quarantines, a lot of players who aren't match fit. That's how this season has started. There's a lot of strain on these players and hopefully we'll get better and better.\"\n\n2,000 points - the best of the stats\n• None This victory earned Chelsea their 2,000th point in the Premier League (1,077 games), making them the third side to reach that total since the competition began in 1992, after Manchester United (2,234) and Arsenal (2,014).\n• None Brighton have won just one of their 10 home Premier League games in 2020 (D4 L5), the fewest of any side to have played two or more home matches in the competition this calendar year.\n• None Since the start of last season, Chelsea's 20 away Premier League games have produced 81 goals (42 for, 39 against), at least 14 more than any other side on their travels.\n• None Chelsea have scored each of their past 16 penalties in the Premier League, since Eden Hazard missed from the spot against Manchester City in April 2017.\n• None Jorginho has scored all eight of the penalties he has taken for Chelsea in all competitions (excluding shootouts), including five in the Premier League.\n• None Since he joined Chelsea in 2018, Kepa Arrizabalaga has conceded more Premier League goals from outside the box (19) than any other goalkeeper. Indeed, excluding blocked shots, Kepa has conceded nine of the past 13 overall shots on target he has faced in the Premier League.\n• None Leandro Trossard has scored three goals in his past six Premier League games for Brighton, as many as he netted in his first 26 appearances in the competition before this.\n• None Kurt Zouma scored what was only his second Premier League goal for Chelsea (72nd appearance), and his first since September 2015 against Arsenal.\n\nBrighton host Portsmouth in the Carabao Cup on Thursday, 17 September (19:45 BST) and return to Premier League action at Newcastle on Sunday, 20 September (14:00).\n\nMeanwhile, Chelsea host champions Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, 20 September (16:30) in the Premier League.\n• None Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. César Azpilicueta replaces Jorginho because of an injury.\n• None Tariq Lamptey (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Sexual and violent offenders will serve at least two-thirds of jail terms, rather than half, as part of changes to the criminal justice system in England and Wales.\n\nAn overhaul of sentencing laws has been announced by the Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.\n\nWhole-life orders will also be extended to 18 to 20-year-olds convicted of terrorism causing mass loss of life.\n\nMr Buckland said it marked the end of \"complex and confusing\" laws.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Buckland said the measures would \"keep offenders who pose a risk to the public off our streets for longer\".\n\nHe said they would \"help restore public confidence that robust sentences are executed in a way that better reflects the gravity of the crimes committed\".\n\nMr Buckland also said protecting the public meant \"finding new ways to break cycles of crime, to prevent a revolving door of short custodial sentences that we know offer little rehabilitative value\".\n\nMore help is being promised for those with mental health issues, addictions and neurodiverse conditions such as autism.\n\nIt comes after the criminal justice system ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThere are steep backlogs and delays for victims and defendants, who are facing trial dates years ahead.\n\nAmong the new interventions proposed in a White Paper published on Wednesday are:\n\nAnd offenders sentenced to between four and seven years in prison for serious crimes such as rape and manslaughter will no longer be automatically considered for release halfway through their jail terms.\n\nHowever, one charity boss warned that \"increasing the prison population through longer sentences will only add more pressure to this already stretched system\".\n\nCampbell Robb, chief executive of social justice charity Nacro, said the UK needed a system that \"gives victims justice, reduces re-offending and creates a safer UK for everyone - senselessly banging people up for longer will not deliver this.\"\n\nWhile tougher sentences are among the measures proposed, changes to criminal records to reduce the time offenders have to declare past crimes to employers are also included.\n\nA focus on supporting ex-offenders will see custodial sentences become \"spent\" after 12 months without reoffending, with convictions of up to four years no longer disclosed after a further four crime-free years.\n\nSentences of more than four years will not automatically be disclosed to employers after a further seven-year period of rehabilitation is completed.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy welcomed the changes but sought assurance that new sentencing rules would not be applied \"gratuitously\".\n\n\"It would be wrong to abandon the general presumption in criminal law that when you're younger there is more opportunity for redemption and to turn your life around,\" he said.\n\nFor the past few days, the government has been trailing its White Paper with a series of eye-catching announcements promising tougher sentences for terrorists, violent offenders and motorists who kill.\n\nMany of the plans are likely to command broad public support while measures to relax criminal records disclosure rules have the potential to make a real difference to ex-offenders struggling to find work.\n\nBut the timing of the proposals is somewhat odd, as the government grapples with the biggest crisis the criminal justice system has faced in decades.\n\nProblems caused by the coronavirus have meant that a huge backlog of trials across England and Wales has got even bigger.\n\nThe sentencing changes, if they go ahead, won't help the tens of thousands of victims, witnesses and defendants caught up in the backlog who now face the prospect of waiting up to two years for their day in court.\n\nThe announcement of reforms to sentencing comes after lawyers warned hundreds of thousands of people may have to wait until 2022 for justice, due to delays in the Crown Courts.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, the backlog of Crown Court cases has risen by 6,000 to 43,000.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards a range of measures, including more Nightingale courts.\n\nAnd Mr Buckland has told the BBC he would \"use every tool in the book\" to clear the case backlog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, he said the situation in Magistrates' Courts was \"encouraging - with the number of cases being dealt with exceeding the number coming into the system\".\n\nAnd he said the Crown Courts had been \"unique\" compared to other countries, as it \"kept going\" throughout the pandemic.\n\nBut, he added: \"I am bearing down daily on my team in the Courts and Tribunals Service to make sure that they have got the resources they need to make the buildings safe and that judges and listing officers are doing everything they can to get those cases listed so we can achieve swift justice.\"\n\nMeanwhile detection rates for crimes remain low, having fallen from one-in-seven crime reports leading to a charge in 2015 to around one-in-14 last year.", "As China celebrates 30 days without any domestic cases of Covid-19, China’s top health body says it is now going to roll out counselling to people who have recovered from Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the official China Daily, social workers, volunteers and therapists will be made available to former patients , to help understand any physical, mental or financial help they might need.\n\nTheir data will be held on local medical databases, under a system that “emphasises the importance of protecting their privacy”.\n\nLocal health centres will also offer mental health assessments “based on informed consent and voluntary participation”.\n\nIn China, more than 80,000 people have recovered from Covid-19 since the beginning of the year. Mental health hotlines have been open since as early as January .\n\nBut mental health is a major concern in China. The official Xinhua news agency estimated last year that one in 10 Chinese people had mental health problems . That is 140 million people.\n\nPeople on Chinese social media have spoken often in recent months about how they have struggled as a result of strict lockdown procedures, working/studying at home, and finding work.\n\nThe government is particularly concerned that those who have recovered have experienced work and social stigma. However, it has urged people to be transparent if they have any ailments rather than hide their symptoms and risk the event of another localised outbreak.", "All the adults in the Coombes family from Liverpool have lost jobs due to coronavirus. They explain what it's like looking for work together.", "British perfume brand Jo Malone London has issued an apology to John Boyega for dropping an ad he made for them and replacing him with a Chinese actor.\n\nThe firm reshot the personal video the Star Wars actor made, in his home town of London, for the Chinese market.", "The Dáil (Irish parliament) was initially adjourned but it resumed business on Tuesday evening\n\nIrish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has tested negative for Covid-19 after reporting feeling unwell.\n\nMembers of the Irish cabinet were told to restrict their movements after the country's health minister made the report on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nInitially it was announced that the cabinet would have to self-isolate and the Dáil (Irish parliament) would be adjourned indefinitely.\n\nHowever, the Dáil resumed business on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe restrictions on the cabinet have now been lifted.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that the decision for the cabinet to restrict their movements came from \"an abundance of caution\".\n\nMinister for Climate Action, Communication Networks and Transport, Eamon Ryan, had already been isolating, as a member of his household awaits a test for Covid-19.\n\nOn Tuesday, three more deaths were reported in the Republic and 357 cases of the virus have been confirmed.\n\nEarlier, the Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Feargháil (Irish parliament speaker) told the Dáil shortly after 17:00 local time that after \"very serious information arising out of events today the Cabinet must now self-isolate\".\n\nHowever, the Dáil later reconvened after 20:00 - the Ceann Comhairle explained that he had been advised at the time that the parliament should be adjourned and then recalled by the taoiseach.\n\nMr Donnelly was present at a press conference on Tuesday morning when the Irish government unveiled a five-stage plan on living with Covid-19.\n\nThe plan outlined stricter rules for Dublin over the next few weeks because of the increase in infections in the city.\n\nPubs that do not serve food can reopen on 21 September, except in Dublin where they must stay closed\n\nFrom midnight on Tuesday, household visits in the city will be limited to six people from one other household.\n\nElsewhere, the limit will remain at six visitors from up to three households.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said it is designed to provide a roadmap on how to live with Covid-19 for the next six months.\n\nHe said level five is the most restrictive and similar to what happened during the lockdown in March.\n\nHe said the country is currently at level two but because of the situation Dublin there were special modifications for the capital.\n\nHealth Minister Stephen Donnelly (right) was present at a press conference for a new Covid-19 plan on Tuesday morning\n\nTánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar told the news conference that virus cases have increased tenfold in Dublin over the last two months.\n\nMr Martin also told the news conference that Ireland would sign up for the European Commission's travel plan.\n\nThat plan has yet to be unveiled but is known to include countries on green, amber and red lists.\n\nHe indicated that crowds of 200 people will be allowed attend sporting events where the capacity of a stadium is 5,000.", "One court case awarded home carers in London more than £100,000\n\nThe government should guarantee that care workers are paid fairly, the UK's largest union has demanded.\n\nUnison's statement comes on the heels of a legal victory it helped win for homecare workers in north London.\n\nGeneral secretary Dave Prentis said: \"It's time the skills and experience of care staff were respected instead of them being underpaid and undervalued.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said it was \"clear\" that care workers must be paid at least the national minimum wage.\n\nCompanies contracted by Haringey Council were found to have breached wage rules after some carers were paid less than £4 per hour.\n\nA court awarded the carers more than £100,000 in backdated earnings following an employment tribunal ruling.\n\nCare service companies, Kaamil Education Limited, Diligent Care Services Limited and Premier Carewaiting Limited say they inherited the case when they took over the work contract from care provider, Sevacare.\n\nThe court found that when the employees were working with Sevacare, they should have been paid for travel time spent moving between patient visits during their working day.\n\nThe firms who took over the contracts were ordered to pay the claimants.\n\nWhen travel time was not paid, some carers worked up to 14 hours a day, but the average hourly pay recorded on their payslips was well below the legal minimum hourly rate.\n\nThe 10 claimants will receive an average settlement of £10,000 each, after a four-year legal battle.\n\nThe judgement said that travelling and waiting time of up to an hour between appointments should be compensated as working time.\n\nMr Prentis said: \"This is a major victory for these dedicated workers who dared take on their employers.\n\n\"These are the very same care staff who were applauded during the lockdown. They shouldn't have to work in a system that breeds such awful treatment,\" he added.\n\nJess (not her real name) also heralded the victory as \"great news and a big win\".\n\nShe still works for one of the firms and told the BBC that the outcome offered every key worker a voice. She hopes that the precedent set by the union's case would help others like her.\n\nHowever, she says that she still struggles on low wages.\n\n\"They were all clapping for us, but now it's all gone back to normal. And I think that is very bad. We work so hard,\" she says.\n\n\"It is difficult to make ends meet\", Jess adds. Any unexpected expenses push her over the edge and it takes longer to recover financially.\n\nTogether with others who were fighting the court case, she had gone to Parliament to testify about their working conditions and was told she was doing a \"fantastic job\".\n\nJess says that politicians \"only tell you what you want to hear\".\n\nShe adds: \"I've been here for ten years and it's not easy.\"\n\nA Local Government Association spokesperson told the BBC: \"We will consider this ruling carefully to assess any implications for local authorities\".\n\nThey added: \"Before the pandemic, adult social care services faced a funding gap of almost £4bn by 2025.\n\n\"Social care needs parity of esteem with the NHS, backed up by a genuine, long-term and sustainable funding settlement, which councils have been calling for long before the current crisis.\"\n\nMore than one million people work in social care and the majority, 83% are female, according to figures from the Resolution Foundation.\n\nA study the think tank did in April 2020 found that more than half of workers are paid less than the voluntary living wage and were five times more likely to be on a zero-hours contract.\n\nThe overwhelming majority of those working in social care are female, according to a think tank\n\nJess will remain in her job, but hopes things will change.\n\n\"Some of us, we can do more than key worker work, but we are doing it for a purpose. To give back. Some of my patients were key workers themselves.\"\n\nShe says it is time for the government to show care workers their support.\n\n\"Pay us some proper wages, so that we can feed our kids and pay our bills,\" says Jess.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We are very clear that social care workers must be paid at least the national minimum wage, with those over 25 earning at least the national living wage, and they should be paid for the time spent caring for clients, travelling to appointments and waiting for them to start.\n\n\"We know there is a need for a long-term solution for social care and are looking at a range of proposals as part of our commitment to bringing forward a plan that puts the sector on a sustainable footing for the future.\"", "The Ukrainian and Israeli governments had called on Hasidic Jews not to travel to Uman this year\n\nHundreds of Hasidic Jews have been stranded at the border between Ukraine and Belarus as coronavirus restrictions impede an annual pilgrimage.\n\nThe pilgrims were travelling to the central Ukrainian town of Uman to visit the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement.\n\nEvery year thousands make the journey to mark the Jewish New Year, which in 2020 runs from 18 to 20 September.\n\nHowever, Ukraine has closed its borders to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAs the pilgrims - many of them from Israel - attempted to enter Ukraine this week, they were stopped by border guards.\n\nThey began their journey despite appeals from both the Ukrainian and Israeli governments asking them not to travel to Uman this year, fearing a spike in coronavirus infections.\n\nUkrainian authorities said the Hasidic Jews were not exempt from the travel ban\n\nUkraine has restricted entry to foreigners from 28 August to 28 September to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, Israel has imposed a new national lockdown, with tough restrictions coming into effect on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.\n\nDespite this, Ukrainian authorities said hundreds more pilgrims were expected to seek entry to the country in the coming days.\n\nOn Tuesday, estimates varied as to how many were already at Ukraine's borders.\n\nTraffic had to be stopped at the border on Monday night\n\nBelarusian and Ukrainian authorities put the number at about 700, but the Times of Israel reported that there were at least 1,000 pilgrims trapped at the border.\n\nPictures from the border show dozens of Hasidic Jews wearing traditional dress and carrying luggage as they wandered along a road thronged by lorries.\n\nOn Monday night Ukrainian guards said they had to stop traffic on the crossing at Novi Yarylovychi, because the pilgrims were in the way.\n\nSome pilgrims had set up makeshift tents, while others slept on their luggage in front of the lorries.\n\n\"I spent the night on the bus, but most of them spent the night right on the road, some gathered branches in the forest and lit fires,\" one pilgrim told Reuters news agency. \"We have no food or water.\"\n\nThe Red Cross Society of Belarus said the pilgrims did not have \"enough resources to ensure their basic needs\" and assistance was being provided.\n\nBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has told officials to provide assistance to the pilgrims, accusing Ukraine of \"shutting its borders\" and leaving hundreds of people in neutral territory.\n\nUkraine's government has insisted it will not waive the travel restrictions.\n\n\"I don't know who promised to whom the passage of 3,000 citizens,\" the head of Ukraine's border service Serhiy Deyneko told pilgrims at the border. \"You were deceived.\"\n\nUkraine's border service head Serhiy Deyneko (R) spoke to pilgrims at the border\n\nOn Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the situation with Mr Deyneko, his office said. Ukraine had full control of the situation, it added.\n\nThe Belarusian border service said it was helping pilgrims return to Belarus, according to state news agency Belta.\n\nIn the meantime, many pilgrims remain camped out at the border, in the hope Ukrainian authorities will allow them to enter the country before Jewish New Year, Belta reported.", "Kim Kardashian West and dozens of other celebrities have announced they will freeze their social media accounts to protest against the spread of \"hate, propaganda and misinformation\".\n\n\"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact,\" Kardashian West wrote in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nThe move is part of the #StopHateforProfit campaign which was organised by civil rights activists.\n\nThe celebrities will freeze their accounts for 24 hours on Wednesday.\n\n\"I can't sit by and stay silent while these platforms continue to allow the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation - created by groups to sow division and split America apart,\" Kardashian West said.\n\n\"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy,\" she added.\n\nOther celebrities that have agreed to take part in the boycott include actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as singer Katy Perry.\n\n\"I can't sit idly by while these platforms turn a blind eye to groups and posts spreading hateful disinformation,\" Perry wrote on Instagram.\n\nActor Ashton Kutcher, who has millions of followers and is also joining the boycott, said \"these tools were not built to spread hate [and] violence\".\n\nKaty Perry and Orlando Bloom have also joined the boycott\n\nThe organisers of the #StopHateforProfit campaign, which was launched in June, accuse Facebook and Instagram of not doing enough to stop hate speech and disinformation.\n\nThe group has focused on Facebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp and last year attracted advertising revenue of almost $70bn (£56.7bn).\n\nThousands of businesses and major civil rights groups - including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Anti-Defamation League (AD) - have signed up to the campaign.\n\n\"We are quickly approaching one of the most consequential elections in American history,\" the group said in a statement. \"Facebook's unchecked and vague 'changes' are falling dangerously short of what is necessary to protect our democracy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC's Simon Jack that Facebook would 'take down' coronavirus misinformation\n\nIn June, Facebook said it would label potentially harmful or misleading posts left up for their news value.\n\nFounder Mark Zuckerberg also said the social media company would ban advertising containing claims \"that people of a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status\" are a threat to others.\n\n\"The 2020 elections were already shaping up to be heated,\" he wrote in a statement. \"During this moment, Facebook will take extra precautions to help everyone stay safe [and] stay informed.\"\n\nBut the #StopHateforProfit campaign called for more to be done, and more than 90 companies subsequently paused advertising in support of its efforts.\n\nAs a result of the boycott, shares in Facebook fell dramatically and US media reported that $7.2bn had been knocked off Mr Zuckerberg's personal net worth.\n\nRegulators and policy-makers around the world are concerned about the growth of hate speech, not just on Facebook but on all social media platforms, with many countries launching enquiries into how the tech firms are dealing with the issue.", "The UK government should consider a targeted extension of its furlough scheme, MPs have said.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis risks mass long-term unemployment and viable firms could go under without support, the Treasury Select Committee has warned.\n\nHowever, a blanket retention of the scheme would not be good value for money, it added.\n\nThe Treasury said it would \"continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment.\"\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is due to end on 31 October. Under it, workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first, this was all paid for by the government. But firms had to start making a contribution to wages in September as the scheme began to wind down.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said that extending furlough past October would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak also ruled out an extension, instead saying that firms will be given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still in employment at the end of January.\n\nBut the committee's chairman, Mel Stride, said the chancellor \"should carefully consider targeted extensions\" to the scheme.\n\n\"The key will be assisting those businesses who, with additional support, can come through the crisis as sustainable enterprises, rather than focusing on those that will unfortunately just not be viable in the changed post-crisis economy.\"\n\nIn the second report of its inquiry into the economic impact of Covid-19, the committee also warned that the pandemic risked widening the gender pay gap due to the differences in hours of paid work in lockdown - especially if work patterns are changed permanently.\n\nThe MPs also said people should be able to reskill, and that small businesses should be able to fully participate in the government's Kickstart Scheme, which aims to create work placements for young people on universal credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) trade body said with the furlough scheme winding down, \"policymakers will need to look closely at measures to stem mass unemployment, including a successor scheme.\"\n\nFSB national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"The priority should be protecting viable small businesses - and all the jobs they provide - that have been disproportionately [hit] by the coronavirus crisis, including those caught by local lockdowns, subject to continued national restrictions, or with staff that have directly suffered because of Covid.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julie changed jobs before lockdown - then became unemployed and ineligible for the furlough scheme\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which campaigns on living standards, said that \"extending support for the hardest-hit sectors of the economy will be essential to limit the rise in unemployment Britain faces in the months ahead.\"\n\nTorsten Bell, the think tank's chief executive, said: \"This authoritative account of the economic impact of coronavirus should be required reading for Treasury officials planning the Autumn Budget against the highly uncertain backdrop of rising coronavirus case numbers.\n\n\"The chancellor will need to reconsider his plans to swiftly phase out support given the painful reality that the economic crisis is here to stay.\"\n\nThis week leading business groups warned that the UK risks a second wave of job cuts and a slower economic recovery if it does not extend its furlough scheme.\n\nGermany, Belgium, Australia and France have all decided to extend or launch new wage support schemes into next year.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown told the BBC that the UK should emulate other countries' short-term working schemes.\n\nMr Brown said the end of the furlough scheme on 31 October was a \"cliff-edge\" that could trigger \"a tsunami of unemployment\".\n\n\"The government's got to change course here,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nShort-term working schemes would allow firms to reduce employees' working hours while keeping them in jobs, with the state topping up their salaries.\n\n\"You have got to send a signal that unemployment matters,\" he said. \"We don't want to destroy any more capacity and skills in the economy.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said that by the time the UK scheme closes it will have helped to pay for 9.6 million jobs.\n\n\"We will continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're helping employees get back to work, where they want to be, through a £1,000 retention bonus.\n\n\"And we are creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart Scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, and supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate has been at 3.9% since the lockdown was introduced.\n\nBut the Bank of England expects that rate to double to 7.5% by the end of the year when the government-funded support schemes come to an end.\n\nThousands of job cuts have already been announced by firm such as Rolls-Royce, Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, Pizza Express, British Airways and BP.", "The baby was taken to hospital but died a short time later, police said\n\nTwo people have been arrested after a 12-day-old baby died after being attacked by a dog in Doncaster.\n\nEmergency services were called to Welfare Road, Woodlands, at about 15:30 on Sunday after reports of a dog attacking a child, police said.\n\nThe baby had been bitten by a dog causing serious injuries, South Yorkshire Police added.\n\nA 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nThey have both been bailed while inquiries take place, the force said.\n\nThe newborn was taken to hospital but died a short time later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Blowing a ram's horn is a key feature of Rosh Hashanah - but extra care must be taken this year\n\nThe government has issued highly detailed dos and don'ts for the UK Jewish community as it celebrates its most important festivals of the year.\n\nRosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot normally involve packed synagogues and large family gatherings.\n\nThis year, synagogues will have to ensure social distancing and avoid communal prayer shawls and books.\n\nThe person blowing the shofar (ram's horn) for Rosh Hashanah should keep 2m from other worshippers.\n\nBeginning on Friday, the three-week period known as the Days of Awe is the central feature of the Jewish religious year, but many of its traditions will be impossible this year.\n\nA long checklist makes clear that synagogues can be used as long as Covid secure measures are in place.\n\nBut communal prayer books and prayer shawls, normally strewn around the synagogue, must be removed with worshippers told to bring their own prayer books.\n\nMicrophones should be used where possible, though these would normally be unacceptable in orthodox synagogues.\n\nMask-wearing is advised, and people should not mix in groups of more than six in line with the new limits on social gatherings.\n\nThe guidance acknowledges that the \"rule of six\" will have a particular impact on the tradition of hospitality around Sukkot - the Feast of Tabernacles, which marks the end of harvest and commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.\n\nRunning from 2 October to 9 October this year, the festival normally involves constructing \"sukkah\" the little shelter many Jews build in their gardens to eat in during the eight-day Succot festival.\n\nNormally guests would be invited and crammed inside, but now the limit is six people - unless the social bubble is bigger than that.\n\nSharing food or cutlery is out, as are social gatherings in a communal sukkah and \"sukkah crawls\" across the community.\n\nA central feature of Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year - is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from a ram's horn that may present a risk for a virus spread through droplets.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the guidance says the shofar blower must be at least 2m from anyone else, and it should not be blown towards anyone.\n\nThere is also detailed guidance for a ceremony known as Tashlich, where on Rosh Hashanah worshippers go to a body of moving water like a river and figuratively throw away their sins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Losing a ‘beacon of light’ of the UK’s ultra-Orthodox community to coronavirus\n\nAs well as the rule of six and social distancing, the guidance says items used during the ceremony should not be shared, such as prayer books or the breadcrumbs that some worshippers cast on the water.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince of Wales has been appointed patron of a Jewish youth organisation as it celebrates in 125th year.\n\nNeil Martin, chief executive of the JLGB (Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade), said it is an \"absolute honour\" and praised the prince as \"a tremendous believer in the power of young people\".", "Two women affected by the state pension age being changed from 60 to 66 for women have lost their appeal against a High Court ruling.\n\nCampaigners claim women born in the 1950s have been treated unfairly by rapid changes to their pension age, due to reach 66 later this year.\n\nThey say introducing the same state pension age for men and women did not amount to unlawful discrimination.\n\nThe government welcomed the ruling, saying the changes were a \"long-overdue move towards gender equality\".\n\nJulie Delve, 62, and Karen Glynn, 63, backed by campaign group BackTo60, were challenging the pension age changes after losing a High Court fight against the Department for Work and Pensions last year.\n\nThe campaign groups associated with the court case represent almost four million women who were affected by the government decision to increase the state pension age from 60 to 66.\n\nMany on lower incomes say they are facing financial hardship as a result.\n\nCampaigners, however, say their fight is not over.\n\nJoanne Welch, founder and director of BackTo60, told the BBC she would now consider taking the case to the Supreme Court and would also draft legislation to bring a women's Bill of Rights.\n\nUnison, the UK's largest trade union, said raising the state pension age with \"next to no notice\" has had a calamitous effect on the retirement plans of a generation of women.\n\nIt called on MPs to intervene to help those women who were now struggling to make ends meet.\n\nPamela Satchwell had to carry on working post 60 after the pension age rules changed.\n\nShe did 16 hours a week as a carer for disabled children and people with ADHD.\n\nBut without a pension contribution to support her earnings, it was not enough. Pam's husband then died.\n\nShe subsequently lost her house because she could not afford her mortgage alone and she had to sell all of the jewellery her husband had given her.\n\nNow that she is 67, she is finally receiving her pension and she manages better financially.\n\n\"But it's too late now. I lost my home, I have none of the trinkets my husband gave me. I lost the life I had and I am never going to get it back,\" says Pam.\n\nAs for the women involved in the court case, Pam wishes people understood it is not so easy for that those who found out they could not retire.\n\n\"You can not just run out and find a job when you are in your 60s. Employers don't want people that age, \" she says.\n\nJulie Delve and Karen Glynn were in court last June when they told a judicial review that when they had not received their state pension at the age of 60, their lives had been affected disproportionately.\n\nThey argued the way the government had introduced the increase of the pension age was discriminatory. Some women thought they would retire at 60 but found they had to wait up to more than five years, leading to financial hardship.\n\nCampaigners say the workplace was less equal for many of this generation who were taking time out of their careers to raise children, were paid less than men and could not save as much in occupational pensions, so the change has hit them harder.\n\nThe senior justices said: \"Despite the sympathy that we, like the members of the Divisional Court [High Court], feel for the appellants and other women in their position, we are satisfied that this is not a case where the court can interfere with the decisions taken through the parliamentary process.\"\n\nThey said that \"in the light of the extensive evidence\" put forward by the government, they agreed with the High Court's assessment that \"it is impossible to say that the government's decision to strike the balance where it did - between the need to put state pension provision on a sustainable footing and the recognition of the hardship that could result for those affected by the changes - was manifestly without reasonable foundation\".\n\nThis issue led to a huge campaign, not always led by the same groups, which has garnered widespread support for women who believe their pensions were stolen from them.\n\nA different result in the general election could have changed the picture. Labour had promised to compensate those affected.\n\nThat avenue was closed for campaigners. Now, the BackTo60 group has lost another major court battle.\n\nDriven supporters may not be willing to give up, and will hope to take it to the next stage legally.\n\nBut with each defeat, their chances of actually seeing a greater pension become slimmer.\n\nUnison assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: \"For a generation of women, this is nothing short of a disaster.\n\n\"Those on lower incomes have been left in dire straits, struggling to make ends meet with precious little support from the government.\"\n\nYvette Greenway Mansfield, chief executive of the charity, SOS the Silence of Suicide and the partner of the QC who argued the case in court, underlined the mental health impact the government's decision had had.\n\nShe cited a recent survey by her charity which garnered 20,000 responses about the pensions age change.\n\n\"People have been having thoughts of suicide, they are self harming,\" said Ms Mansfield. \"This is the unseen impact. This is not discussed anywhere near enough and I am hugely concerned for women.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said they were pleased the court \"decided that due notice\" had been given to women.\n\nThey added: \"The government decided 25 years ago that it was going to make the state pension age the same for men and women as a long-overdue move towards gender equality.\n\n\"Raising state pension age in line with life expectancy changes has been the policy of successive administrations over many years.\"", "The torch relay toured the UK for 70 days ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games\n\nAn automotive firm that made the 2012 London Olympic torch has gone into liquidation.\n\nPremier Sheet Metals said it blamed \"conditions within the automotive sector which were further compounded by the onset of Covid-19\".\n\nBased in Exhall, Warwickshire, the firm said a fall in sales had affected its cash flow and could no longer trade.\n\nIt produces sheet metal parts for the automotive sector, which has been struggling throughout the pandemic.\n\nThe first six months of the year saw the number of cars built in the UK slump to the lowest level since 1954.\n\nPremier Sheet Metals also made the 8,000 torches used in the relay that marked the opening of the 2012 games.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said despite \"substantial cash injections\", extra funding could not be secured, \"largely due to the absence of any certainty in the marketplace\".\n\n\"Following a review of the company's financial position and cashflow requirements by the company's advisors, it became apparent that Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Ltd could not generate sufficient sales and in turn cash flow to enable it to continue to trade,\" he added.\n\n\"Therefore, very regrettably, and after a period of over 25 years of trading, the decision was taken to commence the process of placing Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Limited into liquidation.\"\n\nOther companies within the group remain unaffected.\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. Teacher 'overwhelmed' since Who Wants To Be A Millionaire win\n\nA teacher who became the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years said he was \"overwhelmed\" by the response.\n\n\"I didn't expect the tsunami of interest,\" Don Fear, from Telford, said, adding people had \"fallen over themselves\" to congratulate him.\n\nFormer pupil and pub quiz mate Patrick Campbell told the BBC he was \"in tears\" when Mr Fear claimed his £1m prize.\n\nMr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show's 22-year history.\n\nHe and Mr Campbell, 33, have been doing weekly quizzes at the Red Lion in Wellington for about seven years.\n\nMr Fear has joined his quiz team in Wellington for about seven years\n\n\"Don was my history teacher, myself and a few school friends set up a pub quiz and we kept in touch with him on Facebook and various things.\n\n\"We knew what a clever man he was so we invited him to join,\" he said.\n\nMr Campbell said watching his former teacher was \"so surreal\" - \"I could tell from the look of his eye he was confident he knew the answer\".\n\n\"That winning moment, I was in tears. I know what a lovely man he is, we're all so thrilled for him.\"\n\nMr Fear returned to his school - Haberdashers' Adams Grammar school in Newport - after the show aired on Friday but has since announced he will retire at the end of term in December.\n\nThe history and politics teacher said students and staff were clapping and cheering him as he went in and that \"quite a few pupils are trying to tap me up for a tenner\".\n\nAfter a 33-year career, Mr Fear said he would \"miss school hugely\" but hopes \"a new career as a travel guide is on the cards\", with Canada first on his wish-list.\n\n\"And then really it's a case of you name the place and I want to go there.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said the UK must reserve the right to override the Brexit deal to protect the country's \"economic and political integrity\".\n\nThe PM said legislation was needed to resolve \"tensions\" in the EU-UK deal.\n\nHe said it would ensure the UK could not be \"broken up\" by a foreign power and the EU was acting in an \"extreme way\", by threatening food exports.\n\nLabour said the PM had caused the \"mess\" by reneging on a deal he had previously called a \"triumph\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill is expected to pass its first parliamentary test shortly, when MPs vote on it at about 22.00 BST, despite the reservations of many MPs that it gives the UK the power to break international law.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have said they will not support the bill as it stands and some could register their concerns by abstaining.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, having negotiated and signed the withdrawal agreement with the bloc.\n\nA key part of the agreement - which is now an international treaty - was the Northern Ireland Protocol, designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill proposed by the government would override that part of that agreement when it comes to movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain and would allow the UK to re-interpret \"state aid\" rules on subsidies for firms in Northern Ireland, in the event of the two sides not agreeing a future trade deal.\n\nSpeaking at the start of the five-hour debate, the PM said the bill should be \"welcomed by everyone\" who cares about the \"sovereignty and integrity of the UK\".\n\nHe said the UK had signed up to the \"finely balanced\" withdrawal agreement, including the Northern Ireland Protocol, in \"good faith\" and was committed to honouring its obligations, including the introduction of \"light touch\" checks on trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut he said additional \"protective powers\" were now necessary to guard against the EU's \"proven willingness\" to interpret aspects of the agreement in \"absurd\" ways, \"simply to exert leverage\" in the trade talks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ed Miliband says it is not an argument of Leave versus Remain, but “an argument about right versus wrong”.\n\n\"What we cannot tolerate now is a situation where our EU counterparts seriously believe they have the power to break up our country,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"We cannot have a situation where the very boundaries of our country can be dictated to by a foreign power or international organisation.\"\n\nHe also suggested the EU was threatening not to allow British firms to export products of animal origin to either the continent or Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Absurd and self-defeating as that action would be...the EU still have not taken this revolver off the table,\" he told MPs.\n\nHowever, he sought to reassure MPs that the powers were an \"insurance policy\" and Parliament would be given a vote before they were ever invoked, insisting \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\".\n\nBut former Labour leader Ed Miliband, standing in for Sir Keir Starmer after the Labour leader was forced to self-isolate at home, said the \"very act of passing the law\" would constitute a breach of international law.\n\nHe told MPs the PM \"could not blame anyone else\", having drawn up and signed the Brexit deal himself.\n\n\"It is his deal, it is his mess, it is his failure,\" he said. \"For the first time in his life, it is time to take responsibility and to fess up,\" he said. \"Either he was not straight with the country in the first place or he did not understand it.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is not just legislative hooliganism on any issue, it is on the most sensitive issue of all.\"\n\nAmong Tory MPs to speak out were ex-ministers Andrew Mitchell, Sir Bob Neill and Stephen Hammond, all of whom urged the government to settle differences with the EU through the arbitration process in the Agreement.\n\nConservative MP Charles Walker said the EU was a \"pain in the neck\" but urged the government not to \"press the nuclear button\" before all other options had been exhausted.\n\n\"I am not going to be voting for this bill at second reading because if you keep whacking a dog, don't be surprised when it bites you back,\" he said.\n\nAnd Former Chancellor Sajid Javid has joined the ranks of potential rebels, saying he could not see why it was necessary to \"pre-emptively renege\" on the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Breaking international law is never a step that should be taken lightly,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC \"all options are on the table\" in terms of possible action against Tory MPs who do not support the bill.\n\nThe bill, which sets out how trade between different nations of the UK will operate after the UK leaves the EU single market on 31 December, is likely to face more difficulties in its later stages, especially in the House of Lords.\n\nThe DUP's Sammy Wilson welcomed the bill, but said his party still had concerns and would be tabling amendments to \"ensure Northern Ireland is not left in a state aid straight jacket and our businesses are not weighed down by unnecessary paperwork when trading within the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said the bill was the \"greatest threat\" to devolved government in Scotland since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament 20 years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron said he has “misgivings about what is being proposed”\n\n\"We are discussing the details of a bill which this government casually and brazenly admits breaks international and domestic law, he said.\n\nFive former prime ministers have raised concerns about the bill, including Boris Johnson's predecessor Theresa May - who is absent from Monday's debate as she is on a visit to South Korea.\n\nSpeaking earlier on Monday, David Cameron said \"passing an act of Parliament and then going on to break an international treaty obligation...should be the absolute final resort\".", "Caerphilly went into lockdown last week\n\nWales should use micro-quarantines to avoid a second national lockdown in the winter, Plaid Cymru has said.\n\nIt came before the Welsh Government outlined how it will tackle coronavirus in the NHS during the winter months.\n\nPlaid said small areas could be locked down around clusters where there has been a higher rate of infection, rather than entire council area.\n\nCaerphilly county became the first place in Wales to go into local lockdown last week.\n\nIt includes an extra 5,000 NHS beds - half in field hospitals - to cope with winter pressures, including a potential second wave of Covid-19 in hospitals.\n\nEarlier, he warned of the risk of a further national lockdown if members of the public do not better respect social distancing rules.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the plan needs to be able to deal with both Covid-19 and the usual winter pressures in health and social care.\n\n\"Seeing the minister dismantling one £25m field hospital at the Principality stadium and building a smaller £33m one a few miles away does not fill you with confidence that the ministers plan will achieve this,\" he added.\n\nPlaid says people should be encouraged to keep records of their contacts with the help of an app\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price proposed a \"10-point coronavirus winter plan\", which included \"smart-lockdowns\" used in countries including Pakistan - with targeted lockdowns including a \"local economic package of support\".\n\n\"If we do not act, then winter could become a second wave that is even worse than the first, with little option than reintroducing a full lockdown,\" he said.\n\nThe party also proposed encouraging everyone to keep contact records, with the support of an app, and testing individuals who have been in contact with people with coronavirus, but do not have symptoms themselves.\n\nPlaid called for quick saliva tests to be implemented, national guidance for face masks in schools, and better use of ventilation.\n\nPeople should be asked to avoid closed, crowded and close-contact settings, Plaid said, calling for a new Covid-19 plan ahead of a vaccine.\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"Our contact tracing system is helping us to quickly identify confirmed cases and routes of transmission to allow us to respond swiftly.\n\n\"We have introduced new local restrictions in Caerphilly County Borough Council area in response to the rapid increase in this area and new national restrictions to slow the spread after seeing an overall increase in cases across Wales. Local authorities are also taking targeted local action.\n\n\"As the first minister said on Friday, this is a fast-moving situation and we have a small window to act to prevent a fresh coronavirus crisis in Wales. We need the help of everyone in the country to do that.\"\n\nIt later added said: \"The new Cardiff facility is designed to last for 20 years and is modular so can be moved to other sites.\n\n\"We have carried out a review of the extra bed capacity that will be needed across NHS Wales, using the latest projections and lessons learnt from earlier this year.\n\n\"A full plan of the extra capacity for all health boards will be published by the end of this month.\"", "The new Wylfa power station was to be built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nPlans for a £15-£20bn nuclear power plant in Wales have been scrapped.\n\nWork on the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey was suspended in January last year because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK government.\n\nIsle of Anglesey council said the company had now confirmed in writing it is withdrawing from the project.\n\nCouncil leader Llinos Medi said: \"This is very disappointing, particularly at such a difficult time economically.\"\n\nHitachi shelved the scheme, the biggest energy project ever proposed in Wales, over funding issues.\n\nAnglesey council said it had received a letter from the Tokyo-based parent company confirming its decision.\n\nDeveloper Horizon Nuclear, which is owned by Hitachi, said it would not comment.\n\nThe UK government also declined to comment but the Welsh Affairs Committee has said the Wylfa nuclear power project withdrawal is \"a blow for Wales and the UK's ambition to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\"\n\n\"This was set to be the largest energy project Wales had ever seen with a positive impact on skills and employment in the region,\" said committee chairman Stephen Crabb MP.\n\n\"With the nation's remaining nuclear plants ageing and the need for low-carbon, high yield plants needed to replace them urgent, it has never been more important than now to ensure energy security.\"\n\nWork on Wylfa was due to start this year\n\nMr Crabb added that Hitachi had given \"reassurances\" of its commitment to the project over the summer \"that gave hope to the workers who'd be needed to construct it and the high-skilled employees who would run it\".\n\nDevelopers said the plant would create up to 9,000 jobs during the construction phase and have a 60-year operational life.\n\nCampaigners against the project - a replacement for the original Wylfa plant shut in 2015 after 44 years of service - welcomed Hitachi's move claiming a \"nuclear power station would have endangered lives on Anglesey and beyond\".\n\nThe People Against Wylfa B action group said: \"It would have ruined the environment over an area which is 10 times greater than the current site.\"\n\nIt called on Hitachi to \"ensure that no nuclear scheme will happen on the site in the future\" and return the site to its \"former state, for community benefit\".\n\n\"Proposals to develop green energy schemes would be an area where Hitachi's expertise could create many jobs here,\" the group added.\n\nAnglesey council has called for a meeting with the Welsh and UK governments to discuss the future of the site.\n\nA two-reactor plant at Wylfa was earmarked as having the potential to power up to five million homes, but the project was put on hold as the upfront costs rose.\n\nWith 9,000 workers ready to start the construction phase, the decision in January 2019 was described as \"a tremendous blow\" to the Welsh economy by business leaders.\n\nThe company said in June it was hoping to secure extra funding from the UK government to resume the project but has now thrown in the towel.\n\nAs one of Wales' biggest proposed construction projects, Wylfa Newydd has faced turbulent times.\n\nThe company behind it, Hitachi, has always been concerned about the costs of building the new nuclear power plant.\n\nThe UK government went some way in offering financial support to the project but it wasn't enough to satisfy Hitachi's concerns over the financial risks.\n\nThe UK government also held a consultation on plans that would see energy customers pay upfront for the costs of construction.\n\nThe industry has been waiting for months for an outcome to that.\n\nWhen the UK government said nuclear was part of its push for green energy, the industry thought it was a positive sign for Wylfa Newydd.\n\nBut critics question how green nuclear energy really is, not to mention how safe it is.\n\nWales has been called the \"land of artists' impressions\" with many big schemes that are talked about and never happen.\n\nSupporters of Wylfa Newydd will be concerned it will become another of those, while its critics would be glad to see the back of the plans.\n\nEconomist Edward Jones said people were learning new skills in the hope of finding work at Wylfa Newydd\n\nThe decision will have \"a big effect on the economy\", according to Edward Jones, lecturer in economics at Bangor University.\n\n\"We are currently feeling the effect of Covid-19 and Brexit is around the corner, and we will feel the negative impact of that on the economy,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of people were investing in learning new skills with the thought of getting jobs at Wylfa.\n\n\"We know businesses are investing in new production methods to be part of the supply chain of the nuclear power plant.\n\n\"The challenge now is to find other projects that can make use of these skills.\"\n\nMr Jones said other energy projects on the island, such as the Morlais tidal energy scheme, could make use of the investment already made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said delays in testing for the public are \"unacceptable\".\n\nBBC Breakfast's Dan Walker read a list of examples where people had long waits for results or weren't able to get tests. The Home Secretary said the government were working to \"surge capacity\" to where it is needed.", "The testing system is facing an \"enormous challenge\" after a \"sharp rise\" in those seeking a Covid-19 test, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nWhen asked about reports of people struggling to get tested, Mr Hancock said it would take a \"matter of weeks\" to resolve the issues.\n\nHe said No 10 would update its testing policy shortly to prioritise the most urgent cases.\n\nTest slots have been limited due to bottlenecks in lab processing of swabs.\n\nThe rise in demand for tests had led to local shortages, with Labour saying no tests were available in virus \"hotspots\" over the weekend.\n\nHospital bosses have also warned that a lack of tests for NHS workers is putting services at risk.\n\nPeople have told the BBC of their frustration at being turned away from a walk-in test centre in Oldham, Greater Manchester.\n\nA woman attending the walk-in centre said staff told her that labs were struggling to turn tests around.\n\nBBC Health editor Hugh Pym said: \"There seem to be enough testing sites, but there are bottlenecks in the labs for processing the swabs taken. That's why they're limiting the amount of slots for the public, just when more people want to get tested.\"\n\nOne Cabinet minister told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg this was a \"classic government problem\" where demand for a public service outstrips supply.\n\nThe minister, she said, was confident that \"underneath the noise\", the majority of people were getting the service they needed, when they needed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to people trying to get tests at a centre in Oldham\n\nOn Saturday, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the BBC that the government was working to boost testing capacity through investment in new testing centres and so-called lighthouse labs.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is hopeful that a backlog in test results will be resolved shortly, after \"constructive\" talks with Mr Hancock.\n\nThe UK government announced 3,105 new lab-confirmed cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of positive tests to 374,228. Another 27 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the overall death toll to 41,664.\n\nThe number of patients in mechanical ventilation beds across the UK has passed 100 for the first time in nearly two months. There were 106 patients on ventilation in the UK on Monday - the first time the figure has been over 100 since 24 July.\n\nUK-wide figures for today are yet to be published but there were 101 patients on ventilation in England alone on Tuesday.\n\nAround 220,000 tests are processed each day, according to government figures released last week, with a testing capacity of more than 350,000 - which includes swab tests and antibody tests. The aim is to increase that to 500,000 a day by the end of October.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Hancock said there were \"operational challenges\" with testing which the government was \"working hard\" to fix.\n\nHe said throughout the pandemic they had prioritised testing according to need.\n\nMr Hancock said the \"top priority is and always has been acute clinical care\", followed by social care, where the government is sending \"over 100,000 tests a day\" due to the virus risks in care homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We're working around the clock to make sure everyone who needs a test can get a test\"\n\nConservative chairman of the Health and Social Care Committee Jeremy Hunt was among the MPs to question Mr Hancock on testing, saying a number of his constituents had to travel for tests, while one key worker had to wait a week for her results.\n\n\"A week ago today, the secretary of state told the Health Select Committee that he expected to have this problem solved in two weeks,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\n\"Is the secretary of state, given the efforts that his department is making, still confident that in a week's time we will have this problem solved?\"\n\n\"I think that we will be able to solve this problem in a matter of weeks,\" Mr Hancock replied.\n\nHe said demand was \"high\" but \"record capacity\" was being delivered, with plans to ensure tests are prioritised for those that need them most.\n\nDespite the health secretary's promises, there will be no easy solution to the shortages of tests.\n\nAll the expectations are that cases will go up. People are circulating more as society reopens and we are entering the period when respiratory viruses thrive.\n\nAs cases go up so will demands on the testing system. Even with the promise of more testing capacity in the coming weeks, the chances of shortages continuing remains a distinct possibility.\n\nA new lab is due to open later this month which will be able to carry out 50,000 tests a day. But this could easily be swallowed up.\n\nWhat it means is that testing will have to be prioritised where it is needed most. That will be in care homes, hospitals and among key workers, as well as where there are local outbreaks. The government's surveillance programme run by the Office for National Statistics will also be protected.\n\nBut this is not unique to the UK. Other countries are facing similar pressures. In fact, the UK is testing more people per head of population than Spain, France and Germany.\n\nIt promises to be a difficult winter across Europe.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Mr Hancock was \"losing control of this virus\".\n\nHe said that after schools and offices reopened, extra demand on the system was \"inevitable\". He questioned why Mr Hancock did not use the summer \"to significantly expand\" NHS lab capacity and \"fix\" contact tracing.\n\nResponding, Mr Hancock said it was \"inevitable\" that demand would rise with a free service, adding the \"challenge\" was to ensure tests are prioritised for those who most need them.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast the government was \"surging capacity\" where it was needed.\n\nShe said there is \"much more work\" to be done with Public Health England (PHE) and local public health bodies; and that No 10 would continue to work with PHE to \"surge where there is demand\" in hotspots.\n\nMs Patel also said England's new rule of six meant families should not stop in the street to talk to friends.", "The first official figures for school attendance in England for the autumn term show 88% of pupils went back.\n\nThis is a higher absence rate than the usual figure of about 5% but it is not broken down to show whether pupils were at home because of Covid outbreaks.\n\nThe figures show attendance last Thursday, based on responses from almost three quarters of state schools.\n\nSince the reopening, school leaders have warned that delays in testing are leading to year groups being sent home.\n\nIn the run-up to the new term the government called on parents to send their children back to school, with the assurance that safety measures would be in place to protect them from the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThere had been speculation that some parents would keep their children at home - but the Department for Education figures show almost nine in 10 returned.\n\nThe department also estimates that 92% of all state schools in England were fully open - and that 99.9% were at least partially open.\n\nPupils on their first day back at Riverside School in Barking, east London\n\nHowever, there have been repeated local cases of schools having to send home year groups of pupils, either because of infections or because of problems with getting Covid tests for staff or pupils:\n\nThe guidance for the safe reopening of schools in England had promised: \"The government will ensure that it is as easy as possible to get a test through a wide range of routes that are locally accessible, fast and convenient.\"\n\nBut the National Association of Head Teachers, while welcoming the numbers returning to school, warned that problems getting tests was \"causing chaos for schools right now and could jeopardise attendance remaining high\".\n\nThe WorthLess? network of 5,000 head teachers warned that lack of access to tests could create staff shortages and force schools into partial closure.\n\nSean Maher, head of Richard Challoner School in New Malden, Surrey, said the Covid testing system had become a \"complete and utter shambles\".\n\nHe said students wanted to be back in school, but there had been 70 away on Monday, with many of these absences attributable to the difficulties in getting tests.\n\nThe Netmums online parents' network has written an open letter to the government complaining about the difficulties for parents who are struggling to get a Covid test.\n\n\"It's broken, not working and needs fixing. Our children have been back at school for a week or so, and already the testing system is at breaking point. And so are we,\" says the letter.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"The best place for children and young people to learn is in the classroom, and it's encouraging to see that last week more than seven million pupils were back with their classmates and teachers at schools around the country.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nWe've just had the latest unemployment figures from the Office for National Statistics. The number of people on UK payrolls in August was about 695,000 lower than in March 2020. In the May to July quarter there was a particularly significant drop in the number of young people in employment. Overall, the unemployment rate grew to 4.1%, up from the previous figure of 3.9%. However, the ONS said the number of job vacancies continued to recover into August, fewer workers were on furlough and average hours worked rose. Read more on the ONS website too.\n\nThe furlough scheme comes to an end on 31 October, meaning those job numbers could get much worse. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is urging the government to replace it with a new system. It would be similar to that in Germany - explained here - rewarding employers who give people hours rather than cut jobs; providing training and support for those who can't come back full time, and targeting sectors most in need such as retail and aviation. The government says it's already implementing a plan to protect jobs - here we consider the likelihood of any extension to that.\n\nMany planned redundancies are still to be completed and it's feared the end of furlough will bring many more\n\nHospital bosses are warning that services are at risk due to staff having to self-isolate for days because they can't get tests for themselves or family members. Some patients are also not being tested in time for operations to go ahead, they say. Schools are being hit by similar problems, with head teachers warning of serious staff shortages and parents forced to keep children at home for days. The government says it's processing 200,000 tests a day on average and is working to boost that even further, with most capacity directed towards virus hotspots.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check looks at why testing matters\n\nExperts say the number of people drinking at higher-risk levels in England rose to more than 8.4m in June - up from 4.8m in February - and the impact of that could be huge. Addiction services could struggle to cope, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is warning, and when increased demand due to the pandemic meets deep cuts already made, the result will be many patients missing out on life-saving care. Check whether your drinking habits are healthy here.\n\nThe experts say alcohol misuse and a rise in opiate addiction are both piling pressure on services\n\nThe BBC is taking a close look today at the challenges of finding work during the pandemic. If you're struggling or know someone who is, get some inspiration from four women who started their own businesses during lockdown. Beauty box subscriptions, takeaway food, date night \"kits\" - they're succeeding despite the downturn. We also have some tips on job hunting more broadly and advice on the sectors hiring right now.\n\nNatalie James, Charlie Pears-Wallace, Mya Wander and Caroline Haegeman all took the leap during lockdown\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, as the UK's Jewish community prepares to celebrate its most important festivals of the year, find out more about the guidance being given to synagogues and ordinary families about how to stay safe.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Polly has lived in a small campervan for more than a year\n\n\"I don't want to live like this, no-one should live like this - but I don't have any options,\" says Polly Richardson who finds herself at the sharp end of the lack of affordable homes in England.\n\nFor more than a year, she has lived out of a small camper van.\n\n\"This is my home. I've two sets of clothes in a box. I've got my cups and saucers in this drawer, my pans under this bed, and I have a little camping cooker.\n\n\"Winter time was horrendous because there was no heating.\"\n\nThe 59-year-old grandmother of four from East Yorkshire is one of half-a-million households that aren't even counted as waiting for a council or housing association property, according to the National Housing Federation.\n\nNew research commissioned by the Federation from Heriot-Watt University says the real number of people in England waiting for such homes is 3.8 million, representing 1.6 million households, or 500,000 more than is indicated by official government data.\n\n\"I've got belongings in people's garages,\" says Polly.\n\nShe spent years working as a retail manager but after taking time off to look after her sick father, and then having a big argument with her sister, she found herself being forced to move into the van in March 2019.\n\n\"Without a job, you can't have a house. Without a house, they won't give you a job. I'm hoping somebody out there will give me a job,\" she says.\n\nThe National Housing Federation say 90,000 homes for social rent need to be built each year for the next decade to meet demand but, according to official figures, just 6,338 such homes were completed in 2018-19, down 84% since 2010-11.\n\nThe main advantage of social housing - where either the local council or a housing association are the landlord - is that it's more affordable than private rented accommodation, typically around 50% of market rents, and usually offers a more secure tenancy.\n\n\"What we are seeing is an escalating need for social housing and a lack of supply,\" says Kate Henderson, chief executive of the National Housing Federation.\n\n\"Investing in social housing would boost the economy, it would create thousands of jobs, it would support supply chains in the construction industry and it would provide better, more secure, safe housing for people in need.\"\n\nThe lack of suitable properties leaves large numbers of families living in overcrowded accommodation.\n\nAbigail McManus, a 27-year-old single mother lives in a two-bedroom flat in Leeds with her three young children - two daughters aged six and two and a little boy who's five months old.\n\nLeaving her house is a daily grind as she struggles to manoeuvre her double buggy down the stairs.\n\nAbigail has been bidding weekly for a three-bedroomed ground floor property for years, without success.\n\nShe says the council are encouraging her to search further afield to increase her chances being allocated somewhere suitable to live.\n\nBut she says: \"My whole family live on this estate, so I'd like to try and stay as close as possible.\n\n\"As a single parent, who doesn't drive, it would be hard for me to get anywhere and I'd feel more isolated than I already do, if I move too far from this area.\"\n\nMum of three Abigail McManus struggles to get her double buggy into her flat\n\nWhen she was prime minister, Theresa May altered the way in which councils could use funding to allow them to build more homes.\n\nHer government predicted the change would lead to 10,000 new council houses each year, a figure that hasn't been reached since 2013-14.\n\nWhile local authorities believe building that number is possible, experts say the pandemic could create problems in the construction industry.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing said it \"didn't recognise\" the figures in the new analysis carried out by the National Housing Federation, describing them as a \"major overestimation\".\n\nIt also highlighted its £11.5bn investment in affordable homes, to be spent between 2021 and 2026, some of which will be used on building homes for social rent.", "No government wants scenes like this.\n\nFamilies in Oldham, where there has been particular concern about the spread of coronavirus, are boiling over with frustration that they can't access tests.\n\nNot least a government that promised the public its testing system would be better than any other country's in the world.\n\nNot least a government that believes a properly functioning testing system is vital to keeping kids back in school and climbing out of recession as quickly as possible.\n\nNot least a government that knows testing is a crucial way to monitor and control the virus that saw such a terrible loss of life in the grim spring that we have all just lived through.\n\nThe system was scrambled together in a matter of months.\n\nThere seem to be problems with capacity in labs.\n\nHuge numbers of people are now getting tested.\n\nDemand has soared, with children going back to school, and ministers having initially encouraged people to come forward.\n\nThe government has been trying to move testing capacity around to areas where its most needed, promising now to deliver 100,000 tests a day to care homes, where people are particularly vulnerable.\n\nBut with varying statistics, it can be hard to work out exactly what is going on.\n\nThere is a mountain of anecdotal evidence of real frustration with the system, but this is what we know for sure.\n\nOne Cabinet minister told me yesterday it's a \"classic government problem\" where demand for a public service outstrips supply.\n\nThat minister was confident that \"underneath the noise\" the majority of people are getting the service they need and when they need it.\n\nBut in the House of Commons today you couldn't help but bump into MPs from all parties full of complaints from constituents about a lack of access.\n\nClaims from Jacob Rees Mogg today, that the system is a \"national success\" don't exactly scream empathy with people stuck in the system.\n\nAnd after a painful few months for many people in all sorts of ways, public patience is not elastic.\n\nThe prime minister last week even promised by early next year there could be 10 million tests a day.\n\nBut overpromising and underdelivering is not a reputation any government desires.", "Schools worked hard to get ready for the new term - but there are worries about lack of access to testing\n\nSchools in England are being \"severely hampered\" by delays in Covid tests for teachers, say head teachers.\n\nJules White, organiser of the WorthLess? network of over 5,000 heads, says there is growing frustration at the lack of access to testing.\n\nThis means teachers have to isolate and that \"serious staff shortages\" could force partial closures in school.\n\nBut a government spokeswoman said \"testing capacity is the highest it has ever been\".\n\nMr White, a West Sussex head teacher whose group grew out of a school funding campaign, has written to England's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to warn of disruption from delays in Covid testing.\n\nHe warns that efforts to get pupils back for the autumn term are being seriously undermined by a \"test and trace system that is simply not working effectively enough\".\n\nThe group of head teachers, across 75 local authorities, warns that schools are struggling to cope with teachers not being able to get quickly tested for Covid-19 and find out whether they can get back to the classroom.\n\nThe head teachers say this is leaving staff in isolation and \"out of action\".\n\nThe letter warns that schools need to help pupils catch up and get ready for exams next year - and instead the lack of staff could mean even more lost lesson time.\n\nPupils are back in schools but they face safety measures against the spread of Covid-19\n\nThey also warn this uncertainty about Covid cases could be further compounded by seasonal \"coughs and colds\" - and that urgent action is needed on testing, rather than \"vague promises\".\n\n\"It is beyond frustration that we are now seeing teachers and support staff being unable to attend work because they cannot get a test or the results from it are far too slow,\" said Mr White.\n\n\"Time after time, schools are doing their utmost to support the national effort and time after time, we are left confounded by a lack of effective support from government.\"\n\nTehmina Hashmi, head of Bradford Academy in West Yorkshire, who is supporting the letter, warns of the confusion facing her school community over testing.\n\n\"It feels really tense in Bradford,\" she says, with parents reporting they cannot get Covid tests.\n\nMs Hashmi says after working hard to get the school ready through the summer, there is great \"frustration\" at what she says has been \"inept leadership\" over Covid testing.\n\nLast week Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said teachers were struggling to get tests locally and were being directed to testing sites hundreds of miles away.\n\nAn academy trust leader has called for a more \"robust strategy\" to help schools facing Covid cases among pupils or staff - as more schools are going to face disruption.\n\nSteve Chalke, chief executive of the Oasis academy trust, said that several of the trust's school have already had to send home year groups, affecting about 1,200 pupils.\n\nHe says that Covid testing needed to be available on the school site and results needed to be turned around quickly - and that eventually there would need to be routine, daily testing.\n\nMr Chalke argued that it would be better to accept the need for a planned rota system, with pupils switching between school and online learning at home, rather than having a \"rotation system by default\" each time a case was discovered.\n\nHe is also calling for a more \"credible\" approach to how next year's exam season will operate in a fair way and wants a big increase in the pupil premium, which provides schools with extra funding for disadvantaged pupils.\n\nA government spokeswoman said that testing levels have increased - \"but we are seeing a significant demand for tests. It is vital that children and school staff only get a test if they develop coronavirus symptoms\".\n\n\"If a positive case is confirmed in a school, swift action is being taken to ask those who have been in close contact to self-isolate, and Public Health England's local health protection teams continue to support and advise schools in this situation,\" said the government spokeswoman.\n\n\"Children who are self-isolating will receive remote education. We will continue to work with schools to ensure all appropriate steps are taken to keep pupils and staff safe.\"", "Restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic mean there are hardly any boats and ferries around Hong Kong.\n\nThe vulnerable Chinese white dolphin is making a comeback as a result, with sightings up about 30%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel explains why \"mingling\" is against the latest Covid-19 restrictions\n\nFamilies stopping to talk in the street would be in breach of the rule of six restrictions, the home secretary has said.\n\nPriti Patel told the BBC that two families of four stopping for a chat on the way to the park was \"absolutely mingling\".\n\nShe said she would report her neighbours if they broke the rules.\n\nThe rules restrict indoor and outdoor gatherings in England and Scotland, and indoor groups in Wales.\n\nThe new measures mean police can break up groups larger than six, with fines of up to £3,200 if people flout the rules.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Patel said that two families of four stopping for a chat on the way to the park was \"absolutely mingling\".\n\n\"You have got to put this in the context of coronavirus and keeping distance, wearing masks,\" she said.\n\n\"The rule of six is about making sure that people are being conscientious and not putting other people's health at risk.\"\n\nThe home secretary added: \"Mingling is people coming together. That is my definition of mingling.\"\n\nWhen asked if she would call the police on her neighbours if they breached the new coronavirus rules, Ms Patel told BBC Breakfast: \"I don't spend my time looking into people's gardens.\"\n\nPressed further on the topic, she said anybody would want to \"take responsibility\" to help to stop the spread of the virus, adding that if she saw gatherings of more than six, \"clearly I would report that\".\n\nMs Patel's comments echo those made by Policing Minister Kit Malthouse, who suggested that people should ring the non-emergency 101 number if they had concerns that people were breaching the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 4 Today This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes as the national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales called for guidance over enforcement of the measures.\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Britain, John Apter said that police officers on the frontline were \"trying to interpret\" the rules, and were being accused of \"asking (people) to snitch on their neighbours\".\n\nHe added: \"Maybe we should have guidance, because we haven't had any yet.\"\n\nGovernment guidelines include exemptions for physical activities that can be done in groups of more than six, such as football, hockey and netball, as well as sailing, angling and polo.\n\nShooting - including hunting and paintball that requires a shotgun or firearms certificate licence - is also exempt as an organised sport.\n\nEarlier, Ms Patel defended the government's record on testing, following widespread reports of people struggling to get swabbed.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast the government was \"surging capacity\" where it was needed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Clearly there is much more work that needs to be undertaken with Public Health England and the actual public health bodies in those particular local areas, and as a government obviously we work with Public Health England to surge where there is demand in local hotspot areas.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the system is facing an \"enormous challenge\" after a \"sharp rise\" in people seeking a test. He said it would take a \"matter of weeks\" to resolve the problems.", "The film will chart Madonna's rise to fame \"in a man's world\"\n\nPop icon Madonna has announced she will direct a film about her own life and career.\n\nThe star is also co-writing the movie with Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno and Young Adult.\n\nThe script is expected to chart her rise from Michigan, to the slums of New York City, to global superstardom - via songs such as Like A Virgin and Vogue.\n\nThe star said the film would focus on music, adding: \"Music has kept me going and art has kept me alive.\"\n\nThe as-yet-untitled project will be Madonna's third as director after 2008's Filth and Wisdom and 2011's WE, which was based around King Edward VIII's affair with Wallis Simpson.\n\nThe latter film was panned by critics, and bombed at the box office, making just $2m (£1.5m) against a budget of $11m (£8.5m).\n\nHowever, rock and pop biopics are in the middle of a purple patch, with huge successes for Elton John's Rocketman and the Freddie Mercury film Bohemian Rhapsody, for which Rami Malek earned an Oscar.\n\nMadonna's entry to the genre will be made by Universal Pictures - which previously attracted the artist's anger by snapping up an unofficial script based on her life.\n\nMadonna is writing the script with Diablo Cody, with updates on Instagram\n\nNo casting or production timeline for the film has been announced, but the pop star has charted the early stages of scripting on her Instagram account.\n\nIn a Q&A with fans, she said the biopic would be about her \"struggle as an artist trying to survive in a man's world,\" adding that the journey covers a range of emotions: \"happy, sad, mad, crazy, good, bad and ugly\".\n\nShe added that the plot would address her relationship with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the fallout from her controversial Like A Prayer video and her experience filming Evita.\n\n\"I want to convey the incredible journey that life has taken me on as an artist, a musician, a dancer - a human being, trying to make her way in this world,\" Madonna said in a statement, confirming her directorial role.\n\n\"It's essential to share the roller coaster ride of my life with my voice and vision.\"\n\n\"There are so many untold and inspiring stories and who better to tell it than me?\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The new Wylfa power station would be built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nHitachi has said it has no plans to sell a Welsh nuclear power site to a Chinese corporation after comments by Donald Trump.\n\nThe US president was quoted by the Sunday Times warning it not to sell Wylfa, on Anglesey, \"to China\".\n\nWork on the £13bn project was put on hold last year because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK government.\n\nA Horizon Energy spokesman said: \"We don't comment on speculation.\n\n\"Our focus remains on securing the conditions necessary to restart this crucial project, which would bring transformative economic benefits to the region and play a huge role in helping deliver the UK's climate change commitments.\"\n\nHorizon is owned by Hitachi and was set to lead the project to build the site.\n\nWylfa was earmarked as having the potential to power up to five million homes, but the project was put on hold as the upfront costs rose.\n\nWith 9,000 workers ready for the construction phase, the decision in January 2019 was described as \"a tremendous blow\" by business leaders.\n\nWork on Wylfa was due to start in 2020\n\nThe Sunday Times report said China's General Nuclear Power Corporation was keen to buy the site as part of plans to build a fleet of nuclear reactors.\n\n\"We are not aware of any plans to sell the project to China,\" Hitachi told the Reuters news agency.\n\nThe Wylfa plant was due to be operational by the mid-2020s.", "Building Wylfa Newydd was due to being construction in 2020\n\n\"Arguably we have the best site in Europe here for new nuclear build.\"\n\nThat's how Horizon Nuclear Power described its base on Anglesey in an interview with BBC Wales back in 2016.\n\nThe geography was right, with a skilled local community that had grown up around the old Wylfa plant on hand.\n\nAs the name suggests - Wylfa Newydd, a 'new Wylfa' - was meant to mark the start of a fresh chapter for nuclear power generation on the island.\n\nIt was an important step too towards realising the UK government's ambition for a fleet of modern reactors to supply us with electricity for decades to come.\n\nAlways upbeat and outwardly confident, Horizon had celebrated many \"milestones\" since taking on the scheme in 2009 - licences to use the reactors approved, applications for environmental permits and planning permission submitted.\n\nBut in the energy industry, rumours began to swirl about its parent company - Japanese tech giant Hitachi's commitment to the project.\n\nFinding investors to fund the upfront costs - which in 2018 had reportedly doubled to £20bn for Wylfa and another plant at Oldbury in Gloucestershire - seemed to have become a step too far.\n\nAnd negotiations in Westminster around the price to be paid for power from the plant are yet to produce any firm commitments.\n\nMinisters wanted the subsidy to be less than was agreed for Hinkley Point C in Somerset - a deal that was heavily criticised for being too expensive.\n\nIt has also been reported that Brexit uncertainty and a growing aversion to nuclear in Japan following the Fukushima disaster in 2011 have played a part.\n\nAll the while, the cost of renewable technologies has continued to plummet, making nuclear power look less and less attractive.\n\nThe project's difficulties have led to calls for a review of the UK's energy policy from opposition parties and industry leaders.\n\nThe new station would be built close to the old nuclear power station at Cemaes, which stopped production in 2015\n\nControl over energy developments in Wales is split between the Welsh and Westminster governments.\n\nBut when it comes to a project this big - with a generating capacity of 2900 MW - ministers in London take the lead.\n\nThey could decide to offer a different funding mechanism, or invest in the plant themselves to try to get Hitachi back on board.\n\nTheir priority is to secure affordable energy supplies in years to come, while cutting carbon emissions, which are driving global climate change.\n\nSo coal-fired power stations - like Aberthaw in the Vale of Glamorgan - are set to close by 2025. Extending that deadline or reverting to more gas generation would be highly controversial.\n\nNuclear has been seen as important because it is predictable low-carbon power, constantly feeding the national grid unlike the fluctuating output of wind and solar.\n\nIt currently accounts for more than a fifth of electricity generated in the UK.\n\nThe plan had been for several new plants to come on stream by the mid 2030s.\n\nIt would have seen the red segment in the graph above swallowing up the dark green and grey areas representing fossil fuels - with the help of more renewables too.\n\nBut so far only one proposal - Hinkley Point C - has made it off the drawing board - with experts warning of a looming energy gap.\n\nIf traditional, big plants are too costly, proponents of small modular reactors - such as the one proposed for Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd - could see this as an opportunity.\n\nOthers will call for significant investment in renewables, as well as battery storage.\n\nLast year a 22MW battery was installed at the largest onshore windfarm in Wales and England at Pen-y-Cymoedd near Neath.\n\nThe Welsh Government - which has control over energy schemes of up to 350 MW - has said it wants to see 70% of Wales' electricity needs met by renewables by 2030.\n\nBut ultimately, it will be policies penned in Westminster that have the greatest influence on large-scale projects capable of delivering a significant percentage of the UK's energy supply.\n\nBrexit may be dominating debate at the moment, but where we get our power from in 10 to 20 years' time is another huge issue the UK government will need to find time - and energy - to address.", "Testing at a drive-in mobile unit in Rhondda Cynon Taf on Saturday\n\nSome mobile testing units will be run by the Welsh NHS in a bid to control potential outbreaks after UK lab issues, the health minister has said.\n\nOn Friday tests in Wales were capped after increased demand saw UK-wide issues.\n\nVaughan Gething said the issues could go on \"for weeks\" and Wales would not rely on the Lighthouse labs programme.\n\nBut Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said the issues came after a \"huge demand for tests\".\n\nThe mobile testing units are new, run under the Lighthouse labs partnership between the private sector and UK and devolved governments.\n\nEach unit can normally carry out around 300 tests a day - but high demand around the UK as cases have risen has meant a limit of 60 was set for each mobile unit in Wales by the UK government.\n\nCapacity problems at the labs have resulted in people being asked to travel long distances to access drive-through tests, with some people reported being offered tests more than 50 miles (80km) from their homes.\n\nA mobile testing unit was set up in Porth, Rhondda, on Thursday and moved to Clydach Vale at the weekend\n\nFollowing a local lockdown imposed in Caerphilly, officials were told this week they had just days to \"get on top of\" rising infections in Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT).\n\nBut on Friday, Council leader Andrew Morgan had said a \"huge effort\" would have to be made after the cap was introduced by the UK government.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Morgan confirmed that the area now had 300 drive through tests and 300 walk in tests available, following the limitations.\n\nDiscussions with the UK Government's Health Secretary Matt Hancock led to the limit being increased to 150 on Saturday before rising to 300 tests on Sunday.\n\nMr Morgan tweeted that \"Welsh agencies are using their capacity to boost numbers\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme Mr Gething said that the situation on Friday was \"unacceptable\" and lessons were being learnt rapidly.\n\n\"[These issues] are not going to be resolved for a period of weeks and we just can't have that position repeating itself several times over the next three weeks,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the Welsh Government had \"always wanted to build up have built up a significant NHS Wales testing capacity\", but that action was needed to safeguard Wales' resources.\n\n\"What I'm looking to do is to shift our mobile testing units, some of which are run through lighthouse labs where the tests are processed, and to try to move more of those to NHS Wales capacity, because that would mean we wouldn't have this problem,\" he said.\n\n\"If we have flare-ups and outbreaks or I need to put mobile testing resources in, we won't then rely on the lighthouse lab programme,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Welsh Secretary Simon Hart MP said problems were being caused by \"huge demand\" for tests and that \"things don't always go to plan\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme he said: \"I know that was a difficult, but short period.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for “urgent talks” to set up “new targeted support” when the furlough scheme ends\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to replace the furlough scheme and outlaw \"firing and re-hiring\" methods to avoid the \"scarring effect\" of \"mass unemployment\".\n\nAlmost 10 million workers have been furloughed since March but the scheme is set to end on 31 October.\n\nThe Labour leader made an \"open offer\" to work on a plan with the PM including targeted support for badly-hit sectors.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he would be \"creative\" in helping people find work.\n\nHe told Cabinet it was his \"top priority\", but said that \"indefinitely keeping people out of work is not the answer\".\n\nHowever, Employment Minister Mims Davies hinted there could be a more targeted approach when Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils his budget later in the year.\n\nShe said there would be \"sectors that take longer to come back\" from the pandemic, adding: \"I don't think this government is afraid of supporting where we can [and we] have fiscal events where the chancellor can start to look at that.\"\n\nSir Keir's speech at this year's Trades Union Congress' annual conference comes as the latest UK unemployment figures are released, showing the highest level for two years.\n\nThe unemployment rate grew to 4.1% in the three months to July - compared with 3.9% previously - with young people were particularly hard hit.\n\nSir Keir made the case for replacing the job retention scheme - also known as the furlough scheme - which was introduced to support employers and staff during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nUnder it, employees placed on leave due to virus restrictions have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nSince September, firms have had to start making a contribution to wages as part of the scheme winding down.\n\nThe government has been reluctant to extend the furlough scheme beyond October with Boris Johnson arguing that it would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nSpeaking to the conference via Zoom while isolating at home, Sir Keir said: \"We all know the furlough scheme can't go on as it is forever, but the truth is the virus is still with us and infections are increasing.\n\n\"It just isn't possible to get back to work or reopen businesses. It isn't a choice. It's the cold reality of this crisis.\n\n\"So it makes no sense at all for the government to pull support away now in one fell swoop.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said the government should hold urgent talks with his party, trade unions and businesses, and use a \"bit of imagination\" to create \"new targeted support that can replace the job retention scheme and develop those sectors where it is most needed\" - such as retail, hospitality and aviation.\n\n\"Imagine how powerful it would be if we all shared a national plan to protect jobs, create new ones and invest in skills and trade,\" he added.\n\n\"So I'm making an open offer to the prime minister: work with us to keep millions of people in work, work with the trade unions, work with businesses and do everything possible to protect jobs and deliver for workers. My door is open.\"\n\nPolitically, Keir Starmer's language was at least as interesting as his post-furlough policies.\n\nFirst, his call for a \"national plan\" and his offer of an \"open door\" to government.\n\nHe is attempting to appear as a consensus-builder, and placing responsibility for any lack of engagement on Boris Johnson.\n\nThis is felt to be a more effective tactic than unadulterated criticism - offering potential solutions as well as pointing out problems.\n\nIt has caused teeth-gnashing amongst some on his party's left, however.\n\nSecond, and perhaps more significantly, was the language he used to encase a commitment that Jeremy Corbyn could have made.\n\nThe re-hiring of employees on worse conditions was \"against British values\" and hit those who worked hard he said and should be banned.\n\nThis terminology is aimed at those residing amidst the ruins of the red wall, presenting left-wing positions that might appeal to them as \"patriotic\".\n\nThe question for the future is how far Keir Starmer will feel he has to change previous Labour policies rather than to re-badge them.\n\nOther proposals from Labour include expanding part-time working and rewarding employers who give people hours rather than cut jobs, and providing training and support for those who can't come back full-time.\n\n\"We know only too well the scarring effect massive mass unemployment will have on communities and families across the country,\" Sir Keir added.\n\n\"We cannot let that happen again.\"\n\nThe Labour leader praised trade unions as \"unsung heroes\" saying: \"Without you there would have been no furlough scheme, no life raft for seven million people.\"\n\nAnd he pledged to \"stand together\" with the unions under his leadership.\n\nDuring questions from union members, Sir Keir also called for a \"different approach\" to the care sector, which he said had been \"underpaid and undervalued\" for years.\n\nAnd asked about the return to workplaces, he criticised the government communications for \"being all over the place\" but said going back safely was \"in the best interest of everybody and in the best interests of the country\".", "The Unite union has called on the government to say it will extend its furlough scheme or face \"redundancy floodgates\" opening in the UK.\n\nMany workers can expect a \"miserable Christmas\" without targeted support for employers, the union warned.\n\nThe government's furlough programme will end on 31 October.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the government had \"not hesitated to act in creative and effective ways to support jobs and we will continue to do so\".\n\nWednesday marks 45 days before the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which is the same amount of time employers must give for notice of redundancy.\n\nThe call comes amid growing evidence that the winding down of the scheme is leading to more plans for job cuts.\n\nThe number of firms that notified the government in June about plans to cut 20 or more jobs was five times higher than in the same month last year, figures obtained by the BBC show.\n\nA Freedom of Information request shows that in June, 1,778 firms said they were intending to cut more than 139,000 jobs in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nIn total, nine million people have been furloughed for at least one three-week period since March,\n\nHowever, about 695,000 UK workers have gone from the payrolls of UK companies since then and it is feared that more will follow if the government stops paying to safeguard jobs.\n\nUnite said that without \"a clear and urgent sign\" from the government that it was responding to calls to extend the scheme, it feared that \"employers facing short-term struggles will issue redundancy notices\".\n\nThe government has been urged by MPs, business groups, unions and political opponents to continue the furlough programme, in which workers placed on leave receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThe scheme, which has cost more than £35bn, was initially funded by the government, but firms started to contribute to wages in September after the scheme began to wind down.\n\nLast week, the Treasury Select Committee said the government should consider a targeted extension of the scheme.\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey said a signal from the government would \"put a floor under struggling employers who are working hard to stabilise in the face of immense challenges\".\n\n\"With our competitor nations announcing the extension or modification of their jobs retention schemes, we ask that your government recognises the need for UK businesses and workers to receive similar support,\" Mr McCluskey wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nA spokeswoman said Unite wanted to see support for sectors including manufacturing, aviation infrastructure, aerospace and hospitality.\n\nThe government has repeatedly rebuffed the calls for an extension to the scheme, saying that it has served its purpose in cushioning the economy during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said his priority is to find new ways to protect jobs.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"The furlough scheme has done what it was designed to do - save jobs and help people back into employment.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government had made \"unprecedented interventions\", including firms being given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still employed in January, business rates holidays, VAT cuts and the Kickstart scheme, which gives young people jobs experience.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miliband to Johnson: \"He hasn't read the bill\"\n\nA proposed law giving Boris Johnson's government the power to override parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU has passed its first hurdle in the Commons.\n\nMPs backed the Internal Market Bill by 340 votes to 263.\n\nMinisters say it contains vital safeguards to protect Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, if negotiations on a future trade deal break down.\n\nBut critics, including a number of Tory MPs, warned it risks damaging the UK by breaching international law.\n\nTwo Tory MPs voted against the bill on Monday night - Sir Roger Gale and Andrew Percy - while a further 30 abstained, although some of those may not have been for political reasons.\n\nAlthough the government has a majority of 80 in the Commons, it is braced for further rebellions in the coming weeks as the legislation receives detailed scrutiny.\n\nSeveral prominent Conservatives, including former Chancellor Sajid Javid - who appeared to abstain on Monday - have said they could not support the final bill unless it is amended.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel insisted it put the \"safeguards and mechanisms in place to ensure that we stay true to the people of Northern Ireland\".\n\nSir Roger Gale, the Tory MP for North Thanet in Kent, told the BBC's Newsnight he had voted against the bill as a \"matter of principle\" to uphold international law.\n\n\"I think that this is damaging our international reputation for honest and straight-dealing at a time when we are about to embark on a series of trade negotiations. I took a view that you fight this tooth and nail at every step.\"\n\nHe suggested other colleagues were \"holding their fire\" until later in the bill's passage, with a group led by ex-minister Sir Bob Neill pressing for a \"parliamentary lock\" on the government's ability to exercise the powers.\n\n\"I'm not remotely surprised that I am a tiny minority. I think that may change next Tuesday,\" he added.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, former Conservative leader Lord Hague also warned against breaching international law, saying it would be \"a serious foreign policy error\".\n\n\"It would have a lasting and damaging effect on our international reputation and standing, diminishing our ability to exert our influence and protect our interests.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government was still working closely with the EU to \"settle on our future relationship\".\n\nBut she defended the bill, saying it stood by the party's manifesto commitments from the 2019 election to \"ensure peace, security and good governance for the whole of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union on 1 January.\n\nBut, controversially, it gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally-binding deal governing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say this is a failsafe mechanism in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the Northern Ireland Protocol designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way.\n\nBoris Johnson's government has a hefty majority. It was never going to lose Monday night's vote in the Commons.\n\nDowning Street calculates that most of the public won't pay that much attention to yet more Westminster argy-bargy about the Brexit process.\n\nIn turn, many Tory MPs are sure that the wrangling over the UK Internal Market Bill won't filter through to their constituents.\n\nAnd where it does, they would much more likely take the side of the government taking a tough line with the EU than share the concerns of former prime ministers or august lawyers foaming about the government's behaviour.\n\nAnd yet - first off, to state the obvious, opposition from former occupants of No 10, former chancellors and former cabinet ministers is not exactly a sign of peace and harmony.\n\nBut the resistance to No 10 goes beyond the usual suspects this time.\n\nDuring a five-hour debate, Mr Johnson claimed the EU's current approach could lead to excessive checks and even tariffs on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said the bill would ensure the UK's \"economic and political integrity\", accusing the EU of making unfair demands to \"exert leverage\" in the trade talks - including a threat to block food exports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\"\n\nBut ministers also said they would listen to concerns, insisting that the powers being sought would only be used if other legal avenues had been exhausted and only if MPs explicitly voted to activate them.\n\nA government spokesman said it was vital the bill - which is expected to face stern opposition in the House of Lords - becomes law by the end of the year when EU law will cease to have effect in the UK.\n\n\"It will protect the territorial integrity of the UK and the peace in Northern Ireland, safeguarding trade and jobs across all four corners of the UK following the end of the transition period,\" he said.\n\nThe PM also held a call with Conservative members of the House of Lords on Monday night.\n\nLabour said the PM was reneging on a deal he himself signed earlier this year, and on which Conservative MPs campaigned in the 2019 election, and was \"trashing\" the UK's reputation.\n\nBut the Commons also voted against a Labour amendment to reject the bill entirely by 349 votes to 213.\n\nMPs will now begin detailed scrutiny of the bill on Tuesday with Conservative MPs seeking further assurances that the UK will not betray its treaty obligations.", "Sportswear firm Nike has seen a huge rise in online sales as it bounces back from a coronavirus slump.\n\nThe US company saw digital sales rocket 82% during the June to August quarter, offsetting falling revenue in its stores.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nike posted revenue of $10.6bn (£8.3bn) as many of its key markets recovered including China.\n\nFor its previous quarter revenues were down by more than a third as it tackled store closures and lockdowns globally.\n\nNike chief executive John Donahoe said the shift to online sales could be a permanent trend.\n\n\"We know that digital is the new normal. The consumer today is digitally grounded and simply will not revert back,\" Mr Donahoe said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike Martin led the Guildford Heat to becoming one of the most successful teams in the UK\n\nSales are growing in its major markets including China, Japan, South Korea and the UK, while its core North American market is declining.\n\nNike's shares rose more than 10% in late trading in the US, as the results were better than Wall Street had expected.\n\nNike has been using its website and shopping apps to release limited edition footwear.\n\nThe sportswear giant has been transforming itself to sell directly to customers over the past few years, reducing its store presence and retail partners.\n\nWhile many gyms have been closed during the pandemic, sportswear makers have reported strong demand for more casual attire as more people work and exercise at home.\n\nRival Adidas said last month that it was seeing improving sales trends while yoga pants maker Lululemon posted a 157% jump in its online business.\n\nLike many other retailers, Nike is still limiting the number of people who can come into its stores at once to try to help curb the spread of the virus.\n\nBut when people do visit, they're coming with the intent to buy, Nike said.", "The Treasury has scrapped plans for an Autumn Budget this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"As we heard this week, now is not the right time to outline long-term plans - people want to see us focused on the here and now,\" the Treasury said.\n\n\"So we are confirming today that there will be no Budget this autumn.\"\n\nThere will however be a spending review to set out the overall shape of government spending, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg reported.\n\nTypically, the government outlines the state of the country's finances in the Budget and, crucially, proposes tax changes.\n\nBut any such decisions will now be put on hold until next year. Instead, the government will reveal how much each department is allowed to spend.\n\nA Treasury source told the BBC: \"No-one wanted to be in this situation but we need to respond to it.\n\n\"The chancellor has shown he has been creative in the past and we hope that people will trust us to continue in that vein.\"\n\nThe source said that \"giving people reassurance and businesses the help they need\" was \"uppermost\" in the chancellor's mind.\n\nAnother source said that \"jobs, jobs, jobs\", have always been the chancellor's priority.\n\nThe decision to scrap the Budget comes as no surprise, according to Genevieve Morris head of corporate tax at accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg.\n\n\"It would have been difficult for the chancellor to announce tax changes in the autumn which are aimed at recouping the costs of the pandemic, whilst the country is still in the grip of a second wave,\" she said.\n\n\"What we need from the chancellor now is a promise that there will not be overnight tax changes announced in the autumn, or reforms which put additional burden on individuals and businesses.\"\n\nNews of the decision to cancel the Budget came just hours after Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he would unveil his \"winter economy plan\".\n\n\"As our response to coronavirus adapts, tomorrow afternoon I will update the House of Commons on our plans to continue protecting jobs through the winter,\" he tweeted on Wednesday.\n\nThe chancellor has been facing mounting pressure to say what will happen after the government's furlough scheme expires at the end of October.", "The governor of the Bank of England has called for the government to \"stop and rethink\" the furlough scheme.\n\nThe Job Retention Scheme is due to finish at the end of next month.\n\nBut speaking on a webinar hosted by the British Chambers of Commerce, Andrew Bailey suggested specific sectors may benefit from further help.\n\nThere are fears unemployment could spike when the furlough scheme ends, as firms struggle to retain workers.\n\nIn August, Mr Bailey told the BBC he backed ending the scheme, saying workers should be helped to move on rather than stay in unproductive jobs.\n\nBut on Tuesday, he suggested he was now open-minded about further intervention.\n\nHe said the furlough scheme \"has been successful\" and that he supported the chancellor's decisions, not wanting to \"tie his hands\".\n\nBut he added: \"We have moved from a world of generalised employment protections, to specific and focused areas.\"\n\nMr Bailey noted that at the peak of the crisis, about 30% of private sector employers were using the furlough scheme, but it was now used most heavily by industries such as hospitality, retail and culture.\n\n\"[Furlough] has helped manage the shock, to firms and to labour [but now] the use of it, as far as we can tell, is more concentrated,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it is therefore sensible to stop and rethink the approach going forward, without any commitment to what that might be.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn and Beefeater, announced plans to cut 6,000 staff just days after the furlough scheme is due to end in October. Meanwhile, Wetherspoon said it would shed up to 450 workers at pubs in airports.\n\nAnd Mr Bailey's comments were made just hours before the Prime Minister Boris Johnson took to his feet in the Commons to reinstate guidance that office workers stay at home and confirm that pubs and restaurants will be forced to close at 22:00 from Thursday.\n\nUK Hospitality said the move was \"effectively a lockdown\" for city centre bars and restaurants.\n\n\"This is a huge, huge blow to hospitality and it will be potentially fatal for many businesses,\" it said.\n\nMr Bailey's comments echo the opinion of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who has called on the government not to remove all support in one go.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says he would not “be doing a hypothetical for what would happen after May”.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out the possibility of supporting a second referendum on Scottish independence in the long term.\n\nBut he told the BBC a vote like the one held in 2014 was \"not needed\" soon and the focus should be on \"rebuilding\" the economy and services after coronavirus.\n\nHis party would not campaign for a referendum in next May's Scottish Parliament elections, he added.\n\nThe SNP government in Scotland wants to hold one as soon as possible.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Keir also said Labour would \"betray\" voters \"if we don't take more seriously winning elections and actually changing lives\".\n\nAnd he argued Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not have \"the right character\" to deal with the challenges posed by the pandemic.\n\nWhen Scotland's voters were asked in a referendum in 2014 whether the country should become independent, 55% said no.\n\nBut the SNP has campaigned for a second poll since the UK's 2016 decision - in the Brexit referendum - to leave the EU.\n\nIt says the difference between the UK-wide result and that in Scotland - which chose by 62% to 38% to remain within the bloc - strengthens the case for independence.\n\nIt has also been suggested that, following the next UK general election, expected in 2024, Labour could need the support of the SNP if it wants to form a government. This might, it is added, require a deal on having another referendum.\n\nSir Keir said: \"We will be going into that election in May making it very clear that another divisive referendum on independence in Scotland is not what is needed.\n\n\"What is needed is an intense focus on rebuilding the economy, on making sure public services are rebuilt as well and dealing with the pandemic.\"\n\nPressed on what would happen after May, Sir Keir said: \"We don't know... In politics, people tell you with great certainty what is going to happen next year and the year after, but it doesn't always turn out that way.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am setting out the argument we will make into May. I am not doing a hypothetical of what will happen after that.\"\n\nThe Scottish government, led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, had hoped to hold an independence referendum during the current term of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHowever, ministers wanted to secure an agreement with the UK government to make sure any vote would be legally watertight, something Mr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to.\n\nWork on preparations for a ballot was paused after coronavirus hit, but the Scottish government has promised to set out plans in a draft bill.\n\nLabour, once dominant in Scotland, currently has 23 Members of the Scottish Parliament, putting it third behind the SNP, on 61, and the Conservatives, on 31.\n\nSpeaking for the UK government, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove raised doubts about the Labour leader's comments, saying: \"Sir Keir Starmer has a problem accepting referendum results.\n\n\"He tried to block Brexit, and now he wants to work with Nicola Sturgeon to renege on the Scottish referendum result and break up the UK.\"\n\nSir Keir replaced Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in April, following the party's worst general election result - in terms of seats - since 1935.\n\nRecent UK opinion polls have suggested support for the party under his stewardship is now close to that for Mr Johnson's Conservatives.\n\nBut some trade unions, including Unite and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), have raised concerns over Sir Keir's leadership.\n\nThe FBU has warned him not to \"water down\" pledges on workers' rights and the environment that he made when running for the job.\n\nIn his speech on Monday to Labour's annual conference, Sir Keir told his party to \"get serious about winning\".\n\nSpeaking to Laura Kuenssberg, he said: \"When you lose four elections in a row, you have lost the chance to change lives for the better and we have gifted the Tories a decade or more of power. That is not what the Labour Party is there for.\"\n\nHe also said: \"The Labour Party's historic mission was to represent working people in Parliament and to form governments to change lives, and we betray that if we don't take more seriously winning elections and actually changing lives.\"", "A true icon of the French chanson, Juliette Gréco, has died aged 93 after a fabled career that spanned eight decades.\n\nBorn in 1927, Gréco was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War Two, but afterwards began performing in cellar clubs and cafes.\n\nDressed in black, she became a muse to philosophers and writers including Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.\n\nShe only stopped performing aged 89 after a farewell tour.\n\nGréco was also a celebrated actor, working with some of cinema's greats, such as Jean Cocteau and Ingrid Bergman, Orson Welles and Ava Gardner.\n\nIn France she achieved great success in the mid-1960s, playing the role of a schizophrenic in the spooky TV miniseries Belphégor.\n\nShe sang with Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens. Her haunting rendition of Sous le ciel de Paris (Under Paris Skies) is one of the classics of the French chanson.\n\nGréco's career began in the late 1940s but continued until 2016\n\nBut she was loved internationally too, from Germany to Japan and beyond. In 1967, she sang in front of 60,000 people in Berlin and in 2005 released an album of songs in German.\n\nShe was married three times but also had a long affair with jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.\n\nWhat was it about Gréco that makes her death touch us so deeply, asked Le Monde. Her voice, elegance, power, and flying, spinning hands, it said.\n\nGréco was less a composer than a great interpreter of other people's songs.\n\nThe French newspaper, Libération, said she spat and caressed \"the words like a Fauvist painter crushes colours onto his canvas with his knife\".\n\nSi Tu T'imagines, Parlez-moi d`Amour and Je Suis Comme Je Suis were the big hits of the early years. Later, there were collaborations with Serge Gainsbourg too.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's home match against Arsenal has been brought forward by 15 minutes, with all midweek Premier League games to finish before the new UK pub curfew.\n\nThe game at Anfield on Monday will now kick off at 20:00 BST.\n\nThe other match taking place that evening - Fulham against Aston Villa - has also been brought forward by 15 minutes to 17:45.\n\nThey are the last midweek fixtures in September, with none yet to be scheduled for October.\n\nThe Premier League has also announced that every game over the weekend of 3-5 October will be shown live on Sky Sports or BT Sport.\n\nAll the matches that weekend will now be behind closed doors after the UK government scrapped plans to allow spectators to return to sports venues on a socially distanced basis from 1 October.\n• None Amazing recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank", "The Prime Minister defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of “losing control of testing” and “losing control of the virus”.\n\nHe said the prime minister was “really out of touch” with what parents were experiencing when trying to get coronavirus tests for their children.\n\nThe prime minister said it was an “epidemical fact” that the virus spreads person to person and that testing capacity was at “at a record high”.\n\nHe said Sir Keir should stop knocking the testing regime “from the side lines” as it was important to “encourage people to believe in it.”\n\nBoth the Labour leader and the SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on the government to extend the furlough scheme beyond October.\n\nIan Blackford said workers were “facing the dogs” if the scheme wasn’t extended.\n\nAnd Labour backbencher Grahame Morris said there would be a “tsunami of job losses” if a targeted expansion wasn’t brought it.\n\nMr Johnson said the government would “bring forward creative and imaginative schemes to keep the economy going” and “keep them in work”.\n\nHe said the “essence” of what the government was doing was to “depress the virus, keep pupils in school, keep economy going”", "China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping has announced.\n\nMr Xi outlined the steps when speaking via videolink to the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nThe announcement is being seen as a significant step in the fight against climate change.\n\nChina is the world's biggest source of carbon dioxide, responsible for around 28% of global emissions.\n\nWith global climate negotiations stalled and this year's conference of the parties (COP26) postponed until 2021, there had been little expectation of progress on the issue at the UN General Assembly.\n\nHowever China's president surprised the UN gathering by making a bold statement about his country's plans for tackling emissions.\n\nHe called on all countries to achieve a green recovery for the world economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to the official translation, Mr Xi went on to say:\n\n\"We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.\"\n\nUntil now China has said it would peak its emissions by 2030 at the latest, but it has avoided committing to a long-term goal.\n\nEmissions from China continued to rise in 2018 and 2019 even as much of the world began to shift away from fossil fuels.\n\nWhile the Covid-19 crisis this spring saw the country's emissions plunge by 25%, by June they had bounced back again as coal-fired plants, cement and other heavy industries went back to work.\n\nIn 2014 the US and China reached a surprise agreement on climate change\n\nObservers believe that in making this statement at this time, the Chinese leader is taking advantage of US reluctance to address the climate question.\n\n\"Xi Jinping's climate pledge at the UN, minutes after President Donald Trump's speech, is clearly a bold and well calculated move,\" said Li Shuo, an expert on Chinese climate policy from Greenpeace Asia.\n\n\"It demonstrates Xi's consistent interest in leveraging the climate agenda for geopolitical purposes.\"\n\nBack in 2014 Mr Xi and then US-President Barack Obama came to a surprise agreement on climate change, which became a key building block of the Paris agreement signed in December 2015.\n\nMr Xi has again delivered a surprise according to Li Shuo.\n\n\"By playing the climate card a little differently, Xi has not only injected much needed momentum to global climate politics, but presented an intriguing geopolitical question in front of the world: on a global common issue, China has moved ahead regardless of the US. Will Washington follow?\"\n\nThere are many questions about the announcement that remain unanswered, including what is meant exactly by carbon neutrality and what actions the country will take to get there.\n\n\"Today's announcement by President Xi Jinping that China intends to reach carbon neutrality before 2060 is big and important news - the closer to 2050 the better,\" said former US climate envoy Todd Stern.\n\n\"His announcement that China will start down this road right away by adopting more vigorous policies is also welcome. Simply peaking emissions 'before 2030' won't be enough to put China on the rapid path needed for carbon neutrality, but overall this is a very encouraging step.\"\n\nThis week has seen the second lowest Arctic sea ice minimum on record\n\nMost observers agreed that the announcement from China was a significant step, not least because of the country's role in financing fossil fuel development around the world.\n\n\"China isn't just the world's biggest emitter but the biggest energy financier and biggest market, so its decisions play a major role in shaping how the rest of the world progresses with its transition away from the fossil fuels that cause climate change,\" said Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), a UK-based think tank.\n\n\"The announcement today is also a major fillip for the European Union, whose leaders recently urged President Xi to take exactly this step as part of a joint push on lowering emissions, showing that international moves to curb climate change remain alive despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and [Brazil's president] Jair Bolsonaro in the run-up to next year's COP26 in Glasgow.\"", "Scotland recorded 486 new positive coronavirus tests which represented the biggest single day's number since mass testing began.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the figures were concerning, and underlined why new restrictions had been imposed.\n\nBut she acknowledged many more people were being tested now than at the peak of the outbreak in mid-April.\n\nMs Sturgeon said 224 of the new cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, with 107 in Lanarkshire and 57 in Lothian.\n\nThe number of positive tests was 103 higher than the figure recorded on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in Scotland to 25,495.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the number in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area included a \"significant\" outbreak at Glasgow University.\n\nTesting strategy has changed radically in Scotland since the peak of the outbreak and there is now widespread community testing, including near to university campuses.\n\nOn 15 April, 1,209 people were tested, but six times that number were being tested by mid-September.\n\nFrom Wednesday, people across Scotland were banned from visiting other people's homes, with Ms Sturgeon warning that the virus risks \"spiralling out of control\" unless urgent action is taken.\n\nThe move, which had already been in force in Glasgow and other areas of the west of Scotland, means the country has tougher coronavirus restrictions than England, where people can can still meet in groups of up to six in a house.\n\nScotland, like England, will also impose a 10pm curfew on pubs and restaurants from Friday - which the trade has warned could cost jobs and force some premises to close completely.\n\nScotland is currently carrying out about 10 times more tests every day than it was at the height of the outbreak in April.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing on Wednesday, the first minister said: \"The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 486 - that is the highest number of positive cases we have ever recorded in a single day.\n\n\"It must be remembered that many more people are being tested now than was the case in the spring.\n\n\"Nevertheless, today's number represents 7.8% of people newly tested. That is obviously a real cause for concern, but it also underlines why we took very decisive and very tough action yesterday.\"\n\nMany pub and restaurant owners have criticised plan to impose a 10pm curfew from Friday\n\nMs Sturgeon also hinted that she would have taken tougher action on pubs than a 10pm curfew if she had \"the ability to bring more financial firepower to mitigate the jobs and economic impact\".\n\nBut Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross accused her of \"making the usual, tired political points\", adding: \"The middle of the pandemic is the wrong time to raise long-standing constitutional grievances.\"\n\nThe BBC understands UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is looking at options to replace the furlough scheme when it expires at the end of October.\n\nMs Sturgeon had said at the end of June that she believed Scotland was \"not far away\" from eliminating the virus.\n\nOn Wednesday, she said she could understand why many people felt like the country was now \"back to square one\" after the new nationwide restriction on visiting other homes was imposed.\n\nShe said this was \"emphatically not the case\", despite the recent resurgence in cases.\n\nThe first minister said: \"For a start, the action we took to suppress the virus over the summer meant that we have faced this resurgence from a lower base.\n\n\"That matters, and it is entirely thanks to the lockdown restrictions and all of the individual sacrifices that everyone has made.\"\n\nShe said the rise in the number of cases was accelerating, but was still \"not as rapid\" as earlier in the year.\n\nA protest against the continuing closure of soft play facilities across Scotland was held outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday\n\nAnd she insisted that the country's test and protect contact tracing system was \"working well\" and was succeeding in breaking transmission chains.\n\nHowever, Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon said the system had struggled to cope when schools returned in August, and said there was still not enough routine testing in hospitals, care homes and schools.\n\nShe also called for routine testing to be done in universities, adding: \"I think we have to be much more ambitious on testing in Scotland and right across the UK.\"\n\nMs Lennon said: \"We are still not testing enough. What we need to see in the coming days and weeks is mass testing being rolled out.\n\n\"We are in react mode and we didn't have the foresight to put measures in place\".\n\nAll 500 students at Parker House in Dundee are self-isolating\n\nSeveral universities across Scotland have been dealing with outbreaks of the virus in recent days - with 500 students at a hall of residence in Dundee being told to self-isolate after a positive case and several suspected cases emerged.\n\nIn a direct appeal to students, Ms Sturgeon said they must follow the rules on self-isolating if told to do so.\n\nAnd she said the government would not hesitate to toughen the rules for colleges and universities if necessary.\n\nIt later emerged that 124 students at the University of Glasgow had tested positive since the start of term, with social interaction in Freshers Week thought to be largely to blame.", "John Lennon would have been 80 on 9 October\n\nFor the first time, Sean Ono Lennon has interviewed Sir Paul McCartney about his relationship with his father, John.\n\n\"I look back on it now like a fan,\" says Sir Paul of meeting Lennon.\n\n\"How lucky was I to meet this strange Teddy Boy off the bus, who played music like I did and we get together and boy, we complemented each other!\"\n\nThe discussion will be part of a special two-part Radio 2 programme, John Lennon at 80, marking what would have been the late Beatle's birthday.\n\nDuring the chat, Sir Paul also plays one of the first ever Lennon-McCartney songs, Just Fun.\n\nWritten as the teenagers played truant from school, it has never been officially recorded - although a snippet was previously heard in the Beatles' Let It Be movie.\n\nSpeaking to Sean, Sir Paul admitted his first attempts at writing with John \"weren't very good\".\n\n\"Eventually, we started to write slightly better songs and then enjoyed the process of learning together so much that it really took off.\"\n\nThe documentary will also feature interviews with Sean's half-brother, Julian, and his godfather Sir Elton John.\n\nRadio 2 boss Helen Thomas said: \"John Lennon is one of the Radio 2 audience's most popular and best-loved musicians, so we're thrilled and honoured that Sean's first ever radio programme in which he talks at length about his father, alongside his brother Julian, Paul McCartney and Elton John, will be broadcast on our network.\"\n\nThe programmes will be available on 3 and 4 October, ahead of Lennon's birthday on 9 October.\n\nThe star was shot dead outside his New York apartment in 1980. Earlier this week, it emerged that his killer, Mark Chapman, had apologised to Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, at a parole hearing in August.\n\n\"I just want to reiterate that I'm sorry for my crime,\" Chapman told the parole board at the Wende Correctional Facility in New York.\n\n\"It was an extremely selfish act. I'm sorry for the pain that I caused to her [Ono]. I think about it all of the time.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has used a national TV address to urge the public to \"summon the discipline and the resolve\" to follow the new coronavirus rules announced on Tuesday. This is his statement in full:\n\n\"Good evening, the struggle against Covid is the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime.\n\nIn less than a year this disease has killed almost a million people, and caused havoc to economies everywhere.\n\nHere in the UK we mourn every person we have lost, and we grieve with their families.\n\nAnd yet I am more certain than ever that this is a struggle that humanity will win, and we in this country will win - and to achieve what we must I want to talk to you directly tonight about the choices that we face - none of them easy - and why we must take action now.\n\nI know that we can succeed because we have succeeded before.\n\nWhen the sickness took hold in this country in March, we pulled together in a spirit of national sacrifice and community. We followed the guidance to the letter. We stayed at home, protected the NHS, and saved thousands of lives.\n\nAnd for months with those disciplines of social distancing we have kept that virus at bay.\n\nBut we have to acknowledge this is a great and freedom-loving country; and while the vast majority have complied with the rules there have been too many breaches - too many opportunities for our invisible enemy to slip through undetected.\n\nThe virus has started to spread again in an exponential way. Infections are up, hospital admissions are climbing.\n\nWe can see what is happening in France and Spain, and we know, alas, that this virus is no less fatal than it was in the spring, and that the vast majority of our people are no less susceptible, and the iron laws of geometrical progression are shouting at us from the graphs that we risk many more deaths, many more families losing loved ones before their time.\n\nAnd I know that faced with that risk the British people will want their government to continue to fight to protect them, you, and that is what we are doing, night and day.\n\nAnd yet the single greatest weapon we bring to this fight is the common sense of the people themselves - the joint resolve of this country to work together to suppress Covid now.\n\nSo today I set out a package of tougher measures in England - early closing for pubs, bars; table service only; closing businesses that are not Covid secure; expanding the use of face coverings, and new fines for those that fail to comply; and once again asking office workers to work from home if they can while enforcing the rule of six indoors and outdoors - a tougher package of national measures combined with the potential for tougher local restrictions for areas already in lockdown.\n\nI know that this approach - robust but proportionate - already carries the support of all the main parties in Parliament.\n\nAfter discussion with colleagues in the devolved administrations, I believe this broad approach is shared across the whole UK.\n\nAnd to those who say we don't need this stuff, and we should leave people to take their own risks, I say these risks are not our own.\n\nThe tragic reality of having Covid is that your mild cough can be someone else's death knell.\n\nAnd as for the suggestion that we should simply lock up the elderly and the vulnerable - with all the suffering that would entail - I must tell you that this is just not realistic, because if you let the virus rip through the rest of the population it would inevitably find its way through to the elderly as well, and in much greater numbers.\n\nThat's why we need to suppress the virus now, and as for that minority who may continue to flout the rules, we will enforce those rules with tougher penalties and fines of up to £10,000. We will put more police out on the streets and use the army to backfill if necessary.\n\nAnd of course I am deeply, spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe anyone's freedom, but unless we take action the risk is that we will have to go for tougher measures later, when the deaths have already mounted and we have a huge caseload of infection such as we had in the spring.\n\nIf we let this virus get out of control now, it would mean that our NHS had no space - once again - to deal with cancer patients and millions of other non-Covid medical needs.\n\nAnd if we were forced into a new national lockdown, that would threaten not just jobs and livelihoods but the loving human contact on which we all depend.\n\nIt would mean renewed loneliness and confinement for the elderly and vulnerable, and ultimately it would threaten once again the education of our children. We must do all we can to avoid going down that road again.\n\nBut if people don't follow the rules we have set out, then we must reserve the right to go further.\n\nWe must take action now because a stitch in time saves nine; and this way we can keep people in work, we can keep our shops and our schools open, and we can keep our country moving forward while we work together to suppress the virus.\n\nThat is our strategy, and if we can follow this package together, then I know we can succeed because in so many ways we are better prepared than before.\n\nWe have the PPE, we have the beds, we have the Nightingales, we have new medicines - pioneered in this country - that can help save lives.\n\nAnd though our doctors and our medical advisers are rightly worried about the data now, and the risks over winter, they are unanimous that things will be far better by the spring, when we have not only the hope of a vaccine, but one day soon - and I must stress that we are not there yet - of mass testing so efficient that people will be able to be tested in minutes so they can do more of the things they love.\n\nThat's the hope; that's the dream. It's hard, but it's attainable, and we are working as hard as we can to get there.\n\nBut until we do, we must rely on our willingness to look out for each other, to protect each other. Never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our individual behaviour.\n\nIf we follow these simple rules together, we will get through this winter together. There are unquestionably difficult months to come.\n\nAnd the fight against Covid is by no means over. I have no doubt, however, that there are great days ahead.\n\nBut now is the time for us all to summon the discipline, and the resolve, and the spirit of togetherness that will carry us through.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"These are animals that are in danger,\" says a sanctuary volunteer\n\nA tortoise sanctuary has said it has received hundreds of phone calls from owners concerned local lockdowns will affect their pets' hibernation.\n\nEach winter about 200 tortoises hibernate at The International Tortoise Association's temperature-controlled facility in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nBut the charity said about a third of its 500 members live in areas facing restrictions, so were unable to travel.\n\n\"These are animals that are in danger,\" a volunteer said.\n\nSix counties in Wales - Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport are in lockdown, meaning people cannot enter or leave the counties without a reasonable excuse.\n\nThe charity's founder Ann Ovenstone said: \"They have to get them down to us to put them into hibernation, obviously, because the weather is totally unsuitable in most of Wales.\n\n\"So with all these counties that are now closed down, we will be a little bit worried that they won't be able to bring their tortoise down.\"\n\nVolunteer Celia Claypole has been fielding calls from owners\n\nVolunteer Celia Claypole said: \"We're having calls all the time with these people ringing worried that are they going be able to get to us.\n\n\"Are we going to be locked down? What's going to happen with their tortoise for the winter?\n\n\"These animals are due to go into hibernation and it's something that has to happen.\n\n\"It isn't more important than the health issue that is going on, but it is adding to the stress.\"\n\nTortoises can live to be more than 150 years old\n\nHibernation is vital for most tortoises due to their need to supplement their body with warm air in summer months - the cold-blooded creatures cannot regulate their own body temperature, so their metabolism slows in the colder months.\n\nWith climate conditions in the UK lower than those of tortoises' native habitats, some owners use carefully temperature-regulated environments, such as the Sully sanctuary, to store their hibernating pet over winter at the optimum temperature.\n\nAnn Ovenstone is concerned for the tortoises which would usually stay at the sanctuary during hibernation\n\nWelsh Government guidance published following the latest round of Covid-19 restrictions makes it clear that travel to collect or drop off a pet is not considered essential.\n\nHowever, there is provision for travel in cases of animal welfare but that has given the sanctuary's volunteers little comfort.\n\n\"We have tried to research to find out if we are coming under the category of an emergency,\" Ms Claypole said\n\n\"The way we look at it, these are animals that are in danger\".", "JavaScript seems to be disabled. Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer.", "Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are interested in investing in Wrexham, the club have announced.\n\nDeadpool and Detective Pikachu star Reynolds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's McElhenney will share their vision for the club with members at a special general meeting (SGM).\n\nThe fan-owned club's members have voted overwhelmingly for talks to proceed.\n\nAny potential takeover could lead to £2m being invested in the club, which has been in fan ownership since 2011.\n\nA total of 1,223 Wrexham Supporters Trust members - over 95% of those asked - voted for the move and 31 against at a special general meeting on Tuesday.\n\nTrust director Spencer Harris, who expects a further vote from fans on the outline of the deal \"in weeks rather than months\", told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast the deal is in its early stages, but he has known the identity of the would-be backers for some time.\n\n\"We've known for a little while, but we wanted to come as early as we could in the process to involve supporters,\" Harris told the programme.\n\n\"As everybody knows we are community owned and therefore this has become public knowledge a little bit earlier than it would in any other normal circumstance, but yeah it's out there now so people know all about it.\n\n\"We started talking through representatives of theirs, talking about the club, and we're now in a position where we are able, following the SGM on Tuesday night, to get into detailed discussions about what a takeover deal could look like.\n\n\"There is some way to go and at the end of the day it will be the supporters who decide what the future direction of the club will be.\"\n\nMr Reynolds, who was among the world's highest paid actors this year after appearing in the Netflix films 6 Underground and Red Notice, has been a shareholder in Aviation American Gin since 2018.\n\nIn August 2020 drinks giant Diageo bought Aviation American, along with three other spirits, as part of a $610m (£460m) deal.\n\nHarris has been impressed by their enthusiasm and approach to a possible takeover of the National League club.\n\n\"I've spoken to both of them several times,\" Harris explained.\n\n\"They are very serious, professional and successful people, not just as actors but in the business world as well and this is a very serious endeavour for them and they'll set out their vision in due course, but I know they are very passionate about this and have gone into a lot of depth to understand about the football club.\"\n\nSo far it is unclear why the Hollywood 'A-listers' are interested in a fifth-tier UK football club in north Wales.\n\n\"I think that's a question for them in good time,\" said Harris.\n\n\"I would answer 'why not?', because for us as Wrexham fans we are the third oldest professional team in the world, the oldest in Wales and play at the oldest international stadium anywhere in the world.\n\n\"We are a team with a proud history that's beaten Porto in the European Cup Winners Cup and there's lot's of potential at the club, so why not?\"\n\n\"But... I don't want to get in front of them setting out their vision for the club which they will do in due course.\"\n\nApproval from members for a deal would see the Trust relinquish control of running the club.\n\n\"It's very exciting news for a lot of people, but supporters will make a decision on whether this goes forward or not,\" explained Harris.\n\n\"Of course I would imagine we would see them at the Racecourse and we may have done already had it not been for Covid-19.\n\n\"It's a difficult time for all of football, not just at our level, even clubs at Premier League level are taking significant loans from government.\n\n\"We are in a relatively decent position versus many so there's no particular burning platform at the football club as we speak right now, however investment into any football club, especially at this level, does make quite some difference and obviously these are very serious professionals, successful people who I'm sure would have a lot to bring to any business.\"\n\nIt would not be the first time Hollywood stars have become involved with a Welsh club, with US star of The Office Mindy Kaling revealed as being among the stakeholders in an American consortium that purchased a controlling stake in Swansea City in 2016.", "It's not a day for optimists, even though the prime minister himself is one of that tribe.\n\nTomorrow, it will be six months exactly since he told the nation to stay at home.\n\nThis time, Boris Johnson stopped well short of slamming the country's doors shut.\n\nBut what really stood out in his long statement in a miserable-looking Commons was his message that the limits put in place today will last another six months.\n\nEven if you are very fond of your own company, lucky enough to have a secure job you enjoy and a comfy spare room where you can do it, it is quite something to contemplate.\n\nThe government now expects that all our lives will be subject to restrictions of one kind or another for a whole year - March 2020 to March 2021.\n\nAs each month ticks by, it becomes harder to imagine a return to anything like normal political life, or, more importantly, the way we all live.\n\nWe may not be waiting for a return to life as we knew it, but grinding through a moment of change.\n\nBut if you were listening carefully, something else was different too.\n\nThe country became familiar with the slogan \"Stay At Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives\" - it was emblazoned on government lecterns, repeated again and again by government ministers in interview after interview, on bus shelters, pop-up ads on the internet, wherever you looked.\n\nThat phrase was retired after the most intense period of the lockdown, but echoed today with one important additional condition.\n\nBoris Johnson's driver today was to \"save lives, protect the NHS\" and \"shelter the economy\".\n\nAs we discussed here yesterday, concerns about the economy played more strongly in Downing Street after fierce resistance from backbenchers, and arguments from the next-door neighbour in No 11 of the economic risks of a short, sharp closure programme.\n\nFears about how the country makes a living have always been part of the decision-making process for the government, grappling with these acute dilemmas.\n\nBut the political appetite inside the Tory party for sweeping restrictions has certainly dimmed.\n\nThe changes announced today do make economic recovery harder, the \"bounce back\" the government dreamt of looks harder to achieve, but they are not as draconian as they may otherwise have been.\n\nThe choices made by Nicola Sturgeon to restrict social lives much further than in England, as in Northern Ireland, point to that difference.\n\nMinisters used to make great play of following the science, now they are certainly following the politics too.\n\nOnly the unknowable progress of the disease will, in time, suggest which call was right.\n• None What's the guidance for Covid in the UK now?", "Truck drivers will need a permit to enter Kent after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has said.\n\nThe announcement comes after a letter from cabinet minister Michael Gove warned that queues 7,000-trucks-long could clog up roads around the port of Dover and Channel Tunnel.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Gove said the Kent Access Permit system would be enforced by police and ANPR cameras.\n\nIt is intended to ensure drivers have all the paperwork they need, he said.\n\nDrivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to apply for the permits online and show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nMr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, responsible for no-deal planning, wrote to logistics groups with the government's \"reasonable worst-case scenario\" planning for when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union rules on 1 January.\n\nIn that scenario, he said just half of big businesses and 20% of small businesses would be ready for the strict application of new EU requirements at the border.\n\n\"In those circumstances that could mean between only 30% and 60% of laden HGVs would arrive at the border with the necessary formalities completed for the goods on board,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"They'd therefore be turned back by the French border authorities, clogging the Dover to Calais crossing.\"\n\nHe said it could lead to delays of up to two days for drivers waiting to cross the Channel. Although he said those queues were likely to subside after businesses learned from seeing their cargo denied access to the continent.\n\nThe transition period is due to expire at the end of the year but only a quarter of businesses are \"fully ready\" for the post-Brexit arrangements, Mr Gove said.\n\nImports will also be disrupted in January, according to the letter sent to the freight industry by Mr Gove.\n\nIt also raises the prospect of a winter spike in Covid-19 leading to absences of port and border staff.\n\nLabour's Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rachel Reeves, said: \"It is incredible that ministers are only now admitting to their plans to arrest British truckers for entering Kent without new travel passports.\n\nWith just over three months to go, how are businesses meant to prepare amid this Conservative carnival of incompetence?'\"\n\nThe picture of chaos at the border might be familiar from a similar set of projections made for no-deal Brexit a year ago as part of what was known as Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nThe government says this is not a prediction but an illustration of what could be reasonably expected.\n\nMoreover, Mr Gove told parliament on Wednesday the government was \"absolutely determined to do everything that we can to secure a deal\".\n\nAccording to the Cabinet Office document, without a free trade deal and in its reasonable worst-case scenario, there may be \"maximum queues of 7,000 port-bound trucks in Kent and associated maximum delays of up to two days\".\n\n\"Both imports and exports could be disrupted to a similar extent,\" it says.\n\nThe EU is expected to impose full goods controls on the UK, stopping all freight without the correct documentation at the end of the transition period on 1 January.\n\nThe disruption is assumed to build in the first two weeks of January, and could last three months, or longer should France rigorously apply Schengen passport checks on hauliers at Dover and the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe purpose of this stark communication is to try to get traders to act now to get ready for new border formalities that could help mitigate the disruption.\n\nMr Gove told the industry that this needs to happen irrespective of whether or not there is a deal in the UK-EU trade negotiations.\n\nIn response the freight industry says putting in place the measures needed to avoid border delays will be \"a huge challenge for government and industry\".\n\nLogistics UK, representing road, rail, sea and air haulage firms says it is urging businesses to quickly install and understand the new processes they will need to use.\n\nBut firms need early access to both UK and EU systems so that they can conduct testing and training before 1 January, it says.\n\nA recent meeting between the industry and government was described as a \"washout\", with insiders describing the relationship as \"fraught\" and hauliers fearful that they were being cast as the \"fall guys\" for delays and disruption likely in January.\n\nThere are further issues should there be no trade deal agreed. Hauliers would have to rely on special permits rationed by the Department for Transport, though a mutually beneficial deal here is possible.\n\nBut discussions on these issues await settlement of the impasse in negotiations on state aid and fisheries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government is \"not pointing the finger\" at hauliers, Michael Gove told the BBC\n\nIndustry sources have raised the possibility that the UK would have to sign up to EU rules limiting driver hours, in order to get access to EU roads.\n\nAnd there is a specific new reference to France imposing strict passport checks at the \"juxtaposed controls\" currently designed to offer seamless travel across the Channel.\n\n\"There also remains a risk of continuing disruption caused by Schengen controls being applied rigorously at the juxtaposed controls at the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel,\" the document says.", "Uncle Ben's Rice will change its name to Ben's Original and remove the image of a smiling, grey-haired black man from its packaging.\n\nThe change follows through on a pledge its owner Mars Food made in June to review the brand amid global protests over police brutality and racism.\n\nUncle Ben's entered the market in the 1940s and was for decades the best-selling rice in the US.\n\nIts marketing has been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes.\n\nTitles such as uncle and aunt were used in southern US states to refer to black people, instead of the more formal and respectful \"Miss\" or \"Mister\".\n\nThe name Uncle Ben's was supposedly inspired by a Texas farmer known for his high-quality rice. The company asked the head waiter at a fancy Chicago restaurant, Frank Brown, to pose as the face of the brand, which launched in 1947.\n\nIn 2007, the company sought to update its marketing with a campaign that cast Ben as chairman of the board, a move away from the previous, more servile presentation.\n\n\"We understand the inequities that were associated with the name and face of the previous brand, and as we announced in June, we have committed to change,\" Mars said.\n\nThe new packaging is expected to begin reaching shops in 2021.\n\nMars said it would also work with the National Urban League in the US to support black chefs with a $2m donation toward scholarships and invest $2.5m in Greenville, Mississippi, where the rice is made.\n\n\"The brand is not just changing its name and image on the package. It is also taking action to enhance inclusion and equity and setting out its new brand purpose to create opportunities that offer everyone a seat at the table,\" the company said.\n\nMars was one of several food giants that promised to review brands in the wake of the protests triggered by George Floyd's death.\n\nEarlier this year, Pepsi said it would overhaul the marketing for its popular Aunt Jemima line of syrups and foods, acknowledging the brand was based on a racial stereotype.\n• None Why firms are speaking out about George Floyd", "Olivia Campbell-Hardy had \"a smile which could cheer anyone up\", her father said\n\nA teenager killed in the Manchester Arena bombing attended the venue after being given a spare ticket, an inquiry has heard.\n\nOlivia Campbell-Hardy, 15, from Bury, was among three friends \"in the running\" for a spot at the Ariana Grande concert before the bombing.\n\nHer grandfather told the inquiry into the attack that she was given the ticket a few days before the event.\n\nSteve Goodman said \"the others didn't stand a chance\" of getting the ticket.\n\nHe said his granddaughter was a \"determined young lady\" and \"music was her life\".\n\nFamilies have been presenting \"pen portraits\" at the inquiry for the final day.\n\nThe portraits are designed to give an insight into the lives of those who died.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the bombing in May 2017.\n\nMr Goodman said without Olivia the \"void in their lives is immense\" and life had \"changed forever\".\n\nThe 15-year-old, who wanted to be a music teacher, loved singing and dancing, was \"boisterous and loud\" but also \"gentle\", he said.\n\nMr Goodman said Olivia had not always been well-behaved but managed to \"turn it around with her humour\".\n\nA slideshow of photographs documenting Olivia's life was also shown on a screen while songs featuring Olivia herself singing were played at the hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nThe court heard how Olivia had enjoyed \"hanging out with her grandparents\".\n\nMr Goodman said she had changed her plans so she could go on holiday with them but instead he had identified her body that week.\n\nOlivia was known for singing at large family gatherings and loved musicals, he said.\n\nHe said he was \"proud to be her Papa\" and \"our lives have changed forever\".\n\nMr Goodman also read a tribute from Olivia's father Andrew Hardy who, the court heard, was watching from an annexe.\n\nHe said she \"always gave 100%\", had a wonderful sense of humour, and was \"full-on\" from the moment she woke up until she went to sleep.\n\nShe had been dancing since the age of three and had sung at the Manchester Arena with Bury Young Voices singing group.\n\nOlivia was a \"loving child who liked to help people\" and had \"a smile which could cheer anyone up\", the court heard.\n\nJane Tweddle's daughters said she was full of laughter and love\n\nThe inquiry also heard from the three daughters of Jane Tweddle, 51, who was originally from Hartlepool.\n\nA statement from Isabelle, Harriet and Lily Taylor was read by their representative Adam Pater.\n\nThey said their \"warrior\" mother made sure they grew up in a house \"full of laughter\" and she \"always knew how to brighten someone's day and make them feel loved\".\n\nThe court heard Ms Tweddle loved to cook, had \"spontaneous ideas\" and anyone who spent \"even five minutes\" with her would be \"forever changed, and always for the better.\"\n\nMs Tweddle, a secondary school receptionist in Blackpool, was \"friendly and full of life\" and \"made for her job\", the inquiry heard.\n\nHer daughters said when they would ask her for the time their mother would reply: \"It's the time of your life - never forget it.\"\n\n\"We'll hold on to that forever...we love you endlessly, now we all have an angel to call by name,\" they said.\n\nMs Tweddle's mother Margaret Tweddle said what happened that night in Manchester was \"evil\" and \"we won't let evil win. Jane wouldn't want that\".\n\n\"Not a day goes by that I don't miss her smile, laughter and love of life,\" she said.\n\nIn the final pen portrait of the inquiry Alison Howe's best friend Tracy Green read her own tributes and one from Ms Howe's mother, Sue Cann.\n\nMs Howe, 45, from Royton, Oldham, was killed while waiting in the arena foyer with her friend, Lisa Lees, who also died.\n\nMs Green said everyone thought their best friend was perfect but \"mine really was\".\n\n\"She made everyone laugh and smile, even when it wasn't appropriate.\"\n\nThe court heard \"talented musician\" Ms Howe had been close to her mother Sue and had lived on the same street.\n\n\"She would come over and stick her face on the window to let me know she was there - even when she knew it drove me mad, and she would walk through the door laughing,\" Ms Cann said.\n\nThe pair would \"dare each other to do daft things\", go on shopping trips and spa weekends and were \"always laughing\", the court heard.\n\nMs Cann said her daughter \"adored her family. Steven and the children were her everything\".\n\nHer death had left an \"unbelievable\" gaping hole, she said.\n\n\"I still turn around when someone shouts Mum and it's like being stabbed in the heart\".\n\nThe court was shown a video of Alison's husband, Steven Howe.\n\nHe said he could not believe there was anybody as \"caring and well-liked\" as Alison who was \"fantastic inside and out\".\n\nThe family was \"absolutely destroyed\", he said, and it was \"never going to get any easier\".\n\nThe court heard Alison had become a mum to Stephen's four boys and had two daughters and \"couldn't have done a better job\".\n\nOne of the children, Harry had written a poem from her \"super -six\".\n\nHe said she was \"always the glue\" of the family and without her there would have been no laughs and no biscuits.\n\n\"So special, so wonderful, so beautiful and so true\", all six children would love her forever, he said.\n\nMartyn Hett's mother, Figen Murray earlier tweeted it had been heartbreaking to listen to the victims' stories but also a \"privilege to have got to know the persons behind the names\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Figen Murray This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInquiry chairman Sir John Saunders, thanked the families for sharing their \"intensely personal memories\".\n\nHe said listening to the pen portraits had been a \"deeply affecting\" experience and put those who had died \"at the heart of this inquiry\".\n\n\"They are not a number. Each was an individual, each was unique, each loss of life was a separate tragedy,\" he said.\n\nThe chairman will write a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\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.\n\nTensions between the US and China came to the fore of the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe called for China to be held \"accountable\" for the pandemic.\n\nIn his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had \"no intention to enter a Cold War with any country\".\n\nTies between the two world powers are strained on a number of fronts.\n\nThis year's summit at New York is largely being held virtually, with world leaders providing pre-recorded speeches.\n\nThe new format meant some of the geopolitical theatre normally on offer at the key UN meeting was absent. Each country was represented by a single delegate and there was little opportunity for one nation to rebut another.\n\nBut as often is the case for speeches to the assembly, President Trump used his address to tout his achievements and tear into a rival.\n\n\"We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague on to the world - China,\" he said.\n\n\"In the earliest days of the virus China locked down travel domestically, while allowing flights to leave China and infect the world. China condemned my travel ban on their country, even as they cancelled domestic flights and locked citizens in their homes,\" he added.\n\nPresident Trump, whose own record on coronavirus is under close scrutiny as the US heads towards elections, has frequently accused Beijing of covering up the virus, saying they could have stopped the disease spreading. China has called the attacks an unfounded distraction.\n\nThe US death toll for coronavirus, at more than 200,000, is the highest in the world and President Trump has often downplayed the disease.\n\nTensions are high between the US and China on a number of other issues, including trade, technology, Hong Kong and China's treatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province.\n\nThe US president's speech came in the form of a pre-recorded message\n\nSpeaking soon after the US leader, President Xi warned of the risks of a \"clash of civilisations\".\n\n\"We will continue to narrow differences and resolve disputes with others through dialogue and negotiation. We will not seek to develop only ourselves or engage in zero sum game,\" he said.\n\nIn remarks released ahead of Tuesday's speech, President Xi took a more overt swipe at the US, saying \"no country has the right to dominate global affairs, control the destiny of others, or keep advantages in development all to itself\", something China itself has been accused of by critics.\n\nAlso in his speech, President Xi said China - the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases - aims to hit peak emissions in 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060.\n\nThis was a stump speech by President Trump, who faces re-election in 40 days time. He had Beijing firmly in his sights - blaming what he and his followers call the China virus for taking countless lives.\n\nMr Trump is trying to deflect attention from his own handling of the pandemic by heaping opprobrium on China, while emphasising US efforts to find a cure.\n\nWe will end the pandemic, the president pledged, saying thanks to US efforts three vaccines are in the final stage of development. For good measure, Mr Trump lumped the UN's World Health Organization into his critique of China - saying the international body, which he's withdrawing US funding from, is virtually controlled by China, blaming it for spreading what he called misinformation about the virus.\n\nThis was not a subtle speech. It was a clear attempt to shift blame as Americans are already voting in the presidential election.\n\nThe assembly was opened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who, without naming China or the US warned \"we must do everything to avoid a new Cold War\".\n\n\"We are moving in a very dangerous direction,\" he said. \"Our world cannot afford a future where the two largest economies split the globe in a great fracture - each with its own trade and financial rules and internet and artificial intelligence capacities.\"\n\nHe said there was no room for self-interest in the face of the coronavirus. \"Populism and nationalism have failed,\" he said. \"Those approaches to contain the virus have often made things manifestly worse.\"\n\nPresident Trump gave a very different vision in his speech, saying \"only when you take care of your own citizens will you find a true basis for co-operation\".", "As the UK introduces tighter covid restrictions, we look back at the six months since lockdown was first announced.\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat followed young people from the moment life changed back on 23 March.\n\nHaamed is a junior doctor dealing with the sharp end of the medical impact of coronavirus and the tragic consequences. But he's also trying to plan his wedding.\n\nKathryn is also on the wards as a nurse. She's Australian... does she try and get home quickly or stick it out helping here?\n\nJade's another key worker - trying to keep the supermarket shelves stocked with food as shortages soon kick in.\n\nAnd teaching assistant Phoebe decides to move in with her boyfriend's family while worrying about her vulnerable grandparents who are at the other end of the country.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays on Radio 1, 1Xtra or Asian Network - or listen back here.", "McDonald's, Pret a Manger and similar restaurants without an alcohol licence will not need to serve customers at tables, the government has confirmed.\n\nOn Tuesday new rules governing hospitality were announced.\n\nThey mean pubs and other places with licensed premises must provide table service.\n\nConfusion had been sparked after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab suggested on Wednesday that all restaurants could need table service.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"In all of the restaurants and hospitality you can go in and order from the tables - what you can't do without a mask is just sit around and mill around.\n\n\"My understanding is that you need to be able to order from the tables. But of course the guidance will be very clear.\"\n\nThe updated guidelines specified that all pubs, bars, restaurants and other hospitality venues in England must have a 22:00 closing time from Thursday.\n\nThese measures are designed to slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nCases and hospital admissions in the UK are rising again, which prompted the updated guidance.\n\nIndustry group UK Hospitality criticised the government approach, saying restaurants and pubs were having to make changes at short notice.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls said: \"Our understanding is that quick-service restaurants will be exempt from the new rules, but there is certainly a degree of confusion.\n\n\"The government is clearly struggling to catch up with announcements and policy is changing on a daily basis.\n\n\"Businesses deserve better than this when they are expected to follow new rules at short notice. Particularly when those rules are going to have such an impact.\"\n\nMs Nicholls added that the previous guidelines were better for pubs and restaurants as they allowed businesses more flexibility in implementing coronavirus measures.\n\n\"Venues are not identical, even outwardly similar ones, so there is no one-size-fits-all approach that works.\n\n\"Business owners know what works from them in their venues. They are the best placed to know how to control the flow of customers through their business.\"\n\nThe new rules in England state businesses must take customers' contact details by law, so they can be traced if there is a coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThey can be fined up to £10,000 for not doing this, or if they take reservations of more than six, or do not enforce social distancing.\n\nStaff in hospitality venues must now wear masks, as must customers who are not seated at their table to eat or drink.\n\nThe penalty for not wearing a mask, or breaking the ''rule of six'' has doubled to £200 for a first offence.\n\nIn Wales, pubs, bars and restaurants will also have to close by 22:00 from Thursday, with supermarkets and off-licences not allowed to sell alcohol after that time.\n\nIn Scotland, a 22:00 curfew comes in on Friday.\n\nCustomers must wear face coverings if they are not seated at a table.\n• None Pubs in England to close at 10pm amid Covid spread", "Hay-on-Wye, home of a major book festival, is one area that will hold a trial\n\nA financial hub in a Methodist church and drop-and-go deposit points for small firms are among ideas being tested in cash-stricken communities.\n\nLocal people will also have access to cashback from convenience stores - even if they do no shopping.\n\nEight trials have been confirmed as part of a project to help solve problems with access to cash.\n\nThe closure of bank branches and cash machines has led to losses for local firms and has concerned consumers.\n\nThe plan for trials was drawn up in light of a major report warning that the country is \"sleepwalking\" into becoming a cashless society.\n\nIt concluded that eight million people in the UK rely on notes and coins, ranging from those without a bank account to people who are not comfortable with digital payments.\n\nThe eight trial areas, including remote communities such as the village of Botton, North Yorkshire, will test a range of ideas including pop-up Post Offices in small shops, and banking hubs in retail spaces.\n\nFifteen shops in four areas will trial the purchase-free cashback plan. Retailers will be remunerated for providing the service by payment services company PayPoint.\n\n\"It is critical that we find ways to protect the viability of cash, for consumers and communities alike,\" said Natalie Ceeney, who wrote the access to cash report and is overseeing the projects.\n\n\"These pilots are designed to find sustainable ways to keep cash viable locally, which, if successful, can then be rolled out more widely.\"\n\nReports on the progress, or otherwise, of the projects will be published in summer next year.\n\nMs Ceeney said that access to cash machines was not the only answer, particularly for businesses that needed to quickly deposit their takings. She said firm shouldn't have to shut their doors during the day to drive to the nearest bank miles away in another town.\n\nCash is vital to avoid overspending, says 20-year-old civil engineering apprentice Brandon Wilson\n\nNot long ago there were two banks with branches in Ampthill. Then there was one. Now there is none. Currently just one cash machine is left to serve a population of more than 8,000.\n\nResident Brandon Wilson, 20, told the BBC in June that using cash helped him stick more rigidly to his spending plans to ensure he did not spend beyond his means.\n\n\"In general I try and budget my daily routine and having the physical money there means it is harder to spend than just placing a piece of card on to a machine,\" he said.\n\nOther project areas chosen for the trials include the remote Lulworth Camp, a military barracks in Dorset miles away from the nearest cash machine.\n\nSmall towns with thousands of residents which have seen bank branches or cash dispensers disappear are also included, such as Ampthill, along with Rochford, in Essex, Denny near Falkirk, and Cambuslang in Lanarkshire.\n\nBurslem, in Staffordshire, is also on the list, as is Hay-on-Wye, which has a large number of bookshops and other small businesses but no bank branch to deposit notes and coins.\n\nMillisle, in Northern Ireland, has recently been added as the eighth area to take part in the pilots.\n\nEric Leenders, from UK Finance, which represents the UK banks, said the sector was committed to access to cash remaining \"free and widely accessible to those who need it\".\n\nMartin McTague, from the Federation of Small Businesses, said: \"While contactless undoubtedly marks the safest way to pay in the current climate, we have to ensure that coronavirus doesn't cause us to sleepwalk into a cashless society we're not ready for yet.\"", "The number of schools in England sending home groups of pupils because of Covid-19 incidents has quadrupled in a week, according to the latest official figures.\n\nBased on attendance last Thursday, they show 4% of schools not fully open because of confirmed or suspected cases - up from 1% the previous week.\n\nThis could mean about 900 schools sending home pupils.\n\nOverall attendance has also dipped slightly from 88% to 87%.\n\nThis means over a million children were off school that day, whether from Covid-related or other reasons, with more pupils missing from secondary schools than primary.\n\nThe fall in attendance should \"ring alarm bells\" for the government, said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\n\"Clearly the failure of Covid testing sits at the heart of this. The inability of staff and families to successfully get tested when they display symptoms means that schools are struggling with staffing, children are missing school, and ultimately that children's education is being needlessly disrupted,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nThis is the second set of Department for Education attendance figures since schools returned in the autumn - and they show a significant increase in schools sending home groups of pupils or whole year groups because of concerns about coronavirus.\n\nBut they also show the number of schools which were fully open had increased - up from 92% to 94% - because the previous week's figures included schools that were still carrying out a phased start to the year or holding teacher training days.\n\nThe figures, based on responses from 76% of state schools, show almost no schools being completely closed - with 99.9% recorded as open.\n\nThis combination of more schools completing their reopening - and at the same time more schools sending pupils home because of Covid-19 - meant that the overall attendance figure balanced out as being similar to the previous week, from 88% to 87%.\n\nThis is well below what would be expected, with attendance rates usually around 95%.\n\nAn even lower proportion of vulnerable children, such as those with a social worker, were recorded as being at school, with an attendance rate of 81%.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said that with rising rates of infection and problems with Covid testing, the attendance figures were \"not at all surprising\".\n\n\"Frankly, it is a great relief that the situation is not a lot worse,\" said Mr Barton, who warned that even though schools were \"working incredibly hard to manage this very difficult situation\" it was going to be a \"long, hard winter\".\n\nProblems with getting Covid tests was making it harder for schools, said Kevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union.\n\n\"This is eroding trust among parents, and it will be an uphill struggle for it to be regained,\" he warned.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson welcomed that 99.9% of schools were open, but said: \"As we would expect, this data shows a small number of pupils are self-isolating in line with public health advice.\"\n\nHe said schools were working \"tremendously hard to ensure protective measures are in place to reduce the risks of transmission\" and they had \"access to timely advice and support through our helpline if they have a positive case\".", "Yew Trees hospital closed for renovation work in the summer and has not reopened\n\nTen workers at a mental health unit have been suspended amid claims patients were \"dragged, slapped and kicked\".\n\nInspectors said CCTV footage recorded at the Yew Trees hospital in Kirby-le-Soken, Essex, appeared to show episodes of \"physical and emotional abuse\".\n\nThe details emerged in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report after the unit was inspected in July and August.\n\nA spokeswoman for the care provider said footage had been passed to police.\n\nThe unannounced inspections were prompted by managers at Cygnet Health Care, who monitored CCTV footage of an incident on 18 July.\n\nAt the time, the 10-bed hospital held eight adult female patients with autism or learning disabilities.\n\nThe CQC reviewed 21 separate pieces of footage, concluding that 40% \"included examples of inappropriate staff behaviour\".\n\n\"People who lived there were subjected not only to poor care, but to abuse,\" a CQC spokesman said.\n\nWorkers were captured \"physically and emotionally abusing a patient\", and failing to use \"appropriate restraint techniques\", the report said.\n\nIt identified \"negative interactions where staff visibly became angry with patients\" and two cases where staff \"dragged patients across the floor\".\n\n\"We witnessed abusive, disrespectful, intimidating, aggressive and inappropriate behaviour,\" the inspectors said.\n\nSuspended workers \"included people we believe witnessed the alleged incidents and failed to report them,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nDr Kevin Cleary, the CQC's mental health lead, said the failure of some staff to raise the alarm \"perpetuated abuse and allowed a culture of poor care to become established\".\n\n\"Cygnet's leadership made efforts to address the harm people experienced while in its care, including suspending staff and making police referrals,\" he said.\n\n\"This does not change or excuse the fact that a culture was allowed to develop at this hospital which led to people suffering abuse.\"\n\nHe added: \"Any enforcement action we may take will be published as soon as legal restrictions allow.\"\n\nAnother Cygnet hospital, Thors Park in Brightlingsea, closed in June 2020 after it was rated inadequate by inspectors.\n\nA CQC report revealed that \"patients and others were placed at risk of harm\".\n\nHospital managers were investigating 27 members of staff, it said, and found \"poor employment screening\" among clinical support workers.\n\nA spokeswoman for Cygnet Health Care told the BBC: \"Cygnet has a zero-tolerance approach to any kind of abuse, which is why the well-established policies and processes we have in place to safeguard people in our care were backed up by the use of closed-circuit TV at Yew Trees.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of the people in our care is our absolute priority, and we are appalled by the actions of this small minority.\n\n\"We are also doing everything we can to assist the authorities to fully investigate what happened.\"\n\nTwo members of staff had been referred to police, she added.\n\nEssex Police has been approached for comment.\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 third and fourth earthquake struck on market day in the Bedfordshire town\n\nA town in Bedfordshire has experienced two earthquakes in one day.\n\nIt is the third and fourth time people in Leighton Buzzard have felt tremors in the space of two weeks.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed a 3.0-magnitude earthquake happened just north of the town at about 09:30 BST and a 2.1-magnitude tremor occurred at about 13:40.\n\nPeople reported their houses \"jolting and shaking\" when the larger quake struck.\n\nSince 8 September there have been four earthquakes in the town, the BGS confirmed.\n\nA 3.5-magnitude earthquake was felt by residents on that day, followed by a 2.1 magnitude tremor on 13 September.\n\nGlenn Ford, a BGS seismologist, said the latest two tremors were aftershocks from the first incident, but were \"earthquakes in their own right\".\n\nTuesday afternoon's tremor was \"20 times smaller\" than the one in the morning, but a few people had reported it to the organisation, he added.\n\nMatt Stewart, who lives about 1.5 miles (2.4km) from Leighton Buzzard in Eggington, was one of those who felt the larger earthquake, and said the tremors \"almost shook me out of bed\".\n\n\"It was as big as the first one, I think,\" he said. \"My wife ran downstairs and said, 'oh no, not another one'.\n\n\"It felt like a whoosh and then a boom coming up through the earth, then it shook the house and a couple of pictures fell off the wall upstairs, like the last time.\"\n\nThe British Geological Survey has released seismograms of the 09:30 BST earthquake\n\nMr Stewart described it as \"a horrible feeling\".\n\n\"You're just not in control and I'd like to know what's going on, as this is the third one - it's very strange.\"\n\nThe BGS said its provisional data suggested the earthquake originated at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10km).\n\nThe earth did not move during the morning's tremors quite as much as when the first earthquake hit two weeks ago at magnitude 3.5, was the general opinion of people shopping and working in the town.\n\nWesley Venn said: \"I was sat in the garden having a lovely cup of tea when all of a sudden I saw the fence shaking.\"\n\nHe described it as \"a little tremor, just to remind us that there are earthquakes about, apparently - in Leighton Buzzard\".\n\nHe added that \"the earth didn't move for me\" during the second quake - which he slept through - but he felt the other larger ones.\n\n\"I don't know if we're the San Andreas Fault of Bedfordshire... but it's a claim to fame.\n\n\"We will rebuild - where a plate fell off the shelf - we will rebuild.\"\n\nResident Wesley Venn joked the town might be \"the San Andreas Fault of Bedfordshire\"\n\nShop staff Carrie Wainer and Sarah Arkle said there was \"a massive bang\"\n\nCarrie Wainer, who works in a gift shop, said she heard \"a massive bang\", adding \"that was about it for us\".\n\n\"With what 2020's bringing us, this is just another one added on.\"\n\nShop owner Anthony Rosier said \"a few things might have moved a couple of inches\"\n\nModel railway store owner Anthony Rosier said there were \"two large bangs, the walls and units shook - then peace and quiet\".\n\nThe latest tremors had been \"a talking point\" and \"brings the buzz back\" to Leighton Buzzard, he said.\n\nMr Ford said: \"It's not an unusual thing to be seen in the UK... this relieves the built-up stress in the rocks.\"\n\nThey were \"nothing to do with fracking or anything like that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's typical British tectonic activity that's been going on for hundreds of years.\"\n\nMr Ford said the UK experiences about 200 to 300 earthquakes each year, but 90% are \"so minor that people can't perceive them\".\n\nWhile the UK has a few quakes of the same magnitude as Leighton Buzzard each year, it was \"absolutely tiny on the scale of worldwide earthquakes\" and \"more than a billion times smaller than the one that hit Japan in 2011\".\n\nHe added: \"If they felt this one in Japan, they wouldn't even look up from their morning coffee.\"\n\nDr Matthew Blackett, an earthquake expert from Coventry University, said the Leighton Buzzard tremors were likely caused by the fracturing of solid rock in \"hidden fault lines\", several hundred metres below the surface.\n\n\"What seems to have happened is that this was an initial earthquake in a hidden fault - some stress or other has caused it.\n\n\"These two subsequent events are a readjustment of the fault lines to come back to some sort of stability.\n\n\"The crust has to adjust itself to become stable again, that seems to have happened to the poor people of Leighton Buzzard.\n\n\"It is quite possible that that sequence is now done, but it might be that there are still stresses there.\n\n\"If there are [further tremors], I think it will only be minor events.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None How bad can earthquakes be in the UK?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Clark had been deputy head at the school for 17 years\n\nA deputy head teacher has been killed by cows while out walking.\n\nDave Clark was in a field in Richmond, North Yorkshire, when it happened on Monday evening. He was reportedly walking his dogs at the time.\n\nIn a tribute, head teacher Jenna Potter said Mr Clark was the \"heart and soul\" of Richmond School. \"Our thoughts are with Dave's wife, his children and wider family at this difficult time.\"\n\nPolice say they are trying to establish the circumstances of his death.\n\nThe head teacher said: \"He was an enormous character, a brilliant school leader and simply a lovely man who enriched the life of everyone he came into contact with, just by being himself and doing what he did every day.\"\n\nShe said Mr Clark had joined the secondary school in 1997 and was promoted to deputy head in 2003. She said he was highly regarded by colleagues and students and expected very high standards from every pupil.\n\n\"All of this Dave did with a smile and a level of kindness and care that is seldom seen,\" she added.\n\nA spokesperson for North Yorkshire Police said the force had been called to a report of a man in his 50s being injured by cows in a field north of Richmond.\n\n\"He was treated by paramedics, but sadly he was pronounced dead at the scene.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has been informed, the force added.\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.", "New rules over office romances are being rolled out at the investment giant BlackRock.\n\nThey will now extend to relationships outside the office in a bid to clamp down on conflicts of interest.\n\nBlackRock staff were already expected to tell managers if they were dating one of their 16,000 colleagues.\n\nBut the new policy, shared in a memo with staff, says they must disclose relationships with \"external partners\" with a connection to the firm.\n\nThe size of the New York based firm, which has more than $7tn under management and vast numbers of suppliers and clients around the globe, means that the new rules will have far-reaching implications, shining a probing light into the personal lives of potentially hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nIt follows the #Metoo movement, which revealed sexual harassment within a range of professional settings and focused attention on workplace strategies to clamp down on relationships between bosses and subordinates.\n\nMcDonald's chief executive Steve Easterbrook was removed last year after a relationship with a colleague came to light.\n\nAt BlackRock late last year senior executive Mark Wiseman, was fired for failing to disclose an affair with a colleague. He had been tipped as a possible successor to the firm's high profile chief executive Larry Fink.\n\nWhile many workplaces require staff to be open about relationships with colleagues, BlackRock's new policy is unusual in asking for information about partners at other firms.\n\nThe policy says they should disclose any personal relationship they have at any \"service provider, vendor, or other third party (including a client), if the non-BlackRock employee is within a group that interacts with BlackRock\", according to the internal memo, seen by the BBC.\n\nFormer McDonald's boss Steve Easterbrook lost his job over a relationship with a colleague\n\nThe aim is to tackle any conflicts of interest, or perceived conflicts of interest, by taking the matter out of the hands of the employee concerned and allowing human resources and lawyers at the firm assess whether there is a problem.\n\nBut there is a new urgency around managing private and professional boundaries thanks to the switch to working from home prompted by the pandemic.\n\n\"I can see why it is an issue for [BlackRock],\" says Tom McLaughlin, employment lawyer with BDBF. \"We are staring down the barrel of the majority of office workers working from home again. Employers will realise they do need to know more about people's domestic arrangements than they did before.\"\n\nThe new policy defines which relationships come under the new policy as any that could be \"susceptible to perceived impropriety, bias, favouritism, and/or abuse of authority within a work environment\".\n\nThat includes not only romantic or sexual relationships, but family connections and outside business interests,but not \"friendships with work colleagues.\"\n\nHowever it is not clear from the memo where the threshold lies, at what point does a friendship, or a series of dates, becomes significant enough to require disclosure.\n\nThere is no law prohibiting employers from asking questions about relationships, but the answers will need to be treated carefully to comply with privacy rules.\n\n\"The real crunch will come if there is a perceived conflict of interest,\" says Mr Tom McLaughlin.\n\nBlackRock says disclosures would be treated with discretion, and if necessary, \"alternative work arrangements\" may be put in place.\n\nDid you meet your partner through work contacts? Do you agree with BlackRock's new rules or do they go too far? Get in touch: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your response or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any response you send in.", "All 500 students at Parker House in Dundee are self-isolating\n\nHundreds of students have been told to self-isolate after a suspected Covid-19 outbreak in a halls of residence.\n\nAll 500 residents at Parker House in Dundee have been asked to quarantine until contact tracing is complete.\n\nA \"significant\" outbreak at Glasgow University and a number of Aberdeen University students testing positive have also been confirmed.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said it was \"really, really important\" that those affected followed advice on self-isolation.\n\nThe first minister said: \"As we've seen in the past few days, Covid can spread very quickly in shared living settings and halls of residence.\n\n\"So please follow the rules on self-isolation.\n\n\"Please know that we appreciate the sacrifices you are making at this very important stage of your lives.\"\n\nNHS Tayside is investigating three positive cases and a small number of suspected cases linked to Parker House.\n\nClose contacts of the positive case, who is a student of Abertay University, are being contacted.\n\nA total of 72 residents in Wavell House halls of residence in Aberdeen's Hillhead Student Village are being asked to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThey have been offered access to food and other supplies and affected areas are undergoing a deep clean.\n\nThe university said it was aware of social gatherings outside the Hillhead Halls of Residence at the weekend, and that some students had been fined for breaching coronavirus guidelines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How should students be self-isolating? \"Stay in, stay apart, sleep alone, keep cleaning\"\n\nAn Aberdeen University spokesperson said: \"We appreciate this will be an anxious time for many but the safety of our staff, student and wider community are paramount.\n\n\"At the same time, it is vital that we all work together to comply with the guidelines to help keep our community safe and mitigate the risk of further spread.\"\n\nGlasgow University said it was also dealing with a number of virus cases in student residences.\n\nThe students affected are self-isolating and are being supported to ensure they have access to food and other supplies, the university said.\n\nStudents across Scotland returned to socially-distanced campuses earlier this month.\n\nStudents across Scotland returned to socially-distanced campuses earlier this month\n\nScotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney was asked about the student cases and the country's contact tracing system on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland.\n\nHe told the programme the Test and Protect system was \"working well\" and said more than 90% of the contacts of positive cases were currently being traced.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"This is the highest of any country in the UK.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister also said some of the capacity for testing in Scotland had yet to be utilised.\n\nLast week 11 residents in a block of student flats tested positive following a cluster at the University of Napier in Edinburgh.\n• None 'This isn’t what I expected from university'", "Julian Assange’s fiancée has told the BBC she dreaded going public with their relationship.\n\nLawyer Stella Moris gave birth to the couple’s two young sons while the Wikileaks founder was living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.\n\nMr Assange is now appearing at the Old Bailey fighting extradition to the United States for obtaining and publishing secret military documents a decade ago.\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire has been speaking to Stella Moris in her first in depth British TV interview since their relationship was revealed in court documents.", "Sex offence convictions against 15 people are to be set aside because of \"legislative error,\" the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said.\n\nThe cases involve 17 victims, the majority of whom were children at the time the offences occurred.\n\nThe PPS has discovered \"a technical change in the law\" in 2009 meant the cases should not have been prosecuted in a magistrates court.\n\nIt said it is \"truly sorry\" for the distress the news will cause victims.\n\nThe PPS will now consider whether or not to re-run the cases in a crown court.\n\nThe cases cover offences of indecent assault or unlawful carnal knowledge which occurred between 1973 and 2009.\n\nOne was handed a prison term while others received suspended sentences.\n\nOne of the convicted offenders is still on the sex offenders register but will now be removed as a result of the error.\n\nThe PPS has said it is \"truly sorry\" for any distress caused\n\nPPS assistant director Ciaran McQuillan said: \"This development will have come as a great shock and disappointment to the victims.\n\n\"It will also cause uncertainty for the defendants involved.\n\n\"The PPS has arranged for delivery of letters to all those affected with a detailed explanation of how the situation arose and the steps we are now proposing to take.\"\n\nMr McQuillan said a fresh prosecutorial decision in each case will be taken within as short a time frame as possible and that engagement with the victims would be an important part of that process.\n\nAny new case would be heard before a crown court and it is likely that sentencing after any subsequent conviction would take account of punishments already handed down after the original invalid trials.\n\nThe PPS said it was discovered that an amendment to legislation in 2009, made by the UK government, had \"unintentionally removed\" three specific offences from those which could be prosecuted in a magistrates court.\n\nThat meant that from that point onwards the offences could only be prosecuted in the crown court.\n\nAs this change was inadvertent, it was not highlighted at the time to any of the agencies or practitioners in the criminal justice system, including the PPS.\n\nIt was first discovered in 2018 that a mistake had been made, with prosecutors working in the intervening period to identify the cases affected.\n\nAll the defendants were tried in magistrates' courts in Northern Ireland between 2009 and 2017.\n\nThe convictions that will be rescinded involve:\n\nNaomi Long said she was \"concerned\" about the impact on victims\n\nThe department will also have to decide whether new legislation is needed to correct the error.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she had spoken to the PPS about the error.\n\n\"I am particularly concerned about the impact on the victims of these offences and note that the PPS has been working closely with Victim Support and Nexus to ensure those affected are both advised of the problem sensitively and receive proper support from the outset,\" she said.\n\n\"I am assured that the PPS will be reapplying the prosecutorial test to determine whether any of the cases should result in fresh prosecutions.\"", "Belgium is to reduce the quarantine period for people with Coronavirus symptoms from 14 days to seven.\n\nIt’s one of a number of new measures for the country announced by the Belgian prime minister, Sophie Wilmès, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe new quarantine rule will apply from October.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"An isolation period of 14 days is often difficult to keep up. As a result we asked experts to look again at this.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Belgium’s Crisis Committee told the BBC that the new rules are based on latest scientific advice on the adequate length of time needed for self-isolation.\n\nPeople with coronavirus symptoms can take a test on the fifth day of quarantine and, if it is negative, they can end their isolation when the week is up. If it’s positive, they must complete a two-week isolation period then take another test.\n\nThe prime minister also announced that it will no longer be compulsory to wear a face mask outside from October, with the exception of heavily crowded areas.\n\nSophie Wilmès stated that rules on social contact will continue to be monitored. At the moment groups of up to 10 people can meet together at the same time, providing social-distancing rules are applied. The so called \"bubble\" rule will also continue. It means that people can chose five others to be in close contact with.\n\nSophie Wilmès defined close contact as “being physically close for more than 15 minutes, without socially distancing or wearing a mask.” Each person can choose to be in that bubble with five others for a month, before changing members of the group, if required.\n\nMeanwhile, figures show that there has been an average of 1,374 coronavirus cases a day in Belgium for the past week. That’s a 60% increase on cases recorded compared to the week before.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWomen should be protected under expanded hate crime laws, according to a new report from the Law Commission.\n\nThe independent body that advises government said misogyny should be treated in the same way as other discrimination when it is the motivation for a crime.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the proposal, including Labour MP Stella Creasy, who called it \"our moment for change\".\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"committed to stamping out hate crime\".\n\nSeven police forces in England and Wales class misogyny as a hate crime, but this definition has not been adopted across the board.\n\nWhen a crime is carried out against someone - such as assault, harassment or criminal damage - because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity, it is considered a hate crime and treated more seriously by the courts.\n\nBut campaigners have criticised the complex nature of the existing laws, and called for sex and gender to be added to the list.\n\nThe Law Commission has carried out a review into the legislation and is putting several recommendations into a consultation.\n\nIt said the \"vast majority of evidence\" suggested crimes were linked to misogyny.\n\nThe commission plans to make its official recommendations to the government in 2021.\n\nThe Home Office said it asked the commission to \"explore how to make current legislation more effective, and if there should be additional protective characteristics\" - and it will \"respond to the review in full when it is complete\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He said I couldn't take a compliment'\n\nThe commissioner for criminal law, Professor Penney Lewis, said: \"Hate crime has no place in our society and we have seen the terrible impact that it can have on victims.\n\n\"Our proposals will ensure all protected characteristics are treated in the same way, and that women enjoy hate crime protection for the first time.\"\n\nCampaign and policy manager at Women's Aid, Lucy Hadley, welcomed the proposals.\n\nShe said: \"Sexism and women's inequality are the root causes of violence against women - including domestic abuse, sexual violence, street harassment including 'upskirting', and online forms of crime - and these often intersect with other identities, including race and ethnicity, sexuality and disability.\n\n\"Making clear that crimes happen to women 'because they are women' could help to send a clear message that women will be believed, protected and supported if they experience sexist violence and abuse.\"\n\nNadia - not her real name - is a survivor of domestic abuse, which she says was driven by the misogyny of her ex-partner.\n\nShe said: \"When I did not want to be sexually intimate with my ex-partner, he behaved as if he was entitled because, in his eyes, I was someone with no value, worth or respect - I was an object. My only purpose was to serve him.\"\n\nNadia said her ex-partner \"felt entitled\" to abuse her as he was a man who saw himself as superior to her.\n\n\"My opinions and feelings had no value and my needs weren't important - his were, they always came first,\" she added.\n\nAlthough financially independent, Nadia was never allowed to pay for meals or her car, as another form of control.\n\n\"When we were on holiday, he insisted that only he could exchange the money for foreign currency, which meant I had to ask him for money,\" she said. \"He wanted me to give up work.\n\n\"It was apparently because he was doing the right thing as a man but really it was to increase my dependency and isolate me further.\"\n\nNadia added: \"He had a huge sense of entitlement because he was a man. There was constant superiority over me and disdain for my mind.\n\n\"I believe that misogyny suited him and justified his abusive behaviour.\"\n\nMs Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, has led calls for a change in the law and secured the commission's review in 2018.\n\nShe welcomed the findings, saying they would help the criminal justice system \"detect and prevent offences including sexual assault, rape and domestic abuse\".\n\nMs Creasy added: \"I now urge every woman who has walked with keys in her hands at night, been abused or attacked online or offline to come forward and be heard in this consultation.\n\n\"This is our moment for change - rather than asking women to pick a side of their identity to be protected, it's time to send a message that women should be equally able to live free from fear of assault or harm targeted at them simply for who they are.\"\n\nPeople are generally attacked because an assailant dislikes something about that person - their appearance, their views, the football team they support.\n\nWhat marks hate crime out is where the assailant says or does something that provides evidence they have targeted a person because of one of the five \"protected characteristics\".\n\nSo hate crimes often involve assaults on public-facing officials - traffic wardens, store detectives, NHS staff - where in the course of the incident the perpetrator abuses the victim on grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity.\n\nIf sex and gender become protected characteristics in order to protect women, the same would apply.\n\nThe perpetrator's actions, or more likely the words they use, would have to evidence that they are targeting the victim on grounds of sex/gender.\n\nThe first force to introduce misogyny as a hate crime was Nottinghamshire Police in 2016.\n\nChief Inspector Louise Clarke, who leads the hate crime unit at the force, said it had taken numerous actions against perpetrators - and even where there was not sufficient evidence to support a prosecution, officers had spoken to men about their behaviour and explained the consequences.\n\nShe added: \"Ultimately, this is about giving women the ability and confidence to report this behaviour.\n\n\"Many men aren't even aware that this happens and are often shocked by the extent of the issues.\"\n\nThe issue was debated in Parliament's second debating chamber, Westminster Hall, in 2018. The then minister Victoria Atkins, replying to the debate, said the government needed to be careful when creating new laws that would \"would inadvertently conflict with principles of equality\".\n\nShe said: \"Equality of protection is a crucial element of ensuring public support for hate crime legislation.\n\n\"In other words, if we were to have hate crime in relation to gender, we would have to think carefully about whether that would apply to the entire population or just to half of it.\"\n\nThe Law Commission is also currently consulting on whether ageism, being a member of an alternative subculture (like goths and punks), or homelessness should also be added to the list of hate crime motivations.\n\nIt is also wants the \"stirring up hatred\" offence to be reformed, so it is less difficult to prosecute and gives equal footing to all the groups it affects.\n\nAnd it is recommending the extension of the offence of racist chanting at a football match to cover chanting based on sexual orientation.", "A Canadian woman has been charged in US federal court for allegedly posting a letter with deadly ricin poison to President Donald Trump.\n\nPascale Ferrier, of Quebec, was arrested at a border crossing in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday. Officials say she was carrying a gun.\n\nShe has pleaded not guilty to making threats against the president.\n\nThe letter she allegedly sent last week was discovered before it reached the White House.\n\nIn it, she called on Mr Trump to drop out of the US presidential race. The envelop contained ricin, a poison found naturally in castor beans.\n\n\"I found a new name for you: 'The Ugly Tyrant Clown',\" she wrote in the letter to Mr Trump, according to FBI charging documents filed ahead of her first court appearance in New York on Tuesday.\n\n\"I hope you like it. You ruin USA and lead them to disaster. I have US cousins, then I don't want the next 4 years with you as president. Give up and remove your application for this election.\"\n\nThe letter, which the FBI says had her fingerprints on it, referred to the poisoned note as \"a special gift\", adding: \"If it doesn't work, I'll find better recipe for another poison, or I might use my gun when I'll be able to come. \"\n\nThe suspect may have also sent ricin to five addresses in Texas, including a jail and a sheriff's office, according to the court documents.\n\nMs Ferrier appeared in court on Tuesday afternoon in Buffalo, New York, with the aid of a French-speaking translator, according to local media.\n\nShe asked for a court appointed defence lawyer during the hearing. That lawyer also requested an identity and probable cause hearing, to have the court determine that she is the individual named in the complaint.\n\nThe judge scheduled these next hearings for 28 September. She will be in the custody of the US Marshals until that time, as prosecutors argued she poses a flight risk.\n\nPascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 53, is a computer programmer who is originally from France, but became a Canadian citizen in 2015, according to Canadian media. Sources tell Reuters she retains dual French-Canadian citizenship. She was living in the Canadian province of Quebec.\n\nIn March 2019, she was arrested in Texas for unlawfully carrying a weapon and using a fake driver's licence, according to jail records. She was deported to Canada after officials found she had overstayed her visa and committed a crime while in the US, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service are investigating the package, which was discovered at a processing facility for mail sent to the White House.\n\nThe presence of ricin was confirmed after several tests by the FBI, authorities said.\n\nA spokesman for the Mission, Texas, police department told the Associated Press on Monday an envelope was in the care of local officials and no-one had been hurt.\n\nAnother Texas Sheriff, Eddie Guerra in Hidalgo County, also confirmed envelopes with ricin were posted to staff there, but reported no injuries.\n\nOn Monday, the RCMP division in Quebec searched a residence in the Montreal suburb of Saint-Hubert that authorities said is linked to the suspect.\n\nSenior US Customs and Border Protection official Mark Morgan on Tuesday said that Ms Ferrier had told border officers \"she was wanted by the FBI for mailing envelopes with ricin to the White House and other locations\" when she approached the checkpoint on Sunday.\n\nOfficers found a gun, knife and ammunition in her car at the time of her arrest.\n\nRicin is a lethal substance that, if swallowed, inhaled or injected, can cause nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding and ultimately organ failure.\n\nNo known antidote exists for ricin. If a person is exposed to ricin, death can take place within 36 to 72 hours, depending on the dose received, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nCastor seeds, which are used to make the deadly ricin poison\n\nThe CDC said the poison - which has been used in terror plots - can be manufactured into a weapon in the form of a powder, mist or pellet.\n\nThe White House and other federal buildings have been the target of ricin packages in the past.\n\nIn 2014, a Mississippi man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending letters dusted with ricin to former President Barack Obama and other officials.\n\nTV actress Shannon Richardson, who was featured on the programme The Walking Dead, was jailed for 18 years in 2014 for mailing ricin to Mr Obama and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.\n\nFour years later, in 2018, a former Navy veteran was charged with sending toxic letters to the Pentagon and White House.", "Mercedes and other German carmakers have used government money to subsidise wages\n\nUnlike the UK, the Germans didn't have to invent a job support programme from scratch when the pandemic struck: they already had one oven-ready.\n\nWhile British companies were getting to grips with the novelty of furloughing workers at the government's expense, their German counterparts simply fell back on a tried and tested scheme.\n\nNow, while UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is insisting that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will not continue past October, Germany is extending its Kurzarbeit job subsidy measures until the end of 2021.\n\nAt the same time, France is following Germany's example and expects to be doing so for a couple of years.\n\nIn the UK, influential figures including former prime minister Gordon Brown are urging the government to bring in a German or French-style system after October.\n\nSo what are the German and French schemes and how do they work?\n\n\"I'm very glad we have this system,\" says Dr Volker Verch, director of the Central Westphalian employers' federation.\n\n\"We would have lost many more jobs, in my region and across the country, if we didn't have this Kurzarbeit,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Obviously it all has to be paid for, but it's worth it in terms of social harmony.\"\n\nWhen the British scheme began, it was based on paying workers to stay at home and do nothing. It was not until July that furloughed employees were able to go back to work part-time.\n\nHowever, the German system was always about short-time working - allowing employers to reduce employees' hours while keeping them in a job. The government pays workers a percentage of the money they would have got for working those lost hours.\n\nAccording to the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research, at the height of the pandemic, half of all German firms had at least some of their staff on the scheme.\n\nThat includes Rolls-Royce Power Systems, a German engineering company owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings and specialising in power generation and propulsion systems. It employs 9,000 people worldwide, 5,500 of them in Germany.\n\nChief executive Andreas Schell told the BBC that the company came relatively late to the Kurzarbeit scheme.\n\n\"When the crisis came, we were sitting on a good order book,\" he says. \"But we anticipated a reduction in orders, and we had less to do in the third quarter, so we had to adjust our capacity.\"\n\nIn June, the firm put 1,000 of its German employees on \"short-time working\". That rose to 1,800 in July, before falling back in August and September as workers went on holiday instead.\n\n\"It's a really good programme of support by the German government,\" says Mr Schell. \"Otherwise we would have suffered economically. But it also helps to mitigate the economic consequences for our employees. It offers flexibility to us as a company and that's a good thing.\"\n\nAndreas Schell has nothing but praise for the Kurzarbeit scheme\n\nKurzarbeit has a long pedigree, going back to the early 20th Century. However, it came to prominence during the global financial crisis of 2008-09, when it is thought to have saved up to half a million jobs.\n\nEven in normal times, it can be used by companies undergoing restructuring or suffering from seasonal fluctuations in their business.\n\nBut normally it lasts for only six months. During the pandemic, that has been increased to a maximum of 21 months, while the criteria have been changed to include more firms and workers.\n\nThe percentage of lost wages paid by the government will also go up in stages, from the usual 60% to 80% after the first six months.\n\nIn comparison with the UK's furlough scheme, the cost of Kurzarbeit seems relatively modest, perhaps reflecting its more limited scope.\n\nBerlin ploughed €23.5bn into bolstering the scheme at the start of the pandemic, then expanded it again in August, at an estimated cost of €10bn more, to run for all of next year.\n\nBy contrast, the Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated that the UK's furlough scheme will have cost £60bn, about twice as much as the Germans are spending, by the time it ends in October.\n\nThe French scheme, known as \"partial unemployment\" or \"partial activity\", also pre-dates the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt too is designed to subsidise the jobs of people on reduced working hours - and it's also intended for the long haul.\n\nUnder the French scheme, firms are allowed to cut employees' hours by up to 40% for up to three years. Employees still receive nearly all their normal salary, with the government paying a percentage of the cost.\n\nThe scheme is subject to all kinds of French bureaucracy, requiring firms to come to an agreement with unions and offer formal guarantees of job security, but the principle is the same as in Germany.\n\nOlivier Six is chief executive of two very different firms, both based in the Grenoble area.\n\nThe bigger of the two, CIC Orio, is a metallurgy company that employs 150 people making industrial boilers and other specialised equipment. The other, G-Tech Guidetti, specialises in making hiking accessories.\n\n\"When the crisis began, there was a loss of confidence,\" he told the BBC. \"Firms were sitting on their funds, nobody was paying anybody.\"\n\nG-Tech Guidetti, as a consumer-facing firm, was immediately hit by the lockdown, because all its stockists had to close, so all its 15 employees went on the partial activity scheme.\n\n\"But after confinement ended, there was a pick-up in consumption and the recovery was very strong,\" he says.\n\nCIC Orio, however, is still making use of the scheme. Its employees are currently working four days out of five, with the government compensating them for the lost day's earnings.\n\n\"It's fortunate that we have this scheme, because we're afraid that the crisis will come back again,\" he says. \"This will last a long time. There will probably be another year of very weak economic activity.\"\n\nThe French government describes its scheme as a \"bouclier anti-licenciements\" - that is, an anti-redundancy shield.\n\nFor now, it appears to be working. But with cases of coronavirus on the rise again in France, it's anyone's guess how long it might be needed.", "Tesla founder Elon Musk has announced technology that he says will make Tesla batteries cheaper and more powerful.\n\nAt a live presentation that Mr Musk labelled 'Battery Day' he also teased the possibility of a $25,000 (£19,600), fully-autonomous Tesla \"in about three years time\".\n\n\"This has always been our dream to make an affordable electric car,\" he said.\n\nBut the news didn't excite investors and $50bn was wiped off its stock market value.\n\nThe main announcement was Tesla's new larger cylindrical cells. It was claimed the new batteries will provide five times more energy, six times more power and 16% greater driving range.\n\nBut the technology announced is likely to take years to implement.\n\nTesla's approach includes integrating the battery so that it forms part of the structure of the vehicle, thereby reducing the effective weight of the battery.\n\nThe speech took place in front of 240 shareholders - each sitting in a Tesla Model 3.\n\nCentral to cheaper Teslas are innovations in the way the company designs batteries - radically improving their efficiency.\n\nProf Stanley Whittingham - who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year for his work on lithium-ion batteries - told the BBC that \"tackling all the opportunities is high risk, but high pay-off\".\n\n\"Many of us have suggested the same steps are necessary, but Tesla has the investment and will to make it happen. Not sure anyone else is willing to do this,\" he said.\n\nMr Musk also announced that as well as purchasing batteries from Panasonic and LG Chem - Tesla itself would begin to make them.\n\nIn April last year, Musk himself revealed problems with sourcing Panasonic batteries used in its Model 3 Tesla.\n\nOne expert said scaling up would be \"challenging\".\n\n\"Even with really experienced car manufacturers, we tend to see a very high scrap rate of production in the first couple of years,\" said Casper Rawles, head of price assessments at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.\n\nMr Rawles also warned that so much of the content of the battery is expensive metals - \"You can only reduce the cost down to a point\".\n\nFour consecutive quarters of growth have helped Tesla's share price soar and it is now the most valuable car company in the world.\n\nThis is despite criticisms of Elon Musk that some of his technological advances have been exaggerated.\n\nEarlier this month, customer group Consumer Reports released a damning report about Tesla's automated driving services. The research concluded that \"for now, full self-driving capability… remains a misnomer\".\n\nAnd in July, Mr Musk said Tesla would be able to make its vehicles completely autonomous by the end of this year. The statement was met with scepticism by industry insiders.\n\nTesla's boss however announced that a \"beta\" version of the full Autopilot software would be available \"in a month or so\".\n\nMusk is no stranger to glitzy and sometimes bizarre public demonstrations.\n\nEarlier this month he unveiled a pig with a coin-sized computer chip in its brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.", "As the US Covid-19 death toll passes 200,000, owners and directors of funeral homes across the country reflect on how the loss of life has affected the families and communities that they serve.", "Claims the use of police helicopters at the Grenfell Tower fire made the flames worse and encouraged residents to head to the roof in the hope of rescue have been rejected by the police watchdog.\n\nIts report says no helicopter came close enough to cause downdraft which might have fanned the flames.\n\nIt also says there was no evidence that 999 call handlers suggested helicopters might be able to rescue residents.\n\nThe fire at the 24-storey tower in west London killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has released an 80-page report following an investigation into the fire.\n\nIt was prompted by a complaint made three years ago by Nabil Choucair, who lost six members of his family at Grenfell Tower.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nabil Choucair says people should have been evacuated earlier\n\nThe complaint said that residents believed the helicopters they could see from their windows had been sent to rescue them from the roof of the building.\n\nIt also raised concerns that \"prop wash\" from the helicopters allowed the flames to spread more quickly.\n\nThe investigation examined calls between trapped residents and 999 handlers, as well as the movements of residents higher up the tower, to establish whether they had been motivated by the belief they would be rescued.\n\nPeople stuck on the upper floors of the Kensington tower block begged call handlers for an air rescue, after seeing police helicopters flying nearby during the fire.\n\nPolice helicopters were almost continuously present close to the tower between 01:44 BST on the night of the fire and 16:05 BST the following afternoon.\n\nThe report found that \"desperation\", led some residents, who were \"completely trapped\" to mistakenly believe they could be rescued by police helicopter.\n\nHowever, the helicopters sent by the National Police Air Service (NPAS) were not equipped for rescue, and rather were monitoring the scene for officers and other emergency responders on the ground.\n\nThe IOPC found that the deployment of the helicopters was justified.\n\nIt said the way some handlers managed calls from those in the building was \"unclear\" but it added that residents were not told to move to another floor for rescue.\n\nThe conclusion reads: \"A small number of people in Grenfell Tower, who were already of the belief that they were completely trapped, out of desperation and being aware of helicopter presence, developed the mistaken belief that a helicopter rescue was a possibility.\"\n\nIt also said \"films are likely to have influenced people's belief in what the helicopters can do\" and recommended that 999 staff should be trained to explain to the public that police helicopters were not capable of rescuing them.\n\nIt also concluded that \"none of the helicopters flew close enough to the tower for their rotor wash to have worsened the fire\".\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem said: \"The recommendations we have made and which have been accepted aim to ensure that call operators communicate, to people who find themselves in similar horrific and life-threatening situations, the reality of the choices they have.\"\n\nA public inquiry into the fire is also being held and it is currently in its second phase.", "Mr Cameron says he understands the pain that Ms Taylor's death has caused.\n\n\"I understand that as an Attorney General who is responsible for all 120 counties... I understand that as a black man. How painful this is.\"\n\nMr Cameron says this is why it was \"incredibly important\" to his team to \"uncover every fact\".\n\nHe says that the criticism and scrutiny on his office was \"misplaced\".\n\n\"There was not a day that people in this office didn't go to sleep without thinking about this case.\n\n\"Criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief and that is true here.\"\n\nMr Cameron, pausing a moment as he speaks, also says that if something like this were to happen to him, his mother \"would find it very hard\".\n\n\"I've seen that pain on Ms Palmer's face,\" he says, referencing Ms Taylor's mother. \"I've seen that pain in the community.\"", "The main sign bearing old name was removed from the building in June\n\nA famous music venue in Bristol named after slave trader Edward Colston has been given a new name.\n\nThe Colston Hall will now be known as Bristol Beacon.\n\nBristol Music Trust, which runs the venue, said it hoped the renaming would be \"a fresh start for the organisation and its place in the city\".\n\nThe hall is near where a statue of the 17th Century slave trader was torn down by protesters in June during an anti-racism protest.\n\nThe name was revealed at an event in the venue's foyer on Wednesday without a live audience due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nBristol's city poet Vanessa Kisuule wrote a work to mark the occasion - captured in a short film - and the Bristol Beacon name was revealed for the first time in the last line of the poem.\n\nLouise Mitchell, chief executive of the trust, said Bristol Beacon would be \"a symbol of hope and community\".\n\n\"A focal point for music in the city. A gathering space, illuminating the way ahead. A place of welcome, warmth and light,\" she said.\n\nThe news was welcomed by the city's elected mayor, who did attend the event.\n\nMarvin Rees said it was not the specific name that mattered \"but the fact the city has gone through a process to think about what it calls its iconic venues\".\n\nAnd deputy mayor Craig Cheney said the renaming \"also runs in a parallel with the city conversation reflecting on our history and how this understanding can be represented in our future\".\n\nBristolians took to social media to express their views, with one woman saying the name did not give credit to what the venue is or does.\n\nTwitter user Mike Norman called it a \"fantastic new name\" and a \"great moment for Bristol\".\n\nBut Clive Wilkinson said the venue had \"had three years to come up with something that sounds like a local free newspaper\".\n\nAnd Westcountrybird was concerned a large percentage of Bristolians would either mock it or not use the new name.\n\n\"The rebranding has divided the city worse than the football IMHO,\" she said.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was dragged through Bristol before being thrown into the harbour\n\nThe trust said it had consulted with 4,000 people across the city about the new name and it had been endorsed by the board of trustees.\n\nIt added the venue was built 150 years after Colston's death in 1721 with no financial investment or direct link to the man or his wealth.\n\nBosses originally announced in 2017 they planned to change the building's \"toxic\" name.\n\nThe \"Colston Hall\" lettering was physically removed from the building eight days after the statue was toppled.\n\nColston made his fortune through human suffering and between 1672 and 1689. In that period, ships were believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas.\n\nColston was also a philanthropist, and Bristol honoured his benevolence, naming dozens of buildings, institutions, charities, schools, sports clubs, pubs, societies and roads after him.\n\nA new logo for the venue will be created over the next few months \"in partnership with local young emerging creatives\", a spokesperson added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Barclays will tell \"hundreds\" of UK staff who had gone back to the office to return to working from home.\n\nThe bank told the BBC it was making the move following the latest guidance from the government that people should work at home when they can.\n\nAbout 1,000 Barclays employees worldwide returned to the office over the summer.\n\nFrench bank Societe Generale and insurance giant Lloyd's of London also told UK staff to work from home again.\n\nBarclays said it would not be releasing a country-specific number on those returning to work from home.\n\nThe bank had said it would carry out a \"gradual\" return to the office in October, after chief executive Jess Staley signalled that he wanted employees working from home during the pandemic to return to the office \"over time\".\n\n\"It is important to get people back together in physical concentrations,\" he told Bloomberg TV in July.\n\nHowever, not all banks take the same view. NatWest has said staff can continue to work from home until next year.\n\nOn Tuesday, Societe Generale said it was also \"adapting its position in line with UK government guidance\", without stating the number of workers in its London offices would now work from home.\n\nLloyd's of London said it had told its 800 directly employed staff to work from home but that this did not apply to the independent brokers who use its Lime Street headquarters.\n\n\"Lloyd's underwriting room is certified as a Covid-secure environment and will remain open for market participants,\" the company said.\n\nBusiness groups have reacted with dismay to the prime minister's call for people to work at home where they can.\n\nThe CBI said that it was a \"crushing\" blow that would have a \"devastating impact\".\n\nIt marks a change in policy following a government advertising campaign to get people back to work where safe.\n\nCampaign group London First said it would discourage people from returning to workplaces and risk \"derailing an already fragile recovery\".\n\nCBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC: \"We know we need to avoid a second national lockdown at all if we possibly can, but I have to say these are crushing blows.\n\n\"The impact on people who are coming back into their offices, the impact on city centres, so dependent on the bustle of city life, our creative industries - this will have a devastating impact on people and businesses.\n\n\"And I think that the answer for business, and what I'm hearing in my conversations this morning, is make it a short, sharp shock if it has to happen.\"\n\nPublic transport is still a worry for many people\n\nAppearing on the Emma Barnett Show on Radio 5 live, she said she was speaking to the programme from her office and that \"about 15%\" of her people were in.\n\n\"They're excited about coming back, we need to plan to bring more people back. It's good for morale, it's good for learning, it's good for creativity and so many businesses are feeling that, so this is a backward move that won't be welcomed, and let's make it as short as it needs to be.\"\n\n\"The new restrictions must be regularly reviewed to minimise the damage to the economy while safeguarding the health of the nation in the round - not just physical health, but mental health and our economic health, said London First chief executive Jasmine Whitbread.\n\nShe also called for the government to extend business rates relief and to introduce a \"targeted\" version of the furlough scheme, which is due to end on 31 October.\n\nAs well as the change in stance on working from home, Boris Johnson also confirmed that pubs and restaurants in England will have to close at 22:00 from Thursday to stop the spread of the coronavirus. He warned that the new measures could last up to six months.\n\nMs Whitbread said: \"A targeted version of the furlough scheme would help those hardest hit in leisure, retail and hospitality.\"\n\nRoger Barker, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, said the spread of coronavirus was not wholly predictable, but the \"back and forth\" on office working would cause \"frustration\".\n\nHe added: \"Business leaders are eager for the government to focus on the foundations, issues like childcare, public transport, and getting the testing system firing on all cylinders.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSix months after lockdown was imposed, the country must \"summon discipline, resolve and a spirit of togetherness\" to get through a second battle against coronavirus. That was the message from Boris Johnson on Tuesday night. He said there had been \"too many breaches\" of the rules which were leading to a surge in infections, and therefore, new restrictions were needed - here they are in full. The PM warned he'd have to get \"tougher\" if they were ignored or not effective, but health correspondent Nick Triggle says that's being weighed against the recognition within government that the public is tiring of the fight.\n\nBoris Johnson only decides the rules for England and he stopped short of joining Scotland and Northern Ireland in banning people visiting each other's homes. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged people in Scotland to comply from today, with enforcement being introduced on Friday. Exemptions are in place for certain groups of people. The feeling is it's almost inevitable that England will follow suit in the coming weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEmails sent by the government's most senior scientific and medical advisers, seen by the BBC, have revealed their alarm about claims at the start of the pandemic that they were pursuing a herd immunity strategy. That's the idea that if enough people are allowed to catch a disease and build up some immunity, ultimately it will no longer be able to spread. In one email from March, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance asks for help to \"calm down\" academics who expressed anger at his repeated references to the concept and the delays in announcing a lockdown.\n\nProf Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance came under fire at the start of the pandemic\n\nAbout 600 drink-only bars in Northern Ireland can welcome back customers today for the first time since March. Until now, pubs could only sell alcohol if they also served food or if customers were outside. Northern Ireland hasn't yet imposed earlier closing, but in England, Scotland and Wales kicking out time will soon be 22:00 BST. Industry representatives want to align with the Republic of Ireland, where it's 23:30. The BBC has spoken to landlords who say early closing could halve their takings.\n\nChris Gorman's drone photos have revealed extraordinary scenes during the UK lockdown. From panic-buying to empty shopping centres and theme parks, he says \"every day provided a new and unique picture\". Check out some of his images.\n\nUnsold cars were stacked up on airport runways, like this one in Oxfordshire\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, meet the pop star doctor who decided to scrub up and help out on the wards again after coronavirus put paid to her tour.\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.", "People in Scotland cannot visit other households, unless they are exempt\n\nIndoor visits between households in Scotland are now banned until further notice.\n\nExactly six months since the country was first put into lockdown in March, Scots are once again not allowed to welcome anyone else into their homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged people in Scotland to comply from Wednesday, with enforcement being introduced on Friday.\n\nExemptions are in place for certain groups of people.\n\nThose living alone who form extended households, couples not living together and those who need childcare and tradespeople do not have to observe the indoor visiting restriction.\n\nThe decision to limit interaction between households was based on evidence from the Test and Protect operation that indicated this was the main way the virus was spreading.\n\nThe measure was already in place for more than 1.75 million people in Glasgow and some neighbouring local authority areas where local lockdown restrictions began earlier this month.\n\nNow it has been extended across the whole of Scotland in a bid to get the virus under control before winter. Restrictions will be reviewed every three weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a TV address, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the nation \"we will get through it\"\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday that social interaction between different households was a key driver of transmission and such restrictions were the best way of bringing down the R-number.\n\nLater, in a televised address to the nation, she said: \"By staying out of other people's houses for now, we give ourselves the best chance of bringing Covid back under control.\"\n\nDo not meet people from any other households in your home or another person's home socially, unless they are in your extended household. These rules also apply to children\n\nChildren whose parents do not live in the same household can move between homes, as can non-cohabiting couples\n\nVery limited exemptions apply for childcare, and for tradespeople\n\nA maximum of six people from two households can meet in outdoor spaces\n\nYou should limit as far as possible the total number of households you meet in a day\n\nUnder-12s do not count towards the maximum number of households or number of people who can meet outdoors. Under-12s do not have to physically distance\n\nA maximum of six 12 to 17 year olds can meet in outdoor spaces, with no household limit. Physical distancing is still required\n\nA maximum of six people from two households can meet in public indoor spaces such as cafes, pubs and restaurants, subject to physical distancing rules.\n\nChildren under 12 from those two households do not count towards the limits\n\nIndoor and outdoor gatherings in Scotland were restricted to six people from two households just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, the number of people testing positive for the virus has continued to increase since then.\n\nThe 383 new cases confirmed on Tuesday was the highest daily total since 15 April, and the sixth highest since the outbreak began in Scotland.\n\nThe first minister said hospital and intensive care admissions were also starting to rise, with more older people testing positive.\n\nDuring her televised statement, she said Scotland had to choose its priorities and those were saving lives and protecting health, keeping schools open and restarting NHS services.\n\nPubs, like Sloans in Glasgow, will have to close at 22:00 from Friday\n\nShe said: \"Never forget that humanity has come through even bigger challenges than this one. And though it doesn't feel like it now, this virus will pass.\n\n\"It won't last forever and one day, hopefully soon, we will be looking back on it, not living through it.\n\n\"If we stick with it - and, above all, if we stick together - we will get through it.\"\n\nFurther measures aimed at the hospitality industry will come into effect on Friday. All bars and restaurants will have to close at 22:00 in line with changes announced for England.\n\nThe first minister also asked urged people in Scotland not to book travel overseas for the October break \"unless it is absolutely essential\" and advised people not so share a car with anyone outside of their own household.\n\nShe also said she was keeping the option of a so-called circuit breaker, or short period of nationwide lockdown, under review. Such restrictions could be timed to coincide with the October school holidays, if deemed necessary.\n\nThe Scottish Secretary, Alister Jack, has said he does not agree with the \"one-size-fits all\" approach to a nationwide ban on household visits.\n\nMr Jack told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Wednesday that he supported the action taken by the UK government in imposing local lockdowns in parts of the north of England.\n\nHe said: \"The R number is very high in certain parts of Scotland and very low in other parts of Scotland.\n\n\"I would feel very sorry for people in the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, for instance, because there is very little prevalence of the virus up there.\n\n\"If you are an elderly person and you are lonely and not able to have visits, my sympathy goes out those people.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Jack insisted he did not believe the ban had \"gone too far\" in parts of Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"This is a devolved matter on health and it's a decision for the first minister.\n\n\"But it's the only part of the restrictions announced yesterday that we haven't agreed on across the UK.\"", "The Met Police said officers were injured in Barnet by a \"suspected corrosive substance\".\n\nEleven Met Police officers have been injured by a \"corrosive substance\" during a drugs raid in north London.\n\nThey had been called to an industrial area in Dale Close, Barnet, at about 13:50 BST.\n\nAll of the injured officers have been taken to hospital, but are not thought to be in a life-threatening condition, the Met said.\n\nA number of males were arrested on suspicion of drugs offences.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service (LAS) said four people other than the officers were also treated at the scene.\n\nA LAS spokeswoman said 15 people in total were taken to hospital for injuries - it is not thought any are life-threatening at this stage.\n\nShe added: \"We dispatched a number of resources including ambulance crews, two incident response officers, an advanced paramedic and medics in fast response cars.\n\n\"We also dispatched our hazardous area response team (HART). \"\n\nThe Met said it was in the process of informing the injured officers' families. Other officers remain at the scene.\n\nThe force's Directorate of Professional Standards had been informed, as was routine, it added.\n\nReacting to the injuries Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"shocked\" by the news.\n\n\"It is a stark reminder of the real dangers our hardworking officers face every day as they keep us safe,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"On behalf of all Londoners, I wish them a speedy recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers have ruled out changes to make it easier for transgender people in England and Wales to have their gender legally recognised.\n\nThey have rejected calls for people to be able to self-identify their gender and change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis.\n\nMinisters said reform of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act was not the \"top priority\" for trans people.\n\nThe UK's equalities watchdog said it was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nBut women's rights groups applauded the decision as a \"victory for fairness and common sense\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the GRA and has anything actually changed?\n\nMinisters are pledging action to make it easier for trans people to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate and to improve healthcare services for them.\n\nBut LGBT groups had urged them to go much further, by making it easier for people to legally transition from their birth sex and to provide greater protection under the law.\n\nCurrently, the Gender Recognition Act requires trans people to go through a long process in order to change their birth certificates.\n\nA \"self-ID\" process, allowing changes to birth certificates without a medical diagnosis, was one of the ideas put forward in a consultation undertaken by the last Conservative government, led by Theresa May.\n\nOf the 102,818 responses received, 64% said there should not be a requirement for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria in the future, on the grounds that being trans was neither a medical nor a mental health issue.\n\nBut, in a statement, Equalities Minister Liz Truss said she believed the law as it stood provided the right \"checks and balances\".\n\n\"We want transgender people to be free to live and to prosper in a modern Britain,\" she said.\n\n\"It is the government's view that the balance struck in this legislation is correct, in that there are proper checks and balances in the system and also support for people who want to change their legal sex.\n\n\"We have also come to understand that gender recognition reform, though supported in the consultation undertaken by the last government, is not the top priority for transgender people.\"\n\nIt's now nearly three years since Theresa May talked about \"de-medicalising\" the gender recognition process.\n\nAnd it raised hopes, in some quarters, that fundamental reforms were on the way.\n\nElsewhere, it raised fears that women's rights were set to be eroded.\n\nAnd as that debate raged, ministers seemed to retreat from the scene, unwilling or unsure about how to publicly deal with this political 'hot potato'.\n\nAnd although an official response remained missing in action, it did increasingly become clear that Boris Johnson's administration was unlikely to back what's known as self-ID.\n\nNow, finally, ministers have made up their mind.\n\nIt's a no to changing the law - albeit a yes to cutting the costs of the process.\n\nAnd there are promises to try and address some very real concerns about healthcare.\n\nWhile that move will be welcomed by many, such measures may also be perceived as a way of trying to sweeten the pill for those who are disappointed about the lack of legal reform.\n\nAfter the drawn out delays in Whitehall - and divisive debates in some communities - it's very doubtful that this government will seek to delve into the self-ID debate again any time soon.\n\nMs Truss said the 2010 Equality Act, landmark legislation passed towards the end of the last Labour government, \"clearly protects\" transgender people from discrimination while allowing service providers to restrict access to single sex spaces on the basis of biological sex if there is a clear justification.\n\nThe government is pledging to cut the time involved in applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate, making the process \"kinder and more straightforward\", as well as reducing the £140 cost to a \"nominal\" amount.\n\nAnd it is also promising to cut waiting times at NHS gender clinics.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission welcomed the steps but said it regretted the fact that ministers had passed up an opportunity to \"simplify the law\".\n\n\"There is more to be done to increase understanding in wider society and address the divisive public dialogue in this space,\" a spokesman said.\n\nStonewall, which campaigns for equality for lesbian, bisexual, gay and trans people, said the \"minimal administrative\" changes being proposed were totally inadequate.\n\n\"While these moves will make the current process less costly and bureaucratic, they don't go anywhere near far enough toward meaningfully reforming the Act to make it easier for all trans people to go about their daily life,\" said the organisation's chief executive Nancy Kelley.\n\nAnd, in a joint statement, Amnesty International UK, Liberty and Human Rights Watch said it was a \"missed opportunity\" to ensure the law kept pace with \"human rights standards\".\n\n\"Research has found that medical barriers to gender recognition for trans people are unnecessarily intrusive and can harm their physical and mental health,\" the three organisations said.\n\n\"With medical requirements still in place, trans people will continue to be forced through harmful processes to have their gender legally recognised.\"\n\nBut Fair Play for Women, a group committed to defending the sex-based rights of women, said Ms Truss had made the right decision.\n\nIt said the government had \"acknowledged women are stakeholders too and policies must fairly balance the conflicting rights of trans people and women\".\n\n\"Trans people in the UK have some of the strongest legal protections in the world. That does not change today.\"\n\nIn Scotland, plans that would have allowed trans people to self-identify have been put on hold following criticism from across the political spectrum, including from within the SNP.\n\nA draft bill published by the Scottish government in December would have removed the requirement for people to provide medical evidence of their diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nNo change is now expected before next year's Holyrood elections although Scottish minsters say they remain \"committed\" to updating the law so people can get a gender recognition certificate without \"unnecessary stress\".", "Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance came under fire at the start of the pandemic\n\nAs the UK introduces fresh restrictions on social contact to curb the spread of coronavirus, controversy continues to rage about whether the government had initially considered trying a very different approach.\n\nAt the start of the pandemic, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, spoke about \"herd immunity\" - the idea that once enough of a population had been exposed to the virus, they would build up natural immunity to it.\n\nSir Patrick and the government have both insisted this was never official policy. The government also denies there was any delay in locking down the country, as some critics have suggested.\n\nEmails obtained by the BBC reveal the alarm among the government's top scientific advisers at the reaction to Sir Patrick's words.\n\nIn one email from March, Sir Patrick asks for help to \"calm down\" academics who have expressed anger at his repeated references to herd immunity and the delays in announcing a lockdown.\n\nThe material, obtained by the BBC via a Freedom of Information Act request, consists of every email sent by Sir Patrick and chief medical officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, from the start of February to the start of June, containing the words \"herd immunity\".\n\nThere is no reference in any email until after 13 March, when Sir Patrick discussed herd immunity in a number of media interviews.\n\n\"Our aim,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that morning, is to \"try and reduce the peak - not suppress it completely, also because most people get a mild illness, to build up some degree of herd immunity whilst protecting the most vulnerable\".\n\nTo many, his words appeared an unequivocal endorsement of herd immunity. They also appeared to explain the government's reluctance to order the kind of lockdowns and social distancing measures that were already in place in many other countries, despite cases increasing and worrying scenes in hospitals in Italy.\n\nCommuter stations were deserted at the height of lockdown\n\nSpeaking to Sky News on the same day, Sir Patrick talked about not suppressing the virus completely, to help avoid \"a second peak,\" and also to \"allow enough of us who are going to get mild illness to become immune to this\".\n\nWhen asked how much of the British population would need to contract the virus for herd immunity to become effective, he calmly replied \"probably around 60%\".\n\nWith an approximate 1% case fatality rate, the interviewer responded, that would mean \"an awful lot of people dying\".\n\nAt the time, there was no strong evidence that being infected by coronavirus would result in long-lasting immunity.\n\nThe following day, a group of more than 500 academics published a joint letter, criticising the lack of social distancing restrictions imposed by the government, adding that \"going for 'herd immunity' at this point does not seem a viable option, as this will put the NHS at an even stronger level of stress, risking many more lives than necessary\".\n\nBoris Johnson flanked by his top scientific advisers at the start of the pandemic\n\nIn an email to Sir Mark Walport, the UK's former chief scientific adviser, discussing the scientists' letter, Sir Patrick suggests the message in response should be \"herd immunity is not the strategy. The strategy is to flatten the curve… and to shield the elderly… As we do this we will see immunity in the community grow\".\n\nSir Patrick appears clearly rattled by the backlash to his use of the phrase.\n\nIn response to an email titled \"Covid-19 and herd immunity\", from an academic, he writes brusquely \"No it is NOT the plan\". He does not, however, explain his previous references to herd immunity.\n\nOn the same weekend, he writes to a colleague, \"anything you can do to calm our academic friends down over herd immunity would be greatly appreciated\".\n\nSir Mark Walport told the BBC he believed the interviews had been misunderstood.\n\nSocial distancing has been one of the main weapons against the virus\n\nHe suggested what Sir Patrick had meant when saying it was not desirable to completely suppress the virus, was that it would be so \"draconian and difficult to do that it would not be achievable\".\n\nOthers, however, have suggested, despite the denials, that \"herd immunity\" was indeed the strategy for a period of time.\n\nThe first public use of the term by a UK official appears to be in a BBC interview on 11 March with Dr David Halpern, chief executive of the government-owned Behavioural Insights Team, known as the \"nudge unit\", and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nHe told the BBC: \"You'll want to protect those at-risk groups so that they basically don't catch the disease and by the time they come out of their cocooning, herd immunity's been achieved in the rest of the population.\"\n\nHowever, the emails obtained by the BBC suggest herd immunity was under discussion as early as January.\n\nIn one email from April, Prof Whitty confers with colleagues about a report in the Times newspaper - in which an unnamed senior politician says he had conversations with Prof Whitty in January that \"were absolutely focused on herd immunity\".\n\nIn the email, Prof Whitty complains he has been misrepresented, stating he never thought herd immunity \"was actually a sensible aim of policy\", but suggesting the concept was talked about when answering \"questions put to me by ministers\".\n\nIn another email to the president of the Faculty of Public Health, which sets standards for health professionals - who had raised questions about the lack of testing - Prof Whitty insisted \"the government had never pursued a 'herd immunity strategy'\". He added it would not make \"epidemiological or public health sense\".\n\nIn a statement, a government spokesman said the emails \"make clear… herd immunity has never been a policy aim\".\n\nHowever, that is unlikely to put an end to the controversy, particularly given the lack of references to herd immunity prior to the interviews given by Sir Patrick on 13 March.\n\nCampaigners representing families of some of those who died in the pandemic are calling for a public inquiry into the government's response to the disease.", "The men, Jayden Dolman (l) and Daniel Mee were holidaying in Spain\n\nTwo friends lost their balance while embracing near a seafront wall and fell nine metres (30ft) on to the beach below, an inquest heard.\n\nDaniel Mee, 25, and Jayden Dolman, 20, died on 3 July 2019 during a holiday in Alicante, Spain.\n\nThe men had been \"larking about\" taking photographs when they toppled over a railing, the inquest in Taunton was told.\n\nMr Mee was pronounced dead at the scene while Mr Dolman later died in hospital.\n\nSomerset coroner Tony Williams said their friend Lewis Higgins witnessed what had happened.\n\n\"He said he and his friends Jayden and Daniel were walking from the villa to the nearest beach.\n\n\"They were taking pictures while they were walking. Daniel embraced Jayden. He saw them both close to the railings. Then they fell.\"\n\nMr Higgins told Spanish authorities the friends had been drinking during the day.\n\nThe inquest focused on the death of Mr Mee, a plumber from Bridgwater, as Mr Dolman's body was not repatriated to the UK.\n\nIt heard toxicology tests found the amount of alcohol in Mr Mee's blood was 215mg per 100ml of blood. The legal drink-drive limit is 80mg.\n\nMr Williams said Mr Mee's cause of death was a head injury and recorded a conclusion of accidental death.\n\nHe said: \"Daniel and Jayden are hugging close to the railings and during that, they have lost balance, they have gone over the railings and unfortunately fallen over where there is a steep drop of nine metres on the other side.\n\n\"Unfortunately, they have sustained injuries that have proved fatal.\"\n• None Two men fall to deaths from a wall in Spain\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is considered the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia\n\nA number of Saudi officials, including two members of the royal family, have been sacked.\n\nA royal decree said Saudi King Salman had relieved Prince Fahad bin Turki of his role as commander of joint forces in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.\n\nHis son, Abdulaziz bin Fahad, was also removed as a deputy governor.\n\nThe men, along with four other officials, face an investigation into \"suspicious financial dealings\" at the Ministry of Defence, the decree said.\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is the king's son and is considered Saudi Arabia's de-facto ruler, has spearheaded a campaign against alleged corruption in the government.\n\nHowever, critics say the high-profile arrests have been aimed at removing obstacles to the prince's hold on power.\n\nEarlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that three senior royals had been arrested, including the king's younger brother Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz and former crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef.\n\nThe most high-profile incident, in 2017, saw dozens of Saudi royal figures, ministers and businessmen detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh.\n\nMost of them were later released, but only after reaching settlements worth a total of $106.7bn (£75.6bn) with the Saudi state.\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 35, won international praise when he promised a series of economic and social reforms to the deeply-conservative country after coming to power in 2016.\n\nHe has also been criticised over the continuing conflict in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia backs pro-government forces, and the harsh treatment of women's rights activists. despite the lifting of some restrictions including the right to drive.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA huge clear-up operation is continuing after a train crash spilled hundreds of tonnes of oil into a wildlife haven.\n\nTen wagons, each containing 75 tonnes of diesel, derailed and spilled oil into the Loughor Estuary, near Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, on Wednesday.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said oil has now spread as far as Crofty, Swansea, about 4.5 miles (7km) away.\n\nCockle beds and shell fisheries have been closed after advice from the Food Standards Agency.\n\nThe scene of devastation could be seen from above\n\nThe water was dark heading into the estuary\n\nThe Loughor Estuary is part of the Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries Special Area of Conservation, and local wildlife groups have already warned it could have a \"devastating impact\" on the environment.\n\nPeople were evacuated from their homes and a major incident was declared after a freight train carrying wagons of Puma Energy's diesel derailed and burst into flames, causing the fuel to spill into the estuary, which is a site of special scientific interest and home to wildfowl and wading birds.\n\nOn Sunday the oil had been spotted as far away as Crofty, Natural Resources Wales said\n\nNatural Resources Wales said it was \"doing everything in our power to mitigate the impacts of this incident\"\n\nNRW was not able to investigate the damage of the spill until the fire was put out, which took firefighters 33 hours.\n\nOn Saturday, NRW said the spill was \"no longer confined to the upper reaches of the estuary and has been observed at many locations as far as Crofty\".\n\nOn Tuesday, cranes are due to be brought in to start removing the wreckage from the tracks, with it estimated two wagons could be removed a day.\n\nNRW said thousands of litres of fuel had already been pumped from the wagons and the surrounding area.\n\nOver the weekend, trenches were dug and booms and absorbent pads put in place to try and contain the diesel, while \"vacuuming and skimming operations\" are also taking place, NRW said.\n\n\"These techniques have proved to be working well and are removing a considerable quantity of diesel from the water courses,\" a spokesman said.\n\nSamples are being taken, and an environment group made up of representatives from Public Health Wales, the Food Standards Agency, local councils, government departments and wildlife bodies has been formed to respond to the incident.\n\nDiesel has been pumped from the wagons ahead of their removal\n\nBen Wilson, NRW's incident manager, said: \"Our priority at this time is to work with our partners at the incident scene to contain the diesel spill and prevent it from polluting the Loughor Estuary any further.\n\n\"We also have monitoring teams out assessing the extent of the pollution. Their work will help the multi-agency Wales Environment Group to assess the wider environmental impact at sites such as the local fisheries and bathing water sites, and any effect on wildlife in the area.\"\n\nThe estuary is home to important shellfisheries and cockle beds, which have been closed as a \"precaution\" following advice from the Food Standards Agency, NRW said.\n\nThe map showing the observed presence of diesel in the Loughor Estuary on 29 August\n\nWhile Public Health Wales (PHW) said it was unlikely that anyone exposed to diesel for a short period of time would have any adverse health effects, it is sensible to avoid contact with diesel or the water in contaminated areas.\n\nAndrew Kibble of PHW said: \"If anyone gets diesel on their skin, they should remove any affected clothing and wash using soap and water and if they feel unwell seek medical attention.\n\n\"We would also advise that all pets are kept out of contact with the diesel and that members of the public do not pick up any birds or other animals affected by diesel from the shoreline.\"", "Seesha Dack was last seen on Sunday evening\n\nPolice searching for a 15-year-old girl who has been missing for two nights have found a body.\n\nSeesha Dack left her North Shields home at 17:00 BST on Sunday to meet friends, but did not return home, sparking a major search operation.\n\nA body has been found in the Tanners' Bank area of North Shields.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place but police said they believe the body to be that of Ms Dack and her family has been informed.\n\nThere is not at this stage thought to be any third party involvement and a report will be prepared for the coroner.\n\nTanners' Bank has been sealed off with a police cordon\n\nSupt Barrie Joisce, of Northumbria Police, said: \"This is an extremely sad conclusion to an extensive investigation.\n\n\"Specialist officers are currently supporting Seesha's family during this incredibly difficult time and our thoughts are with them.\n\n\"We will continue to carry out inquiries to establish the circumstances around the death but at this stage we do not believe there to be any third party involvement.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alex Penn is concerned that his firm SSE Audio is losing talented staff\n\nAlex Penn has been planning for the unwinding of the government's coronavirus furlough scheme since July - but it doesn't make the job cuts any easier.\n\nFrom Tuesday, companies using the scheme are now having to contribute to workers' wages.\n\nAnd like many companies, Mr Penn's sound equipment firm SSE Audio has not seen a post-lockdown revival in business sufficient to keep everyone employed.\n\n\"We entered a consultation period in July,\" said the SSE co-managing director. \"We spoke to everybody in the company. We wanted to make sure we were preparing ourselves for the worst.\"\n\nSince March, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has paid 80% of the wages of workers placed on leave, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nBut now that is going down to 70%, with the employer paying 10%.\n\nSaid Mr Penn: \"The fact that our costs would be ramping up in relation to the furlough scheme as of 1 September, that was when we decided we needed to go through our initial round of redundancies.\"\n\nThe firm, which provides sound systems for arena gigs such as the Reading and Leeds music festivals, is going from 200 employees to 150.\n\nThe impact of the pandemic has hit the arts and entertainment sector particularly hard, and Mr Penn fears a loss of talent.\n\n\"Many of our freelancers are already working in other jobs and we don't expect all of them to come back so it is really important that businesses like ours are protected,\" he said.\n\nMany other companies are also likely to began shedding more staff as the scheme unwinds, which is why some economists are predicting a huge jump in unemployment. Calls for the scheme to be extended are growing.\n\nIt is due to finish at the end of October and Chancellor Rishi Sunak has repeatedly ruled out an extension to it.\n\nLast month, he said it was \"wrong to keep people trapped\" in a situation where there was no realistic prospect of them having a job to go back to.\n\nFrom 1 September, the government will pay 70% of wages up to a cap of £2,187.50 a month. Employers are already paying employees' pension contributions and National Insurance, but will now have to pay 10% of salaries as well.\n\nIn October, the government will pay 60% of wages up to a cap of £1,875. The employers' share of the bill will then go up to 20% of wages.\n\nIt was hailed as groundbreaking: the scheme which provided a vital lifeline to businesses and more than 9.5 million workers.\n\nBut weaning UK businesses off the retention scheme will be the biggest challenge so far for Rishi Sunak.\n\nWith business far from usual, one in 12 workers continue to have their wages for paid by the state.\n\nThe chancellor is adamant that it's time to end the scheme as businesses reopen. The price-tag so far has crossed £35bn, the kind of level which points to tax rises further down the road.\n\nInstead, he points to other forms of support for job retention and creation that he's introduced, from a bonus scheme for employers keeping on staff to targeted VAT cuts for the hospitality industry.\n\nYet the chancellor's own independent forecaster reckons unemployment could reach rates not seen since the 1980s.\n\nMr Sunak admits he can't save every job. The challenge is to prevent a crisis which could ultimately be far more costly for the economy.\n\nThe increased cost of the scheme poses a problem for employers, who face difficult decisions about whether to make staff redundant.\n\nCraig Beaumont of the Federation of Small Businesses told the BBC's Today programme that one million small employers across the country had used the furlough scheme.\n\nHe said that 23% of small employers were considering reducing their headcount in the next three months.\n\n\"This is very very serious. That's a huge section of the economy,\" he said.\n\n\"Sixty per cent of those who work in the private sector do so for a small business, so if that happens without any intervention, then that's a huge increase in mass unemployment.\"\n\nAcas has seen a huge rise in calls to its redundancy advice line\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, told the programme that other countries, such as France and Germany, had extended comparable schemes.\n\nLast week, for instance, Germany agreed to extend a scheme that tops up pay for workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic until the end of 2021.\n\n\"The UK scheme, in that sense, looks a little bit short, especially when you take into account that the UK's economy is made up of a higher share of sectors that are hampered by social distancing,\" Mr Dales said.\n\nHowever, he added that many jobs were currently \"frozen\" and would not come back after the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"You do want to start the process of reallocating those people to jobs that will be around for many many years,\" he said.\n\nSome businesses that are still suffering from the pandemic, including live music venues that have not yet reopened, are feeling the effects of the furlough tapering.\n\nTristan Moffat, operations director of the Piano Works bars in London's Farringdon and West End districts, told BBC Radio 5 live that his business had 104 members of staff on furlough.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What could post-lockdown nights out look like?\n\nThe bars are still closed at present, but the company is hoping to reopen them in October with strict social distancing measures in place.\n\nThe idea is that before customers even enter the club, they will have their temperatures taken and be sprayed with disinfectant in a special tunnel.\n\nBut that depends on the lifting of restrictions on audiences singing and dancing, as each venue has a six-piece band that plays non-stop music.\n\n\"If we're not able to reopen in the short term, then we would have very very difficult decisions ahead,\" he said.\n\nThe impending end of the scheme is already having an impact on the economy, analysts say.\n\nConciliation service Acas has said calls to its redundancy advice line almost tripled in June and July, as concerns mounted about the implications.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: ''The unwinding of the furlough scheme has been followed by announcements of significant job losses across multiple sectors, particularly travel and retail.\n\n\"Although growth has been recovering as lockdown restrictions have eased, it has become increasingly clear that the government's job retention scheme has been masking the damage wreaked by the pandemic on jobs and the wider economy.\n\n\"As the scheme tapers further at the start of next month and the government stops subsidising wages altogether by 31 October, we would expect economic recovery to lose momentum as businesses across many industries are forced to lay off more staff.\"", "Breakfast clubs and after school care is \"essential\" for many families\n\nParents may be unable to return to work or could even stop their children going back to school amid uncertainty over childcare, a nursery has claimed.\n\nWhile schools gear up to welcome back pupils, many breakfast and after-school clubs are unable to fully reopen.\n\nCompanies providing care said they were still unsure when services could fully resume - leaving parents in the dark.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it expected more childcare places to become available as schools reopen.\n\nFor those parents unable to drop off and collect their children at school-time, clubs before and after classes are essential.\n\nHowever some companies that provide services such as \"wraparound\" care - looking after children both before and after school - are unable to fully reopen due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nWhen schools closed in March, childcare providers could only offer services to children of key workers.\n\nServices have slowly increased but restrictions have had \"a massive impact\" on those businesses, said Claire Bailyes, of Little Inspirations in Tonyrefail, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nThe company has seven locations across south-east Wales and said navigating the guidance, often at \"short notice\" and \"not clear at times\", had been difficult.\n\n\"Normally we would have school collections, breakfast club and after-school club\", said Ms Bailyes.\n\n\"However with everything going on it's very limited, so it's had a big impact on the nurseries and it's been very short notice to let parents know.\"\n\nWith many grandparents self-isolating, the lack of care is affecting parents' ability to return to work.\n\n\"There's been a lot of disappointment for parents. Some are not able to go back to work as they have to stay home with the children,\" she added.\n\n\"Some have even considered not sending their children to school as they're not going to be able to take and collect them.\n\n\"The staggered pick up times are just so awkward and many grandparents are not there because they are isolating or shielding.\"\n\n\"We don't have the flexibility to leave work early,\" said Owain Rogers\n\nOne parent facing uncertainty at how either he or his wife, who is a teacher, can drop off and collect their two sons is Owain Rogers, from Cardiff.\n\n\"That service is essential for us because we don't have a support network to pick up the kids at three o'clock,\" he said.\n\n\"We really depend on the after-school club to be able to go back to work because neither my wife or I have the flexibility to leave early.\n\n\"It's really hard to know what provision we can put in place. We're going to have to rely on friends, but then we feel a burden, and other families are in the same predicament - worrying about what's happening.\n\n\"I don't know why these clubs can't open as usual. Schools are open and people need to go back to work.\"\n\nChildcare providers have been inundated with queries from parents\n\nThe Welsh Government said almost 70% of childcare settings in Wales were now open, with more expected to resume services as schools reopen.\n\n\"We understand there may be some variations in service at the start of the autumn term as schools and childcare providers get used to the new ways of operating and we are working with local authorities to ensure childcare is available to families,\" it said.\n\n\"We also recently announced £4m in funding to support the childcare sector to ensure more providers re-open as schools return in September.\"\n\nIt added that school-run breakfast clubs were under a \"legal duty\" to resume at the start of the new term.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We would expect that as primary schools open, [school-run] breakfast clubs should operate as normal unless it would be unreasonable for them to do so.\"", "Dominic Raab and his top civil servant Philip Barton arrive at their new department\n\nThe UK government remains committed to spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid, Dominic Raab has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary dismissed as \"tittle tattle\" reports that the £15bn aid budget could be cut to pay for more defence and intelligence spending.\n\nPress reports suggest Chancellor Rishi Sunak will cut aid spending to help pay off rising debts in his Autumn budget.\n\nBut Mr Raab said the 0.7% target was a manifesto commitment that was written into law.\n\nHis promise came as the newly-merged Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office began work, with a pledge to protect \"the world's poorest\" from coronavirus and famine.\n\nThe new department is opening after No 10 decided to combine the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the Department for International Development (DfID).\n\nAsked if the 0.7% target would survive the merger, Mr Raab said: \"Oh, absolutely.\"\n\nHe added that the development expertise the UK has got will be \"the beating heart of this new department\".\n\nThe government is carrying out a review of defence and security policy, that is due to report back in November, and is also gearing up for the comprehensive spending review, which will set departmental budgets for the next few years.\n\nAccording to The Times, Rishi Sunak is arguing that the Ministry of Defence's plans for advanced cyber weaponry and AI-enabled drones must be paid for out of the aid budget.\n\nMr Raab said: \"Well, there is loads of tittle tattle, rather colourful, in the media and I am not going to prejudice the comprehensive spending review.\"\n\nHe added that the government was committed to helping the poorest around the world and \"making sure we link up aid with our wider foreign policy goals\".\n\nThe UK is one of the few countries to meet the UN's 0.7% aid target\n\nMr Raab has announced a £119m fund to tackle coronavirus and famine to mark the launch of the new, merged department.\n\nThe money will be targeted in Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Somalia, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan and West Africa's Sahel region - all places where the outbreak has worsened conditions for people already struggling with extreme hunger, wars and/or climate change.\n\nThe foreign secretary also confirmed he would be appointing Nick Dyer - a director general at DfID - as the UK's first special envoy for famine prevention and humanitarian affairs.\n\nThe abolition of the Department for International Development may have been driven by political pressure from within the Conservative Party.\n\nBut the government argues that its merger with the Foreign Office will mean better, more joined-up policy.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said that by combining its diplomatic strength with its expertise in foreign aid, Britain could not only tackle global challenges, but also protect its interests.\n\nCritics fear the new Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office could mean the government weakens its commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.\n\nBut Downing Street insisted there'd been no change to that policy.\n\nThe two departments have a history of being merged and split up again, and the move to bring them together has long been mooted in Conservative circles.\n\nTory MP Harriet Baldwin - who held joint roles across the FCO and DfID - said it was \"really important to combine them\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"[The move] will really increase the impact of our diplomatic clout, as well as our development expertise across the world.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Hilary Benn, who was the international development secretary under Tony Blair, said he thought the merger was a \"mistake\" and questioned Mr Johnson's understanding of the department.\n\nHe told Today: \"The proof will be in how this new department develops and unfolds, but I think it will lead to less respect for what we are doing.\"\n\nBoris Johnson announced the merger in June, telling MPs it would ensure aid spending better reflected UK aims and that it was a \"long overdue reform\".\n\nHe said UK aid spending had \"been treated as some giant cashpoint in the sky that arrives without any reference to UK interests\".\n\nBut the PM pledged DfID's budget - which at £15bn last year dwarfed the £2.4bn spent by the Foreign Office - would be maintained\n\nMr Johnson's decision was criticised by three previous prime ministers - Conservative David Cameron, and Labour's Gordon Brown and Mr Blair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson announced the merger to the Commons in June\n\nMr Cameron said it would mean \"less expertise, less voice for development at the top table and ultimately less respect for the UK overseas\".\n\nThe Commons International Development Committee also called the move \"impulsive\", saying the world's poorest \"will pay the greatest price\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to reinstate DfID if he were to win the next general election, saying the merger was \"the tactics of pure distraction\".", "Microsoft has developed a tool to spot deepfakes - computer-manipulated images in which one person's likeness has been used to replace that of another.\n\nThe software analyses photos and videos to give a confidence score about whether the material is likely to have been artificially created.\n\nThe firm says it hopes the tech will help \"combat disinformation\".\n\nOne expert has said it risks becoming quickly outdated because of the pace at which deepfake tech is advancing.\n\nTo address this, Microsoft has also announced a separate system to help content producers add hidden code to their footage so any subsequent changes can be easily flagged.\n\nDeepfakes came to prominence in early 2018 after a developer adapted cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques to create software that swapped one person's face for another.\n\nThe process worked by feeding a computer lots of still images of one person and video footage of another. Software then used this to generate a new video featuring the former's face in the place of the latter's, with matching expressions, lip-synch and other movements.\n\nSince then, the process has been simplified - opening it up to more users - and now requires fewer photos to work.\n\nSome apps exist that require only a single selfie to substitute a film star's face with that of the user within clips from Hollywood movies.\n\nBut there are concerns the process can also be abused to create misleading clips, in which a prominent figure is made to say or act in a way that never happened, for political or other gain.\n\nEarly this year, Facebook banned deepfakes that might mislead users into thinking a subject had said something they had not. Twitter and TikTok later followed with similar rules of their own.\n\nMicrosoft's Video Authenticator tool works by trying to detect giveaway signs that an image has been artificially generated, which might be invisible to the human eye.\n\nThe Video Authenticator tool gives a percentage-based confidence score as to how likely a clip is to be a deepfake\n\nThese include subtle fading or greyscale pixels at the boundary of where the computer-created version of the target's face has been merged with that of the original subject's body.\n\nTo build it, the firm applied its own machine-learning techniques to a public dataset of about 1,000 deepfaked video sequences and then tested the resulting model against an even bigger face-swap database created by Facebook.\n\nOne technology advisor noted that deepfake videos remain relatively rare for now, and that most manipulated clips involve cruder re-edits done by a human. Even so, she welcomed Microsoft's intervention.\n\n\"The only really widespread use we've seen so far is in non-consensual pornography against women,\" commented Nina Schick, author of the book Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse.\n\n\"But synthetic media is expected to become ubiquitous in about three to five years, so we need to develop these tools going forward.\n\n\"However, as detection capabilities get better, so too will the generation capability - it's never going to be the case that Microsoft can release one tool that can detect all kinds of video manipulation.\"\n\nIn the short term, it said it hoped its existing product might help identify deepfakes ahead of November's US election.\n\nRather than release it to the public, however, it is only offering it via a third-party organisation, which in turn will provide it to news publishers and political campaigns without charge.\n\nThe reason for this is to prevent bad actors getting hold of the code and using it to teach their deepfake generators how to evade it.\n\nTo tackle the longer-term challenge, Microsoft has teamed up with the BBC, among other media organisations, to support Project Origin, an initiative to \"mark\" online content in a way that makes it possible to spot automatically any manipulation of the material.\n\nThe US tech firm will do this via a two-part process.\n\nFirstly, it has created an internet tool to add a digital fingerprint - in the form of certificates and \"hash\" values - to the media's metadata.\n\nSecondly, it has created a reader, to check for any evidence that the fingerprints have been affected by third-party changes to the content.\n\nMicrosoft says people will then be able to use the reader in the form of a browser extension to verify a file is authentic and check who has produced it.\n\nPhoto and video manipulation is crucial to the spread of often quite convincing disinformation on social media.\n\nBut right now complex or deepfake technology isn't always necessary. Simple editing technology is more often than not the favoured option.\n\nThat was the case with a recent manipulated video of US Presidential candidate Joe Biden, which has been viewed over two million times on social media.\n\nThe clip shows a TV interview during which Biden appeared to be falling asleep. But it was fake - the clip of the host was from a different TV Interview and snoring effects had been added.\n\nComputer-generated photos of people's faces, on the other hand, have already become common hallmarks of sophisticated foreign interference campaigns, used to make fake accounts appear more authentic.\n\nOne thing is for sure, more ways to spot media that has been manipulated or changed is not a bad thing in the fight against online disinformation.", "This small zinc casket containing ex-mayor Pierre David's heart was in the fountain\n\nAn ornate fountain in Verviers, eastern Belgium, has given up an object it held for more than a century: the heart of the city's first mayor.\n\nThe organ, sealed in a jar of alcohol inside a small zinc casket, was found during renovation of the fountain.\n\nThe casket is now on show in the city's Museum of Fine Arts. Mayor Pierre David died in 1839, but the fountain named after him was only inaugurated in 1883.\n\nAn engraving on the casket says it was placed in the monument at the time.\n\n\"The heart of Pierre David was solemnly placed in the monument on 25 June 1883\", it reads.\n\nThe casket was tucked away in this hollowed-out stone\n\nThe Verviers Alderman for Public Works, Maxime Degey, said \"an urban legend has become reality: the casket was in the upper part of the fountain, right near the bust of Pierre David, behind a stone which we had removed during the fountain's renovation\".\n\nQuoted by broadcaster RTBF, he said the casket found by the builders on 20 August was \"in really impeccable condition\".\n\nThe casket was hidden near the bust of Pierre David, nearly half-way up\n\nMayor Pierre David died in a fall aged 68, while working in his hayloft in 1839.\n\nThe city authorities launched a collection fund for a monument to honour him, and with his family's consent surgeons removed his heart, so that it could be entombed in the monument.\n\nThe Verviers official website - verviers.be - says it then took decades for the city to collect enough money to erect a suitably ornate monument.\n\nMeanwhile there were also arguments over how best to honour the city's first mayor, before the fountain at Place Verte went ahead.\n\nThe casket is in a special exhibition in Verviers Museum of Fine Arts\n\nHe lived through turbulent times, including the establishment of Belgium as an independent state in 1830.\n\nHe first served as Verviers mayor in 1800-1808, when today's Belgium was ruled from France.\n\nLater, Belgium's independence resulted from a revolution against Dutch rule in 1830, and in that year Pierre David was elected to serve as mayor again.\n\nThe mayor is remembered especially for having founded a fire service in Verviers in 1802 - a rare innovation at that time.\n\nHe was a Francophile who supported the ideology of the French Revolution, but then lived through the period of Dutch rule from 1815 to 1830.\n\nVerviers was badly damaged in the 1830 uprising, and Pierre David was given the task of restoring order in the city, as he was widely respected.\n\nThe David Fountain is being dismantled stone by stone for renovation", "Stormzy, who has previously headlined Glastonbury, was due to perform at Reading and Leeds this year\n\nReading and Leeds Festival will be back next year with six headliners split across two main stages in each site.\n\nThe event, which sees acts rotate between Reading and Leeds, had been due to happen last weekend but was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNow 2021's headliners will be Stormzy, Liam Gallagher, Post Malone, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Disclosure and Queens Of The Stone Age.\n\nUp to 200,000 fans are expected at next year's events - from 27 to 29 August.\n\nLiam Gallagher seems pretty pleased to be back on stage next year\n\nThe head of the event's promoters Festival Republic, Melvin Benn, said it was their \"most epic plan yet\".\n\n\"Two main stages, six headliners, the best line up of acts 2021 will see and 200,000 fans are going to celebrate the best music,\" he added.\n\nThe event, regarded by many live music fans as second only to Glastonbury in the annual UK music calendar, will also include AJ Tracey, Doja Cat, Lewis Capaldi, Mabel and Two Door Cinema Club, along with rappers Ashnikko, DaBaby and Fever 333.\n\nRapper Stormzy and former Oasis frontman Gallagher had been due to headline the 2020 events - along with rock band Rage Against The Machine - and the organisers were able to retain the services of both British superstars.\n\nGallagher said: \"Yes Brothers and Sisters, I come bearing good news...Yours Truly is headlining Reading & Leeds 2021. C'MON YOU KNOW. LG\"\n\nCatfish And The Bottlemen, who will headline the festival for the first time, told BBC Radio 1 it was a \"huge honour\" to have been asked to top the bill.\n\n\"We've always had it in the back of our minds since we first played the BBC Introducing stage [in 2013],\" the band's frontman Van McCann said.\n\n\"To be able to come back now and have that slot, it's a big one.\n\n\"We'll probably turn up with a few new songs.\"\n\nThe organisers are hoping fans will still enjoy attending - although it may not look quite like this next year\n\nHowever, some on social media complained about the lack of female artists among next year's headliners, all of whom are male.\n\nRobert accused the organisers of \"misogyny\", while another tweeted that the headliners were being outshone by the women featured in the 2021 line-up, but apparently \"deemed not headline-worthy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by robert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 𝕸𝖔𝖑 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 festival will still take place at the usual venues - Richfield Avenue in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds. Tickets bought for this summer will remain valid, while refunds will also be available, organisers have said.\n\nReading and Leeds are both among the longest-running and largest music events in Britain. Reading has a capacity audience of 105,000 music fans, while Leeds can take 75,000.\n\nThe Reading Festival itself dates back to the the 1960s, and used to be best-known as a rock festival, but over the years it has included a more diverse line-up and added Leeds as a second site in 1999.\n\nLast year's headliners included The 1975, Post Malone, Twenty One Pilots and Foo Fighters. Other acts included Billie Eilish, Bastille, Blossoms, Yungblud, Pale Waves and The Distillers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Samantha and Frankie tied the knot at their home in Loughbrickland, County Down\n\nA County Down woman whose circumstances persuaded Northern Ireland's devolved government to allow her wedding to go ahead during lockdown has passed away.\n\nSamantha Gamble, who had a terminal cancer diagnosis, and Frankie Byrne had been together for 12 years and had planned to marry at the end of May.\n\nBut coronavirus restrictions meant that weddings were not allowed.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said that she did not think anyone \"could have failed to be touched by the couple\".\n\nMrs Byrne, from Loughbrickland, died on Sunday in the Southern Area Hospice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStormont's first and deputy first ministers, Mrs Foster and Michelle O'Neill, said they had agreed to allow marriage ceremonies in which a person is terminally ill as part of the first steps in lifting lockdown measures in Northern Ireland after the couple's family lobbied politicians.\n\nThanking them for their decision, Mrs Byrne said they would \"never know what it means to us\".\n\nSamantha said her wedding meant \"everything\"\n\nOnly six people, including the bride, groom and registrar, could attend the garden ceremony with wider family joining via video link.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. All you need to know about Wales' schools returning full-time\n\nExams in Wales could be delayed in 2021, following the cancellation of this year's tests.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams said discussions would be held with regulator Qualifications Wales.\n\nThere have been calls for the exams to be cancelled again, but Ms Williams said she intended for them to go ahead.\n\nThere could be changes to how the qualifications are taught, with exam board WJEC looking at making changes like reducing set texts.\n\nIt follows controversy in August at the way A-level results were provided, before the system to judge pupils' grades was scrapped in favour of teacher assessments.\n\nExams in England are likely to be delayed where a UK government minister has promised a decision \"very soon\".\n\nChildren will head back to the classroom across Wales this week.\n\nAmid concerns about coronavirus, truancy fines will not be issued if pupils do not attend at the start of the school year, but this plan will be reviewed as the term develops.\n\nStudents had called on the government to use teacher-predicted grades\n\nSpeaking at a Welsh Government press conference, Ms Williams said: \"It is our intention at this time, to hold examinations next year.\n\n\"There are discussions about when those examinations may take place.\"\n\nThe minister said Qualifications Wales was speaking to other UK regulators \"as to whether it would be wise to move those examinations to a different point in the year, primarily to maximise teaching\".\n\nBut she said any delay would have a \"knock-on effect\" on matters such as progression and results day.\n\nWJEC had been \"working on amendments to specs that will be taught this term, to make them as manageable as possible for schools\", Ms Williams said.\n\nThat could include reducing case studies or set texts for literature students, changes she said \"go further\" than those made in England.\n\nDetails of a review of 2020's exams were announced last week - it will provide recommendations for how next year's qualifications are handled.\n\nThe UK Labour Party has called for next summer's GCSE and A-level exams to be pushed back in England.\n\nDelyth Jewell of Plaid Cymru said the final report of the independent review is not due until mid-December, \"which is too close for those sitting exams in January 2021\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government has an opportunity now to cancel exams, rather than waste valuable time delaying what many feel will be an inevitable decision,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Williams said new funding was being provided to give reopening schools extra teachers and support.\n\nThe £29m fund is targeted at Years 11, 12 and 13 as well as disadvantaged and vulnerable learners.\n\nIt will also be used to provide extra coaching support, personalised learning programmes and resources for exam year pupils.\n\nChildren in Wales start returning to school this week\n\nChildren will be expected to wear their uniform when they go back to school, Ms Williams told the press conference.\n\nShe said she wanted to see \"as much normality should be resumed\" where possible and it would be \"helpful\" if uniforms could be washed regularly, rather than being dry-cleaned.\n\nThe minister said it was important school children are tested if they have suspected coronavirus.\n\n\"All children who are exhibiting a new continuous cough, temperature, loss of taste and smell, will be required to take a test.\n\n\"I appreciate that as we enter into the winter months, other potential illnesses could well be confused but at this stage any child, or member of staff in school, are exhibiting any of these signs they will need to be tested\".\n\nKirsty Williams said discussions were ongoing about when next year's exams would be held\n\nSpeaking earlier on BBC Wales Breakfast, Ms Williams said that in the first few days of the catch-up sessions before the summer break, some parents had been \"reluctant\" to send their children back.\n\n\"When parents saw other children were returning to school, that it was being done as safely and securely as possible, and that the children were getting so much out of going to school, we saw confidence growing,\" she said.\n\n\"We want to have reassuring conversations with parents, rather than threatening them with fines.\"\n\nShe added: \"At this stage it is absolutely appropriate that we have those conversations to understand why parents may have concerns, why they don't want to send their children back, and to work with parents, school by school, on an individual basis, to reassure them.\"\n\nBut Ms Williams stated the situation in schools would be reviewed as the term progressed.\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser has said children are more likely to be harmed by not returning to school than if they catch coronavirus.\n\nBut Ms Williams said while everything was being done to make sure schools were as safe as possible, there were \"no risk-free options\".", "As universities around the world start to reopen, students are coming to terms with new ways of learning and socialising.\n\nBBC OS on World Service radio has been hearing from students in different parts of the world, to find out their experiences of returning to university.\n\nKaddyja is a first-year student at the University of Alabama in the US, where more than 1,200 students have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"I'm only in class with about eight to 12 other students,\" she says. \"We don't talk. I'm not used to that, especially coming from a high school where I knew almost everyone. My first few days, I remember just being bored in my dorm from being cooped up all day.\"\n\nButhmee is a first-year student at Tokyo International University in Japan, but is doing her studies from her home in Sri Lanka.\n\n\"I was hoping I would be in Japan right now with my friends starting university, starting a new life there.\"\n\nBut she says online learning has been an overall positive experience. \"We've had videos emailed to us on a daily basis. They've also connected us with counsellors.\"\n\nBut for Ricardo, a third-year student at Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain, the change from his first two years has been difficult.\n\n\"I'm very frustrated because I see how a lot of teachers are doing nothing. They say they have uploaded a document, but if you don't try to connect to us, to have video calls to explain things, I'm not going to understand. I'm paying the same price as when it was full attendance in campus.\"\n\nBut he understands the importance of social distancing, having caught Covid-19 while working at his family restaurant.\n\nHe and his friends are finding new ways of socialising. \"We're making video calls every day and using Netflix Party to watch films together. We are doing good.\"", "The trial of the alleged accomplices opens on Wednesday\n\nFrench satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that made them the target of a deadly terror attack in 2015.\n\nRepublication comes a day before 14 people go on trial accused of helping the two Islamist attackers carry out their gun rampage on 7 January 2015.\n\nTwelve people were killed, including famous cartoonists. Five people died in a related attack in Paris days later.\n\nThe attacks began a wave of jihadist strikes across France.\n\nThe front cover of the latest edition features the 12 original cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which were published in a Danish newspaper before appearing in Charlie Hebdo. One of the cartoons shows the prophet wearing a bomb instead of a turban. The French headline reads \"Tout ça pour ça\" (\"All of that for this\").\n\nIn its editorial, the magazine says that it has often been asked to carry on printing caricatures of the prophet since the 2015 killings.\n\n\"We have always refused to do so, not because it is prohibited - the law allows us to do so - but because there was a need for a good reason to do it, a reason which has meaning and which brings something to the debate,\" it says.\n\n\"To reproduce these cartoons in the week the trial over the January 2015 terrorist attacks opens seemed essential to us.\"\n\nFourteen people are accused of obtaining weapons and providing logistical support for the attackers of Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices, and subsequent attacks on a Jewish supermarket and a police officer.\n\nThe Hyper Cacher supermarket, where a gunman killed four people in January 2015\n\nThree of the accused are being tried in absentia as they are believed to have fled to northern Syria and Iraq.\n\nThere are believed to be some 200 plaintiffs in the trial and survivors of the attacks are expected to testify, France's RFI broadcaster reports.\n\nThe trial had been due to start in March but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. It is due to last until November.\n\nOn 7 January, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, and opened fire killing the editor Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb, four other cartoonists including Cabu, two columnists, a copy editor, a guest attending the meeting and the caretaker. The editor's bodyguard and a police officer were also killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As the manhunt for the attackers continues, here's a tribute to those killed - in 60 seconds\n\nAs police hunted down the two brothers - who were eventually killed - another siege began in the east of Paris. Amedy Coulibaly, who was an acquaintance of the Kouachi brothers, killed a policewoman before taking several people hostage at a Jewish supermarket. He killed four Jewish men on 9 January before being shot dead in a police standoff.\n\nIn a video recording, Coulibaly said the attacks had been carried in the name of the Islamic State group.\n\nCharlie Hebdo's anti-establishment satire - poking fun at the far right, and aspects of Catholicism and Judaism as well as Islam - had long drawn controversy.\n\nBut it was its portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed that led to death threats against the editorial team and a petrol bomb attack on its offices in 2011.\n\nCharb had strongly defended the cartoons as symbolic of freedom of speech. \"I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings,\" he told the Associated Press in 2012. \"I live under French law. I don't live under Koranic law.\"\n\nFollowing the 2015 attack, thousands of people took to the streets in protest and the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie (I am Charlie) began trending around the world.\n\nManaging editor Gerard Biard told the BBC in 2016 that the magazine's emergence as an international symbol had brought with it fresh criticism of its provocative and controversial tone, with many people calling for it to have more respect for the views - and beliefs - of others.", "The first minister has announced that restrictions on visiting other households are being reintroduced in the Glasgow area, after an increase in cases of coronavirus.\n\nNicola Sturgeon announced the move after 66 of the 154 new positive tests were recorded in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nThe restrictions will apply to people living in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nEarlier the first minister unveiled her plans for the next year and also updated the parliament on the latest on the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHere are the headlines from a busy day at Holyrood:\n• Young people will be guaranteed a job, education or formal training under a new £60m \"youth guarantee\"\n• The Scottish government is to set out its plans for a second independence referendum in a draft bill\n• The first minister announces a new \"proximity tracing app\" to combat the spread of Covid-19 called 'Protect Scotland'\n• University students could face disciplinary action if they break government coronavirus guidelines\n• A passenger who flew on a Tui flight from Zante to Glasgow has tested positive for coronavirus\n\nThat's all from us here on the live page, please take care and stay safe.", "Search and rescue teams, along with fishermen, are combing the area for the missing crew member\n\nThree sailors have died and one is missing after their tugboat capsized while they were helping to clear a major oil spill off Mauritius.\n\nFour others were rescued after the boat collided with a barge on Monday.\n\nThe accident happened two days after major protests in Mauritius over the government's handling of the clean up.\n\nAbout 1,000 tonnes of oil spilled into a sanctuary for rare wildlife after the Japanese ship MV Wakashio struck a coral reef on 25 July.\n\nConcern mounted further after 39 dead dolphins were found washed up on the shore last week. The cause of their deaths is not yet known but environmental campaigners believe it is linked to the spill and are demanding an inquiry.\n\nThe tugboat had been towing the unmanned barge back from the spill site in rough seas when the collision between them happened, the barge operator Taylor Smith Group said.\n\nThe eight crew members abandoned ship. Four were later rescued and taken to shore.\n\nPrime Minister Pravind Jugnauth visited the rescued sailors in hospital and said rescue teams were searching for the missing crew members, the BBC's Yasine Mohabuth reports from the capital Port Louis.\n\nMr Jugnauth has promised an investigation into the accident.\n\nHis government has also promised to set up a commission to investigate the spill itself after coming under pressure over its handling of the incident.\n\nMany Mauritians believe the government could have done more to prevent the spill. There is also criticism over the decision to deliberately sink part of the ship after it split in two.\n\nSaturday's protest was the biggest the country has seen in recent years\n\nThousands of people marched through Port Louis on Saturday calling on the government to resign.\n\nMany wore black and T-shirts with the inscription: \"I love my country. I'm ashamed of my government.\" They waved the national flag, while honking horns and drumming.\n\nOne protester told the BBC: \"They didn't do anything when the ship approached our coastline - 12 days they didn't do anything until the oil spill and now thousands of people and marine people are affected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 1,000 tonnes of oil has leaked into waters near Mauritius\n\nThe captain of the ship has been arrested and charged with endangering safe navigation. He has not yet commented.", "Thousands more people in England with type 2 diabetes will be offered the chance to try a soup-and-shake diet weight-loss plan for free on the NHS.\n\nStudies show switching to the low-calorie liquid diet can put diabetes into remission.\n\nExperts say they want to help people to be as fit as possible, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nObesity and type 2 diabetes are linked and both increase the risk of complications from Covid-19.\n\nSome NHS patients have already benefited from the year-long diet and exercise plan, which is why NHS England wants to expand the scheme to more people.\n\nPeople living with type 2 diabetes who are an unhealthy weight and have been diagnosed with the condition in the last six years will be considered for the scheme.\n\nAfter a few months on the shakes and soups, when some weight loss has been achieved, solid foods are reintroduced, with support to help the person maintain a nutritious diet and regular exercise.\n\nResults from one trial showed almost half of those who went on the diet achieved remission of their type 2 diabetes after one year.\n\nType 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that is not linked to being overweight.\n\nProf Jonathan Valabhji, NHS national clinical director for diabetes and obesity, said: \"This is the latest example of how the NHS, through our Long Term Plan, is rapidly adopting the latest evidence-based treatments to help people stay well, maintain a healthy weight and avoid major diseases.\n\n\"There has never been a more important time to lose weight and put their type 2 diabetes into remission, so it's good news for thousands of people across the country that practical, supportive measures like this are increasingly available on the NHS.\"\n\nBev, who was one of the first patients to benefit from the diet during trials, said: \"My goal for the first eight weeks of the low-calorie diet was to lose 5% of my body weight - which I achieved in six weeks - and in total I've lost over 10kg, my type 2 diabetes is now in remission and I no longer have to take any medication - I am over the moon.\n\n\"Since the low-calorie diet programme, my mindset has totally changed for the better and I look at food differently now - my shopping habits are far healthier and, when I eat out, I'll go for a healthier option. The programme has taught me moderation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The snakes were located inside the house\n\nA man in Australia got a shock when he returned home to find two snakes had crashed through his ceiling and were slithering around his Queensland house.\n\nDavid Tate found one snake in his bedroom and another in the living room on Monday. They weighed 22kg (3.4 stone) between them.\n\nSnake catcher Steven Brown said they were of \"exceptional size\".\n\nIt's thought the two male snakes could have been fighting over a female snake which has not yet been located.\n\nThe animals had fallen through the ceiling of the property\n\nMr Tait said he had previously seen snakes basking in the sun on his roof.\n\n\"When I came back...there was a large slab [of ceiling] on the kitchen table,\" he told The Courier-Mail.\n\nAfter seeing the state of his ceiling, he looked around and eventually found the animals.\n\nHe called in a snake catcher and the ordeal was over \"pretty quickly\".\n\n\"I certainly didn't want to handle them,\" he said.\n\nOne of the animals was located in the living room while another was found in the bedroom\n\nMr Brown from North Brisbane Snake Catchers and Relocation told the BBC: \"These two were of exceptional size compared to the common size that's usually come across.\"\n\nIt wasn't until he arrived at the house that he realised the animals had crashed through the ceiling, he said on Facebook.\n\n\"We are just coming into our snake season as today is the start of the breeding season and snakes will only get more active as the temperatures rise into our summer period,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Brown said that if people came across a snake, it was best to stand still and let the snake move on as they would not see you as a threat.\n\n\"All snakes want to do is escape any threat of danger,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment an Australian news report is interrupted by a snake biting the microphone", "Popular videoconferencing app Zoom has seen its revenues skyrocket as second quarter profits more than doubled due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nRevenues leaped 355% to $663.5m (£496.3m) for the three months ending 31 July, beating analysts' expectations of $500.5m.\n\nProfits soared to $186m, while customer growth rose 458%, compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nVideo conferencing apps remain crucial due to the increase in remote working.\n\nZoom's shares hit a record high on Monday, closing at $325.10, as the firm raised its annual revenue forecast by more than 30% to the range of $2.37bn-$2.39bn, from its previous projection of $1.78bn-$1.80bn.\n\nKey to Zoom's success was its ability to add paying customers - high-budget corporate clients - as opposed to those who use its services for free.\n\nThe company said that its large customers - firms that generated more than $100,000 in revenue in the past year - doubled to 988 during the quarter.\n\nZoom, together with rivals Cisco Webex and Microsoft Teams, have all seen a surge in usage of their video conferencing platforms since coronavirus lockdown measures were imposed by multiple countries in March.\n\nBut Zoom's soaring popularity has also strained its infrastructure, with some outages last week as schools in many parts of the US resumed classes virtually.\n\nIts reputation also took a hit, as the new attention prompted hackers to hijack meetings and exposed a host of security flaws, revealing that the firm had sent user data to Facebook, had wrongly claimed the app had end-to-end encryption, and was allowing meeting hosts to track attendees.\n\nZoom has also faced political scrutiny for its ties to China - where it has more than 700 staff, including most of its product development team - which have prompted warnings that it is not fit for government use.", "Facebook has threatened to stop users from sharing news content in Australia as it prepares for a new law forcing it to pay publishers for their articles.\n\nRegulators want tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay for the content reposted from news outlets.\n\nLast month Google warned its users that its search services could be \"dramatically worse\" as a result.\n\nFacebook's latest move to block news sharing has escalated tensions between tech firms and regulators.\n\nThe social media network said that if the proposed legislation becomes law it will stop Australians from sharing news on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram.\n\nThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has drawn up the rules to \"level the playing field\" between the tech giants and publishers that it says are struggling due to lost advertising revenue.\n\nThe ACCC responded to Facebook's threat to block news content saying it was \"ill-timed and misconceived\".\n\n\"The code simply aims to bring fairness and transparency to Facebook and Google's relationships with Australian news media businesses,\" ACCC chairman Rod Sims said.\n\nBut in a blog post, Facebook's managing director for Australia and New Zealand Will Easton, said the draft law \"misunderstands the dynamics of the internet and will do damage to the very news organisations the government is trying to protect\".\n\nHe argued it would force Facebook to pay for content that publishers voluntarily place on its platform to generate traffic back to their news sites.\n\nMr Easton claimed Facebook sent 2.3bn clicks from Facebook's newsfeed back to Australian news websites, worth around A$200m ($148m; £110m) during the first five months of the year.\n\nThe blocking of news \"is not our first choice - it is our last,\" he said, adding that Facebook's other services that allow family and friends to connect will not be affected.\n\nA Facebook spokesman told the BBC that it will \"provide specific details soon\" on how it will enforce the ban.\n\nSome business experts argue that tech firms should pay publishers for the quality news content that they repost.\n\n\"Google, Facebook and others have been getting away with giving it away for free for too long,\" Michael Wade, a professor at the IMD Business School in Switzerland and Singapore, told the BBC last month.\n\nGoogle and Facebook do pay for some news content in specific markets, and said they plan to roll these initiatives out to more countries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chadwick Boseman: Five things to know\n\nNetflix delayed a virtual preview event for the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom on Monday, following the death of its star, Chadwick Boseman.\n\nThe film adaptation of August Wilson's play, about the queen of the blues and her band in the 1920s, will be his final movie performance.\n\nBoseman, who appears alongside Viola Davis and Colman Domingo, died of cancer last week aged 43.\n\nTributes have been paid by producer Denzel Washington and Michael B Jordan.\n\nThe Black Panther actor's diagnosis was kept entirely private and came as a shock to many in the film industry and beyond.\n\nNetflix boss Ted Sarandos described Boseman as \"a superhero on screen and in life\".\n\n\"It's impossible to imagine working at the level he has while valiantly battling his illness,\" Sarandos said in a statement.\n\n\"His legacy as a person and an artist will inspire millions.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family during this difficult time,\" he added.\n\nIn the forthcoming movie, Boseman plays the ambitious trumpet player Levee, who has desires for musical success of his own, and for Rainey's girlfriend.\n\nDavis, who plays the titular role, tweeted that it was \"an honour\" acting beside the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Viola Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoseman was not scheduled to appear at Monday's online event, but Davis and director George C Wolfe were due to take part in a Q&A session about the film, commenting on new preview footage.\n\nThe late actor's family have confirmed he had completed all of his filming for the role, and Wolfe said that working with him was \"a glorious experience\".\n\n\"Every day we all got to witness the ferocity of his talent and the gentleness of his heart,\" he said.\n\n\"A truly blessed, loving, gifted and giving human being.\"\n\nAccording to Variety, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is still due out this year, and \"there was no immediate word from Netflix about whether Boseman's death would impact its plans for the release\".\n\nThe film has been produced by Oscar-winning actor, Washington, who in fact played a major role in Boseman's life and career. Washington paid for his tuition fees when the future star was studying at the British American Drama Academy.\n\n\"He was a gentle soul and a brilliant artist, who will stay with us for eternity through his iconic performances over his short yet illustrious career,\" Washington told CNN.\n\nBoseman was viewed by many as the man who broke down screen barriers for black actors with his lead role as T'Challa/Black Panther in the Marvel superhero movie Black Panther in 2018.\n\nMichael B Jordan, who portrayed N'Jadaka/Erik \"Killmonger\" Stevens in the film, paid tribute on social media on Monday to the man he called his \"big brother\".\n\n\"I've been trying to find the words, but nothing comes close to how I feel\", he posted, alongside a series of photos of the two of them together.\n\n\"I've been reflecting on every moment, every conversation, every laugh, every disagreement, every hug ... everything.\n\n\"I wish we had more time. One of the last times we spoke, you said we were forever linked, and now the truth of that means more to me than ever.\"\n\nChadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan acted opposite one another in Black Panther\n\nJordan added that Boseman had \"paved the way for me\".\n\n\"You showed me how to be better, honour purpose, and create legacy,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I wish we had more time. Everything you've given the world... the legends and heroes that you've shown us we are... will live on forever.\"\n\nHe concluded that his friend's death had made him realise that \"time is short with people we love and admire,\" and promised to dedicate the rest of his life to living like him - \"with grace, courage, and no regrets\".\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 michaelbjordan 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\nEarlier, another Black Panther star, Winston Duke, wrote that he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the loss of \"my friend and hero\".\n\nHarrison Ford also paid tribute, saying: \"Chadwick Boseman was as compelling, powerful and truthful as the characters he chose to play.\n\n\"His intelligence, personal dignity and deep commitment inspired his colleagues and elevated the stories he told. He is as much a hero as any he played. He is loved and will be deeply missed.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some primary school pupils in England returned to their classrooms at the beginning of June\n\nChildren in England are three months behind in their studies after lockdown, with boys and poor pupils worst hit, suggests a survey of teachers by an educational research organisation.\n\nThe learning gap between rich and poor pupils grew by almost half between March and July, the National Foundation for Educational Research has found.\n\nThe authors also warn a quick catch-up is unlikely.\n\nThe government says children must not lose out because of coronavirus.\n\nThe new term begins in England and Wales this week, after the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Schools are already back in Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe National Foundation for Educational Research's survey questioned a weighted sample of almost 3,000 heads and teachers in about 2,200 primary and secondary schools across England.\n\nThe research was carried out just before the end of term in July - and showed how much children had fallen behind by the end of the last school year.\n\nAlmost all the teachers questioned (98%) said their pupils were behind the place in the curriculum they would normally expect for the time of year.\n\nOverall, teachers said they had covered just 66% of their usual curriculum by July, putting pupils three months behind in their learning.\n\nIt comes days after a separate study showed the learning gap between rich and poor primary pupils had begun to widen, even before the pandemic.\n\nThe National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) report found teachers in the most deprived schools (those with the greatest proportion of pupils on free school meals) were more than three times as likely (53%) to say their pupils were at least four months behind, compared with those in the wealthiest schools (15%).\n\nEven for those pupils who had places in school last term, attendance was poor - only 56% of eligible pupils actually went back amid safety concerns from parents, the report reveals,\n\nAlmost three quarters of the teachers questioned thought they were unable to teach to their usual standard under the coronavirus regulations.\n\nOverall, teachers estimate 44% of their pupils are in need of intensive catch-up support, says the report, with teachers in the most deprived schools (57%) more likely to believe this than those in the wealthiest schools (32%).\n\nNFER chief social scientist, Dr Angela Donkin, welcomed the government's National Tutoring Programme but questioned \"whether the scale will be sufficient to meet the high demand for those requiring intensive support\".\n\nAlmost all the school leaders questioned (90%) predicted they could manage to open to all pupils safely, however more than three quarters (78%) expressed concerns, with many saying additional funding would be needed for more staff, cleaning and protective equipment.\n\nSeparately, head teachers and teachers criticised the government for \"last-minute\" guidance on what to do during virus outbreaks and local lockdowns, which was published on Friday.\n\nIn the NFER report, teachers urged better planning for further lockdowns, and called for more and better IT equipment for pupils and staff. More than a quarter of pupils (28%) were reported to have no access to a laptop or computer at home.\n\nThe authors said it was encouraging that the government was offering laptop and internet connections for disadvantaged pupils but that \"a much swifter dispatch of devices\" was needed, as well as more training for teachers.\n\n\"Whilst it is crucial that children catch up, we should not assume that teachers will immediately be able to deliver the same quality of teaching at the same speed, as before the pandemic,\" said Dr Donkin.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, asked the government to hire \"qualified teachers not currently in post\" to help reduce class sizes, which would in turn \"provide educational catch-up and ensure safety for all\".\n\nDr Bousted also urged a more flexible approach to exams next year, \"one which learns from the mistakes of this year\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said on Monday that students starting Year 11 and 13 in September had \"a mountain to climb\", having missed months of schooling.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on Mr Williamson to face parliament to explain \"how he will protect\" children's futures.\n\n\"He needs to explain how he will make up for the damage already done, bring pupils up to speed and mitigate against the ongoing risk from the pandemic,\" Sir Keir added.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), called the NFER report \"another alarm bell\" for the government.\n\nThe head teachers' union is also calling for a temporary ban on fining parents and guardians if their children do not return to school.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"If you are a parent and you are worried about safety, a fine is unlikely to make you feel any safer.\"\n\nThe Department for Education has said fines for school absences would only be used as a \"last resort\" in England.\n\nIn a statement, the department added: \"Throughout the pandemic we have invested in remote education, providing devices, routes and resources for the children who need them most and why our £1bn Covid catch-up package will tackle the impact of lost teaching time, including targeted funding for the most disadvantaged students.\"", "Emily Lewis, 15, was among 12 people on board the RIB when it struck a buoy\n\nA girl killed in a boat crash during a family sightseeing trip died from an abdominal injury, an inquest heard.\n\nEmily Lewis, 15, was among 12 people taken to hospital after the rigid inflatable boat (Rib) hit a buoy in Southampton Water on 22 August.\n\nAn inquest opening heard she was taken to Southampton General Hospital but later died of her injuries.\n\nMiss Lewis' mother Nikki and sister Amy, 19, who were also in the boat, both suffered broken arms.\n\nCoroner Christopher Wilkinson said Miss Lewis was accompanied to hospital by her father, Simon Lewis, from the Park Gate area of Southampton, who confirmed her identity to medics.\n\nMr Wilkinson said the teenager was \"rendered unconscious\" as a result of the crash off Netley, and later died after resuscitation attempts by medics failed.\n\nHe added a post-mortem examination carried out at Winchester hospital by forensic pathologist Dr Russell Delaney revealed a preliminary cause of death as an upper abdominal injury.\n\nThe coroner said that investigations were ongoing and adjourned the case for a full inquest on 5 May 2021.\n\nThe Southampton Harbour Master was seen inspecting buoys in the stretch of water where the crash happened\n\nIn a previously released statement, Miss Lewis' family said: \"We are all in shock that our beautiful daughter and sister is no longer with us.\n\n\"We suffered from broken bones, but the emotional pain far outweighs the physical.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary is investigating the incident, which happened just after 10:00 BST, along with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Marine Accident Investigation Branch\n\nOfficers confirmed the Rib had been on a commercial trip run by a local company.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAndy Murray staged a stunning comeback against Yoshihito Nishioka in the US Open first round on his long-awaited return to Grand Slam singles tennis.\n\nThe 33-year-old came from two sets and a break down against the Japanese to win 4-6 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.\n\nThe Briton, whose last major singles match was at the 2019 Australian Open before career-saving hip surgery, started flat and dispirited.\n\nBut he found his fight and saved a match point to set up an epic win.\n\nThe Scot, who eventually claimed victory in four hours 39 minutes, will face Canadian 15th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second round.\n• None Re-live the action from day two of the US Open\n\nMurray finds his voice and his spirit\n\nPlaying in an empty and quiet Arthur Ashe Stadium - a far cry from the noisy stage where Murray won his maiden Grand Slam title in 2012 - his early despondence was all the more noticeable.\n\nIn his BBC radio commentary David Law said \"Andy Murray does not look like Andy Murray\", such was his manner, as he quietly trudged around with shoulders slumped as he was outplayed.\n\nDuring the first two sets Murray barely berated himself for his five double faults and 30 unforced errors, seeming almost resigned to his fate before his energy levels - and his voice - began to rise towards the end of the third set.\n\nAnd that was when Andy Murray began to look exactly like Andy Murray.\n\nA roar greeted the blistering forehand that gave him two set points in the third-set tie-break and then he let it all out with a trademark \"come on!\" when Nishioka netted a backhand on the second.\n\nThe character that took him to three Grand Slam titles and the world number one ranking before his body so cruelly let him down shone through as he saved a match point with a crosscourt backhand at 6-5 in the fourth.\n\nIt would be nearly an hour later until he himself carved out his own match point, needing to recover from a break down in the fifth game of the fifth - which he did with a sumptuous backhand lob in the very next game - to stay on track.\n\nWhen Nishioka sent a backhand out on match point, Murray completed his 10th career comeback from two sets down and answered any lingering questions about whether he could still be competitive on the biggest stage.\n\nOn his last Grand Slam singles appearance in January 2019, Murray had broken down in tears when he said he feared he might have to retire because of a hip injury.\n\nBut he went on to have surgery later that month and just five months later was back in action, playing doubles and winning the Queen's title with Feliciano Lopez.\n\nHe played doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon that year and then made his singles return on the tour in August 2019.\n\nHe skipped last year's US Open to focus on his singles return and was then ruled out of January's Australian Open with a pelvic injury. Further chances to return to the Grand Slam singles stage were then lost because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe has been ticking off the 'since surgery' milestones ever since - a first singles title (October), a first win over a top-10 player (last week) and now he has crossed off three more.\n\nNot only his first Grand Slam singles match, but also a first win in one, and a first five-setter.\n\n\"I'm tired. My toes are the worst part I think,\" said Murray, who had treatment on his toes at the start of the fifth set. \"The big toes on both sides are pretty beat up. I did alright physically.\n\n\"At the beginning of the match I was apprehensive about playing a long match because I hadn't played one in a while.\n\n\"I was sort of pacing myself. Once I got two sets down I had to start putting the after-burners on and managed to get through.\"\n\nHe is the first player to return to singles after a hip re-surfacing operation, where the femur head is capped with metal and put into an artificial socket.\n\nHe will now find out how his new body copes with the recovery from a five-set thriller at a Grand Slam.\n\nAnd he knows exactly what he needs.\n\n\"They have an ice bath in the locker room and they said it was for emergencies,\" Murray said.\n\n\"For me this is an emergency right now. I'll ask and see if they'll allow me to use the ice bath. If not I'll try to get back to the hotel as quickly as I can.\n\n\"That's by far the most tennis I've played since the Aussie Open in 2019.\"\n\nInterestingly, there were echoes of that last Australian Open match in this one - then, he was on the wrong end of an almost identical scoreline when he lost 6-4 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-7 (4-7) 6-2 to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.\n• None British number ones Konta and Evans into second round\n\nMurray made a cagey start - pacing himself like a marathon runner, just in case the match went the distance.\n\nAnd when he then lost his way completely at the start of the second set, his Grand Slam return was in danger of turning rapidly flat.\n\nBut with an audience made up entirely of star players, who were watching on from their suites in the Arthur Ashe Stadium, Murray gradually inched his way back into the match.\n\nHis toes took a pounding, but his hip held up, and after an ice bath on site he could start to imagine doing it all again on Thursday.", "More than 100,000 pupils in Scotland are absent from school with attendance down to 84.5%, according to Scottish government figures.\n\nData collected from local authorities shows that more than 15.5% pupils were off school last Friday.\n\nHowever, only 22,821 of the absences are recorded as \"Covid-19 related\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was common for other viral infections to circulate after a \"prolonged break\" away from school.\n\nScotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, told BBC Scotland it believed many parents were \"erring on the side of caution\" and keeping children who had cold symptoms off school.\n\nPupils in Scotland began returning to school on 11 August after being away since March.\n\nProvisional figures from 28 August show that 84.5% of pupils in Scottish schools were present, down from a confirmed 95.8% attendance on 17 August.\n\nAttendance remained above 90% until 21 August, before dropping to 89.2% on 24 August following the weekend.\n\nDuring the last decade, attendance levels over the whole school year have been between 93% and 94%.\n\nAbout 3% of pupils were absent last Friday for a Covid-related reason, with 12.3% absent for non-Covid reasons, including pupil exclusions.\n\nA Covid-related absence includes a \"positive test, showing symptoms, self-isolation, quarantining, and parents not sending their child to school against public health guidance\".\n\nThe Scottish government reported on Tuesday that almost 40,000 pupils had been tested for coronavirus since term started, with 117 positive results.\n\nAbsentee rates are higher than usual - but not dramatically higher.\n\nIn the week before schools closed in March, there were reports that between a third and a half of pupils at some schools were off.\n\nThe numbers provide reassurance most children are going to school but may also suggest that some parents are being cautious about sending them if they are slightly unwell - for instance suffering from a cold.\n\nEarlier this week the Scottish government's national clinical director Dr Jason Leitch wrote an open letter to parents.\n\nIn the letter he offered advice on what parents should do if children are suffering from bugs and colds.\n\nHe said that in many cases children would be well enough to attend.\n\nBut he also stressed that those with potential Covid 19 symptoms should self-isolate and get tested.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Education Secretary John Swinney said it was common for \"colds and similar viral infections to circulate\" when pupils returned from a prolonged break.\n\n\"In many cases children will be well enough to attend school and continue their learning with little or no interruption to their education,\" he said.\n\n\"In other cases, for instance where they have quite a heavy cold with a runny nose, they may need to take a day or two off to recover.\"\n\nHe said any pupil with Covid-19 symptoms were required to self-isolate and seek a test.\n\nBut he added: \"In order to ensure that your child does not miss out on their education it is important to be clear on how Covid-19 symptoms differ from those of other infections that we normally see circulating at this time of year.\"\n\nNational clinical director Jason Leitch has also written to schools with guidance on what to do about pupils who develop non-Covid symptoms.\n\nLarry Flanagan, general secretary of the EIS, said the union had received reports of \"higher than normal illness absences\" in schools across Scotland, with indications that cold viruses were circulating among pupils.\n\nHe said significant numbers of pupils and staff were being affected in some areas.\n\n\"This may be the result of pupils and staff being isolated from others for a prolonged period, with the result that the virus is spreading more quickly now than schools have re-opened,\" he added.\n\n\"It is also likely to be the case that many parents will be erring on the side of caution in keeping their children off with cold symptoms at the present time.\"", "Police searching for a missing British diplomat have found a body in a forest in Hampshire.\n\nRichard Morris, from Bentley, was last seen running in Alton in the county on 6 May.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said officers had discovered a body in Alice Holt Forest and the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nFormal identification has not yet taken place, but the 52-year-old's family have been notified.\n\nPolice previously searched the forest, where Mr Morris was known to enjoy running.\n\nOfficers also inspected 2km (1.2 miles) of the River Wey, as well as scouring CCTV footage and carrying out house-to-house inquiries, before their search was scaled back.\n\nPolice said 50 officers and volunteers took part in initial searches of Alice Holt Forest\n\nFather-of-three Mr Morris, originally from Worcestershire, was the UK ambassador to Nepal for four years until 2019.\n\nBefore his disappearance he was appointed British High Commissioner to Fiji.\n\nMr Morris had also worked as head of the Pacific department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), consul general in Sydney as well as director general of trade and investment in Australasia.\n\nIn a previous statement, the Foreign Office described him as a \"much-valued and well-liked colleague\".\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. Coronavirus in Scotland: No 'one-size-fits-all approach' for local lockdowns\n\nNicola Sturgeon has voiced concerns after 160 more people tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe latest increase in new cases follows 123 reported on Sunday, with a number of \"clusters\" across Scotland.\n\nThe first minister said the rise in cases was \"partly the result of a greater number of people being tested\".\n\nBut she said it was \"undoubtedly a concern\" and that any connection between cases was being \"carefully considered\" by health protection teams.\n\nA total of 69 of the new cases were reported in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, with Ms Sturgeon saying \"particularly close attention\" was being paid to this.\n\nHowever, she stressed that the positive results \"still represent less than 1% of people newly tested yesterday\".\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus has increased to 258, five of whom are in intensive care.\n\nThe first minister said it appeared the figures in the Glasgow area \"seem to reflect a number of small clusters, rather than one or two more significant outbreaks\".\n\nShe said ministers would consider whether any targeted action would be needed in the area, although she stressed that this might not necessarily mean a local lockdown - noting that \"lockdown increasingly means different things in different circumstances\".\n\nAnother 27 cases were reported in Lanarkshire, 18 in Lothian, and eight in Ayrshire and Arran - with Ms Sturgeon warning that the latter \"seem to be linked to indoor gatherings\".\n\nHowever, there were just four new cases in the Grampian area, with Ms Sturgeon saying this was \"further indication that the Aberdeen pub cluster is contained\".\n\nSwimming pools are now able to reopen to the public\n\nThe first minister said the fact that the number of cases reflected an increase in tests was \"an important bit of context to keep in mind\".\n\nBut she added: \"The number is a reminder to all of us that the virus is still a very real risk, it is a development that concerns me and it is one we are taking seriously.\"\n\nThe increase in cases comes as the latest easing of lockdown restrictions in Scotland comes into force, with gyms and swimming pools reopening.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"As we release ourselves from lockdown, we release the virus from lockdown too.\n\n\"Please follow the guidance - that's the only way we can make sure these reopenings can happen safely, and they don't spark an increase in transmission that could take us all back again.\n\n\"The figures demonstrate very clearly that this virus is still present across the country. The clusters we have seen show it will spread very rapidly if it gets the chance, and the admissions to intensive care last week remind us that the virus is still immensely dangerous for some people.\"\n• None Coronavirus in Scotland: Meeting indoors could be curtailed", "A BBC team has filmed riot police attacking and forcibly arresting university students in the capital of Belarus.\n\nThe students in Minsk were marking the start of the country's academic year with marches against Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years.\n\nProtests against his rule have continued across Belarus since the 9 August presidential election, which was widely regarded as rigged and rejected by the EU and US as neither free nor fair.\n\nMr Lukashenko has insisted he has the support of millions of Belarusians.\n\nThe BBC's Jonah Fisher was in Minsk when the attacks happened.\n\nRead more: Students held as protests mark new term in Belarus", "The return of pupils to schools in England this week will be a \"massive milestone\", says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nBut he apologised to students for the \"stress and uncertainty\" of problems with A-level and GCSE results.\n\nMr Williamson told MPs the u-turn on results became necessary when \"too many inconsistencies\" appeared in grades.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green accused him of a \"summer of chaos, incompetence and confusion\".\n\nThis week many pupils in England and Wales are going back to school - after the long disruption caused by the pandemic outbreak, with almost all schools expected to be ready to teach pupils full time.\n\nEngland's education secretary, speaking in the House of Commons, welcomed that pupils will be returning to a safe environment.\n\nBut for students caught up in the exam fiasco he said he \"can only apologise to them\".\n\nLabour's Ms Green pressed him on how many students might still have missed out on a first choice at university as a result of the confusion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nA survey from YouGov also suggested there were still fears about safety in school - with 17% of parents \"seriously considering\" not sending back their children.\n\nThe polling firm has recorded growing confidence in sending pupils back, but this latest survey, as schools prepare to reopen, suggests a hard core of unconvinced parents.\n\nParents were more likely to back wearing masks in school, with 47% in favour and 36% against.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, addressing the first Cabinet meeting since the summer break, said there was likely to be more of \"this wretched Covid still to come\" but he was \"absolutely confident\" that \"we are going to be able to deal with those outbreaks\".\n\nThe return to school has raised concerns about what will happen to next summer's A-levels and GCSEs, when so much teaching time has been lost.\n\nMr Williamson told MPs that exams would go ahead next summer - and there were plans being made \"to ensure that this is done as smoothly as possible\".\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb said earlier there would soon be a decision on whether exams would start later next summer - as previously suggested.\n\nIn June, Mr Williamson told MPs that he would consult with Ofqual, England's exam regulator, on \"how we can move those exams back, giving children extra time in order to be able to learn\".\n\nOfqual has suggested that relatively few changes will need to be made to how much is taught for exams - but heads' leader Geoff Barton criticised this as \"little more than tinkering at the edges\".\n\nThe ASCL head teachers' union has called for a reduction in the scale of the content of exam courses to take account of the amount of teaching time that has been lost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says workers are going back to the office “in huge numbers”.\n\nThere have also been questions about what will happen if schools face local lockdowns - and whether there will have to be a back-up plan for teachers' predictions to be used again.\n\nWest Sussex head teacher Jules White said a month's delay for exams would only be \"window dressing\".\n\n\"The idea that all students, especially those who are disadvantaged, will rapidly catch up on vast amounts of subject content is naively optimistic and politicians from all sides must call for urgent and meaningful modifications to exams,\" said Mr White, who has organised school funding campaigns.\n\nLabour has called for the exams, usually taken in May and June, to be pushed back to mid-summer to help cope with the impact of coronavirus.\n\nThis year's exams were dogged by chaos and left teachers, parents and pupils calling for a major rethink of next summer's exams.\n\nNearly 40% of A-level grades awarded to students using an algorithm were below teachers' assessments, with disadvantaged students particularly badly affected.\n\nDays after the results were announced, and following widespread criticism, the government performed a U-turn and decided to base grades on teachers' recommendations instead.\n\nConservative MP Tim Loughton said the exam problems had been a \"shambles\" and that after such a \"turbulent\" summer when \"things have not gone as well as they should have done\", the government needed to \"get control of the agenda again\".\n\n\"I think a lot of people will find it surprising that we seem to have had a few heads roll who are civil servants and in charge in quangos but so far there has been no ministerial accountability and I think that is raising a few questions.\n\n\"Ministers have lost their jobs for a lot less, including education ministers,\" said Mr Loughton.", "A former private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge is set to be named the UK's top civil servant.\n\nSimon Case, who was made permanent secretary at 10 Downing Street earlier this year, is expected to be announced as cabinet secretary on Tuesday.\n\nThe PM will reveal the appointment at a cabinet meeting, sources told the BBC.\n\nFirst reported by the FT, it comes after Sir Mark Sedwill quit the role following reports of tensions between him and members of the PM's team.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"An official announcement on the new cabinet secretary will be made on Tuesday 1 September.\"\n\nMr Case, 41, has been a civil servant since 2006. He spent almost two years working as Prince William's right-hand man before temporarily moving to Number 10 earlier this year to assist with the coronavirus response.\n\nHis expected promotion to cabinet secretary comes two months after Sir Mark announced he was planning to step down from the role.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sir Mark said it was the right time to go as the government moved to the next phase of its coronavirus recovery plan.\n\nAs cabinet secretary, Sir Mark advised Mr Johnson on implementing policy and the conduct of government.\n\nThe new appointment also comes within the wider context of a \"fairly radical shake-up\" of the civil service, BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said.\n\nThis year has seen a number of senior civil servants in various departments unexpectedly announce they are leaving their posts.\n\nJonathan Slater, the chief civil servant at the Department for Education, was sacked earlier this month following the row over A-level and GCSE results in England.\n\nHe became the fifth permanent secretary to leave his post in six months.\n\nSir Richard Heaton resigned as permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice in July, saying it had been \"a privilege\" to lead at the Ministry of Justice, despite \"challenging years\".\n\nSir Philip Rutnam quit as permanent secretary of the Home Office in February, announcing he would take the Home Secretary Priti Patel to an employment tribunal.\n\nAnd Sir Simon McDonald announced in June he would step down in as permanent secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in September \"at the request\" of the prime minister.", "Ed Sheeran and his wife Cherry Seaborn have announced the birth of their first child - a daughter named Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.\n\nThe singer said the couple were on \"cloud nine\" after their daughter's arrival last week.\n\nSheeran returned to Instagram for the first time since December to share the news and thank the \"amazing delivery team\".\n\nHe added: \"We are completely in love with her.\"\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 teddysphotos 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\"Ello! A quick message from me as I have some personal news that I wanted to share with you,\" Sheeran said in his first Instagram post since December 2019.\n\n\"Last week, with the help of an amazing delivery team, Cherry gave birth to our beautiful and healthy daughter - Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.\n\n\"We are completely in love with her. Both mum and baby are doing amazing and we are on cloud nine over here. We hope that you can respect our privacy at this time. Lots of love and I'll see you when it's time to come back, Ed x\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "[L-R] Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, HRVY and Jacqui Smith will all hit the dancefloor\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has been confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThe 2020 series will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe contestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nThe BBC also confirmed they will be able to rehearse, perform and go home to their family each night - following government guidelines.\n\nJacqui Smith was confirmed as the final celebrity dancer on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe former Labour politician became the UK's first female home secretary in 2007 - under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - and has since worked as a political broadcaster.\n\n\"I was speechless with excitement at being asked to join Strictly - and that's very rare for me,\" said Smith.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, I got a bronze medal for Scottish Highland Dancing and it feels about time to return to dancing.\"\n\n\"I couldn't be in better hands with the Strictly team and I'm going to throw myself into the challenge. Watch out!\" she added.\n\nSmith is now the chair of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Children's Trust. She also has a podast, called For the Many, that she presents with broadcaster Iain Dale.\n\nHRVY has a social media following of more than 10 million\n\nHRVY was revealed as a contestant on the Kiss breakfast show and said he was \"so thankful to be taking part\".\n\nThe pop singer, whose real name is Harvey Leigh Cantwell, has more than a billion combined streams to his name.\n\nHe has a social media following of more than 10 million and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to fame after uploading his music videos to Facebook. He has since sold out UK and European tours and his debut album will be out later this year.\n\n\"Being on Strictly is going to be such an amazing experience and I'm so thankful to be taking part this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I think my mum is more excited that she'll be able to see me every Saturday night now!\"\n\nMaisie Smith is an actress and singer is best known for playing Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders.\n\n\"Get me in those sequins,\" she said, reacting to the news of her announcement.\n\n\"I can't wait to dive into the Strictly fancy dress box this winter!\"\n\nBefore storming into Albert Square as Bianca's daughter, Tiffany, Smith made her acting debut in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl - alongside Scarlett Johansson and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHer role in the long-running BBC soap saw her scoop the award for best dramatic performance from a young actress, at the 2009 British Soap Awards.\n\nJamie Laing returns to the show this year, after having to pull out of last year's series before it began due to an injury.\n\nHe became a household name in 2011 on the Channel 4 reality show, Made in Chelsea, and this year launched his own podcast, 6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer, alongside Spencer Matthews.\n\nHe also founded the sweets brand, Candy Kittens, in 2012.\n\n\"Here we go again, hopefully this time I can last long enough so my mum can see me dance,\" said Laing.\n\nHe added: \"The reason I'm doing it, is to make my mum proud but all I did last year was make her even more disappointed. Let's change that this year, can't wait!!\"\n\nJJ Chalmers' career as a Royal Marine Commando was cut short after he suffered life-changing injuries following an IED explosion in Afghanistan.\n\nThe blast crushed an eye socket, burst his eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, blew off two fingers on his left hand and left holes in his legs.\n\nAfter years of rehabilitation, including more than 30 operations, he went on to compete in the 2014 Invictus Games where he captained the Trike Cycling team and took home three medals.\n\nHe later embarked on a career in broadcasting, presenting coverage of the Rio Paralympics and anchoring BBC One's coverage of the Invictus Games.\n\nComparing Strictly to his military experience, he told ITV's Lorraine: \"I'm always looking for a challenge, I'm always looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone.\"\n\nDespite his injuries, Chalmers said he wanted to be treated like \"any other contestant\" and didn't want any \"special treatment\".\n\n\"Whoever I partner with they've got their work cut out,\" he added.\n\nBill Bailey is an comedian, actor and musician is known for appearances on TV shows like QI, Black Books and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.\n\n\"In these strange times we're living through, it feels right to do something different and take on a new challenge,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I haven't been to stage school and learnt to dance. I haven't lived for the dance... I'm not really Lord of the Dance. I'm caretaker of the dance,\" he joked. \"It's going to be quite a challenge but then that's what this is about, taking on a new skill.\"\n\nBailey, 55, made his name on the stand-up circuit before becoming a regular panel show guest, TV and film actor, documentary presenter, and host of the BBC sketch show Is It Bill Bailey?\n\nHe is also a classically-trained musician and has published a guide to British birds. On Wednesday, in a review of his first live gig for six months, The Daily Telegraph said he \"remains one of the funniest, most brilliantly original comedians in the UK\".\n\nClara Amfo, who hosts BBC Radio 1's late morning slot, aid she \"couldn't wait to fully embrace\" the experience of Strictly.\n\nIn recent years, Amfo has presented coverage of Glastonbury, the Brit Awards, Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Bafta TV Awards and The Proms.\n\n\"As we know this year has been a real challenge and escapism through dancing is something I know we all enjoy,\" she said.\n\n\"So to be taught by a pro and live a fantasy is something that I can't wait to fully embrace, see you on the dancefloor!\"\n\nRanvir Singh is Good Morning Britain's political editor and occasional host, and also appears on other ITV programmes including Loose Women, Tonight and Eat, Shop, Save. She is about to start co-hosting a new Sunday morning show, All Around Britain.\n\nSingh said she felt \"complete terror\" at the idea of taking part, likening it to \"embarking on a rollercoaster\".\n\nShe previously worked as a producer and reporter for the BBC for 12 years, and presented BBC North West Tonight.\n\nSingh said: \"The initial feeling of being confirmed for Strictly is one of complete terror - feels like embarking on a rollercoaster, where you really want to do it but you are equally scared.\n\n\"Hopefully after the first dance I will feel exhilarated rather than sick!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAward-winning actress and presenter Caroline Quentin is known for a range of acting roles, including Maddie in Jonathan Creek and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.\n\nShe has also starred in Kiss Me Kate, Life Begins and Life of Riley.\n\nHowever, arguably her most famous role was playing Dorothy in the hit 90s sitcom Men Behaving Badly.\n\nShe recently presented the documentary series Extraordinary Homes for BBC Two.\n\nQuentin said she was \"thrilled and terrified in equal measure to be taking part\" in this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe played as a cornerback/safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.\n\nBell then played for the Houston Texans, where he was named a recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, one of the league's highest honours. He finished his professional career with the New York Giants.\n\nBell now co-hosts The Jason & Osi Podcast with another former NFL star, Osi Umenyiora, and the pair appear as pundits on the NFL Show on the BBC.\n\n\"Strictly is the epitome of British television and this year, more than ever, I'm so proud and humbled to be participating,\" he said.\n\n\"Strictly was the first show I ever watched when I moved to the UK and I'm a massive fan. My six-year-old daughter never got the chance to see me run out on the field at an NFL game but she is very excited about me taking to the dance floor. I hope I can do her proud.\"\n\nSinger and actor Max George shot to fame as a member of boy band The Wanted.\n\nHis former bandmate, Jay McGuiness, previously won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.\n\nGeorge said he was \"buzzing to be on Strictly this year\", joking: \"I'm not really one for the dance floor, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Jay McGuiness set The Wanted's bar so low.\"\n\nThe Wanted had two number one singles in the UK - All Time Low and Glad You Came - with the latter reaching the top three in the US Billboard chart.\n\nAfter The Wanted took a break, Max moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and starred in the sixth season of Glee as Clint. He recently returned to music as a solo artist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Bolton has had its highest seven-day rate since late May\n\nA Covid spike in Bolton and Trafford has prompted council bosses to ask for restrictions to remain in place, a day before they were due to be lifted.\n\nTighter rules were introduced in July in Greater Manchester and parts of Yorkshire after concerns the virus was being spread between households.\n\nBolton currently has one of the highest rates of new virus cases per 100,000 residents in England.\n\nIts council said it had made the decision \"with a heavy heart\".\n\nOn Friday, the government said measures banning people from different households from meeting indoors or private gardens would be lifted in Bolton, Stockport, Trafford, Burnley, Hyndburn and parts of Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees.\n\nBut Bolton Council said the \"unforeseen spike\" in the local infection rate means restrictions should remain in place \"until further notice\".\n\nBolton has recorded 170 new cases in the week to 29 August, up from 53 the week before, meaning it has one of the highest rates in England at 59 new cases per 100,000 residents.\n\nThe rate in Trafford has risen from 19.4 to 35.4, with 84 new cases.\n\nTighter Covid-19 rules were introduced in Greater Manchester in July\n\nThe decision would also mean certain businesses, including those offering close-contact services, will not reopen as planned.\n\nBolton council leader David Greenhalgh said: \"It is with a heavy heart that [we] have come to this decision and this will be incredibly disappointing for both residents and business owners.\n\n\"We urged the government to lift Bolton out of the additional restrictions at a time when infection rates were low. This was the right decision at the time.\n\n\"However, there has been a sudden and unforeseeable rise in the number of coronavirus cases in Bolton.\n\n\"We have always been led by the data, which means we have no choice but to act quickly to keep everyone safe.\"\n\nThe council said new cases in Bolton were spread across the borough and not limited to a single area, community or place of work.\n\nInfections between different households appear to be the main cause of the spike, with people aged 18-49 representing the overwhelming majority of new cases, it said.\n\nMeanwhile, Trafford recorded its highest seven-day infection rate since the end of July when the additional restrictions were imposed.\n\nCouncil leader Andrew Western had previously argued lifting restrictions there would be \"premature\" and the government had ignored the advice of local public health officials.\n\nIn a letter to the health secretary, he accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" over the easing of lockdown measures in the borough.\n\nHe said Trafford has a \"significantly\" higher rate of cases than other Greater Manchester boroughs who are not due to see restrictions relaxed.\n\nMr Western has called for an \"urgent update\", saying \"the people of Trafford deserve better\".\n\nGreater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), which is made up of the 10 Greater Manchester councils and mayor Andy Burnham, has called on the government to agree on an exit strategy from the local restrictions on household gatherings.\n\n\"It is clear that more targeted, hyper-local door-to-door action is more effective than broad geographical restrictions,\" said a GMCA spokesperson.\n\n\"As soon as practically and safely possible, we want to see the whole of Greater Manchester coming back into line with the rest of country but with funding to provide enhanced local interventions where they are needed.\n\n\"However, before that is in place, it is accepted that the restrictions will need to continue in eight boroughs in the short term.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Ron Jeremy is facing up to 90 years behind bars\n\nAdult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with sexual violence against 13 more women, including a 15-year old, prosecutors in Los Angeles say.\n\nThey say the alleged assaults date back to 2004. The 67-year-old has already been charged with raping or assaulting four women between 2014 and 2019.\n\nRon Jeremy is one of the biggest names in pornography and has featured in over 1,700 films over four decades.\n\nIf convicted, he faces up to 250 years behind bars. He has denied wrongdoing.\n\nMr Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, appeared in court in June. He was accused of raping a 25-year-old woman and 30 year-old woman, and sexually assaulting two others, aged 33 and 46.\n\nAt the time his lawyer denied the charges saying said that his client had been \"a paramour to over 4,000 women\" and that \"women throw themselves at him\".\n\nRon Jeremy appeared in court in Los Angeles in June\n\nBut prosecutors received further allegations of sexual violence in the days following his court appearance, the Los Angeles Times reported.\n\nThe new charges include a total of 20 counts of rape and sexual assault against the 13 women. The alleged victims range in age between 15 and 54.\n\nThe most recent charge relates to an assault allegedly carried out outside a business in Hollywood on New Year's Day this year.\n\nIn 2017, Rolling Stone magazine reported that more than a dozen women had accused Mr Jeremy of sexual misconduct, including groping, inappropriate touching, non-consensual digital penetration, and sexual assault.\n\nHe told the magazine he had \"never and would never rape anyone\".\n\nMr Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for \"Most Appearances in Adult Films\" and was the subject of the 2001 documentary Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy.\n\nHe has also made numerous cameo appearances in computer games, Hollywood films and music videos for Moby, Guns N' Roses, Armin Van Buuren among others, as well as LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It.", "Manchester United and England striker Marcus Rashford speaks to BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent about forming a taskforce with some of the UK's biggest food brands in a bid to help reduce child food poverty.", "Erick Morillo, the internationally-recognised DJ best known for the track I Like To Move It, has been found dead in Miami, local police have said.\n\nHis death comes less than a month after his arrest for sexually assaulting a female DJ after working a gig together.\n\nPolice said the 49-year old was found dead in his Miami Beach home, but have released few details as the investigation begins.\n\nHe released his 1994 hit I Like To Move It using the name Reel 2 Real.\n\nIt became a retro hit again after a remix was featured in the 2005 animated film Madagascar.\n\nMorillo had denied the sexual assault charge, but turned himself in after a rape kit identified him as the suspect, according to WPLG-TV in Florida.\n\nHe had been scheduled for a court hearing on Friday, the station reported.", "Travellers re-entering the UK from Greece currently do not have to quarantine\n\nQuarantine restrictions will be imposed on people travelling from Greece to Scotland, the Scottish government has announced.\n\nThey will be required to isolate for 14 days if they arrive in Scotland after 04:00 on Thursday.\n\nMinisters said they have taken the move due to a \"significant rise\" in cases of Covid-19 being brought into Scotland from people who have been to Greece.\n\nIt has been linked to travellers returning from the Greek islands.\n\nAs a result, the country has been been removed from the \"travel corridor\" exemption list on public health grounds.\n\nThe prevalence of Covid-19 in Greece is currently about 20 per 100,000, but a number of cases of the virus in Scotland have been traced back to travel from Greece.\n\nThey include a passenger who flew to Glasgow from Zante on 23 August.\n\nThe deputy first minister, John Swinney, told Good Morning Scotland that there had been \"an increased number of cases coming in from Greece as a consequence of international travel\".\n\nHe said: \"We judge, based on the evidence available to us, there is a necessity to apply that quarantine restriction and that's to essentially protect us here in Scotland from a spread of the virus as a consequence of importation from other countries.\"\n\nAsked why the restriction covered the whole of Greece when media reports suggested there was a particular problem with some islands, Mr Swinney said: \"The whole process of travel can generate some of the cases that are taking their course\".\n\nSo he said it was \"proportionate\" and designed to \"give us as much protection as possible here domestically to avoid a rise in cases and that's what we're trying to avoid at all possible costs\".\n\nHe added that it was important to take proportionate and targeted action where it was possible to do so.\n\nTravellers returning to the UK from the Greek island of Zante have tested positive for coronavirus\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said: \"There is a compelling public health risk around importation of the virus, especially given the number of imported cases linked to the Greek islands.\n\n\"The flow of travel between Scotland and Greece, and the behaviour we have seen from some of those travellers, means that on public health grounds there is a strong case - supported by public health directors - to remove Greece from the exemption list.\"\n\nGreece's Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis said the restrictions were \"a bit harsh\".\n\nHe said every country had a right to protect its citizens, but that Greece was \"well below\" the 20 cases per 100,000 threshold that the UK nations use as a guide for imposing quarantine restrictions on returning travellers.\n\nMr Theoharis added: \"We have put in place a comprehensive set of protocols and measures... We take targeted measures where we see concentration.\"\n\nHe added that Greece conducted the fifth most tests in Europe.\n\n\"We feel that we have taken every possible precaution\", he added.\n\nPeople travelling to Scotland from these countries are subject quarantine restrictions.\n\nHolidaymakers have tested positive for coronavirus after flights to the UK from Zante\n\nTravellers arriving home to Wales from Zante are also being asked to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there were six clusters of cases, amounting to 30 infections, linked to flights from the Greek island.\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are considering re-imposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country's infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,000, over seven days.\n\nBut each of the four nations can add or remove countries to their own list.\n\nMike Tibbert, vice president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association, said he is \"extremely concerned\" about the workload being placed on its members by the changing quarantine rules.\n\n\"The removal of Greece in this ongoing hokey-cokey of countries which are 'in or out' means it's impossible for Scots to plan or reorganise a holiday which they have already paid for. And equally impossible for our members to run a business,\" he said.", "The first minister has reintroduced restrictions on visiting other households in the Glasgow area after an increase in coronavirus cases.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the local lockdown measures will apply to people living in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThey will be in place for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Cameron Norrie fought back from two sets down to earn a memorable win over Argentine ninth seed Diego Schwartzman on day one of the US Open.\n\nNorrie, ranked 76th, looked set for a routine defeat before turning it around to win 3-6 4-6 6-2 6-1 7-5 in New York.\n\nBoth struggled to hold serve in a match with 58 break points, Norrie saving two match points in the decider before winning in almost four hours.\n\nThe British number two won 2-6 7-5 7-5 6-0 against the unpredictable Bublik, who initially upset the Yorkshireman's rhythm before losing focus and allowing Edmund to take control.\n\nEdmund, 25, faces a tough task to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in seven attempts, however, with 17-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic lying in wait in round two.\n\nSerbia's world number one Djokovic, who has won all 24 of his matches in 2020, brushed aside Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia-Herzegovina in his opener.\n\n\"It was a nice win in terms of the mentality. I play well when I'm expressing myself and explosive, when I start matches not in the right way I have to force that out of me,\" said Edmund, who is ranked 44th.\n\n\"It was a good match to win, I could have fallen off and gone down two sets to love or two sets to one.\"\n\nThe four other Britons in the singles - Andy Murray, Dan Evans, Johanna Konta and Heather Watson - play on Tuesday.\n\nThe US Open is the first Grand Slam event to be held since the coronavirus pandemic and is being played behind closed doors at Flushing Meadows.\n\nA host of star names - including defending champions Rafael Nadal and Bianca Andreescu - have withdrawn because of health and travel fears, while Swiss great Roger Federer is missing because of a knee injury.\n• None 'A US Open like no other' - full preview\n\n'I was lucky to get through' - Norrie\n\nBritish number three Norrie was handed a tough draw by starting against a consistent and competitive player who is a two-time quarter-finalist at the US Open.\n\nThe 25-year-old Briton struggled with his timing in the first two sets, hitting 34 unforced errors to leave himself with an uphill battle to reach the second round.\n\nBut he cut the mistakes to just five in the third set and, combined with Schwartzman becoming frustrated after receiving a time violation, threatened a comeback.\n\n\"The first two sets I was rushing everything and going for too much. I didn't feel myself out there,\" Norrie said.\n\n\"I felt he had done almost nothing to be two-sets-to-love up. I wanted to hit the ball down the middle, get some rhythm and then I kept the momentum going.\"\n\nSchwartzman struggled to get out of his rut in the fourth, two breaks of serve by the Briton taking the match into a decider, where the break points continued to flow.\n\nAlthough world number 13 Schwartzman looked to be waning physically, he had chances at 5-3 and 5-4 to clinch victory before Norrie fought back again.\n\nNorrie's reward is another match against an Argentine opponent in the shape of 103rd-ranked Federico Coria.\n\n\"The tennis and the level wasn't that great but I had a good attitude throughout and I was happy with that,\" Norrie added.\n\n\"I'm lucky to get through that one. It was a tough one.\"\n• None Relive sets from Arctic Monkeys, Billie Eilish, The 1975 and more\n• None Selected tracks to bring peace to your day", "The swimmer was found just 500m off the coast of Dover\n\nA lone man attempting to swim the English Channel from Dover to Calais has been rescued following an eight-hour search.\n\nThe hunt was prompted by a call to the coastguard from a friend of the swimmer on Monday.\n\nA helicopter and lifeboats were launched as part of the rescue effort, and the man was eventually found by a boat just 500m off the coast of Dover.\n\nThe swimmer was brought to shore and was described as \"cold and tired\".\n\nThe rescue operation began just after midday.\n\nA coastguard spokesperson said: \"At around 12.10pm today HM Coastguard received a call from a member of the public with information that their friend was swimming unaccompanied to Calais from Dover.\n\n\"Coastguard rescue teams from Deal and Langdon, RNLI lifeboats from Dover and Dungness and coastguard search and rescue helicopters from Lydd and Lee-on-Solent were sent.\n\n\"Vessels in the area were asked to keep a sharp lookout and Kent Police, Dover Port Police and Dover Port were informed.\n\n\"The swimmer was spotted shortly before 8pm by a passing vessel only 500 metres off Dover and was taken onboard the RNLI Dungeness lifeboat, cold and tired but otherwise well.\n\n\"He has been brought to shore and will be checked over by South East Ambulance Service.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Extinction Rebellion said it planned to \"peacefully disrupt\" Parliament with 10 days of demonstrations\n\nAt least 90 people have been arrested at climate change protests causing disruption across England.\n\nExtinction Rebellion organised action in London and Manchester to urge the government to prepare for a \"climate crisis\".\n\nCampaigners were arrested after they sat in the middle of the road next to Parliament Square to stop traffic.\n\nIn Manchester, protesters have been urged to \"reconsider their actions\" following a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Met said the protests could result in \"serious disruption\" to businesses and commuters\n\nExtinction Rebellion said it planned to \"peacefully disrupt the UK Parliament in London\" with 10 days of demonstrations until MPs backed the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.\n\nOther planned events in the capital include a \"carnival of corruption\", which is due to take place outside the Treasury, and a \"walk of shame\" near the Bank of England.\n\nProtester Karen Wildin, a 56-year-old tutor from Leicester, said: \"I'm here today because I have serious concerns about the future of the planet - we need to put this above anything else.\n\n\"Never mind Covid, never mind A-levels, this is the biggest crisis facing us and we need to raise the message as loudly as possible.\n\n\"Not a lot has been done on this issue, everyone needs to hear the message.\"\n\nEvents across England were timed for the return of MPs from the summer holiday\n\nSarah Lunnon, a member of Extinction Rebellion, said: \"The failure to act on this issue will have a catastrophic impact on the future of us and the generations to come.\n\n\"We want to occupy Parliament Square to make our voices heard. Of course we're in the middle of a pandemic but we're balancing the risk, this is the biggest issue facing us.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Tuesday's gathering could only take place off the main roads at Parliament Square Gardens between 08:00 BST and 19:00. Boats, vehicles, trailers or other structures were banned from the procession.\n\nThe same rules apply for Wednesday's demonstrations.\n\nThe Met said as of 18:00 Tuesday a total of 90 people had been arrested on suspicion of public order offences.\n\nFootage posted online by Extinction Rebellion appeared to show John Lynes, a demonstrator in his 90s, being led away by police near Parliament Square while walking with a stick.\n\nMr Lynes, from St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, has joined previous protests organised by the group.\n\nProtesters gathered in Westminster to urge the government to prepare for a \"climate crisis\"\n\nMet Commander Jane Connors said: \"The reason we have implemented these conditions is that we know these protests may result in serious disruption to local businesses, commuters and our communities and residents, which I will not tolerate.\"\n\nLast year, more than 1,700 arrests were made during Extinction Rebellion's 10-day Autumn Uprising.\n\nIn Manchester, a march is planned through the city and Oxford Street has been closed as part of five days of action.\n\nCity council deputy leader Nigel Murphy said planned demonstrations \"cannot adhere\" to social distancing rules.\n\nThe city has increased restrictions due to a recent rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nMr Murphy said while the council respected \"the right to peaceful protest\" this should \"not be at the expense of local people\".\n\nHe said: \"We are in the midst of a global public health crisis and we would ask demonstrators to seriously reconsider their actions at the current time.\n\n\"Manchester is currently under increased restrictions to limit the spread of the virus because the number of cases has been rising. Gatherings larger than six should only take place if everyone is exclusively from two households or support bubbles.\"\n\nHe said the city had one of the \"most ambitious carbon targets in the UK\" and was \"working to become zero carbon by 2038\".\n\nA Titanic-themed demonstration was also held in in Southend-on-Sea where protesters said much of Essex would be underwater by 2050\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 3,000 people were at the event in the Dulais Valley in Neath Port Talbot\n\nEight people have now been fined up to £10,000 after an illegal rave that attracted 3,000 people, with arrests also made for public order offences and driving under the influence of drugs.\n\nThe unlicensed event at Banwen, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, started Saturday night.\n\nThere were still 400 people at the site on Monday morning.\n\nSouth Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Dave Thorne said drone footage would help identify organisers.\n\nOfficers believe 22 people were involved in planning the rave.\n\nA student who attended the rave admitted being taken aback by the scale of the event and likened it to a festival.\n\nMr Thorne said it \"caught us unaware\" but officers were quickly deployed after calls were received.\n\nHe added: \"It is 4,000 acres, a significant sized area, where there was an opencast mine but it is now forested.\n\n\"It is now generally used for rally driving, so you can understand how hostile the land is - and large.\n\n\"We used drones to try and picture where everyone was.\"\n\nVillagers in Banwen complained about noise through Saturday night into Sunday\n\nHe described a police helicopter and specialist officers sent to the event, with assistance from Dyfed-Powys Police and British Transport Police.\n\nThere were \"a few arrests\" he said, for public order offences, such as urinating in the street and drug taking.\n\nEight people have also been issued with fines of up to £10,000, under new legislation introduced by the Welsh Government last week to stop gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nVehicles have also been seized, and Mr Thorne said drone footage would be studied to try and identify the organisers.\n\nPolice think ravers travelled from across the UK to the illegal event in Banwen\n\nHe said the 400 people still there on Monday morning would be prosecuted if they did not leave by the end of the day.\n\n\"I'd like to appeal to those who have organised it to take a level of personal responsibility,\" he added.\n\n\"Local communities have been trying really hard to adhere to coronavirus rules and to have 3,000 people come in and not adhere to it, is really irresponsible.\"\n\nA girl who attended described there being a festival feel to the event\n\nNiamh, a student from Cardiff who attended, said she made a last minute decision to go and admitted being \"taken aback\" by the size of it\n\n\"Of course there's that level of feeling bad for the people around there, and I did, but I didn't understand until I went there how big it was,\" she said.\n\n\"It was more of a festival, spread across a good few acres of land.\"\n\nWhile she said she understood why people would think it was selfish, she said she had a mask on, social distanced and had hand sanitiser.\n\nShe added: \"If older people are allowed to sit in their garden with friends, go for dinner, go into shops, where you're still interacting with a lot of people, what's the difference with people socially distancing and having a dance in a forest outdoors?\n\n\"I think there's a lot of stigma around young people doing their version of socialising just because it's not the same as you going for dinner or into the shops in town, where you're around just as many people one metre apart. What's the difference with doing that outdoors in the woods?\"\n\nNiamh said the words \"illegal rave\" conjured images of \"a bunch of crazy people breaking the rules\", but she said: \"It was a very relaxed atmosphere and everyone was being as safe as they possibly could.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households have been reintroduced in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe new rules affect more than 800,000 people in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThey are being told not to host people from other households in their own homes or visit another person's home.\n\nThe restrictions came into effect from midnight. They will last for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that 135 of the 314 new cases in Scotland over the past two days had been in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nShe said Covid-19 continued to be a dangerous and potentially deadly virus.\n\n\"It is spreading again, particularly in these three local authority areas, and we believe that, in these areas, it is spreading primarily as a result of household gatherings,\" she said.\n\nThe restrictions affect 633,120 people living in Glasgow, 95,530 in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nPeople living in those areas should also not visit someone else's home, no matter where it is.\n\nThe only exception is for those in extended households, who can continue to meet indoors.\n\nOnly essential indoor visits will be allowed in hospitals and care homes.\n\nPeople from different households can continue to meet outdoors as long as they follow the guidance, and outdoor visits to care homes are still permitted.\n\n\"I think this should be a wake-up call, not just for people in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire,\" said the first minister.\n\n\"It should be a wake-up call for all of us to stick to the guidelines and stop this virus spreading any further or any faster.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the reopening of schools had not been responsible for what had happened.\n\nShe said a \"very small number\" of school-age children had tested positive for the virus, and that this had mostly been driven by community transmission.\n\n\"Part of the reason that we have to take tough action, where necessary, to minimise community transmission is to stop that becoming a problem for schools,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the preventative action was designed to keep schools open and businesses operating.\n\nMs Sturgeon had raised concerns earlier in the day after the latest daily figures showed that 66 of the 154 new cases recorded in Scotland had been in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nThat compared with an average of eight cases a day in the same area in the first two weeks of August.\n\nThe daily incidence rate of Covid-19 is now almost 33 new cases per 100,000 people in West Dunbartonshire, 22 in Glasgow and almost 19 in East Renfrewshire. The rate for the rest of Scotland is just over 10.\n\nThe local lockdown which was imposed in Aberdeen last month had been triggered by a rate of 14 cases per 100,000 population.\n\nDonald Macaskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, said the announcement was a bitter blow to care homes in the three affected local authority areas.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"Unfortunately it is the selfish behaviour and attitude of a few, who have put themselves first, which have meant that some of our most vulnerable citizens have been prevented from meeting their families.\n\n\"I am extremely disappointed that there will be hundreds of families not able to visit each other indoors in the next week or so.\"", "In a normal year, more than a million UK tourists visit Portugal's Algarve coast\n\nMinisters are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe country has recorded more than 20 cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nNormally when a country surpasses that mark the UK government imposes 14 days of self-isolation on returning travellers.\n\nMinisters are expected to reach a decision on the measures by Thursday.\n\nThey will also have to decide whether the UK as a whole should follow Scotland, which has made a decision to add Greece to its own quarantine list, effective from 04:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nIt is the first of the four UK nations - each of which can add or remove countries to their own list - to make a decision on Greece, following several reports of people in the UK testing positive after holidaying on the island of Zante.\n\nWales, which says at least 16 people tested positive following a flight from the Greek island last week, says it has told passengers arriving on a plane at Cardiff Airport on Tuesday evening to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, some travel industry leaders have suggested quarantine rules should only apply to people returning from specific regions where case numbers are high, such as resort islands - rather than having whole countries blacklisted.\n\nIt has been less than two weeks since Portugal came off the quarantine list and was put back on the UK's safe travel list, following a sustained period of falling cases in the country that put it below the \"20 per 100,000\" mark that satisfied the UK.\n\nBut now holidaymakers are scrambling to return from the country amid fears the country is again about to be taken off the list, based on the latest data.\n\nEasyJet has sold out all of its flights from Faro - which serves the Algarve - to airports in Britain for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nAnd British Airways is selling seats on a flight from Faro to Heathrow on Thursday for £554, while the same journey can be made seven days later for just £139.\n\nThousands of people have travelled from the UK to Portugal since the country was added to the UK's quarantine exemption list on 22 August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tui boss Andrew Flintham says the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\"\n\nPortugal has recorded 21.1 virus cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nThe UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country's infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,000, over seven days.\n\nOver the past month, so-called travel corridors - which allow people to travel without having to self-isolate on their return - have been scrapped between England and at least 18 countries and territories.\n\nMinisters have said this cautious approach prevents coronavirus cases being imported.\n\nAndrew Flintham, head of Tui UK, has said the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\" - meaning quarantine measures would apply to people returning from regions over whole countries.\n\nHe said there were fewer cases in the popular Algarve, where most tourists are, than elsewhere in Portugal.\n\nUsing the example of Leicester, the first area in the UK to be placed under local lockdown, Mr Flintham told the BBC: \"In the UK we have a slightly different policy in the fact that we don't lock down the whole UK when the Leicester rate goes up.\n\n\"Can we apply the same kind of principle to almost allow us to operate to those places where the rates are low or are within those thresholds?\n\n\"We don't want to put anybody in danger but clearly it is not the same everywhere in a country,\" he added.\n\nIt is not the first time Tui has urged the government against slapping blanket quarantines on whole countries. Mr Flintham previously called for \"regionalised\" policy after quarantine measures were imposed on Spain in July.\n\nThe travel industry had hoped that the quarantine rules could be eased for the Balearic and Canary Islands, as data suggested there were lower rates of infection there than in mainland Spain.\n\nElsewhere, the boss of British Airways' parent firm, Willie Walsh, has accused the government of using \"arbitrary statistics to effectively ban 160 countries and in the process destroying the economy\".\n\nThe \"ever-changing\" quarantine requirements meant \"the UK has officially hung up the 'closed' sign\", he said, writing in the Times.\n\nLast week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and a number of others on the UK's quarantine list.\n\nUK tourists have spent thousands of pounds on new flights and ferries, and endured long drives in a race to get home before quarantine measures kick in.\n\nThe government has not commented on whether requirements for arrivals from Portugal will change again.\n\nAs soon as Portugal came off the quarantine list less than two weeks ago, John Cushing and his 12-year-old daughter Georgie headed straight out to the Algarve where he has a villa.\n\nNow the quarantine rules look set to change, he's facing a quandary.\n\n\"It's very precarious at the moment,\" says the 61-year-old company director.\n\n\"My daughter and I won't be able to leave the house when we get back to the UK on Saturday and there's a risk of being fined because I won't be able to send her back to school on Monday.\n\n\"She's in tears because she wants to go back to school but Ryanair is charging £1,000 to get back before the possible cut-off point.\n\n\"It's a very difficult decision to make [to pay for the early flight home] and I'm not really enjoying myself here now.\"\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal, making up the largest number of overseas tourists to the country.\n\nMost head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nOver May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nThe government has warned that stricter measures will be put in place in mid-September as pupils return to school and some workers return to offices.\n\nAs of 31 August, the UK recorded 24 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the past fortnight while Portugal recorded 35.7, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This week marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of the Second World War, when Japan signed its deed of unconditional surrender. It ended six years of global conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 80 million people and changed the lives of hundreds of millions of others.\n\nThis week some of our colleagues at BBC News are relating their own families’ experiences in contributing to the people’s war effort. We start with Huw Edwards whose grandfather John Daniel Edwards was a merchant seaman, risking his life with thousands of others serving in the Atlantic Convoys.", "The boy was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave\n\nA teenager has been charged with attempted murder and firearms offences after a schoolboy was shot.\n\nThe victim was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on Monday.\n\nThe Year 11 Kesgrave High School pupil is in a critical condition.\n\nA 15-year-old boy from the Woodbridge area, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of injury.\n\nThe boy has been remanded in custody and will appear via video link before Norwich Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nOfficers conducted a thorough search of the area around Friends Walk\n\nThe victim sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.\n\nFriends Walk was reopened earlier on Tuesday following the completion of police searches in the area.\n\nPolice said a \"long-barrelled gun\" had been recovered.\n\nPolice said a large police presence would remain in the area\n\nA police spokesman said officers would \"continue to engage with school children, teachers, parents and local residents to provide reassurance\".\n\n\"The constabulary will also have a police pod located in Through Jollys that will provide a strong visible presence to local people,\" the spokesman added.\n\nSupt Kerry Cutler said: \"Everybody is shocked, Kesgrave is on the outskirts of Ipswich, it is almost a semi-rural area, it's very much a residential area, this is not something we've seen in that area before and people will be impacted by it.\n\n\"The investigation goes on and we're still appealing for anybody who saw anything or has any information to come forward.\"\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.", "An e-sports company in which David Beckham owns a significant stake is seeking to raise £20m by listing its shares on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nGuild Esports will be the first in the UK to offer fans the chance to put money into backing its teams of gamers.\n\nE-sports, where spectators watch players video gaming, has seen its popularity rise during lockdown.\n\nThe company plans to field teams in the global online games Fortnite, CS:GO, Rocket League and Fifa.\n\nIt wants to build up its teams' skills using systems similar to the Premier League's talent academics.\n\nPrize and sponsorship money for e-sports run in the millions and audiences run to more than 100 million for some events, outstripping those for major sporting events such as Wimbledon and the Tour de France.\n\nFigures from from Newzoo, a games market insights company, show that 2019, e-sports had a total of 443 million viewers in 2020. Newzoo predicts the market will grow to 646 million viewers by 2023.\n\nThe shares will initially be offered to large investors next month, but afterwards will trade freely on the stock market where anyone can buy them.\n\nMoney raised from the initial share placing will be used to expand the business, including recruiting new players.\n\nThe investment further extends David Beckham's wide-ranging business interests, which include fashion, fragrances, whisky and a football club in Florida that he co-owns.\n\nGuild Esports said he would use his \"global influence and following to support the development of the company's brand and business\".\n\nBeckham is one of the founding shareholders in the business, holding what is described as a \"significant minority stake\", although the exact investment is undisclosed.\n\nHe is not the first footballer to spot the potential opportunities in e-sports. Wales and Real Madrid player Gareth Bale launched his e-sports organisation, Ellevens Esports, earlier this year.\n\nCarleton Curtis, the executive chairman of Guild Esports, said: \"Guild will be the first e-sports franchise to join the London stock market.\n\n\"It will provide us with the cache, credibility and capital to fulfil our ambition to become one of the world's top 10 e-sports franchises within three years.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland played out a dreary deadlock with Denmark in Copenhagen as the Nations League meeting turned into a drab non-event.\n\nHarry Kane almost won it for England in the dying seconds when he went round Denmark keeper Kasper Schmeichel, only to see his shot cleared off the line by Mathias Jorgensen - but such a poor quality encounter barely deserved a dramatic finale.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate will have hoped for some talking points on the pitch after the off-field distraction that saw young duo Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood sent home for breaking Covid-19 protocols in Iceland.\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers captain Conor Coady made a measured England debut while Leeds United's Kalvin Phillips had a quiet introduction - and Aston Villa midfield man Jack Grealish finally got his long-awaited bow with 14 minutes left.\n\nDenmark had the better chances until Kane's late effort, with England keeper Jordan Pickford saving well from Kasper Dolberg in the first half and Christian Eriksen shooting over when well placed late on.\n\nEngland were sterile and conservative, creating very little apart from a Kane header off target and a low shot from Raheem Sterling that brought a smart save from Schmeichel before that late chance.\n\nArsenal youngster Ainsley Maitland-Niles became England's fourth debutant in the final minutes on a night of very little excitement.\n• None 'Southgate must address lack of productivity, positivity and ambition'\n• None Trust needs to be rebuilt with Foden and Greenwood - Southgate\n• None Football Daily podcast: England are dull and drab in Denmark\n\nEngland's ploy of playing a three-man central defence and effectively two holding midfielders in Phillips and Declan Rice afforded Denmark the sort of respect that might be better reserved for more elite sides.\n\nIt set the tone for a disappointing England performance, lacking in ambition and threat and one which would not have have deserved the late victory Kane almost gave them.\n\nThere is the usual context that this is effectively a pre-season game in an international guise for England's players but there was no excuse for such a lifeless display lacking in energy.\n\nEngland's attacking trio of Kane, Sterling and the anonymous Jadon Sancho were nowhere near their best but they could point to the fact that they were cut off from any sort of supply line by the manner of Southgate's set-up.\n\nThe team itself had an experimental air but there was no escaping England should have done much better than this.\n\nWolves captain Conor Coady was no shrinking violet as he made his England debut, making his presence felt and heard even before kick-off.\n\nAs silence fell on the largely deserted Parken Stadion in the seconds before the start, Coady's voice was heard bellowing instructions to his new England colleagues.\n\nThe 27-year-old looked at home with England, urging team-mates on throughout and shouting tactical instructions. He also played well and can be very satisfied with his first taste of senior international football, playing his part in the clean sheet.\n\nIt was a more subdued night for 24-year-old Leeds midfielder Phillips but it is worth remembering this is a player entering international football before even making his debut in the Premier League.\n\nEngland's system was not ideal for him and there were times in the first half when the game passed him by but he showed composure on the ball and did not waste possession, improving in the second half.\n\nGrealish can finally got the opportunity that will delight his many supporters but he had little time to influence affairs, apart from a couple of trademark jinking runs that came to nothing.\n\nMost debutants in competitive game since 1962 - match stats\n• None This was England's sixth goalless draw in 43 matches under Gareth Southgate - as many as Roy Hodgson played out in 56 games in charge. The last England manager to oversee more 0-0s was Bobby Robson (17).\n• None England managed just two shots on target, their fewest since their behind-closed-doors match against Croatia in October 2018 (also two).\n• None England have kept a clean sheet in five successive competitive matches for the first time since another run of five ending in March 2017.\n• None Denmark have kept a clean sheet in six of their past eight matches in all competitions, conceding just three goals in this time.\n• None England's first shot on target in this game came in the 70th minute courtesy of Raheem Sterling - it was the longest they had to wait since a World Cup match against Costa Rica in 2014 (80th minute).\n• None This was the first time the England men's team has named four debutants in a non-friendly match since October 1962 in a European Championship qualifier against Poland (Ray Charnley, Chris Crowe, Mike Hellawell, Alan Hinton).\n• None Phillips was the first Leeds United player to start for England since Danny Mills in 2003, while Coady was the first Wolves player to start for England since Steve Bull in 1990.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Attempt missed. Simon Kjaer (Denmark) header from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Robert Skov with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt missed. Robert Skov (Denmark) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andreas Christensen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Behind the scenes of their title triumph\n• None Can you truly be one or the other?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis says Northern Ireland customs rules legislation do “break international law in a very specific and limited way”\n\nA government minister has said a new bill to amend the UK's Brexit deal with the EU will \"break international law\".\n\nConcerns had been raised about legislation being brought forward which could change parts of the withdrawal agreement, negotiated last year.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis conceded it would go against the treaty in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nFormer PM Theresa May warned the change could damage \"trust\" in the UK over future trade deals with other states.\n\nThe permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones, has announced he is resigning from government in light of the bill, making him the sixth senior civil servant to leave Whitehall this year.\n\nSir Jonathan, who is the government's most senior lawyer, is understood to have believed the plans went too far in breaching the government's obligations under international law.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer condemned the bill and accused No 10 of \"reopening old arguments that had been settled\", saying the \"focus should be on getting a [trade] deal done\" with the EU.\n\nNo 10 revealed on Monday that it would be introducing a new UK Internal Market Bill that could affect post-Brexit customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nDowning Street said it would only make \"minor clarifications in extremely specific areas\" - but it worried some in Brussels and Westminster that it could see the government try to change the withdrawal agreement, which became international law when the UK left the EU in January.\n\nThe row also comes at the start of the eighth round of post-Brexit trade deal talks between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe two sides are trying to secure a deal before the end of the transition period on 31 December, which will see the UK going onto World Trade Organisation rules if no agreement is reached.\n\nIrish Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, called Mr Lewis' comments \"gravely concerning\", adding: \"Any unilateral departure from the terms of the withdrawal agreement would be a matter of considerable concern and a very serious step.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says planned government legislation over Northern Ireland is “wrong”\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator, Lord David Frost, called for \"realism\" from his EU counterparts, saying he would \"drive home our clear message that we must make progress this week if we are to reach an agreement in time\".\n\nThe EU said it would \"do everything in [its] power to reach an agreement\" with the UK, but \"will be ready\" for a no-deal scenario.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson said if a deal hadn't been done by the time the European Council meets on 15 October, the two sides should \"move on\" and accept the UK's exit without one.\n\nShadow Northern Ireland secretary, Louise Haigh, said it was \"deeply concerning\" that the prime minister \"appeared to be undermining the legal obligations of his own deal\" with the introduction of the new law while the negotiations are taking place.\n\nThe text of the new bill will not be published until Wednesday, although the government has confirmed it will deal with the issue of the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol - an element of the withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nThe practicalities of the protocol - which will deal with issues of state aid (financial support given to businesses by governments) and whether there needs to be customs checks on goods - is still being negotiated by a joint UK and EU committee.\n\nBut Mr Lewis said the bill would take \"limited and reasonable steps to create a safety net\" if the negotiations failed.\n\nSpeaking during an urgent question on the bill, chair of the Justice Committee and Tory MP Bob Neill said the \"adherence to the rule of law is not negotiable\".\n\nHe asked Mr Lewis: \"Will he assure us that nothing proposed in this legislation does or potentially might breach international obligations or international legal arrangements?\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary replied: \"Yes. This does break international law in a very specific and limited way.\"\n\nHe said the government was still working \"in good faith\" with the EU joint committee to overcome its concerns for the future of trade in Northern Ireland, but said there was \"clear precedence for UK and indeed other countries needing to consider their obligations if circumstances change\".\n\nSir Bob later told BBC Radio 4's PM the decision was \"troubling\", adding: \"Britain is a country which prides itself on standing by the rule of law... whether it is inconvenient or convenient for us.\n\n\"Whatever we seek to do, if we find something we signed up to 'inconvenient', I am afraid this doesn't mean we can renege on our contract... as that would damage our reputation long term.\"\n\nThis was an extremely unusual statement - a minister standing up in Parliament to say the government is planning to break international law.\n\nBrandon Lewis told the House of Commons that \"there are clear precedents for the UK and other countries needing to consider their international obligations as circumstances change\".\n\nThat may suggest, says Catherine Barnard, professor of law at the University of Cambridge, that the government is looking at Article 62 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which enables a state to get out of its treaty obligations when circumstances change radically.\n\nBut those changed circumstances have to be pretty dramatic - something like the dissolution of Yugoslavia, when a recognised country ceases to exist.\n\nIn the case of the Northern Ireland Protocol, it is less than a year since the government negotiated the treaty in full knowledge of the sensitivity of the situation.\n\nAnd if the government does go ahead with legislation which appears to contradict the withdrawal agreement?\n\n\"There is a chance,\" says Prof Barnard, \"that the EU will decide to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism in the withdrawal agreement, which could lead to arbitration and a case before the European Court of Justice.\"\n\nTheresa May - who stood down as prime minister last year after her own Brexit deal failed to get the support of Parliament - said: \"The United Kingdom government signed the withdrawal agreement with the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"This Parliament voted that withdrawal agreement into UK legislation. The government is now changing the operation of that agreement.\"\n\n\"How can the government reassure future international partners that the UK can be trusted to abide by the legal obligations of the agreements it signs?\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, also called it a \"sad and shocking state of affairs for our country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris looks at where the UK and EU are struggling to agree on their future relationship\n\nSammy Wilson, who acts as Brexit spokesman for the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, said he was \"pleased\" to have the new bill that could deal with some of the issues that could affect his constituents - such as state aid and customs checks.\n\nBut he said the DUP had \"warned ministers of the impact of the withdrawal agreement\" early on, saying it was a \"union splitting, economy destroying and border creating agreement that has to be changed and replaced\".\n\nHe added: \"We will judge this bill on whether it delivers on these kind of issues.\"\n\nHowever, Claire Hanna, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MP for Belfast South, said the protocol was \"a symptom… of four years of terrible political decision making\".\n\nShe added: \"It is now the law. This government is obliged to implement it in full.\"\n\nShe also \"cautioned\" Mr Lewis \"not to use the threat of a border on the island of Ireland or the hard won impartiality of the Good Friday Agreement as a cat's paw in this or any other negotiation.\"\n\nBut former Conservative leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, said the act that brought the withdrawal agreement into law in the UK allowed the government to \"reserve the right to make clarifications under the sovereignty clause\".\n\nMr Lewis agreed, saying the law would \"clarify... the points about what will apply in January if we are not able to get satisfactory and mutually suitable conclusions\" in negotiations.\n\nHe added: \"It is reasonable and sensible to give that certainty and clarity to the people and businesses of Northern Ireland.\"", "Gordon and Margaret Minto were shocked to learn that British Airways will not return the £4,748 they paid for their flights.\n\nBritish Airways passengers have told the BBC that they have been refused cash refunds for cancelled flights.\n\nGordon and Margaret Minto accepted vouchers instead after their flights to the United States were cancelled, the airline says.\n\n\"We were stunned... we looked at each other and said, 'we haven't asked for a voucher'. We haven't received one either\", says Margaret.\n\nBA said it will \"always provide a refund if a customer is eligible\".\n\nBut the Mintos from South Shields are among many holidaymakers who have found themselves in a stand-off with the airline after their flights were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe airline maintains they accepted vouchers, while they all say they never wanted vouchers at all.\n\nUnder EU law, when a flight is cancelled passengers are entitled to their money back within seven days.\n\nAirlines are still free to offer them the chance to rebook or to take vouchers, which can be used on different flights in future, if that is what a customer prefers.\n\nThe Mintos had spent £4,748 on five tickets for them and family members to fly from Newcastle via London to Dallas and Las Vegas.\n\nThey say they always wanted a cash refund but communicating that wish to British Airways was difficult.\n\nThe airline used to offer an online facility where people could request money back for cancelled flights. It called it \"the quickest way\" to get a refund.\n\nBut when Covid-19 struck and thousands of flights were being cancelled, that option was removed from the company's website.\n\nBA says it was because its system was not set up to deal with that volume of traffic, so passengers who wanted refunds were asked to ring the company instead.\n\nThe problem was many passengers then struggled to get through on the phone lines too.\n\nThe Mintos gave up and emailed BA asking for their money back. They got a reply saying, as far as the airline was concerned, they had accepted vouchers already and could not exchange them for cash.\n\nAll the more puzzling, according to Margaret, was the response they got from a BA staff member when they did manage to get through on the telephone.\n\n\"They said, 'I'm sorry I cannot find anything on the system which shows that you've accepted a voucher and I am going to go to a superior and ring you back in three days'. That was the last we heard from them and that was two and a half weeks ago,\" she says.\n\nWhen the BBC contacted British Airways, the airline insisted Mr and Mrs Minto had filled out a voucher request form as there is \"no way\" in which its system would issue vouchers without one.\n\nYet other British Airways customers who were after cash refunds for cancelled flights are also claiming vouchers were automatically issued to them.\n\n\"I didn't complete a form asking for a voucher and, to the best of my knowledge, I didn't click anything asking for a voucher,\" says Terry Lloyd from Barnet in North London.\n\n\"In the end it seemed to me the only sensible option was to say to the customer services, 'well show me the form which you alleged I completed'. Despite repeated requests, they will not send it to me. I can only assume it's because it doesn't exist. I'm totally disenchanted with them. It is a pathetic piece of obfuscation on their part.\"\n\nOther customers say they filled out voucher application forms by mistake after logging into their accounts looking for ways to get their money back.\n\nDavid Hunter accepts that he made a mistake but feels that he was \"misled\" by British Airways' website.\n\nAt one stage the BA website displayed two buttons, one labelled \"change booking\" and the other labelled \"cancel booking\" with a message underneath which said: \"There's no extra cost for any changes and we offer a refund if you cancel your booking\".\n\nPeople who clicked \"cancel booking\" hoping for a refund were actually taken to an application form for vouchers.\n\nIt had \"Future Travel Voucher Application Form\" written in large letters at the top and a box to tick at the bottom acknowledging acceptance of vouchers, but several people seem to have missed that.\n\nDavid Hunter from Sutton in Surrey says he got \"suckered in\" by the previous page which promised a refund and filled out the form thinking that was what he was getting. He only realised his error after pressing submit and, within the hour, managed to get through to British Airways on the telephone.\n\n\"British Airways said 'no, that's it, that is what you selected that's what you're getting,\" he says, meaning he's stuck with a voucher for his £768 return flights to Seychelles.\n\nDavid Travers QC, a barrister specialising in trading standards and consumer protection law, believes the fact that a number of people have been misled does \"rather suggest\" that the British Airways website was misleading.\n\n\"There is something unattractive, people might think, about a large commercial concern playing 'gotcha' with a customer - if you read that more carefully you would have realised what we were doing.\n\n\"That is something the courts and the legislation have taken some trouble to treat with a degree of caution because of the inequality of the position between the consumer and the business,\" he says.\n\nBA says the voucher process is clearly worded but has failed to explain why part of its website appeared to offer a refund but took people to a voucher application form instead.\n\nThe regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, says if consumers feel misled then they should open a complaint about their experience, first with the airline and then, if they are not satisfied with the response, they can seek redress via the approved alternative dispute resolution service, which in the case of British Airways is the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR).\n\n\"We will always provide a refund if a customer is eligible and we're offering flexibility if any of our customers need to change their flights,\" British Airways said in a statement.\n\n\"Since March we have provided more than 1.67 million customers with cash refunds and more than 1.3 million with vouchers to fly with us that they can use right up until April 2022\".\n\nYou & Yours is on air every weekday from 12:18 on BBC Radio 4", "Emily Bendell asked for membership in March and was turned down, so engaged lawyers to mount a legal challenge under the 2010 Equality Act\n\nAn entrepreneur is challenging a London private member's club over its \"gentlemen-only\" membership policy.\n\nEmily Bendell, founder of lingerie brand Bluebella, claims the Garrick Club's rules allowing women to attend only as guests of men violates the Equality Act 2010.\n\nThe exclusive West End club counts Sir Laurence Olivier and Charles Dickens among its former members.\n\nShe is now threatening legal action against the Garrick, demanding that it opens membership to women for the first time since it opened in 1831.\n\nTalking to the BBC she said: \"I had no idea that this male-only members club still existed and I was quite shocked and surprised that was the case.\n\n\"[It's] deeply troubling on a number of levels and so I thought I could see if there was anything there could be done about it.\n\n\"These are clubs that have people who run this country as members - what is that telling us? That we are not allowing women to be part of these networks and gatherings?\n\n\"By denying women access to these networks, it is detrimental to our cause, so I think it is important.\n\n\"I hope that the members of the Garrick Club can see that the world has moved on and do the right thing.\"\n\nThe Garrick Club which counts Sir Laurence Olivier and Charles Dickens among its former members has continued to be \"open to gentlemen members only\" throughout its 189-year history\n\nThe Garrick Club was founded by a group of \"literary gentlemen\" with the aim of bringing together actors and supporters of theatre.\n\nAlthough the Garrick does not allow female members it employs female members of staff and a letter has been sent to Ann Robbie, the secretary of the Garrick, with a request for a reply by 5 October.\n\nThe letter states the Garrick is bound, under section 29 of the Equality Act, not to discriminate against a person requiring or seeking to use its services.\n\nThe letter goes on to outline claims for direct and indirect sex discrimination in respect of its \"gentlemen-only\" policy.\n\nThe club, founded in 1831 and one of the oldest in the world, was originally formed as a meeting place for men working in drama\n\nMs Bendell's solicitors at Leigh Day said: \"Ms Bendell has a successful career and affinity to the arts and, just as any man in her position would have the opportunity to, she wishes to become a member of the Garrick Club and access the club's services.\n\n\"The Garrick is one of the oldest and best-known members' clubs in the world, but it is holding on to values that are outdated and quite simply not legal in this day and age. It provides services to the public and as such it is bound by the equalities law.\n\n\"Both the firm and Ms Bendell look forward to receiving confirmation that the Garrick Club intends to change its policy in relation to admission of female members.\"\n\nThe Garrick has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man who faced an unprecedented five trials over four years for the shooting of a mother-of-nine and her nephew has been found guilty of murder.\n\nAnnie Ekofo, 53, and Bervil Ekofo, 21, were killed in their home in East Finchley, north London, in 2016.\n\nObina Ezeoke first went on trial in 2017 but it collapsed, while juries in two more failed to reach verdicts and the other was halted by coronavirus.\n\nAt his fifth trial, the 28-year-old was found guilty of two counts of murder.\n\nAn Old Bailey jury convicted Ezeoke by a majority of 11 to one after deliberating for 41 hours over eight days.\n\nThe defendant was found guilty of two counts of murder after a fifth trial\n\nThe court heard Ezeoke, of Cambridge Heath, had \"crept noiselessly\" into Mrs Ekofo's home on 15 September 2016 just after dawn.\n\nHe then shot her 21-year-old nephew, who happened to be staying there that night, while he slept and killed Ms Ekofo in the hall when she went to investigate what had happened.\n\nProsecutor Mark Heywood QC said the 28-year-old drug dealer had gone to kill one of the teenage boys in the family as \"part of a vendetta of violence\".\n\n\"His hate was such that he did not falter when confronted by a second person - he simply took her life as well,\" he said.\n\nThe key evidence centred around firearms residue found in Ezeoke's car, which was used in the getaway, and on his top recovered from a female friend's home.\n\nEzeoke, who denied murder, told successive trials he had an alibi for the time of the shootings and suggested the gunshot residue in the vehicle must have been from a previous shooting.\n\nEzeoke crept into Ms Ekofo's house just before dawn to carry out the killings, the court heard\n\nWhen the fourth trial was halted, the defendant's lawyer James Scobie QC claimed the case should not go to a fifth trial, saying it \"would be oppressive\" and \"enough is enough\".\n\nBut Mr Heywood successfully argued the \"public interest\" in a case \"of this exceptional kind and such gravity\".\n\nSally-Anne Russell, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Ezeoke's actions \"have devastated a family\".\n\n\"He went to the flat to carry out a revenge attack... When he couldn't find the person he was looking for, he murdered a young man and a mother-of-nine instead,\" she added.\n\nEzeoke will be sentenced on 1 October.\n• None Man to face fifth trial over same murder charges\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 27-year-old was arrested at a property in Selly Oak in the early hours of Monday\n\nA man has been charged with murder and seven counts of attempted murder, after a series of stabbings across Birmingham city centre.\n\nZephaniah McLeod, aged 27, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, is due in court on Wednesday, West Midlands Police said.\n\nJacob Billington, 23, was killed and seven others injured at four locations over a period of 90 minutes on Sunday.\n\nMr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was stabbed in Irving Street while enjoying a night out with friends.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded he died of a stab wound to the neck.\n\nMr Billington had been working as a library intern at Sheffield Hallam University and was also a drummer in a band.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"Jacob was a Sheffield Hallam graduate and had joined the library as a graduate intern, where his warmth and enthusiasm made him a greatly valued member of our team.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with his family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nHis friend, Michael Callaghan, also 23 and a fellow band-mate, was seriously injured in the attack in Irving Street and remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nBoth men had previously attended Sacred Heart Catholic College in Crosby, where prayers were said on Monday evening for their families.\n\nIn a statement, the school said: \"We are saddened at the events in Birmingham which took Jacob's life and left Michael critically injured.\n\n\"We are praying for Michael's recovery and will never forget Jacob, his life touched so many in our school.\"\n\nJacob Billington, who was out with friends, was stabbed to death in Birmingham\n\nA 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, remains critical but stable in hospital.\n\nAnother man, aged 30, remains in a serious condition in hospital, while four others have been discharged.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Munro said: \"Since these tragic events unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning we've had a team of officers working non-stop on the investigation.\n\n\"Our driving focus is to secure justice for the victims, their family and friends. Our sympathies remain with everyone who's been impacted by these terrible crimes.\"\n\nThree people arrested early on Monday at an address in Selly Oak on suspicion of assisting an offender have all been released pending investigation, police said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The quake was felt at about 09:45 BST in the town of Leighton Buzzard\n\nAn earthquake with a magnitude 3.3 has been felt across several towns in England.\n\nPeople living in Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire said they felt it at about 09:45 BST.\n\nCarly Jan Smith, 31, in Dunstable, said it was \"really strong\" and lasted for about two seconds. Her whole room went from \"side to side\", she said.\n\nThe British Geological Survey said it struck just north of Leighton Buzzard.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Geological Survey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBedfordshire Police said there were no reports of injuries, although it had received a large number of calls.\n\nAcross the border in Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley Police tweeted that is was not a major incident, adding that \"extra resources have been drafted in to clean up the mess created by the duty inspector's coffee\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Richard Luckett, of the British Geological Survey, confirmed the quake, saying: \"It was very minor on a global scale, but still quite large for the UK.\n\n\"We get about two of these a year.\"\n\nHe said there was a slight chance of aftershocks \"but they are very likely not to be felt\".\n\nBritish Geological has released the seismograms for the Leighton Buzzard 3.3 magnitude event\n\nJohn Yorke, a computer programmer in Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire, said: \"It felt like one subtle jolt to the house which made the windows vibrate.\n\n\"My initial thought was to look out of the window expecting to see a car had crashed into our property. I haven't felt anything like it before.\"\n\nMs Smith of Dunstable told BBC Three Counties Radio: \"I was in my room and I thought my stepdad was doing something in the garage because the whole room just went from side to side, really strongly.\n\n\"It was like the foundation beneath me had kind of jolted.\"\n\nKaren Cursons, a 56-year-old town councillor, added: \"We've been in Leighton Buzzard for 34 years and I have never felt anything like that.\"\n\nChristine Sawyer, who lives in a mobile home in Caddington, said it had left her \"really scared\" as she feared her property had broken off its mooring.\n\n\"The whole place shook, it felt like something had hit the side of the home,\" she said. \"My dog shot out of her chair.\"\n\nGavin Prechner was working from home in Leighton Buzzard.\n\nHe said: \"It felt like a car had crashed into my house, but then the rumbling and shaking continued.\n\n\"No damage to report apart from a hairline crack in the paint work in my upstairs office and some pictures looking wonky on the wall.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Harvey, an experienced walker, has now been reunited with family and friends\n\nAn 80-year-old hiker who went missing for three days in the Yorkshire Dales has spoken at a press conference arranged in a bid to track him down.\n\nHarry Harvey spent three nights wild camping after becoming separated from a walking group between Gunnerside and Tan Hill, North Yorkshire, on Saturday.\n\nA major search took place including police, the RAF and rescue dogs.\n\nHe was spotted by a wildlife photographer on Tuesday morning, who saw him waving at her near Keld.\n\nMr Harvey was about six miles (10km) from where he was last seen.\n\nHe was then taken by Land Rover to the nearby Tan Hill Inn, where he was reunited with family and friends at the press conference.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Mr Harvey was reunited with family at the Tan Hill Inn\n\nSpeaking to journalists Mr Harvey, from Tynemouth in Tyne and Wear, said: \"I just got separated by getting caught in a really heavy hailstorm, a howling gale of wind.\n\n\"By the time I got my kit on it was getting really dark, so I missed what I would say was a turning. I had a plan B straight away, find somewhere safe to camp, put my tent up, keep warm, and that was it.\n\n\"The biggest problem I had was getting to Tynemouth from Keld, because I only had £21.05 in my pocket.\"\n\nMr Harvey said he had \"three good nights wild camping\".\n\n\"The place where we got separated was absolutely desolate, there was no chance of putting a tent up that's for sure, so I had to find somewhere safe, which is what I did.\"\n\nMr Harvey said he was never worried as he had \"all the kit and all the training\", adding he would rather not have the attention which he said was \"not my scene at all\".\n\nThe experienced hiker, who was reported missing on Sunday afternoon, said he could see search teams but did not realise they were looking for him.\n\nMr Harvey went missing in an area between Gunnerside Gill (pictured) and Tan Hill\n\nHis family said the past three days had been \"torture\" and they could not put the worry they had into words.\n\n\"We know he is experienced, but not three nights, that's taking it a little bit to the extreme,\" they said.\n\nInsp Mark Gee, from North Yorkshire Police, said: \"This is fantastic news. I want to thank all the search volunteers for their time, as well as gamekeepers, estate owners, farmers and local residents for their help and understanding.\n\n\"Thanks also to the Tan Hill, who looked after the volunteers and Mr Harvey's family.\"\n\nAnnette Pyrah, the photographer who found him, said she cried when she realised it was Mr Harvey.\n\n\"I was out taking photographs of grouse and instead of grouse I found Harry,\" she said.\n\n\"I had passed Tan Hill with a very heavy heart because I knew he hadn't been found and I thought after three days he's not going to be found. It was quite upsetting to see the police and sniffer dogs.\n\n\"I just looked up at the fell and this gentleman waved at me. I got out of my car and I said, 'Are you Harry? Have you been missing for three days?' And he said yes. And I started crying.\"\n\nMs Pyrah said he had a nasty bump on the head where he had fallen into a stream, but apart from that he was fit and well.\n\n\"I got him some help for his head and he rang his wife, which was the main thing,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The National Records of Scotland figures cover the period when the pandemic was at its peak in Scotland\n\nThe number of people who died in Scotland at the height of the coronavirus outbreak was a third higher than usual, according to official figures.\n\nNational Records of Scotland (NRS) said 18,201 deaths had been registered between April and June.\n\nThis was 4,515 higher than the five-year average.\n\nCovid-19 was the underlying cause in 3,739 deaths, accounting for 83% of the excess deaths.\n\nDeaths from diabetes, dementia and Alzheimer's Disease were about a quarter higher than the five-year average, the NRS said.\n\nAnd deaths from diseases of the genitourinary system increased by 22.5%.\n\nHowever, deaths from respiratory diseases decreased by 20.6% and deaths from transport accidents were down by 69.1%.\n\nChief Medical Officer Gregor Smith said the reasons for the higher than usual number of deaths would be better understood \"in the fullness of time\", and urged people to seek treatment for any medical concerns they may have.\n\nThe three-month period covers the height of the coronavirus lockdown in Scotland when schools and businesses were closed, and traffic on all roads was significantly reduced.\n\nRegular health care had been disrupted after NHS Scotland was placed on an emergency footing in mid-March to deal with the outbreak.\n\nAccident and Emergency attendances dropped to below half their normal levels during April, Public Health Scotland data shows.\n\nIt is also possible that some deaths attributed to other causes at the start of the outbreak were undiagnosed Covid-19 cases.\n\nDr Smith said there were \"signals\" from the latest data that \"shows excess deaths go beyond what we would expect directly from Covid\", highlighting those linked to Alzheimers and dementia in particular.\n\nHe said: \"We need to understand why that is the case - are these deaths being contributed to by Covid, or are they for some other reasons?\n\n\"Over the fullness of time we will be able to much better understand why these deaths are apparent in the system.\"\n\nEarlier in the pandemic there was a concern that an increase in deaths linked to cardiovascular conditions may have been down to \"people not presenting for treatment\" when they needed it.\n\nDr Smith said: \"The message we've had all along is that for these urgent conditions, the NHS remains open.\n\n\"If you have symptoms we urge you to seek help and don't just sit on it - there is capacity in the NHS for you to get the care you need.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said Scotland was at a \"dangerous point\" in the fight against coronavirus, with cases on the rise\n\nAge Scotland said the steep rise in excess deaths from dementia, diabetes and other causes during the lockdown was \"extremely concerning\" and needed further investigation.\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Brian Sloan, said older people had \"borne the brunt\" of the pandemic and had been at greater risk of dying from other causes.\n\n\"While it's hard to speculate on the reasons, it's likely there is a link to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"We know that health and social services were under a huge strain during these months, and many people were reluctant or unable to seek medical assistance.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said every death linked to the virus \"represents the loss of an irreplaceable individual\".\n\nThe latest NRS report said only two deaths had been recorded in the week to Sunday where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, with none of them in care homes for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that people must be vigilant about increasing numbers of cases.\n\nAnd she did not rule out Scotland following England in reducing the number of people who can meet at the same time.\n\nShe said the number of new cases of coronavirus reported each day in Scotland had \"roughly trebled\" over the past three weeks.\n\nThe rolling seven day average of new daily cases over the past week was 152 - compared to 52 three weeks earlier.\n\nThe percentage of people tested who return a positive result has also gone up from being \"around 1%\" to consistently being around 2%.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I hope you can see why the situation just now is a matter of concern to us, and why we need to continue to work as hard as we can to keep the virus under control.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Government efforts to fight child obesity risk getting lost in reorganisations and delays, a report warns.\n\nThe National Audit office says 20 years of targets and policies have had limited success and new initiatives may fall short too.\n\nIt points to a lack of urgency and coordination, while the child obesity problem worsens in parts of the UK.\n\nBritain has one of the highest child obesity rates in Western Europe.\n\nA fifth of 10- to 11-year-olds are obese, according to latest figures for England.\n\nObese children are much more likely to become obese adults, causing significant health risks.\n\nChildren from deprived areas or ethnic minorities are far more likely to be obese - and the problem is escalating.\n\nBut few interventions in the child obesity programme specifically address this, the NAO report says.\n\nAlthough the Department of Health and Social Care is responsible for setting and overseeing obesity policy in England, the cross-government nature of the child obesity programme means many projects are outside of its control.\n\nIn 2016, the government published the first chapter of its plan aimed at slashing the child obesity rate over the next decade, through measures such as a sugar tax on fizzy drinks.\n\nA second chapter was published in 2018, promising to reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030.\n\nIn July 2020 - amid growing evidence of a link between obesity and an increased risk from coronavirus - the prime minister set out the next steps, which include:\n\nBut a ban on energy-drink sales to under-16s, mooted in 2018, has not gone ahead.\n\nAnd other policies, including the sugar tax on fizzy drinks, have not been fully evaluated to see what impact they have actually had, the NAO says.\n\nWithout assessing the success or failure of past strategies, the government will struggle to prioritise actions or apply lessons to its new approach with confidence of success, the report warns.\n\nAlthough there has been some progress in reducing sugar levels in popular foods, government will not meet its ambition to have industry reduce sugar by 20% in certain products by 2020, the report says.\n\nThere is also limited awareness and co-ordination across departments of wider factors and activities that may affect childhood obesity rates, such as sponsorship of sporting events by the food industry.\n\nNAO head Gareth Davies said while the new strategy announced in July signalled \"a greater intention\" to tackle obesity, the government must now act with urgency.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We are determined to tackle obesity across all ages and we have already taken significant action - cutting sugar from half of drinks on sale, funding exercise programmes in schools and working with councils to tackle child obesity locally.\n\n\"We are also taking bold action through our new and ambitious obesity strategy... to help families make healthy choices.\"\n\nBut Dr Layla McCay, from the NHS Confederation, said it appeared the government had not learned from the failures of past efforts.\n\n\"This is such an important moment for effective action but it risks becoming lost amidst reorganisation and delays,\" she said.\n\n\"At a time when obesity is in the spotlight for putting people with Covid-19 at greater risk of needing hospital admission or intensive care, it has never been clearer that an effective approach is needed.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said money must follow commitments.\n\n\"As ever, the communities that need these services most are those that have faced the most severe funding cuts,\" it added.", "CCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nEvidence of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi discussing martyrdom was seized almost three years before the attack, an inquiry has heard.\n\nThe hearing was told Abedi, who killed 22 people in the May 2017 atrocity, had first been linked to \"subjects of interest\" in 2010.\n\nA mobile phone seized in February 2017 showed regular contact between Abedi and a convicted terrorist organiser.\n\nPaul Greaney QC said their relationship was of \"some significance\".\n\nThe inquiry heard the device was confiscated from British-Libyan national Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was jailed in 2016 for helping others to reach Syria.\n\nPhone analysis revealed he had been in contact with Abedi, who went to visit him in prison, in the months leading up to the attack.\n\nIn 2014, during investigations into Abdallah, counter terrorism police had evidence of discussions with Abedi regarding \"martyrdom, including the martyrdom of a senior al-Qaeda figure\", the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Greaney said Abdallah had refused to answer any questions put to him by inquiry staff, but investigators were \"determined\" to get to the bottom of their relationship.\n\nThe inquiry will also examine what intelligence and information was or should have been available to security services and the police about Abedi.\n\nMr Greaney said MI5 had received intelligence about Abedi on two separate occasions in the months prior to the bombing, \"the significance of which was not fully appreciated at the time\".\n\n\"In retrospect\", he said, it could \"be seen to be highly relevant to the planned attack\".\n\nOn 1 May 2017, the inquiry further heard, Abedi had been assessed as meeting the threshold to be considered for further investigation by MI5.\n\nHe was due to be considered for referral on 31 May 2017 but \"tragically this was overtaken by matters nine days earlier\", Mr Greaney said.\n\nThe inquiry is being held at Manchester Magistrates' Court, less than a mile away from where the bombing happened\n\nDuring the third day of proceedings, photographs of the 22 victims were displayed on a screen as the public inquiry heard their final movements.\n\nRelatives of some of the victims wiped away tears in the hearing room at Manchester Magistrates' Court, while other families watched proceedings from a nearby annexe.\n\nThe inquiry heard how 21 of the victim suffered injuries which were said to be unsurvivable.\n\nBut bomb blast experts believe the injuries of John Atkinson, 28, may have been potentially survivable.\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nThe public inquiry will look at a number of factors including the emergency response to the bombing.\n\nIt was told how problems with communication and incorrect reports of an \"active shooter\" meant fire engines carrying specialist equipment and stretchers did not arrive for another two hours and six minutes after the blast at 22:31 BST on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Greaney said the inquiry would need to consider \"whether that absence contributed or may have contributed to the loss of life that occurred\" and \"whether a better response by the emergency services would have saved more lives\".\n\n\"There can be no doubt there was a need for such joint working on the night of 22 May 2017 in Manchester,\" he said during the third day of the inquiry.\n\nThe hearing was told North West Fire Control was first notified at 22:34 BST that there had been an explosion and mass casualties, and police were looking for a second device.\n\nThey also received reports, wrongly, of an \"active shooter\" and some casualties with gunshot wounds.\n\nTributes were left in in St Ann's Square in Manchester city centre in the wake of the bombing\n\nBut there appeared to be confusion about whether Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) should follow procedures based on the incident being an explosion or a terror bombing.\n\nStation manager Simon Berry, of GMFRS, was told a rendezvous point was arranged with police at Manchester Cathedral nearby, but this was rejected in favour of a different \"muster point\" three miles away from the arena.\n\nThis decision would be \"critical\" to the understanding of how the fire service was delayed so long in deploying to the arena, Mr Greaney said.\n\nAn expert report on GMFRS's response to the attack found it \"inadequate and ineffective\" and said there was a lack of effective leadership, though \"no single individual\" was responsible for the failings.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 13-year-old boy in Glendale, Utah, was shot several times by police officers after his mother called 911 for help with his mental health crisis.\n\nLinden Cameron, who has Asperger's, a form of autism, is now in a serious condition in hospital, his mother said.\n\nGolda Barton said she had believed police attending on Friday night would use \"the most minimal force possible\".\n\nSalt Lake City Police Sgt Keith Horrocks told reporters that the incident was now being investigated.\n\nSpeaking to local CBS-affiliate KUTV, Ms Barton said she told the 911 operator that her son needed to be taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nHe was experiencing a crisis because it was her first day back at work in almost a year and \"he has bad separation anxiety\", she said.\n\n\"I said, he's unarmed, he doesn't have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming,\" Ms Barton said. \"He's a kid, he's trying to get attention, he doesn't know how to regulate.\"\n\nAt a press conference, Sgt Horrocks said officers were called to a \"violent psych issue\" and reports that a boy - who they did not name - had made \"threats to some folks with a weapon\". He added that there was no indication when they attended that the boy was armed.\n\nAn officer shot the boy when he tried to flee on foot, Sgt Horrocks said.\n\nAs in other US cities, Salt Lake City saw protests against police brutality this summer\n\nAccording to an online fundraiser set up to raise money for medical bills, Linden Cameron has suffered \"injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, intestines and bladder\".\n\n\"The long-term effects of his injuries are still unknown, but it is likely that his recovery will be long and require multiple kinds of treatment,\" the page, set up by a friend of the family, says.\n\nAccording to data compiled and regularly updated by the Washington Post, 1,254 people with a mental illness have been shot dead by US police since the beginning of 2015. This represents 22% of all people shot and killed by police across the country over that period.", "Tredomen is among the testing centres that have seen long queues\n\nThere are fears of a shortage of coronavirus tests as people rush to get symptoms checked in Caerphilly county, GPs have said.\n\nThe county is being placed in lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, following a spike in cases.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the queues at the pop-up test centre in the town were \"horrific\".\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said testing had picked up the levels of community transmission.\n\nBut he acknowledged a UK-wide testing programme was facing challenges in coping with demand.\n\nChief executive of Caerphilly council, Christina Harrhy, urged people to only get tested if they were showing symptoms.\n\nDr David Bailey, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales and a GP in Caerphilly, said: \"The queues at the pop-up centre in Caerphilly yesterday were horrific, although we understand people were all getting tested.\n\n\"The capacity seems to be struggling across the UK, and people being sent across the country is hardly helpful with keeping people local and staying socially distanced.\"\n\nCaerphilly county has had more new cases in the past week - 98 - than anywhere else in Wales and more than the area has seen since the end of April.\n\nCommunity testing started in the county at the weekend, a total of 450 people were tested and 19 were positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn Bridgend county, people spoke of trying to book a test at a drive-through centre or a mobile unit via a UK online system, but being told their nearest available slot was at Bristol Airport, more than 60 miles away.\n\nWhile Andy, from Caerphilly, said he was unable to get a test for his two sons after they developed a cough.\n\n\"My partner took them down to the testing site at the leisure centre, but there was a three-hour queue. That was at 8am.\n\n\"She was told to go up to the new centre up in Penallta. She made her way up there, and there were already hundreds of cars.\n\n\"She was waiting in the queue and she was told at that point that if she didn't have ID for the children they couldn't be tested - how are you going to have ID for children with you?\"\n\nShehzad Malik was offered a test for his mother miles away after she developed a chest infection\n\nShehzad Malik, from Cardiff, also had problems while trying to get a test for his parents.\n\nHe said his mother was advised to get a test by her GP after developing a chest infection, but after hours of struggling with the system, was offered a test more than an hour's drive west of Cardiff.\n\nHe said: \"Yesterday I tried several times to book a drive-through test at my nearest test centre but to no avail.\n\n\"Once I had found the correct link I filled in the relevant information and each time I tried submitting the information online the page would not load to offer me a test.\n\n\"I kept trying online to get an appointment, almost every half hour from 2pm to 10pm, and the site kept crashing.\n\n\"Eventually, at about 22:15, I was able to upload all the information and was offered a Covid test in Carmarthen, 55 miles from my home in Cardiff.\"\n\nPeople will not be able to leave Caerphilly borough without good reason\n\nIn Gwynedd, GPs spoke of patients being sent miles to get tested after being concerned about symptoms, including shortness of breath, persistent coughs, and high temperatures.\n\nDr Huw Gwilym, who was on call at the Waunfawr surgery, said: \"There are examples of patients in Waunfawr being offered tests in Telford [125 miles], Oswestry [67 miles] and Aberystwyth [70 miles],\" he said.\n\n\"We are very concerned about the situation because it is unfair to ask people with Covid-19 symptoms, who are ill and should self-isolate, to travel for hours by car to get a test. We didn't expect such problems months into the pandemic.\"\n\nDr Eilir Hughes said people were requesting home tests but being told there were non avalaible\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP in Nefyn, Gwynedd, said he was concerned people were being \"put off\" going to get tested due to being asked to travel miles from their homes.\n\n\"There are several reports that people are being offered a test in Manchester [125 miles] or Aberystwyth [75 miles] whilst they live here on the Llŷn Peninsula,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is the nearest TTP testing centre is Llandudno [55 miles] which in itself is too far. People then request home tests and they are told they've ran out of stock.\n\nMr Gething said there were \"challenges\" about the way the UK-wide Lighthouse testing labs were running \"and its ability to cope with demand\".\n\nIn the most recent week for which figures are available 9,904 tests were processed in NHS Wales labs, while 26,067 were sent to Lighthouse labs.\n\nHe said: \"These are issues that my team have been raising through official levels. And I'm hoping to speak to other health ministers across the UK within the next day or two if possible - we sought a meeting today with colleagues in Northern Ireland as well - to be able to run through what is actually happening.\n\n\"None of us want to see people being asked to travel large distances which for some people won't be possible.\"\n\nMr Gething said mobile testing in Caerphilly had seen a large number of people attending.\n\nThat allowed the Welsh Government \"to pick up the levels of community transmission from people outside the clusters we've already been able to identify\", he said.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have raised this issue with the UK government, which runs the Lighthouse Lab testing system and we expect these issues to be resolved quickly to ensure people in Wales who have suspected coronavirus symptoms can receive a test as close to home as possible.\n\n\"We have recently announced £32m to increase capacity to process tests at laboratories in Wales, which includes extending our regional labs to 24-hour operation and six new 'hot labs' at hospitals across Wales. This investment will increase our testing resilience ahead of the winter.\"", "Kirsty Coy-Martin has recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after 23 years serving as a police officer, including many years on a child abuse investigation team.\n\nShe says teaching her therapy dog, Scooter, how to surf has changed her life.\n\nShe now hopes to bring surf therapy to the emergency services.\n\nIf you are concerned about any of the issues in this video, information and support is available at BBC Action Line.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nHarry Dunn's family say they have been told prosecutors do not believe the woman accused of killing the teenager in a crash had diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died last August when his motorbike was in collision with a car allegedly driven by Anne Sacoolas outside a US airbase in the UK.\n\nHis parents said the director of public prosecutions was \"actively considering\" a virtual trial of Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe US government has previously declined a UK extradition request.\n\nHowever, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and felt let down after their meeting with Max Hill QC at the Crown Prosecution Service headquarters.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash in Croughton, Northamptonshire, and was able to return to her home country, sparking an international controversy.\n\nShe was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December but an extradition request was rejected by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nRadd Seiger, the family's spokesman, told reporters the family felt \"hopeless\" after the meeting and that the US had not changed its position on the immunity claimed by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Dunn's family have also filed a civil claim for damages against Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Seiger said the claim for damages for wrongful death had been made at the courts in the US state of Virginia.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nCommenting after the meeting, Greg McGill, the CPS director of legal services, said: \"Today we have met with the family of Harry Dunn to update them on the various steps the CPS has taken over the last 10 months to secure justice in this tragic case.\n\n\"The challenges and complexity of this case are well known, but the CPS and other partners have been working tirelessly to do all they can so that Anne Sacoolas faces the charge we have brought - causing death by dangerous driving.\n\n\"We know this is a very difficult process for the family, which is why we wanted to assure them personally that we continue to seek justice for them and for the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beaches were closed along the Gold Coast following the attack\n\nAn Australian man has been killed in a shark attack off Queensland's Gold Coast, marking the first fatal attack at the tourist city's beaches in over 60 years.\n\nNick Slater, 46, was at Greenmount Beach at Coolangatta - a well-known surf spot - when a shark mauled his leg on Tuesday.\n\nNearby surfers found him floating in shallow water next to his board.\n\nHe was rushed to shore and given first aid but died at the scene.\n\nAuthorities closed an 18km (11-mile) section of beaches on Wednesday to conduct helicopter and jetski searches for the shark - reported to be a 3m great white.\n\n\"Once we know that the shark is not in the vicinity or we have tracked it, then the beach will be reopened,\" said the city's mayor Tom Tate.\n\nHe said it was the first shark death at a Gold Coast beach since 1958, adding authorities were investigating the event.\n\nMr Slater, a local real estate agent, had been surfing next to Snapper Rocks point, which hosted a World Surf League competition in March.\n\nNick Slater had been surfing at a popular beach\n\nOne witness told the Courier Mail newspaper Mr Slater had been bitten across the upper leg, and \"it was pretty much all taken\".\n\nA surfer who provided help, Jade Parker, said there was a large bite mark on Mr Slater's board.\n\n\"It was probably about the same circumference as a basketball… and there was a tooth still lodged in the fibreglass which I had to remove,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\nThe Gold Coast is one of Australia's most famous tourist destinations, popular for its long white-sand beaches, surfing breaks and inland waterways.\n\nIts beaches have been protected by shark nets and drumlines - baited hooks suspended underwater - since the 1960s, and shark attacks have been rare.\n\nOfficials said it was too early to say whether additional shark protection measures would be needed.\n\nThe Gold Coast saw a fatal shark attack in 2003, but that incident occurred inland in sprawling canals connected to the sea.\n\nMr Slater's death is the sixth fatal attack by a shark in Australia this year, with most occurring along the country's east coast.\n\nIn June, two surfers were fatally attacked in separate incidents off nearby northern New South Wales.", "Ambassador Liu Xiaoming has had a Twitter account since late last year\n\nChina's UK embassy has asked Twitter to \"make thorough investigations\" after its ambassador's official account liked a pornographic clip.\n\nLiu Xiaoming's account also liked posts that criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and showed blindfolded Uighurs being detained.\n\nOfficials claimed that \"anti-Chinese elements [had] viciously attacked\" Mr Liu's account in a \"despicable\" plot designed to \"deceive the public\".\n\nTwitter has yet to comment.\n\nThe activity first drew attention after the account liked a 10-second video posted by an adult-themed page containing clips with Chinese-language descriptions.\n\nA London-based human rights campaigner flagged this to other Twitter users just after 09:00 GMT with a screenshot as proof.\n\nThe clip was subsequently unliked by whoever was controlling the account.\n\nBut some other tweets remained liked for a time before they too were reversed.\n\nOne included claims that officials had \"paid lip service to non-interference\" in order to get away with killing members of the Chinese public.\n\nA second featured drone-captured footage of Uighur Muslims being taken to what the post described as a \"concentration camp\".\n\nBeijing has previously denied holding large numbers of people from the ethnic minority in camps against their will in the western Xinjiang region.\n\nAnd the ambassador denied his country was carrying out a programme of sterilisation of Uighur women, when he was shown the drone footage by the BBC earlier in the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liu Xiaoming told the BBC in July there was not a concentration camp in Xinjiang\n\nTwitter is blocked within mainland China. But over the past year Chinese officials have become more active on the platform, and Mr Liu's account was created in October.\n\nThe app's likes are sometimes used as a kind of bookmark facility rather than to express support, and the heart-shaped icon that activates them can be easily selected by mistake.\n\nSome of the social network's users have suggested the pornographic clip might have been liked by accident and then the others selected as part of a cover story.\n\nBut Chinese officials have dismissed the suggestion.\n\n\"The embassy has reported this to Twitter and urged the latter to make thorough investigations and handle this matter seriously,\" said a statement.\n\n\"The embassy reserves the right to take further actions and hope that the public will not believe or spread such rumour[s].\"\n\nMr Liu's account now only has two likes - both related to tweets it posted in 2019.\n\nIt has also tweeted a proverb in reaction to the affair, suggesting the ambassador is not concerned about being attacked: \"A good anvil does not fear the hammer.\"", "Speaking at the latest government briefing on coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the public needs to remember to take preventative measures to stop the spread of Covid-19. as the number of infections rises sharply across England.", "Plans for spectators to attend sporting events in England from 1 October are to be reviewed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.\n\nJohnson, speaking at a Downing Street news conference, also said pilot events in September would be restricted to 1,000 fans with social distancing measures in place.\n\n“We must revise plans to pilot larger audiences in venues later this month and review our intention to return audiences to stadiums from 1 October,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean we are going to scrap the programme entirely. We are just going to have to review it and abridge it.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"In light of increasing transmission rates, the government is reviewing the proposed sports and business events pilots ahead of 1 October and we will unfortunately need to scale some back.\n\n\"We know fans and audiences are eager to return, and jobs depend on this too, so work continues around the clock on the 'moonshot project' with the ambition of having audiences back much closer to normal by Christmas, if safe to do so.\"\n\nThe majority of sports in England have been played behind closed doors since the coronavirus lockdown in March, including Premier League football, the FA Cup final, England Test matches and two Formula 1 races at Silverstone.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said it was \"absolutely critical\" that fans were allowed back inside stadiums as soon as possible and failure to do so would cost clubs £700m during the 2020-21 season, which starts on Saturday.\n\nAt the end of August, 2,500 people watched a friendly between Brighton and Chelsea at the Seagulls' Amex Stadium - the first time fans had been allowed into a Premier League ground in almost six months.\n\nAbout 300 fans were allowed to watch last month's World Snooker Championship final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Kyren Wilson at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, but original plans to admit fans for all days of the tournament were reversed.\n\nMore than 2,500 spectators bought tickets for Doncaster on Wednesday as the St Leger meeting started, the first crowd at a British horse racing fixture in six months, although the rest of the meeting will be held behind closed doors.\n\nThe Women's Super League match between Arsenal and West Ham on 12 September was one of the pilot events that were planned with a limited number of fans in attendance.\n\nOther planned pilot events include football's non-league finals day at Wembley on 27 September, race meetings at Warwick and Newmarket on 21 and 24 September respectively, a basketball exhibition match in Newcastle on 18 September and a speedway event in Ipswich on 26 September.\n• None Listen to unique tracks from Stormzy, Miley and Biffy Clyro", "Boris Johnson has urged MPs to support a bill which modifies the Brexit deal he signed with the EU in January.\n\nThe PM said the Internal Markets Bill would \"ensure the integrity of the UK internal market\" and hand power to Scotland and Wales.\n\nHe also claimed it would protect the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nCritics say the move will damage the UK's international standing after a minister admitted the plans break international law.\n\nThe Scottish government has not ruled out legal action to prevent it becoming law.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"The Tories' proposed bill for a so-called UK internal market is an abomination. It is a naked power grab which would cripple devolution.\"\n\nThe Taoiseach (Ireland's prime minister) Micheál Martin has spoken to Mr Johnson \"in forthright terms\" about \"the breach of an international treaty, the absence of bilateral engagement and the serious implications for Northern Ireland\", the Irish government said.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove will hold emergency talks in London on Thursday with EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic to discuss the contents of the bill.\n\nThe European Commission had requested a meeting as soon as possible to clarify what the legislation means for the Brexit deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest scheduled round of negotiations on securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU are also due to wrap up on Thursday.\n\nCommission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted: \"Very concerned about announcements from the British government on its intentions to breach the Withdrawal Agreement. This would break international law and undermines trust.\"\n\nDowning Street said the EU Withdrawal Agreement - repeatedly described as \"oven ready\" by Mr Johnson during last year's general election - contained \"ambiguities\" and lacked clarity in \"key areas\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman said it had been agreed \"at pace in the most challenging possible political circumstances\" to \"deliver on a decision by the British people\".\n\nIt had been signed \"on the assumption that subsequent agreements to clarify these aspects could be reached\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe new bill sets out rules for the operation of the UK internal market - trade between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - after the end of the Brexit transition period in January.\n\nThe bill explicitly states that these powers should apply even if they are incompatible with international law.\n\nMinisters say the legislation is needed to prevent \"damaging\" tariffs on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if negotiations with the EU on a free trade agreement fail.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have warned it risks undermining the UK's reputation as an upholder of international law.\n\nFormer PM Sir John Major fears the UK will lose its reputation for keeping its word\n\nFormer Prime Minister Sir John Major said: \"For generations, Britain's word - solemnly given - has been accepted by friend and foe. Our signature on any treaty or agreement has been sacrosanct.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we lose our reputation for honouring the promises we make, we will have lost something beyond price that may never be regained.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to consider \"the reputational risk that it's taking in the proposed way forward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK government should consider the “reputational risk” in its approach.\n\nBut Sir Keir - who campaigned for a second Brexit referendum - added that the \"way forward\" now was to get a trade deal, adding \"if you fail to get a deal, prime minister, you own that failure\".\n\n\"The outstanding issues are not difficult. They can be resolved. So what I say to the prime minister is, you promised a good deal, get on, negotiate it,\" he added.\n\n\"That's what's in the national interest and focus then on the issue in hand which is tackling this pandemic.\"\n\nIn the withdrawal agreement with the EU, Northern Ireland is still in the UK, but it has to follow elements of the EU's customs code.\n\nThis bill will be seen by the EU as a pretty brazen attempt to override the deal that has been done.\n\nThe bill contains the words \"notwithstanding\" - that basically means this law sets aside a law we have already agreed.\n\nThat was described to me earlier in the week as being a completely nuclear option.\n\nAnd they have pressed it.\n\nThis row isn't going to go away.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party, which has been pressing for changes to the Withdrawal Agreement, said the bill was a \"step forward\" but the government must ensure Northern Ireland is not \"restrained in a state aid straight jacket unlike the rest of the UK\".\n\nBut the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein's Michelle O' Neill, said the Withdrawal Agreement protected the Good Friday Agreement and it was \"astounding\" the UK government \"thinks its fine\" to wreck an international treaty they had signed up to.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"My job is to uphold the integrity of the UK but also to protect the Northern Ireland peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"And to do that, we need a legal safety net to protect our country against extreme or irrational interpretations of the Protocol, which could lead to a border down the Irish Sea, in a way that I believe would be prejudicial to the interests of the Good Friday Agreement and prejudicial to the interests of peace in our country. And that has to be our priority.\"\n\nCommenting on a similar argument by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, a former minister told the BBC: \"I cannot allow anyone to get away with saying the government is doing this to protect the peace process. This does the precise opposite.\"\n\nThe legislation will see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland handed powers in areas such as air quality and building efficiency currently regulated at EU level.\n\nIt will also set up a new body - the Office for the Internal Market - to make sure standards adopted in different parts of the UK do not undermine cross-border trade.\n\nThe Scottish government fears the UK single market will cut across areas that are usually devolved.\n\nFor example, if the UK government decides some food imports are acceptable in England then they would also be allowed in Scotland, even though agriculture is devolved.\n\nThe new body will be able to issue non-binding recommendations to the UK Parliament and devolved administrations when clashes emerge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford asks Boris Johnson if he thinks he is above the law regarding a bill on future trade.\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, described the Internal Markets Bill as \"nothing short of an attack on Scotland's parliament and an affront to people of Scotland\".\n\nMr Johnson said the bill would protect jobs and growth - and was a \"massive devolutionary act\" that would represent a \"very substantial transfer of power and sovereignty\" to Scotland and Wales.\n\nBut his words did not prevent the resignation of a senior Conservative in Wales, where the party is in opposition.\n\nDavid Melding, shadow Counsel General, said in his resignation letter that the PM's actions in the past few days had \"gravely aggravated\" the dangers facing \"our 313-year-old Union\".\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "O'Farrell's other novels include This Must Be the Place and After You'd Gone\n\nAuthor Maggie O'Farrell has won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, a novel inspired by and named after William Shakespeare's only son.\n\nThe Northern Irish writer beat Hilary Mantel, Bernardine Evaristo and three other authors to the £30,000 prize.\n\nHamnet is a fictionalised account of the life of the Bard's son, who died in 1596 when he was just 11.\n\nChair of judges Martha Lane Fox praised the book for expressing \"something profound about the human experience\".\n\nShe said: \"The euphoria of being in the same room for the final judging meeting was quickly eclipsed by the excitement we all feel about this exceptional winner.\"\n\nO'Farrell is the 25th recipient of the prize, which was first presented as the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996. Previous winners include Eimear McBride, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy.\n\nIt must have been a particularly tough call spurning the Booker winners Hilary Mantel and Bernardine Evaristo. But Maggie O'Farrell is a worthy winner.\n\nHamnet is a beautifully written and intensely moving novel about grief and loss. But don't let that put you off.\n\nIt is also a richly drawn and immersive portrait of life in 16th Century England, from the smells of bread rolls baking in a hot kitchen to the sight of bees teeming on a honeycomb.\n\nIt is clever too. Shakespeare is never named. This is a book about a woman and her three children - and their lives are vividly imagined.\n\nAnd it is timely. Plague killed Hamnet in 1596 and there is a gripping chapter exploring how the disease reaches Stratford via a flea on a monkey in Alexandria and a glassmaker in Venice.\n\nTrade and travel are to blame and parallels with the current pandemic are unavoidable.\n\nEvaristo was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction for Girl, Woman, Other, which shared last year's Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.\n\nMantel's nomination came for The Mirror and the Light, the conclusion to her trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell.\n\nThis is the fourth time the two-time Booker winner has missed out on the award, having been previously shortlisted in 2006, 2010 and 2013.\n\nAngie Cruz, Natalie Haynes and Jenny Offill were also nominated for Dominicana, A Thousand Ships and Weather respectively.\n\nThis year's award ceremony was to have taken place on 3 June, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWednesday's virtual event saw O'Farrell named the winner in London and given her award in her home town of Edinburgh.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man with serious breathing issues says he was \"ambushed\" into wearing a face covering on a plane.\n\nEasyJet has apologised after one of its pilots was filmed threatening to remove the passenger from the flight.\n\nThe man was carrying an exemption card - but it was rejected by the crew on his journey from Jersey to Gatwick.\n\nFace coverings on UK public transport are mandatory but some people are allowed not to wear them, due to age, health or disability reasons.\n\nWearing a face covering is \"strongly recommended\" on the Island of Jersey, but certain groups are allowed not to wear them, including those with breathing difficulties.\n\nThe BBC has also been told of cases where people with lung conditions have been turned away from shops and other types of public transport because they were unable to wear a mask.\n\nCharities say exemptions must be respected by companies and understood by the public.\n\nWith masks now a part of daily life, the challenge for many is striking a balance between safety procedures and protecting vulnerable people.\n\nNick says he can't wear anything around his face or neck because he has chronic asthma.\n\n\"Whether it's a polo neck or a scarf round your face, the sensation is stifling. I just find it increasingly difficult to breathe,\" he says. \"It's like a steel belt round my chest.\"\n\nResearch suggests face coverings can help reduce the spread of coronavirus, particularly indoors where physical distancing is difficult.\n\nThe Department for Transport for England says those who are exempt can choose to carry a card, badge or a homemade sign.\n\nHowever, providing documentation is a personal choice and not necessary in law.\n\nNick showed his exemption card to the pilot\n\nNick had printed off an official exemption card from the government's website before flying to the island of Jersey to see his family in August.\n\nThe card was accepted on the flight out, but on the return journey the crew said it was not valid and he would have to wear a mask.\n\nNick refused. He says: \"The staff came to speak to me around six times. The 30-minute delay was seen as my fault and each visit whipped up more hostility among the passengers.\n\n\"I was insulted, shouted at, laughed at. It felt like everybody was against me.\"\n\nNick says he became so desperate he started filming on his phone.\n\nFootage shows the pilot refusing to accept his exemption card and saying if Nick didn't put on a mask, he \"was off\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNick eventually agreed, but says it caused him to hyperventilate during the hour-long flight.\n\n\"I would do anything to avoid wearing anything that restricts my breathing. That's more terrifying than being insulted by 100 passengers, but eventually I felt like I had no choice.\"\n\nShaken by the \"storm of abuse\" he says he received from other passengers, Nick requested partial anonymity when speaking to the BBC.\n\nEasyJet says all customers are required to wear a face covering but acknowledges some passengers may not be able to.\n\nA statement from the airline said: \"We have recently updated our policies in line with recent UK government guidance so that as well as a medical certificate, customers can alternatively provide a relevant document from a government website or lanyard.\n\n\"We are sorry that this new policy was not recognised by the crew on this occasion.\"\n\nThe airline described Nick's behaviour as \"disruptive\", but a passenger, who did not want to be named, said he behaved \"calmly\" in a \"stressful situation\".\n\n\"No-one seemed to care about his condition. The staff should have taken him away from the other passengers to have the conversation in private,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nAsthma UK and the British Lung Foundation called Nick's story a distressing case, but says there are others like him.\n\n\"The government is really clear there are exemptions from wearing a mask,\" explains Head of Policy, Sarah MacFadyen.\n\n\"The vast majority of people with lung conditions are fine wearing a mask, but for a small number it is impossible for them to breathe. That's why these exemptions are in place, so they can still go out and live their lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fire safety guidance for what materials could be used on Grenfell Tower was \"confusing\", the director of the company which installed the cladding has told an inquiry.\n\nRay Bailey, director of Harley Facades, said there was \"quite widespread\" confusion in the building industry at the time of the refurbishment.\n\nThe cladding has been blamed for fuelling the fire at the tower block.\n\nThe inquiry into the fire, which killed 72 people, is in its second phase.\n\nIt is now looking into how the 24-storey tower in west London came to be covered in such cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016, before the fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating whether the confusion about fire ratings was one of the reasons dangerous cladding and insulation was used to refurbish the tower.\n\nMr Bailey said he had a \"misunderstanding\" about which materials were approved for use on tall buildings.\n\nOne section of the guidance for meeting the government's building regulations stated that materials used on towers above 18m needed to have a Class 0 (zero) rating, though another European classification was equally acceptable.\n\nThe government has always insisted that another section of the guidance required the insulation used in cladding systems to be of \"limited combustibility\" as well.\n\nUnder questioning, Mr Bailey said he had believed at the time that if the materials were Class 0 \"throughout\" this also meant they were also classed as being of \"limited combustibility\" - in other words, less likely to burn.\n\nHowever, Class 0 is only a classification of the way the surface of a product such as cladding resists the spread of flames, not its overall combustibility.\n\nThe insulation panels used on Grenfell Tower were rated Class 0, but were not of limited combustibility. Neither was the cladding, Reynobond PE, which had a core made from flammable plastic.\n\nThe inquiry also heard that the manufacturer of the cladding - Arconic - had tested various configurations of its product in 2013, and found they had achieved poor ratings for fire safety.\n\nThe product performed worse when it was shaped into \"cassette\" boxes, the design used at Grenfell Tower.\n\nAccording to a manager's statement, shown at the inquiry, one test had to be stopped due to a 'flash-over', meaning the cladding could only be rated E, out of a possible A to F.\n\nThe tests were first revealed following a BBC investigation in 2018, which found the company did not pass the results to the body which issues product certificates in the UK, relied on by the building industry.\n\nThe certificate for Reynobond PE, the cladding used at Grenfell, stated it had a class B rating.\n\nArconic sent Mr Bailey this certificate in April 2014, as the materials for Grenfell were being chosen, but made no mention of the poor test results in the covering email.\n\nMr Bailey told the inquiry he was unaware of the tests.\n\nThe role of the manufacturer will be examined when it gives evidence later in the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry continues. A separate government consultation on plans to improve fire safety regulations is due to close on 12 October.", "The Kardashian-Jenner family in 2016. From left to right: Khloe, Lamar Odom, Kris, Kendall, Kourtney, Kanye, Kim, Caitlin and Kylie\n\nThe long-running TV reality show about the Kardashian family is coming to an end, Kim Kardashian West has announced.\n\n\"It is with heavy hearts that we've made the difficult decision as a family to say goodbye to Keeping Up With The Kardashians,\" she said in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\nThe show has run for 14 years, and made global mega-stars of Kim, her siblings, their parents, partners and children.\n\nThe final season, its 21st, will air in early 2021.\n\nExpressing her thanks to the \"thousands of individuals and businesses\" involved in the programme, Kim also added: \"I am so incredibly grateful to everyone who has watched and supported me and my family these past 14 incredible years.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kim Kardashian West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This show made us who we are and I will be forever in debt to everyone who played a role in shaping our careers and changing our lives forever,\" she went on.\n\nAfter news of the show's demise became known, her sister and co-star Khloe Kardashian tweeted: \"The emotions are overflowing today... change is tough but sometimes needed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Khloé This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMost of the family were unknown when the show started in 2007. Kim had appeared in some episodes of her friend Paris Hilton's reality show and her attorney father, Robert, was known for defending OJ Simpson at his infamous murder trial. Robert Kardashian died in 2003.\n\nEarly shows focused on the lives of Kim and her sisters Kourtney and Khloe and their partners, including Kourtney's ex-boyfriend Scott Disick, Kim's ex-husband Kris Humphries and Khloe's ex-husband Lamar Odom.\n\nIt eventually brought in \"momager\" Kris Jenner, her now ex-husband Caitlyn Jenner - then the only famous figure in the show, as an Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete - and half sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner.\n\nDespite being heavily-panned by critics and accused of making people famous for being famous, the show has enjoyed huge ratings, won awards and been one of E! channel's most successful shows.\n\nKim, 39, has since become one of the world's most celebrated women, with hundreds of millions of social media followers and a thriving beauty business. She married rapper Kanye West in 2014, with whom she has four children and a reputed joint net worth of more than a billion dollars. She recently spoke about her husband's mental health issues following a series of erratic statements from him as he began a run for the US presidency.\n\nKendall and Kylie Jenner were children when the show first began in 2007, but became stars in their own right, and are now - at the ages of 24 and 23 - among the world's most important influencers.\n\nIn 2019, the latter was named by Forbes magazine as the youngest self-made billionaire of all time thanks to her hugely popular cosmetics business. But in May, the magazine accused her family of inflating the value of her the business, and struck her from its list of billionaires.\n\nA spokesperson for E! said in a statement to CNN: \"While it has been an absolute privilege and we will miss them wholeheartedly, we respect the family's decision to live their lives without our cameras.\"\n\nReacting to the news, actress and singer Kat McPhee posted on Twitter: \"Congrats on a great run guys. Will always be a game changer.\"\n\nBut one Twitter user called Jennifer said she would be glad to see the back of the famous family.\n\n\"That is a miracle,\" she wrote. \"It has been rich trash on television since it started. Some things really should be kept private.\"", "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.", "Hundreds were injured in the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert\n\nOnly one paramedic was at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing for the first 40 minutes after the explosion, an inquiry into the attack was told.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb as 14,000 fans left the arena in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry heard the sole paramedic had arrived in the arena foyer 18 minutes after the bomb went off.\n\nBut at least eight ambulances had arrived nearby after 40 minutes.\n\nLead counsel Paul Greaney QC said the public inquiry would have to consider whether lives were lost as a result of a failure to co-ordinate the response of emergency services.\n\nWithin 10 minutes of the bomb exploding at 22:31 BST, 12 British Transport Police (BTP) officers had run into the arena foyer carrying first aid.\n\nCasualties were carried out on makeshift stretchers and only one actual stretcher was used on the night of the attack.\n\nThe final person was evacuated from the City Room - where the bombing happened - at 23:40 on a stretcher \"made of cardboard and a crowd control barrier\".\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nThe inquiry also heard how John Atkinson, who was killed in the bombing, was only evacuated from the scene 46 minutes after the blast on a makeshift stretcher to a triage area nearby.\n\nHe remained there for another 24 minutes but chest compressions were only started on him one hour and 15 minutes after he was first injured in the blast.\n\n\"The issue of John Atkinson's survivability is, as we shall explore, a significant issue for the inquiry to consider,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nThe inquiry was told BTP had primary responsibility for policing in the arena foyer and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was not aware \"at an organisational level\" of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\n\"On the face of it that may seem surprising,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nHe said BTP had \"primacy\" in this area due to the proximity of Victoria Station and the inquiry must consider whether that affected preparedness for any terror attack.\n\nThe inquiry will, among other things, look at the emergency response to the attack\n\n\"There is a legitimate question about whether it was appropriate that BTP, who specialise in the railways, should take the lead,\" he added.\n\nFollowing the blast, BTP declared a major incident at 22:39 but they did not communicate this to GMP and there was no attempt to integrate communications at the arena.\n\nThe inquiry heard the BTP officer, who thought he was acting as operational commander, was in Blackpool when the bomb went off.\n\nHe took a taxi to Manchester but \"by the time he arrived the need for an immediate response had long since passed\".\n\nMr Greaney said it appeared \"no one acted as a BTP operational commander for the policing response to the bombing\".\n\nGMP did not declare a major incident until 01:00 on 23 May, the inquiry heard.\n\nThe second day of the hearing was told there had been multi-agency exercises rehearsing for a terror attack, including one in 2016 for an incident at the Trafford Centre.\n\nMr Greaney said \"experts have expressed serious concerns about whether the necessary lessons were learned from it\".\n\nThe hearings will take place in a room specially converted from two courtrooms at Manchester Magistrates' Court\n\nAnother exercise, held in July 2016, rehearsed for an attack in the City Room at the arena - the exact scene of the attack in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is seeking to establish whether BTP took part in that exercise.\n\nThe first fire engine, which had stretchers, arrived at Manchester Arena two hours and six minutes after the explosion.\n\n\"An important issue for the inquiry to investigate will be how that came to pass and whether it made any difference,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nBut he told the inquiry it was \"important we acknowledge the pressure that those who responded were under\".\n\n\"The inquiry process must not be used to vilify those who did their best on the night but made mistakes and could have done better,\" he added.\n\nCCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nBTP officer Jessica Bullough, who was first to enter the foyer, described the scene of the attack as like a \"war zone\".\n\nTwo minutes after the explosion, PC Bullough radioed through, saying \"it's definitely a bomb - people are injured - at least 20 casualties\".\n\nShe then \"made the first of a number of requests for ambulances\".\n\nThe inquiry was told that 24 minutes later another officer radioed to control, saying \"you're going to hate me - where's our ambulances please?\".\n\nControl replied, saying \"we don't know. We're calling them again\".\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nHe was jailed for at least 55 years on 20 August for the 22 murders.\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\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 government will later publish plans which could override key elements of its Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will set out how powers currently held by the EU will be shared out after the post-Brexit transition period ends.\n\nBut it has faced a backlash from senior Tories and prompted the resignation of a top civil servant.\n\nIt comes as the talks over a trade deal with the EU continue in London.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill could override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement that secured the UK's exit from the EU in January.\n\nMinisters say it is needed to prevent \"damaging\" tariffs on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if negotiations with the EU on a free trade agreement fail.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have warned it risks undermining the UK's reputation as an upholder of international law.\n\nTobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the UK would \"lose the moral high ground\" if the government went through with the changes.\n\nTom Tugendhat, chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said: \"Our entire economy is based on the perception that people have of the UK's adherence to the rule of law.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock insisted the changes were necessary to protect the Northern Ireland peace process if the UK failed to get a free trade deal with the EU.\n\n\"The decision we've made is to put the peace process first, first and foremost as our absolute top international obligation,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nA former Cabinet minister, involved in putting together the Withdrawal Agreement, reacted furiously to Mr Hancock's claim.\n\nThe former minister, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"I cannot allow anyone to get away with saying the government is doing this to protect the peace process. This does the precise opposite.\n\n\"It is about the internal market in the UK and is more likely to lead to a hard border [between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland] which will imperil the peace process.\"\n\nThe permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones, has resigned from his role over concerns about the government breaching its obligations under international law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis has said the bill contains powers that would break international law.\n\nIn the Commons on Tuesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis admitted the bill would break international law in a \"very specific and limited way\".\n\nIt would allow the UK government to \"dis-apply\" the EU legal concept of \"direct effect\" - which gives EU law supremacy over UK law in areas covered by the Withdrawal Agreement - in \"certain, very tightly defined circumstances,\" he told MPs.\n\nThe Scottish government, meanwhile, has said it will not consent to a change in the law along these lines, arguing that it would undermines devolution.\n\nThe bill has also been attacked by the Welsh Brexit minister, Labour's Jeremy Miles, who accused the government of \"stealing powers from devolved administrations\".\n\n\"This bill is an attack on democracy and an affront to the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nThe legislation will see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland handed powers in areas such as air quality and building efficiency currently regulated at EU level.\n\nIt will also set up a new body - the Office for the Internal Market - to make sure standards adopted in different parts of the UK do not undermine cross-border trade.\n\nThe new body will be able to issue non-binding recommendations to the UK Parliament and devolved administrations when clashes emerge.\n\nHowever, plans to hand UK ministers extra powers to ensure the application of customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland have prompted a row over the UK's legal obligations in its exit deal.\n\nUnder the UK's withdrawal agreement, Northern Ireland is due to stay part of the EU's single market for goods in a bid to avoid creating a hard border with the Irish Republic.\n\nIn parallel with talks over a post-Brexit trade deal, the UK and EU are negotiating the precise nature of new customs checks that will be required.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused Downing Street of \"reopening old arguments that had been settled\" and said the government should instead focus on securing a deal with the EU.\n\nFormer Conservative PM Theresa May warned the legislation could damage \"trust\" in the UK over future trade deals with other states.\n\nAnd French MEP Nathalie Loiseau said: \"The prime minister has promised to put a tiger in the tank in the negotiations. It seems for the time being he is putting an elephant in the china shop.\"\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "The UK's ambassador to the US quit after private comments about the Trump administration were leaked\n\nThe UK's former ambassador to the US has told BBC Newsnight he does not regret criticising Donald Trump in briefings later leaked to the media.\n\nKim Darroch quit last year after it emerged he described the US President's government as \"dysfunctional\", \"inept\" and \"divided\" in private letters.\n\nThe use of \"clear and direct\" language was not unusual for diplomats when reporting to ministers, he insisted.\n\nBut its disclosure to the media was a \"vindictive\" breach of trust, he said.\n\nLord Darroch left his post in July 2019 amid a huge diplomatic row over the leaking of a series of private cables, in which he had questioned the competence of the Trump administration and its handling of major foreign policy issues, such as relations with Iran.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Newsnight, to be broadcast at 22:45 BST on BBC Two, he said he accepted his position had become untenable after his observations became public, leading Mr Trump to describe him as a \"stupid guy\" and \"pompous fool\".\n\nBut he defended his conduct during his three years in Washington, saying it was the job of diplomats to report in unvarnished terms about the workings of foreign governments and how they could affect the UK national interest.\n\n\"I never regret the terms in which I'd reported,\" he said. \"I spent 40 years in the Foreign Office writing in these terms and people hitherto had thought it a strength and an asset.\n\n\"There is nothing unusual in reporting in clear and direct terms. Wikileaks shows American diplomats reporting in direct terms and the US embassy was reporting directly about how the UK government was handling Brexit.\"\n\nHe said he knew he was \"in trouble\" when a confidential letter sent in 2017 to a small group of colleagues, which described the early weeks of the Trump era as \"uniquely dysfunctional\", appeared in the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHe said he did not blame the newspaper for publishing the material but believed whoever had passed it onto them had acted in an \"irresponsible and vindictive\" way.\n\nIf their aim had been to get him replaced by a Brexit-supporting politician, such as the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, rather than another career diplomat, they clearly failed, he said.\n\n\"I blame the leaker taking highly classified information of the most damaging kind to me and to US-UK relations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If you're in the position of having to write in code because you can't trust your colleagues that way madness lies. You have to trust them and on this occasion that trust was misplaced.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police launched a criminal probe into the leaking of the material in August 2019, with Commissioner Cressida Dick describing it as a \"very serious crime\".\n\nBoris Johnson, who at the time of Lord Darroch's exit was vying to be the next Conservative leader and prime minister, was criticised for not coming out in support of the UK diplomat and insisting he must stay in post.\n\nLord Darroch said it would have been \"nice\" if Mr Johnson had done so but understood why he wanted to keep his \"options open\" given the ambassador had been left \"dangling\" by the row.\n\nReflecting on his time in Washington and the current state of US-UK relations, he said the US President was \"not a politician\" in the conventional sense and it was not a surprise that Mr Johnson was \"fascinated\" by him.\n\nAsked if some of Mr Trump's approach to politics had rubbed off on Mr Johnson, he said it may be influencing his current \"negotiating style\" over a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe PM has been criticised for threatening to change the terms of the legally-binding Withdrawal Agreement with the EU in the event the UK does not negotiate a trade deal.\n\n\"Trump famously said Theresa May should start Brexit negotiations by suing the EU, a mad dog negotiating style,\" Lord Darroch said.\n\n\"If you go back to the PM in 2018, he said if Trump was negotiating Brexit he would create chaos at the start and people would be outraged at what he was saying and there'd be huge rows and there might be a good outcome.\n\n\"We should think about that. That's when he was becoming dissatisfied with Brexit and now I watch the government conduct its future relationship I wonder if there's an element of Trump.\"\n\nLord Darroch, who became a member of the House of Lords in January, said he believed the so-called \"special relationship\" between the US and UK would remain strong whoever won November's presidential election.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson got on better with Mr Trump than his predecessor, this did not mean there would not be \"ups and downs\" if he were re-elected and that negotiations on a transatlantic trade deal would not be \"difficult\".\n\nAnd while Mr Trump's Democratic rival for the Presidency, Joe Biden, was an \"Anglophile\", he was vice-president in the Obama administration which famously said the UK would be at the \"back of the queue\" for a trade deal if it voted to leave the EU, added Lord Darroch.\n\n\"Biden said he'd have voted Remain so I have more questions about the relationship with a Democrat,\" he added.\n\nThe interview will be aired on BBC's Newsnight at 22:45 BST on BBC Two, or on iPlayer", "There is more than one \"rule of six\". Who knew?\n\nIt's what a legendary Hollywood film editor used to describe the best of way making a must-watch movie, mixing six different elements like emotion and space (his name is Walter Murch, if you are on the hunt for trivia).\n\nThe other rule of six is part of the code that rules corporate takeovers, more familiar to City lawyers. You may indeed have your own obscure examples.\n\nBut ministers hope now the government's new rule of six will very quickly become familiar to the country and will immediately change people's behaviour too.\n\nFrom Monday, it will be illegal in England, apart from at school or work or under other few exceptions, to meet more than five other people at a time.\n\nThe police will have the power to stop that happening - you can read exactly how the new restrictions will work here.\n\nAfter weeks when the government has been trying to cheerlead the country back to the office, urging pupils back to school and taking steps to roll back coronavirus restrictions it is quite the change of tone, change of pace, and change of heart.\n\nThe prime minister also acknowledged publicly, after many weeks of questions about the layers of anomalies and different rules and regulations, that complicated messages had made the rules hard for people to follow.\n\nBoris Johnson can hope that the public in England will be willing to follow a new, clearer instruction. But it is not obvious that the public will all comply.\n\nThe reason for the change however, as we discussed yesterday, is crystal clear.\n\nThe number of cases has started to rise, and rise quickly, and ministers want to slam on the brakes.\n\nThe new rule is a significant move, and it's plain it could mean limits on our lives for many months. The prime minister today acknowledged that even Christmas may not be much like normal.\n\nThe changes are designed to prevent the disease taking off again, and to stop the need for another full national lockdown, something the government is desperate to avoid.\n\nBut other measures are waiting in the wings too.\n\nAt the bottom of the government's guidance issued today, there is a rather bland, technical sounding paragraph:\n\n\"The government will restrict the opening hours of premises, initially in local lockdown areas, with the option of national action in the future. This has been introduced in Bolton, following a steep rise in cases, and will seek to restrict activities that may lead to a spread in the virus.\"\n\nIn other words, if the rise in cases doesn't slow, the government could bring in a national curfew on opening hours, a more radical step.\n\nGovernment sources emphasise this is not about to happen.\n\nBut by laying out the option, it's clear the rule of six could be followed by more radical steps.", "The government should ban placing under-18s in care in unregulated homes amid concerns over sexual and criminal exploitation, the children's commissioner for England has said.\n\nSome vulnerable teenagers are \"at risk every day of the week\", Anne Longfield told BBC Newsnight.\n\nShe called them \"inappropriate\" places for any child.\n\nThe government is consulting on proposals to introduce new minimum standards to the sector.\n\nIt has already told local authorities to stop placing under 16s in these homes.\n\nBut Ms Longfield said the plans do not address \"the real problem\" of allowing older teenagers aged 16 and over in care to be placed in such accommodation.\n\nOne in eight children in care - around 12,000 - spent time in an unregulated home in 2018-19, her report reveals.\n\nIt comes following a year long investigation by BBC Newsnight into the care sector.\n\nIt also highlights evidence that providers linked to organised crime are exploiting the lack of regulation to gain access to children.\n\nPolice have told her that criminality in the sector is \"rife\" and children are being groomed to sell drugs and for sexual exploitation.\n\nUnlike children's homes registered with Ofsted, unregulated homes - often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation - are not inspected by a regulator in England or Wales.\n\nThe hostels, flats, bedsits and even caravans come with differing levels of staff support to help 16 to 18-year olds gain independence.\n\nThree-quarters (73%) of the sector is privately run and \"allows for high profit-making without the checks and balances that are seen in other care settings\", Ms Longfield said.\n\nChildren's Minister Vicky Ford said the government was taking steps to drive up the quality of care provided to vulnerable children.\n\nShe added: \"In some circumstances, semi-independent accommodation can be the right choice for 16 and 17 year-olds as they move towards adult life, but only when it is of high quality and meets their needs.\"", "A man has appeared in court charged with murder and seven counts of attempted murder after a series of stabbings in Birmingham.\n\nZephaniah McLeod, 27, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, appeared via video link at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nJacob Billington, 23, was killed and seven others were injured at four locations across the city centre over a period of 90 minutes on Sunday.\n\nMr McLeod was remanded in custody and is due at crown court on Thursday.\n\nHe spoke only to confirm his personal details during an appearance before two magistrates and was not asked for any pleas. There was no application for bail.\n\nThe victims of the attempted murder charges were Dimitar Bachvarov, Migle Dolobauskaite, Thomas Glassey, Michael Callaghan, Shane Rowley, Rhys Cummings and Ryan Bowers, the court was told.\n\nJacob Billington died of a stab wound to the neck\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Billington, a library intern at Sheffield Hallam University and originally from Crosby in Merseyside, died of a stab wound to the neck.\n\nHe was among a group of people enjoying a night out while visiting a friend studying in the city.\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the site where Jacob Billington was fatally stabbed\n\nHis old school friend Mr Callaghan, also 23 and a fellow band-mate, was seriously injured and remained in hospital in a critical condition on Wednesday.\n\nA 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, was critical but stable in hospital, police said.\n\nAnother man, aged 30, was in a stable condition in hospital, while four others have been discharged.\n\nAnother tribute said his \"light was taken\" early\n\nThe attacks happened at four different locations across Birmingham city centre\n\nThree people arrested early on Monday in Selly Oak on suspicion of assisting an offender have all been released while inquiries continue, police have said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That press conference can be broken into two parts.\n\nThe first is the sombre message - that the virus is increasing again and new restrictions must be brought in for England.\n\nFor many people, the limit on social gatherings will be significant and potentially upsetting.\n\nThe introduction of nationwide measures is a big deal and something ministers wanted to avoid.\n\nThey’re doing it because they’re worried.\n\nAt the same time, the PM wanted to inject some optimism.\n\nBoris Johnson is hoping mass tests - maybe daily - could allow people to leave the house in the morning knowing if they are transmitting the virus or not.\n\nThat would be a game changer.\n\nBut there are significant issues with the testing programme at the moment, and it is far from guaranteed, as the scientists made clear.", "Are young people to blame for the rise in UK coronavirus cases? That's what the health secretary told us this week.\n\nMatt Hancock told Radio 1 Newsbeat listeners: \"Don't kill your gran by catching coronavirus and then passing it on.\"\n\nBut many are unhappy with being singled out and say the government has been giving \"mixed messages\".\n\nSophie Morgan hasn't seen her grandparents since February and is taking care not to spread the virus.\n\nThe 23-year-old says other people her age are doing the same.\n\n\"I've cancelled a holiday to Italy and try to limit how much I need to go outside, even to the supermarket,\" she says.\n\n\"There's nothing that I'm doing which puts me at risk. Even with a nail appointment I'm wearing a mask.\"\n\nSophie feels the government waited too long to make face coverings mandatory\n\nLinzi Cormack has also changed her habits and is following the rules.\n\nShe's really cautious about touching door handles and surfaces.\n\n\"I use my feet to push them open and don't touch my face as much.\n\nHer life has become more online-focused because of the virus and not wanting to \"be around other people\".\n\n\"I've decided to shop online all of the time and stop going to supermarkets.\"\n\n\"It's not about catching it myself, it's about protecting others,\" Linzi says\n\nAnd as for the weekly drink in the pub - the higher number of positive cases mean Linzi isn't visiting as much as she normally would.\n\n\"I've been once since it reopened, and not for a long amount of time because I felt really uncomfortable.\"\n\nTom Hardy, who works in a school in Leicestershire, is a keen traveller but has stopped visiting different parts of the country.\n\n\"Mainly to protect the people around me. I'm also in a fairly high-risk job so I don't want to put my colleagues and students at risk.\"\n\nTom says the rules can cause a divide in friendship groups as some people are tired of the restrictions\n\nLike Linzi, the recent rise in cases has forced the 20-year-old to take more precautions.\n\n\"I've started shopping online a lot more, and not going to places as I did much outside of work.\"\n\nLinzi isn't surprised by the focus on young people because there are some \"who feel they are untouchable\" when it comes to the virus.\n\n\"Especially when people start drinking more, they become a bit careless.\"\n\nBut she says generalising is wrong and \"it's unfair to single out young people\" with some older people \"not wearing masks or social distancing\" in shops.\n\nSophie says the constant changing of rules may be to blame for people being confused and not always following them.\n\n\"Every update was confusing which means the rules are confusing and leave you thinking 'are we doing this now?'\"\n\nShe no longer pays attention to what the government says and says she is going to continue to wash her hands and keep her distance from people.\n\nTom disagrees with Sophie and says the government's been \"as clear as they can be\".\n\nHe says the young people visiting restaurant and bars have been encouraged by the government to do so through schemes like Eat Out to Help Out.\n\nAnd he adds it's important to consider the role mental health might play when someone breaks rules.\n\n\"Especially if you live at home with your parents, you can feel quite isolated from the people you used to spend a lot of time with.\n\n\"I'm not saying it's OK, but there are factors to suggest why people would.\"\n\nTom says he's followed all of the rules - with the exception of seeing his dad during lockdown.\n\n\"I made sure precautions were in place, but looking back, I probably shouldn't have done that.\"\n\nStarting university next week, Aisha says she needs to be “extra careful”\n\nAisha Mirza says there's been mixed messages from the government.\n\n\"The rules haven't been clear. By saying local lockdowns, but keeping some things open, it defeats the purpose because you are still mixing with people.\"\n\nShe says the government shouldn't be surprised by a spike after Eat Out to Help Out.\n\n\"We are used to meeting people regularly.\n\n\"So when the government starts making these things available to us, we're obviously going to make use of that right away,\" she says.\n\nThe 18-year-old adds: \"You do get minorities in all groups that mess about and don't do things right.\"\n\nDespite being \"fed up\" by restrictions, Sophie, Linzi and Tom and Aisha all agree about the threat of coronavirus and remain worried about the rising numbers in recent days.\n\n\"I think it's important to be worried and be cautious because there's people in my family who need to shield,\" Linzi says.\n\n\"It's more for other people. I couldn't live with myself if I passed it on to someone and they got really ill, it's horrible.\"\n\nTom's job is a cause for concern because of difficulties in keeping a distance.\n\n\"There's 1,200 people in the building, so it's hard to maintain a social distance from everyone,\" he adds.\n\nBut he will \"be careful\" and continue to see his family unless told otherwise by the government.\n\nWith no vaccine yet and the virus being quite new, Sophie is still worried.\n\n\"It's unheard of before. Everyone else might be getting on with it, but in the back of your head, you're still wondering.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A social-distancing app which alerts someone when a colleague is too close is being used by Network Rail.\n\nMind The Gap was designed by London start-up Hack Partners for the company, to keep employees safe at work.\n\nThe technology uses audio and Bluetooth signals to detect if users are in close proximity to one another.\n\nNetwork Rail staff now use the app widely, and it's being rolled out to other companies.\n\n\"I am immensely proud of our entire workforce for the part they have played to keep the country running throughout the pandemic,\" Martin Frobisher, Network Rail's safety, technical and engineering director said.\n\n\"As we start to plan for a return to office working, we've been looking at absolutely everything to make sure we can continue to keep our people safe.\"\n\nEmployees can choose to download the app and set their desired distance, in line with government guidelines.\n\nThey will then receive a notification when another user of the app is too close.\n\nMind The Gap uses inaudible ultra-high frequency sounds and Bluetooth to calculate the distance between phones, so it does not require an active internet connection to work.\n\nThe app sends a notification if you are too close to your colleagues\n\nAlthough many contact-tracing apps have found it hard to accurately detect distances with Bluetooth, Hack Partners says the combination of the technology with audio measuring, gives an accuracy of between 6-8cm.\n\nThe app will continue to work in the background, which means it could drain phone battery.\n\nTests so far have shown that the high frequency sounds do not affect children, dogs, cats or hearing aids, said River Tamoor Baig, chief executive of Hack Partners.\n\n\"It's very easy to relax back into old patterns with colleagues and forget to distance, so this is a reminder,\" he said. \"Also, the sound notification can help users avoid awkward conversations with colleagues who may not be social distancing - a lot of us would find it difficult to tell our boss to move away!\"\n\nBuilt with user-privacy in mind, Mind The Gap does not track people and no sensitive data is collected, stored or shared. This means employers will not be able to monitor employees' movements, either past or present.\n\nAt Network Rail, downloading the app is optional for employees.\n\nHack Partners hopes workplaces will use the app to encourage those who want to return to the office to feel safer.\n\nThe firm is also in talks with contact-tracing app developers who are struggling to get accurate distance results using Bluetooth.\n\n\"Using technology to maintain social distancing has the potential to help restart the economy by enabling more people to work in offices, and give a much-needed boost to infrastructure projects through on-site construction work,\" said Will Cavendish, engineering consultancy Arup's digital lead.\n\n\"People naturally congregate in certain areas; navigating those could make an invaluable contribution to safely opening up public spaces.\"", "The legislation would give the UK government powers to spend cash on infrastructure in Wales\n\nPlans for a new law giving the UK government more powers to spend in Wales have been published.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill would transfer powers from the EU to the UK government to spend on areas such as economic development, infrastructure and sport.\n\nThe Welsh Government accused its UK counterpart of \"stealing powers\" from devolved governments.\n\nBut UK ministers said the law would allow them to replace existing EU funding programmes.\n\nFrom next year, powers which had been held by the EU will be transferred to the governments around the UK.\n\nThe UK government says the draft law is aimed at ensuring trade within the United Kingdom can continue \"unhindered\" under these new arrangements.\n\nMuch attention has been focused on the fact that the legislation could override key elements of UK ministers' Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nIn addition, the legislation will give ministers in Whitehall powers to spend money to replace EU funding programmes on areas that would otherwise be devolved to the Welsh Government.\n\nThe new spending powers include infrastructure, economic development, culture, sport, and support for educational, training and exchange opportunities.\n\nA senior UK government cabinet minister insisted the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19 and support businesses and communities right across the UK\".\n\nMichael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said: \"These new spending powers will mean that these decisions will now be made in the UK, focus on UK priorities and be accountable to the UK Parliament and people of the UK.\"\n\nMichael Gove said the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"vital\" that seamless trade continued between the four nations, and that \"investment must continue to flow unhindered\".\n\nBut the Welsh Government Minister for European Transition Jeremy Miles said the powers would \"sacrifice the future of the union by stealing powers from devolved administrations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the bill \"provides ammunition to those people who would favour the breakup of the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"I'm in favour of a UK Common Market and I'm in favour of a UK-wide state aid regime, but the proposals in the white paper are absolutely not the right way to go about it,\" he told Sky News.\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"This bill is the single biggest assault on devolution since its creation.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC later on Wednesday, Mr Hart said he found it \"pretty strange\" that Labour Welsh ministers and Plaid Cymru objected to UK government plans to spend money in Wales.\n\n\"Seems to me they're more anxious about protecting their little political clique in Cardiff than they are actually doing something about economies we tried to recover from Covid and move on from Brexit,\" he said.\n\nWales has been eligible for £375m a year from EU funds with the management shared between the EU and the Welsh Government.", "Shoppers in Caerphilly, which is subject to a local lockdown\n\nExpect to see the prime minister back at the lectern, possibly with one of his top scientific advisers, once again, urging the population to take care.\n\nIt won't mark the beginning of another national lockdown. Nor will it be the start of a new draconian regime.\n\nBut do expect to hear the prime minister emphasising the need for the public to follow the existing rules - being careful about social contact with people, isolating if ill, and (what seemed in the early days almost quaint advice in the face of a distant threat), to wash your hands.\n\nAnd there will be a reduction in the numbers of people who are allowed to gather in groups indoors and outdoors in England from 30 down to six.\n\nThe reason for what may seem like a change of tone from the PM? Simple, the government is worried.\n\nIn the last four or five days there has been a significant rise in the number of coronavirus cases. It's not a gradual gentle drift upwards, but a sharp and obvious spike. The rate of positive tests is going up particularly among the 17-21s, but noticeable too among people in their 40s.\n\nAnd rather than appearing to be only a problem in particular areas, the increase is relatively consistent across the country - 79 local authorities in England, for example, reported weekly case rates above 20 per 100,000.\n\nThose factors mean there is deep concern in Number 10 that the statistics could be flagging the beginning of a generalised second wave of the pandemic.\n\nIt's important to say, the death rate is still very low. This could be the beginnings of a surge that has very different outcomes to the last terrible toll.\n\nBut in the early stages of the pandemic, the government had precious little information about what was going on. Since the early spring, a lot of effort has gone across government to gathering data to monitor how the disease is spreading. An early warning system was created, and it is flashing red.\n\nThere is a huge amount of guesswork about why the increase might be occurring, but there is no settled view on the specific factors. There is some evidence that some people who test positive are not always isolating.\n\nAnd as we can all see in daily life, there is a gradual but noticeable increase in people being out and about. And simply, more contacts mean more risk of spread of the disease.\n\nSo as the health secretary has done in recent days, the government is likely on Wednesday to focus on trying to choke off the rise in cases.\n\nThe recent zeal to get as many people as possible back to work may slightly fade. But millions of people in the last couple of months have had a taste of life returning to normal.\n\nPersuading people again to comply fastidiously to the rules won't be an easy task.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says increasing numbers of people in England are seeking tests when they don't have any Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nHe said this \"inappropriate\" use of the system was making it harder for people who needed tests to get one.\n\nIt comes after the boss of England's testing system apologised to people who were struggling to get tests.\n\nThe Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for the government to \"accept there is a problem\" and \"get it fixed\".\n\nIn the Commons, Boris Johnson responded saying \"we are working flat out to address all the issues confronting us today\", adding that demand was \"acute\" and there were too many people requesting tests who did not have symptoms.\n\nUK labs have reached capacity, meaning some people are struggling to book tests or being sent long distances to get one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nBut Mr Hancock gave the example of one school who sent a whole year group for tests, which is \"not appropriate\", he added.\n\nHe also described how some people who were going on holiday had sought to get tests.\n\nThe free tests are available to people with symptoms of coronavirus - a fever, new and continuous cough or a loss or change in sense of taste or smell.\n\nClaire tried to get a test for her son who had a cough and a temperature\n\nClaire Peposhi, who lives in north London, spent more than five hours online trying to order a home test kit for her eight-year-old son.\n\nHe had a cough and a slight temperature and had just returned to school.\n\nShe was offered testing 40 miles away from her home, but neither she nor her husband could get there, or afford the time off work.\n\n\"I have done nothing else this morning other than refresh the page,\" Claire says.\n\n\"I can't be alone in this.\"\n\nClaire says a sudden surge in need for tests \"was always going to happen\".\n\n\"It's not a surprise there are more colds around when kids are going back to school.\"\n\nMr Hancock denied the testing system was failing, pointing out the UK had the biggest testing system per head of population of all major European countries.\n\n\"Right now, we have the highest capacity for testing that we've ever had - increased compared to last week.\n\n\"And that testing means that we can find these cases, and therefore help keep the virus under control with the contact-tracing system as well.\n\n\"However, in the last couple of weeks we have seen an increase in demand, including an increase in demand for people who are not eligible for tests, and people who don't have symptoms,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"We have seen an increase of about 25% of people who are coming forward that don't have symptoms and aren't eligible. They don't have a reason for it.\n\n\"I've even heard stories of people saying, 'I'm going on holiday next week, therefore I'm going to get a test'. No - that is not what the testing system is there for.\n\n\"We've got to be firmer, I'm afraid, with the rules around eligibility for testing.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Department of Health and Social Care how the 25% figure has been calculated, but is still waiting for a response.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"It beggars belief that after weeks of encouraging people to have a test if feeling unwell, ministers are seeking to blame people for simply doing what they were advised.\n\n\"With children returning to school and thousands returning to the office, it's obvious extra testing capacity would be needed.\n\n\"The fact ministers failed to plan is yet more staggering incompetence.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the director of testing in England, Sarah-Jane Marsh said she offered her \"heartfelt\" apologies to people who could not get a test.\n\nA new lab is due to open in Loughborough in about a fortnight, which will increase testing capacity by about a fifth.", "Fortnite and Apple have been locked in legal battle since August\n\nApple has fired back against claims by the maker of the Fortnite game that its control of the App Store gives it a monopoly.\n\nIn a response to the August lawsuit filed by Epic Games, Apple called those arguments \"self-righteous\" and \"self-interested\".\n\nIt denied that its 30% commission was anti-competitive and said the fight was \"a basic disagreement over money\".\n\nApple also said Epic Games had violated its contract and asked for damages.\n\nThe filing is the latest in a legal battle that started last month, after Fortnite offered a discount on its virtual currency for purchases made outside of the app, from which Apple receives a 30% cut.\n\nIn response, Apple blocked Epic's ability to distribute updates or new apps through the App Store, and Epic sued, alleging that Apple's App Store practices violate antitrust laws.\n\nThe court allowed Apple's ban on updates to continue as the case plays out, but the existing version of Fortnite still works, as does Epic's payment system.\n\nApple had said it would allow Fortnite back into the store if Epic removed the direct payment feature to comply with its developer agreement.\n\nBut Epic has refused, saying complying with Apple's request would be \"to collude with Apple to maintain their monopoly over in-app payments on iOS.\"\n\nIn its filing, Apple said Epic has benefited from Apple's promotion and developer tools, earning more than $600m (£462m) through the App Store.\n\nApple accused the firm, which it noted is backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, of seeking a special deal before ultimately breaching its contract with the update.\n\n\"Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store,\" it said in the filing.\n\nThe legal battle between the two companies comes as Apple faces increased scrutiny of its practices running the App Store.\n\nAt a hearing in Washington over the summer, politicians also raised concerns that Apple's control of the app store hurt competition.\n\nThe European Union is also investigating whether Apple's App Store practices violate competition rules.\n\nApple has denied those claims, arguing that its App Store has made it easier and cheaper for developers to distribute products.", "Well, that was a busy Prime Minister's Questions and the fall-out is likely to roll on throughout the day.\n\nWe will keep you updated on the reaction to the government's new Brexit law in our story here.\n\nAnd don't forget to visit our coronavirus live page for Boris Johnson's press conference at 16:00 BST (15:00 GMT).\n\nWe will see you next week.", "Richard Ratcliffe has campaigned for Nazanin's release for several years\n\nA new charge against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran, is \"a new stage in an long-running political game\", her husband Richard has claimed.\n\n\"She is clearly being held as a bargaining chip,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is nearing the end of her sentence for spying charges, which she denies. But on Tuesday, she was told she would face a new trial.\n\nThe Foreign Office said British officials will try to attend the trial.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Tehran in April 2016. She had been visiting her parents with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting against the Iranian government - although no official charges have ever been made public.\n\nGabriella has now returned to the UK.\n\nEarlier this year, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given temporary leave from prison because of the coronavirus outbreak and has been living at her parents' house in Tehran with an ankle tag.\n\nBut on Tuesday, she was told she will face another trial, which will be held on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband describes how his daughter Gabriella is coping without her mother\n\nThe new charge had not previously been publicly disclosed, but Mr Ratcliffe said it was an allegation of \"spreading propaganda against the regime\".\n\n\"Her lawyer got to look at the file,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today programme. \"It looks like the file is really a rehash of what she got convicted of first time round.\n\n\"But, you know, previously the evidence has changed between the lawyer reading it and what happens in the court case so we'll only really know on Sunday what she's going to be accused of.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe told BBC Radio 4 that the news was \"certainly very tough for her\", adding: \"I spoke to her just before she went into court.\n\n\"That's probably when she was most terrified and in all honesty she had fears that she was being taken back to prison, not to court at all, it was a big trick.\"\n\n\"She's been really counting down the days until the end of her sentence and suddenly those goalposts look like they are about to move,\" he added to BBC Breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nMr Ratcliffe said his wife and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nThe UK owes Iran about £400m for some Chieftain tanks it promised the former Shah of Iran but never delivered after the 1979 revolution.\n\nThe UK has agreed to pay the money but can't until a legal way is found to get round the sanctions that currently make repayment impossible.\n\n\"Behind closed doors I've been warning the government that the closer we got to the end of her sentence without things being sorted, the more there was a risk of something happening, and so it's come to pass,\" said Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"This is definitely political, and it's definitely a new stage in an long-running political game.\"\n\nHe said: \"The UK needs to take a much firmer line to protecting its citizens. It did invoke diplomatic protection more than a year ago - it hasn't done very much with it.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and the UK government have always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said that British officials will seek to attend any new hearings in Iran against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThey said in a statement: \"Iran bringing new charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is indefensible and unacceptable.\n\n\"We have been consistently clear that she must not be returned to prison.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe met the PM in January, and said he pushed him to be \"brave\" in regards to Iran", "Sir Ronald Harwood, the playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter, has died.\n\nHis agent Judy Daish said he died of natural causes on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, she added: \"His wife Natasha died in 2013 and Sir Ronald is survived by their children Antony, Deborah and Alexandra.\"\n\nSouth African-born Sir Ronald was regarded as one of Britain's great post-war dramatists. His plays include The Dresser and Quartet, both of which were adapted for the screen.\n\nHe won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for the 2002 Roman Polanski film, The Pianist.\n\nSir Ronald, who passed away aged 85, received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2010, two years after picking up a Bafta for best adapted screenplay for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon).\n\nIn a 2018 interview with The Boar, the University of Warwick's student newspaper, Sir Ronald was asked about what he hoped his artistic legacy might be.\n\nHe said: \"I don't think of my legacy - I think it's a rather pompous thing to think of! All I think of is, 'Are the plays going to live at all after my death?' And I would be very happy if they lived.\"", "Online retail giant Amazon paid £293m in tax in the UK last year, while its sales surged 26% to £13.73bn.\n\nThe firm, which employs 33,000 people in the UK, said the taxes included business rates, corporation tax, stamp duty and other contributions.\n\nAmazon and other tech firms have faced scrutiny over how much tax they pay in the UK, prompting the government to launch a digital sales tax in April.\n\nAmazon said it pays \"all taxes required in the UK\".\n\n\"We are investing heavily in creating jobs and infrastructure across the UK - more than £23bn since 2010,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"We pay all taxes required in the UK and every country where we operate,\" it said.\n\n\"Corporation tax is based on profits, not revenues, and our profits have remained low given retail is a highly-competitive, low margin business and we continue to invest heavily.\"\n\nIn April, the UK launched a 2% tax on digital sales amid concerns that big tech firms we re-routing their profits through low tax jurisdictions.\n\nDefending the plan, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said in June that the coronavirus crisis had made tech giants even \"more powerful and more profitable\".\n\nHe added that firms like Google, Amazon and Facebook needed \"to pay their fair share of tax\".\n\nAmazon has been expanding in the UK this year, as more people shop online due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe company said last week it would create a further 7,000 UK jobs this year to meet growing demand, taking its total permanent workforce to 40,000 by the end of the year.\n\nIt is also recruiting 20,000 seasonal posts for the festive period.\n\nAmazon is led by world's richest man Jeff Bezos, whose personal fortune rose as high as $200bn (£155bn) in recent weeks as tech firms' stock market valuations soared.\n\nThe company as a whole posted sales of $281bn for 2019 and net profits of $11.6bn.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSocial gatherings of more than six people are to be banned in England in an effort to curb a steep rise in coronavirus cases. The ban will come in from Monday and be backed by law. There are exceptions - schools, workplaces, organised sports among them. We'll get more detail later, but here's what we know so far. Ministers and health advisers believe the country is at a critical moment and the average rate of new infections is now four times higher than it was in mid-July. However, here are five important reasons why it's not quite as simple as that.\n\nCase numbers are rising, but there hasn't - yet at least - been a corresponding rise in hospital admissions\n\nThe outcome of coronavirus vaccine trials is being closely watched around the world and hopes for the one being conducted by Oxford University and AstraZeneca are high. However, it's been temporarily halted worldwide after a volunteer taking part in the UK fell ill. BBC medical editor Fergus Walsh says such events are routine and it's thought the trial could resume within days. How close are we to having a vaccine? And when we do have one, how will we deliver it to seven billion people?\n\nThis is the second time the Oxford trial has been put on hold\n\nA man with chronic asthma says he was \"ambushed\" into wearing a face covering on an EasyJet flight, despite carrying an exemption card. One of its pilots was filmed threatening to remove the passenger. EasyJet has apologised, but charities say there are other stories of people with respiratory conditions being turned away from shops and public transport. Elsewhere this morning, find out why British Airways is in a stand-off with some of its customers over refunds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYoung people at university rely heavily on part-time work - commonly in hospitality or retail - to make ends meet while studying. But concerns are being raised about how many will manage this year given the struggles those sectors are facing and the job cuts they're experiencing. Website Save the Student is encouraging those affected to investigate other options such as scholarships, grants and bursaries.\n\nSolent University student Ellen Walsh says she's finding it hard to pay her bills\n\nTo help maintain his wellbeing during the coronavirus lockdown, photographer Tim Boddy turned to a natural process to create beautiful prints of flowers and leaves. Known as anthotypes, it uses a technique that dates back to the mid-1800s. See the results of his work.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, remember the R number? Expect to hear much more about it in the coming days as the government tries to control the spike in cases. Here's a reminder of what it's all about.\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.", "Caerphilly has been placed under lockdown following a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nNo-one is allowed to leave the county without good reason, with strict measures brought in at 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nFamily and friends living apart can no longer meet indoors, stay overnight or form extended households.\n\nThe rise in cases has been blamed on house parties and people failing to social distance.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nDoncaster Racecourse has been told by local health officials to stop spectators attending its St Leger meeting after Wednesday's opening day.\n\n\"On the grounds of public health and public safety I have instructed the course to hold the St Leger Festival behind closed doors from tomorrow,\" said Dr Rupert Suckling, director of Public Health for Doncaster.\n\nMore than 2,500 spectators bought tickets for Doncaster on Wednesday as the Leger meeting started amid uncertainty over new government rules.\n\nIt was the first crowd at a British horse racing fixture in six months - since the coronavirus pandemic lockdown - as part of a government pilot scheme for sporting events.\n\nArena Racing Company (Arc), which runs Doncaster Racecourse, confirmed the remainder of the four-day meeting will be held without spectators. It says the decision will cost the company about £250,000.\n\n\"It's cost a lot trying to get this right. The team have done an amazing job and I feel so sorry for them - some have only been back off furlough for two weeks,\" said Mark Spincer, the managing director of Arena's racing division.\n\n\"This isn't just a blow for racing, it's sport. It's going to make it slower and harder for everyone to get back, but we have to follow the advice.\"\n\nThe next racing pilots scheduled at Warwick and Newmarket this month are still set to go ahead, but with a reduced capacity of 1,000.\n\nThe government said on Tuesday night that social gatherings in England would reduce from a maximum of 30 to six people from Monday in response to rising numbers of coronavirus cases.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said more details will be announced on Wednesday.\n\nAny significant delay to the return of the public will be a hammer blow for racecourses and the racing industry\n\nThe rate of infection in Doncaster has been among the lowest in the country - and was at 10.6 per 100,000 on Wednesday.\n\nBut Doncaster mayor Ros Jones said the risk of holding the fixture with crowds was \"too great\" and welcomed the reversal.\n\n\"I believe holding the St Leger Festival behind closed doors is the right thing to do for the safety of the borough, given the latest change in Government's advice overnight and the increase in infection rates both in Doncaster and nationally,\" said the mayor.\n\n\"I welcome this decision and as I have said consistently that the risks were too great for Doncaster.\"\n\nRacing has been held behind closed doors since resuming on 1 June after a 10-week suspension because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nUp to 3,640 people were permitted entry on Wednesday, and the racecourse says more than 2,500 tickets have been sold. A limit of 6,202 was planned on the other days, including Saturday, when the Leger - the world's oldest Classic race - is staged.\n\nSpectators had to sign up to a code of conduct and have been split into dedicated zones, with social distancing protocols in place.\n\nMore than 54,000 spectators attended the four-day meeting last year, including 27,000 on the Saturday.\n\nA trial attendance of 5,000 people was due to take place on the fifth and final day of Glorious Goodwood last month, but that was scrapped at the last minute after a spike in coronavirus cases across parts of Britain.\n• None Listen to unique tracks from Stormzy, Miley and Biffy Clyro", "Tom Gordon of The Herald asks whether there will be return to simpler, national messages as we head into winter and whether a national lockdown is likely.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she does not want to say whether one scenario is more likely than the other, but adds it would not be credible to rule anything out.\n\nThe simple measure at the start of the pandemic meant there was a simple message to stay at home, she adds, but says she does not want to go back to that being the message.\n\nThe first minister says the government is considering how to simplify the measures and regulations, and therefore the messages that flow from them.\n\nBut by definition it is not as straightforward as the messaging was at the start of the pandemic because the situation is more nuanced, she says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says Labour and the unions must \"stand together\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been warned against \"watering down\" the \"radical policies\" he promised during his campaign to become Labour leader.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union told the BBC he must not \"cede any ground\" to the Conservatives and fight for \"root-and-branch\" reform of society.\n\nGeneral Secretary Matt Wrack added that he had not \"heard Keir make that case\" since becoming Labour leader in April.\n\nSir Keir has urged the party and unions to \"stand together like never before\".\n\nLabour's four-day annual conference, the first under his leadership, began on Saturday.\n\nRenamed Labour Connected, it is taking place online and will not feature votes, but the party's major figures will still give speeches and take part in discussions.\n\nIn his campaign to become leader, Sir Keir set out 10 pledges.\n\nAmong these was putting a \"Green New Deal at the heart of everything we do\", including a Clean Air Act to tackle pollution at a local level, and demanding \"international action\" on \"climate rights\".\n\nSir Keir also pledged to work \"shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to stand up for working people, tackle insecure work and low pay\".\n\nHe said a Labour government under him would repeal the Conservatives' 2016 Trade Union Act, which makes industrial action more difficult.\n\nThe FBU wants Sir Keir Starmer to follow through on plans to reverse curbs on industrial action\n\nMr Wrack, whose FBU is one of the more left-leaning of the 12 Labour-affiliated trade unions, said: \"Our present crisis has only made the case for that platform more urgent, but we haven't yet heard Keir make that case in opposition.\"\n\nHe said the Labour leader should promote the Socialist Green New Deal, agreed at last year's party conference.\n\nIt calls for net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, bringing the energy sector into public ownership and the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the environment sector, on union-negotiated rates of pay.\n\nMr Wrack said: \"We look forward to seeing Keir making [the Socialist Green New deal] his own. But that can't mean any watering down of the radical policies we fought for.\n\n\"We don't want to see Labour cede any ground to the Tories, full stop - not least on the greatest issue of our time.\"\n\nMr Wrack called Labour Connected \"a chance for Keir and the shadow cabinet to prove to members that there will be no retreat on the policy pledges he was elected on\".\n\n\"Swapping to paper straws isn't going to save our planet,\" the FBU leader said. \"Nothing short of a root-and-branch transformation of our society and economic system will save our planet from the brink of destruction.\"\n\nHe added that rebuilding the economy after the pandemic \"should be seen as an opportunity to tackle the climate crisis as well\".\n\nThe FBU backed Rebecca Long-Bailey in the Labour leadership contest\n\nThe FBU split from Labour in 2004 following a dispute with Tony Blair's government over pay. It re-affiliated in 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn became leader.\n\nThe union backed Rebecca Long-Bailey, another on the left of the party, against Sir Keir in the leadership contest earlier this year.\n\nShe was sacked from the shadow cabinet in June after she re-tweeted an article Sir Keir said \"contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories\".\n\nIn a separate development, Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, the UK's second-biggest union, has promised to review its financial support for Labour.\n\nAddressing the TUC Congress earlier this week, Sir Keir continued to promote a unifying message when he said: \"Labour and the trade union movement need to stand together like never before, to show the British people that we've got their back and their future too.\n\n\"We'll fight to protect jobs, incomes and working conditions at this time of national crisis, and show that there is a better, fairer society to come. That is our mission.\"\n\nLast week, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC that Sir Keir had made a \"really strong start\" as Labour leader.\n\nThe party has been contacted for a response to Mr Wrack's comments.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTadej Pogacar is set to win the Tour de France ahead of strong favourite Primoz Roglic in one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history.\n\nPogacar, 21, will be confirmed as the youngest winner for 111 years at the end of Sunday's largely processional stage to Paris.\n\nThe UAE-Team Emirates rider overhauled a 57-second deficit to Roglic, who was thought to be a far stronger rider on stage 20's time trial to La Planche des Belles Filles.\n\nIt will be a first Grand Tour victory for Slovenian Pogacar, who took the yellow jersey from compatriot Roglic after he had held it for 13 days.\n\nPogacar is now 59 seconds ahead of Roglic at the end of a day of drama reminiscent of the 1989 Tour, when Greg LeMond unexpectedly overhauled Laurent Fignon in a final-day time trial to win by eight seconds.\n\nRichie Porte of Trek-Segafredo will be on the podium in Paris for the first time, taking third, three minutes and 30 seconds down.\n\nPogacar won the stage, one minute 21 seconds ahead of Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team-mate Tom Dumoulin. Porte climbed to third overall after finishing in third place on the stage.\n\nBritain's Adam Yates of Mitchelton-Scott will finish ninth in the general classification, 9mins 25secs behind the winner.\n\nRoglic has looked imperious throughout the three-week race thanks to support from his powerful team, featuring some of the sport's best riders, including Dumoulin, Wout van Aert and Sepp Kuss.\n\nThe 36km stage from Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles was a challenging course that finished, unusually for time trial, with a category 1 climb. Roglic, 30, was considered a far better time triallist than Pogacar, and began the stage strongly.\n\nBut Roglic hit trouble at the changeover from super-fast specialist time-trial bikes to a more conventional road machine before the climb, struggling to clip into his pedals, wobbling when being pushed away and never seeming to find his typical rhythm.\n\nRoglic, who claimed his first Grand Tour victory at last year's Vuelta a Espana, looked desperate as he crossed the line, his helmet pushed upwards and slightly lop-sided, knowing already he had lost the race.\n\nDesperation turned to confusion and dejection as he sat on the ground in his full yellow skinsuit, trying to comprehend how he had committed one of modern cycling's biggest chokes.\n\nAnd as Pogacar sat down for his post-race TV interview, Roglic interrupted it to embrace his countryman.\n\n\"I just didn't push enough,\" said Roglic. \"It was like that. I was more and more without the power I needed but I gave it all until the end.\n\n\"We'll see what happens next. I can be happy with the racing we showed here so let's take positive things out of it.\"\n\nFrom a distant second, Pogacar takes it all\n\nRoglic had been favourite to win the 107th edition of cycling's greatest race, alongside defending champion Egan Bernal of Ineos Grenadiers.\n\nHowever, Bernal abandoned the race before stage 17 following a disastrous climb up the Grand Colombier on stage 15, where he cracked and lost more than seven minutes to Roglic.\n\nIt was one of the biggest downturns in form for a defending champion in recent history, and put an end to Ineos' record of winning every Tour since 2015, four of which were as Team Sky.\n\nIneos looked set to have something to celebrate as they tried to seal the polka dot King of the Mountains jersey through their second protected rider Richard Carapaz.\n\nBut despite 2019 Giro d'Italia winner Carapaz's attempts to deliberately ride a slow first section before blasting up the mountain, Pogacar's epic performance eclipsed him and he took the jersey.\n\nIt is the second of three jerseys Pogacar will claim at this year's race - he will also pick up the young riders' white jersey.\n\nIn total Pogacar picks up prize money of 500,000 euros (£458,270) for the yellow jersey, 25,000 euros (£22,900) for the King of the Mountains award, and a further 20,000 euros (£18,300) for being the best placed young rider.\n\n\"I'm really proud of the team,\" Pogacar said. \"They did such a big effort. We were dreaming of the yellow jersey from the start. Amazing.\n\n\"It was not just me today, we needed the whole team for the recon. I knew every corner and knew exactly where to accelerate. Congrats to all my team.\n\n\"I didn't hear anything on the radio in the final five kilometres because the fans were too loud so I just went full gas.\n\n\"My dream was just to be on the Tour de France and now I've won it. It's unbelievable.\"", "Labour is calling for guaranteed pay rises for care workers in England as the party prepares for what has been billed as a \"virtual\" party conference.\n\nIts deputy leader Angela Rayner will say low pay in the industry is a \"moral outrage\" given the sacrifices of staff during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMinimum pay rates of £9.30 an hour, and £10.75 in London, are needed to \"pay the rent or put the food on the table\".\n\nMinisters say 600,000 staff are gaining from a rise in the National Live Wage.\n\nThey are among those who will see their take home pay increase by £930 a year following April's 6% rise in the National Living Wage from £8.21 to £8.72 an hour.\n\nThe government has set a target of increasing it to more than £10.50 by 2024, which would represent 65% of median UK earnings.\n\nBut Ms Rayner will insist that the 1.2 million care workers in England deserve a \"real living wage\" now if they are to pay their bills and support their families.\n\nLabour has been forced to cancel its traditional party conference, which was due to be held in Liverpool, due to the virus, as have the other political parties.\n\nInstead, the party is holding a series of virtual events under the Labour Connected banner, starting with a Women's Connected event for female members on Saturday.\n\nThe party's leader Sir Keir Starmer is due to make a keynote speech - his first since being elected in April - on Tuesday in which he is expected to set out his vision for his party.\n\nMs Rayner, who was also elected in April, will use a series of media appearances on Saturday to attack the government's \"failure\" to adequately protect care homes and their staff during the pandemic.\n\nShe will claim the government's \"incompetence\" has contributed to the deaths of 15,000 care home residents and she will say that staff that have put their lives on the line deserve a better pay deal as quickly as possible.\n\nMs Rayner, who represented care workers as a Unison official before entering Parliament, will cite research suggesting the median hourly wage in the independent care sector before the pandemic was £8.10 an hour.\n\nShe will back the Living Wage Foundation's call for hourly pay rates of £9.30 an hour, and £10.75 in London, for the care sector, which the organisation says is needed for workers to get by and cope with the cost of living.\n\n\"The prime minister and government ministers have fallen over themselves to clap for our carers and offer them warm words, but applause and empty gestures don't pay the rent or put the food on the table,\" she will say.\n\n\"We can't clap our key workers and then abandon them. We can't go back to business as usual, where the very same people who have helped to get our country through this crisis are still underpaid and undervalued.\n\n\"After all their sacrifice and bravery, the very least that our care workers deserve is a pay rise.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said while ministers were not responsible for directly setting pay for care workers, changes to the National Living Wage meant a full-time worker will have seen their income go up by £3,600 since 2016.\n\n\"Tax cuts and increases to National Living Wage brought in by the Conservatives have benefitted millions of the lowest paid, including those who provide vital care,\" said the party's chairwoman Amanda Milling.\n\nConservative sources said Labour must explain how it would pay for pay rises for staff working in private homes.\n\nThe government is considering calls from the sector for a huge injection of funding as part of its current spending review, amid claims a further £7.5bn will be needed just to meet current pressures by 2025.\n\nBoris Johnson promised to find a lasting solution to the crisis in social care when he took office in July 2019 but a blueprint for future reforms is not now expected until next year.\n\nIn the meantime, ministers have pledged £1.5bn in additional funding each year as well as extra support to prepare care homes for a second wave of the virus, including free protective equipment for care workers, limiting the movement of staff between care homes and improved infection control measures.", "Dost is one of many Afghan interpreters who did not qualify for resettlement in the UK under the original scheme, but would now\n\nDozens more Afghan interpreters who worked with British forces in Afghanistan will be eligible to settle in the UK following a government decision to expand a relocation scheme.\n\nAbout 450 interpreters moved to the UK with their families under the original scheme, announced up in 2013.\n\nBut some of those who were ineligible said they were targeted by the Taliban.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said expanding the scheme was \"the honourable thing to do\".\n\nUnder the original scheme only those who had worked with the British on the frontline for a year or more, and were then made redundant, were eligible to apply.\n\nThis meant hundreds of Afghan interpreters who had worked for British forces in Helmand before they left in 2014 did not qualify for resettlement in the UK, leading to criticism from MPs and some former British military personnel.\n\nNow, following discussions between the defence and home secretaries, the government has announced an expansion of the resettlement scheme.\n\nIt means that Afghan interpreters who worked on the frontline with British troops for 18 months or more, between May 2006 and December 2014, but then resigned, will also be eligible to apply to resettle in the UK along with their families.\n\nMr Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the expansion of the relocation scheme on a joint visit at Stanford Military Training Area in Norfolk, where they saw British troops prepare for a deployment to Kabul working alongside former Afghan interpreters who are now living in the UK.\n\nMr Wallace described the rule change as a \"thank you\" to the interpreters for their loyal service.\n\nAbout 100 more Afghan former interpreters will be eligible to apply to resettle under the new rules.\n\nMs Patel said: \"It's right that we do right by them, the very people that have served alongside our forces in one of the most hostile and difficult places in the world.\"\n\nAfghan interpreters worked with the Army on the frontline in Helmand Province\n\nMr Wallace and Ms Patel met Dost, a former Afghan interpreter taking part in the training who had already claimed asylum in the UK.\n\nDost did not qualify under the initial scheme. He had worked in Helmand as an interpreter for several years but says he had to resign when he received threats from the Taliban.\n\nOne of his colleagues had also been kidnapped and killed.\n\nIn 2010, he made his own way to the UK, via Turkey and France, to claim asylum. But under the new rules he would now be eligible to apply to resettle in the UK.\n\nHe said he was \"very happy\" that the relocation scheme was being expanded, but added he was still worried about the safety of those left behind.\n\nThe expanded relocation scheme still excludes dozens of Afghans who worked for British forces.\n\nAli* is one of many Afghan interpreters who is still ineligible for resettlement in the UK, even with the rule change\n\nAny interpreter who fled to a third country will not be eligible to apply. Those who worked for British forces for less than 18 months will also not qualify.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to one Afghan interpreter who worked for the Army in Helmand for seven months in 2010.\n\nWe have given him an alias to protect his identity.\n\n\"Ali\" is now living in Kabul. He moved there with the help of the British embassy after he received threats from the Taliban.\n\nHe says the Taliban and the Islamic State group make no distinction as to how long you worked for western military forces like the British. He says they \"will kill you because you have worked for the infidel\".\n\nAli* has received threats from the Taliban since working for the British\n\nThe risk, Ali says, is the same for anyone who worked for the coalition, no matter how long.\n\nBritain does have a separate scheme for those who have suffered \"intimidation\", which in theory allows Afghan interpreters to be resettled in the UK.\n\nBut while a number of former interpreters, like Ali, have been relocated within Afghanistan, none has yet been moved to the UK under the intimidation scheme.\n\nMr Wallace and Ms Patel insist that door is not closed. They say each individual will still be assessed on a case by case basis.\n\nWhile former interpreters like Ali welcome the expansion of the resettlement scheme, they still fear for the future.\n\nThere are hopes for the peace talks now taking place with the Taliban. But those talks have also seen hundreds of Taliban fighters released from prison.\n\nFor Ali and his family, the threat has not gone away.", "A British businessman, formerly of MI6, is under investigation for allegedly selling information to undercover spies from China, a Whitehall official says.\n\nFraser Cameron, who runs the EU-Asia Centre think tank, is suspected of passing sensitive information about the EU to two spies allegedly posing as Brussels-based journalists.\n\nHe is alleged to have exchanged the information for thousands of Euros.\n\nBut Mr Cameron told The Times the allegations were \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe businessman, who worked for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service from 1976 to 1991, says he has no access to any \"secret or confidential information\".\n\nMr Cameron, who has also worked for the Foreign Office and European Commission, told Politico that the allegations \"are without foundation\", saying he has \"a wide range of Chinese contacts as part of my duties with the EU-Asia Centre and some of them may have a double function\".\n\nA senior Whitehall official, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the investigation had been a long-running joint inquiry between British and Belgian intelligence and claimed that a breakthrough had come in recent months.\n\nHe said this was a great example of how closely British intelligence worked with its European partners.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says there have been growing fears about the extent of covert Chinese intelligence-gathering in Europe, including over sensitive negotiations between the EU and Britain over Brexit.\n\nBelgium's state security service is quoted by the Financial Times as saying Mr Cameron's alleged actions posed \"a clear threat towards the European institutions\" based in the Belgian capital.\n\nThe investigation is reportedly being run by Belgium's federal prosecutors.", "US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spoken exclusively to the BBC's Razia Iqbal about the impeachment trial Donald Trump is expected to face in the US Senate.\n\nAt an awards ceremony held at the New York Public Library, the leading liberal judge on America's highest court, was asked if senators should remain impartial ahead of hearings where they will be the jurors.\n\nJustice Ginsburg, 86, was awarded the Berggruen Prize for philosophy and culture. The $1 million prize is awarded annually to someone whose ideas \"have profoundly shaped human understanding and advancement\" (she's donating the money to charity).\n\n\"Dissenting Opinion - an interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg\" will be broadcast on BBC World News on Friday 20 December at 23:30 GMT (not in North America & Latin America); on Saturday 21 Dec at 05:30 and 10:30; and on Sunday 22 Dec at 11:30, 16:30, 22:30.\n\nYou can also listen to the full interview on BBC World Service Radio over the weekend.", "The letter was intercepted by law enforcement before it reached the White House, officials said\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of sending a package containing ricin poison to US President Donald Trump, according to US immigration officials.\n\nThe unnamed woman was found at a border crossing in Buffalo, New York, as she tried to enter the US from Canada, and was reportedly carrying a gun.\n\nThe letter containing the deadly poison is believed to have come from Canada, according to investigators there.\n\nThe letter was discovered last week before it could reach the White House.\n\nRicin, a poison found naturally in castor beans, has been used in other attempted attacks against the White House in recent years.\n\nThe Trump administration is yet to comment on the reports.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service are investigating the package, which was discovered at a processing facility for mail sent to the White House.\n\n\"At this time, there is no known threat to public safety,\" the FBI told CNN on Saturday.\n\nThe suspect may have also sent ricin to five addresses in Texas, including a jail and a sheriff's office, according to police.\n\nThe presence of ricin was confirmed after several tests by the FBI, authorities said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Saturday it was working with the FBI to investigate the \"suspicious letter sent to the White House\".\n\nA spokesman for the Mission, Texas, police department told the Associated Press on Monday an envelope was in the care of local officials and no one had been hurt.\n\nAnother Texas Sheriff, Eddie Guerra in Hidalgo County, also confirmed envelopes with ricin were posted to staff there, but reported no injuries.\n\nThe RCMP division in Quebec is leading a search of a residence in the Montreal suburb of St-Hubert, which authorities said on Monday is linked to the suspect.\n\nTheir chemicals and explosives team is on site, along with local police and fire units.\n\nThe suspect is due to appear in court on Tuesday in Buffalo.\n\nRicin is a lethal substance that, if swallowed, inhaled or injected, can cause nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding and ultimately organ failure.\n\nNo known antidote exists for ricin. If a person is exposed to ricin, death can take place within 36 to 72 hours, depending on the dose received, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nCastor seeds, which are used to make the deadly ricin poison\n\nThe CDC said the poison - which has been used in terror plots - can be manufactured into a weapon in the form of a powder, mist or pellet.\n\nThe White House and other federal buildings have been the target of ricin packages in the past.\n\nIn 2014, a Mississippi man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending letters dusted with ricin to former President Barack Obama and other officials.\n\nFour years later, in 2018, a former Navy veteran was charged with sending toxic letters to the Pentagon and White House.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham have re-signed Wales forward Gareth Bale from Spanish champions Real Madrid on a season-long loan.\n\nBale, 31, left Spurs for a then world record £85m in 2013 and went on to score more than 100 goals and win four Champions Leagues with Real.\n\n\"It's nice to be back. It's such a special club to me. It's where I made my name,\" said Bale.\n\n\"Hopefully, now I can get some match fitness, get under way and really help the team and, hopefully, win trophies.\"\n\nSpurs said Bale has signed for them with a knee injury sustained playing for Wales earlier this month and they \"anticipate that he will be match fit after October's international break\".\n\nThat would mean the forward missing their next five games, with the club's first outing following the international break at home to West Ham on 17 October.\n\nBale originally joined Tottenham as a 17-year-old from Southampton in 2007 for an initial payment of £5m.\n\n\"I always thought when I did leave that I would love to come back,\" he added.\n\n\"I feel like it is a good fit. It's a good time for me. I'm hungry and motivated. I want to do well for the team and can't wait to get started.\"\n\nAt Real, Bale has also won two La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey, three Uefa Super Cups and three Club World Cups.\n\n\"I think by going to Madrid, winning trophies and going far with the national team I feel like I have that kind of winning mentality, how to win trophies,\" he said.\n\n\"You don't realise it until you're there and in those situations, in finals, how to kind of deal with the situation, the nerves, the pressure, and I think that all goes with experience.\n\n\"Hopefully I can bring that to the dressing room, bring a bit more belief to everybody that we can win a trophy, and the target is to do that this season, to be fighting on every front possible. I want to bring that mentality here, back to Tottenham.\"\n\nBale remains the most expensive British player in history, as well as the top-scoring British player in La Liga - with 80 goals and 40 assists in 171 league appearances, averaging a goal or assist every 104 minutes.\n\nHowever, a run of injuries, indifferent form and a deteriorating relationship with manager Zinedine Zidane had seen Bale become a marginal figure.\n• None The Premier League stars who have returned to former clubs\n\nFrom the world's most expensive signing to a player on the fringes\n\nReal eclipsed the £80m they paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 to take Bale to the Bernabeu, with the forward signing an initial £300,000-a-week, six-year contract.\n\nHe extended his stay with a new six-year deal in 2016, reported to be worth £600,000 a week - and £150m over its duration - in salaries and bonuses.\n\nThe Welshman was hugely successful in his first few seasons at Real, scoring in the 2014 and 2018 Champions League finals, as well as the 2014 Copa del Rey final.\n\nBBC Sport readers voted Bale as the best British export of the Premier League era earlier this year, his 42% share comfortably eclipsing former England, Manchester United and Real Madrid winger David Beckham's 29%.\n\nBut, frustrated by a lack of playing time, Bale came close to a move to China last year before Real blocked it.\n\nAfter celebrating Wales' qualification for Euro 2020 with a banner reading \"Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that Order\" in November, he received a backlash in Spain and was jeered by Real fans in his first game back for the club.\n\nHis relationship with Zidane deteriorated to the extent Bale asked not to travel with the squad for the Champions League last-16 second-leg tie against Manchester City in August because he knew he had no chance of being involved.\n\nHe started just one match when the 2019-20 La Liga season resumed following the coronavirus shutdown and played only 100 minutes as Real won a first league title since 2017, and was conspicuously on the fringes of the team's celebrations.\n\nBale joins manager Jose Mourinho's other signings of this transfer window, joining goalkeeper Joe Hart, defender Matt Doherty, midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and left-back Sergio Reguilon at the club.\n\nTottenham, Champions League finalists in 2019, were beaten 1-0 at home by Everton in their first match of the 2020-21 campaign on Sunday.\n\nThey finished sixth in the English top flight last season to qualify for the Europa League, seven points adrift of Chelsea in the final Champions League position.\n\nMourinho, beginning his first full campaign with Spurs after succeeding Mauricio Pochettino in December, tried to sign Bale when Real Madrid boss but the player arrived the season after the Portuguese's departure.\n• None All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur's Amazon documentary reviewed\n\nOpposition will be scared of Bale 'wow' factor - analysis\n\nGareth Bale has that \"wow\" factor, something only a few very special players in the world have got.\n\nWhen they play, they have a different aura and a presence on the pitch that affects everyone - even before they kick a ball.\n\nSo, Bale will not just have a positive effect on his new Tottenham team-mates and give them a massive confidence boost, he will change the way opposition players feel about facing Spurs.\n\nThey will be worried when they see his name on the teamsheet and then, when they face him on the pitch, I can tell you now they will drop off five yards because they will be scared of him - whoever they are.\n\nMore on the deal\n\nThe indications are that Tottenham will pay 40% of Bale's salary, which is in excess of £600,000 a week.\n\nThis figure may involve bonuses, so the actual payment may be less than £260,000 a week, but it will still place Bale above even Harry Kane, who signed a £200,000-a-week deal in 2018.\n\nHowever, coming less than six months after chairman Daniel Levy put staff on furlough, and less than four months after Tottenham took out a £175m loan from the Bank of England - which it expressly says will not be used to buy players and is more likely to help pay loans for their £1bn stadium - it still raises questions about the deal.\n\nAn astute operator with a keen business brain, Levy can presumably justify the move on two grounds.\n\nFirst, the impact Bale could have on Mourinho's squad, leading to success on the field and therefore more money off it. Secondly, Bale is a global star and will have a major commercial impact.\n\nBale's arrival puts question marks over the short-term futures of two midfielders: Dele Alli, replaced at half-time during Sunday's home defeat by Everton, and Tanguy Ndombele, a £63m club record signing last summer.\n• None In 146 Premier League games for Tottenham Bale scored 42 times. In his last season at Tottenham in 2012-2013, Bale was involved in 37 goals in all competitions for the club (26 goals, 11 assists) - only Robin van Persie (39) and Juan Mata (49) were involved in more for a Premier League club that season.\n• Nine came outside the box ; the most by any player in a single season in the competition's history.\n• None Bale is one of four Premier League players to win the PFA Players' Player of the Year on two occasions, after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. He was also only the second Premier League player (along with Ronaldo) to win both this award alongside the Young Player of the Year award in the same season.\n• None Bale is one of seven players to score at least twice in a single Champions League final, and the only British player to do so.\n• None Since he joined Madrid in the summer of 2013, only Ronaldo (318) and Karim Benzema (235) have been involved in more competitive goals\n• None Over the past three seasons, Gareth Bale has seen his attempted dribbles drop to three or less per 90 minutes, compared to a high of 6.2 when at Tottenham and 5.8 in his first season at Real Madrid.\n\nHow is Bale's departure viewed in Madrid?\n\nThe view in Madrid is... finally, he's gone.\n\nWhether it's fair or not (and the man himself appears to be way past caring), that will be the immediate reaction of most Real Madrid fans to the news of Gareth Bale's departure.\n\nIn their minds, Bale's undeniably significant role in an impressive haul of silverware - including some genuinely sensational moments of match-winning brilliance - has been overshadowed by his startling lack of contribution in the past two years, during which time his attitude towards the club veered between disinterested apathy and hostile mockery.\n\nIn time, the acrimony of his past couple of years will be forgotten and a more generous perception will emerge, and it is already widely acknowledged that Bale was an undoubted success during his first five years in Spain.\n\nBut it can't be denied that he became an expensive burden by the end, and few fans will be sorry to see him leave.\n\nMost expensive transfers of all time\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "Visiting has been suspended at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, among others\n\nHospital visits have been suspended due to concern over rising cases of coronavirus in parts of south Wales.\n\nPeople will only be allowed to visit a patient receiving end-of-life care, or to support a pregnant woman due to give birth at hospitals in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT).\n\nVisits to care homes have also been stopped, Bridgend council said.\n\nRCT is currently subject to increased lockdown restrictions and there is increasing concern about nearby areas.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it had suspended visits to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil and the Royal Glamorgan in Llantristant, as well as other units to \"protect\" patients and staff.\n\nIt said Covid-19 cases across its region were \"continuing to rise and are a real cause for concern\".\n\nFigures from Public Health Wales on Saturday showed Merthyr has 96.1 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 with 88.7 in RCT and 38.8 in Bridgend.\n\nThe average for Wales is 25.5 cases per 100,000.\n\nBridgend council said it and other authorities had suspended visits to care homes.\n\n\"The changes will mean that until further notice, friends and family members will no longer be able to see their loved ones in either outdoor visits or indoor visits,\" it said, in a statement.\n\n\"Virtual and online visits will be encouraged, and allowances will be made in circumstances where residents are nearing the end of their lives and with appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements in place.\"", "Restaurants in Dublin will only be allowed to serve food outside to a maximum of 14 customers\n\nTighter Covid-19 restrictions have come into force in Dublin in an effort to stem rising levels of the virus.\n\nThe new rules came into force in the city and surrounding county at midnight on Friday.\n\nFor the next three weeks, people will be discouraged from leaving the city and county unless for essential reasons.\n\nThey are being asked to work from home where possible and only to make essential journeys on public transport.\n\nIn Dublin city visitors to private homes and gardens should be limited to a maximum number of six from one other household.\n\nThere are to be no organised indoor gatherings and outdoor gatherings are to be up to a maximum of 15.\n\nRestaurants and pubs that had been serving food will only be allowed to cater outdoors, to a maximum of 14 people, or provide a take-away service.\n\nPubs in the rest of the Republic, regardless of whether they serve food, will be allowed to open on Monday.\n\nOnly elite sporting fixtures are being allowed to take place. Sports training can continue but only outdoors and in pods of up to 15 while gym classes have been suspended.\n\nFuneral attendances are capped at 25 and the same cap will be introduced for weddings from Monday.\n\nThe new rules are based on recommendations from public health officials at the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).\n\nThe city and county is being moved from level two to level three of the country's five-level alert system. The government decides when to move between levels based on advice from the NPHET.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin said that without action there was a real threat Dublin could return to the worst days of the crisis.\n\n\"I know the restrictions will make many people angry but we have very clear advice that they will save lives,\" said Mr Martin.\n\nThree further deaths and 253 new Covid-19 cases were confirmed on Friday - 116 of them were in Dublin.\n\nIt brings the total number of coronavirus deaths to 1,792 in the country.\n\nPlacing Dublin at level three has the following implications for those living or working in Dublin:", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Dominic Raab's bodyguard has been \"removed from operational duties\" after allegedly leaving his gun on a plane at Heathrow.\n\nA cleaner is reported to have found the loaded Glock 19 pistol in its holster on a seat on the United Airlines flight after it landed in London on Friday.\n\nThe foreign secretary had been in Washington DC to speak to US politicians about Brexit.\n\nScotland Yard said an internal investigation was taking place.\n\nThe cleaner raised the alarm after finding the weapon, the Sun reported, and police boarded the plane - before realising the gun belonged to one of Mr Raab's close protection officers.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said: \"We are aware of the incident on a flight into the UK on Friday 18 September and we are taking this matter extremely seriously.\n\n\"The officer involved has since been removed from operational duties whilst an internal investigation into the circumstances is taking place.\"\n\nThe Sun reported that the officer took off his holster and put it on his seat before escorting the foreign secretary off the flight - leaving it behind.\n\nFormer Met chief superintendent Nick Aldworth told the BBC there were strict rules about the handling of firearms, but that human error does happen.\n\n\"This sort of thing is not common, but it does happen,\" he told the Today programme. \"It happens because human beings are in the system and human beings operate under an enormous amount of stress sometimes, particularly when they are managing armed operations or in the middle of an armed operation.\n\n\"This appears to be an unfortunate lapse in concentration for which the officer will pay a price in their career, in as much as they have been removed from operational duties, which is something they probably love doing, and sadly for them, will no longer be able to do.\"\n\nHe added that the Met takes such matters \"incredibly seriously\".\n\nIn February, a bodyguard for former prime minister David Cameron was investigated for reportedly leaving his gun in a plane toilet.\n\nIn that incident, the gun was found by a passenger on a British Airways flight from New York to London. Mr Cameron is entitled to continued security provided by the Metropolitan Police as a former prime minister.", "Actor Danny Masterson was arraigned on three rape charges at a court in Los Angeles\n\nActor Danny Masterson, best known for his role in the hit series That '70s Show, has appeared in court accused of raping three women in the early 2000s.\n\nHe is charged with raping the women, who were all in their 20s, between 2001 and 2003.\n\nMr Masterson, 44, denies the charges and has argued he was being persecuted for his high-profile membership of the Church of Scientology.\n\nIf convicted, the actor could face up to 45 years in prison.\n\nFree on $3.3m (£2.5m) bail since his arrest in mid-June, Mr Masterson made his first court appearance over the allegations in Los Angeles on Friday.\n\nWhile the actor did not enter a plea, his lawyer, Tom Mesereau, mounted a vigorous defence of his client, dismissing the charges against him as politically motivated.\n\nThe lawyer accused Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey of filing the charges for political gain ahead of a bid to retain her post in a November election.\n\n\"There have been repeated attempts to politicise this case,\" said Mr Mesereau, who also defended Michael Jackson against sexual misconduct allegations in a previous case. \"He is absolutely not guilty and we're going to prove it.\"\n\nMs Lacey is yet to comment, but Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller dismissed Mr Mesereau allegations as \"false\" and \"pure speculation, with no basis in fact\".\n\nActor Danny Masterson, pictured in 2017, has denied the allegations against him\n\nFriday's court hearing was attended by all three of Mr Masterson's accusers, while about 20 of the actor's supporters stood outside the courtroom, unable to enter due to coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Masterson first came to light in 2017, when the #MeToo movement that inspired women to go public with misconduct allegations was gathering momentum.\n\nMr Masterson was removed from The Ranch - the Netflix comedy in which he starred - over the allegations.\n\nAt the time, Mr Masterson denied the \"outrageous allegations\" and vowed to clear his name \"once and for all\".\n\n\"Obviously, Mr Masterson and his wife are in complete shock considering that these nearly 20-year-old allegations are suddenly resulting in charges being filed, but they and their family are comforted knowing that ultimately the truth will come out,\" his lawyer Mr Mesereau said in a statement.\n\nThe charges came after a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. Prosecutors did not file charges in two other cases due to insufficient evidence and the statute of limitations expiring.\n\nMr Masterson has been married to the actor and model Bijou Phillips since 2011.\n\nThat '70s Show - which also starred Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis - ran from 1998 to 2006, gaining huge international success.", "Test centres in Bolton have seen long queues as people try to get tested\n\nMore than 100 people turned up at an A&E asking for Covid-19 tests, sparking a plea from a hospital trust for anyone who was not seriously ill to stay away.\n\nBolton NHS Trust said dozens of people went to Royal Bolton Hospital because they could not get into test centres.\n\nThe trust says it shows NHS Test and Trace is \"failing\" but the government insists it is \"working\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said police and firefighters could soon be used as contact tracers.\n\nIt would provide more \"rigour\" to the national system, he said.\n\nBolton had the highest infection rate in England with 204 cases per 100,000 people recorded in the week to 13 September.\n\nThe total number of cases rose from 437 up until 6 September to 587 a week later.\n\nThe government said people who were not eligible were requesting tests\n\nThe trust's medical director Dr Francis Andrews, said people should only go to hospital if they were \"extremely unwell or referred by your GP\".\n\n\"We are extremely busy in our emergency department as a result of this increase,\" he said.\n\n\"Only attend this department if you have experienced a life-threatening accident or illness and need urgent medical attention.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan made a similar plea to stay away from A&E.\n\n\"We are receiving a high volume of patients coming to A&E requesting a COVID-19 test,\" it said in a post on its Facebook page.\n\nAnd Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool has urged parents not to bring children to its emergency department for a Covid-19 test after a \"big increase\" in people asking for tests there.\n\nBolton NHS Trust Chairwoman Prof Donna Hall said the government's approach was \"failing\".\n\nProf Hall said the situation now was different to the one in March when they had extra staff drafted in and were not expected to continue with planned operations.\n\n\"This failure of the test-and-trace system is placing huge pressure on the NHS and social care,\" she said.\n\n\"We had 100 people in our accident and emergency unit.\n\n\"We've now got 30 people who are Covid-positive and we've got five people in our high-dependency unit so this virus is not going away.\n\nShe said she felt there had been a lack of a cohesive strategy for both the containment of the virus and for the test and trace system.\n\nLancashire's director of public health said the system was at \"breaking point\" and was \"compromising our ability to stop the transmission\".\n\nTeacher Simon Foster says the testing system was an \"absolute mess\"\n\nTeacher Simon Foster said he developed a cough overnight and, because of his job teaching children with special needs - many of whom have diabetes - he needs to be tested .\n\n\"I have tried all day to book an appointment and I still don't have one,\" he said. \"It's an absolute mess.\"\n\n\"It keeps saying there was nothing available [and] there were no tests they could send by post either.\"\n\n\"I hope it is just a cough.... I can't go back to work until I get tested.\"\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi said it was \"beyond frustrating\", adding: \"The issue is lab capacity.\n\n\"We have our own community testing sites and were doing about 200 tests a day - [on Tuesday] we did 1,639 tests. We can't go on like this.\"\n\nBolton Council said a test centre had been due to open on Saturday at the Last Drop Village Hotel, in response to the growing number of cases, but was delayed when \"an external business\" failed to turn up.\n\nA spokesman said although the delay had been \"out of our hands\", the authority was \"working with the government and their partners to find out what has happened\".\n\nMr Burnham said 46% of named contacts were not being traced in Greater Manchester.\n\nHe said 100 police community support officers (PCSOs) and 100 fire officers would set up a unit to help contact people not being reached.\n\n\"It can't be the case going forwards that we fail to fix test, trace and isolate and just introduce blanket restrictions. I don't think people will accept that,\" he said.\n\n\"We think more rigour in contact tracing, quality contact with people and support to self isolate would help improve the system.\"\n\nPowers to bring in \"targeted\" restrictions, like changing a specific pub or supermarket's opening hours, were also being sought, Deputy Mayor Bev Hughes added.\n\nSteve Rumbelow, the chief executive at nearby Rochdale Council, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service there had been a \"noticeable change\" in people's behaviour across Greater Manchester and the testing system was in \"meltdown\".\n\nHe said it was \"largely\" because people were unable to get tested.\n\n\"It's not massive numbers, I don't want to over-egg it, but [it] indicates that people are starting to get concerned,\" he said.\n\n\"Test and trace is pretty much in meltdown.\n\n\"It's a major concern, and the way tests are being rationed is just not sustainable for containing the virus effectively going forward.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said NHS Test and Trace was \"working\", adding the system was \"processing a million tests a week, but we are seeing significant demand for tests, including from people who do not have symptoms and are not otherwise eligible\".\n\nHe said anyone with an appointment would not be turned away, and new booking slots and home testing kits were being made available daily.\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\nAre you in Bolton? Have you tried to get tested? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman fell from the car between Clacket Lane Services and Junction 6 of the M25\n\nA woman fell out of a moving car on the M25 while leaning out of the window to film a video for Snapchat.\n\nShe fell from the car into a \"live lane\" between junction six and the Clacket Lane Services at 01:30 BST, Surrey Police traffic officers tweeted.\n\nThe woman was not badly hurt but police said it was lucky \"she wasn't seriously injured or killed\".\n\nShe was treated at the scene by paramedics. No arrests have been made, police added.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, the Roads Policing Unit said: \"The front seat passenger was hanging out the car whilst filming a Snapchat video along the M25. She then fell out the car and into a live lane.\n\n\"It is only by luck she wasn't seriously injured or killed. #nowords\"\n\nSurrey officers tweeted the woman involved was lucky not to have been killed or injured\n\nA force spokesman said: \"Officers were called to the M25 between junction six and Clacket Lane Services shortly after 01:30 BST this morning following reports of a female falling out of a moving vehicle.\n\n\"The woman was treated by paramedics at the scene and her injuries were not life-threatening or life-changing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singapore is distributing tens of thousands of devices that can track who a person has interacted with.\n\nThe small bluetooth device is meant for those who do not own smartphones and cannot use a contact tracing app that was previously rolled out by the Singapore government.\n\nWhile there are some concerns over about data protection, authorities say the token helps vulnerable groups to feel safer when out and about.\n\nFor instance, the token helps elderly people keep a precise record of their whereabouts.", "British Airways told Lesley Anderson she had accepted vouchers even after she submitted this screenshot of its website\n\nA British Airways passenger was refused a refund for a cancelled flight even after she sent screenshots of the airline's website showing the option of a voucher was not mentioned.\n\nLesley Anderson says a voucher was issued \"automatically\" after she selected \"Cancel and refund flight\".\n\nShe is the latest person to accuse the airline of misleading its customers.\n\nBritish Airways has said there is \"no way\" that vouchers can be issued without customers requesting them.\n\nMs Anderson, from Irvine in Ayrshire, had been due to fly from Glasgow to London to celebrate her birthday, but disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic meant her flights were cancelled.\n\nAn email from BA included a link that took her to the \"Manage my booking\" section of its website, where she was presented with two main options: to rebook the cancelled flights \"free of charge\" or to get a \"full refund\" by cancelling the entire booking.\n\n\"I obviously chose the 'Cancel and refund flights' option,\" she says, \"which then took me to the British Airways webpage that said, 'Thanks for completing your travel voucher application.' I was a bit gobsmacked.\"\n\n\"I definitely did not fill in any information about my name, my flights. I did not click submit, nothing like that at all. It just took me straight to that page and it issued me automatically with a voucher.\"\n\nEven though Ms Anderson sent screenshots of the webpage showing that vouchers were not listed as an option and said she always wanted her money back, BA staff told her she had accepted vouchers and they could not be exchanged for cash.\n\nUnder EU law, when a flight is cancelled, passengers are entitled to their money back within seven days, although airlines can offer to rebook flights or issue vouchers for future travel, if that is what a customer prefers.\n\nIn Lesley's case, BA says that she filled in an application form and it is not possible for its online system to issue vouchers without that happening.\n\nBut numerous passengers have contacted Radio 4's consumer programme, You & Yours, with similar tales of receiving vouchers which they did not want.\n\nThe airline has said it will \"always provide a refund if a customer is eligible\".\n\n\"Since March, we have provided more than 2.1 million customers with cash refunds and more than 1.6 million with vouchers,\" BA said in a statement.\n\n\"Customers can request vouchers via our call centre, or by filling in details on an online vouchers form, and in each case, they are asked to confirm this before it is submitted.\"", "A care worker visits a client at home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, during the pandemic\n\nPeople visiting residents in care homes should be supervised at all times to ensure social distancing, according to a government winter plan for Covid-19.\n\nIt says visits must be limited and in \"areas of intervention\" they must be stopped altogether.\n\nSupport for care homes in the plan includes free personal protective equipment until next March.\n\nCouncils say the initiative is welcome, but there are significant gaps in funding.\n\nWriting to the heads of local authorities, Care Minister Helen Whately said \"now is the time to act\" to protect care homes.\n\nShe said visits are \"important for the wellbeing of residents and loved ones\" but that extra precautions are needed.\n\nThey include regular assessments by local authorities of whether visiting is safe in a particular area, with visits immediately halted in places listed as an \"area of intervention\", Public Health England's highest category of alert where local lockdown rules are imposed.\n\nIn every care home, visitors should be supervised \"at all times\" to ensure they keep to social distancing requirements and other infection control measures, the plan says.\n\nBefore the publication of the plan, Age UK said some people are \"dying of sadness\" in care homes because they have been cut off from loved ones for a prolonged period of time.\n\nCare homes in England were allowed to reopen again for family visits in July - as long as local authorities and public health teams said it was safe. A similar reopening of homes followed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynn hasn't seen her husband, who has dementia, for six weeks due to care home restrictions\n\nHowever, many homes have not yet fully reopened - either retaining strict rules over visitors or banning them completely.\n\nThe government has previously announced care homes would get £546m to try to reduce transmission of the virus as part of its winter plan.\n\nThe money will help to pay care workers their full wages when they are self-isolating, and ensures carers only work in one care home, reducing the spread of the virus.\n\nBBC social affairs correspondent Alison Holt said that for a sector still reeling from the high number of deaths, \"this plan is important\".\n\nProviding free PPE - such as masks - recognises the steep increase in the cost of supplies, she said.\n\nAnd a new role of chief nurse for social care, which will be created under the plan, \"should also provide a stronger national voice for the sector\".\n\nBut while welcoming the plan, some directors of council care services have said it does not address the need to pay care staff better.\n\nIt also does not provide the funding needed to meet the expected increase in demand, particularly for home care, over the winter, they added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How care home workers are trying to cope\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the government would do \"whatever is humanly possible\" to protect care homes \"so they are a place of sanctuary this winter\".\n\nMinisters have also promised to make people in care homes a priority for coronavirus tests - along with the NHS - amid ongoing issues with the UK's testing system.\n\nCoronavirus swept through UK care homes during the peak of the outbreak, with tens of thousands of deaths.\n\nAlmost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, Office for National Statistics figures published in July show. But only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the figures, there 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.", "US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the history-making jurist, feminist icon and national treasure, has died, aged 87.\n\nGinsburg became only the second woman ever to serve as a justice on the nation's highest court.\n\nShe struggled against blatant sexism throughout her career as she climbed to the pinnacle of her profession.\n\nA lifelong advocate of gender equality, she was fond of joking that there would be enough women on the nine-seat Supreme Court \"when there are nine\".\n\nShe did not let up in her twilight years, remaining a scathing dissenter on a conservative-tilting bench, even while her periodic health scares left liberal America on edge.\n\nDespite maintaining a modest public profile, like most top judges, Ginsburg inadvertently became not just a celebrity, but a pop-culture heroine.\n\nShe may have stood an impish 5ft, but Ginsburg will be remembered as a legal colossus.\n\nShe was born to Jewish immigrant parents in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City, in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression. Her mother, Celia Bader, died of cancer the day before Ginsburg left high school.\n\nShe attended Cornell University, where she met Martin \"Marty\" Ginsburg on a blind date, kindling a romance that spanned almost six decades until his death in 2010.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Meeting Marty was by far the most fortunate thing that ever happened to me,\" Ginsburg once said, adding that the man who would become her husband \"was the first boy I ever knew who cared that I had a brain\".\n\nThe couple married shortly after Ginsburg's graduation in 1954 and they had a daughter, Jane, the following year. While she was pregnant, Ginsburg was demoted in her job at a social security office - discrimination against pregnant women was still legal in the 1950s. The experience led her to conceal her second pregnancy before she gave birth to her son, James, in 1965.\n\nIn 1956, Ginsburg became one of nine women accepted to Harvard Law School, out of a class of about 500, where the dean famously asked that his female students tell him how they could justify taking the place of a man at his school.\n\nWhen Marty, also a Harvard Law alumnus, took a job as a tax lawyer in New York, Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School to complete her third and final year, becoming the first woman to work at both colleges' law reviews.\n\nDespite finishing top of her class, Ginsburg did not receive a single job offer after graduation.\n\n\"Not a law firm in the entire city of New York would employ me,\" she later said. \"I struck out on three grounds: I was Jewish, a woman and a mother.\"\n\nShe wound up on a project studying civil procedure in Sweden before becoming a professor at Rutgers Law School, where she taught some of the first classes on women and the law.\n\n\"The women's movement came alive at the end of the 60s,\" she said to NPR. \"There I was, a law school professor with time that I could devote to moving along this change.\"\n\nIn 1971, Ginsburg made her first successful argument before the Supreme Court, when she filed the lead brief in Reed v Reed, which examined whether men could be automatically preferred over women as estate executors.\n\n\"In very recent years, a new appreciation of women's place has been generated in the United States,\" the brief states. \"Activated by feminists of both sexes, courts and legislatures have begun to recognise the claim of women to full membership in the class 'persons' entitled to due process guarantees of life and liberty and the equal protection of the laws.\"\n\nThe court agreed with Ginsburg, marking the first time the Supreme Court had struck down a law because of gender-based discrimination.\n\nIn 1972, Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). That same year, Ginsburg became the first tenured female professor at Columbia Law School.\n\nShe was soon the ACLU's general counsel, launching a series of gender-discrimination cases. Six of these brought her before the Supreme Court, five of which she won.\n\nShe compared her role to that of a \"kindergarten teacher\", explaining gender discrimination to the all-male justices.\n\nHer approach was cautious and highly strategic. She favoured incrementalism, thinking it wise to dismantle sexist laws and policies one by one, rather than run the risk of asking the Supreme Court to outlaw all rules that treat men and women unequally.\n\nCognisant of her exclusively male audience on the court, Ginsburg's clients were often men. In 1975, she argued the case of a young widower who was denied benefits after his wife died in childbirth.\n\n\"His case was the perfect example of how gender-based discrimination hurts everyone,\" Ginsburg said.\n\nShe later said leading the legal side of the women's movement during this period - decades before joining the Supreme Court - counted as her greatest professional work.\n\n\"I had the good fortune to be alive in the 1960s, then, and continuing through the 1970s,\" she said. \"For the first time in history it became possible to urge before the courts successfully that equal justice under law requires all arms of government to regard women as persons equal in stature to men.\"\n\nIn 1980, Ginsburg was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia as part of President Jimmy Carter's efforts to diversify federal courts.\n\nThough Ginsburg was often portrayed as a liberal firebrand, her days on the appeals court were marked by moderation.\n\nShe earned a reputation as a centrist, voting with conservatives many times and against, for example, re-hearing the discrimination case of a sailor who said he had been discharged from the US Navy for being gay.\n\nGinsburg with Senators Daniel Moynihan (left) and Joe Biden in 1993\n\nShe was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton after a lengthy search process. Ginsburg was the second woman ever confirmed to that bench, following Sandra Day O'Connor, who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.\n\nAmong Ginsburg's most significant, early cases was United States v Virginia, which struck down the men-only admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute.\n\nWhile Virginia \"serves the state's sons, it makes no provision whatever for her daughters. That is not equal protection\", Ginsburg wrote for the court's majority. No law or policy should deny women \"full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.\"\n\nDuring her time on the bench, Justice Ginsburg moved noticeably to the left. She served as a counterbalance to the court itself, which, with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh by President Donald Trump, slanted in favour of conservative justices.\n\nHer dissents were forceful - occasionally biting - and Ginsburg did not shy away from criticising her colleagues' opinions.\n\nIn 2013, objecting to the court's decision to strike down a significant portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, Ginsburg wrote: \"The Court's opinion can hardly be described as an exemplar of restrained and moderate decision making.\"\n\nThe US Supreme Court justices pose for their official portrait in November 2018\n\nIn 2015, Ginsburg sided with the majority on two landmark cases - both massive victories for American progressives. She was one of six justices to uphold a crucial component of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. In the second, Obergefell v Hodges, she sided with the 5-4 majority, legalising same-sex marriage in all 50 states.\n\nAs Ginsburg's legal career soared, her personal life was anchored by marriage to Marty.\n\nTheir relationship reflected a gender parity that was ahead of its time. The couple shared the childcare and housework, and Marty did virtually all of the cooking.\n\n\"I learned very early on in our marriage that Ruth was a fairly terrible cook and, for lack of interest, unlikely to improve,\" he said in a 1996 speech.\n\nProfessionally, Marty was a relentless champion of his wife. Clinton officials said it was his tireless lobbying that brought Ginsburg's name to the shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees in 1993.\n\nHe reportedly told a friend that the most important thing he did in his own life \"is to enable Ruth to do what she has done\".\n\nAfter her confirmation, Ginsburg thanked Marty, \"who has been, since our teenage years, my best friend and biggest booster\".\n\nMarty Ginsburg holds the Bible for his wife as she is sworn in as Supreme Court Justice\n\nIn his final weeks, facing his own battle with cancer, Marty wrote a letter to his wife saying that other than parents and kids, \"you are the only person I have loved in my life.\n\n\"I have admired and loved you almost since the day we first met at Cornell.\"\n\nHe died in June 2010 after 56 years of marriage.\n\nThe next morning Ginsburg was on the bench at the Supreme Court to read an opinion on the final day of the term \"because [Marty] would have wanted it\", she later told the New Yorker magazine.\n\nGinsburg had five major run-ins with cancer herself.\n\nJustice O'Connor, who had breast cancer in the 1980s, was said to have suggested that Ginsburg schedule chemotherapy for Fridays so she could use the weekend to recover for oral arguments.\n\nIt worked: Ginsburg only missed oral arguments twice because of illness.\n\nGinsburg said she also followed the advice of opera singer Marilyn Horne, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2005.\n\n\"She said, 'I will live,'\" Ginsburg recalled to NPR. \"Not that, 'I hope I live', or, 'I want to live', but, 'I will live.'\"\n\nHer longevity brought immense relief to liberal America, which fretted that another vacancy on the court would allow its conservative majority to become even more ascendant during the Trump era.\n\nToward the end of her life, Ginsburg became a national icon. Due in part to her withering dissents, a young law student created a Tumblr account dedicated to Ginsburg called Notorious RBG - a nod to the late rapper The Notorious BIG.\n\nThe account introduced Ginsburg to a new generation of young feminists and propelled her to that rarest of distinctions for a judge: she became a cult figure.\n\nThe Notorious RBG was the subject of a documentary, an award-winning biopic and countless bestselling novels. She inspired Saturday Night Live skits and had her likeness plastered on mugs and T-shirts.\n\n\"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the Notorious RBG,\" she said. \"I am now 86 years old and yet people of all ages want to take their picture with me.\"\n\nEvery aspect of her life was dissected and mythologised, from her workout routine to her love of hair scrunchies.\n\nAsked by NPR in 2019 if she had any regrets given the challenges she had faced in life, Ginsburg's supreme self-belief shone through.\n\n\"I do think I was born under a very bright star,\" she replied.", "John Turner's tenure as prime minister is the second shortest in Canada's history\n\nFormer Canadian Prime Minister John Turner, who was in office for just 79 days and led his Liberal Party to a huge defeat in 1984, has died aged 91.\n\nA lawyer by training, he served as justice and then finance minister from 1968-1975. He resigned after arguments with party leader Pierre Trudeau.\n\nTurner resumed his legal work and nine years later won the party leadership.\n\nHe called an election and then presided over what observers say was one of the worst campaigns in Canadian history.\n\nHis gaffes combined with growing public fatigue with the Liberals, who had been in power for 20 of the previous 21 years, resulted in his party falling from 135 seats in the 282-member House of Commons to just 40.\n\nThe Conservatives, under the leadership of Brian Mulroney, swept to power with 211 seats.\n\nDespite the result, Turner hung onto his post. In the 1988 election, Turner was a strong opponent of a proposed free trade agreement with the US but lost again to Mr Mulroney, but not as badly.\n\nHe resigned as a Liberal leader in 1990.\n\nAs justice minister, he defended reforms to Canada's Criminal Code that paved the way for LGBTQ rights and legal abortions. But in the finance ministry he faced economic pressures due to the global oil crisis.\n\nHis 79-day tenure as prime minister is the second shortest in the country's history.\n\nTurner died at home in Toronto on Friday night, Marc Kealey, a former aide speaking on behalf of his relatives told the Montreal Gazette. He is survived by his wife Geills and four children.", "The US has had nearly seven million confirmed Covid-19 cases\n\nUS health officials have rowed back on controversial advice issued last month that said people without Covid-19 symptoms should not get tested.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says anyone in close contact with a known infected person should take a test.\n\nFriday's \"clarification\" returns the CDC's stance on testing to its previous guidance, before the August alteration.\n\nReports said the controversial advice had not been given by scientists.\n\nSources quoted by the New York Times said it had been posted on the CDC website despite experts' objections.\n\nMost US states had then rejected the guidance, Reuters reported, in a stinging rebuke to the nation's top disease prevention agency.\n\nSome observers suggested the controversial move could have reflected a desire by President Donald Trump to reduce the growing tally of Covid-19 cases.\n\nAt a rally in June, Mr Trump told supporters he had urged officials to \"slow the testing down, please\". A White House official dismissed the remark as a joke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CDC director vs President Trump on face masks and vaccines\n\nHowever, administration officials denied any political motive, telling Reuters that the change reflected \"current evidence and best public health practices\".\n\nExperts welcomed the change of tack on Friday.\n\n\"The return to a science-based approach to testing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is good news for public health and for our united fight against this pandemic,\" said Thomas File, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.\n\nIn its \"overview of testing\" for healthcare workers the CDC now says: \"Due to the significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission, this guidance further reinforces the need to test asymptomatic persons, including close contacts of a person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection.\"\n\nIt advises people to take a test \"if you have been in close contact, such as within 6ft of a person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection for at least 15 minutes and do not have symptoms\".\n\nThe US has recorded nearly seven million cases of coronavirus, more than a fifth of the world's total. It has the world's highest death toll, with nearly 200,000 fatalities.", "Amal Clooney has quit her role as the UK's envoy on press freedom \"in dismay\" at the government's willingness to break international law over Brexit.\n\nThe human rights lawyer said it was \"lamentable\" for Boris Johnson to be contemplating overriding the Brexit agreement he signed last year.\n\nShe could not tell others to honour legal obligations when the UK \"declares it does not intend to do so itself\".\n\nThe PM says he does not want to use the powers in the Internal Market Bill.\n\nBut he says the legislation is necessary to give the government the power to protect the UK and, particularly, Northern Ireland if trade talks fail and the EU acts \"unreasonably\".\n\nIn her resignation letter, Mrs Clooney, who is married to Hollywood actor George Clooney, said she had accepted the job last year because of the UK's historic role in upholding the international legal order.\n\nBut she said the government's attempts to pass the Internal Market Bill, which passed its first hurdle in the Commons last week, made her position \"untenable\".\n\nShe said she had decided to quit after speaking to foreign secretary Dominic Raab and getting \"no assurance that any change of position is imminent\".\n\nShe added: \"It is lamentable for the UK to be speaking of its intention to violate an international treaty signed by the prime minister less than a year ago.\n\n\"It has become untenable for me, as Special Envoy, to urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so itself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says it was “the right decision\" for the “first-class lawyer” to stand down.\n\nMrs Clooney was appointed by Jeremy Hunt, Mr Raab's predecessor, during the final months of Theresa May's government and continued in the role after Boris Johnson took over in No 10.\n\nShe was the deputy chair of the high-level panel of legal experts which works with the UK and Canadian governments on their campaign to promote media freedom around the world.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who used to practice in the same barristers' chambers as Ms Clooney, said she had taken the right decision.\n\n\"I know Amal and she is a first class lawyer. I'm not surprised that she has quit because, like others, she's concluded that there is a conflict between a breach of international law - which the government seems intent on - and our reputation as a country in the world that abides by the rule of law,\" he said.\n\nHer resignation adds to a growing list of senior legal figures who have quit their roles in disquiet at the government's position.\n\nLord Keen resigned as Advocate General for Scotland on Wednesday, saying he found it \"increasingly difficult to reconcile\" his obligations as a lawyer with provisions in the legislation.\n\nThe government's most senior legal adviser - Sir Jonathan Jones, permanent secretary to the government legal department - had already resigned, as had the UK's envoy for the protection of religious freedoms, Tory MP Rehman Chishti.\n\nThe EU has demanded the government removes sections of the Bill which would give the UK the power to override agreements on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain and subsidies for NI companies.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted the powers, if they were ever used, would break the UK's treaty obligations under international law in a \"specific and limited\" way.\n\nThe prime minister has sought to quell a potential rebellion by Tory MPs next week by promising critics that the Commons will get a specific vote on the powers before the government can use them.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Lord Howard has said the PM needs to go further, saying it was a matter of principle and he doubted whether the Lords would back the bill as it stands.", "British Airways is among many airlines hit hard by the pandemic, with problems in the sector having a knock-on effect on other industries\n\nThe first ministers of the devolved nations have called for \"urgent\" UK government intervention to help the struggling aerospace sector.\n\nScotland's Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford of Wales and Arlene Foster from Northern Ireland have signed a joint letter.\n\nThey believe a taskforce should be launched to help the industry, which has been hit hard by coronavirus.\n\nThe UK government said the industry was a \"critical part\" of the UK economy.\n\nA spokesman said it continued to work closely with the sector to ensure it can rebuild as the civil aviation market recovers.\n\nThe letter is also signed by leaders of the Unite union which brought the politicians together for the initiative.\n\nUnite says tens of thousands of jobs in the sector and associated industries are on the \"brink of being lost forever\".\n\nIn May, MPs were told up to 8,000 jobs could go in the aerospace sector in Wales.\n\nScotland has also been hit hard with more than 1,200 jobs likely to go at companies such as Rolls Royce and GE Caledonian.\n\nIn Northern Ireland Bombardier, Collins Aerospace and Thompson Aero have announced plans to lay off more than 1,300 staff.\n\nThe political leaders said the creation of an aerospace taskforce \"would be a positive signal to the sector\".\n\nThey added such a move would show \"all our governments remain committed to working together in order to preserve this sector that is hugely important to the whole of the UK\".\n\nAnd they stressed the need to act quickly, warning: \"Urgent intervention is now required to preserve capability and avert further damaging losses.\"\n\nThe proposed taskforce would include \"active participation\" from the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as unions and companies working in the sector.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"As we approach the closure of the furlough scheme at the end of October, there is a real possibility of significant job losses across the UK.\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for the UK government to reconsider its position and to extend the scheme, especially for sectors that have been particularly hard-hit like aerospace.\"\n\nShe added \"sector-specific approaches\" were necessary to prevent a \"severe\" long term impact.\n\nThe Scottish government has already set up an aerospace response group to help the industry address the challenges posed by the pandemic.\n\nPat Rafferty, Scottish secretary of Unite, said: \"Tens of thousands of highly-skilled jobs and those supported by the aerospace sector in the supply-chain are on the brink of being lost forever.\n\n\"It's clear that many of the measures required to support the sector reside with the UK government, which is why we are collectively asking the prime minister to immediately establish a UK aerospace taskforce to co-ordinate support.\"\n\nHe added the situation in Scotland alone \"risks a £185 million blow to the economy\".\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The aviation and aerospace sector remains a critical part of the UK economy and we will continue to work closely with industry through the Aerospace Growth Partnership to ensure it can rebuild as the civil aviation market recovers.\n\n\"The UK government is supporting the aerospace and aviation sectors with over £8.5bn in grants, loans and export guarantees.\n\n\"Through major R&D investment of nearly £2bn to 2026, we are also developing new tech to make air travel safer and greener while creating new, well-paid green jobs for decades to come.\"", "For some of those sunning themselves in London's St James's Park on Saturday afternoon, discussions ongoing just yards away at Downing Street on the tightening of national restrictions in England are at once both \"worrying\" and \"inevitable\".\n\nCouples and friends meeting for picnics and catch-ups told BBC News conflicting and confusing advice on what they can and cannot do during the pandemic runs alongside a general feeling of resignation over the prospect of national measures being tightened.\n\nRuth and Chris Parker, from Wigan but on a week's holiday after working non-stop since March, think the difference between social distancing in the north and south of England has been \"stark\".\n\n\"We were queuing for a pub in Putney last night and we had to just leave it,\" Chris, 48, says.\n\n\"There was no social distancing at all,\" Ruth, 49, adds. \"We ended up in Wagamamas, which was pretty well organised.\"\n\nThe couple say they think there has been a change in attitudes in the North West since a marked rise in coronavirus cases led to tighter local restrictions.\n\nWigan is one of the few areas in Greater Manchester to see local restrictions on households and movement lifted.\n\n\"People are now taking it pretty seriously there,\" says Chris, who conducted much of his work as a church minister virtually during the first lockdown.\n\n\"We do seem a bit better at social distancing,\" Ruth, a former music teacher, adds.\n\nA second lockdown has them worried, but Chris believes \"if it has to happen, it has to happen\".\n\n\"I think a national two-week lockdown is coming but not quite the full lockdown we had.\"\n\nRuth and Chris Parker described a \"stark\" difference in social distancing between the north and south of England\n\n\"It's not ideal,\" is Tom Duncan's view as he enjoys a meal deal with his partner Aisha.\n\nThe 21-year-old finance workers say they do not want to see another full lockdown with just a few permitted reasons for leaving home.\n\n\"Closing pubs and bars early seems fine,\" Tom says, \"But not being unable to see anyone again.\"\n\n\"It's going to have to happen as people don't care - people don't see it as a threat,\" Aisha adds.\n\n\"You can see when people have had a drink they don't socially distance.\"\n\nThe pair say they are now able to go back to their offices if they book a slot - but working from home has its advantages.\n\nIt also means a second lockdown \"doesn't really affect us,\" Aisha says. \"There's pros and cons to it.\"\n\nFinance workers Tom and Aisha said closing pubs and bars seemed reasonable but not a return to full restrictions on daily life\n\nNicola Evans, 24, who works for an engineering firm, says a second lockdown might not be the worst thing if it helps protect vulnerable people.\n\n\"I feel like, why not? If it's keeping people safe,\" she says.\n\n\"It's the way it is. Though I'd rather be able to see people.\n\n\"I'm working from home so it doesn't really affect me - as long as I'm able to get out of the house during the day.\n\n\"I've not gone back to the office yet, it keeps being postponed.\"\n\nBut for her friend Emmelia Georgio, 24, from Cyprus, the prospect of a second lockdown would throw a spanner into the final year of her Masters in dance movement psychotherapy.\n\n\"This year is already going to be very different,\" she says of her studies.\n\n\"It's a mix of online and in-person learning now, but I worry what would happen in a second lockdown.\n\n\"If there is a second lockdown it's hard to see how it is managed.\"\n\n\"We still have to pay fees and rent - and you think, 'what's the point in paying' if a lockdown happens,\" she adds.\n\nEmmelia, left, said a second lockdown would heavily impact her studies but Nicola said it would be worth it to keep people safe\n\nThere is little doubt about what will happen next for Antonia Brown and Ioanna Gkoutna - a second lockdown is \"inevitable\".\n\nIoanna, 21, arrived a week ago from her native Greece to begin a Masters at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"Compared to home, nobody here is taking things seriously,\" she says. \"I was really surprised when I came here. You're in Tescos, say, and so many people are not wearing masks and nobody is challenging them. The staff are not wearing masks.\"\n\nIoanna - from a part of Greece not covered by quarantine rules - thinks enforcement is crucial to any future lockdown.\n\n\"In Greece there is lots of enforcement of the rules,\" she says. \"I myself phoned the police when a man refused to wear a mask at the beach - if I did that here, what would even happen?\"\n\nAntonia, 22, from London, says \"London needs to wake up\" to the coronavirus once more.\n\n\"We're now talking about locking down harder but they had the audacity to say 'get back to work'.\"\n\nIoanna, left, said she felt lockdown was better enforced in her native Greece and Antonia said London needed to \"wake up\"\n\n\"We're running before we can walk,\" she adds.\n\n\"They're telling us to get out and spend money, and now the rates are going back up.\"\n\n\"Unless they enforce it, it won't make a difference,\" Ioanna adds, \"I've been [in the UK] for a week and haven't seen the police once.\"\n\nJust as Ioanna finishes speaking, a police officer passes on a bicycle taking a keen interest in those gathered for picnics in the park.\n\n\"Well, he's here now I guess.\"", "As climate change becomes a focus of the US election, energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming. In June, Minnesota's Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, among others, for launching a \"campaign of deception\" which deliberately tried to undermine the science supporting global warming. So what's behind these claims? And what links them to how the tobacco industry tried to dismiss the harms of smoking decades earlier?\n\nTo understand what's happening today, we need to go back nearly 40 years.\n\nMarty Hoffert leaned closer to his computer screen. He couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. It was 1981, and he was working in an area of science considered niche.\n\n\"We were just a group of geeks with some great computers,\" he says now, recalling that moment.\n\nBut his findings were alarming.\n\n\"I created a model that showed the Earth would be warming very significantly. And the warming would introduce climatic changes that would be unprecedented in human history. That blew my mind.\"\n\nA climate change protester outside the New York State Supreme Court during the ExxonMobil trial in October, 2019\n\nMarty Hoffert was one of the first scientists to create a model which predicted the effects of man-made climate change. And he did so while working for Exxon, one of the world's largest oil companies, which would later merge with another, Mobil.\n\nAt the time Exxon was spending millions of dollars on ground-breaking research. It wanted to lead the charge as scientists grappled with the emerging understanding that the warming planet could cause the climate to change in ways that could make life pretty difficult for humans.\n\nHoffert shared his predictions with his managers, showing them what might happen if we continued burning fossil fuels in our cars, trucks and planes.\n\nBut he noticed a clash between Exxon's own findings, and public statements made by company bosses, such as the then chief executive Lee Raymond, who said that \"currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate\".\n\n\"They were saying things that were contradicting their own world-class research groups,\" said Hoffert.\n\nAngry, he left Exxon, and went on to become a leading academic in the field.\n\n\"What they did was immoral. They spread doubt about the dangers of climate change when their own researchers were confirming how serious a threat it was.\"\n\nSo what changed? The record-breaking hot summer of 1988 was key. Big news in America, it gave extra weight to warnings from Nasa scientist Dr Jim Hansen that \"the greenhouse effect has been detected, and is changing our climate now\".\n\nPolitical leaders took notice. Then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher acknowledged the great new global threat: \"The environmental challenge which confronts the whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world.\"\n\nIn 1989, Exxon's strategy chief Duane Levine drew up a confidential presentation for the company's board, one of thousands of documents in the company's archive which were later donated to The University of Texas at Austin.\n\nLevine's presentation is an important document, often cited by researchers investigating Exxon's record on climate change science.\n\n\"We're starting to hear the inevitable call for action,\" it said, which risked what it called \"irreversible and costly draconian steps\".\n\n\"More rational responses will require efforts to extend the science and increase emphasis on costs and political realities.\"\n\nHow they made us doubt everything investigates how some of the world's most powerful interests made us doubt the connection between smoking and cancer, and how the same tactics were used to make us doubt climate change.\n\nListen to the podcast from BBC Radio 4 here\n\nKert Davies has scoured through Exxon's archive. He used to work as a research director at the environmental pressure group Greenpeace, where he looked into corporate opposition to climate change. This inspired him to set up The Climate Investigations Centre. He explains why this Exxon presentation mattered:\n\n\"They are worried the public will take this on, and enact radical changes in the way we use energy and affect their business, that's the bottom line.\"\n\nHe says this fear can also be seen in another document from the archive that sets out the so-called \"Exxon position\", which was to \"emphasise the uncertainty\" regarding climate change.\n\nResearchers argue this was just the start of a decades-long campaign to shape public opinion and to spread doubt about climate change.\n\nIn June 2020, the General Attorney of Minnesota Keith Ellison sued ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and Koch Industries for misleading the public over climate change. The lawsuit claims that \"previously unknown internal documents confirm that the defendant well understood the devastating effects that their products would cause to the climate\".\n\nIt says that despite this knowledge, the industry \"engaged in a public-relations campaign that was not only false, but also highly effective,\" which served to \"deliberately [undermine] the science\" of climate change.\n\nThe accusations against Exxon and others - which the company has called \"baseless and without merit\" - build on years of painstaking research by people like Kert Davies and Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and co-author of Merchants of Doubt.\n\n\"Rather than accept the scientific evidence, they made the decision to fight the facts,\" she said.\n\nBut this isn't just about Exxon's past actions. In the same year as the Levine presentation, 1989, many energy companies and fossil fuel dependent industries came together to form the Global Climate Coalition, which aggressively lobbied US politicians and media.\n\nThen in 1991, the trade body that represents electrical companies in the US, the Edison Electric Institute, created a campaign called the Information Council for the Environment (ICE) which aimed to \"Reposition global warming as theory (not fact)\". Some details of the campaign were leaked to the New York Times.\n\n\"They ran advertising campaigns designed to undermine public support, cherry picking the data to say, 'Well if the world is warming up, why is Kentucky getting colder?' They asked rhetorical questions designed to create confusion, to create doubt,\" argued Naomi Oreskes.\n\nThe ICE campaign identified two groups which would be most susceptible to its messaging. The first was \"older, lesser educated males from larger households who are not typically information seekers\".\n\nThe second group was \"younger, low-income women,\" who could be targeted with bespoke adverts which would liken those who talked about climate change to a hysterical doom-saying cartoon chicken.\n\nThe Edison Electric Institute didn't respond to questions about ICE, but told the BBC that its members are \"leading a clean energy transformation, and are united in their commitment to get the energy they provide as clean as they can, as fast as they can\".\n\nBut back in the 1990 there were many campaigns like this.\n\n\"Unless 'climate change' becomes a non-issue,\" says another, leaked to the New York Times in 1997, \"there may be no moment when we can declare victory\".\n\nTo achieve victory, the industry planned to \"identify, recruit and train a team of five independent scientists to participate in media outreach\".\n\nThis important tactic assumed the public would be suspicious if oil industry executives dismissed climate change, but might trust the views of seemingly independent scientists.\n\nThese would be put forward to take part in debates on TV, potentially confusing a general audience who would see opposing scientists in white coats arguing about complex technical details without knowing who to believe.\n\nThe problem was, sometimes these \"white coats\" weren't truly independent. Some climate sceptic researchers were taking money from the oil industry.\n\nDrexel University emeritus professor Bob Brulle studied the funding for the climate change \"counter movement\". He identified 91 institutions which he says either denied or downplayed the risks of climate change, including the Cato Institute and the now-defunct George C Marshall Institute.\n\nHe found that between 2003 and 2007, ExxonMobil gave $7.2m (£5.6m) to such bodies, while between 2008 and 2010, the American Petroleum Institute trade body (API) donated just under $4m (£3m).\n\nIn its 2007 Corporate Citizenship Report, ExxonMobil said it would stop funding such groups in 2008.\n\nOf course many researchers would argue such money didn't influence their climate contrarian work. It seems some may have been motivated by something else.\n\nMost of the organisations opposing or denying climate change science were right-wing think tanks, who tended to be passionately anti-regulation.\n\nThese groups made convenient allies for the oil industry, as they would argue against action on climate change on ideological grounds.\n\nJerry Taylor spent 23 years with the Cato Institute - one of those right wing think tanks - latterly as vice president. Before he left in 2014, he would regularly appear on TV and radio, insisting that the science of climate change was uncertain and there was no need to act. Now, he realises his arguments were based on a misinterpretation of the science, and he regrets the impact he's had on the debate.\n\n\"For 25 years, climate sceptics like me made it a core matter of ideological identity that if you believe in climate change, then you are by definition a socialist. That is what climate sceptics have done.\"\n\nThe BBC asked the Cato Institute about its work on climate change, but it did not respond.\n\nThis ideological divide has had far-reaching consequences. Polls conducted in May 2020 showed that just 22% of Americans who vote Republican believed climate change is man-made, compared with 72% of Democrats.\n\nUnfortunately many of the \"expert scientists\" quoted by journalists to try to offer balance in their coverage of climate change were - like Jerry Taylor - making arguments based on their beliefs rather than relevant research.\n\n\"Usually these people have some scientific credentials, but they're not actually experts in climate science,\" says Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes.\n\nShe began digging into the background of leading climate sceptics, including Fred Seitz, a nuclear physicist and former president of the US National Academy of Sciences. She found he was deeply anti-communist, believing any government intervention in the marketplace \"would put us on the slippery slope to socialism\".\n\nShe also discovered that he had been active in the debates around smoking in the 1980s.\n\n\"That was a Eureka moment. We realised this was not a scientific debate. A person with expertise about climate change would in no way be an expert about oncology or public health or cardiovascular disease, or any of the key issues associated with tobacco.\n\n\"The fact that the same people were arguing in both cases was a clue that something fishy was going on. That's what led us to discover this pattern of disinformation that gets systemically used again and again.\"\n\nNaomi Oreskes spent years going through the tobacco archive at the University of California at San Francisco. It contains more than 14 million documents that were made available thanks to litigation against US tobacco firms.\n\nA strikingly familiar story emerged. Decades before the energy industry tried to undermine the case for climate change, tobacco companies had used the same techniques to challenge the emerging links between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s.\n\nThe story began at Christmas 1953. In New York's luxurious Plaza Hotel, the heads of the tobacco companies met to discuss a new threat to their business model.\n\nDetails of the night's anxious conversations were recorded in a document written by public relations guru John Hill from Hill and Knowlton.\n\nWidely read mass-market magazines like Readers Digest and Time Life had begun publishing articles about the association between smoking and lung cancer. And researchers like those who had found that lab mice painted with cigarette tar got cancer were attracting increasing attention.\n\nAs John Hill wrote in the 1953 document, \"salesmen in the industry are frantically alarmed, and the decline in tobacco stocks on the stock exchange market has caused grave concern\".\n\nHill recommended fighting science with science. \"We do not believe the industry should indulge in any flashy or spectacular ballyhoo. There is no public relations [medicine] known to us at least, which will cure the ills of the industry.\"\n\nAs a later document by tobacco company Brown and Williamson summarised the approach: \"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public.\"\n\nNaomi Oreskes says this understanding of the power of doubt is vital.\n\n\"They realise they can't win this battle by making a false claim that sooner or later would be exposed. But if they can create doubt, that would be sufficient - because if people are confused about the issue, there's a good chance they'll just keep smoking.\"\n\nHill advised setting up the \"Tobacco Industry Research Committee\" to promote \"the existence of weighty scientific views which hold there is no proof that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer\".\n\nAs in the climate change debate decades later, \"Project Whitecoat\" would pit scientist against scientist.\n\nAccording to Oreskes, the project targeted those who were already doing research into other causes of cancer or lung conditions - such as asbestos - which the tobacco industry could fund.\n\n\"The purpose of these programmes was not to advance scientific understanding, it was to create enough confusion that the American people would doubt the existing scientific evidence.\"\n\nJournalists were one of the tobacco industry's main targets. The Tobacco Industry Research Committee held meetings in its offices in the Empire State Building for major newspaper editors. It even persuaded one of the most famous broadcast journalists of the time, Edward R Murrow, to interview its experts.\n\nThe eventual edition of Murrow's celebrated television programme \"See It Now\" - broadcast in 1955 -shows Project Whitecoat in action, with tobacco industry funded scientists set against independent researchers.\n\nBut as would happen later with climate change, it was difficult for the audience at home to form an opinion when opposing scientists contradicted each other. Even Murrow ended up on the fence. \"We have no credentials for reaching conclusions on this subject,\" he said.\n\nIf doubt was the industry's true product, then it appeared to be a roaring success.\n\nFor decades, none of the legal challenges launched against the tobacco companies themselves succeeded.\n\nThis was partly due to the effectiveness of Project Whitecoat, as an internal memo from tobacco firm RJ Reynolds in May 1979 concludes: \"Due to favourable scientific testimony, no plaintiff has ever collected a penny from any tobacco company in lawsuits claiming that smoking causes lung cancer or cardiovascular illness - even though 117 such cases have been brought since 1954.\"\n\nBut pressure on the tobacco companies continued to mount. In 1997, the industry paid $350m (£272m) to settle a class action brought by flight attendants who had developed lung cancer and other illnesses which they argued were caused by second-hand cigarette smoke from passengers.\n\nThis settlement paved the way to a landmark ruling in 2006, when Judge Gladys Kessler found US tobacco companies guilty of fraudulently misrepresenting the health risks associated with smoking.\n\nJudge Kessler detailed how the industry \"marketed and sold their lethal products with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs\".\n\nFlight attendant Norma Broin was the lead plaintiff in the passive smoking class action after developing lung cancer, despite being a non-smoker\n\nThe tobacco companies may have eventually lost their battle to hide the harms of smoking, but the blueprint drawn up by John Hill and his colleagues proved to be very effective.\n\n\"What he wrote is the same memo we have seen in multiple industries subsequently,\" says David Michaels, professor of public health at George Washington University, and author of The Triumph of Doubt, which details how the pesticides, plastics and sugar industries have also used these tactics.\n\n\"We called it 'the tobacco playbook', because the tobacco industry was so successful.\n\n\"They made a product that killed millions of people across the world, and the science has been very strong [about that] for many years, but through this campaign to manufacture uncertainty, they were able to delay first, formal recognition of the terrible impact of tobacco, and then delay regulation and defeat litigation for decades, with obviously terrible consequences.\"\n\nWe asked Hill and Knowlton about its work for the tobacco companies, but it did not respond.\n\nIn a statement, ExxonMobil told the BBC that \"allegations about the company's climate research are inaccurate and deliberately misleading\".\n\n\"For more than 40 years, we have supported development of climate science in partnership with governments and academic institutions. That work continues today in an open and transparent way.\n\n\"Deliberately cherry-picked statements attributed to a small number of employees wrongly suggest definitive conclusions were reached decades ago.\"\n\nExxonMobil added that it recently won the court case brought by the New York Attorney General which had accused the company of fraudulently accounting for the costs of climate change regulation.\n\nBut academics like David Michaels fear the use of uncertainty in the past to confuse the public and undermine science has contributed to a dangerous erosion of trust in facts and experts across the globe today, far beyond climate science or the dangers of tobacco.\n\nHe cites public attitudes to modern issues like the safety of 5G, vaccinations - and coronavirus.\n\n\"By cynically manipulating and distorting scientific evidence, the manufacturers of doubt have seeded in much of the public a cynicism about science, making it far more difficult to convince people that science provides useful - in some cases, vitally important - information.\n\n\"There is no question that this distrust of science and scientists is making it more difficult to stem the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIt seems the legacy of \"the tobacco playbook\" lives on.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Hospitality curfews and travel curbs 'likely options'\n\nA further 350 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in Scotland, the highest daily increase since May.\n\nAccording to Scottish government figures, a further three people who tested positive for the virus have died.\n\nSixty four people were in hospital on Friday - nine in intensive care.\n\nThe figures bring the cumulative number of Covid-19 confirmed deaths in Scotland to 2,505 since the outbreak began.\n\nHowever going by monthly data from the National Records of Scotland, there have been 4,236 deaths where the virus is mentioned on a death certificate.\n\nGreater Glasgow and Clyde recorded 116 new cases, the highest increase among Scotland's health boards.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Jason Leitch told BBC Scotland that recent trends would trigger an examination of what the government restricts \"regionally and nationally\".\n\nHe said the nature of the spread of the virus meant \"the dashboard is flashing amber\" and that advice given to the Scottish government would now start to change.\n\n\"We're not in a position where national stay at home measures are the order of the day,\" he said.\"What we know is the principal risk is household mixing.\n\n\"Anything that restricts household mixing is attractive to the public health people.\n\n\"That gets you into hospitality territory, household gathering territory - all those things you've seen us think about previously particularly around the seven local authorities in the west that are under heavier restrictions.\"\n\nThe latest figures were announced after the first minister warned that tighter restrictions could be issued to combat a rise in cases.\n\nDaily Covid cases have steadily risen throughout September, however the 350 new cases show a marked jump compared with Friday's 203.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"greater restrictions\" might be needed to \"interrupt\" the spread of the virus, while preventing a full-scale lockdown.\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at Edinburgh University, told BBC Scotland: \"The priority for the Scottish government and most people is keeping the schools open, keeping education going.\n\n\"If we don't want to see many more people going into hospital, we are going to have to pause other parts of the economy.\"\n\nShe added: \"Closures will be a last resort - the more restrictive lockdowns - and things like curfews may be an intermediate step but i think it's almost inevitable.\n\n\"The other thing i would anticipate in terms of the ongoing restrictions in meeting in each other's homes is we may see travel restrictions applied within the country, because obviously we don't want one area with higher cases to affect a neighbouring area.\"\n\nRestrictions on people visiting other households were reintroduced in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire on 2 September after concerns about the number of cases.\n\nEarlier this week, the Scottish government paused the next set of changes to lockdown rules and toughened other measures.", "Pub curfews have come into force in Newcastle as part of new restrictions imposed in north-east England.\n\nAs part of the temporary measures, pubs and restaurants can only offer table service and have to shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nScott Jardine, who runs Classic Catering, said he had one customer in four hours on Friday night. He does not think the early closures will make a difference and said \"the virus doesn't die at 10 o'clock\".\n\nThe rules affect Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and the County Durham council area.", "A few hundred US troops remain in Syria's north-east\n\nThe US has ramped up its military presence in Syria after a number of skirmishes with Russian forces intensified tensions in the country.\n\nUS officials said six Bradley Fighting Vehicles and about 100 troops were part of the deployment to north-east Syria.\n\nIncidents between US and Russian forces that patrol that part of the country have escalated this year.\n\nUS Navy Captain Bill Urban said the move would \"ensure the safety and security of Coalition forces\".\n\nHe added that, alongside the fighting vehicles, which had been based in Kuwait, the US would also deploy a \"Sentinel radar\" and increase \"the frequency of US fighter patrols over US forces\".\n\n\"The United States does not seek conflict with any other nation in Syria, but will defend Coalition forces if necessary,\" Mr Urban, a spokesman for US Central Command, said in a statement on Friday.\n\nMr Urban did not mention Russia by name, but a separate statement from a US official, first reported by NBC News, was more pointed.\n\n\"These actions and reinforcements are a clear signal to Russia to adhere to mutual de-confliction processes and for Russia and other parties to avoid unprofessional, unsafe and provocative actions in north-east Syria,\" the unnamed US official said.\n\nNBC News cited officials as saying the troops and vehicles were sent to deter Russian forces from entering a security area, where US coalition and Kurdish forces were operating.\n\nOver the years, there have been frequent interactions between US and Russian forces in Syria. But in recent weeks, incidents in north-east Syria have become increasingly belligerent.\n\nAt the end of August, seven American soldiers were injured in a collision with a Russian vehicle. The Russian and US governments blamed each other for the collision, which was filmed and posted to Twitter.\n\nA clip of the incident was broadcast by Russian website Rusvesna.su\n\nThe US said Russian forces had entered a \"security zone\" that they had agreed to stay out of. Russia, meanwhile, said it had given the US military prior warning that it would be patrolling there.\n\nThe US has about 500 troops in the area - far fewer than previously - to help secure it against any further threat from Islamic State (IS) jihadists. The\n\nThe Russians back Syrian government forces while the Americans support local Kurdish fighters, part of a civil war that has convulsed the country since 2011.\n\nRussia, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, has long opposed the presence of the US military in the country.\n\nIn October 2019, US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw 1,000 US troops that were operating in support of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance.\n\nMonths later, Mr Trump said he had decided to keep a few hundred troops in the country to protect oil wells.", "Bolton is currently subject to tighter restrictions\n\nA returning holidaymaker who went on a pub crawl instead of self-isolating was partly responsible for Bolton's \"extreme spike\" in coronavirus cases, the town's council leader said.\n\nDavid Greenhalgh said the man tested positive for Covid-19 two days after the night out with friends in the town.\n\nHe said Bolton's high rate had been linked back to pubs and a \"cohort of people\" who refused to follow guidance.\n\nIt is currently subject to tighter restrictions to halt the rise.\n\nMr Greenhalgh told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the spike \"took us by surprise as we were arguing to have a further easing of restrictions at the time\".\n\nHe said: \"We had an extreme spike where we went from 12 cases per 100,000 and in less than three weeks we were up at 212 cases.\"\n\nThe rise led Bolton to have the highest rates of Covid-19 in the country.\n\n\"We had somebody who did not adhere to quarantine, did not stay the 14 days, literally went on a pub crawl with a number of mates,\" Mr Greenhalgh said.\n\n\"From that incident which took place over a weekend - (they) visited a number of premises - led to a large number of individual transmissions from that one person which you can imagine then is like holding back the tide because he then became symptomatic two days after they had all gone on this pub crawl.\n\n\"That is four or five days where all the people he was in contact with have been going about their normal day-to-day business.\"\n\nBolton is now subject to tougher measures than most of England, with hospitality venues only allowed to operate as takeaways and ordered to shut by 22:00.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Police say the shooting happened at an illegal house party (file photo)\n\nTwo people have been killed and 14 others wounded after a shooting at a house party in the state of New York.\n\nPolice in the city of Rochester said they arrived to find around 100 people running down the street.\n\n\"This is truly a tragedy of epic proportions,\" acting police chief Mark Simmons told reporters on Saturday.\n\nThe city's police have been under increasing pressure over the death of Daniel Prude, a black man who was hooded and restrained during an arrest.\n\nHe died in March, but the case only became public earlier this month. Rochester police chief La'Ron Singletary has since stepped down, saying that his handling of the case was being distorted. Seven officers have also been suspended.\n\nNo suspects have been arrested over Saturday's shooting and no motive has been identified.\n\nMr Simmons said the two victims, a man and a woman who have not been named, were aged between 18 and 22. None of the 14 others who were shot suffered life-threatening injuries.\n\nParties remain prohibited under New York state's coronavirus restrictions, according to Rochester city's website.\n\n\"This is yet another tragedy where individuals are having these illegal, unsanctioned house parties taking place in these properties, which number one is not safe because of Covid,\" said Mr Simmons.\n\n\"And then you add in alcohol and violence and it just becomes a recipe for disaster.\"\n\nRochester has seen regular protests over the death of Daniel Prude", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nTop seed Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the US Open for accidentally hitting a ball at a line judge in his fourth-round match.\n\nDjokovic, 33, showed his frustration after losing serve to trail 6-5 against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.\n\nThe Serbian world number one took a ball out of his pocket and hit it behind him, striking the female line judge in her throat.\n\nAfter a lengthy discussion, he was defaulted by tournament officials.\n• None 'Djokovic will win again - hopefully with a little more humility'\n• None 'Sad and empty' Djokovic 'extremely sorry' for hurting line judge\n• None Right decision to disqualify Djokovic, says Henman\n\nA United States Tennis Association statement said: \"In accordance with the Grand Slam rulebook, following his actions of intentionally hitting a ball dangerously or recklessly within the court or hitting a ball with negligent disregard of the consequences, the tournament referee defaulted Novak Djokovic from the 2020 US Open.\n\n\"Because he was defaulted, Djokovic will lose all ranking points earned at the US Open and will be fined the prize money won at the tournament in addition to any or all fines levied with respect to the offending incident.\"\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\nDjokovic was the heavy favourite to win the men's singles title at the US Open, which is being played behind closed doors and is the first Grand Slam to take place since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nGoing into the encounter with 20th seed Carreno Busta, Djokovic had not lost a singles match in 2020.\n\nHe was aiming for an 18th Grand Slam triumph to move closer to rivals Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, who are not playing in New York, in the race to finish with the most men's major titles of all time.\n\nDjokovic's exit means there will be a new male Grand Slam champion for the first time since Marin Cilic won at Flushing Meadows in 2014.\n\nA player outside of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal will win a major for the first time since Stan Wawrinka won the US Open in 2016.\n\nCarreno Busta, who reached the US Open semi-finals in 2017, will play Denis Shapovalov in the quarter-finals after the 21-year-old Canadian 12th seed beat Belgium's David Goffin 6-7 (0-7) 6-3 6-4 6-3.\n\nDjokovic's costly moment of frustration - how the drama unfolded\n\nDjokovic had been playing well up until the game where he lost serve and had three set points at 5-4 before Carreno Busta fought back from 0-40 down.\n\nHowever, the world number one also showed a flash of his temper during that ninth game by whacking a ball into an advertising board after the Spaniard brought it back to deuce.\n\nLeon Smith, Great Britain's Davis Cup captain, said he was \"surprised\" Djokovic did not get a warning for that incident, and felt one might have prevented the controversy which followed.\n\nAfter Djokovic was defaulted, Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"There has to be consistency, if someone hits a ball with that much venom and temper, call a warning.\n\n\"The second one can be dangerous and so it proved to be.\"\n\nIn what proved the final game, Djokovic fell and hurt his shoulder, immediately calling for a medical timeout when trailing 0-30. Following treatment, the match resumed with Carreno Busta sealing the game three points later.\n\nIt was then that Djokovic hit the ball away, striking the line judge.\n\nDjokovic appeared to plead his case to tournament referee Soeren Friemel and Grand Slam supervisor Andreas Egli during a long conversation at the net.\n\nEventually, however, he accepted his fate and shook hands with Carreno Busta, who looked shocked by what had happened as he waited for a decision in his chair.\n\nDjokovic left Flushing Meadows without doing his news conference and later posted an apology on his Instagram page.\n\n'The officials had no choice' - reaction\n\nDjokovic's opponent Pablo Carreno Busta: \"I didn't see the moment, I was looking at my coach, celebrating the break and then I saw the line judge on the floor. I was in shock.\n\n\"When they were talking at the net I was focused in case I had to continue playing. This moment was so long. Finally Novak gave me the hand.\n\n\"I think it was not intentional. I don't think anyone of us do this intentionally. It's just the moment. It was bad luck.\n\n\"Of course you can't do this. The rules are the rules. The referee and the supervisor did the right thing but it isn't easy to make this decision.\"\n\nGB Davis Cup captain Leon Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"It's a habit. He did it five minutes beforehand, with much more venom, and he was just lucky it hit the advertising board. It could have hit one of the ball kids.\"\n\nMartina Navratilova, winner of 18 Grand Slam singles titles: \"Unbelievable what just happened on the court at the US Open - Novak Djokovic defaulted for inadvertently but stupidly hitting a lineswoman in the throat with a ball and the officials had no choice but to default. Wow. Glad the woman is OK - we must do better than that.\"\n\nIf Novak Djokovic hadn't have been defaulted in that situation, can you imagine the outrage? What sort of light would that have shone on tennis neutrality and the decisions that these officials make?\n\nIt was an open and shut case to me.\n\nI don't see how you could argue that was not a disqualification. It doesn't matter how hard you hit the ball. I don't think he has any defence at all.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is Tom Hanks' Captain Sully all he appears?", "Security forces chased the attackers through the tourist areas of El Kantaoui\n\nSecurity officials in Tunisia say a police officer has been killed and another wounded in a knife attack in the coastal resort of Sousse.\n\nThree assailants were shot dead after the incident, which is being described as a terrorist attack.\n\nIn 2015 Sousse was the scene of one of Tunisia's worst attacks, when 38 people, most of them British tourists, were killed by a gunman.\n\nThe latest incident comes two days after a new government was sworn in.\n\nThe suspected militants rammed their vehicle into a National Guard checkpoint at a junction near the city's port.\n\n\"A patrol of two National Guard officers was attacked with a knife in the centre of Sousse,\" National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli said, according to the AFP news agency.\n\n\"One died as a martyr and the other was wounded and is hospitalised,\" he said.\n\nThe knifemen stole guns and a police vehicle during the attack before making off, Mr Jebabli said. Security forces took off after them through the tourist areas of El Kantaoui.\n\n\"In a firefight three terrorists were killed,\" he said, adding that two guns and the car were recovered.\n\nIt is unclear if the assailants were tied to any particular extremist group, but the wider threat in Tunisia in recent years has been from dispersed sleeper cells composed of jihadists that returned from Syria, Libya, and Iraq, says the BBC's Rana Jawad in the capital Tunis.\n\nThirty-eight people lost their lives when a gunman opened fire on tourists staying in El Kantaoui in June 2015. Thirty of those killed were British tourists staying at the Hotel Rui Imperial Marhaba.\n\nThe Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack by Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui.\n\nThe situation in Tunisia has improved greatly since then, although a state of emergency is in place.\n\nSince 2015, successive governments have changed their counter-terrorism strategy by focusing more on prevention, rather than response, our reporter says.\n\nCountries like Germany and the UK have contributed to training security forces.\n\nThis week Tunisia's parliament approved a new government formed by Prime Minister-designate Hichem Mechichi.\n\nMr Mechichi appointed technocrats to his government rather than members of political parties as had been the case in the past.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nRaheem Sterling's late penalty gave England victory as they started their Uefa Nations League campaign in Iceland - despite the hosts squandering the chance to rescue a point by missing an injury-time spot-kick.\n\nIn an chaotic end to a largely dull encounter, Sterling looked to have secured three points for manager Gareth Southgate's side when he rolled in an 89th-minute spot-kick after his shot was handled by Sverrir Ingason, who was then sent off after receiving a second yellow card.\n\nEngland, who had earlier been reduced to 10 men after Kyle Walker was also sent off for second yellow card, had to survive that last-gasp scare when Iceland were awarded a penalty for Joe Gomez's foul but Birkir Bjarnason was wildly off target.\n\nEngland made hard work of the win against a stubborn and well-organised Iceland but were the better and more positive side.\n\nSouthgate's team, playing their first game since the 4-0 win in Kosovo in November, showed understandable rustiness with the Premier League restart still a week away and England were frustrated further when Walker was dismissed for a second yellow card with 20 minutes left.\n\nWalker's recall was marred by his challenge on Arnor Traustason - but England had an even bigger cause for complaint when an early goal from captain Harry Kane was ruled out for offside. There was no VAR for this game and replays showed Kane was onside as he pounced on Sterling's left-wing cross.\n\nThis was a lifeless affair behind closed doors against the side who humiliated England at Euro 2016 and Southgate will have learned little despite giving a debut to Manchester City's Phil Foden and introducing Manchester United teenage striker Mason Greenwood for his debut late on - but he will take the victory before Tuesday's game in Denmark.\n• None How you rated the players\n\nThere was very little positive for England in this match other than the victory itself but it must also be placed in the context of when this game was being played and its circumstances.\n\nThis was almost like a behind-closed-doors pre-season friendly in an international guise so it comes as no surprise that England lacked the sort of sharpness and inspiration that would have come with more match practice.\n\nSouthgate will have been delighted to give Foden the first of many England caps while Greenwood will also have enjoyed his taste of international action during his cameo after coming on as a substitute for Kane.\n\nSterling calmly rolled in the penalty that eventually gave England their opening Nations League win but Southgate will not have welcomed Walker's rash challenge, irrespective of the level of contact, that brought him his second yellow card and the clumsy foul by Gomez that almost threw Iceland that injury-time lifeline.\n\nEngland, as a plus, were patient and probing and, despite the colourless nature of the game, deserved the win, even though it arrived so late.\n\nEngland move on to face Denmark in Copenhagen on Tuesday buoyed by these opening three points and Southgate will have been delighted to spend so much time with his players after the international hiatus as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe was able to watch some of the younger players he introduced into the squad at close quarters and may be able to see them in England action once more against the Danes.\n\nIceland were defiant, as they always are, rigid in defence and lacking in attacking ambition, willing to simply keep England at arm's length and maybe land a counter-punch.\n\nThey almost did with that late penalty but England survived to make a winning restart to their international calendar.\n• None All three of England's victories in the Nations League have been by a different one-goal margin (3-2 v Spain, 2-1 v Croatia, 1-0 v Iceland).\n• None Iceland have lost all five of their Nations League games by an aggregate score of 1-14.\n• None Iceland failed to have a single shot on target in this match, while Sterling's winning penalty was England's only attempt on target in the second half.\n• None Sterling's goal was his 13th in all competitions for England, but his first from the penalty spot. He has had a hand in 17 goals in his last 12 appearances for England (11 goals, 6 assists).\n• None Danny Ings made his first appearance for England since October 2015 - 1,790 days ago. It is the longest gap between England games for an outfield player since Lee Dixon went 1,911 days between 1993 and 1999.\n• None Walker became the first England player to be sent off since Sterling v Ecuador in June 2014.\n• None Greenwood and Foden both made their England debuts in this match - it is the first time a Manchester United and a Manchester City player have earned their first England caps in the same game since September 1992 v Spain (Paul Ince and David White).\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Birkir Bjarnason should be disappointed.\n• None Joseph Gomez (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Joseph Gomez (England) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Goal! Iceland 0, England 1. Raheem Sterling (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Second yellow card to Sverrir Ingason (Iceland) for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Penalty conceded by Sverrir Ingason (Iceland) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Offside, Iceland. Birkir Bjarnason tries a through ball, but Jón Dadi Bödvarsson is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An Austrian man has broken a world record, by standing in a box filled with ice for over two-and-a-half hours.\n\nJosef Koeberl beat the previous record for full-body contact, which he set himself last year, by over 25 minutes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We are concerned about this rise in cases\"\n\nA further 2,988 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the UK in the past 24 hours, government data showed.\n\nIt is the highest number reported on a single day since 22 May and a rise of 1,175 on Saturday, according to the UK government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"concerned\" about a rise in cases \"predominantly among young people\".\n\nTwo further deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded, taking the total number of UK deaths to 41,551.\n\nMr Hancock added: \"It's so important that everybody does their bit and follows the social distancing because it doesn't matter how old you are, how affected you might be by this disease, you can pass the disease on to others.\"\n\n\"So don't pass the disease on to your grandparents if you're a young person, everybody needs to follow the social distancing.\"\n\nDespite the sharp rise in cases, Mr Hancock said the government was right to reopen schools \"because of the impact on children of not getting an education\", adding that workplaces which have reopened are \"Covid-secure\".\n\nScotland recorded 208 new cases on Sunday, its highest daily increase for more than 17 weeks.\n\nWales recorded a further 98 cases, its highest daily rise since 30 June, and Northern Ireland recorded 106 new cases, its highest rise since 25 April.\n\nOverall, since the start of the pandemic, 347,152 cases have been confirmed in the UK.\n\nThe number of daily reported cases has been rising steadily and some of that has been put down to an increase in the number of people being tested.\n\nPut simply, the more you test the more new cases you will find. But the jump of more than one thousand in a day is a significant new spike.\n\nThe health secretary says the government is concerned and has renewed official calls for more vigilance on social distancing.\n\nWhat Matt Hancock and health officials are worried about is that the UK might follow the same path as France and Spain, where increases in infections amongst younger adults led after a few weeks to higher numbers of admissions to hospitals for older and more vulnerable patients.\n\nThe number of people seriously ill in hospital with Covid-19 has fallen and there were just two new daily reported deaths.\n\nMedical leaders and ministers can only hope that the spread of the virus amongst younger people does not get passed on to the elderly and those with underlying health problems.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said ministers needed to \"set out what is being done to get testing back on track and bring case numbers down\".\n\nHe said the increase in cases came on top of \"the ongoing testing fiasco where ill people are told to drive for miles for tests, and the poor performance of the contact tracing system\".\n\nIncreased demand led bosses in charge of the coronavirus testing system to apologise after it emerged UK labs were struggling to keep up.\n\nScreening capacity was described last week as being \"maxed out\" - 170,000 tests a day are being processed, up from 100,000 in mid June.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, an expert in outbreak response at the University of East Anglia, said some of the rise may be due to the system catching up after delays when it struggled to keep up with demand, but added it was still a \"marked increase\".\n\n\"Sadly it is beginning to look like we are moving into a period of exponential growth in the UK epidemic, and if so we can expect further increases over coming weeks,\" he said.\n\nBirmingham had the single largest increase in cases overnight, and the majority of new cases were in the north of England, said Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England's medical director.\n\nBut she said no single area accounted for the overnight change, with broad increases in Covid-19 cases across England.\n\nThe rise in positive tests came as tougher measures limiting household contacts were introduced in Bolton in an effort to stop coronavirus cases rising and prevent a full local lockdown.\n\nThe infection rate in the area has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people per week - the highest in England.\n\nCommenting on Scotland's increase, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"While this reflects the substantial opening up of the economy, it reminds us of the need to deploy counter measures.\"\n\nShe added that the \"first line of defence\" is to \"take greater care on face coverings, hygiene and distance\".\n\nMeanwhile, speaking earlier on Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the economy \"needs to have people back at work\".\n\nMr Raab acknowledged there was likely to be a \"bit more\" remote working in future.\n\nHowever, he added: \"It is important to send a message that we need to get Britain back up and running, the economy motoring on all cylinders.\"\n\nMr Raab also played down suggestions that coronavirus testing at airports would help travellers avoid mandatory quarantine.", "Daniel Prude died a week after he was restrained by police\n\nNew York's attorney general has said a grand jury will be formed to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, an unarmed black man who suffocated after being restrained by police.\n\nMr Prude - who suffered from mental health issues - died after officers put him in a \"spit hood\", designed to protect police from detainees' saliva.\n\nProtests have been held after footage of the incident in Rochester emerged.\n\nSeven police officers have been suspended.\n\nThe 41-year-old died in March however his death has only just been reported.\n\nAttorney General Letitia James said in a statement: \"The Prude family and the Rochester community have been through great pain and anguish. My office will immediately move to empanel a grand jury as part of our exhaustive investigation into this matter.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. But a spokeswoman for the Rochester Police Department declined to comment.\n\nMr Prude's brother, Joe, told the New York Times: \"I am ecstatic about this. But right now I'm still waiting on seeing the indictment and them being prosecuted to the full extent of the law.\"\n\nJoe said he called police on 23 March as Daniel was showing acute mental health problems. When officers arrived, he had been running naked through the streets.\n\nIn body camera footage obtained from the police by Mr Prude's family, he can be seen lying on the ground as officers restrain him. While sitting on the road, he becomes agitated, alternately asking for money or a gun.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The USA's history of racial inequality has paved the way for modern day police brutality\n\nHe began spitting on the street, but does not appear to offer any physical resistance, according to the footage. An officer says that Mr Prude told them he had Covid-19, and they place the spit hood on him.\n\nOne officer can be seen pressing down on Mr Prude's head with both hands, saying \"stop spitting\". Mr Prude stops moving and goes quiet, and officers note he feels cold.\n\nParamedics are called and Mr Prude is taken to hospital. His family took him off life support a week later.\n\nThe medical examiner ruled his death as a homicide caused by \"complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint\", with intoxication by the drug PCP, a contributing factor.\n\nProtests in Rochester have taken place nightly following the release of the footage\n\nMayor Warren said the city police chief had failed to inform her of the case until the beginning of last month.\n\nBut police chief La'Ron Singletary denied that his department had been trying to keep the details out of public view, and Michael Mazzaeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, said the officers had followed their training \"step by step\".\n\nThe officers were only disciplined after the footage was released, five months after Mr Prude's death. Protests in the city have taken place nightly since the release of the footage.\n\nMr Prude's death came two months before that of George Floyd, whose killing while in police custody sparked widespread outrage and incited national and international demonstrations against police brutality and racism.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police are looking for this man after an attacker killed one victim and wounded seven other people\n\nFootage of a man suspected of killing one person and injuring seven others in a spate of stabbings across Birmingham city centre has been released.\n\nThe attacks in the early hours sparked a massive police manhunt for the suspect.\n\nA 23-year-old man was killed in Irving Street at 01:50 BST, West Midlands Police said. A man and a woman, aged 19 and 32, suffered critical injuries.\n\nFive other people, aged between 23 and 33, were also hurt.\n\nThey were taken to hospital and so far two have been discharged.\n\nThe public are urged to remain vigilant and not to approach the man pictured\n\nThe CCTV footage shows a man wearing a baseball cap and a dark hoodie with white drawstrings.\n\nAlso wearing dark-coloured trousers and shoes, he can be seen standing and walking on a street corner.\n\n\"At this stage we believe that the attacks were random and we have no indication of a motive,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, who urged the public to remain vigilant.\n\n\"We are appealing for anyone who recognises the man in the footage to contact us urgently. If you see him, please do not approach him, but dial 999 immediately.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police were first called to Constitution Hill where a man sustained a superficial injury just after 00:30 BST, then to Livery Street 20 minutes later, where the 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt.\n\nAn hour later at 01:50 BST, police were sent to Irving Street, where the 23-year-old died and another man suffered serious injuries.\n\nTen minutes later, they were called to Hurst Street where the 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men suffered lesser injuries.\n\nThe stabbings do not appear to be terrorism related or gang related, police said.\n\nMr Graham added: \"We do not underestimate the impact that these incidents have had on the city of Birmingham today.\n\n\"We declared this a major incident at the earliest opportunity and we have drafted in scores of officers to help with the investigation and patrol the city to reassure residents and visitors that we are doing all we can to apprehend the person responsible.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the scenes of the stabbings\n\nMultiple witnesses saw the attacks, including Nikita Denton who was out celebrating her 29th birthday and helped stop one of the women bleeding in the street.\n\nAnother, restaurant owner Savvas Sfrantzis, described seeing the attacker walk calmly away after stabbing a woman repeatedly.\n\n\"I looked at him, facing him, and I can see he had a blade, small, not very big, and he was stabbing her in the neck.\n\n\"He was like very cold and he wasn't panicking and he wasn't reacting or anything. After he stabbed her between five and seven times... he walked off as if nothing has happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC the victim she helped was alone and in a state of shock\n\nOfficers have recovered a knife from a drain but Mr Graham said it was \"way too early\" to say if it was connected to the case.\n\nAt an earlier press conference he was asked how the knifeman was able to move through the city centre for more than two hours without being caught.\n\nMr Graham said the suspect's route through the city was \"relatively unusual\".\n\nHe added: \"There was no suggestion people had seen him running out, area searches were being made at the time, unfortunately the subject wasn't caught.\"\n\nAreas of the city centre have been cordoned off\n\nThe force's police and crime commissioner David Jamieson labelled the assaults \"disturbing\", with the violence unfolding as revellers had been enjoying the night.\n\nJulia Robinson, from the Southside Business Improvement District, said businesses were in \"shock\" and had worked through the night to provide police with CCTV footage from the area.\n\nWest Midlands Police said extras officers had \"flooded\" the city centre and forensic experts had examined four scenes.\n\nA heavy police presence remained throughout the day, with armed officers, patrols, riot vans and squad cars visible.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness what happened? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowded scenes like the ones during Brexit voting could return with regular testing, the Speaker suggested\n\nMPs could be tested daily for coronavirus to allow them to safely fill the chamber of the House of Commons, the Speaker has suggested.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle told Times Radio he had spoken to the NHS and government about getting \"a quick turnaround of tests\" to allow more MPs in.\n\nBut the Speaker said he would not \"compromise health and safety\".\n\nMPs wearing masks had been ruled out as it could make it harder for them to be recognised and make speeches, he said.\n\nThe pandemic has prompted some of the biggest changes to parliamentary procedure in centuries, with limited numbers allowed in both chambers so MPs can keep two metres apart.\n\nBut some MPs have criticised the subdued atmosphere with so many of them working remotely.\n\nAnd after Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg scrapped remote voting, there were lengthy queues to cast votes on motions and amendments because it is not considered safe for MPs to crowd into the traditional voting lobbies all at once.\n\nMasks for MPs \"really wouldn't work\", said Sir Lindsay Hoyle as he backed daily testing\n\nAsked about the prospect of regularly testing MPs so more of them could safely enter the Commons chamber, Mr Hoyle said: \"To be quite honest with you, I'd like to do it daily, not weekly. The problem is weekly testing doesn't tell you anything.\"\n\nHe said he had \"made approaches\" to the NHS and government to ask, \"Why can't we have a testing system?\"\n\nThey would need \"a quick turnaround of tests\" and Commons authorities were \"looking at it\".\n\nSir Lindsay said he agreed with Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg that masks for MPs \"really wouldn't work\" as it would be harder to recognise who was speaking and harder to be heard.\n\nSocial distancing has meant the Commons chamber has been a much quieter place\n\nAsked about reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson wanted to see Parliament \"back to normal\" by Christmas, the Speaker said he wanted to make it happen but said he would not risk health and safety.\n\n\"We are a Covid-secure workplace - if we were to lose that status, the game is over,\" he said.\n\n\"It's about working in an efficient way. If people don't need to be here, why would we have them here?\"\n\nThe Speaker also said the advice was \"very clear\" that he should not reopen the bars in Parliament yet, adding that the Strangers' Bar \"doesn't lend itself to social distancing\".", "Police and anti-immigration protesters have clashed outside the entrance to Dover harbour.\n\nAt one point, several officers restrained a person on the ground and in total 10 people were arrested.\n\nIt came as rival protests over migrants reaching the UK in small boats took place in the town.\n\nThe Kent Anti-Racism Network said it wanted to show \"solidarity\" with refugees, while opposing groups want \"to protect Britain's border\".\n\nA message was beamed on to the White Cliffs overnight by humanitarian charity Freedom From Torture.\n\nIt read: \"Rise above fear. Refugees welcome.\"\n\nPolice concentrated their officers in Market Square and at the railway station, and officers on horseback are also monitoring the situation.\n\nA group of about 60 people shouting \"freedom\" moved along Dover seafront, with many wearing Union flag masks and carrying flags.\n\nBut, addressing a crowd of about 100, Peter Keenan from Kent Refugee Help said when society sees people who are fleeing war and turns them away \"that says something about the state of your society\".\n\nHe continued: \"We are not those people.\"\n\nThe protest was in response to migrants crossing the Channel in boats\n\nIn a tweet, the Port of Dover had warned there was disruption on the A20 because of the protest and advised the local community to consider alternative routes and travellers to allow plenty of time for their journeys.\n\nProtesters blocked the dual carriageway in both directions, leaving traffic at a standstill, with some singing Rule, Britannia! as they marched towards the town.\n\nThere were further clashes with a group of at least 50 police officers by the A20.\n\nOfficers moved protesters along the road towards the town centre.\n\nBy about 15:00 BST, all protesters had largely dispersed with the last few pushed towards the train station.\n\nAt least 5,196 people have crossed the English Channel in about 318 boats in 2020.\n\nA sign was beamed on to the cliffs by campaigners\n\nPolice made ten arrests in total, on suspicion of racially aggravated public order, violent disorder and assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nOfficers said inquiries were ongoing to identify any further offences.\n\nBefore the protests, Ch Supt Nigel Brooks said: \"As a force, it is our responsibility to facilitate peaceful protests, however we will not tolerate violence or disorder.\"\n\nIt is thought groups from across the country travelled to Dover.\n\nProtesters gathered around the A20 and the harbour\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke had urged people to \"stay away\" to prevent a second wave of coronavirus.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said it had been aware of the protests and had contingency plans in place to minimise any potential disruption.\n\nFigures compiled by the BBC show at least 5,196 people crossed the Channel in about 318 boats in 2020.\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.", "The unidentified seeds appear to have been posted from China to US addresses\n\nAmazon says it has banned foreign sales of seeds in the US after thousands of Americans received unsolicited packets of seeds in the mail, most from China.\n\nThe online retail giant told the BBC that it will now only allow the sale of seeds by sellers based in the US.\n\nUS officials said gardeners should not plant seeds of unknown origin.\n\nThe packages are believed to be part of a global \"brushing\" scam to gain positive reviews for online selling sites.\n\nAmazon's new guidelines, in effect since 3 September, also prohibit the sale of seeds within America by non-US residents. It added that sellers may be banned if they do not follow the new guidelines.\n\nBut the retailer has not confirmed if its ban will extend to other countries.\n\nNews of the policy change was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.\n\nAt least 14 plant species have been identified among the mystery packages, including mint, lavender and roses.\n\nAmazon says it will only allow domestic sales of seeds in the US\n\nUnsolicited seed packages are also being reported in other countries, including the UK. Last month Scottish authorities advised people not to handle the seeds, for fear they could damage local ecosystems.\n\nIn an update on 11 August, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said experts analysing the seeds found few problems with them, and that China was assisting with investigations.\n\nBut the USDA has warned people against planting the seeds, saying they could be non-native species or carry pests and diseases.\n\nSo-called \"brushing\" scams involve sellers sending out low value items such as seeds or rings. Each fake \"sale\" then generates an online review that appears to boost the seller's legitimacy.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "St Gwladys Primary School will remain open despite the positive test\n\nA class of 21 pupils has been told to self-isolate for two weeks after a member of staff at their school tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe pupils at St Gwladys Primary School in Bargoed, Caerphilly, must stay at home for 14 days, although the rest of the school will remain open.\n\n\"We fully appreciate this will cause concern to parents and children at the school,\" a council spokesman said.\n\nCaerphilly has seen 78 cases in the past week, the highest number in Wales.\n\nA walk-in test centre opened outside Caerphilly Leisure Centre on Saturday for people with symptoms to get tested.\n\nThe school and council said the parents of all the affected children had been contacted and they are working with the contact tracing system to protect other pupils and the wider community.\n\n\"We can confirm that a member of staff at the school has tested positive for coronavirus,\" a council spokesman said.\n\n\"It has been agreed, following advice from Public Health Wales, that 21 pupils from one class will be required to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\n\"It is important to note that all safety measures are in place throughout the school and that they are being followed strictly to limit any cross-contamination.\n\n\"The school remains open and it is not necessary for any other child to self-isolate, stay away from school or to be tested, unless they develop symptoms of Covid-19.\"\n\nA temporary test centre is open outside the town's leisure centre daily until Tuesday at 18:00 BST\n\nResidents have been warned to increase social distancing to avoid \"another harsh lockdown\" following the spike in cases.\n\n\"People have to take this seriously,\" said Caerphilly's Member of the Senedd, Hefin David.\n\n\"If people get back to serious social distancing, hand washing, limiting contact, we can get back to where we were.\"\n\nVisits to care homes in Caerphilly have stopped to protect residents following the increase in cases.\n\nOn Friday, a health official blamed \"having house parties and the like\" for a rise in cases in Caerphilly town, Blackwood, and other areas.\n\n\"People have not been following social distancing rules,\" said Dr Robin Howe, from Public Health Wales.\n\nThe infection rate in Caerphilly over the past seven days has been recorded as 43.1 people per 100,000 population, the highest in Wales and far above the Welsh average of 10.1 per 100,000 people.\n\nCases have also been confirmed at schools in Bridgend, Maesteg, Cwmbran and Carmarthen.", "A man who was stabbed to death in Birmingham has been described as \"the light of our life\" by his family who said he \"lit up every room\".\n\nWest Midlands Police said Jacob Billington, 23, was out with school friends from Liverpool visiting one of their group in Birmingham when he was attacked on Irving Street on Sunday morning.\n\nAnother friend, also 23, was seriously hurt and remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nHis family added Jacob was \"a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met\" and \"we have been devastated by his loss\".\n\nThe force said another man, aged 30, who was stabbed in Livery Street and a 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, remain in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nA 27-year-old man, arrested at his home in Selly Oak, remains in custody on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder.\n\nOfficers said three others, two men and a woman, were arrested from the same address on suspicion of assisting an offender.", "Airport coronavirus testing options should be explored as a way of cutting the number of travellers who must spend two weeks in quarantine, says Labour.\n\nA review of \"chaotic\" quarantine rules should consider a \"robust testing regime\", given the \"dire warnings\" from the travel industry, the party says.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has said airport tests would identify only 7% of cases and so could give a \"false sense of security\".\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said testing was not a \"silver bullet\".\n\n\"That's why we have the quarantine,\" Mr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"The idea that one test in an airport could resolve the quarantine issues... we couldn't safely do that,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesman said assessment of how testing might help was ongoing.\n\n\"Any potential change to the testing for arrivals would need to be robust in minimising the chance that positive cases are missed,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC has been told a cabinet decision on whether to introduce airport testing has been repeatedly postponed and now may never happen.\n\nIn a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, Labour argues the UK's quarantine arrangements are \"losing public confidence and undermining our ability to keep people safe and save jobs\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he was calling for a \"two test system\".\n\n\"It isn't just about a test in an airport,\" he said, adding that follow-up tests would improve the accuracy of the results.\n\n\"If the government had it [a two test system] up and running it would take away need for 14 day quarantine policy,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the quarantine system is \"an important part of our repertoire\"\n\nPeople entering the UK face 14 days of self-isolation unless they are travelling from countries that are exempt - a status determined by the separate authorities in each of the four nations.\n\nIn recent weeks, Britons holidaying in France, Spain and the Netherlands have been caught out by the removal of exemptions at short notice.\n\nLast week, Scotland and Wales told arrivals from Portugal and parts of Greece to quarantine, while England and Northern Ireland held off.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps admitted it had created a \"confusing\" situation for travellers.\n\nIn theory, airport testing is a great idea and would reduce the length of time quarantine could take.\n\nBut there are a number of problems.\n\nThe incubation period for coronavirus - the point at which someone becomes infected to the point at which they show symptoms - can be up to 14 days.\n\nIn the early part of the incubation period the test may not pick up the virus.\n\nSo you cannot just test at the airport and think someone is clear. They would still have to quarantine and then the idea discussed is that they would be tested after maybe seven or 10 days.\n\nThat has a minimal effect on quarantine and would put the testing regime under even more strain.\n\nA more immediate solution - and one that has been put to the government - is to be a little more intelligent with the quarantine rules.\n\nIt is a rather blunt tool - some countries are on the quarantine list with infection rates only a little higher than the UK. And national infection rates miss the differences between regions.\n\nOne suggestion is you only insist on quarantine when a traveller has been in a high infection rate area. But of course that becomes even harder to enforce.\n\nIn his letter to the home secretary, Mr Thomas-Symonds calls for a review to report back within a fortnight.\n\n\"It should include outlining options for a robust testing regime in airports, and related follow-up tests, that could help to safely minimise the need for 14-day quarantine,\" he writes.\n\n\"Given the huge challenges being faced by the travel sector and the scale of job losses, it makes sense to look at this area as part of a wider package of improvements to the testing regime.\"\n\nHe also said there were \"serious concerns\" about the poor monitoring of incoming travellers, claiming \"less than a third of passenger-locator forms are checked\".\n\nAirlines have criticised the use of quarantine measures at a time when lockdowns around the world have contributed to a collapse in passenger demand.\n\nOn Friday, Virgin Atlantic announced plans to axe another 1,150 jobs after completing a £1.2bn rescue deal, months after making 3,150 redundancies as a result of the collapse in demand caused by the pandemic.\n\nOn-site testing facilities had already been set up at London's Heathrow Airport, chief executive John Holland-Kaye said last week.\n\n\"It is frustrating that the government just has not made a decision to get on with this, when governments in other countries in Europe are getting on and making it happen,\" he added.\n\nFrance and Germany are using testing at airports for passengers arriving from countries with a higher infection rate.\n\nAnd, on Friday, former Brexit Secretary David Davis said testing at UK airports - with passengers given results within two hours - could cut quarantine to \"less than five days\".\n\n\"If anybody is positive, they should be quarantined right there,\" he said, arguing the government could pay to house them in under-used airport hotels.\n\nHowever, the prime minister responded by pointing to Public Health England modelling suggesting only 7% of cases would be picked up.\n\nWhile he understood \"the difficulties\" the airline industry was facing, Mr Johnson said \"93% of the time you could have a real false sense of security, a false sense of confidence when you arrive and take a test\".\n\n\"The quarantine system that we have has got to be an important part of our repertoire, of our toolbox, in fighting Covid,\" he added.", "Matthew Robson was given a bottle of 18-year-old whisky every year for his birthday which is now worth £40,000\n\nA man whose father gave him 18-year-old whisky every year for his birthday is selling the collection to buy a house.\n\nMatthew Robson, from Taunton, was born in 1992 and over the course of his life his father Pete has spent about £5,000 on 28 bottles of Macallan single malt.\n\nThe collection is now worth more than £40,000 and has been put up for sale.\n\nThe 28-year-old said it \"probably wasn't\" the best gift for a young boy but with \"strict instructions never to open them\" they had become a nest egg.\n\nPete Robson said the whisky \"wasn't the only present\" he gave his son Matthew for his birthday\n\nMatthew said he was under \"strict instructions, never, never to open\" his whisky birthday presents\n\n\"Each year I received it as a birthday present,\" Matthew said. \"I thought it was quite a quirky little present as I was slightly too young to start drinking.\n\n\"But I was under strict instructions, never, never to open them and I tried my hardest and succeeded and they're all intact.\"\n\nHis father Pete, who is from Milnathort in Scotland, said the first bottle of 1974 whisky was bought to \"wet the baby's head\".\n\n\"I thought it would be interesting if I bought one every year and he'd end up with 18 bottles of 18-year-old whisky for his 18th birthday,\" he said.\n\n\"It wasn't the only present he got from us. It was just meant to be a unique present but it was a little bit of luck that we kept it going.\"\n\nWhisky broker, Mark Littler, said has been \"a lot of interest already\" in the collection\n\nSince then, experts say Macallan has become collectable and Matthew is hoping to sell his collection for £40,000 and use the money for a house deposit.\n\nIt is being sold by whisky broker Mark Littler, who has described it as a \"perfect set\".\n\n\"The value of Macallan has risen massively over the last five to 10 years,\" he said. \"To have such a vast collection of bottles is the real selling point of these.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"a lot of interest already\" in the collection, mostly from buyers in New York and Asia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pierre Gasly took a stunning upset win in the Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team in one of the most remarkable races in history.\n\nLewis Hamilton was dominating until he was penalised for being called in for a stop when the pit lane was closed.\n\nTwo safety cars in quick succession mixed up the order and Gasly took the lead after Hamilton served his penalty.\n\nMcLaren's Carlos Sainz closed him down but the Frenchman just held him off to take his first grand prix victory.\n\nHamilton fought back from last place, 18 seconds off the back of the pack, to seventh, just two places behind team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n• None Wolff to stay at Mercedes next year\n\nHow on earth did that happen?\n\nGasly's win sealed an amazing turnaround in fortunes for the likeable 24-year-old, who just over a year ago was demoted from the senior Red Bull team to what was Toro Rosso and was renamed over the winter.\n\nGasly has been outstanding ever since, including taking a second place in Brazil last year, and few will begrudge him this win.\n\nIt is the junior team's second grand prix victory - their first also coming at Monza, with Sebastian Vettel in 2008.\n\nBut it was a cruel twist of fortune for Sainz, who had been running in a superb second place to Hamilton and should have been in a position to benefit from the world champion's penalty.\n\nBut the timing of the pit stops around two mid-race safety cars and then a red flag effectively ended Sainz's hopes.\n\nHe, along with all the leaders, pitted during the first safety-car period, triggered by a breakdown for Kevin Magnussen's Haas.\n\nThis was when Mercedes made the error that cost Hamilton his 90th grand prix win, calling him in as soon as the safety car was thrown and not noticing that race director Michael Masi had closed the pit lane because marshals were dealing with Magnussen's car close to the entry.\n\nGasly had made his stop a couple of laps before the first safety car so did not stop again, and this promoted him to third behind Hamilton and Racing Point's Lance Stroll for a mixed-up field at the restart.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc was soon into fourth place, passing both Alfa Romeo cars into the first chicane on the first lap of racing, but the Monegasque then lost control at the Parabolica and crashed heavily, causing the race to be reflagged for repairs to be made to the barriers.\n\nThe race was restarted with a standing start with Hamilton ahead of Stroll, Gasly, the Alfa Romeos of Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi and Sainz.\n\nHamilton missed the pre-race anti-racism demonstration because of a timing mix-up following his return to the garage for a pre-race comfort break, and once the race started, what had been looking like a routine win turned on its head on Mercedes' fateful decision.\n\nThe race surrendered to him at the start, when Bottas was slow away and had a dreadful first lap, passed by car after car as he slipped down to sixth place.\n\nFrom then on, Hamilton was untouchable until Mercedes made their mistake.\n\nHamilton went to see the stewards during the stoppage to check the penalty was fair. He took the restart from pole, but stopped at the end of the first lap, and his penalty demoted him to last.\n\nHe soon started lapping three seconds faster than anyone else and caught the field in no time, scything past car after car for a useful haul of points.\n\nBottas, his car struggling with overheating and uncertain handling in right-hand corners, could not make progress and became stuck behind other cars all race.\n\nHis fifth place moves him ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen in the championship after the Dutchman retired with collision damage, but Hamilton is 47 points ahead - almost two clear wins - with the season close to its halfway point.\n\nStroll threw away his opportunity for a maiden win with a poor start, and Gasly moved into second behind Hamilton, who pitted at the end of the first lap of racing to serve his penalty.\n\nSainz then fought past Stroll into Turn One at the start of the second lap but took another four laps to catch and pass Raikkonen, by which time Gasly had a four-second lead.\n\nThe Spaniard closed that down to be right on his tail at the start of the last lap but Gasly managed to hold him off.\n\nHe is the first Frenchman to win a race since Olivier Panis won the Monaco Grand Prix for Ligier in similarly unlikely circumstances in 1996.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nAnother race in Italy next weekend - this time the Tuscany Grand Prix, also named for Ferrari's 1,000th race. It is a prospect to savour on a new track to F1. Mugello is renowned as a challenging, fast and flowing circuit and all the drivers are looking forward to it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Creek Fire has swept across thousands of acres in the Sierra National Forest\n\nHelicopters have rescued more than 200 people trapped after a wildfire set 45,000 acres alight and cut off a popular reservoir in California, officials say.\n\nAbout 20 of the people were hurt, some with burns.\n\nThe Creek Fire began on Friday in the Sierra National Forest, cutting off the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, 40 miles (60km) north-east of Fresno.\n\nThe temperature has hit 47C (117F), part of a record heatwave in the state.\n\nOn Sunday, Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five Californian counties - Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, San Bernardino and San Diego - because of the wildfires.\n\nThe fast-moving Creek Fire started at about 18:45 on Friday (01:45 GMT on Saturday) in the forest, an area of steep and rugged terrain.\n\nNational forest spokesman Dan Tune said he did not know how close the fire was to the campsite, a popular boating and fishing destination.\n\nPicture taken inside a California National Guard helicopters during the evacuation\n\nTwo people refused to be rescued and stayed behind at the site.\n\nThe Fresno Convention Centre is being used to host the rescued people.\n\nMandatory evacuation orders are in now place for a number of areas in Madera County.\n\nAccording to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, 0% of the fire is contained.\n\nCalifornia has seen nearly 1,000 wildfires since 15 August, often started by lightning strikes.\n\nOn Sunday, Los Angeles County recorded 49.4C (125F), a record temperature for the region.\n\nThe National Weather Service (NWS) said there could be \"rare, dangerous and very possibly fatal\" temperatures across parts of southern California.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Over 1,000 animals were rescued from deadly wildfires in northern California last month", "Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital has been recruiting recovered Covid-19 patients to volunteer inside its coronavirus wards to help patients there.\n\nUnder the pilot scheme, they visit patients in moderate or serious condition, who would otherwise be in isolation. The volunteers help the patients eat or just lend a listening ear.\n\nThe hospital believes the project to be the first of its kind in the world. And it is likely to be closely watched, given the still unclear science on how much antibody immunity recovered Covid-19 patients have.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Roussos: ''It should be about transparency''\n\nLisa and Andrew Roussos say they feel as though they are stuck in May 2017.\n\nThat's when their eight-year-old daughter Saffie was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing.\n\nSaffie was the youngest victim of the attack.\n\nA little girl with striking big eyes and a mane of dark hair, who loved dancing and making people laugh. Lisa and Andrew say she was a real live-wire who \"never sat still\".\n\nThe pain of her loss is as great as ever.\n\n\"It's not something you get over, ever,\" Lisa says.\n\n\"Every morning you wake up. It happens again. She died that day, every day.\n\n\"That's just how it is. And we have to live with that.\"\n\nNow the Roussos family and the other families bereaved that night are steeling themselves for a difficult few months.\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing, which starts hearing evidence on Monday, will examine every aspect of the attack, including whether it could have been prevented, the emergency response and the experiences of each of the 22 people who died.\n\nSaffie's parents say they still feel too raw to hear information about her last moments.\n\n\"I don't want to know about her injuries and what she went through,\" Lisa says.\n\n\"It's painful enough without knowing the details.\"\n\nBut the couple do have a lot of other questions which they want answers to.\n\nAndrew says the attack \"could have been prevented, it could have been stopped and Saffie and the others could have been here with us\".\n\n\"And that's what we want out of it,\" he says. \"To find out why there were so many wrongs.\"\n\nReferring to the way the emergency services responded to the attack, Lisa adds: \"It was just complete chaos, nobody had a clue what to do, how to react.\n\n\"It was just a complete shambles. For those people that did make mistakes, the police, fire service, MI5, for them to admit their mistakes I think would be a good thing for them, as well as us.\"\n\nShe went to the concert with her big sister Ashlee and their mum Lisa.\n\nAndrew came to collect them, with Saffie's 11-year-old brother Xander and the family's pet chihuahua Binky in tow.\n\nBy chance, a press photographer took some pictures of Andrew and Xander outside the arena, in the aftermath of the bomb.\n\nYou can see the shock and bewilderment on their faces, Xander clutching the dog as his father searched for his wife and children.\n\nThey came across Ashlee, sitting on the pavement outside the arena.\n\nShe was bleeding but conscious, and being looked after by members of the public.\n\nReassured by this, Andrew carried on looking for Lisa and Saffie.\n\nHe says: \"It was just like a horror movie, there were kids screaming there were kids injured on the floor.\n\n\"There were people around and they were all crying, it was just... I have no words.\"\n\nAndrew feels that the police were not in command.\n\n\"I asked every police officer that I went past,\" he says.\n\n\"They just said just keep looking.\n\n\"Nobody had control of it, because nobody gave me any indication of what to do, where the injured were.\n\n\"Nobody said to me, 'right stay here, let me make some phone calls let me get in touch with some people and see'. They just left you to just wander round.\"\n\nEight-year-old Saffie Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack\n\nThey thought all of the injured had been brought out of the arena and had no idea that Lisa and Saffie were on the floor of the foyer just yards away from them.\n\nAndrew says: \"My daughter and my wife were lying on this floor. Do you know how that feels?\n\n\"I could have been with them, particularly Saffie. I could have been holding her hand, instead of a stranger. Imagine how she was feeling lying there?\"\n\nFather and son went to three hospitals before they found Lisa the next morning.\n\nAndrew says: \"They told me to prepare for the worst. If she was going to make it there was an 80-90% chance of her being paralysed from the neck down.\"\n\nAndrew was exhausted and already at rock bottom. But he still had hopes of finding Saffie alive.\n\nHe'd heard that children who were displaced at the arena were sheltering in nearby hotels. He grabbed a police officer at the hospital and pleaded again for information.\n\nFourteen hours after the explosion Andrew learned that Saffie was dead.\n\nAfter multiple operations, Lisa Roussos has defied the doctors' prediction of paralysis.\n\nShe is a gentle person with calm determination - and she rarely talks publicly about the horrors of the attack.\n\nShe tells me: \"The worst thing for me was - is - if Saffie could have been saved.\"\n\nI ask her if it's something that she plays over in her head?\n\n\"I have done, yeah,\" she says. \"To think that, not just Saffie, the other people. How could they leave injured people in the arena for hours? It's just madness.\n\n\"I remember lying there thinking help will be here soon, and in the end it felt like I was lying there for hours. [I thought] 'why is nobody coming?'\"\n\nThe Roussos family also have many questions for the security service MI5.\n\nThey want to hear the detail of what was known about the bomber Salman Abedi and his brother Hashem who helped to build the bomb.\n\nBut some of the hearings involving MI5 will be held behind closed doors, without the families or their lawyers expected to be present. They're being restricted on grounds of national security.\n\nLisa says: \"Obviously you're having to put your full trust in the (inquiry) chairman. But this inquiry is not about trust, it should be about transparency, and I feel that we won't get that without having a representative in the room.\"\n\nAndrew adds: \"We've got five or six law firms representing all the families, so let's have one barrister from each firm in that room.\n\n\"All I hear is lessons learned, but lessons haven't been learned, and lessons will never be learned, unless we get that transparency and honesty from the people involved to get the answers that we need.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nJos Buttler guided England to a six-wicket victory over Australia in the second Twenty20 international to clinch the three-match series.\n\nButtler batted throughout for his 77 from 54 balls as the hosts reached their target of 158 with seven balls left.\n\nAfter the loss of Jonny Bairstow, who hit his own wicket in the third over, Buttler batted patiently in a stand of 87 with Dawid Malan.\n\nMalan fell for 42, and Tom Banton and Eoin Morgan followed in a collapse of 3-29, but the assured Buttler held firm.\n\nWith 18 needed from the final two overs, Moeen Ali hit 10 from two balls before Buttler sealed the victory with a huge six.\n\nA brilliant start with the ball by England - led by Jofra Archer and Mark Wood's searing pace - had earlier left Australia 3-2 and then 30-3, before the tourists scrapped to their total.\n\nAfter snatching victory in Friday's series opener, England now lead 2-0 with only the final match on Tuesday to come.\n• None Salt to join ODI squad as reserve for Australia series\n\nIn the first game of the series Australia were cruising to victory before a late collapse saw England win.\n\nHere, when Malan holed out on the slog sweep at the end of an impressive knock, Banton top-edged to deep square leg and Morgan hit to extra cover, a similar twist was possible.\n\nHowever, Buttler provided what Australia lacked - a calm head to see the game home.\n\nHe was not his attacking usual self for much of the innings. Although the right-hander found boundaries effectively with trademark reverse sweeps, England only took 44 from the first six overs of their chase.\n\nInstead, he batted maturely with Malan and found the boundary when needed. One back-foot drive through the covers after the loss of Banton relieved pressure.\n\nButtler's presence as a set batsman allowed Moeen to attack the penultimate over and he hit Adam Zampa for six over extra cover before adding a four in the same region from the next ball.\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch's gamble to bowl his leg-spinner Zampa proved decisive. Buttler emphatically launched him down the ground and into the stands to end the game.\n\nThe win sees England claim a fifth T20 series win from their past six - the other was the drawn series against Pakistan last month.\n\nIn that time they have regularly impressed with the bat but their bowling has sometimes been criticised. They have often struggled for wickets in the first six overs of a match.\n\nOn this occasion, Archer removed David Warner with the third ball - Warner gloved a fast, rising delivery to the wicketkeeper - and Wood found the edge of Alex Carey in the next over.\n\nEngland's average speed in those first two overs was 90.6mph - the fastest opening two overs by England in a T20 - as Archer and Wood produced a fine opening spell.\n\nCaptain Morgan ran out Steve Smith for 10 with a direct hit from extra cover, meaning Australia were 39-3 after six overs. It was the fewest runs England had conceded in the powerplay in their past 13 T20s.\n\nFinch and Marcus Stoinis put on 49 but England continued to take wickets at crucial moments. Finch played on to Jordan on 40, Stoinis departed for 35 when he edged Adil Rashid to slip and Glenn Maxwell became Jordan's second victim in the penultimate over after starting to find his range.\n\nThe only negative from the bowling effort was that Archer's final over cost 18. He bowled three wides and was hit to six by Pat Cummins as Australia made it to a score that had looked beyond them.\n\nStill, Buttler ensured it was not enough.\n\n'Buttler one of the best in the world' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"When Jos Buttler is in the form he is, he really is one of the best players in the world. I thought Australia bowled really well today and fielded really well but there are some batsmen in the world that can take the game away from you and always look like chasing down the total, and Jos is one of those players.\n\n\"Jofra set the tone. It's as fast and as well as I've seen him bowl all summer.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"I thought we got to a score we could defend. We needed a few things to go right. Jos is a world-class player and if you don't get the guy who is opening out, you won't win the game.\n\n\"No matter what format or wherever the world, he's a great player. \"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"This England side are ruthless, they just know how to win games of cricket.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Savvas Sfrantzis: \"After he stabbed her...he walked as if nothing happened\"\n\nA knifeman who killed one man and wounded seven other people in a two-hour stabbing rampage across Birmingham city centre is being hunted by police.\n\nThe first stabbing was in Constitution Hill at 00:30 BST then the killer moved south, apparently attacking at random, officers said.\n\nThe stabbings did not appear terrorism related, gang related or connected to disorder, West Midlands Police said.\n\nMurder inquiry detectives said they were hunting a single suspect.\n\nThe force urged anyone with CCTV or mobile footage to contact them.\n\nOne man died, another man and a woman suffered critical injuries and five other people were left with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said the attacker went on to stab people in Livery Street, Irving Street and finally in Hurst Street, where the city's Gay Village meets the Chinese Quarter, at about 02:20 BST.\n\nPolice said there was no evidence the stabbings were a hate crime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC the victim she helped was alone and in a state of shock\n\nA woman who was out celebrating her 29th birthday described how she helped another woman who was \"on the street bleeding heavily\".\n\nNikita Denton, of Edgbaston, said: \"My best friend Jay held her head and talked her through everything the whole time and wouldn't leave her side.\n\n\"She looked very dazed and confused, she couldn't talk. But she was talking to my friend with blinks.\"\n\nWhen paramedics arrived they asked them for help.\n\n\"I got water and used the torch on my phone to help them see the wounds as they didn't have a torch at that time,\" she said.\n\n\"There were about four wounds.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'd hate to think if we weren't there that night as she would have been alone.\"\n\nPolice said it was \"not appropriate\" to speculate on the motivation\n\nCh Supt Graham said officers - some armed - remained across the city centre to reassure people.\n\nHe added they had received a number of descriptions of the suspect but would not be releasing any details for the time being.\n\nHe said: \"The events during the early hours of this morning are tragic, shocking and understandably frightening.\n\n\"It does appear to be a random attack because we haven't found any links between the victims, either in their nature or in where they were socialising.\n\n\"Please be assured that we are doing absolutely everything we can to find whoever was responsible and try to understand what exactly happened.\"\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said it was too early say whether a knife found in a city centre drain was connected to the murder inquiry\n\nSavvas Sfrantzis, who was working nearby, said he saw a man stab a girl multiple times but people thought at first he was trying to take her necklace.\n\n\"He was like very cold and he wasn't panicking and he wasn't reacting or anything. After he stabbed her between five and seven times... he walked off as if nothing has happened,\" he said.\n\nOfficers earlier found a knife in a drain but Mr Graham said it was \"way too early\" to say if it was connected to the case.\n\n\"What I think it does suggest is the comprehensive nature of our inquiry - that already we've got people going down drains - we've got that level of detailed searches taking place,\" he said.\n\nDavid Nash, who was running the Village Inn in Hurst Street, said after a \"normal night\" he heard someone shout \"stop him - he's just stabbed somebody\" between 02:00 and 02:15.\n\n\"The bars were starting to wind down and the next thing we know the area is engulfed with armed response vehicles, normal police vehicles, police on foot, ambulances,\" he said.\n\n\"They just came from absolutely nowhere and the area was full of them and then the police helicopter was up.\"\n\nHe said he then saw paramedics treating two people who seemed to have been stabbed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video posted on social media shows a number of emergency service vehicles, and parts of the city centre have been cordoned off\n\nNathan Hudson, from West Midlands Ambulance Service, said 14 ambulances attended and he was among 11 paramedic officers who were also sent to help.\n\nA team of St John Ambulance volunteers based at the Arcadian nightspot also treated casualties.\n\nThe \"smirking\" attacker was seen walking past the Sidewalk nightclub shortly after stabbing at least two people further up the street\n\nHe tweeted: \"All my thoughts are with those affected by the terrible incident in Birmingham last night.\"\n\nWitness Cara Curran, a club promoter working in the Arcadian Centre, said it had been busier during the evening than it had been at any time since the start of lockdown.\n\nShe said she had finished her shift at about 00:30 BST and was drinking with colleagues when she heard a \"loud bang and quite a lot of commotion\".\n\nPolice set up a cordon at the junction of Hurst Street and Bromsgrove Street after the final stabbing\n\nThe streets in the area had already been closed to traffic due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) David Jamieson said police would be working with the council to see if there were \"any further measures that need to be taken in the city centre\", following the stabbings.\n\nA rise in violence was \"almost inevitable\" due to the pandemic, when people were suffering \"pent-up feelings\" and some were unsure of their futures, the Labour PCC said.\n\nOutside the cordoned-off area, much of the city centre, such as Birmingham's Bullring shopping centre and the Sealife Centre in Brindleyplace, is open as usual.\n\nWere you in the area? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 30 horses have been killed or mutilated around France in recent months\n\nPolice in France have launched a manhunt for two suspects after the latest in a spate of horse mutilations.\n\nForty officers have flown by helicopter to the town of Losne, near Dijon, after a horse was attacked on Sunday morning.\n\nDozens of horses have been killed or maimed around the country this year, prompting public outcry.\n\nPolice do not know why the animals are being targeted, nor whether it is the work of one person, or if initial attacks have inspired copycat killings.\n\nDuring the latest incident, the horse's owner called police at around 02:00 local time (01:00 BST) on Sunday after seeing lamp lights in his meadow.\n\nThe Dijon prosecutor's office told local media that the horse had been injured in its flank, although the injury was not very severe.\n\nMore than 30 other cases have been reported in France, with horses being left with their ears and genitals cut off. Another was found disembowelled.\n\nAs part of their investigation into one attack in Yonne, north-west of Dijon, last month, police released an artist's impression of an alleged perpetrator spotted at the scene.\n\nAgriculture Minister Julien Denormandie later pledged that those responsible for the attacks would be brought to justice.\n\n\"All branches of the state are mobilising to get justice done,\" said Mr Denormandie during a visit to Saint-Eusèbe, in central France, where a horse's ear had recently been cut off.\n\n\"There is clearly a professionalism, people acting with a certain level of technique,\" he added.\n\nSerge Lecomte, president of the French Equestrian Federation, accompanied Mr Denormandie during the visit.\n\n\"It is cruel savagery of a kind we have rarely seen before,\" he told AFP. \"Is it a cult? Cruelty towards animals is the precursor to cruelty towards humans\".", "Protesters opposed to Covid-19 restrictions have gathered in Edinburgh as figures showed the highest weekly rise in cases since May.\n\nCoronavirus sceptics, vaccine conspiracy theorists and those opposed to mandatory mask-wearing staged a rally at Holyrood.\n\nIt comes as figures showed almost a thousand people tested positive for the virus this week in Scotland.\n\nIn the past seven days there were 994 confirmed cases.\n\nThe figure is almost double the 507 new cases in the week previous.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch described the protesters as \"deeply irresponsible\".\n\nHundreds of protesters joined the rally outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nHe said: \"I honestly do not understand it.\n\n\"I think it is irresponsible - do they think we're making it up? 194 countries are making up a viral pandemic.\n\n\"I would love to have not lived through the last six months, both in my job and what we have had to do to our country and many others.\n\n\"I think it is deeply irresponsible.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters marched to the parliament building in Edinburgh with flags and placards for the Scotland Against Lockdown protest, organised by the Saving Scotland Facebook group.\n\nA post advertising the event said it was \"time to stand up together, and listen to real scientific evidence in regards to the health of the Scottish people.\"\n\nThe group said lockdown was causing \"more harm than the virus\" and that Scots should say \"no to mandatory vaccines and masks. No to secondary lockdowns.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it had been aware of the demonstration and that officers had provided a \"proportionate response\" and no arrests had been made.\n\nIn the past 24 hours, the number of cases in Scotland rose by 141. There were no new deaths.\n\nThe figures showed the biggest rise was in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area where 68 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe last time weekly cases exceeded the current total was 17 May, although there have been changes to the Scottish government's reporting of figures since then, including incorporating the results of home testing kits from July.\n\nThe number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 overall in Scotland now stands at 21,189 and the number of infected patients who have died remains at 2,496.\n\nAccording to the government's latest figures, NHS Lanarkshire saw another 20 cases - an increase on the 16 announced on Friday when it warned the region was close to having to reintroduce restrictions, similar to those imposed on other parts of western Scotland.\n\nNHS Grampian, where the Aberdeen bar cluster was identified last month, has recorded an increase of just two new cases.\n\nA total of seven cases have been discovered in Ayrshire and Arran, 14 in the Forth Valley, six in the Highlands, eight in Tayside and 14 by NHS Lothian.\n\nA single new case was identified by both NHS Borders and NHS Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe number of tests carried out fell to 15,618 - the lowest total since 24 August.\n\nThe number of new confirmed cases represents 1.5% of newly tested individuals, say the figures.\n\nAs of Friday night, two people were in intensive care with coronavirus and a further 251 infected people were in hospital, although that figure includes patients who may not be receiving treatment for the disease.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is one of the world's longest and slowest pieces of music\n\nFans have flocked to a church in Germany to hear a chord change in a musical composition that lasts for 639 years.\n\nIt is the first change in the piece, As Slow As Possible, in seven years.\n\nThe work is by the avant-garde American composer, John Cage.\n\nIt began 19 years ago with a pause lasting nearly 18 months. The change of chord took place on the specially built organ on which the composition is being performed.\n\nThe Saint Burchardi Church in the city of Halberstadt started playing the music in 2001 and the last note change took place in 2013.\n\nThe music As Slow As Possible will end in 2640\n\nThe score is made up of eight pages of music, to be played at the piano or organ - very slowly.\n\nBut the wait for the next scheduled chord change will be quick in comparison - with 5 February 2022 slated as the date.\n\nThe piece will end in 2640.\n\nCage, who died in 1992 at the age of 79, wrote the piece in the 1980s.\n\nThe composer is arguably most famous for 4'33\".\n\nThe three-movement composition from 1952 is for any combination of instruments, but instructs performers not to play them. Listeners instead hear the sound of the surrounding environment during the four minutes and 33 seconds the work lasts.", "Rail firms are reassuring travellers major efforts have been taken to ensure their safety as services increase.\n\nTrains in England, Wales and Scotland were up to 90% of normal levels by Monday as schools reopen and people are encouraged to return to work.\n\nRail firms said anecdotal evidence suggested a slight increase in numbers but it was too soon for exact figures.\n\nWest Midlands Trains' Francis Thomas said there were \"big changes\", such as sanitising gel and one-way systems.\n\n\"If you haven't been to the railway station in the last couple of months you might find there's a one-way system at your local station, there's hand gel available and we've invested in anti-fogging machines that can spread an anti-viral on trains,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"And there's plenty of space. We reckon we can carry about 40% of normal loads before we start to breach social distancing.\"\n\nOne passenger told the BBC: \"I think you just have to get out… and then once you get out you kind of get rid of your fears.\"\n\nAnother reported there was plenty of space: \"I come in on the Chiltern Railways line into Marylebone and the trains were a lot, lot longer, and they've, barriered off certain seats. It wasn't too packed.\"\n\nJacqueline Starr, head of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said rail services were \"doing everything they can\" to reassure people travel was safe.\n\nThe group said no service was reported as \"close to social distancing capacity\".\n\nTrain operators across the country have designed the new timetable, taking into consideration potentially busy stations and parts of routes that will experience higher demand for travel by schoolchildren.\n\nWhere possible, more frequent services will be put on or extra carriages added to create more room.\n\nStaff will also be on hand to explain the rules on wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing to older children.\n\n\"Some train times will change so we're asking people to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times if possible,\" said Ms Starr.\n\nOver the coming weeks, rail bosses have a delicate balance to strike.\n\nThey want more passengers back on the network, but they don't want a flood of commuters crowding trains and stations.\n\nUp to now, passenger numbers have remained low - on average, about a third of what it was before the pandemic.\n\nThe railways are not going back to where they were before the pandemic. Some services won't return. But in places, at certain times, more capacity will be created.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government has been covering the huge cost of running the railways without passengers.\n\nSo there is also a financial incentive for ministers that passengers return.\n\nTrain companies are now working to manage passenger flows by warning people if a particular service is busy.\n\nSome modern trains, like those running on Southeastern and on Govia Thameslink, can monitor the weight load in carriages, allowing them to estimate the number of people on board.\n\nSoutheastern plans to share the data with passengers so they can avoid a specific train.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said that reducing the timetable during the coronavirus lockdown and then gradually increasing services again in phases had led to improvements in punctuality.\n\nPassengers are advised to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times\n\nIn particular, train operators and Network Rail had learned lessons about the effects of \"wear and tear\" on railway infrastructure, the effects \"knock-on delays\" caused to intensely-used routes, and the time trains take at each station.\n\n\"Before Covid one train was leaving a station at every second - we were congested. Obviously what this has allowed us to do is to look at the timetable and its resilience and to see where we can improve and increase punctuality and build and maintain that as we build back up the timetable,\" Robert Nisbet, regional director at the Rail Delivery Group, told the BBC.\n\nMr Nisbet added that the crisis had prompted another look at the way fares are structured: \"The need for reform has never been stronger, specifically when it comes to fares.\"\n\nHe said the regulations that governed fares needed changing and that talks were being held with government on this issue - including changes to make season tickets more flexible.\n\nAt the end of August, the government launched an advertising campaign encouraging people to go back to the workplace.\n\nBusiness leaders have warned of damage being done to city centres as people stay away from offices.\n\nHowever, many employers have no plans to return workers to the office.\n\nThe BBC questioned 50 big employers ranging from banks to retailers to get a sense of when they expected to ask employees to return to the office.\n\nOne of the main reasons given for the lack of a substantial return was that firms could not see a way of accommodating large numbers of staff while social distancing regulations were still in place.", "Video posted on social media shows a number of emergency service vehicles in Birmingham.\n\nWest Midlands Police said they were called to reports of a stabbing at around 00:30 BST on Sunday, with other stabbings reported shortly afterwards.\n\nParts of the city centre have now been cordoned off by officers.", "Bolton residents are asked not to mix or use public transport unless absolutely necessary\n\nTougher measures are being introduced in Bolton in an effort to stop coronavirus cases rising and prevent a full local lockdown.\n\nThe infection rate in the area has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people per week - the highest in England.\n\nThose aged between 18 and 49 account for more than 90% of cases.\n\nAnnouncing new and immediate measures affecting transport and social mixing, council bosses pleaded for \"everyone in Bolton to play their part\".\n\nResidents have been asked to only use public transport for essential purposes, which means travel to education, work, and essential matters such as hospital appointments.\n\nPeople have also been told not to mix with other households in any setting indoors or outdoors anywhere, except in their support bubble.\n\nIn a joint statement, council leader David Greenhalgh and chief executive Tony Oakham said: \"It has been a tough period for individuals, families and businesses but we don't want to throw away all our hard work by allowing the infection rate to rise even higher.\n\n\"Now, more than ever, we need everyone in Bolton to play their part.\n\n\"Nobody wants these restrictions to remain a moment longer than necessary and we believe these new measures will keep everyone safe and help avoid a full lockdown in Bolton.\"\n\nDr Helen Lowey, director of Public Health for Bolton Council, said: \"We are carrying out extra testing including giving out home testing kits, and are carrying out extra site visits to support businesses to be Covid secure, and carrying out enforcement where necessary.\n\nBolton's move comes as other parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire move out of stricter lockdown measures.\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.", "Protesters gathered outside the sites - including Broxbourne in Hertfordshire - owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation\n\nExtinction Rebellion (XR) activists have delayed the distribution of several national newspapers after blocking access to three printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch.\n\nProtesters targeted Newsprinters presses at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, Knowsley in Merseyside, and near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the action by demonstrators across the country was \"unacceptable\".\n\nXR used vehicles along with individual protesters chaining themselves to structures to block roads to the presses\n\nThe Sun tweeted to report copies of the paper would be delayed arriving at newsagents, adding the blockade was an \"attack on all the free press\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Sun This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Sun\n\nThe presses print the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp titles including the Sun, the Times, the Sun on Sunday, the Sunday Times, and the Scottish Sun. They also print the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the London Evening Standard.\n\nDemonstrators have accused the papers of failing to report on climate change.\n\nXR used vehicles to block roads to the printing plants, while individual protesters chained themselves to structures.\n\nVans were covered with banners with messages including \"Free the truth\" and \"Refugees are welcome here\".\n\nSome protesters chained themselves to bamboo structures to block the road outside the building in Hertfordshire\n\nBoris Johnson said on Twitter: \"A free press is vital in holding the government and other powerful institutions to account on issues critical for the future of our country, including the fight against climate change.\n\n\"It is completely unacceptable to seek to limit the public's access to news in this way.\"\n\nShadow Secretary of State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport, Jo Stephens, said: \"People have the right to read the newspapers they want.\n\n\"Stopping them from being distributed and printers from doing their jobs is wrong.\"\n\nAnd Home Secretary Priti Patel tweeted the overnight action by XR was an \"attack on democracy\".\n\nNewsprinters also condemned the protests as an \"attack on all of the free press\", which it said had affected workers going about their jobs and others such as newsagents who faced \"financial penalty\".\n\n\"Thanks to other industry partners, printing was transferred to other sites,\" it said.\n\nA protest near Motherwell passed peacefully with no arrests, police said\n\nTelegraph editor Chris Evans earlier emailed staff to say that although the paper was not XR's primary target, it was \"severely affected\".\n\nHe told them: \"I'm also very concerned - and I hope you are too - by the attack on free speech.\n\n\"Whatever your politics you should be worried by this. There are also questions for the police who perhaps placed the right of these few people to protest above the right of the rest of the people to read a free press.\"\n\nHertfordshire Police said officers were called to Great Eastern Road near the Broxbourne plant at about 22:00 BST, where they found about 100 protesters who had \"secured themselves to structures and one another\".\n\nBy 06:00 delivery lorries had still been unable to leave the site to distribute papers.\n\nOfficers said 50 people had been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.\n\nProtesters at the Knowsley site had been cleared by about 10:30 BST\n\nChief Constable Charlie Hall said the group's action had been \"an intentionally disruptive and unacceptable protest that had been pre-planned and carefully co-ordinated to create prolonged disruption to local businesses\".\n\nHertfordshire officers arrived \"within five minutes of the initial report\", he said, however, \"the nature of the protest required highly specialist resources and cutting equipment in order to safely remove the protesters from their locations\".\n\nEach one had to be individually released from a bamboo structure they had erected, Mr Hall added.\n\nAlthough business had resumed at the site, he said officers would remain there to monitor the area.\n\nMerseyside Police tweeted on Saturday morning that officers were at the Knowsley plant.\n\nThe site had been cleared of protesters by about 10:30 and 30 people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.\n\nPolice Scotland said in a statement the protest at the Eurocentral plant near Motherwell \"was peaceful and there were no issues\".\n\nXR has accused the newspapers and their owners of \"failure to report on the climate and ecological emergency\" and \"polluting national debate\" on dozens of social issues.\n\nThe Federation of Independent Retailers condemned the demonstrations, saying members left without supplies of papers were having \"to deal with angry customers who are unable to get their daily newspaper\".\n\nNational president Stuart Reddish said it also meant retailers were unable to get papers to elderly and vulnerable customers.\n\n\"Newsagents have played a critical role during Covid-19 in getting newspapers into the hands of readers and this is not helpful at a time when every sale counts,\" he added.\n\nExtinction Rebellion accused some of the papers of failing to report on climate change\n\nExtinction Rebellion has planned 10 days of action and is calling on the government to do more to act on climate change.\n\nIn an updated statement following the latest protest, a spokesman said: \"We are in an emergency of unprecedented scale and the papers we have targeted are not reflecting the scale and urgency of what is happening to our planet.\n\n\"To any small businesses disrupted by the action this morning we say, 'we're sorry. We hope that our actions seem commensurate with the severity of the crisis we face and that this day of disruption successfully raises the alarm about the greater disruption that is coming'.\"\n\nOn Thursday, more than 300 people were arrested during protests in central London.\n\nMeanwhile, climate change protesters have been warned they risk large fines if they fail to comply with coronavirus rules banning gatherings of more than 30 people.\n\nA procession of activists that set off walking from Brighton a week ago was due to march the final stretch to Parliament later.\n\nThe Met Police said risk assessments of the march in Westminster \"did not meet the required standard\" and have banned XR from taking a 20ft model boat named after teenage activist Greta Thunberg to the streets of Westminster.\n\nAt about 14:45 on Saturday a group accompanying the boat posted a video on social media saying members had been \"stopped on the A3 just after Kennington Park, by a lot of police and 14 police vans\".\n\nXR protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square in London had been largely dispersed, police said, and a spokeswoman for the Met Police said officers were also in Euston where a protester had locked themselves to a crane.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of thousands of people may wait until 2022 for justice despite a government announcement to speed up work in the Crown Courts, lawyers warn.\n\nMinisters unveiled measures - including holding suspects for longer in England and Wales - in an attempt to manage pressure on courts amid the pandemic.\n\nBut critics say delays in criminal courts are entirely of the government's making and pre-date coronavirus.\n\nMore than 9,000 trials have been put back since the UK went into lockdown.\n\nOn Sunday, the Ministry of Justice announced that it wants Parliament to pass temporary legislation to extend the time that defendants can be held in custody in England and Wales while awaiting trial.\n\nThe law is one of the most important wheels of the criminal justice machine because it ensures that justice is as swift as possible for both suspects and victims.\n\nAt present, defendants can only be held for 182 days after their first appearance in court, before there has to be an application to a judge to keep them inside for longer.\n\nUnder the government's proposal, from the end of this month that will be two months longer.\n\nIn practice, this decision builds more time into the court system - and it is part of a package of measures to manage the impact of coronavirus on the courts.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's main offices in Westminster will house a temporary court to ease the backlog\n\nJudges and court managers are struggling to find enough space to safely manage the social distancing of hundreds of people who would normally come into their buildings every day.\n\nBut criminal barristers say that the government's case is disingenuous. They say the delays to justice are of the government's own making, not because of coronavirus.\n\nThey accuse ministers of taking a political decision to introduce yet more delay - which could lead to cases collapsing if witnesses withdraw cooperation - rather than finding the cash to get more courts operational.\n\nAccording to official figures, more than 37,000 Crown Court cases were outstanding before the pandemic struck the UK.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents barristers who prosecute and defend across the country, says the backlog is now 43,000.\n\nIn recent years, the number of courtrooms in regular use has fallen as part of cuts to the courts budget - and as the number of sitting days has fallen, the backlog of cases has grown.\n\nJames Mulholland QC, chairman of the CBA, said that the delays to justice were damaging to suspects, victims and witnesses.\n\n\"You don't resolve the delays by incorporating further delays into the system,\" he said. \"The people you punish unfairly by this mechanism are not only those wrongly accused of crime, because not everyone in custody is guilty - but the witnesses who will have to wait even longer to be heard.\"\n\n\"The backlog could have gone away if the government had allowed judges to sit. Then along comes Covid, and the crisis that they've created, they can't properly address.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the government's wider package of measures will get the criminal courts system \"back to where it needs to be\".\n\n\"This temporary extension to custody time limits will keep victims and the public safe, and we should not apologise for making that our priority,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, the measures I have announced today will get the criminal courts system back to where it needs to be - reducing delays and delivering speedier justice for all.\"\n\nThe latest plan includes installing plastic screens in often cramped and confined courtrooms to help reduce the risk of virus spread.\n\nThe government has already opened 10 \"Nightingale\" court sites - additional facilities to help manage the burden. But only two are dedicated to criminal work.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has now pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards more Nightingale courts for crime.\n\nBut barristers say the money being spent on warehousing defendants could be better spent on getting existing courts operational.", "Sgt Leonard Shrubsall was part of the seven man crew of a Short Stirling Bomber\n\nThe son of a crew member of a World War Two bomber that crashed into a lake in the Netherlands has welcomed the Dutch government operation to lift it.\n\nThe Short Stirling Bomber, based at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk, was lost returning from a 1943 raid on Germany.\n\nGunner Sgt Leonard Shrubsall's son Richard, 76, thought his father's plane had been lost over the sea.\n\nBut the plane had been found in a lake and the operation to recover it started on Monday.\n\nIt is expected to take four to five weeks.\n\nSgt Shrubsall's wife Beatrice kept a tin which contained the telegram and letter from King George VI about her husband\n\nSgt Shrubsall's wife Beatrice was three months pregnant with Richard when she received a telegram saying her 30-year-old husband had failed to return from the operation over Berlin.\n\nMr Shrubsall, from Iwade in Kent, welcomed the decision of the Dutch authorities to fund the raising of the plane, which landed in Lake Markermeer near Amsterdam, after it was shot down by a German night fighter.\n\n\"I am so pleased they found the plane and are going to raise it up. I think they realise what we did for the Dutch during the war and are looking to say 'thank you'.\" he said.\n\nMr Shrubsall's wife Janice, 76, said: \"We couldn't believe it when we got the letter.\"\n\nJanice and Richard Shrubsall had thought the bomber may have crashed into the sea\n\nMr Shrubsall said: \"I never thought we'd find him. We thought he'd come down over the North Sea, but he came down near Amsterdam.\"\n\nHe said he and his family were planning to go to the Netherlands in October to find out the results of the recovery operation.\n\nHe said he was not worried about concerns from some plane enthusiasts that the planned recovery was using a grabber rather than a dam because he believed the authorities in the Netherlands \"know what they are doing\".\n\nMrs Shrubsall said after Mr Shrubsall's mother died, they found \"she kept a tin, a small oval tin, with photographs (of Sgt Shrubsall) and letters he had written, and the telegram reporting him missing\".\n\nThe crew of the bomber were photographed earlier in the war in front of another aircraft\n\nThe crew of Short Stirling BK716 were:\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.", "Police were called to The Broadway, Bexley, at 21:33 BST\n\nFive men have been injured, one seriously, in a stabbing attack in south-east London.\n\nThe group were found after police were called to The Broadway, Bexley, at 21:33 BST on Saturday.\n\nOne had suffered potentially life-threatening injuries, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nFive suspects were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, the force said. Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of students are preparing to return to university after the coronavirus lockdown\n\nA leading epidemiologist has warned the country is at a \"critical moment\" in the coronavirus pandemic, as students prepare to return to universities.\n\nDame Anne Johnson, of University College London, told the BBC data showed the highest number of detected infections was in young people.\n\nIt comes after government scientific advisors said \"significant outbreaks\" linked to universities were likely.\n\nUniversities have said steps are being taken to minimise risks on campuses.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Dame Anne, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at UCL, said: \"We are now seeing the highest number of infections or at least detected infections in younger people aged 20 to 29 and also going up to 45-year-olds.\"\n\nShe added that the data was \"not surprising\", as young people, she said, were more likely to have socialised with friends and family after lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nThe latest figures from Public Health England (PHE) showed the highest coronavirus case rates were among 15 to 44-year-olds.\n\nIn the regions with the highest overall rates, and with most local authorities on its local lockdown watchlist, young working adults aged between 20 and 29-years-old were most affected.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded 1,813 new infections, while 12 more people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's scientific advisory group, Sage, said in a document published on Friday there was a \"significant risk\" that higher education \"could amplify local and national transmission\".\n\n\"It is highly likely that there will be significant outbreaks associated with higher education, and asymptomatic transmission may make these harder to detect,\" the report added.\n\nIt comes as Bolton is placed under tougher coronavirus measures to stop the rising infection rate, now the highest in England at 99 cases per 100,000 people per week. People aged 18 to 49 account for 90% of cases.\n\nAnd in Leeds officials are urging young people to take responsibility for controlling the spread of coronavirus following an increase in house parties in the city.\n\nThe city has been added to the lockdown watchlist - along with Middlesbrough, South Tyneside, Corby and Kettering - meaning people there could face tougher restrictions if the number of infections continues to increase.\n\nCouncil leader Judith Blake said there had been an increase in music events, house parties and illegal raves, adding fines of £10,000 were being issued, and urged caution at a time when university students were set to return.\n\n\"We feel there is a bit of a complacency coming in. What we are seeing is the numbers are changing, and actually more young people are testing positive and they are spread around the city,\" she said.\n\nPolice and the council in Leeds issued seven fines to organisers of illegal raves last weekend\n\nDame Anne told the Today programme it was \"going to be incredibly important to communicate to young people the risks of transmitting coronavirus\", with particular emphasis on maintaining social distancing.\n\nShe said it should be highlighted \"that we need to avoid those situations where we have a lot of close contact, keep distanced\".\n\n\"When we can't do that wear face coverings, wash hands, and isolate when we're sick,\" she said.\n\nDame Anne also stressed the importance of infection control among vulnerable communities, particularly in care homes and hospitals.\n\nConcerns have also been raised that students could spread the virus when they travel from their family homes to university campuses.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an associate professor at the University of Warwick and expert in infection modelling, told BBC Breakfast that the UK was mostly dealing with \"really local\" outbreaks, but the movement of students across the country could cause a wave of infection, especially as they return to families for Christmas.\n\nUniversities were trying to minimise the risk on campuses with strategies including online teaching, grouping students together within year groups, and putting in place local testing and tracing policies, he said.\n\nHe said that small group teaching was still happening in person, but would take place inside large lecture theatres to allow for social distancing.\n\nThe scientific advisory group Sage has advised universities to consider providing dedicated accommodation facilities to enable students who test positive to quarantine and minimise the risk of an outbreak.\n\nUniversities have also been urged to work with local authorities in addition to conducting their own test and trace programmes.", "Elinor Barker won gold in the team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics\n\nCyclist Elinor Barker has said time spent weighing children at school after lockdown would be better used helping them find a sport they love.\n\nThe Olympic gold medallist from Cardiff said she had seen athletes starve and dehydrate themselves the day before being weighed for competitions.\n\nHer comments came after the National Obesity Forum's Tam Fry suggested checking children's weight this month.\n\nHe said weighing already happens and it would help pick up obesity early.\n\nMs Barker, 25, first outlined her views on Twitter after Mr Fry and other health experts said they wanted weigh-ins in September, and again in the spring, to keep kids on track.\n\nShe posted: \"I've seen a lot of educated, professional athletes basically starve themselves, completely dehydrate themselves the day before they've got a body comp in which we all get weighed.\"\n\nBody composition analysis is a way of examining what the body is formed of; by differentiating between fat, protein, minerals, and water a snapshot of health can be seen.\n\n\"I just don't think that shame is the way forward whatsoever,\" she said, speaking later to the BBC.\n\n\"I really think that time could be used to find sports that kids enjoy.\n\n\"Because you need to enjoy it and build it into a healthy lifestyle, you need to find something that you love.\n\n\"And I think a lot of kids don't enjoy PE because there's a lot of hand-eye co-ordination involved, a lot of competition involved in football, netball, rugby - the kind of sports you see during school.\"\n\nElinor Barker said sport needed to be \"a lifestyle\" as \"diets don't work\"\n\nShe said young people who did not enjoy these sports could learn about ones they might, including less-accessible sports such as \"canoeing or badminton or rock climbing\".\n\n\"Or any of the hundreds of sports that there are that you can get involved in,\" said Ms Barker.\n\nSport, she added, needed to be \"a lifestyle\" as \"diets don't work\".\n\nShe said there had not been a set of scales in her childhood home.\n\nWhen a number becomes \"the most important thing\", reason can go \"out of the window\", she added.\n\n\"Not having a number to track and not knowing even what I should weigh or what I had previously weighed, or anything like that, I think was super helpful in trying to just keep a healthy mindset I think,\" she said.\n\nMr Fry denied his suggestion of checking on school children's weight after the pandemic in any way amounted to \"fat shaming\".\n\nHe insisted children should be measured \"routinely\" in school to identify excess weight gain before it became a problem.\n\n\"Measuring height and weight should always be privately carried out in the school medical room and recorded or charted by the school nurse, doctor, etc,\" he said.\n\n\"The data should then inform medical intervention and the family.\n\nHe said child measurement programmes had been conducted in schools since 2005, adding they were a \"vital resource\" in knowing the health of UK children.\n\nBecause of lockdown \"we have no idea\" how the pandemic has affected children's weight, he said.\n\n\"My call to get children measured when they return to school would go towards rectifying that.\"\n\nMr Fry said he was \"absolutely sure\" obesity rates would rise because of lockdown.\n\n\"One thousand under-fours were treated for obesity in hospital last year because their weight gain was not picked up, and 25% of primary school entrants are overweight or obese,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's chief Brexit negotiator has said the government is not \"scared\" of walking away from talks without a trade deal ready to come into force in 2021.\n\nDavid Frost told the Mail on Sunday the UK would leave the transition arrangement - which sees it follow many EU rules - \"come what may\" in December.\n\nAnd Dominic Raab said the \"EU's best moment to strike a deal is now.\"\n\nBut EU negotiator Michel Barnier has said he is \"worried and disappointed\" by a lack of concessions from the UK.\n\nHe was speaking after informal talks between the pair failed to find a breakthrough.\n\nAn eighth round of formal negotiations begins on Tuesday.\n\nBoth sides want a deal agreed next month in order to have it signed off by politicians on both sides of the Channel by the end of the transition period on 31 December.\n\nDifferences remain on issues such as fishing and the level of taxpayer support the UK will be able to provide for businesses, also referred to as state aid rules.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the week ahead was \"a wake-up call for the EU\", adding \"the EU's best moment to strike a deal is now.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, he said the questions of fishing and state aid were \"the only two points holding us back\".\n\nOn fishing, he accused the EU of wanting to keep UK access to its fishing waters \"permanently low\". He also said providing state aid is \"an absolute critical element of policy making\" which UK political representatives should have control over.\n\nThe EU has said it wants full access for its boats to fish in UK waters in return for giving the UK fishing industry full access to EU markets.\n\nOn state aid, the EU has expressed concern that it could give business in the UK an unfair advantage over their European competitors and Mr Barnier has previously said the EU will require \"robust\" guarantees in this area if it is to agree a deal.\n\nLord Frost told the newspaper: \"A lot of what we are trying to do this year is to get them to realise that we mean what we say and they should take our position seriously.\"\n\nThe UK left the European Union in February but until the end of December it is in a transition period, where very little has actually changed.\n\nThe time left to negotiate a long-term arrangement between London and Brussels is tight, and the language from Lord Frost is defiant.\n\n\"We are not going to be a client state,\" he says. \"We are not going to accept provisions that lock us into the way the EU do things.\"\n\nWhile this is his first interview since the UK left the EU, officials in Brussels are familiar with his arguments. One described the remarks as \"unsurprising muscle-flexing\".\n\nSources there say what they can't accept is the UK having the freedom to undercut businesses on the continent in their own single market.\n\nThe time for compromise is running short. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but there's no guarantee it will.\n\nIn the interview, Lord Frost said wanting control over the country's money and affairs \"should not be controversial\".\n\n\"That's what being an independent country is about, that's what the British people voted for and that's what will happen at the end of the year,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think that we are scared of this at all. We want to get back the powers to control our borders and that is the most important thing.\"\n\nThe government was \"fully ready\" to trade with the EU without a formal deal, he said.\n\nIn practice, this would mean taxes on exports and customs checks.\n\nIt's a scenario which road hauliers say would cause \"severe\" disruption to supply chains, with border management systems not yet up and running to make sure consignments are cleared to proceed to the EU.\n\nLast week, the Road Haulage Association said the UK was \"sleepwalking into a disaster\".\n\nLabour's shadow cabinet office minister Rachel Reeves said \"It would be the clearest evidence yet of this government's monumental incompetence if we ended the transition period without negotiating a trade deal with our most important market.\n\n\"As we enter an economic recession, ministers need to get a grip, support UK jobs and industries and deliver the trade deal with the EU they promised the British public.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey accused the government of being \"very reckless\" and said failing to reach a deal with the EU would be \"a disaster for people's jobs\".\n\nAnd Gavin Barwell, chief of staff under Theresa May, hit back at Lord Frost's suggestion that the former prime minister's team \"blinked\" during EU negotiations tweeting: \"Given the withdrawal agreement and political declaration David Frost negotiated last autumn were 95% the work of his predecessors - and the 5% that was new involved giving in to the EU's key demand (for some customs processes when goods move GB to NI) - that quote's some brass neck.\"", "Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has formed a taskforce to try and tackle child food poverty\n\nA Conservative MP has been criticised by Marcus Rashford for saying it was a \"parent's job to feed their children\".\n\nKevin Hollinrake, who represents Thirsk and Malton, originally tweeted about the success of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\n\nOne user replied asking why it took a footballer to stand up for hungry children, prompting the MP's remark.\n\nThe footballer, who has campaigned on the issue, said the MP should talk to families before commenting.\n\nMr Hollinrake has been contacted for comment.\n\nKevin Hollinrake had originally posted about the success of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme\n\nThe North Yorkshire MP's original tweet prompted one user, Bryan Barrett, to praise the scheme, but also ask:\n\n\"Whilst we're discussing food, why does it take footballer @MarcusRashford to make a stand for the hungry children in our society? Is that not the Government's job?\"\n\nMr Hollinrake replied: \"Where they can, it's a parent's job to feed their children.\"\n\nRashford's reply, which has attracted more than 80,000 likes, said: \"I would urge you to talk to families before tweeting. To this day I haven't met one parent who hasn't wanted or felt the responsibility to feed their children.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marcus Rashford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Manchester United player successfully campaigned during the summer to extend free school meals and the 22-year-old recently joined forces with some of the biggest food brands to create a taskforce to try and cut child food poverty.\n\nAmong those who also replied was the chief executive of First Days Children's Charity, Emma Cantrell.\n\nShe said the MP's comment was typical of the \"type of ignorance that we encounter every day\" and added: \"We have also not come across a single parent who isn't desperate to provide everything their children need.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Kevin Hollinrake - Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British ex-soldier has been cleared over the death of an Iraqi teenager, after 17 years of investigations.\n\nSaeed Shabram's family say he drowned after being forced into a river by UK soldiers in Basra in 2003.\n\nBut a report published on Thursday said there was no reliable evidence that soldiers were responsible.\n\nMaj Robert Campbell, one of the accused soldiers, said he had \"finally been exonerated\" but that the allegations had \"destroyed\" his career.\n\nNone of the soldiers were ever charged over the death, despite a criminal inquiry by military police and further investigations by the now defunct Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT).\n\nBut Mr Shabram's death became the subject of a judge-led inquiry by the Iraq Fatalities Investigations team.\n\nBaroness Heather Hallett, who led the Iraq Fatalities Investigations probe, said it was possible Mr Shabram's family had been misled by false witnesses who claimed he had been pushed into the water.\n\nShe said it was \"most likely\" that Mr Shabram \"jumped or fell\" into the water, in the process of trying to escape what he believed would be \"dire punishment for looting\".\n\nShe added there was no need for her to further explore the training and instructions given to British soldiers on dealing with looters or alleged looters, and that she had no recommendations to make.\n\n\"I am relieved that after eight investigations we have finally been exonerated,\" Maj Campbell told BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.\n\n\"But I am angry that it took eight investigations, 17 years and destroyed my career,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm angry that the Army and MoD [Ministry of Defence] abandoned us. Angry that despite the two key Iraqi 'witnesses' being exposed as liars in 2006, the MoD and IHAT chose to believe them anyway and ground us into the dust.\n\n\"I'm grateful to Baroness Hallett for her findings, but I already knew I was innocent,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme in 2018, Maj Campbell said he had not had a good night's sleep for 15 years, as a result of the repeated investigations. Ex-Army chief Lord Richard Dannatt told the same programme the soldier had gone through \"a 15-year nightmare\".\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer said in a statement that he hoped Thursday's findings \"will bring some closure and reassurance to the family and veterans involved in this process\".\n\nHe added: \"Nobody wants to see service personnel or veterans facing extensive reinvestigations into the same incident, and our Overseas Operations Bill will help provide greater certainty and protections in the future.\"\n\nThe government says the new law will protect the armed forces from \"vexatious prosecutions\" but critics argue it could decriminalise torture.\n\nThe Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI) team was set up after the High Court ruled that investigations conducted by the Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT) should be followed up in the form of an inquest.\n\nIHAT had been looking into allegations made against Iraq war veterans but was shut down after the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, involved in many of the abuse allegation cases, was struck off for misconduct.\n\nThe £34m IHAT probe did not lead to any prosecutions and was branded as an \"unmitigated failure\" by MPs on the House of Commons Defence Committee.", "Boris Johnson is to call on world leaders to commit to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and secure the planet for the next generation.\n\nThe prime minister will tell a meeting hosted by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that climate action \"cannot be another victim of coronavirus\".\n\nHe will urge leaders to \"look ahead to how we will rebuild\" after the pandemic and how to \"build back better\".\n\nMr Johnson is expected to speak to leaders via video link.\n\nHis speech at Thursday's UN Climate Action Roundtable is part of the preparations for a global climate conference the UK is hosting in partnership with Italy in Glasgow in November next year.\n\nThe UN conference, known as COP26, is the most important round of climate talks since 2015, when the landmark Paris Agreement was secured, committing all countries to work to limit further rises in temperature.\n\nMr Johnson will also announce that the UK is to co-host an event with the UN on 12 December to mark the five-year anniversary of the Paris agreement.\n\nThe aim is that world leaders will use the December event to announce ambitious new targets for carbon reduction as part of the prelude to the Glasgow conference.\n\nAs part of the Paris Agreement all countries set their own targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEvery five years they are supposed to announce new, more ambitious carbon reductions and set targets for when they will be able to reach what is known as \"net zero emissions\" - when greenhouse gas emissions are avoided completely or offset by planting trees or sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere.\n\nGetting nations to agree to deeper carbon cuts is essential if the Glasgow conference is to achieve the UN's aim of putting the world on track to keep global temperature rises below 2C.\n\n\"Look ahead to how we will rebuild, and how we can seize the opportunity to build back better,\" the prime minister will say.\n\n\"Let us be the leaders who secure the very health of the planet for our children, grandchildren and generations to come.\"\n\nCOP26 was due to have been held in Glasgow in November this year, but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson wants to kick-start a year of action in the run-up to the climate conference.\n\nHe says he hopes the UK will serve as \"a launch pad for a global green industrial revolution.\"", "Scotland recorded 486 new positive coronavirus tests which represented the biggest single day's number since mass testing began.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the figures were concerning, and underlined why new restrictions had been imposed.\n\nBut she acknowledged many more people were being tested now than at the peak of the outbreak in mid-April.\n\nMs Sturgeon said 224 of the new cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, with 107 in Lanarkshire and 57 in Lothian.\n\nThe number of positive tests was 103 higher than the figure recorded on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in Scotland to 25,495.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the number in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area included a \"significant\" outbreak at Glasgow University.\n\nTesting strategy has changed radically in Scotland since the peak of the outbreak and there is now widespread community testing, including near to university campuses.\n\nOn 15 April, 1,209 people were tested, but six times that number were being tested by mid-September.\n\nFrom Wednesday, people across Scotland were banned from visiting other people's homes, with Ms Sturgeon warning that the virus risks \"spiralling out of control\" unless urgent action is taken.\n\nThe move, which had already been in force in Glasgow and other areas of the west of Scotland, means the country has tougher coronavirus restrictions than England, where people can can still meet in groups of up to six in a house.\n\nScotland, like England, will also impose a 10pm curfew on pubs and restaurants from Friday - which the trade has warned could cost jobs and force some premises to close completely.\n\nScotland is currently carrying out about 10 times more tests every day than it was at the height of the outbreak in April.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing on Wednesday, the first minister said: \"The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 486 - that is the highest number of positive cases we have ever recorded in a single day.\n\n\"It must be remembered that many more people are being tested now than was the case in the spring.\n\n\"Nevertheless, today's number represents 7.8% of people newly tested. That is obviously a real cause for concern, but it also underlines why we took very decisive and very tough action yesterday.\"\n\nMany pub and restaurant owners have criticised plan to impose a 10pm curfew from Friday\n\nMs Sturgeon also hinted that she would have taken tougher action on pubs than a 10pm curfew if she had \"the ability to bring more financial firepower to mitigate the jobs and economic impact\".\n\nBut Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross accused her of \"making the usual, tired political points\", adding: \"The middle of the pandemic is the wrong time to raise long-standing constitutional grievances.\"\n\nThe BBC understands UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is looking at options to replace the furlough scheme when it expires at the end of October.\n\nMs Sturgeon had said at the end of June that she believed Scotland was \"not far away\" from eliminating the virus.\n\nOn Wednesday, she said she could understand why many people felt like the country was now \"back to square one\" after the new nationwide restriction on visiting other homes was imposed.\n\nShe said this was \"emphatically not the case\", despite the recent resurgence in cases.\n\nThe first minister said: \"For a start, the action we took to suppress the virus over the summer meant that we have faced this resurgence from a lower base.\n\n\"That matters, and it is entirely thanks to the lockdown restrictions and all of the individual sacrifices that everyone has made.\"\n\nShe said the rise in the number of cases was accelerating, but was still \"not as rapid\" as earlier in the year.\n\nA protest against the continuing closure of soft play facilities across Scotland was held outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday\n\nAnd she insisted that the country's test and protect contact tracing system was \"working well\" and was succeeding in breaking transmission chains.\n\nHowever, Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon said the system had struggled to cope when schools returned in August, and said there was still not enough routine testing in hospitals, care homes and schools.\n\nShe also called for routine testing to be done in universities, adding: \"I think we have to be much more ambitious on testing in Scotland and right across the UK.\"\n\nMs Lennon said: \"We are still not testing enough. What we need to see in the coming days and weeks is mass testing being rolled out.\n\n\"We are in react mode and we didn't have the foresight to put measures in place\".\n\nAll 500 students at Parker House in Dundee are self-isolating\n\nSeveral universities across Scotland have been dealing with outbreaks of the virus in recent days - with 500 students at a hall of residence in Dundee being told to self-isolate after a positive case and several suspected cases emerged.\n\nIn a direct appeal to students, Ms Sturgeon said they must follow the rules on self-isolating if told to do so.\n\nAnd she said the government would not hesitate to toughen the rules for colleges and universities if necessary.\n\nIt later emerged that 124 students at the University of Glasgow had tested positive since the start of term, with social interaction in Freshers Week thought to be largely to blame.", "Truck drivers will need a permit to enter Kent after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has said.\n\nThe announcement comes after a letter from cabinet minister Michael Gove warned that queues 7,000-trucks-long could clog up roads around the port of Dover and Channel Tunnel.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Gove said the Kent Access Permit system would be enforced by police and ANPR cameras.\n\nIt is intended to ensure drivers have all the paperwork they need, he said.\n\nDrivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to apply for the permits online and show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nMr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, responsible for no-deal planning, wrote to logistics groups with the government's \"reasonable worst-case scenario\" planning for when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union rules on 1 January.\n\nIn that scenario, he said just half of big businesses and 20% of small businesses would be ready for the strict application of new EU requirements at the border.\n\n\"In those circumstances that could mean between only 30% and 60% of laden HGVs would arrive at the border with the necessary formalities completed for the goods on board,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"They'd therefore be turned back by the French border authorities, clogging the Dover to Calais crossing.\"\n\nHe said it could lead to delays of up to two days for drivers waiting to cross the Channel. Although he said those queues were likely to subside after businesses learned from seeing their cargo denied access to the continent.\n\nThe transition period is due to expire at the end of the year but only a quarter of businesses are \"fully ready\" for the post-Brexit arrangements, Mr Gove said.\n\nImports will also be disrupted in January, according to the letter sent to the freight industry by Mr Gove.\n\nIt also raises the prospect of a winter spike in Covid-19 leading to absences of port and border staff.\n\nLabour's Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rachel Reeves, said: \"It is incredible that ministers are only now admitting to their plans to arrest British truckers for entering Kent without new travel passports.\n\nWith just over three months to go, how are businesses meant to prepare amid this Conservative carnival of incompetence?'\"\n\nThe picture of chaos at the border might be familiar from a similar set of projections made for no-deal Brexit a year ago as part of what was known as Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nThe government says this is not a prediction but an illustration of what could be reasonably expected.\n\nMoreover, Mr Gove told parliament on Wednesday the government was \"absolutely determined to do everything that we can to secure a deal\".\n\nAccording to the Cabinet Office document, without a free trade deal and in its reasonable worst-case scenario, there may be \"maximum queues of 7,000 port-bound trucks in Kent and associated maximum delays of up to two days\".\n\n\"Both imports and exports could be disrupted to a similar extent,\" it says.\n\nThe EU is expected to impose full goods controls on the UK, stopping all freight without the correct documentation at the end of the transition period on 1 January.\n\nThe disruption is assumed to build in the first two weeks of January, and could last three months, or longer should France rigorously apply Schengen passport checks on hauliers at Dover and the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe purpose of this stark communication is to try to get traders to act now to get ready for new border formalities that could help mitigate the disruption.\n\nMr Gove told the industry that this needs to happen irrespective of whether or not there is a deal in the UK-EU trade negotiations.\n\nIn response the freight industry says putting in place the measures needed to avoid border delays will be \"a huge challenge for government and industry\".\n\nLogistics UK, representing road, rail, sea and air haulage firms says it is urging businesses to quickly install and understand the new processes they will need to use.\n\nBut firms need early access to both UK and EU systems so that they can conduct testing and training before 1 January, it says.\n\nA recent meeting between the industry and government was described as a \"washout\", with insiders describing the relationship as \"fraught\" and hauliers fearful that they were being cast as the \"fall guys\" for delays and disruption likely in January.\n\nThere are further issues should there be no trade deal agreed. Hauliers would have to rely on special permits rationed by the Department for Transport, though a mutually beneficial deal here is possible.\n\nBut discussions on these issues await settlement of the impasse in negotiations on state aid and fisheries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government is \"not pointing the finger\" at hauliers, Michael Gove told the BBC\n\nIndustry sources have raised the possibility that the UK would have to sign up to EU rules limiting driver hours, in order to get access to EU roads.\n\nAnd there is a specific new reference to France imposing strict passport checks at the \"juxtaposed controls\" currently designed to offer seamless travel across the Channel.\n\n\"There also remains a risk of continuing disruption caused by Schengen controls being applied rigorously at the juxtaposed controls at the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel,\" the document says.", "Former One Direction singer Zayn Malik and US model Gigi Hadid have welcomed a \"healthy and beautiful\" baby girl.\n\nAnnouncing the birth on Twitter, Malik, 27, shared a black-and-white picture of the baby girl's tiny hand clutching his finger.\n\nHe wrote alongside the image: \"The love I feel for this tiny human is beyond my understanding.\"\n\nHadid, 25, confirmed she was expecting in April while appearing on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\n\nShe told the US chat show host that she and Malik were \"happy and grateful for everyone's well wishes and support\".\n\nThe couple have been dating on and off since late 2015.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by zayn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMalik is the third member of One Direction to become a father. Louis Tomlinson welcomed son Freddie in January 2016, while Liam Payne has a three-year-old son, Bear, with singer Cheryl.\n\nThe announcement came hours after the singer teased his first new music since 2018 album Icarus Falls.\n\nMalik tweeted a short section of the track Better, revealing it will arrive on Friday.\n\nEarlier this week, Hadid's father Mohamed wrote in a caption on Instagram that he was \"waiting patiently\" for the baby.\n\nHe added that \"grandpa\" was \"here and waiting to meet you... so excited\".", "Nicola Sturgeon has written to Boris Johnson calling for urgent four-nation talks to tighten lockdown restrictions further.\n\nThe Scottish first minister cited scientific opinion that stronger action was needed to control coronavirus.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said more financial support was necessary to cushion the impact on businesses.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor prepares to unveil plans to minimise job losses as new Covid restrictions come into force.\n\nRishi Sunak is expected to replace the furlough scheme, which is set to expire next month..\n\nIn July, about 700,000 workers in Scotland, many in the hospitality sector, were still receiving some or all of their income through the scheme.\n\nThe Scottish government has already gone further than the Westminster government in introducing restrictions to limit the spread of the virus, by banning different households from meeting inside their homes.\n\nAs in other parts of the UK, a 22:00 \"curfew\" for bars and restaurants will be introduced in Scotland later this week - but at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon hinted she believed this did not go far enough.\n\nShe said if more money had been available to help the hospitality sector it was \"likely\" she would have come to a \"different decision\".\n\nIn her letter to the prime minister, she said the collective agreement to drive down Covid to the lowest possible level was \"particularly welcome\".\n\nBut she continued: \"While all four governments announced new restrictions yesterday, there is clearly a significant strand of scientific opinion to the effect that bringing R back below one and the virus back under control will require measures beyond those which any of us have so far announced.\n\n\"In my view, there is considerable force in that opinion.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has hinted that a 22:00 curfew on pubs and restaurants may not go far enough\n\nMs Sturgeon said experience from earlier this year had shown how essential acting \"quickly and decisively\" against the virus had been.\n\n\"In other words, if we believe further action will be required there is nothing to be gained - and potentially much to be lost, including lives - from delay.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the four nations should discuss what further actions might be necessary, what support was required for affected sectors and what arrangements could be put in place to ensure that devolved administrations were not constrained when making what they judge to be essential public health decisions.\n\nThe Scottish government has repeatedly called for greater borrowing powers as it seeks to alleviate the impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's letter, the UK government highlighted the support being given through the Treasury to mitigate the effects of the pandemic.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The prime minister held a Cobra meeting on Tuesday which was attended by the leaders of the devolved administrations.\n\n\"This crisis has shown clearly the value of Scotland being part of a strong United Kingdom, with the UK government providing the bulk of Covid testing in Scotland, the UK's armed forces playing a key role in providing support for Scottish communities, and the UK Treasury playing an absolutely critical role in supporting jobs and business across Scotland.\n\n\"We will continue to tackle this pandemic as one United Kingdom.\"", "Sir Harold was one of Britain and America's best-known journalists\n\nThalidomide campaigners have paid tribute to investigative journalist Sir Harold Evans, who has died aged 92.\n\nThe British-American journalist, who led an investigation into the drug, died of heart failure in New York, his wife Tina Brown said.\n\nDavid Mason, whose daughter Louise Medus-Mansell was a Thalidomide victim, said Sir Harold played a \"pivotal\" role in securing compensation for survivors.\n\nSir Harold oversaw many campaigns as editor of the Sunday Times.\n\nHis 70-year career also saw him work as a magazine founder, book publisher, author and, at the time of his death, Reuters' editor-at-large.\n\nSir Harold's Thalidomide campaign was launched in 1972 and eventually forced the UK manufacturer, Distillers Company - at the time the Sunday Times's biggest advertiser - to increase the compensation received by victims.\n\nThalidomide, which first appeared in the UK in 1958, was prescribed to expectant mothers to control the symptoms of morning sickness.\n\nHowever, hundreds of these mothers in Britain, and many thousands across the world, gave birth to children with missing limbs, deformed hearts, blindness and other problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Mason's daughter, Mrs Medus-Mansell, was born without arms and legs after her mother was prescribed Thalidomide during pregnancy.\n\nMr Mason told the BBC his first meeting with Sir Harold was \"pivotal\" to his campaign to secure further compensation for his daughter and other survivors.\n\n\"I'd been fighting this campaign for many years before meeting Harry, but the idea of the press campaign, and bringing public awareness to my campaign, was absolutely vital,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no doubt that without Harry's expertise, involvement and leadership with that, I would not have won the Thalidomide campaign.\n\n\"Week on week he was bashing Distillers, and brought about tremendous national coverage, and tremendous sympathy for the victims of Thalidomide, which helped me enormously.\"\n\nHe added that Sir Harold was a \"wonderful campaigning journalist, and a thoroughly nice man, very popular with everybody. He really was invaluable and I'll miss him greatly.\"\n\nMrs Medus-Mansell, who also campaigned for the rights of Thalidomide victims, died aged 56 in 2018 after years of poor health.\n\nLouise Medus-Mansell, pictured with Olivia Newton-John, was one of the last babies born with the effects of the drug\n\nGlen Harrison, a Thalidomide survivor and deputy chairman of the campaign group Thalidomide UK, also paid tribute following Sir Harold's death. He described him as \"an outstanding human being for our cause\".\n\nIn addition to helping to secure extra compensation for victims, Sir Harold fought a legal injunction to stop the Sunday Times from revealing the drug's developers had not gone through the proper testing procedures.\n\nSpeaking about his campaigning in a 2010 interview with the Independent, Sir Harold said: \"I tried to do - all I hoped to do - was to shed a little light. And if that light grew weeds, we'd have to try and pull them up.\"\n\nAfter 14 years as editor of the Sunday Times, Sir Harold went on to become the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveller magazine and later president of the publishing giant, Random House.\n\nOne of Britain and America's best-known journalists, Sir Harold also wrote several books about the press and in 2003 was given a knighthood for his services to journalism.\n\nA year earlier, a poll by the Press Gazette and the British Journalism Review named him the greatest newspaper editor of all time.\n\nAuthor and editor Tina Brown said on Twitter that her husband was \"the most magical of men\" and had been \"my soulmate for 39 years\".\n\nSir Harold Evans was appointed editor-at-large at the Reuters news agency in 2011\n\nSir Harold forged his reputation as editor of the Northern Echo in the 1960s, where his campaigns resulted in a national screening programme for cervical cancer and a posthumous pardon for Timothy Evans, wrongly hanged for murder in 1950.\n\nDespite his many notable campaigns, Sir Harold said newspaper campaigns should be selective, and he deplored what he saw as the invasion of privacy by the British tabloid press.\n\nAfter editing the Sunday Times Sir Harold edited the Times, but left in 1981 following a public falling-out with the paper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, over editorial independence.\n\nSir Harold and his second wife Tina Brown pictured in 1989, after their move to New York City\n\nWriting about their relationship, Sir Harold described his decision not to \"campaign against\" Mr Murdoch's takeover of the papers as \"the worst in my professional career\".\n\nHe added: \"My principal difficulty with Murdoch was my refusal to turn the paper into an organ of Thatcherism. That is what the Times became.\"\n\nHarry Evans personified not only the noblest possibilities of journalism, but of social mobility in the 20th Century too.\n\nBorn into what he called \"the respectable working-class\", his route to national and international acclaim via the streets of Manchester and Darlington - the latter as editor of the Northern Echo - is sadly a route few take today.\n\nHe embodied the most romantic ideal of an editor: a humble hack taking on mighty forces through the dogged pursuit of truth.\n\nThough he later fell out with Rupert Murdoch, and never forgave him, in his 14 years at the helm of the Sunday Times he redefined journalism itself.\n\nHe was a master craftsman, in a trade where practical wisdom was precious and vital; and he combined a flair for layout, projection and design with a remarkable nose for a story, particularly those with human suffering at their heart.\n\nBut above all he was brave. During his reign, it seemed no super-rich bully or powerful government could intimidate him.\n\nIn our era of information overload, diminished trust in journalism, and fewer people willing to pay for news, the nostalgia for what he represented is impossible to resist.\n\nAs he put it himself in the title of his wonderful memoir from 2009, he reached the top in Vanished Times.\n\nHe had the resources, and the time, to hold power to account - and he did uniquely well. Mixed with his charm and sheer decency, this put journalism itself in a debt to him that will never be fully serviced.\n\nIan Murray, executive director of the Society of Editors, said: \"Sir Harold Evans was a giant among journalists who strove to put the ordinary man and woman at the heart of his reporting.\"\n\nAfter leaving the Times, Sir Harold and his second wife, Tina Brown, moved to New York.\n\nShe edited Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, while he became founding editor of Conde Nast magazine.\n\nIn 2011, at the age of 82, Sir Harold was appointed editor-at-large at Reuters, the organisation's editor-in-chief describing him as \"one of the greatest minds in journalism\".", "World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was knocked out of the European Masters by Irish teenager Aaron Hill.\n\nThe 18-year-old is ranked 115th in the world after turning professional in March and was not born when O'Sullivan, 44, won his first world title in 2001.\n\nIn his first match since winning his sixth world title in August, O'Sullivan fought back from 3-1 down to lead 4-3 but Hill took the last two frames to clinch a 5-4 win in the second round.\n\n\"If I'd lost after being 3-1 up, I'd have been disappointed. I am just so pleased with that victory.\"\n\nO'Sullivan looked to have survived a scare when he made a break of 102 to go 4-3 up in Milton Keynes, and then scored first during the deciding frame.\n\nBut Hill produced a break of 78 to wipe out a 28-point deficit and book a meeting with world number 33 Matthew Stevens in the last 32.\n\n\"I didn't just go out there and be happy to be there - I still wanted to win the match,\" added Hill.\n\n\"Everyone back home, my family and my friends must be buzzing. I just looked at my phone and I think it is going to take until Christmas to reply to everyone.\"\n\nO'Sullivan received a bye in the first round after five players had to withdraw because of coronavirus.\n\nThree-time world champion Mark Williams was also knocked out by a tour rookie on Thursday, losing 5-4 to 24-year-old Peter Devlin.\n\nAfter reaching the World Championship quarter-finals last month, O'Sullivan was asked if he would have believed he and Williams, 45, would still be performing at the top level 26 years after first facing each other.\n\n\"Probably not if you asked me then but when you look at the standard of play, I would say yes,\" he told BBC Two at the time.\n\n\"If you look at the younger players coming through, they are not that good really. Most of them would do well as half-decent amateurs, not even amateurs. They are so bad.\n\n\"A lot of them you see now, you look at them and think, 'I would have to lose an arm and a leg to fall out of the top 50'. That is why we are still hovering around, because of how poor it is down that end.\"\n\nHill responded to O'Sullivan's comments after Thursday's win, saying his words were \"in the back of my head\".\n\n\"I didn't worry about it,\" he added. \"I just said to myself when he said it, that one day I am going to show him what I can do. I think today was the day.\"", "Several major developers have formed a coalition to fight Apple over its app store policies.\n\nThe Coalition for App Fairness counts Spotify, Epic Games and Tinder owner Match Group among its founding members.\n\nIt claims Apple \"taxes consumers and crushes innovation\", criticising what it calls anti-competitive policies.\n\nApple, which is embroiled in legal action with some of the members, has long denied these accusations.\n\nGoogle, which runs the Play app store on Android, is not mentioned in the group's launch statement but is named elsewhere on its website, and accused of similar policies.\n\nThe coalition has been established as an independent non-profit organisation, and is open to other developers - regardless of size - to join.\n\nAlongside an 11-point \"vision\", the group has identified three key issues it will campaign on:\n\nSome of the founding members are longstanding public critics of Apple's policies in particular.\n\nEpic Games has in recent months been involved in a very public spat with Apple - and to a lesser extent, Google - after it deliberately breached their guidelines and began a legal battle over them.\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\nSpotify, meanwhile, has filed a complaint with the European Union against Apple's policies, while Tile has previously accused Apple of anti-competitive behaviour, making antitrust claims in the US and Europe.\n\nBasecamp, another member, is behind Hey - an email app which found itself at the centre of an enormous public dispute over the App Store earlier this year.\n\nAnd Prepear, a listed member, is a relatively small firm which recently found itself defending its logo from a trademark dispute after Apple said the pear shape was too similar to its own logo.\n\nIn a statement about the coalition, Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney said: \"The basic freedoms of developers are under attack.\n\n\"We are an advocate for any company that's ready to reclaim its rights and challenge the anti-competitive behaviours that exist on app stores today.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jaden \"Wolfiez\" Ashman became the youngest esports player to win a million dollars\n\nMatch Group, which owns Tinder and other dating apps, said it was joining because Apple's in-app purchase system \"forces consumers to pay higher prices by inserting Apple between app developers and their users, leading to customer confusion and dissatisfaction that has far-reaching implications for our businesses\".\n\nOther founding members include Blix, Blockchain.com, Deezer, the European Publishers Council, News Media Europe, Protonmail and SkyDemon.\n\nApple has yet to comment directly on the formation of the new group.\n\nBut it maintains that its 30% cut of App Store sales is in line with industry standards and other digital marketplaces.\n\nIt has also recently released new statistics on its investment in user security and privacy last year, including:\n\nSuch investments are one of the arguments Apple puts forward for retaining control of its ecosystem, arguing that it leads to increased security and safety for users.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe closure of the Ford engine plant in Bridgend has been a \"grieving process\" for the workforce and is \"devastating for the local community\", says a worker and union official.\n\nThe 1,700 highly-skilled, well-paid jobs \"can't be replaced\", said Andrew Pearson, Unite convener at the site.\n\nFord in Bridgend had been a driving force in the Welsh automotive industry since it began operating 40 years ago.\n\nThe closure decision in 2019 was blamed on \"changing customer demand and cost\".\n\nWorkers leaving the plant when the closure was announced in June 2019\n\nThe Welsh Government said at the time it was \"absolutely livid\" at Ford's decision and that it \"expected more\" from the car giant.\n\nCurrently, 999 staff are still working at the plant and BBC Wales believes a large number are expected to finish on Thursday with the others following on Friday with the final closure of the plant.\n\nAndrew Pearson said there were workers from 23 different Senedd constituencies\n\nMr Pearson, who has worked at the factory for 14 years, said: \"It was seen as a job for life and it was certainly life changing.\n\n\"I wanted to work for them for another 20 years and that's been taken away from me. So it's really tough for me personally and is tough for my family.\"\n\nHe added that Friday would be \"very, very emotional and upsetting\" for everyone at the plant and the local community.\n\nBut the Unite representative said workers at Ford lived in 23 constituencies across Wales so the impact would be felt well beyond Bridgend too.\n\nWhile Mr Pearson remains critical of Ford's decision to close the plant in the first place, he argued the company had done a lot to support workers over the past 15 months.\n\nThat included funding for retraining, skills development and community projects.\n\nA task force was set up to try to help bring new jobs and new companies to the area as well as support workers and the local community.\n\n\"We can't replace the high-value jobs,\" Mr Pearson argued. \"They're very well paid jobs, we're not going to be able to replace them. These jobs don't come about too often.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind how the Ford engine plant in Bridgend was built between 1977 and 1980.\n\nBridgend, on the M4 corridor, has above average numbers working in manufacturing\n\nAt 76%, the employment rate in Bridgend is close to the average for Great Britain and a little higher than Wales as a whole (74%).\n\nBut it is heavily dependent on manufacturing, a sector that faces a great deal of uncertainty due to Covid-19 and Brexit.\n\nThe latest figures show 15.5% of employees work in the sector in Bridgend compared with 11.4% for Wales and 8.1% for Great Britain.\n\nAston Martin has employed hundreds of workers in the Vale of Glamorgan but there was disappointment in July when Ineos announced it was suspending plans to build its new 4x4 in Bridgend.\n\nTraining opportunities have also been limited due to the pandemic, according to Unite.\n\nThe trade union said nobody could blame the workforce for the end of production at Ford Bridgend.\n\n\"I want to make sure that we left with our heads held high,\" concluded Mr Pearson.\n\n\"This is about a global decision made by Ford Motor Company and it's certainly nothing to do with the performance or the commitment from our members in the plant over the last few years.\"\n\nTim Williams, chief executive of the Welsh Automotive Forum, said there was hope from the news that electric car battery firm Britishvolt was bringing hundreds of jobs to the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"We have to make sure companies are anchored here in Wales and stay in Wales,\" said Mr Williams.\n\n\"The industry has a future of course but it's going to be down over the next couple of years.\"", "A bull shark is believed to have carried out the attack on Mr Eddy\n\nA pregnant woman dived into the sea in the Florida Keys to save her husband from an attacking shark.\n\nPolice said Andrew Charles Eddy, 30, was snorkelling on Sombrero Reef but was bitten by the shark almost immediately after entering the water.\n\nHis wife, Margot Dukes-Eddy, saw the shark's dorsal fin and her husband's blood filling the water, and dived in \"without hesitation\", officials said.\n\nAfter she had pulled Mr Eddy to safety, other family members called 911.\n\nHe was airlifted to a trauma centre in Miami on Sunday where he was treated for severe shoulder injuries.\n\nRescue official Ryan Johnson told local media that Mr Eddy was in a \"critical condition\" when they arrived.\n\nThe couple, from the state of Georgia, were on holiday in Florida with family and had been sailing on a private boat together.\n\nA few others from their group were already snorkelling when Mr Eddy got into the water to join them.\n\nDeputy Christopher Aguanno wrote in the police report that there were other people, not from their group, snorkelling in the area as well.\n\nWitnesses later reported seeing a large shark about eight to 10ft long, which looked like a bull shark, swimming in the area earlier in the day.\n\nFlorida has the highest number of shark attacks in the world, with 21 reported in 2019, according to the Florida Museum. However, shark attacks worldwide are extremely rare.", "Brexit protests on the the River Tyne in Newcastle\n\nAt any other time the prospect of the biggest change in the UK's trading arrangements with its biggest economic partner would dominate the thinking of almost every business.\n\nBut Covid-ravaged firms who have been in a fight for survival for the last six months have found it hard to find the time, money or bandwidth to give much thought to Brexit.\n\nAlthough the UK left the EU in January, it's business as usual until 31 December when the transition period ends and the reality of Brexit becomes apparent.\n\nWith just 98 days to go until then, a new survey from the British Chambers of Commerce has found that half of UK firms that trade internationally have not analysed the impact Brexit may have on their business.\n\nNick Hart from Hart Door systems in Newcastle confesses that he is one of them.\n\n\"To be totally honest, before you called me, I hadn't really thought about it. We don't do a lot of trade directly with the EU but a lot of my customers in the UK do. The big unknown is how much it will affect them and in turn how that will affect us,\" he told me.\n\nOne of his biggest customers is Nissan, which employs 7,000 people directly at its plant in Sunderland. And that supports tens of thousands more in the supply chain. Nissan exports more than 50% of the cars it makes in the North East to the EU. The Japanese firm has repeatedly warned that if the UK and the EU fail to strike a trade deal, the 10% tariff the EU imposes on all cars made anywhere outside the bloc could threaten the plant's future.\n\nNot far down the road, Ryan Maughan runs Avid Technology, which supplies components for electrical vehicles and relies on the EU for two thirds of its orders. If there is no deal he would reluctantly have to move a significant amount of production to the EU. He says the stress of that - on top of surviving Covid - has been immense.\n\n\"Covid has been a nightmare - all consuming. And now we've somehow got to find the extra time and resources to plan for Brexit. The stress for me is that I know I should be doing something to get ready, but I don't know what that is. I love the North East I want my business to stay here but if there's a bad deal or no deal that involves tariffs, I will have to move some of the operations to mainland Europe.\"\n\nThe North East is the part of the UK that is most reliant on EU exports. Nowhere else does the amount it sells to Europe exceed what it buys from Europe to such a degree. Nowhere else then has potentially more to lose from a failure to reach a deal.\n\nHowever, the North East is also a prime candidate for the kind of direct investment the government wants to make in the regions as part of its \"levelling up\" agenda, without any interference or permission needed from Brussels. One of the biggest stumbling blocks to securing a deal is a row over \"state aid\".\n\nThe EU doesn't want UK government-backed companies enjoying a competitive advantage. If the UK wants tariff-free access to EU markets, it must play on a level playing field.\n\nThe irony here is that EU governments spend far more on supporting the private sector than the UK has ever done. But Newcastle-based lawyer Alex Rose, a specialist in state-aid law, said that while the UK could do most of the things it says it wants to do under the current EU guidelines, if you are leaving, you might as well get to write your own rules.\n\n\"There is a really good opportunity here to create a Rolls-Royce state aid regime that will allow us to fund our priorities,\" he said. \"Those priorities might be environmental, they might be 'levelling up' - creating jobs in areas that have been economically underperforming. Ultimately, politically the referendum result seems to require a UK-specific state aid regime.\"\n\nBrian Palmer owns Tharsus Robotics, which makes high-tech equipment for Ocado - among others - and has just sealed a major contract with BMW. He says that is proof that UK companies can compete come what may - and agrees that state aid can help if done right.\n\n\"Well-targeted state aid can really help growing businesses be brave, make investment decisions ahead of time and really stretch themselves. So, if the government has a really clear policy and uses state aid wisely, I think that can be of benefit, but it cannot be at the risk of the reputation of the country as a trading nation,\" he said.\n\nBut to others it's a strange altar on which to sacrifice a trade deal. Why scupper a deal that almost all businesses say they want for the freedom to do something the UK has historically rarely done?\n\nTalks are still ongoing and both the EU and UK say they want a deal but progress is hard to discern. The chances of a no-deal Brexit have arguably never been higher.\n\nBattered bruised and fighting for survival, are businesses ready for a deeply uncertain three months ahead?\n\nNot according to Richard Swart from Berger Closures - another North East-based company enjoying success in a manufacturing niche - supplying the seals that keep the lids on drums and barrels. And 25% of those seals are sold to the EU.\n\n\"It's been an incredibly strange and depressing six months with the focus on survival which has pushed Brexit right down the list of priorities,\" he said.\n\nBut, surely business has had ample time before Covid struck to prepare for a range of Brexit outcomes. Why complain when there is 98 days to go? You hope for the best but prepare for the worst - right?\n\n\"We have talked to our customers and they have made it very clear that we must bear any additional costs of a no-deal. Remember in this case it is the government who has created the uncertainty,\" he said.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce agrees to an extent, saying there is a limit to what business can do when there are so many basic unanswered questions. What labelling will UK food and drink of EU export require? How will foreign-sourced components in UK-finished goods be treated? How will development funds that used to come from the EU be replaced? These and other mind, money, and time-draining issues are something the government could help with.\n\nThe BCC says the government's campaign encouraging business to 'Check, Change, Go' gives the impression that Brexit preparation is like getting an MOT - whereas the reality is that for many businesses, it's \"more akin to planning a moon landing\".\n\nMission control has other problems on its mind right now.", "From Thursday pubs, cafes and restaurants in Wales must stop serving alcohol at 22:00 every night\n\nPubs and other licenced venues will have to shut at 22:20 in Wales under new rules confirmed on Thursday night.\n\nIt is 20 minutes later than First Minister Mark Drakeford announced on Tuesday.\n\nVenues will need to stop selling alcohol at 22:00, under new rules aimed at tackling rising levels of coronavirus.\n\nThe law says people must be seated while eating and drinking, and while they are being served.\n\nPeople must wear a face mask while not sitting down and licensed premises cannot reopen until 06:00 under a law that came into effect at 18:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe move means rules are now different to England, where pubs and restaurants must close at 22:00.\n\nEarlier, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the regulations would mean people needed to drink up and move on.\n\nHe said: \"We do recognise that if you simply had businesses open as long as they wish to be then you could have people ordering lots of alcohol and carrying on drinking.\n\n\"And equally, from a business point of view, they'll want some certainty about when it needs to end so they don't have to manage that sort of behaviour themselves.\"\n\nBut he said the main cause of the virus spreading was people visiting other people's homes:\n\n\"This is still really about how we understand the way coronavirus is spreading,\" he said.\n\n\"It is still largely in people's homes, having more contact than we should do with more people.\n\n\"And then pubs, restaurants and licensed facilities can be an additional source of where it can go.\"\n\nIt emerged on Wednesday that premises would have to stop selling alcohol at 22:00, rather than close.\n\nDan Warder, who owns two restaurants in Tenby and Narbeth in Pembrokeshire, and is part of the Welsh Independent Restaurant Collective, told BBC Radio Wales it was \"a little bit of a relief\" to have clarity that 22:00 was for last orders rather than closing.\n\nHe said getting clarity on rules for the industry had been an \"ongoing saga\", adding: \"It is an ever-changing landscape, there's lots of things we have to deal with at the moment and this is just another.\"", "Pharmacists and GP surgeries are having to limit flu jabs to the most at-risk groups due to increased demand.\n\nThe Boots chain has suspended its appointment booking system for anyone outside of the vulnerable groups, which include people aged over 65.\n\nIt said it faces \"unprecedented demand\" for vaccinations, but NHS England says enough stocks are available.\n\nThis year, up to 30 million people can be vaccinated in England, the government says.\n\nVaccines are delivered in batches to pharmacies and GPs so priority is given to the most at-risk groups.\n\nWithin the next few weeks it is likely that winter flu will start to circulate alongside the coronavirus.\n\nThis will potentially present an additional challenge to an already stretched healthcare system.\n\nThis year in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for the first time the flu vaccine will be offered to the over-50s - over-55s in Scotland.\n\nBut this will only be after it has been given to those who normally get a free NHS jab - including the over-65s, pregnant women, and people with conditions like lung disease or diabetes.\n\nThis year, the free vaccination is being offered in England to:\n\nThe NHS offers the flu vaccine via your GP or your local pharmacy.\n\nIn a statement, Boots said: \"This year, our customers have been more conscious than ever about protecting the health of themselves and their families, and protecting against flu has been front-of-mind for many of us.\n\n\"As a result, we have seen more people than ever booking early to get their flu vaccinations.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"Delivery of flu vaccinations is phased over the autumn and into winter, and priority is rightly given to those who are most at-risk with others being asked to wait to later in the year.\"\n\nDeliveries of flu vaccines for at-risk groups will continue in all areas in England throughout the winter months.\n\nThe Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) says other independent pharmacies have also had to slow down the rate of vaccination.\n\nRobbie Turner, RPS Director of Pharmacy, said: \"This year many more people are anticipating receiving a flu vaccination and they need assurance that sufficient stocks are available.\n\n\"We will continue to talk with government on the supply of vaccines, and how pharmacists can support those who are most at risk.\"\n\nProfessor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said widespread flu vaccination would play a key role in preventing the NHS being overwhelmed this winter.\n\nHe said the government must ensure there is \"an adequate supply of vaccines for everyone who wants one\" among patients now eligible and called for guidance on who should be prioritised for the flu jab if supplies are limited.\n\nSupplying the vaccine - which needs to be refrigerated - is a logistical challenge. But NHS England says there are adequate stocks in place.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it will issue guidance shortly on how pharmacists and GPs can access additional stockpiles if needed.\n\nIt is unclear how bad flu might be this winter - some years are worse than others - but experts say the vaccine is a good match for the strain of flu that will be circulating.\n\nFlu, like coronavirus, is a viral infection that is passed on through coughs and sneezes. Social distancing, masks and handwashing should help reduce the spread of both.\n\nMost people with flu recover at home in a week, but people with chronic conditions or who are over 65 should call NHS 111.\n\nIf you think you have either flu or Covid-19, stay at home and self-isolate.\n\nBook a coronavirus test if you have:", "Google has removed images on Street View that allowed people to virtually walk to the summit of Uluru, in Australia's Northern Territory.\n\nParks Australia had requested user-generated images from the sacred site be immediately removed.\n\nAnd Google said it had removed them as soon as it had been alerted.\n\nUluru was closed to visitors a year ago at the request of the indigenous Anangu people, to whom the Australian government returned ownership in 1985.\n\nOnce better-known internationally as Ayers Rock, it is linked to many traditional stories of the Anangu.\n\nGoogle's Street View function provides 360-degree images of different environments, alongside people's own pictures.\n\nA Parks Australia official told ABC News it had \"alerted Google Australia to the user-generated images from the Uluru summit that have been posted on their mapping platform\".\n\nAnd it had requested the content \"be immediately removed in accordance with the wishes of Anangu, Uluru's traditional owners, and the national park's film and photography guidelines\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uluru tourist: \"It is probably disrespectful but we climbed\"\n\nIn response, Google said: \"We understand Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is deeply sacred to the Anangu people.\n\n\"As soon as Parks Australia raised their concerns about this user contribution, we removed the imagery.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the content pre-dated the October 2019 ban on people climbing the monolith.\n\nSammy Wilson, who chaired the national park board which decided to close it to visitors, said at the time: \"It is an extremely important place, not a playground or theme park like Disneyland.\"\n\nBut huge crowds gathered in the weeks before the ban, with some social-media users capturing lines of visitors queuing up to make the climb.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Kiwanuka said he was \"so excited\" to win the Mercury Prize\n\nSinger-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has won the 2020 Mercury Prize for his soul-searching third record, Kiwanuka.\n\nA lush, immersive album of politicised soul, it sees the star exploring themes of self-doubt, faith and civil rights.\n\nReleased last November, Kiwanuka beat best-sellers like Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia and Stormzy's Heavy Is The Head to win the £25,000 prize.\n\n\"It's blown my mind,\" said the singer. \"Music is all I've ever wanted to do, so I'm over the moon.\"\n\nKiwanuka won on his third attempt, having been nominated for each of his previous albums: 2012's Home Again and 2016's Love & Hate.\n\n\"I was kind of resigned to the fact [that] if I don't win one this year, probably I'll never win one,\" he told BBC 6 Music.\n\nKiwanuka's victory was revealed by Radio 1's Annie Mac on The One Show, after Covid-19 restrictions made the traditional award ceremony impossible.\n\nThe DJ, who was on the judging panel alongside the likes of Jamie Cullum and Jorja Smith, said it had been a \"unanimous\" decision.\n\n\"I don't think any of the judges walked away unhappy,\" she said. \"Everyone felt the same thing about this album, which is that it thoroughly deserved to win the prize.\"\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 MichaelKiwanukaVEVO 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\nKiwanuka, whose Ugandan parents escaped Idi Amin's regime to settle in Muswell Hill, London, is a former session musician who dropped out of the Royal Academy of Music to become a solo artist.\n\nHe first came to attention after supporting Adele on her 2011 tour and winning the BBC's Sound of 2012. He released his debut album, Home Again, later that year.\n\nThe musician cemented his reputation with 2016's Love & Hate, which made him a star in the US when the opening song, Cold Little Heart, became the theme tune to the TV series Big Little Lies.\n\nThe self-titled album has given Kiwanuka his third Mercury Prize nomination and first win\n\nDespite his success, his latest album emerged from a period of crippling self-doubt.\n\n\"I've always had imposter syndrome,\" he told the BBC last year. \"I was always waiting for someone to find me out.\n\n\"But about a year and a half ago, I got tired of that way of thinking. I just went, 'This isn't helping anyone, least of all me.'\"\n\nThe result was Kiwanuka's opening track, You Ain't The Problem, on which the musician vows to stop getting in his own way, singing: \"I used to hate myself / You got the key / Break out the prison.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe record continues as a song cycle where Kiwanuka's own experiences and fears are interwoven with samples of civil rights campaigners and reflections on racial politics.\n\nOn the psych-rock soliloquy Hero, he compares the murder of 1960s Black Panther activist Fred Hampton with recent US police shootings. Exasperated, he turns to God for answers on the call-and-response coda of I've Been Dazed.\n\nReleased last November, the album earned rave reviews and reached number two in the UK charts.\n\nIt is the latest album reflecting the experiences of young black Britons to be chosen by Mercury judges. Kiwanuka is the fifth black male solo artist to win the award in the past six years. Rapper Dave won for Psychodrama last year.\n\nThe musician was the bookies' favourite to win, followed by Laura Marling, who has now been passed over four times.\n\nAnnouncing the winner on The One Show will undoubtedly gave Kiwanuka's record extra exposure. The prime-time BBC One programme regularly attracts three million viewers, compared with the 155,000 who tuned in to last year's final on BBC Four.\n\nMac explained that Kiwanuka had been informed of the result before the show, so that he could be invited to the studio.\n\nHowever, she shared a video of the moment she ambushed him with the news, as he was on his way to be interviewed by Jools Holland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mercury Prize This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 star will celebrate his victory on a special edition of Later... With Jools at 22:00 BST on Friday night.\n\nThe shortlist was praised for highlighting female artists, who outnumbered men for the first time in the prize's 29-year history.\n\nBut organisers came under fire for excluding British-Asian artist Rina Sawayama because she does not hold a British passport.\n\nAfter the singer said she was \"heartbroken\" by the decision, the BPI, which organises both the Mercury Prize and the Brit Awards, said it would review its eligibility criteria.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The chancellor's statement is a radical attempt to provide a shot in the arm to the jobs market - at a very difficult time.\n\nBut the new jobs support scheme is a fraction of what we have seen over the past few months, and is concentrated on those deemed to be in \"viable\" jobs. It cannot prevent a sharp rise in unemployment in the coming months in \"non-viable\" jobs.\n\nIndeed, the economic impact of this package of several billion pounds is likely to be far outweighed, even by this week's announcement that the UK faces a six-month \"new normal\" of social restrictions.\n\nThe sight of Chancellor Rishi Sunak flanked by the Trade Unions Congress and the Confederation of British Industry bosses at Number 11 was meant to show the country that a non-ideological innovation to protect livelihoods was on the way.\n\nIt is an echo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel locking the heads of the equivalent organisations in a hotel for two days in order to come up with the \"short-time work\" policy, upon which the new jobs support scheme is based.\n\nIt will be possible to claim the coronavirus job retention bonus for reemploying furloughed workers, too. It has been tailored for the UK's more flexible jobs market. The chancellor has kept a careful eye on schemes from all around the world.\n\nBut the size of the scheme also reflects the phenomenal amount of borrowing that the government has done, and will continue to have to do, in terms of lost tax revenue as the recovery is subdued by ongoing restrictions.\n\nFunding conditions for government remain benign. But the Treasury is keeping an eye on how sensitive the public finances are now to even a small increase in market interest rates.\n\nThe Treasury has extended the bridge of support it put in place in March to cover the next six months.\n\nBut the new scheme requires everybody to chip in. That will be too much for many employers. We are about to find out just how many.", "The Met Police said officers were injured in Barnet by a \"suspected corrosive substance\".\n\nEleven Met Police officers have been injured by a \"corrosive substance\" during a drugs raid in north London.\n\nThey had been called to an industrial area in Dale Close, Barnet, at about 13:50 BST.\n\nAll of the injured officers have been taken to hospital, but are not thought to be in a life-threatening condition, the Met said.\n\nA number of males were arrested on suspicion of drugs offences.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service (LAS) said four people other than the officers were also treated at the scene.\n\nA LAS spokeswoman said 15 people in total were taken to hospital for injuries - it is not thought any are life-threatening at this stage.\n\nShe added: \"We dispatched a number of resources including ambulance crews, two incident response officers, an advanced paramedic and medics in fast response cars.\n\n\"We also dispatched our hazardous area response team (HART). \"\n\nThe Met said it was in the process of informing the injured officers' families. Other officers remain at the scene.\n\nThe force's Directorate of Professional Standards had been informed, as was routine, it added.\n\nReacting to the injuries Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"shocked\" by the news.\n\n\"It is a stark reminder of the real dangers our hardworking officers face every day as they keep us safe,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"On behalf of all Londoners, I wish them a speedy recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer Australia batsman Dean Jones has died at the age of 59.\n\nJones suffered a heart attack in Mumbai, where he was working as a commentator on television coverage of the Indian Premier League.\n\nStylish in the middle-order, Jones played 52 Tests from 1984 to 1992, averaging 46.55 and winning the Ashes on two occasions.\n\nHe was also part of the Australia team that won the World Cup in 1987, beating England in a thrilling final.\n\nHe is perhaps best remembered for his innings of 210 in the tied match between Australia and India in 1986.\n\nAfterwards, as a result of his exertions at the crease, he was admitted to hospital.\n\nJones also had spells in county cricket with Derbyshire and Durham, and, after retiring from playing, had further careers as a coach and broadcaster.\n\nCricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings said: \"Dean Jones was a hero to a generation of cricketers and will forever be remembered as a legend of this great game.\n\n\"Anyone who watched cricket in the 1980s and 1990s will fondly recall his cavalier approach at the crease and the incredible energy and passion he brought to every game he played.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan tweeted: \"This is so sad ... A hero of mine has gone far too soon ... always offered so much advice to us younger players when he played at Derby.\"\n\nAaron Finch, Australia limited-overs captain, wrote: \"Still in shock hearing the news of Deano's passing. Thoughts are with Jane and the family at this incredibly tough time. A great man with an amazing passion for the game.\"", "A sports club has said it is \"deeply sorry\" after about 100 people had to isolate and 14 Covid-19 cases were linked to an awards evening it held.\n\nUp to 80 attended the event at Drefach Cricket and Football Club in Carmarthenshire on 29 August.\n\nThe club apologised for \"the role we played in spreading the covid virus in our community\".\n\nIt said the event was moved indoors because the marquee it had intended to use was damaged.\n\nSigns were placed on the club\n\nDrefach FC Committee said it had issued the statement on its website to \"clarify the facts\" and \"dispel any misinformation that you may have heard\".\n\n\"The extensive covid guidelines required to keep patrons as safe as possible were not up to standard,\" it acknowledged.\n\n\"Although attempts were made to adhere to the guidelines there were areas that were lacking, we as Drefach Football Club must acknowledge our part in this management structure and can only apologise for not fully understanding and implementing these guidelines,\" it added.\n\nA closed sign was placed on the door of the sports club\n\nIt said the club had not received any sanctions for non-compliance with Covid guidelines but it was grateful to Carmarthenshire council for its help in bringing the premises up to standard.\n\nIt said a deep clean had been carried out, a designated volunteer Covid coordinator appointed and the closure order for the premises had been withdrawn.\n\n\"We hope this statement goes a small way to start to repair the trust the community places in Drefach Football Club and hope the misguided activity of the Senior Men's and Women's section has not tarnished the outstanding work done by so many coaches and volunteers throughout the club,\" it said.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for our actions and we have learned from our mistakes. We hope all associated with the club can, in time, forgive us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says he would not “be doing a hypothetical for what would happen after May”.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out the possibility of supporting a second referendum on Scottish independence in the long term.\n\nBut he told the BBC a vote like the one held in 2014 was \"not needed\" soon and the focus should be on \"rebuilding\" the economy and services after coronavirus.\n\nHis party would not campaign for a referendum in next May's Scottish Parliament elections, he added.\n\nThe SNP government in Scotland wants to hold one as soon as possible.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Keir also said Labour would \"betray\" voters \"if we don't take more seriously winning elections and actually changing lives\".\n\nAnd he argued Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not have \"the right character\" to deal with the challenges posed by the pandemic.\n\nWhen Scotland's voters were asked in a referendum in 2014 whether the country should become independent, 55% said no.\n\nBut the SNP has campaigned for a second poll since the UK's 2016 decision - in the Brexit referendum - to leave the EU.\n\nIt says the difference between the UK-wide result and that in Scotland - which chose by 62% to 38% to remain within the bloc - strengthens the case for independence.\n\nIt has also been suggested that, following the next UK general election, expected in 2024, Labour could need the support of the SNP if it wants to form a government. This might, it is added, require a deal on having another referendum.\n\nSir Keir said: \"We will be going into that election in May making it very clear that another divisive referendum on independence in Scotland is not what is needed.\n\n\"What is needed is an intense focus on rebuilding the economy, on making sure public services are rebuilt as well and dealing with the pandemic.\"\n\nPressed on what would happen after May, Sir Keir said: \"We don't know... In politics, people tell you with great certainty what is going to happen next year and the year after, but it doesn't always turn out that way.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am setting out the argument we will make into May. I am not doing a hypothetical of what will happen after that.\"\n\nThe Scottish government, led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, had hoped to hold an independence referendum during the current term of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHowever, ministers wanted to secure an agreement with the UK government to make sure any vote would be legally watertight, something Mr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to.\n\nWork on preparations for a ballot was paused after coronavirus hit, but the Scottish government has promised to set out plans in a draft bill.\n\nLabour, once dominant in Scotland, currently has 23 Members of the Scottish Parliament, putting it third behind the SNP, on 61, and the Conservatives, on 31.\n\nSpeaking for the UK government, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove raised doubts about the Labour leader's comments, saying: \"Sir Keir Starmer has a problem accepting referendum results.\n\n\"He tried to block Brexit, and now he wants to work with Nicola Sturgeon to renege on the Scottish referendum result and break up the UK.\"\n\nSir Keir replaced Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in April, following the party's worst general election result - in terms of seats - since 1935.\n\nRecent UK opinion polls have suggested support for the party under his stewardship is now close to that for Mr Johnson's Conservatives.\n\nBut some trade unions, including Unite and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), have raised concerns over Sir Keir's leadership.\n\nThe FBU has warned him not to \"water down\" pledges on workers' rights and the environment that he made when running for the job.\n\nIn his speech on Monday to Labour's annual conference, Sir Keir told his party to \"get serious about winning\".\n\nSpeaking to Laura Kuenssberg, he said: \"When you lose four elections in a row, you have lost the chance to change lives for the better and we have gifted the Tories a decade or more of power. That is not what the Labour Party is there for.\"\n\nHe also said: \"The Labour Party's historic mission was to represent working people in Parliament and to form governments to change lives, and we betray that if we don't take more seriously winning elections and actually changing lives.\"", "Sharon, who lives in the Netherlands, was shocked to receive a letter saying her current account will be closed unless she can provide a UK address\n\n\"I was shocked to receive a notification saying that my bank account is going to be closed in two months,\" says Sharon Clarke, a Briton who has been living in the Netherlands for 20 years and who banks with Lloyds.\n\n\"They said that unless I provide a UK address, my account will be closed and I'll have to cut up my card.\"\n\nShe is one of thousands of British expats living in the EU who are being told their bank accounts will be closed because of Brexit.\n\nLloyds Bank has written to 13,000 personal and business customers, saying it will no longer be able to offer banking services once the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nAnd Money Box found Barclays, Barclaycard and Coutts - which is owned by NatWest Group - are taking similar action.\n\nExperts say it is because lenders will lose their EU banking licences, making operating in some countries too costly.\n\nHowever, HSBC and Santander say they have no plans to close British expat accounts in the EU.\n\nMs Clarke says she has been given until early November to close her account and transfer all monies, standing orders and regular payments to another bank.\n\nShe says she has never had any financial problems with Lloyds, having banked with them \"for decades\".\n\nRobert Kane, who lives in Spain, was told to close his Barclaycard account\n\nBritons living in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Portugal have all been sent similar letters.\n\nOne of them is Robert Kane, who lives in Spain and has a Barclaycard credit card.\n\n\"I find this an unbelievable situation that Barclaycard will lose so many thousands of customers because of Brexit,\" Robert says.\n\n\"I don't have a UK address as I live in Spain and have done for the last 14 years. They did not offer me any advice other than cut up my card, cancel any regular payments and carry on paying outstanding balances.\"\n\nA source at NatWest, which owns Coutts, says it has no intention of closing accounts unless there is no other option and any customers who may be affected will be contacted.\n\nBanks have told customers to cut up their bank cards if they don't have a UK address\n\nSarah Hall, a fellow at UK in a Changing Europe, a research unit at King's College London, says that EU-wide banking rules will not apply to Britain after Brexit.\n\nUK banks will no longer be allowed to provide services to customers in the EU without the right banking licences.\n\nThis is known as passporting, a system for banks in the EU which allows them to trade freely in any other state in the European Economic Area (EEA) without the need for more authorisation.\n\nSarah said that although HSBC and Santander will still offer banking, others feel it is not worthwhile commercially.\n\n\"Some UK banks decided the size and scale of the client base is small, not profitable enough to warrant a subsidiary, so they have determined they will exit that market. It's a potential postcode lottery.\n\n\"This means the market will be harder to navigate as a customer. It's less certain and could mean less choice and maybe higher interest and lower saving rates because of less competition.\"\n\nIn a statement, Lloyds said: \"We have written to a small number of customers living in affected EU countries to let them know that due to the UK's exit from the EU, regrettably we will no longer be able to provide them with some UK-based banking services.\"\n\nBarclays would not reveal how many accounts are going to be closed, but said it would be contacting affected customers.\n\nThe UK trade body UK Finance said the finance industry had been working hard to get ready for Brexit.\n\n\"Where possible, firms want to keep providing banking services to customers living in the EEA after the transition period.\n\n\"The impact on each customer will vary depending on the operating model of their bank or provider, the product or service being provided, and the legal and regulatory framework in the country in which they are resident.\"\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "Renee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the top acting prizes at the 2020 Bafta Film Awards\n\nThe Bafta Film Awards will have more nominees next year in an attempt to increase the diversity of the stars and film-makers who are up for honours.\n\nAll four acting categories as well as the best director award will have six nominees, instead of the usual five.\n\nTen titles will be in contention for the outstanding British film award - four more than the customary six.\n\nEarlier this year, Bafta was heavily criticised after picking an all-white line-up of acting nominees.\n\nMeanwhile, no female film-makers were nominated for the best director prize for the seventh year running.\n\nOrganisers carried out a \"detailed review\" as a result, and said they would now also seek to \"meaningfully target\" 1,000 new voting members from under-represented groups.\n\nThe move, they said, was one in a series of steps \"to ensure a more representative and inclusive membership that reflects today's British society\".\n\nDirector Andrew Onwubolu, aka Rapman, on the set of Blue Story\n\nIn January, Blue Story director Rapman was among Bafta's many critics, saying it had done his gritty urban drama \"dirty\" by not shortlisting it for any awards.\n\nBafta said the review had begun as \"a direct response\" to the lack of diversity in its 2020 nominations, but had \"soon expanded to encompass all aspects\" of the organisation.\n\nBafta - the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - said the expansion of its outstanding British film award would enable it to \"do more to champion the vast pool of multicultural British talent\".\n\n\"One of the key issues raised time and time again... was that too much deserving work was not being seen,\" said film committee chair Marc Samuelson.\n\n\"The changes we are implementing are designed to ensure these films are seen and judged on merit alone.\"\n\nChanges to campaigning rules will seek to ensure \"a fairer consideration of all films regardless of marketing budget\".\n\nBafta said this would ensure \"smaller\" films were not \"left out of the conversation\" and would have as much \"visibility\" as titles backed by major studios.\n\nChanges to Bafta's voting practices will ensure the best director jury will have a guaranteed number of female film-makers to choose from.\n\nThe final six nominees will be drawn from an expanded longlist of 20 names, half of which will be female.\n\nBafta said this would help to address \"a historic lack of female representation in the directing category\".\n\nKathryn Bigelow, pictured with Clive Owen in 2010, is the only female winner of the best director Bafta\n\nOnly five women have ever made the shortlist for the best director award, which Bafta first presented in 1969.\n\nKathryn Bigelow, the only woman to win, for The Hurt Locker in 2010, was also the last woman to be shortlisted when she was nominated in 2013 for Zero Dark Thirty.\n\nAll voting members will also now be required to take a \"specially designed bespoke\" course in \"conscious voter training\".\n\nBafta said that would help its members \"navigate and recognise the wider societal influences that can impact the voting process\".\n\nKrishnendu Majumdar is the first Bafta chair from a BAME background\n\nIn the case of the overall best film award, all voters will be required to watch all 15 movies on the longlist. The shortlist will continue to consist of five films.\n\nBafta's review was led by its chair Krishnendu Majumdar, Samuelson and a steering group that included former Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke, academic Sadia Habib and ITV's head of diversity Ade Rawcliffe.\n\nMr Majumdar praised them for \"bravely sharing their experiences of racism and discrimination\" during \"tough, chastening [and] captivating\" sessions.\n\nNoel Clarke played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who and has directed several films\n\n\"This is a watershed moment for Bafta,\" the TV producer said in a statement. \"The Academy has never opened itself up like this before.\"\n\nBafta's chief executive Amanda Berry concurred, saying the review was \"a fantastic opportunity... to make substantial cultural and organisational change\".\n\nBafta said \"significant changes\" to its Television Awards would be announced in October and that its Games and Children's Awards would also be reviewed.\n\nThe 2021 Bafta Film Awards are scheduled to take place on 11 April, two months later than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The shadow chancellor says half of her 40 requests for targeted wage support for workers have been “rebuffed” by the government.\n\nAfter the chancellor announced his job support scheme, Anneliese Dodds said it was a “relief this government has U-turned now”.\n\nShe said the delay will have “impacted on business confidence”.", "Two men have died and three others injured in a crash during a police pursuit.\n\nOfficers began pursuing a speeding car in Frederick Road, Salford, at about 23:40 BST on Wednesday before it crashed with two other vehicles.\n\nThe men from the car died, and a man and two women from one of the other vehicles were seriously injured.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has started an investigation into the crash.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said in line with procedure the crash had been referred to its professional standards branch.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nA spokeswoman for the IOPC said: \"We have begun an independent investigation into a fatal road traffic collision in Salford last night which followed a police pursuit.\n\n\"We understand the pursuit involving an unmarked police car took place on Frederick Road, Salford at around 11.40 pm. The vehicle being pursued collided with two other public vehicles.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added that \"sadly two men from the pursued vehicle have since been pronounced dead\".\n\nNo arrests have been made\n\nThe crash has been referred to Greater Manchester Police's Professional Standards Branch\n\nThe men from the car died, and a man and two women from one of the other vehicles were seriously injured\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Banham Poultry reopened on last week after it closed in August\n\nThe boss of a chicken factory hit by a coronavirus outbreak said the firm had to get rid of almost £4m worth of birds.\n\nBanham Poultry, based in Attleborough, Norfolk, had to close on 27 August but reopened last week.\n\nMore than 120 of its staff have tested positive for Covid-19 and the shutdown cost the business about £2m a week.\n\nManaging director Blaine van Rensburg said: \"It does put the company in danger.\"\n\nBut he said the firm was \"working with the government whether there can be any [financial] support\" and there were no plans for closure.\n\nThe closure of the factory meant 2.2m chickens were not processed and the company had to cull about 380,000.\n\nMr van Rensburg said the total stock loss was £3.8m.\n\n\"I don't think there are many business that can sustain a £3.8m hit to their income\", he added.\n\nBanham Poultry has introduced thermal imaging and a dry disinfectant mist through which staff and visitors enter, and a one-way system across the entire site.\n\nMr van Rensburg said the staff were \"safer on our site than they would be going into any supermarket in town\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new Job Support Scheme to start in November.\n\nThe six-month scheme will replace furlough and means the government will pay part of workers' wages who have lost hours.\n\nThe chancellor also said he was extending help for the self-employed on \"similar terms\" to the existing job support scheme.", "Cineworld has warned it may need to raise more money in the event of further coronavirus restrictions or film delays due to Covid-19.\n\nIt swung to a $1.6bn (£1.3bn) loss for the six months to June as its cinemas were closed under lockdown.\n\n\"There can be no certainty as to the future impact of Covid-19 on the group,\" it said.\n\nThe cinema giant said it had reopened 561 out of 778 sites worldwide as lockdown restrictions have eased.\n\nSix of its theatres in the UK remain closed after cinemas were forced to shut temporarily for several months from mid-March in an attempt to contain the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe lockdown closures meant group revenues sank to $712.4m in the first six months of the year, compared with $2.15bn a year earlier.\n\nThe group loss this year also marks a huge fall from the pre-tax profits of $139.7m seen in the first six months of 2019.\n\nCineworld said it was still in talks with lenders to negotiate waivers on banking agreements, which fall due in December and in June next year.\n\nThe company warned that it might have to take action if current measures aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus were tightened.\n\n\"If governments were to strengthen restrictions on social gathering, which may therefore oblige us to close our estate again or further push back movie releases, it would have a negative impact on our financial performance and likely require the need to raise additional liquidity.\"\n\nIndependent London cinema Peckhamplex recently announced it was being forced to close its doors temporarily due to falling visitor numbers and delayed releases.\n\nIn an email to regular visitors, it said that \"the film distributors that we rent our films from are constantly re-scheduling the big titles to further and further away\".\n\nUnder current plans, the cinema will close on 25 September and hopes to reopen in November, around the time the next James Bond film is due to be released.\n\nBut Cineworld said recent trading had been \"encouraging considering the circumstances\", with solid demand for Christopher Nolan's spy film Tenet released earlier in September.\n\n\"Despite the difficult events of the last few months, we have been delighted by the return of global audiences to our cinemas toward the end of the first half, as well as by the positive customer feedback we have received from those that have waited patiently to see a movie on the big screen again,\" said chief executive Mooky Greidinger.\n\n\"Current trading has been encouraging considering the circumstances, further underpinning our belief that there remains a significant difference between watching a movie in a cinema - with high-quality screens and best-in-class sounds - to watching it at home.\"\n\nCineworld's share price fell by more than 13% on Thursday after the publication of its half-year results.\n\n\"Today's first half-year numbers serve to highlight the scale of the mountain that needs to be scaled by the sector as a whole,\" said Michael Hewson, senior analyst at CMC Markets.\n\nHe added that they \"certainly back up\" Cineworld's decision in June to pull out of a $2.1bn deal to buy the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex.\n\nThe two firms now face a legal battle after Cineplex announced it would sue Cineworld for $1.1bn in damages. Cineworld said on Thursday it had filed a counterclaim against the Canadian group for alleged \"losses suffered as a result of Cineplex's breaches\" of their agreement, as well as lost financing costs and advisory fees.", "Limits are being applied to certain products to prevent panic buying at Morrisons supermarkets\n\nShoppers at Morrisons face restrictions on the number of items they can purchase to prevent panic buying.\n\nThe supermarket chain has put a limit of three items per customer on some ranges, including toilet rolls and disinfectant products.\n\nIt said stock levels \"were good\", but the firm wanted to \"make sure they were available for everyone\".\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said supply chains were \"stronger than ever\".\n\nBradford-based Morrisons said restrictions would be sign-posted on shelf edges at tills.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have some products with limits on all year round such as paracetamol and so it works in just the same way.\"\n\nShelves at some stores were left depleted recently after the Government warned of rising coronavirus cases across the UK and the possibility of stricter lockdown measures.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) has urged consumers to be considerate of others and \"shop as you normally would\".\n\nDespite scenes at some stores, supermarket giants Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Lidl and Aldi said they had \"good availability\" earlier in the week and had not experienced any shortages yet.\n\nTesco added its online capacity had more than doubled from 600,000 weekly delivery slots in March to 1.5 million in September.\n\nDirector of food and sustainability at the BRC, Andrew Opie, said: \"Supply chains are stronger than ever before and we do not anticipate any issues in the availability of food or other goods under a future lockdown.\n\n\"Nonetheless, we urge consumers to be considerate of others and shop as they normally would.\"\n\nAsda is to enforce the rules on face coverings during the pandemic and deploy 'safety marshals' at its stores\n\nMeanwhile, Asda is set to enforce rules on face coverings more strictly across its shops amid the pandemic.\n\nCustomers who do not have a covering when they enter a store will be offered a pack of disposable masks that they can pay for at the end of their trip.\n\nThe firm announced on Wednesday that it will create 1,000 new \"safety marshal\" roles across its 639 UK stores.\n\nDedicated staff will remind shoppers to wear face coverings in-store and provide customers with sanitised shopping baskets on arrival.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scottish government accused of 'failing to plan' for return of students\n\nThe Scottish government should have been better prepared for coronavirus outbreaks at universities, opposition parties have claimed.\n\nHundreds of students have tested positive since universities returned earlier this month.\n\nOpposition leaders accused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of a \"basic failure\" to anticipate the problem and provide more testing.\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted the country's testing system was working well.\n\nAnd she said the rising number of coronavirus cases underlined why tough new restrictions were introduced on Tuesday to \"get the virus back under control\".\n\nA further 465 positive tests were reported across Scotland on Thursday, representing 7.9% of people newly tested.\n\nThe figures are in part driven by outbreaks at a number of universities, where many students in halls of residences in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh have been told to self-isolate.\n\nA total of 172 Glasgow University students have so far tested positive, with 600 in isolation, while all 500 residents at the Parker House halls in Dundee have been told to quarantine.\n\nAnd 120 cases of coronavirus have been identified in an outbreak at Edinburgh Napier University.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do Glasgow students think of Covid tests?\n\nSt Andrews University asked students to observe a \"voluntary lockdown\" over the weekend, with concerns about the virus spreading among students arriving for the new term.\n\nThere has also been confusion about whether students in university accommodation are able to go back to their family home - with the Scottish government initially saying they could not.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch subsequently said students could go home for the weekend so long as they are not self-isolating and do not have Covid symptoms.\n\nBut he has since said they cannot return home because they are now in separate households from their family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason Leitch This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sturgeon was repeatedly challenged about the situation during her weekly question session at Holyrood, where she said \"some further measures\" would be introduced later.\n\nShe said the number of positive cases at universities was likely to increase, but said this underlined that the test and protect system \"is working, and we must continue to have confidence in that\".\n\nThe first minister also said more walk-in testing centres will opening near some universities in the coming days in addition to the two that are already open in Glasgow and St Andrews.\n\nCentres in Aberdeen and Edinburgh are due to open from Friday, with similar facilities also planned for , Dundee, Stirling and a second in Glasgow.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the spread of the virus at universities should have been predicted - and said there had been similar failures to anticipate a spike in demand for testing when schools returned in August.\n\nHe said the Scottish government had failed since \"day one\" of the pandemic to plan ahead, adding: \"This failure to test is a failure to contain the virus. This will cost people their health, their hopes and possibly their lives.\"\n\nMr Leonard also said action was needed to ensure students would not potentially have to spend Christmas away from their families.\n\nNicola Sturgeon insisted that Scotland's test and protect system was working as intended\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that rising case numbers proved that students were being tested, adding: \"It's really important we say to people that if you need tested, get tested - the capacity is there.\n\n\"The worst thing any of us could do right now would be to unfairly and unjustifiably undermine confidence in test and protect - that confidence, right now, is justified.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said there was a \"clear concern\" that the virus could spread from university campuses when students return home, asking if the government would consider routine testing - similar to the system employed in care homes.\n\nShe said: \"There is still time to get on top of these outbreaks before they spread more widely.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would consider such a move, but said \"routine testing is not some kind of pass out of all the other obligations\" and created a \"real risk of false assurance coming from negative tests\".\n\nThe point about preparation was also raised by Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie, who said the situation with students was \"playing a significant role in relighting the fires of the pandemic here in Scotland\".\n\nHe said: \"The truth is that outbreaks like this should have been expected, and support and testing sites should have been in place before term started.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said routine testing would be \"an extra safety measure that would protect us all\", saying there was a risk of asymptomatic carriers \"unknowingly spreading the disease\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied: \"Testing is vital here, but it is absolutely wrong to say it somehow an absence or shortage of testing available that is an issue with the outbreaks in student accommodation.\n\n\"If we weren't testing them, we wouldn't have seen these increases.\n\n\"We have to be careful that a negative test doesn't lead a student to say 'I'm fine, I don't need to bother with isolation or social distancing and abiding by all the rules'.\"", "Alesha Dixon wore a necklace with the letters BLM in gold on Saturday's episode\n\nOfcom has received more than 1,900 complaints over an episode of Britain's Got Talent in which Alesha Dixon wore a Black Lives Matter necklace.\n\nSaturday's episode saw Dixon, who is a judge on the show, wear a necklace which featured the letters BLM in gold.\n\nThe broadcasting regulator said the vast majority of the complaints it had received about the episode related to her choice of jewellery.\n\nThe number of complaints has risen from 1,675 on Monday to a total of 1,901.\n\nAn Ofcom spokesman said: \"We are assessing these complaints against our broadcasting rules, but are yet to decide whether or not to investigate.\"\n\nDixon wore the necklace after a performance by dance group Diversity earlier in the series, which sparked more than 24,500 complaints to Ofcom.\n\nTheir performance, which was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, included a section where a white police officer (played by a dancer) stepped on Ashley Banjo's neck.\n\nIt was a reference to the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota earlier this year.\n\nOfcom cleared Diversity, whose members include Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely, of any wrongdoing\n\nOther dancers crowded around Banjo with smartphones pretending to capture the incident on camera, while others performed with police riot shields.\n\nITV defended the performance, adding that it was \"authentic\" and \"heartfelt\".\n\nCritics complained that ITV's prime-time Saturday night entertainment show was an inappropriate platform for a political statement.\n\nBut Ofcom highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in artistic routines, adding that it would not investigate the complaints as it did not consider the performance to be racist.\n\nDixon's choice of jewellery on Saturday's episode was widely seen as an act of solidarity with the dance group following the controversy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK chancellor has announced a new scheme which will see some workers get three quarters of their normal salaries for six months.\n\nRishi Sunak said it was \"impossible\" for him to predict the labour market, but added that the government needed \"evolve our support” for jobs.\n\nResponding to a question from BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg he said that he could not say which jobs would remain viable because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Uncle Ben's Rice will change its name to Ben's Original and remove the image of a smiling, grey-haired black man from its packaging.\n\nThe change follows through on a pledge its owner Mars Food made in June to review the brand amid global protests over police brutality and racism.\n\nUncle Ben's entered the market in the 1940s and was for decades the best-selling rice in the US.\n\nIts marketing has been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes.\n\nTitles such as uncle and aunt were used in southern US states to refer to black people, instead of the more formal and respectful \"Miss\" or \"Mister\".\n\nThe name Uncle Ben's was supposedly inspired by a Texas farmer known for his high-quality rice. The company asked the head waiter at a fancy Chicago restaurant, Frank Brown, to pose as the face of the brand, which launched in 1947.\n\nIn 2007, the company sought to update its marketing with a campaign that cast Ben as chairman of the board, a move away from the previous, more servile presentation.\n\n\"We understand the inequities that were associated with the name and face of the previous brand, and as we announced in June, we have committed to change,\" Mars said.\n\nThe new packaging is expected to begin reaching shops in 2021.\n\nMars said it would also work with the National Urban League in the US to support black chefs with a $2m donation toward scholarships and invest $2.5m in Greenville, Mississippi, where the rice is made.\n\n\"The brand is not just changing its name and image on the package. It is also taking action to enhance inclusion and equity and setting out its new brand purpose to create opportunities that offer everyone a seat at the table,\" the company said.\n\nMars was one of several food giants that promised to review brands in the wake of the protests triggered by George Floyd's death.\n\nEarlier this year, Pepsi said it would overhaul the marketing for its popular Aunt Jemima line of syrups and foods, acknowledging the brand was based on a racial stereotype.\n• None Why firms are speaking out about George Floyd", "Italy's president to UK PM: 'We Italians love freedom too'\n\nThe president of Italy has rebuked UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for suggesting that Britons were more \"freedom-loving\" than his compatriots. It was in parliament this week that Johnson was asked by a Labour MP whether Italy and Germany had lower Covid-19 infection rates than the UK because of more efficient testing and tracing. \"No\" the prime minister replied. \"There is an important difference between our country and many others around the world - ours is a freedom-loving country,\" he added. Now, Italian President Sergio Mattarella has responded, telling reporters: \"We Italians also love freedom – but seriousness is dear to us as well.\" Italy, the first country in Europe to be overwhelmed by the coronavirus and impose a national lockdown, appears to have brought the pandemic under control. Mask-wearing is scrupulous, testing is widespread and restrictions have remained in place for a long time. But in a country that fought for independence and liberation from Nazi occupation, its president has reminded Johnson that the love of freedom isn't exclusively a British value.", "Demonstrations have continued in Belarus since the president, Alexander Lukashenko, declared victory in last month's widely disputed election.\n\nA protester allegedly managed to evade authorities by jumping into a taxi outside Puškinskaja Station in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.\n\nBBC producer Abdujalil Abdurasulov has confirmed that the reporter who filmed this footage for Euroradio in Belarus is safe and that he and his colleague \"spent some time lying on the asphalt facing the ground\".\n\nThe taxi driver was hailed a hero by protesters on social media.", "Cardiff has seen 38.2 cases per 100,000 people in the past week\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas has warned of potential restrictions on travel and different households mixing.\n\nHe told a virtual meeting of the authority that over the past seven days, the area has seen 38.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nMr Thomas said the city was on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's \"red zone\".\n\nHe said if that was to happen \"then I fully expect that we will be implementing further restrictions as we have seen elsewhere\" in south Wales.\n\nCardiff is home to 366,903 people and would be the seventh area to have tighter restrictions imposed.\n\nPeople living in Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport cannot leave their areas without a reasonable excuse.\n\nShould Cardiff follow them into lockdown, it would mean more than a 1.2 million people - about a third of Wales' population - would be under tighter restrictions than the rest of the country.\n\nConservative councillor Jayne Cowan asked Mr Thomas if Cardiff would be put into a local lockdown in the next 48 hours.\n\nHe replied: \"We'll look at the numbers again in the morning and make a decision based on that.\"\n\nIt comes as Caerphilly's lockdown has been confirmed for at least a further seven days.\n\nMr Thomas said restrictions could be introduced \"at speed\" and could include a ban on households meeting or travel outside of Cardiff.\n\nThe council leader said the coronavirus test positivity rate stood at 3.8%, which exceeds the government's amber threshold of 2.5%.\n\nThere has been a sharp rise in hospital emergency attendance in the past week, he added, with the spread of infection \"most frequently found within household settings\".\n\n\"Our test trace and protect data suggests this is particularly in cases where family bubble rules have been breached, and also where people are mixing in indoor home settings and not following the rule of six,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is that indoor mixing with people not in extended households in homes, cafes, bars and restaurants is happening far too frequently.\"\n\nCardiff city centre at the end of July\n\nMr Thomas said there had been a significant rise in those aged 35 to 50 testing positive.\n\nAny new restrictions would need to be introduced by the Welsh Government.\n\nMr Thomas said he met First Minister Mark Drakeford and Health Minister Vaughan Gething prior to Thursday night's council meeting.\n\nThe threshold for foreign countries to be added to the list of destinations where people need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the UK is 20 cases per 100,000.\n\nCardiff councillor Jayne Cowan told BBC Radio Wales a local lockdown was \"inevitable\" but feared the impact on businesses.\n\n\"Many businesses won't survive another lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"We're seeing many thousands of cases of people having livelihoods stripped away. As part of the first lockdown, I was made redundant from my part time job.\n\n\"The Welsh Government needs to come up with the goods.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman, Andrew RT Davies, tweeted that a \"it's incumbent on the Welsh Labour government to bring forward a package of financial support for the many businesses (particularly hospitality) that will be devastated by the news\".\n\nHe said a blanket lockdown of the city \"really isn't local\".\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru health spokesman, said: \"Shutting pubs slightly earlier isn't going to be enough - the Welsh Government must think of a suite of new steps, which are perhaps stricter but for a shorter period, in order to control these new spikes.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nPlans to resume weekly mass participation Parkrun events in October have been scrapped due to stricter coronavirus rules.\n\nThe events, which take place in over 700 parks across the UK, were suspended in March because of the pandemic.\n\nParkrun is exempt from the government rules on social distancing as it is an organised outdoor sporting activity.\n\nBut Parkrun chief executive Nick Pearson said it \"would be insensitive to push forward with reopening\".\n\n\"Whilst we reluctantly accept this reality, Parkrun's absence will come at a cost,\" added Pearson.\n\n\"As we head into winter and face the many associated seasonal health issues (both in terms of Covid-19 and other mental and physical illnesses), we believe Parkrun has an incredibly important role to play in supporting public health.\"\n\nPearson added that Parkrun believes there is \"little or nominal risk of Covid-19 transmission at outdoor physical activity events such as Parkrun\".\n\nThe Parkrun movement was founded in Bushy Park, London in 2002 by Paul Sinton-Hewitt and is now in 22 countries.\n\nRunners or walkers can take part in 5km events on Saturday mornings while 2km junior events take place on Sunday mornings. Events are free and are run by volunteers.\n\nThere are 729 different locations across the UK staging the weekly events and more than two million runners have taken part.", "The richest person is China is a bottled water tycoon, knocking Alibaba founder Jack Ma from his mantle.\n\nZhong Shanshan founded Nongfu Spring in 1996 in the Zhejiang province on China's Eastern coast.\n\nThe Bloomberg Billionaires Index now puts Mr Shanshan in top spot with wealth of $58.7bn (£46.2bn).\n\nThe recent stock market listing of his bottled water firm and a controlling stake in a vaccine maker have helped boost his fortunes.\n\nNicknamed the \"Lone Wolf\", Mr Zhong is now Asia's second-richest person behind India's Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire behind Reliance Industries.\n\nMr Zhong now ranks 17th overall on its list of the world's top 500 richest people.\n\nMost of China's new billionaires come from the tech industry. But rising tensions between China and the US over Huawei, TikTok and WeChat have pushed down valuations of Chinese tech stocks.\n\nChina's food and grocery sector is now vying with its tech industry in producing the country's richest business people.\n\nIn April, Mr Zhong's Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise listed on the Chinese stock market. His controlling stake in the firm saw his overall wealth jump as much as $20bn by August.\n\nThe pharma company says it has partnered with two universities to develop a candidate vaccine to fight Covid-19.\n\nNongfu Spring shares jumped 54% on the first day of trading earlier this month when they were listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.\n\nNongfu Spring's red-capped bottles are sold nationwide from small stores to high-end hotels. The company also sells teas, flavoured vitamin drinks and juices.\n\nThe successful stock market listing propelled Mr Zhong into China's top three richest people alongside Alibaba's Mr Ma and Tencent boss Pony Ma.\n\nBut this week's downturn for tech stocks saw the Chinese tycoon move up the wealth rankings.\n\nMr Zhong may not stay ahead of Mr Ma, who has held the top spot for the past six years, for long.\n\nAlibaba-backed Ant Group is due to list on Chinese and Hong Kong stock exchanges next month, which will boost the tech boss's wealth even further.\n\nThe online payments firm could net Mr Ma an estimated $28bn if the company achieves the $250bn valuation it has been targeting.", "Pringles are now trying out a new pack design\n\nMany top UK grocery brands have non-recyclable packaging, with crisps, chocolate and cheese products among the worst offenders, says Which?\n\nThe tube containing Pringles crisps, now undergoing a redesign, was singled out as \"notoriously hard to recycle\" by the consumer organisation.\n\nBut Cadbury and Babybel were also found wanting in its latest investigation, which looked at 89 best-selling items.\n\nOnly 34% had packaging that was fully recyclable in rubbish collections.\n\nMeanwhile, 41% had no labelling to show if they could be recycled, said Which?\n\nIt called on the government to make recycling labelling simple, clear and mandatory.\n\nThe consumer organisation examined 10 different categories of items, including chocolate, fizzy drinks, crisps, yoghurts, juices, cheese, bread loaves and cereals.\n\nIt broke down each item's packaging into its component parts, weighed them and assessed whether each piece could be easily recycled.\n\nIn the cheese category, snack packs of Cathedral City and Babybel were packaged in plastic net bags, which are not only difficult to recycle but can also cause problems if they get caught up in the recycling machines accidentally.\n\nAlmost a third of chocolate packaging was not recyclable, including wrappers for KitKats, Cadbury Bitsa Wispa, M&Ms, Cadbury Dairy Milk bars and Cadbury Twirl Bites.\n\nThe Galaxy Smooth bar, meanwhile, had 100% recyclable packaging, but was not labelled as such.\n\nIt was a different story for the most recyclable category, fizzy drinks, which were found to be 100% recyclable.\n\nIn a separate survey, Which? found that the recyclability of grocery packaging is important to eight out of 10 people, while two-thirds often or always look for recycling info on grocery packaging before deciding how to dispose of it.\n\nKellogg, the maker of Pringles, said it was testing a new recycled paper tube at several Tesco stores, which could be used more widely if successful.\n\n''Kellogg is committed to 100% recyclable, compostable or reusable packaging by the end of 2025,\" it said.\n\nVarious brands, including Cathedral City, Babybel, Pringles and Nestle, which makes KitKats, said their packaging was recyclable at TerraCycle collection points.\n\nWhich? said Cadbury did not respond to its request for a reply.\n\nWhich? said some manufacturers had told it that food waste had a larger carbon footprint than plastic waste and that changing traditional packaging could lead to stale or damaged food.\n\nHowever, it said proper labelling would help consumers make informed decisions when buying groceries.\n\n\"Consumers are crying out for brands that take sustainability seriously and products that are easy to recycle, but for any real difference to be made to the environment, manufacturers need to maximise their use of recyclable and recycled materials and ensure products are correctly labelled,\" said Natalie Hitchins, Which? head of home products and services.\n\n\"To reduce the waste that goes to landfill, the government must make labelling mandatory, simple and clear, enabling shoppers to know exactly how to dispose of the packaging on the products they consume.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barrister Alexandra Wilson says \"everyone should be treated with respect\" in court\n\nA black barrister mistaken for a defendant three times in one day has received an apology from court officials.\n\nCriminal and family lawyer Alexandra Wilson, 25, said the experience had left her \"absolutely exhausted\".\n\nShe lodged a formal complaint after being challenged by a security officer, a solicitor and a clerk.\n\nHer Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) apologised for the \"totally unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nMs Wilson, from Essex, said she had attended the magistrates' court - where barristers' traditional wigs and gowns are not usually worn - on Wednesday.\n\nUpon arrival, she said a security officer asked for her name and then searched for it on a list of defendants.\n\n\"I explained I was a barrister. He apologised and guided me through security,\" Ms Wilson said.\n\nAfter meeting her client, she tried to enter a courtroom to discuss the case with the prosecutor.\n\n\"Another barrister or solicitor sitting at the back of the court told me to go outside and wait and to sign in with the usher for my case.\n\n\"I explained again I was a barrister and she looked awfully embarrassed and said 'I see'.\n\nAlexandra Wilson, who specialises in family and criminal law, said she did not expect to \"constantly justify my existence at work\"\n\n\"At this point as I was already pretty annoyed, but I went over to the prosecutor and then the clerk told me very loudly to get out of the court room because I had to wait for my case to come on.\n\n\"I was nearly in tears, and I said again, 'I am a defence barrister', and she nodded her head and turned back to her computer.\"\n\nIn addition, she said, a member of the public thought she was a journalist and told her \"only lawyers can go in\" the courtroom.\n\n\"All of that in one day, it made me feel exhausted,\" she said.\n\n\"This really isn't ok... I don't expect to have to constantly justify my existence at work.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Alexandra Wilson, author of In Black and White, criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan \"Black Lives Don't Matter\"\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"quite often\" mistaken for a defendant but never so often in one day, and her experience had made her realise \"it's not nice being a defendant in court\".\n\n\"Everyone should be treated with respect,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact I was shouted at to get out of court isn't ok for defendants either.\"\n\nHMCTS acting chief executive, Kevin Sadler, said: \"I'm very sorry about your experience at court yesterday - it is totally unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nHe said he would be investigating the role of his staff and contractors \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\n\"This is not the behaviour anyone should expect and certainly does not reflect our values,\" he added.\n\nMs Wilson said she was \"grateful\" for the apology and hoped it would lead \"to some real change\".\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.", "Studies have found that eating too much liquorice can cause a dangerous drop in potassium levels\n\nA construction worker in the US state of Massachusetts was killed by his liquorice habit, doctors say.\n\nThe man, who has not been named but was 54 years old, ate about one-and-a-half bags of black liquorice every day.\n\nHe had suffered no symptoms before suddenly going into cardiac arrest in a fast food restaurant.\n\nDescribing the man's case in the New England Journal of Medicine, his doctors said the glycyrrhizic acid in liquorice was to blame.\n\n\"We are told that this patient has a poor diet and eats a lot of candy. Could his illness be related to candy consumption?\" Dr Elazer R Edelman said.\n\nHe said studies had shown glycyrrhizic acid - the active ingredient in liquorice - could cause \"hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, fatal arrhythmias, and renal failure\" - all of which were seen in this patient.\n\nHypokalemia is when a person's potassium levels in their blood become dangerously low.\n\nThe patient had also recently changed the type of sweets he was eating. A few weeks before his death, he switched from red fruit-flavoured twists to another type made with black liquorice.\n\nAnother doctor, Dr Andrew L Lundquist, agreed in the report that the liquorice was to blame.\n\nHe wrote: \"Further investigation revealed a recent change to a liquorice-containing candy as the likely cause of his hypokalemia.\"", "The UK has recorded 6,634 new coronavirus cases, the government has announced, making it the highest daily figure since mass testing began.\n\nAnother 40 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe latest figures take the overall number of confirmed cases to 416,363, and total deaths to 41,902.\n\nMeanwhile, people arriving in the UK from Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Caribbean island Curacao will need to self-isolate for 14 days from Saturday.\n\nAfter falling from their April peak, confirmed new coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since July.\n\nThe latest surge in cases comes after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans aimed at stopping mass job cuts over the winter months.\n\nThe government's new wage subsidy scheme, set to replace furlough, will see the government top up the pay of people unable to work full time.\n\nThe official records may show that the UK has just seen the highest number of new cases on a single day.\n\nBut it is, of course, nothing of the sort. At the peak of the pandemic in the spring we had such limited testing capacity that it was largely only hospital patients who were being checked.\n\nIt meant we were identifying just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nEstimates have suggested there may have been as many 100,000 cases a day at the peak.\n\nWe are clearly not capturing all the infections - even now with the mass testing that is available.\n\nSurveillance data last week suggested we may be identifying only about half of cases.\n\nBut that still puts the infection levels well below what they were in the spring.\n\nHospital admissions and deaths have also started creeping up, but are still very low.\n\nHealth experts have been clear we are now on the upwards path so we should expect this trend to continue.\n\nCrucial will be how quickly figures rise for all three measures, with the hospital cases and deaths the most important.\n\nEvidence from Spain and France, which started seeing rises a few weeks before us, offer some hope.\n\nCases have been climbing gradually - at least more gradually than the trajectory government scientists warned could lead the UK to 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nMr Sunak's measures come two days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced further restrictions to help curb the spread of coronavirus, including a 22:00 closing time for all pubs, restaurants and hospitality venues, which have now come into force in England.\n\nThe sector will also be restricted, by law, to giving table service only.\n\nIn Scotland, university students have been asked not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend, in a bid to curb outbreaks at several institutions.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised to students, saying she recognised Covid was \"making this special time of your lives so tough\".\n\nAnd in Wales, people in Cardiff are facing the prospect of local lockdown after council leader Huw Thomas said the city was on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's \"red zone\".\n\nThe decision to remove Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Caribbean island Curacao from the so-called \"travel corridor\" list takes effect from 04:00 BST on Saturday, the Department for Transport said.\n\nIt has been agreed with the devolved administrations so covers the whole of the UK, unlike some previous travel quarantine announcements.\n\nNo countries will be added to the UK travel corridor list this week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nSingapore and Thailand remain the most recent additions to England and Scotland's list, from 17 September.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Shapps reminded passengers they were required by law to fill in a passenger locator form when entering the UK.\n\n\"This protects public health and ensures those who need to are complying with self-isolation rules,\" he said.\n\nThe form asks travellers to provide their contact details and UK address. Passengers can be fined up to £3,200 in England if they do not provide accurate contact details, or £1,920 in Wales.", "Sir David as he appears in upcoming documentary A Life On Our Planet\n\nSir David Attenborough has signed up to Instagram for the first time to help spread his environmental message.\n\n\"I am making this move... because, as we all know, the world is in trouble,\" he said in his first video message on the social media platform.\n\n\"Continents are on fire. Glaciers are melting. Coral reefs are dying... The list goes on and on,\" he continued.\n\nWithin an hour of his first post, he had more than 200,000 followers, and by 16:15 BST he had 1.2m followers.\n\n\"Saving our planet is now a communications challenge,\" the veteran broadcaster said.\n\nTennis player Sir Andy Murray and body coach Joe Wicks were among those to post welcome messages.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir David said he would use the platform to share videos explaining \"what the problems are and how we can deal with them\".\n\nConcluding his message, the 94-year-old invited viewers to \"join me - or as we used to say in those early days of radio, stay tuned.\"\n\nFrequent collaborators Jonnie Hughes and Colin Butfield will help manage the account and its various technical aspects.\n\n\"Social media isn't David's usual habitat,\" they wrote in a message accompanying the naturalist's introductory video.\n\nSir David's Instagram debut precedes the release of latest book and Netflix documentary, both titled A Life On Our Planet.\n\nThe film sees him reflect on his career and the decline of the planet's environment and biodiversity he has observed first-hand.\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\nIt remains to be seen, though, if he will better the impressive debut Jennifer Aniston made on the platform last October.\n\nThe actress attracted almost five million followers in 12 hours after posting a selfie with her fellow Friends cast members.\n\nEarlier this year Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson was named the celebrity thought to be able to charge more than any one else for a sponsored Instagram post.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Helle Thorning-Schmidt and 19 other influential figures will act as independent arbiters of Facebook and Instagram\n\nFacebook's Oversight Board is \"opening its doors to business\" in mid-October.\n\nUsers will be able to file appeals against posts the firm has removed from its platforms, and the board can overrule decisions made by Facebook's moderators and executives, including chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nThe timing means that some rulings could relate to the US Presidential election, which is on 3 November.\n\nBut one member of the board told the BBC it expected to act slowly at first.\n\n\"In principle, we will be able to look at issues arising connected to the election and also after the election,\" Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Prime Minister of Denmark, explained.\n\n\"But if Facebook takes something down or leaves something up the day after the election, there won't be a ruling the day after.\n\n\"That's not why we're here. We're here to take principled decisions and deliberate properly.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Facebook's global affairs chief Nick Clegg told the Financial Times that if there was an \"extremely chaotic and, worse still, violent set of circumstances\" following a contested election result, it would act aggressively to \"significantly restrict the circulation of content on our platform\".\n\nIn theory, the 20-person panel - which has been likened to the US Supreme Court - could force the firm to reverse some of its judgements.\n\nMs Thorning-Schmidt said that the board had the capacity to examine \"expedited cases\" but preferred not to do so in its early days.\n\nFacebook first announced its plans to set up the Oversight Board a year ago, and it has taken until now to select its members and arrange how it will work in practice.\n\nThe members will be paid an undisclosed sum, but are intended to serve as an independent body, and will decide which cases to look into.\n\nTheir work will cover Facebook's main platform as well as the photo-centric app Instagram, which the company owns.\n\nIn addition to user complaints, the board can also examine issues that the company has raised itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Facebook watchdog will not rush into rulings\n\nFacebook has said it expects cases to be resolved within 90 days, including any action it is told to take.\n\nThe panel's decisions are supposed to be binding and set a precedent for subsequent moderation decisions.\n\nCritics of the scheme have suggested it is a \"fig leaf\" designed to help Facebook avoid being regulated by others.\n\nBut Ms Thorning-Schmidt said it was too early to write it off.\n\n\"It would be much better if the global community in the UN [United Nations] could come up with a content moderation system that could look into all social media platforms, but that is not going to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"So this is the second best.\n\n\"Give us two years to try to prove that it is better to have this board than not to have this board.\"\n\nThe following interview with Ms Thorning-Schmidt has been edited for brevity and clarity:\n\nHas Facebook already consulted the board about its plans to deal with election-related posts?\n\nIt's very important to keep a distance between the Oversight Board and Facebook. So we don't have much to do with Facebook right now. And they don't consult us on what they should be doing. And we don't think they should consult us.\n\nAnd just to be clear - in the days after the election, you might ask for a removed post to be put back up on Facebook or Instagram?\n\nYes, it is it is an option. But we are focused on quality rather than speed. Facebook has been criticised for moving fast and breaking things. We want to move slowly and try to create something which is sustainable in the long run. So if Facebook takes down something right after the election, or leaves something up, there won't be a ruling the day after from the Oversight Board.\n\nIn theory, the Oversight Board has the right to overrule Mark Zuckerberg himself. But since he still controls the majority of Facebook's voting shares, isn't there a risk he in turn overrules whatever you decided?\n\nIt was very, very clear to us when we were appointed that we will work with transparency and independence. If Facebook doesn't follow our decisions, it won't last very long. The obligation from Facebook, including, of course Mark Zuckerberg, is to follow our decisions. So that is the red line for us and not up for discussion.\n\nMark Zuckerberg has a disproportionate share of Facebook's voting rights given that he owns a 13% stake\n\nI don't think we should talk about these issues. We want to give this a serious go. I'm urging everyone to look at the Oversight Board and not make the perfect the enemy of the good. This is the best we have these days to try to regulate content on social media. I have not seen any other ways of doing this. And we are all committed to given this giving this a real chance.\n\nFacebook's not been short of controversies over recent years. There's been Cambridge Analytica, hate speech directed at the Rohingyas in Myanmar, a decision not to take down posts from Holocaust deniers, and a decision to take a less interventionist stance on some of President Trump's posts than Twitter has done. Which of these or other cases do you think might have turned out differently had the Oversight Board already existed?\n\nI understand that you want to discuss current examples. And I do find that fascinating as well. But I also think it would be wrong for a board member to go into concrete issues because it would pre-empt our decisions later on. There's been some quite horrific examples in the past, and there will probably be more horrific examples in the future. I have no doubt that the board will look into fact-checking and whether there was real harm caused by content that was left up for too long, which they should have taken down.\n\nSome critics are concerned that this is still a form of self-regulation, and what is needed is external intervention by politicians and official watchdogs.\n\nI think these big tech firms, social media platforms, need regulation in many areas. There is a need for regulation in terms of tax issues. And there's probably also a need for regulation in terms of data protection and how long you keep data. I've argued very adamantly for a duty of care for Facebook and other social media providers. But the board is not taking the place of regulation. Perhaps rather the opposite. The more rulings and decisions we make, the more it will become clear that we need a better conversation about content, and perhaps also more regulation around content.", "The NHS Covid-19 app is set to become available to everyone in England and Wales on Thursday\n\nA leading health charity is demanding details about how England and Wales' contact-tracing app fared in tests.\n\nThe app is due to launch on Thursday.\n\nIt has been trialled in the London Borough of Newham as well as the Isle of Wight, but data from from the pilots has not been made public.\n\nThe Health Foundation said it was particularly concerned the tech could exacerbate existing inequalities, leaving some people at greater risk of being infected.\n\nThe government has responded saying: \"We have spoken with groups with protected characteristics, such as age, ethnicity and disability, those experiencing health inequalities and those groups particularly impacted by coronavirus.\"\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app has been in development since March in one form or another, and follows the release of parallel contact-tracing smartphone software in Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nAmong other functions, they use Bluetooth signals to determine when two people have been close together for five minutes or more, so that if one is later diagnosed as having the virus the other can be sent an alert telling them to self-isolate.\n\nTwo different versions of the app have been tested in the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe most recent release was also trialled in Newham specifically because of the wide diversity of the area's 267,066 residents.\n\nAccording to the Department for Health's Test and Trace team, which is responsible for the initiative:\n\nThe Newham test began in late August, but its findings have not been made public, leading the Health Foundation to call for greater transparency.\n\nThe charity called attention to a previously unreleased Ipsos Mori poll, which it said indicated that participants from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, women, younger and older age groups, and unemployed people were all among those with a relatively low awareness of the app.\n\nThose involved in the trial had to enter a code to begin, were told if they should self-isolate and were given a countdown timer\n\n\"Piloting the app in Newham was an opportunity to understand how it works among different populations,\" it said.\n\n\"But without publication of any findings from the pilot study, we do not know whether these major concerns have been addressed.\"\n\nIt added that one worry was that those who did not use the app would not benefit from up-to-date information about their risk of infection from others, potentially putting them more at risk.\n\nWhile the Test and Trace team has not published its results, it has detailed some of the steps it intends to take to encourage the app's adoption, including:\n\nThe BBC has been told the app will also launch with more than the six languages the test version currently provides.", "The Treasury has scrapped plans for an Autumn Budget this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"As we heard this week, now is not the right time to outline long-term plans - people want to see us focused on the here and now,\" the Treasury said.\n\n\"So we are confirming today that there will be no Budget this autumn.\"\n\nThere will however be a spending review to set out the overall shape of government spending, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg reported.\n\nTypically, the government outlines the state of the country's finances in the Budget and, crucially, proposes tax changes.\n\nBut any such decisions will now be put on hold until next year. Instead, the government will reveal how much each department is allowed to spend.\n\nA Treasury source told the BBC: \"No-one wanted to be in this situation but we need to respond to it.\n\n\"The chancellor has shown he has been creative in the past and we hope that people will trust us to continue in that vein.\"\n\nThe source said that \"giving people reassurance and businesses the help they need\" was \"uppermost\" in the chancellor's mind.\n\nAnother source said that \"jobs, jobs, jobs\", have always been the chancellor's priority.\n\nThe decision to scrap the Budget comes as no surprise, according to Genevieve Morris head of corporate tax at accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg.\n\n\"It would have been difficult for the chancellor to announce tax changes in the autumn which are aimed at recouping the costs of the pandemic, whilst the country is still in the grip of a second wave,\" she said.\n\n\"What we need from the chancellor now is a promise that there will not be overnight tax changes announced in the autumn, or reforms which put additional burden on individuals and businesses.\"\n\nNews of the decision to cancel the Budget came just hours after Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he would unveil his \"winter economy plan\".\n\n\"As our response to coronavirus adapts, tomorrow afternoon I will update the House of Commons on our plans to continue protecting jobs through the winter,\" he tweeted on Wednesday.\n\nThe chancellor has been facing mounting pressure to say what will happen after the government's furlough scheme expires at the end of October.", "Hundreds of thousands of students have been returning to their university towns\n\nMatt Hancock has refused to rule out banning students from returning home at Christmas, to limit the spread of coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nThe health secretary was responding to a question about concerns that students could be spreading Covid-19, amid numerous university-based outbreaks.\n\nAt Glasgow University 120 students have tested positive for Covid-19 and are among 600 self-isolating there.\n\nAcademics had warned against the mass movement of the UK's million students.\n\nThe University and College Union had called for students to be taught wholly online, from home until Christmas, ahead of the start of term, but ministers advised some face-to-face learning was key to students' mental health.\n\nThis has meant up to a million students have returned to their university premises or are commuting there regularly.\n\nIn a response to a question on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme about whether students would be asked to stay in their university towns at Christmas, Mr Hancock said he had \"learned not to rule things out\".\n\n\"I don't want to have a situation like that and I very much hope we can avoid it.\n\n\"We have said throughout that our goal is to suppress the virus, whilst protecting the economy and protecting education.\n\n\"And protecting people in education whether it's school or university is obviously critical as is protecting the economy.\"\n\nHe added: \"In terms of universities, we are working very closely with them to try to make sure the students are safe, but that they can also get their education.\"\n\n\"I've learned not to rule things out and one of the challenges that we have is how to make sure people are as safe as possible.\"\n\nBut he added: \"This is not our goal, I don't want to leave you with the expectation - but we have to work on all contingencies at the moment.\"\n\nIt comes after a growing number of outbreaks on university campuses, with students isolating in their residential groups at Glasgow, Dundee and Liverpool.\n\nBoris Johnson has said universities have been given a \"clear request not to send students home in the event of an outbreak, so as to avoid spreading the virus across the country\".\n\nUniversity students are being urged not to hold parties in their halls of residence under the rule of six, and to avoid socialising in places that do not have Covid-19 protections in place.\n\nMany universities are warning students they face fines or even having their courses terminated if they do not follow the regulations.\n\nStudents are returning to campuses across the UK\n\nUniversities have taken extensive measures in their buildings to minimise risks on campuses and many lectures are already being taught online, but there is less control over what takes place off university premises.\n\nBut minutes of a recent meeting of the government's scientific advisory group on emergencies, suggest ministers were aware of the risks of bringing students back to university and sending them home at the end of term.\n\nThe minutes of the 1 September meeting said: \"Sage noted that risks of larger outbreaks spilling over from HE institutions are more likely to occur towards the end of the academic term, coinciding with Christmas and New Year period when students return home.\n\n\"This could pose risk to both local communities and families, and will require national oversight, monitoring and decision-making.\"\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady has said the evidence was clear that online learning should be the default position and that government should be working to prevent outbreaks not creating conditions for them.\n\nShe said:\" students and their parents will be rightly worried about being locked down in an unfamiliar area over Christmas.\n\n\"Locking students down at Christmas is based on a flawed boarding school vision of university that ignores the fact thousands of students and staff commute every day around the UK to and from university.\n\n\"Threatening to lock students up over the festive period is not the solution.\"\n\nShe also urged the government to act now, before thousands more students move onto campuses this weekend.\n\nIt was completely irresponsible to let students go back to university when outbreaks have already started, she added.\n\nUniversity leaders say they have working hard for months to ensure students can return to their campuses safely.\n\n\"Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of students, staff and local communities in the new academic year is the number one priority for universities,\" said a Universities UK spokeswoman.\n\nAnd Larissa Kennedy, president of the National Union of Students said it was \"completely ridiculous that we could see a situation where students are being told to stay in university accommodation which is often quite small, quite cramped - and they might have to stay there over Christmas\".\n\n\"This would have an inordinate impact on students' wellbeing and mental health,\" she said.\n\n\"I really am calling on government to urgently invest in digital infrastructure so that people can access online learning if they want to do that.\n\n\"It's just not good enough that we're in a situation in September, that might mean that in December the student mental health crisis is further exacerbated by government's inaction.\"\n• None Universities: No parties and more online learning", "Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are interested in investing in Wrexham, the club have announced.\n\nDeadpool and Detective Pikachu star Reynolds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's McElhenney will share their vision for the club with members at a special general meeting (SGM).\n\nThe fan-owned club's members have voted overwhelmingly for talks to proceed.\n\nAny potential takeover could lead to £2m being invested in the club, which has been in fan ownership since 2011.\n\nA total of 1,223 Wrexham Supporters Trust members - over 95% of those asked - voted for the move and 31 against at a special general meeting on Tuesday.\n\nTrust director Spencer Harris, who expects a further vote from fans on the outline of the deal \"in weeks rather than months\", told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast the deal is in its early stages, but he has known the identity of the would-be backers for some time.\n\n\"We've known for a little while, but we wanted to come as early as we could in the process to involve supporters,\" Harris told the programme.\n\n\"As everybody knows we are community owned and therefore this has become public knowledge a little bit earlier than it would in any other normal circumstance, but yeah it's out there now so people know all about it.\n\n\"We started talking through representatives of theirs, talking about the club, and we're now in a position where we are able, following the SGM on Tuesday night, to get into detailed discussions about what a takeover deal could look like.\n\n\"There is some way to go and at the end of the day it will be the supporters who decide what the future direction of the club will be.\"\n\nMr Reynolds, who was among the world's highest paid actors this year after appearing in the Netflix films 6 Underground and Red Notice, has been a shareholder in Aviation American Gin since 2018.\n\nIn August 2020 drinks giant Diageo bought Aviation American, along with three other spirits, as part of a $610m (£460m) deal.\n\nHarris has been impressed by their enthusiasm and approach to a possible takeover of the National League club.\n\n\"I've spoken to both of them several times,\" Harris explained.\n\n\"They are very serious, professional and successful people, not just as actors but in the business world as well and this is a very serious endeavour for them and they'll set out their vision in due course, but I know they are very passionate about this and have gone into a lot of depth to understand about the football club.\"\n\nSo far it is unclear why the Hollywood 'A-listers' are interested in a fifth-tier UK football club in north Wales.\n\n\"I think that's a question for them in good time,\" said Harris.\n\n\"I would answer 'why not?', because for us as Wrexham fans we are the third oldest professional team in the world, the oldest in Wales and play at the oldest international stadium anywhere in the world.\n\n\"We are a team with a proud history that's beaten Porto in the European Cup Winners Cup and there's lot's of potential at the club, so why not?\"\n\n\"But... I don't want to get in front of them setting out their vision for the club which they will do in due course.\"\n\nApproval from members for a deal would see the Trust relinquish control of running the club.\n\n\"It's very exciting news for a lot of people, but supporters will make a decision on whether this goes forward or not,\" explained Harris.\n\n\"Of course I would imagine we would see them at the Racecourse and we may have done already had it not been for Covid-19.\n\n\"It's a difficult time for all of football, not just at our level, even clubs at Premier League level are taking significant loans from government.\n\n\"We are in a relatively decent position versus many so there's no particular burning platform at the football club as we speak right now, however investment into any football club, especially at this level, does make quite some difference and obviously these are very serious professionals, successful people who I'm sure would have a lot to bring to any business.\"\n\nIt would not be the first time Hollywood stars have become involved with a Welsh club, with US star of The Office Mindy Kaling revealed as being among the stakeholders in an American consortium that purchased a controlling stake in Swansea City in 2016.", "Former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans has died at the age of 92.\n\nThe British-American journalist, who led an investigation into the drug Thalidomide, died of heart failure in New York, his wife Tina Brown said.\n\nHis 70-year career also saw him work as a magazine founder, book publisher, author and - at the time of his death - Reuters' editor-at-large.\n\nSir Harold was editor of the Sunday Times for 14 years and oversaw many campaigns in that time.\n\nHe then went on to become the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveller magazine and later president of the publishing giant, Random House.\n\nOne of Britain and America's best-known journalists, Sir Harold also wrote several books about the press and in 2003 was given a knighthood for his services to journalism.\n\nA year earlier, a poll by the Press Gazette and the British Journalism Review named him the greatest newspaper editor of all time.\n\nAuthor and editor Tina Brown said on Twitter that her husband was \"the most magical of men\" and had been \"my soulmate for 39 years\".\n\nSir Harold Evans was appointed editor-at-large at the Reuters news agency in 2011\n\nSir Harold forged his reputation as editor of the Northern Echo in the 1960s, where his campaigns resulted in a national screening programme for cervical cancer and a posthumous pardon for Timothy Evans, wrongly hanged for murder in 1950.\n\nDuring his tenure as editor of the Sunday Times, his notable campaigns included fighting the Distillers Company for greater compensation for those affected by Thalidomide.\n\nBut he said campaigns should be selective, and he deplored what he saw as the invasion of privacy by the British tabloid press.\n\nThalidomide, which first appeared in the UK in 1958, was prescribed to expectant mothers to control the symptoms of morning sickness.\n\nHowever, hundreds of these mothers in Britain, and many thousands across the world, gave birth to children with missing limbs, deformed hearts, blindness and other problems.\n\nSir Harold's campaign, launched in 1972, eventually forced the UK manufacturer, Distillers Company - at the time the Sunday Times's biggest advertiser - to increase the compensation payments.\n\nHe also fought a legal injunction to stop the paper revealing the drug's developers had not gone through the proper testing procedures.\n\nSpeaking about his campaigning in a 2010 interview with the Independent, Sir Harold said: \"I tried to do - all I hoped to do - was to shed a little light. And if that light grew weeds, we'd have to try and pull them up.\"\n\nSir Harold and his second wife Tina Brown pictured in 1989, after their move to New York City\n\nSir Harold later edited the Times but left in 1981 following a public falling-out with the paper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, over editorial independence.\n\nWriting about their relationship, Sir Harold described his decision not to \"campaign against\" Mr Murdoch's takeover of the papers as \"the worst in my professional career\".\n\nHe added: \"My principal difficulty with Murdoch was my refusal to turn the paper into an organ of Thatcherism. That is what the Times became.\"\n\nHarry Evans personified not only the noblest possibilities of journalism, but of social mobility in the 20th Century too.\n\nBorn into what he called \"the respectable working-class\", his route to national and international acclaim via the streets of Manchester and Darlington - the latter as editor of the Northern Echo - is sadly a route few take today.\n\nHe embodied the most romantic ideal of an editor: a humble hack taking on mighty forces through the dogged pursuit of truth.\n\nThough he later fell out with Rupert Murdoch, and never forgave him, in his 14 years at the helm of the Sunday Times he redefined journalism itself.\n\nHe was a master craftsman, in a trade where practical wisdom was precious and vital; and he combined a flair for layout, projection and design with a remarkable nose for a story, particularly those with human suffering at their heart.\n\nBut above all he was brave. During his reign, it seemed no super-rich bully or powerful government could intimidate him.\n\nIn our era of information overload, diminished trust in journalism, and fewer people willing to pay for news, the nostalgia for what he represented is impossible to resist.\n\nAs he put it himself in the title of his wonderful memoir from 2009, he reached the top in Vanished Times.\n\nHe had the resources, and the time, to hold power to account - and he did uniquely well. Mixed with his charm and sheer decency, this put journalism itself in a debt to him that will never be fully serviced.\n\nJournalists have paid tribute to his campaigning work on the Thalidomide scandal and other injustices. Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the Guardian, said he was a \"master craftsman of journalism\" who \"was the editor we all wanted to be\".\n\nAndrew Neil, a former editor of the Sunday Times, described Sir Harold as the \"greatest editor of his generation\" and one with an \"unerring instinct for a story\".\n\nAuthor Robert Harris told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Sir Harold was an outsider coming in to the Sunday Times, the \"son of a railway man who wanted to take on the establishment\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who once worked as a journalist at the Times newspaper, described Sir Harold as a \"true pioneer of investigative journalism\" who \"will always be remembered\" for \"tirelessly campaigning on behalf of those who were affected\" by the Thalidomide scandal that he exposed.\n\nIan Murray, executive director of the Society of Editors, said: \"Sir Harold Evans was a giant among journalists who strove to put the ordinary man and woman at the heart of his reporting.\"\n\nAnd Glen Harrison, a Thalidomide survivor and deputy chairman of the campaign group Thalidomide UK, described Sir Harold as \"an outstanding human being for our cause\".\n\nAfter leaving the Times, Sir Harold and his second wife, Tina Brown, moved to New York.\n\nShe edited Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, while he became founding editor of Conde Nast magazine.\n\nIn 2011, at the age of 82, Sir Harold was appointed editor-at-large at Reuters, the organisation's editor-in-chief describing him as \"one of the greatest minds in journalism\".", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to make a \"big bet\" on renewables, turning the UK into the \"Saudi Arabia\" of wind power.\n\nTalking via video link to a roundtable discussion at the UN in New York, he said the country held \"extraordinary potential\" for wind energy.\n\nHe said the UK should embrace a range of new technologies to achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the UN climate conference, known as the COP.\n\nBut because of the coronavirus crisis, the annual gathering will not take place this year. It has instead been postponed until November 2021.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK had an ambitious agenda for the meeting and called on other countries to show similar ambition. He praised the recent pledge by China to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.\n\nMr Johnson reiterated his government's pledge to \"build back greener\" after the Covid-19 pandemic, through a green industrial revolution. He promised to deliver thousands of new jobs in the process.\n\nAs regards wind power, Mr Johnson said: \"We've got huge, huge gusts of wind going around the north of our country - Scotland. Quite extraordinary potential we have for wind.\"\n\nOn the question of new technologies, the prime minister also said he wanted the UK to take the lead in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, in which greenhouse gas emissions are captured from sources such as power stations and then stored underground.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK had \"quite extraordinary potential\" for wind power\n\nMr Johnson said this was a technology he \"barely believed was possible, but I am now a complete evangelist for\".\n\nHe said the country would also be investing in renewable hydrogen fuel technology to provide what he called \"grunt\" for \"trucks, for trains, even perhaps for planes - for vehicles that aren't readily capable of being moved by electric batteries\".\n\nLike many other countries, he said the UK government was also thinking of bringing forward the date for phasing out new petrol and diesel cars. It's thought that date will be 2030, with 2035 for plug-in hybrids - but this has not yet been confirmed. This would help accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles (EVs).\n\nThe government would be continuing its ongoing investments in solar power and nuclear energy: \"I do think nuclear has to be part of the mix,\" the prime minister said.\n\nSomething that might have got a bit lost amongst Mr Johnsons references to the UK not \"lagging on lagging\" or the need to get hydrogen \"grunt\" to power the nation's trucks was just how important the Glasgow conference is.\n\nIt was only at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015 that the world actually agreed that all nations needed to do their bit to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEven as the Paris conference closed, the participants knew the commitments made were not sufficient to meet the UN's stated goal of keeping temperature rises well below 2C.\n\nThat is why they agreed to review their ambitions every five years. The idea is that they will keep raising the bar, doubling down on the efforts to moderate climate change.\n\nMr Johnson's goal today was to urge them to bring the boldest possible carbon cuts at a new meeting marking the anniversary of the Paris agreement on 12 December.\n\nWhat they bring to that meeting will kick off a year of negotiations designed to get them to go even further eleven months later at Glasgow.\n\nSo Mr Johnson was beginning a process that will determine how successful the conference will be and - much more important - will also determine the future direction of global climate.\n\nThe UK plans to invest in hydrogen-powered vehicles\n\nIn addition, homes would have to be improved so that they emit far fewer emissions. \"Putting in lagging, changing the way the windows are configured, all kinds of things - changing the boilers. You can do so much to make a home less carbon-emitting.\n\n\"The UK may sometimes be accused of lagging in some things my friends, but we will never be lagging in lagging.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK's greenhouse gases were 8-10% down in 2020 on previous years. But added: \"The bad news is we've achieved that by sustaining an appalling economic shock in the form of coronavirus.\n\n\"The only way we've done - or we're going to do it - is as you can imagine because our planes aren't flying, our people aren't moving, our cars aren't travelling and our industry isn't producing emissions in the way that it normally would.\"\n\nAt the roundtable, Ursula Van der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said that keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C - considered the gateway to dangerous global warming - was still possible \"if we act quickly and if we act together\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "The government says there is high demand for coronavirus tests\n\nPeople are waiting longer for test results from England's community Covid testing centres, figures show.\n\nOnly 28% of tests carried out in these venues came back in 24 hours in the week up to 16 September.\n\nThat is down from one in three last week, and two in three the week before, NHS Test and Trace said.\n\nJust over 5% of tests took more than three days to turn around. It comes as the government is struggling to increase lab capacity to process tests.\n\nAccess to community testing has had to be rationed because the network of five Lighthouse Labs, which process tests done in the community, are struggling to keep up with demand.\n\nThe opening of a sixth lab in Newport has been delayed from August.\n\nThe government said that lab and a seventh in Loughborough would be open by next month, helping to double lab capacity to 500,000 by the end of October.\n\nThere are three types of community testing centres - drive-thrus, walk-ins and mobile units that are deployed to hotspot areas.\n\nTurnaround times for kits posted out to care homes and people's private homes improved, however. The government has been prioritising care homes for testing in recent weeks amid the shortage of tests.\n\nTesting carried out in hospitals is processed by their own labs, and nine in 10 test results are provided in 24 hours.\n\nThe weekly data released by NHS Test and Trace also includes figures for the performance of contact tracers.\n\nThey obtained contact details for 77,500 close contacts of people who had tested positive, reaching three-quarters of them to ask them to self-isolate.\n\nNHS Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding said the system was facing \"unprecedented demand\".\n\nThe data shows over the past two weeks more than 200,000 children under nine have been tested - nearly three times more than were tested the two weeks before that, suggesting the return to school did lead to an increase in this age group seeking tests. Less than 1% tested positive.\n\nBaroness Harding added: \"We continue to work tirelessly to build our testing capacity to meet this and our target of 500,000 tests a day, building our lab network and testing sites across the country.\"\n\nMeanwhile, people living in England and Wales are being urged to download the government's contact-tracing app following its official release.\n\nNHS Covid-19 instructs users to self-isolate for 14 days if it detects they were nearby someone who has the virus.\n\nIt also has a check-in scanner to alert owners if a venue they have visited is found to be an outbreak hotspot.\n\nAnyone aged 16 and over is being asked to install the app on to their smartphone.", "The Always Home Cam covers up its camera when not in flight\n\nAmazon's smart home security division Ring has unveiled a flying camera that launches if sensors detect a potential home break-in.\n\nIt is designed to activate only when residents are out, works indoors, and is limited to one floor of a building.\n\nThe firm also unveiled an online games-streaming service and a voice-activated screen that swivels about.\n\nBut one campaign group described the drone camera as Amazon's \"most chilling home surveillance product\" yet.\n\n\"It's difficult to imagine why Amazon thinks anyone wants flying internet cameras linked up to a data-gathering company in the privacy of their own home,\" said Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch.\n\n\"It's important to acknowledge the influence that Amazon's product development is having on communities and the growing surveillance market.\"\n\nWhen the Always Home Cam is triggered by a suspected break-in, owners will get a smartphone alert to let them see live footage.\n\nAmazon said that privacy had been \"top of mind\" when the machine was designed.\n\n\"It only reports when it's in motion, and when it's not in motion it actually sits in a dock where it's physically blocked from even being able to report,\" explained Leila Rouhi, president of Ring.\n\n\"In addition to that, it's built to be loud, so it's really privacy that you can hear.\"\n\nThe drone's rotor blades are inside a cage, which could help protect pets\n\nThe device is set to cost $250 (£192) when it goes on sale. At launch, it will only be available in the US.\n\n\"The Always Home Cam is an incredibly ambitious device that will seem like something from a science fiction movie for many consumers,\" commented Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"I expect it to generate a huge amount of interest from technology enthusiasts who are typically the people who embrace smart home technology first. However, it is also likely to provoke a huge discussion around privacy and the future role of technology in the home.\"\n\nThe Ring division also unveiled a new security camera designed for use in a car, which monitors for nearby activity when the vehicle is parked.\n\nIt can also start recording video if a driver is pulled over while on a journey, potentially allowing them to record an interaction with the police.\n\nRing's business has previously been criticised because it has encouraged users to share their recordings with the authorities. This has prompted claims that it is normalising surveillance technologies that can intrude on people's lives.\n\nThe division claims its existing products - including video doorbells, indoor video cameras, and smart alarm systems - have helped make neighbourhoods safer.\n\nGlobal consumer spending on smart home products is expected to fall about 15% this year to $44bn (£24.5bn) due to the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. But it predicts a rebound in 2021.\n\nAmazon's rivals have previously accused it of anti-competitive behaviour by selling its products at a lower price than they cost to make, in order to secure market share.\n\nWhen questioned about sales of the firm's Echo speakers in July, chief executive Jeff Bezos said the firm did not lose money on the range when they were sold at \"list price\", but acknowledged they were often on promotion at a lower cost.\n\nAmazon's other big announcement was the launch of its long-rumoured cloud-based games-streaming service.\n\nLuna will run games on remote computer servers so that players do not need to buy a console or other dedicated devices beyond a controller.\n\nIts Luna+ channel will offer access to a selection of older games such as Control, Resident Evil: Biohazard, Sonic Mania and Metro: Exodus for $6 a month.\n\nMany gamers may be more interested in the forthcoming \"Ubisoft channel\", which will include the publisher's next Assassin's Creed game among other blockbuster releases. The monthly cost of the Ubisoft channel has yet to be disclosed.\n\nThe Luna Controller will cost extra on top of the service's subscription fee\n\nAt launch, Luna will work with Amazon's own Fire TV dongles, Windows and MacOS computers, as well as on iPhones and iPads via the web browser.\n\nSupport for iPhones and iPads is notable as Apple has restricted other high-profile games-streaming services that did not obey its App Store rules.\n\nLuna will compete with Google Stadia, which launched about a year ago and has struggled to establish itself in a busy marketplace.\n\nXbox Game Pass, PlayStation Now, Apple Arcade and EA Play are among other subscription services competing for players' money and attention.\n\nThe Luna controller connects directly to the wi-fi\n\nHowever, Amazon has the advantage of owning the hugely popular Twitch platform, where people watch each other play. This could help it promote Luna.\n\n\"Amazon is allowing third-party channels on Luna, but at an additional cost to the user,\" commented Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis.\n\nHe added that this was the opposite strategy to Microsoft, which had recently revealed it was bundling EA Play with the ultimate edition of its Xbox Game Pass without raising its price.\n\n\"Amazon's approach is commercially more sustainable and flexible,\" Mr Harding-Rolls concluded.\n\nUsers in parts of the US are the only ones able to sign up for \"early access\" at this time.\n\nIt is easy to forget how quickly drone technology has developed.\n\nAlways Home Cam is straight out of a 1980s science-fiction movie. But this is 2020, and the technology for flying security drones is here.\n\nThe Always Home Cam (l) is launched from a dock and streams live video to a smartphone\n\nFor years, Amazon has been using drones to try to speed up its delivery network. And in the past, its patents have suggested these could also provide a surveillance service.\n\nBut using drones for security inside the home is a new development.\n\nThere are general worries that this is the thin end of a wedge.\n\nFuture products might include Ring drones that operate around your house at times other than a suspected burglary - maybe there will even be guard drones in the future.\n\nOther announcements during Amazon's virtual event included a revamp for the firm's Echo and smaller Echo Dot smart speakers, which now come in spherical designs.\n\nThe devices can now recognise when a child is speaking to them and adapt their responses accordingly - for example selecting \"kid-friendly\" songs when asked to play music.\n\nThe new Amazon Echo is spherical and covered in cloth\n\nThe firm said that a new computer chip inside would allow more artificial intelligence-related tasks to be processed locally, meaning responses to commands and questions could be given more quickly.\n\nAmazon also launched a new version of its Echo Show 10 smart screen, which can now rotate to stay facing its users as they move about. In addition, the built-in camera has been upgraded to a 13-megapixel component to allow it to digitally zoom in and track users.\n\nThis should help the machine keep the owner in view during a video chat, and mirrors the capabilities of Facebook's rival Portal product.\n\nThe device will also add support for Zoom video calls and Netflix, as well as retaining Amazon's proprietary services and Skype.\n\nThe Echo Show 10 can swivel and face the person who is speaking to it\n\nAmazon added that Alexa's voice would soon sound more natural, by adding pauses for Alexa to take a \"breath\".\n\nAnd it said the virtual assistant would soon become better at recognising when customers were talking to it and when they were talking to each other, after it had been activated by a wake word.\n\nThis should help it avoid responding to speech that is not directed at it.\n\nAmazon Echo is forecast to have 11.6 million smart speaker users in the UK by the end of 2020, according to research firm eMarketer. By contrast, it says the nearest competitor Google Home would have 3.7 million.\n• None Why Amazon knows so much about you", "Lord O'Donnell served as cabinet secretary under three prime ministers\n\nThe UK government has \"over-promised and under-delivered\" as it deals with coronavirus, a former head of the civil service has argued in a speech.\n\nLord O'Donnell said \"strategy\" and \"leadership\" had been lacking.\n\nAnd he said PM Boris Johnson had used \"political capital\" by keeping senior aide Dominic Cummings in place after his long drive north during lockdown.\n\nThe government said its \"clear\" strategy was to save lives, while protecting the economy and education.\n\nThis week it tightened up rules in England on the size of social gatherings, pub and restaurant opening hours, and the use of face coverings.\n\nThe changes came amid a rising infection rate and after the government's two most senior pandemic advisers warned there could be 50,000 cases a day by October.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of daily recorded UK Covid-19 cases rose by a quarter to 6,178 on Wednesday.\n\nIn his speech to the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, Lord O'Donnell said: \"We have to ask why a country with such reputed health and intelligence institutions has been so incapable of combating the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe crossbench peer - who served as cabinet secretary under prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron - added: \"A litany of new rules and a steady stream of leaks reflects a government struggling to emerge from firefighting mode.\n\n\"Without a clear strategy, strong leadership and the use of good evidence from a range of human sciences, there is a risk that our efforts to emerge from this pandemic will be protracted and extremely costly.\"\n\nLord O'Donnell also said: \"In addition to some operational failings, ministers have frequently broken one of the cardinal rules: they have over-promised and under-delivered.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus measures have divided opinion among scientists, with some claiming they do not go far enough but others saying they are a shift towards more coherent policy.\n\nOn Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended them as \"balanced, targeted and proportionate\".\n\nHe said there would always be the \"Goldilocks criticism\" of the government - that it was doing \"too much or too little\".\n\nDominic Cummings faced the media in May as he explained his trip to County Durham\n\nIt emerged during lockdown that Mr Cummings, Mr Johnson's most senior adviser, had driven from London to County Durham with his wife and child.\n\nThere were calls to sack Mr Cummings and claims he had broken the law, but he insisted he had acted \"reasonably\" and lawfully.\n\nMr Johnson, who himself had been hospitalised by Covid-19 earlier in the crisis, backed his aide and he kept his job.\n\nIn his speech, Lord O'Donnell said the prime minister had \"used up his political capital\" in doing so.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Throughout the pandemic the government has taken advice from a wide range of scientific and medical experts.\n\n\"At every stage we have struck a delicate balance between saving lives by protecting our NHS and minimising the wider impact of our restrictions.\"", "Mercedes and other German carmakers have used government money to subsidise wages\n\nUnlike the UK, the Germans didn't have to invent a job support programme from scratch when the pandemic struck: they already had one oven-ready.\n\nWhile British companies were getting to grips with the novelty of furloughing workers at the government's expense, their German counterparts simply fell back on a tried and tested scheme.\n\nNow, while UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is insisting that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will not continue past October, Germany is extending its Kurzarbeit job subsidy measures until the end of 2021.\n\nAt the same time, France is following Germany's example and expects to be doing so for a couple of years.\n\nIn the UK, influential figures including former prime minister Gordon Brown are urging the government to bring in a German or French-style system after October.\n\nSo what are the German and French schemes and how do they work?\n\n\"I'm very glad we have this system,\" says Dr Volker Verch, director of the Central Westphalian employers' federation.\n\n\"We would have lost many more jobs, in my region and across the country, if we didn't have this Kurzarbeit,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Obviously it all has to be paid for, but it's worth it in terms of social harmony.\"\n\nWhen the British scheme began, it was based on paying workers to stay at home and do nothing. It was not until July that furloughed employees were able to go back to work part-time.\n\nHowever, the German system was always about short-time working - allowing employers to reduce employees' hours while keeping them in a job. The government pays workers a percentage of the money they would have got for working those lost hours.\n\nAccording to the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research, at the height of the pandemic, half of all German firms had at least some of their staff on the scheme.\n\nThat includes Rolls-Royce Power Systems, a German engineering company owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings and specialising in power generation and propulsion systems. It employs 9,000 people worldwide, 5,500 of them in Germany.\n\nChief executive Andreas Schell told the BBC that the company came relatively late to the Kurzarbeit scheme.\n\n\"When the crisis came, we were sitting on a good order book,\" he says. \"But we anticipated a reduction in orders, and we had less to do in the third quarter, so we had to adjust our capacity.\"\n\nIn June, the firm put 1,000 of its German employees on \"short-time working\". That rose to 1,800 in July, before falling back in August and September as workers went on holiday instead.\n\n\"It's a really good programme of support by the German government,\" says Mr Schell. \"Otherwise we would have suffered economically. But it also helps to mitigate the economic consequences for our employees. It offers flexibility to us as a company and that's a good thing.\"\n\nAndreas Schell has nothing but praise for the Kurzarbeit scheme\n\nKurzarbeit has a long pedigree, going back to the early 20th Century. However, it came to prominence during the global financial crisis of 2008-09, when it is thought to have saved up to half a million jobs.\n\nEven in normal times, it can be used by companies undergoing restructuring or suffering from seasonal fluctuations in their business.\n\nBut normally it lasts for only six months. During the pandemic, that has been increased to a maximum of 21 months, while the criteria have been changed to include more firms and workers.\n\nThe percentage of lost wages paid by the government will also go up in stages, from the usual 60% to 80% after the first six months.\n\nIn comparison with the UK's furlough scheme, the cost of Kurzarbeit seems relatively modest, perhaps reflecting its more limited scope.\n\nBerlin ploughed €23.5bn into bolstering the scheme at the start of the pandemic, then expanded it again in August, at an estimated cost of €10bn more, to run for all of next year.\n\nBy contrast, the Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated that the UK's furlough scheme will have cost £60bn, about twice as much as the Germans are spending, by the time it ends in October.\n\nThe French scheme, known as \"partial unemployment\" or \"partial activity\", also pre-dates the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt too is designed to subsidise the jobs of people on reduced working hours - and it's also intended for the long haul.\n\nUnder the French scheme, firms are allowed to cut employees' hours by up to 40% for up to three years. Employees still receive nearly all their normal salary, with the government paying a percentage of the cost.\n\nThe scheme is subject to all kinds of French bureaucracy, requiring firms to come to an agreement with unions and offer formal guarantees of job security, but the principle is the same as in Germany.\n\nOlivier Six is chief executive of two very different firms, both based in the Grenoble area.\n\nThe bigger of the two, CIC Orio, is a metallurgy company that employs 150 people making industrial boilers and other specialised equipment. The other, G-Tech Guidetti, specialises in making hiking accessories.\n\n\"When the crisis began, there was a loss of confidence,\" he told the BBC. \"Firms were sitting on their funds, nobody was paying anybody.\"\n\nG-Tech Guidetti, as a consumer-facing firm, was immediately hit by the lockdown, because all its stockists had to close, so all its 15 employees went on the partial activity scheme.\n\n\"But after confinement ended, there was a pick-up in consumption and the recovery was very strong,\" he says.\n\nCIC Orio, however, is still making use of the scheme. Its employees are currently working four days out of five, with the government compensating them for the lost day's earnings.\n\n\"It's fortunate that we have this scheme, because we're afraid that the crisis will come back again,\" he says. \"This will last a long time. There will probably be another year of very weak economic activity.\"\n\nThe French government describes its scheme as a \"bouclier anti-licenciements\" - that is, an anti-redundancy shield.\n\nFor now, it appears to be working. But with cases of coronavirus on the rise again in France, it's anyone's guess how long it might be needed.", "Some men who have suffered domestic abuse have slept in cars or tents in the gardens of friends or relatives\n\nCharities dealing with men who suffer domestic abuse have seen pleas for help jump by up to 60% during the lockdown.\n\nThe Respect Men's Advice Line said some victims had told them they had sought refuge by sleeping in cars or in tents in the gardens of friends or relatives.\n\nThe charity said it had received 13,812 calls and emails between April and July in lockdown compared to 8,648 in the same period in 2019.\n\nRespect's Ippo Panteloudakis said the pandemic had made the problem worse.\n\nHe said: \"It was absolutely clear the lockdown period exacerbated everyone's domestic abuse experiences.\n\n\"They were talking about increases in violence, increases in psychological abuse and becoming homeless as a result of the domestic abuse and not having anywhere to go.\n\n\"We had reports from men sleeping in their cars overnight or sleeping in their friends' or parents' gardens in tents.\"\n\nThe advice line said the biggest increase in contact with abuse victims came through emails and the service saw the volume increase by 96% from 372 emails in June 2019 to 728 in June 2020.\n\nOn average it received 22 emails a day and 92 phone calls as the lockdown took hold from April to June.\n\nMen Standing Up service manager Nikasha Khan said the coronavirus restrictions meant more of the work was done on the telephone\n\nBradford-based charity Men Standing Up takes male domestic abuse referrals from across the country.\n\nIt started up six years ago and has dealt with more than 4,000 cases.\n\nMen Standing Up has so-called crash pads and emergency accommodation for men for up to 14 days.\n\nBefore the coronavirus lockdown it ran a support group and helped victims attend court for hearings over restraining orders or to go to GP appointments.\n\nService manager Nikasha Khan said: \"It's gone from them being able to pick up the phone and say 'I'm feeling really down, could we go out for a coffee?'.\n\n\"That's had to stop unfortunately because of the restrictions so we've been trying to provide as much telephone support as possible and give them that emotional support that they need but they have been struggling with that.\"\n\nA man who contacted Men Standing Up for help said he had wanted to kill himself because of the domestic abuse he suffered\n\nOne man in West Yorkshire who was directed to Men Standing Up by the advice line said he asked for help as he had wanted to kill himself after suffering years of psychological abuse including gaslighting, controlling behaviour and financial abuse.\n\nThe man, who did not want to reveal his identity, said: \"I needed help, I needed to get out of this place because I was watched everywhere I was going - every single step.\n\n\"It was killing me from inside and I needed to get out to see the world.\n\n\"I used to cry all the time, I just used to isolate myself in my room and I used to be there for days.\n\n\"If it wasn't for Men Standing Up I wouldn't have known what to do - I could've been dead.\n\n\"With men they just keep it inside them, just keep quiet and pass the time and just for the sake of the kids they do it, but it doesn't get any easier, it just gets worse.\"\n\nEan Monk from the charity said: \"The service was set up as a response to the growing number of men who were accessing our homelessness services who were saying the primary reason for homelessness was domestic abuse.\"\n\nMore 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, figures showed.\n\nIn June, calls and contacts were nearly 80% higher than usual, said the charity Refuge, which runs the helpline.\n\nAnd as restrictions initially eased, there was a surge in women seeking refuge places to escape their abusers, the charity said.\n\nIf you've been affected by any issues in this story you can find support via the BBC Action Line here.\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 men, Jayden Dolman (l) and Daniel Mee were holidaying in Spain\n\nTwo friends lost their balance while embracing near a seafront wall and fell nine metres (30ft) on to the beach below, an inquest heard.\n\nDaniel Mee, 25, and Jayden Dolman, 20, died on 3 July 2019 during a holiday in Alicante, Spain.\n\nThe men had been \"larking about\" taking photographs when they toppled over a railing, the inquest in Taunton was told.\n\nMr Mee was pronounced dead at the scene while Mr Dolman later died in hospital.\n\nSomerset coroner Tony Williams said their friend Lewis Higgins witnessed what had happened.\n\n\"He said he and his friends Jayden and Daniel were walking from the villa to the nearest beach.\n\n\"They were taking pictures while they were walking. Daniel embraced Jayden. He saw them both close to the railings. Then they fell.\"\n\nMr Higgins told Spanish authorities the friends had been drinking during the day.\n\nThe inquest focused on the death of Mr Mee, a plumber from Bridgwater, as Mr Dolman's body was not repatriated to the UK.\n\nIt heard toxicology tests found the amount of alcohol in Mr Mee's blood was 215mg per 100ml of blood. The legal drink-drive limit is 80mg.\n\nMr Williams said Mr Mee's cause of death was a head injury and recorded a conclusion of accidental death.\n\nHe said: \"Daniel and Jayden are hugging close to the railings and during that, they have lost balance, they have gone over the railings and unfortunately fallen over where there is a steep drop of nine metres on the other side.\n\n\"Unfortunately, they have sustained injuries that have proved fatal.\"\n• None Two men fall to deaths from a wall in Spain\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emergency crews were sent to the scene of the incident in Newquay\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with assaulting a police officer who sustained severe burns in Cornwall.\n\nBlagovest Hadjigueorguiev, 30, faces charges of arson with intent, GBH with intent against a police officer, and attempted GBH with intent.\n\nPC Darral Mares was airlifted to Royal Cornwall Hospital from Trevenson Road, Newquay, on Friday.\n\nMr Hadjigueorguiev, of no fixed address, did not enter a plea at Truro Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Truro Crown Court on 13 October.\n\nThe 51-year-old officer is said to be in a \"stable condition\" at Derriford Hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd has appeared in court for the first time.\n\nDerek Chauvin was filmed pressing his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes before he died in May.\n\nThree other former officers are charged with abetting and aiding murder.", "Children are included in the new limits for social gatherings in England\n\nThe \"rule of six\", the latest limits on social gatherings in England, will not be changed to exempt children under 12, Michael Gove has insisted.\n\nThe new rules, which limit six people to meeting indoors and outdoors, come into effect on Monday.\n\nSimilar rules in Wales and Scotland do not include children under 11 and 12 respectively. But Mr Gove said the England rules were \"absolutely right\".\n\nIt comes as one scientist warned UK could lose control of the virus.\n\n\"One would have to say that we're on the edge of losing control,\" Prof Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nProf Walport said it was very important that children go to school and students return to university - but social interactions would have to be limited in other areas.\n\n\"The only way to stop the spread of this infection is to reduce the number of people we all come into contact with,\" he added.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the rule of six was \"well-understood\" as a public health message and had the public's support.\n\n\"As ever, the important thing is balance - eating out, seeing friends - that is fine, provided we do so in a way that is socially responsible, that's what the rule of six is about.\"\n\nHe said some people had \"unwittingly\" contributed to the spread of the virus because of the way they had interacted, adding: \"So therefore, a clear message - as simple as possible - makes it easier for all of us to do what is helpful to others.\"\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4, he added that there needed to be \"a degree of self-discipline and restriction\" in order to deal with the challenges posed by the rising number of coronavirus cases across England - and the escalating R number, which measures the rate at which the virus is transmitted.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast. he urged the public to behave in \"a responsible fashion\" amid fears people might treat it as a \"party weekend\", ahead of the new restrictions coming into effect next week.\n\n\"These rules and regulations are there for our protection, but also for the protection of the most vulnerable in society\", citing the elderly or those with underlying health conditions \"who face far grimmer consequences\" if they contract Covid-19.\n\n\"The onus is on all of us to do everything we can to make sure we abide by those rules.\n\n\"Then we can ensure, in due course, that these restrictions can be relaxed - and my hope, like so many, is that we can have a proper Christmas.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nIn the immediate future, Mr Gove agreed fines could be necessary to enforce regulations. It follows a story in the Times, which says the government is looking at introducing fines for people who refuse to self-isolate when required.\n\n\"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk,\" Mr Gove told Radio 4.\n\nAsked about Prof Walport's statement that the UK was \"losing control\", Mr Gove said it was \"a warning to us all\".\n\n\"There's a range of scientific opinion, but one thing on which practically every scientist is agreed is that we have seen an uptick in infection and therefore it is appropriate we take public health measures.\"\n\nThere are fears people will treat this weekend as a \"party weekend\" ahead of the new restrictions\n\nSage found that only about 20% of people who have symptoms or live in a household where someone else has symptoms adhere to self-isolation requirements.\n\n\"Sometimes there's an argument that's depicted, as though this is pernicious of the liberty of freedom-loving people - well there are restrictions, and I love freedom, but the one thing I think is even more important is that you exercise freedom with responsibility,\" said Mr Gove.\n\nSome Conservative backbenchers have protested about enhanced regulations, such as the rule of six, and pressed the government to follow Wales and Scotland in exempting young children.\n\nOn Friday, ex-minister Steve Baker said the latest government action amounted to \"arbitrary powers without scrutiny\" and MP Desmond Swayne said it was \"outrageous\" not to have a Parliamentary debate.\n\n\"This is not a fit legal environment for the British people,\" Mr Baker told the BBC.\n\n\"It's time to move to a voluntary system, unless the government can demonstrate otherwise and it is time for us to start living like a free people.\"\n\nSenior Conservative backbenchers are reported to be lobbying Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to make sure that legislation is being reviewed every month, not every six months.\n\nWhat do you think about the decision to include children under 12 in the \"rule of six\" in England? How does it affect you? Tell us about your experience by emailinghaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website or contacts us via email at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, location and a contact number with any email.", "Five people have been arrested as part of an investigation into an NI crime group suspected of attempting to import cocaine worth £1m.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation was supported by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nOn Thursday three men were detained in the Essex area and two more in North Wales.\n\nAt the same time three lorries were seized.\n\nFour of those arrested are known to be based in Northern Ireland, the other man is from the north of England. They are all aged between 21 and 59.\n\nThey are suspected of being involved in the importation of class A drugs from the continent.\n\nThe five men were questioned by NCA officers, and have now been released on bail.\n\nSpecialist Border Force officers were called in to conduct detailed searches of the HGVs.\n\nSpecialist Border Force officers were called in to conduct detailed searches of the HGVs\n\nIn one, a complex concealment was located, which once opened was found to contain about 21 kilos of cocaine.\n\nAt the same time officers from the NCA and PSNI time carried out searches at a number of properties in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe investigation has also been supported throughout by An Garda Síochána (Irish police) and the Organised Crime Task Force.\n\nNCA Regional Head of Investigations Gerry McLean said the seizures \"prevented a large quantity of drugs from reaching our streets, and denied criminals an important avenue for smuggling.\"\n\n\"This is a highly significant operation in terms of our activity to target organised crime impacting on Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nHe thanked colleagues from the PSNI, Garda and Border Force.\n\nDet Supt Rachel Shields, from the PSNI, said detectives had been working in collaboration with the NCA in relation to this operation for some time.\n\n\"These arrests and seizure are significant in terms of the quantity seized, and in terms of the disruption caused to organised criminals,\" she said.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with, and support the NCA in their work to disrupt the nefarious activities of organised crime groups,\" she added", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Attenborough met some of the few remaining gorillas in the Virunga Mountains at the time some 40 years ago\n\nSir David Attenborough returns to our screens this weekend with a landmark new production.\n\nThe tone of the programme is very different from his usual work.\n\nFor once Britain's favourite naturalist is not here to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on Earth but to issue us all with a stark warning.\n\nThe one-hour film, Extinction: The Facts, will be broadcast on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.\n\n\"We are facing a crisis\", he warns at the start, \"and one that has consequences for us all.\"\n\nWhat follows is a shocking reckoning of the damage our species has wrought on the natural world.\n\nThere are the stunning images of animals and plants you would expect from an Attenborough production, but also horrific scenes of destruction.\n\nIn one sequence monkeys leap from trees into a river to escape a huge fire.\n\nIn another a koala limps across a road in its vain search for shelter as flames consume the forest around it.\n\nPangolins are trafficked in great numbers for their scales\n\nThere is a small army of experts on hand to quantify the scale of the damage to the ecosystems of the world.\n\nOf the estimated eight million species on Earth, a million are now threatened with extinction, one expert warns.\n\nSince 1970, vertebrate animals - birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and amphibians - have declined by 60%, another tells us.\n\nWe meet the world's last two northern white rhinos.\n\nThese great beasts used to be found in their thousands in Central Africa but have been pushed to the brink of extinction by habitat loss and hunting.\n\n\"Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale told by conservationists,\" says James Mwenda, the keeper who looks after them, \"but I have lived it, I know what it is.\"\n\nJames Mwenda: 'Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale'\n\nJames strokes and pets the giant animals but it becomes clear they represent the last of their kind when he tells us that Najin and Fatu are mother and daughter.\n\nSpecies have always come and gone, that's how evolution works. But, says Sir David, the rate of extinction has been rising dramatically.\n\nIt is reckoned to be now happening at 100 times the natural evolutionary rate - and is accelerating.\n\n\"Over the course of my life I've encountered some of the world's most remarkable species of animals,\" says Sir David, in one of the most moving sequences in the film.\n\n\"Only now do I realise just how lucky I've been - many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever.\"\n\nSir David is at pains to explain that this isn't just about losing the magnificent creatures he has featured in the hundreds of programmes he has made in his six decades as a natural history film-maker.\n\nThe loss of pollinating insects could threaten the food crops we depend on. Trees and other plants regulate water flow and produce the oxygen we breathe. Meanwhile, the seas are being emptied of fish.\n\nThere is now about 5% of trawler-caught fish left compared with before the turn of the 20th century, one expert says.\n\nTwo female rhinos are the last of their kind\n\nBut the pandemic provides perhaps the most immediate example of the risks of our ever-increasing encroachment into the natural world, as we have all been learning in the most brutal fashion over the last six months.\n\nThe programme tracks the suspected origins of coronavirus to populations of bats living in cave systems in Yunnan province in China.\n\nWe see the Chinese \"wet market\" in Wuhan which specialises in the sale of wild animals for human consumption and is thought to have been linked with many of the early infections.\n\nThe programme is uncompromising in its depiction of the crisis in the natural world, admits Serena Davies, who directed the programme.\n\n\"Our job is to report the reality the evidence presents,\" she explains.\n\nBut the programme does not leave the audience feeling that all is lost. Sir David makes clear there is still cause for hope.\n\n\"His aim is not to try and drag the audience into the depths of despair,\" says Ms Davies, \"but to take people on a journey that makes them realise what is driving these issues we can also solve them.\"\n\nWe see one of the most celebrated moments in all the films Sir David has made in his long career, the moment he met a band of gorillas in the mountains on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.\n\nGorillas face many threats but there is hope for their recovery\n\nA young gorilla called Poppy tries to take off his shoes as he speaks to the camera.\n\n\"It was an experience that stayed with me,\" says Sir David, \"but it was tinged with sadness, as I thought I might be seeing some of the last of their kind.\"\n\nThe programme makers have been back to Rwanda and, after a long trek, spot Poppy's daughter and granddaughter in the deep forest scrub.\n\nWe learn that the Rwandan government has worked with local people to protect the animal and that the gorillas are thriving.\n\nThere were 250 when Sir David visited in the 1970s, now there are more than 1,000.\n\nIt shows, says Sir David, what we can achieve when we put our minds to it.\n\n\"I may not be here to see it,\" he concludes, \"but if we make the right decisions at this critical moment, we can safeguard our planet's ecosystems, its extraordinary biodiversity and all its inhabitants.\"\n\nHis final line packs a powerful punch: \"What happens next\", says Sir David, \"is up to every one of us.\"\n\nYou can see David Attenborough's, Extinction: The Facts, on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.", "Nicolás Maduro also said the Venezuelan authorities had foiled a plot to cause an explosion at another oil refinery\n\nVenezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says a \"US spy\" has been captured near two oil refineries in the country's north-western state of Falcón.\n\nIn a televised address, Mr Maduro said the man was seized with weapons and large amounts of cash near the Amuay and Cardon refineries on Thursday.\n\nHe said the man was \"serving as a marine on CIA bases in Iraq\". He gave no further details.\n\nThe US has so far made no public comment on the issue.\n\nSeparately, Mr Maduro said that the Venezuelan authorities had recently foiled a plot to cause an explosion at El Palito refinery in the northern Carabobo state. He did not elaborate.\n\nLast month, a Venezuelan court sentenced two former American soldiers to 20 years in prison for trying to overthrow Mr Maduro.\n\nLuke Denman and Airan Berry were found guilty of conspiracy, illicit trafficking of weapons and terrorism.\n\nThe pair were among 13 people arrested in May as they attempted to enter Venezuela by sea from Colombia.\n\nUS President Donald Trump, long an opponent of socialist President Maduro, has denied accusations by Venezuela that he was behind that incident.\n\nWashington backs opposition leader Juan Guaidó and recognises him as the country's legitimate leader.\n\nRelations between the US and Venezuela are tense. Mr Maduro has accused America of manipulating political opposition to steal the country's vast oil wealth.\n\nAmerica and Mr Guaidó, meanwhile, have blamed the president for Venezuela's economic collapse.", "The annual Strictly Come Dancing special in Blackpool will not take place this year, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nA BBC spokesman said while contestants would not physically go to Blackpool's Tower Ballroom in 2020, they would still be \"celebrating the iconic venue\" from Elstree studio.\n\nIt follows changes made to the show due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBeginning on 12 October, the forthcoming BBC One series will be shorter than usual.\n\nThere will be no red carpet launch show or Christmas special, either.\n\nContestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nStrictly's annual special at Blackpool, filmed in one of the country's most historic ballrooms, is seen by contestants and the professional dancers alike as one of the highlights of the series.\n\nThe show has filmed at the venue since 2004, taking regular breaks. However, since 2013 there has been a Blackpool special annually.\n\nBlackpool is renowned for being a home for ballroom dancing, having hosted the Blackpool Dance Festival since 1920. That event is taking place online this year as a result of coronavirus.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Blackpool is a milestone moment in every series of Strictly that our audience, our celebs and professional dancers look forward to.\n\n\"Whilst we'll be unable to physically go to Blackpool this series, we'll still be celebrating this iconic venue and bringing it to life from our studio in Elstree.\"\n\nIt comes after former home secretary Jacqui Smith was confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant for 2020.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThis year, fans have been asked to apply for tickets for the live shows in groups of four so they can attend as a family bubble.\n\nThey will be placed at socially distanced cabaret-style tables and in balcony seating.\n\nSuccessful applicants have also been asked to provide their own plain black face coverings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"What we can't have... is the EU disrupting or putting at threat the integrity of the UK\"\n\nMichael Gove has defended plans to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement as a means of protecting the \"integrity\" of the UK.\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister said the UK was being \"generous\" with the EU over the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe EU has threatened legal action over the Internal Market Bill, which ministers say will break international law in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson is urging Tory MPs to back it, after some raised concerns.\n\nThe bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf this became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the Commons the bill, which would go against the Withdrawal Agreement signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nBut Mr Gove said the attorney general had said the proposal would be consistent with the rule of law - and that it was important to have an \"insurance policy\".\n\nHe insisted the government was being \"proportionate and generous\" in its approach to the EU talks.\n\nMr Gove said: \"These steps are a safety net, they're a long-stop in the event, which I don't believe will come about but we do need to be ready for, that the EU follow through on what some have said they might do which is, in effect, to separate Northern Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nWhile admitting it was a \"crunch moment\", he insisted \"we have got the support of our own MPs\".\n\nThe EU and UK have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks and the European Parliament says will \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nBoris Johnson said he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\"\n\nOn Friday Mr Johnson had a Zoom call with about 250 of his MPs, in which he said the party could not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call. He is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAnd on Saturday, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood - who is chairman of the Defence Select Committee - also voiced his concern.\n\n\"I don't want us to lose our way, to lose our reputation as a force for good, as an exemplar holding up the international rule of law,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm afraid that's where I find myself not wishing to support this particular bill, because it does mean that we would be challenging unilaterally a Treaty. And that goes against the principle of everything we stand for.\"\n\nFormer Conservative party leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major are also among senior figures urging Mr Johnson to think again.\n\nBoth Ireland and the EU have warned that Mr Johnson's plans pose a serious risk to the peace process rather than protecting the Good Friday Agreement, as the government claims.\n\nWriting that it had become clear there might be a \"serious misunderstanding\" between the UK and EU over the Withdrawal Agreement, Mr Johnson said the UK must be protected from what he called a \"disaster\" of the EU being able to \"carve up our country\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nBut in a column in the Daily Telegraph, he accused the EU of adopting an \"extreme\" interpretation of the Northern Ireland Protocol to impose \"a full-scale trade border down the Irish Sea\" that could stop the transport of food from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be \"irrational\" not to allow the transportation of food in such a way, which would happen if the UK was not granted third-country listing. Such a listing is needed for the export of food.", "Trials of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will resume after being paused due to a reported side effect in a patient in the UK.\n\nOn Tuesday, AstraZeneca said the studies were being paused while it investigated whether the adverse reaction was linked with the vaccine.\n\nBut on Saturday, the university said it had been deemed safe to continue.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the news that the trials would resume.\n\n\"This pause shows we will always put safety first. We will back our scientists to deliver an effective vaccine as soon as safely possible,\" he added.\n\nThe university said in a statement that it was \"expected\" that \"some participants will become unwell\" in large trials such as this one.\n\nIt added that the studies could now resume following the recommendations of an independent safety review committee and the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.\n\nIt would not disclose information about the patient's illness for confidentiality reasons, but the New York Times reported that a volunteer in the UK trial had been diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord and can be caused by viral infections.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says nearly 180 vaccine candidates are being tested around the world but none has yet completed clinical trials.\n\nHopes have been high that the vaccine might be one of the first to come on the market, following successful phase 1 and 2 testing.\n\nIts move to Phase 3 testing in recent weeks has involved some 30,000 participants in the US as well as in the UK, Brazil and South Africa. Phase 3 trials in vaccines often involve thousands of participants and can last several years.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told the Downing Street press conference on Wednesday what had happened in the Oxford trial was not unusual.\n\nThe news comes after Prof Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's scientific advisory group Sage, warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control of the virus\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nOfficial figures released on Saturday showed a further 3,497 people have tested positive with the virus in the UK. It is the second day in a row that number of daily reported cases has exceeded 3,000.\n\nIt brings the overall number of confirmed cases so far to 365,174. Meanwhile, the government figures revealed that a further nine people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bring the UK death toll to 41,623.\n\nOfficial figures indicate the UK's coronavirus epidemic is growing again, after the R number - the reproduction rate of the virus - was raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March.\n\nMeanwhile, daily coronavirus cases in Scotland have reached a four-month high, according to the Scottish government's latest data.\n\nA total of 221 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since 8 May, when there were 225 positive tests.\n\nNew \"rule of six\" restrictions intended to halt the rises are due come into force on Monday.\n\nIn England indoor and outdoor gatherings of more than six people will be banned, except in certain circumstances such as for work or school. Those breaking the rules could be fined.\n\nIn Scotland, socialising will be limited to a maximum of six people inside and outside - but unlike England they must be from two households, and children under 12 are exempt.\n\nIn Wales, also from Monday, it will be illegal for more than six people from an extended household to meet indoors - but up to 30 can still meet outdoors.\n\nLocalised restrictions for parts of Northern Ireland, including Belfast and Ballymena, are to come into force on Monday, aimed at reducing contacts between people in homes in the affected areas.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove agreed fines might be necessary to ensure people self-isolate when required.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk.\"", "A bust-up with Brussels was always a possible feature of this autumn.\n\nBut when EU top brass and their officials arrived in London this morning, it was not inevitable that it would come today.\n\nThere were whispers yesterday that one or other of the sides might flounce out - but \"wait and see\" seemed the order of the day.\n\nLate last night, chatter from sources in Brussels suggested they were unwilling to rise to what they see as the UK's provocation, to \"take the bait\", as it was expressed to me.\n\nBut after two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none. The chances therefore of talks, that matter so much to our economy, moving very far are almost zilch - and therefore the chances of a deal are falling away.\n\nRemember last autumn, day-after-day-after-day the language between the two sides became more heated, brinkmanship more risky, the government's moves more audacious, and then, suddenly, a deal was done.\n\nAnd despite the EU's extraordinary statement, and serious stumbling blocks in the talks, the UK chief negotiator, Lord Frost, has now announced that the trade talks will still go ahead next week.\n\nThe added complication here is that the government can't be sure at all that their plans to change the Northern Irish parts of the existing treaty will pass through Parliament.\n\nResistance in the Lords is inevitable and while it's hard to gauge the final number, there is likely to be a rebellion from Tory MPs too.\n\nBut Downing Street right now is confident that MPs will back the plans in the end.\n\nWilling to forgo a trade deal - if that's what their changes mean - rather than back down on their plans, having chosen to take what insiders admit is a nuclear option, for now, they are willing to stand back and watch the explosion.", "A teacher whose brother previously won the £500,000 prize has gone one better to win the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?\n\nDonald Fear, 57, used just one 50/50 lifeline to become the first £1m winner in 14 years.\n\nBrother Davyth, who teaches geography, appeared on the show in September last year.\n\nMr Fear said his brother was his \"hero and best friend\". \"Other way around now,\" said presenter Jeremy Clarkson.\n\nThe history and politics teacher's final question on Friday's pre-recorded show was: \"In 1718, which pirate died in battle off the coast of what is now North Carolina?\"\n\nThe options were Calico Jack, Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Captain Kidd.\n\nMr Fear, who lives in Telford, said he had taught piracy to a group of Year 8 students about eight years ago, and remembered the date of 1718.\n\n\"You don't be a history teacher for 33 years without knowing a few dates, and the date 1718 and Blackbeard leapt out at me instantly.\"\n\nClarkson expressed his amazement at the history teacher's knowledge throughout his run of 15 correct answers.\n\n\"It's like sitting next to the internet in a pink shirt,\" he said, describing him as \"an encyclopaedia with a moustache\".\n\nMr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show's 22-year history.\n\nAfter his win, the father of four celebrated by going on a caravan holiday along the Northumberland coast with his wife of 33 years, nurse Debs.\n\nAnd his elder brother Davyth has also been part of his celebrations.\n\n\"He is so pleased for me,\" said Mr Fear.\n\n\"We went to spend a night in a hotel with our wives last week and got absolutely plastered and he kept poking me saying how pleased and how overjoyed he was by it.\"\n\nMr Fear said he wanted to give at least 70% of his winnings to his family and spend the rest on a \"comfortable retirement\".\n\nAnd that retirement is due to begin soon - since winning the jackpot, he has resigned from Haberdashers' Adams Grammar school in Newport, Shropshire.\n\nBut he said: \"The rules are you have to go at the end of a term.\n\n\"Actually, I never investigated the possibility of whether it would be possible not to go back at all - but how unfair to my A-level students that would be?\"\n\nMr Fear added: \"I was planning to go in two years anyway just before my 60th birthday.\n\n\"As it is, I'm going just after my 58th.\"", "People in the UK must not treat this weekend as a \"party\" before the new \"rule of six\" coronavirus restrictions come into force on Monday, a police union has warned.\n\nThe Police Federation said there was a \"real risk\" that the public would \"take advantage of the current situation\".\n\nThe new rules limit gatherings to six people indoors and outdoors in England.\n\nIt comes as one scientist warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.\n\nEngland's new rule of six applies to all ages, although there are some exemptions, such as gatherings for work. Those who fail to follow the new rules can be fined by police - £100 for a first offence, doubling on each further offence up to £3,200.\n\nIn Scotland, socialising will be limited to a maximum of six people inside and outside - but unlike England they must be from two households, and children under 12 are exempt.\n\nIn Wales, also from Monday, it will be illegal for more than six people from an extended household to meet indoors - but up to 30 can still meet outdoors.\n\nIn Northern Ireland last month, meanwhile, the number of people who could gather indoors in a private home was reduced from 10 people from four households to six people from two households.\n\nWith the introduction of the new rules in England and Wales delayed until Monday, John Apter, the chairman of the Police Federation for England and Wales, said: \"There is a real risk some members of the public will take advantage of the current situation and treat this weekend as a party weekend ahead of the tighter restrictions being introduced on Monday.\n\n\"Using the current situation as an opportunity and excuse to party would be incredibly irresponsible and put pressure not only on policing, but potentially on the ambulance service and NHS.\"\n\nTim Robson, the North East's representative on the National Pubwatch scheme, said he expected police officers would strictly monitor bars over the weekend to ensure they are operating safely.\n\n\"There is an anticipation that everyone is going to have a big last binge, but people are starting to get fearful and a lot of licensed premises have already been clamped down on by the police,\" he said.\n\nMr Robson, a former police officer, said it would be up to licensees to manage their premises and break up large groups from gathering together unsafely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If the restrictions are urgent why are they waiting until Monday? Why aren't they coming in now?\"\n\nOn Saturday, the government announced there were a further 3,497 coronavirus cases in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, daily coronavirus cases have hit a four-month high, with a total of 221 people testing positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since May 8.\n\nThe virus is still at much lower levels across the UK than at the peak in April, but a study of thousands of people in England found cases are doubling every seven to eight days.\n\nProf Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"One would have to say that we're on the edge of losing control.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nIt comes as the final clinical trials for a vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, are set to resume. They were put on hold last weekend after a participant became unwell.\n\nThe AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine - in which 18,000 people from around the world are taking part - is seen as a strong contender among dozens being developed globally.\n\nMeanwhile, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the rule of six was \"well-understood\" as a public health message and had the public's support.\n\n\"As ever, the important thing is balance - eating out, seeing friends - that is fine, provided we do so in a way that is socially responsible, that's what the rule of six is about,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe added that there needed to be \"a degree of self-discipline and restriction\" in order to deal with the challenges posed by the rising number of coronavirus cases across England - and the escalating R number, which measures the rate at which the virus is transmitted.\n\nHowever, Mr Gove also conceded fines could be necessary to enforce regulations.\n\n\"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk,\" he said.\n\nThe R number has been raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March. Any number above one indicates the number of infections is increasing.\n\nAnd in addition to a general rise in cases in the community, the government's latest coronavirus surveillance report shows a sharp rise in people over the age of 85 testing positive.\n\nAsked about Prof Walport's statement that the UK was \"losing control\", Mr Gove said it was \"a warning to us all\".\n\n\"There's a range of scientific opinion but one thing on which practically every scientist is agreed is that we have seen an uptick in infection and therefore it is appropriate we take public health measures.\"\n\nIt comes after people across England told BBC News they are struggling to access coronavirus tests.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said last week that no-one should have to travel more than 75 miles for a test, after the BBC revealed some were being sent hundreds of miles away.\n\nBut some have now reported being unable to book a swab at all.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said testing capacity was targeted at the hardest-hit areas.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDebutants Callum Wilson and Jeff Hendrick both scored as Newcastle made a winning start to the 2020-21 Premier League season against an uninspiring West Ham.\n\nWilson, a £20m summer signing from Bournemouth, was a threat throughout as the Magpies won their opening game for the first time since 2012.\n\nSteve Bruce's side were well worth their victory despite the Hammers twice hitting the crossbar.\n\nWilson prodded in Hendrick's flick-on to open the scoring, while the Republic of Ireland midfielder, who joined on a free transfer, sealed victory with a late effort into the top-left corner.\n\nWhile Pablo Fornals and Angelo Ogbonna both hit crossbar for the hosts, too often their attacks lacked the cutting edge to trouble a resolute Newcastle defence.\n\nAnd it ensured their miserable recent starts to Premier League campaigns continued, as they became the first club to lose their opening match for the fifth consecutive season.\n\nMagpies manager Steve Bruce had said he was pleased to see owner Mike Ashley \"flex his muscles\" with the summer arrivals of Wilson and Jamal Lewis, plus free agents Ryan Fraser and Hendrick.\n\nAnd even more pleasingly for Bruce, Wilson, Lewis and Hendrick all made an immediate impression for their new employers.\n\nWilson, who appears to thrive when facing the Hammers, was undoubtedly the pick of the bunch.\n\nThe 28-year-old's pace and movement caused problems well before he scored his eighth goal in nine outings against West Ham, twice going close from Lewis deliveries from the left and teeing up Jonjo Shelvey after a surging run from his own half.\n\nHe also appeared to benefit from the freedom and flicks that Andy Carroll's robust presence provided alongside him.\n\nNewcastle had the fourth worst goal-scoring record in the top flight last term and Bruce will hope that combination can help to remedy that problem.\n\nWilson's goal was a result of his opportunism after Carroll had got across the near post to flick on Javier Manquillo's cross, and Hendrick's late right-foot shot put the seal on a fine night for Newcastle's new boys.\n\nWest Ham were bottom of the Premier League after the opening round of fixtures in each of the past three seasons.\n\nAnd despite this performance not being as humbling as their heavy defeats against both Manchester clubs and Liverpool, it did highlight the need for manager David Moyes to bring in some reinforcements.\n\nWhile they have been able to complete the permanent signing of Tomas Soucek, the Czech international has not exactly provided any fresh impetus, having spent the second half of last term on loan at the club.\n\nYoung winger Grady Diangana was controversially sold and three of the club's most expensive players, including record signing Sebastien Haller, started as substitutes.\n\nWhile Andriy Yarmolenko, Felipe Anderson and Haller were all brought off the bench, there was little suggestion that the Hammers, who only managed three shots on target, were going to mount a comeback.\n\n'Callum will give us something different' - what they said\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes speaking to BBC MOTD: \"I think you are always trying to improve the squad but that wasn't the reason we lost tonight. We have to analyse that.\n\n\"We had a good pre-season, we were feeling good after finishing the season well so we were disappointed with tonight.\n\n\"We need to get better with the players we have and they can be better, undoubtedly.\"\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce told Sky Sports: \"I wouldn't say best week but when you come away from the Premier League and win 2-0 with two new signings scoring, it helps the cause.\n\n\"There was not much in it and we have a striker who scored typical striker's goal. Callum Wilson enjoys playing against West Ham and it was good to see them two get off the mark. We were worthy winners.\n\n\"We have been missing the goals, Callum will give us something different and makes the squad better. He can only help the situation.\n\n\"We have made progress, it is a long season and cannot get carried away but the last week has been a positive week for everybody, the impact the signings have made, the supporters in particular will like the look of them,\n\n\"That is certainly the best I have seen of Andy Carroll since the year he has been back. He has scored a coupe goals in pre-season and when he plays like that and he stays well, we know what sort of competitor he is.\"\n• None Newcastle United have won 10 Premier League away games against West Ham United - their joint-best such tally in the competition (10 vs Tottenham Hotspur).\n• None West Ham have lost more season openers in the Premier League than any other team in the competition's history (14).\n• None Newcastle recorded their first opening weekend victory in the Premier League since beating Tottenham Hotspur in August 2012.\n• None West Ham manager David Moyes has lost nine of his last 13 matchday one fixtures in the Premier League (W4), including his last two (also for Sunderland in 2016-17).\n• None Newcastle's Jeff Hendrick scored and assisted in a single Premier League game for the first time in his career (123rd appearance).\n• None Newcastle's Callum Wilson has scored eight goals in nine league games against West Ham, more than he has netted against any other side in his league career.\n• None West Ham midfielder Declan Rice made his 100th appearance for the club in the Premier League.\n\nWest Ham host Charlton in the second round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday (19:30 BST) before travelling to Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday, 19 September (20:00 BST).\n\nNewcastle are also in EFL Cup action on Tuesday (19:30 BST) when they welcome Blackburn to St James' Park before facing Brighton at home in their next Premier League game on Sunday, 20 September (14:00 BST)\n• None Attempt blocked. Miguel Almirón (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Javier Manquillo tries a through ball, but Joelinton is caught offside.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Aaron Cresswell tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0, Newcastle United 2. Jeff Hendrick (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Miguel Almirón.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Miguel Almirón tries a through ball, but Joelinton is caught offside.\n• None Andy Carroll (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Sébastien Haller (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Comedians try to make sense of 2020\n• None Go behind the scenes with West Ham Women", "A-level results day started terribly for Grace Kirman. The sixth former in Norwich had been waiting anxiously to hear whether she would get the grades needed for her dream university place.\n\nBut it was bad news and a rejection email had arrived. The grades produced by the exam algorithm had been lower than her teachers predicted - and the offer to study biochemistry at Oxford University was disappearing before her eyes.\n\n\"It wasn't my fault and it was really unfair,\" said the student from Notre Dame High School.\n\nShe'd worked extremely hard for her A-levels, it had been her big ambition, she'd been on a university outreach scheme for disadvantaged youngsters, and she'd been quietly confident of getting the A* and two A grades needed.\n\nBut this summer's exams had been cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic - and England's exam watchdog Ofqual had produced an alternative way of calculating grades.\n\nHer teachers had expected three A*s - but the algorithm produced results of three As. It might be a small margin for a statistician, but it was a difference that she said \"could change her life\".\n\n\"I was so disappointed, I knew I was equally intelligent,\" she said. And she was angry too at the way doors suddenly seemed to be closing.\n\nBrian Conway, chief executive of the St John the Baptist academy trust responsible for the school, was beginning to see other inexplicable results arriving.\n\n\"The tragedy of results day was when people you would bet your house on getting a grade C were given a U grade,\" he said.\n\nSomething was going badly wrong - and the school decided to challenge the results, and in Grace's case, to get in touch with Oxford to try to overturn the rejection.\n\nThere were problems with exams across the UK this summer, but in England it's the Department for Education and Ofqual which will face public scrutiny to explain the confusion, the colossal U-turns and resignations.\n\nThe algorithm for replacement grades mostly relied on two key pieces of information - how pupils had been ranked in order of ability and the results of schools and colleges in previous years.\n\nOf less influence were teachers' predictions and how individual pupils themselves had done in previous exams.\n\nIt was designed to stop grade inflation and in effect replicated the results of previous years - but it meant a serious risk of disadvantage for talented individuals in schools that had a history of low results.\n\nIt would be like being told you'd failed a driving test on the grounds that people from where you lived usually failed their driving test. That might be the case, but it's hard to take when you hadn't even started the car.\n\nBut if the aim was to keep grades in line with previous years, the opposite happened. There were stratospheric increases particularly at A-level - with more than half of students getting A*s and As in some subjects.\n\nWhile the scrutiny will focus on what went wrong in past weeks, the bigger fallout could be from what it changes in the future. A major unintended consequence could be a radical shake-up of England's university admissions, with plans believed to be in the pipeline.\n\nThis summer has shown the problems with estimated grades - raising the issue of whether such predictions should still be used for university offers, rather than waiting until students have their actual results.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb this week described as \"compelling\" the argument made by former universities minister Chris Skidmore that the \"entire admissions system to university should now be reformed\". Also expect in the forthcoming months to hear some big questions about the future role of Ofqual.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, facing calls for his resignation over the exams fiasco, will have to defend himself in front of the Education Select Committee this week.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Robert Halfon, likened the exam problems to the Charge of the Light Brigade, where no-one, particularly Ofqual, seemed able to heed the warnings to stop.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who originally called the results \"robust\" and then blamed a \"mutant algorithm\", has accused critics of relying on \"Captain Hindsight\". But more evidence of foresight in warnings is emerging too.\n\nBarnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, told the BBC he had warned in stakeholder meetings with Ofqual about the dangers of attaching so much weight to schools' previous results, and so little to teachers' estimates. \"It was always going to be a hashed job,\" he said.\n\nHe thinks Ofqual and the Department for Education had begun to prioritise sounding publicly confident rather than being open about the shortcomings. Mr Lenon, a former head teacher of Harrow School and former Ofqual board member, had made his concerns public.\n\nOn 7 July, at the Festival of Higher Education at the University of Buckingham, he predicted unreliability and unfairness in the results and warned Ofqual was being asked to do a \"terrible thing\" in producing these calculated grades.\n\nDanger signals couldn't be dismissed as politically motivated. On 26 May, a warning was sent from the New Schools Network, which supports free schools and has strong ties to Conservative education policy.\n\nThe group's director Unity Howard, wrote to Sally Collier, the now resigned head of Ofqual, and to Gavin Williamson: \"It is easy to bury these arrangements in scientific modelling, but the issues here will affect at least a generation of children, but more likely those that come after it too.\"\n\nIt included warnings from seven schools and trusts - and it's understood the group held a meeting with Ofqual.\n\nThe Northern Powerhouse, a lobby group for the north of England chaired by former Tory chancellor George Osborne, had also been flagging concerns about BTec vocational exams as well as A-levels and GCSEs.\n\nFrank Norris, working with the Northern Powerhouse on education, told the BBC the \"proposed algorithm design was always going to put the average performance of schools above individual merit\".\n\nWith worries not allayed, the Northern Powerhouse wrote to Sally Collier on 9 August, drawing attention to their high level of concern about a disproportionate impact on poorer communities. On 11 July, the Education Select Committee pointed to unanswered questions about the fairness of how grades would be calculated.\n\nOfqual was not unaware of these worries, not least because the regulator says it was giving its own advice to ministers about the risks - and right to the top.\n\nJulie Swan, Ofqual's executive director of general qualifications, said 10 Downing Street had been briefed on 7 August, highlighting risks over so-called \"outlier students\" - the bright pupils whose grades might be reduced because they were in low-performing schools.\n\nThere were also weekly meetings with education minister Nick Gibb. Kate Green, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, said in the House of Commons this week the exam controversy had caused \"huge distress to students and their parents\" - and asked Mr Gibb why he had failed to respond to warnings. \"These warnings were not ignored,\" said Mr Gibb. \"Challenges that were made by individuals were raised with Ofqual and we were assured by the regulator that overall the model was fair,\" he told MPs. It was only when grades were published that \"anomalies and injustices\" became apparent, said Mr Gibb.\n\nA common thread to the warnings was although the results might work smoothly in terms of national statistics, maintaining a similar pattern to previous years, this would be at the cost of individual unfairness. The standardisation process, which tended to push down teachers' grades, would also not apply to subjects with smaller numbers of entries, such as classics and modern languages - with accusations this would benefit independent schools.\n\nGrace Kirman was one of these \"anomalies\" - her future hanging in the balance. But when had this year's exams really begun to go into tailspin? If you wanted to pinpoint a moment, it might be about 36 hours before Grace and hundreds of thousands of young people were finding out their results.\n\nThat was the heatwave night of Tuesday 11 August, ahead of A-level results being released on Thursday. In Scotland there had been a U-turn on grades, and pressure was building for a response in England.\n\nWhen it came, it left Ofqual completely wrong-footed and unable to explain how it would work. The Department for Education had informed them of a major change that would allow schools to appeal over grades on the basis of their mock test results. It was announced late in the evening as an extra \"safety net\" and \"triple lock\", but was eventually ditched within the week.\n\nBut head teachers, who had been on a low-boil all summer, went into volcanic mode - attacking this last-minute change as \"panicked and chaotic\". This sudden rule change meant a school could appeal for an upgrade if a mock test had been higher than the calculated grade about to be issued.\n\nThis infuriated head teachers who said mocks were carried out in many different and inconsistent ways. Sometimes they had been deliberately marked down as a scare tactic and some schools had not taken them at all. Therefore, they said, they could not be used to decide such important results.\n\nHeads' leader Geoff Barton said at that point he knew this approach to exams had become \"unsustainable\". It had been \"fatally undermined\" by an unworkable decision, which he said represented a \"complete failure of leadership\". Mr Halfon said it also raised the fundamental question about who was really in charge - and if Ofqual wasn't really acting independently, then what was its purpose?\n\nResults day on 13 August added to the confusion. These calculated grades produced the highest results in the history of A-levels - but in the background was a growing volume of protest over the algorithm reducing 40% of grades below teachers' predictions. MPs saw emails arriving in their in-trays, upset parents took to Twitter, lawyers warned of multiple legal challenges, universities didn't know if grades were going to be changed on appeal and marchers were waving placards demanding a U-turn.\n\nOn Saturday 15 August, matters became even more bizarre. Ofqual published plans for appeals over mock tests - but in the evening Gavin Williamson rang Sally Collier disagreeing with the guidance and it was taken down again from the website.\n\nAccording to Ofqual chairman Roger Taylor, the situation was \"rapidly going out of control\" - and on Sunday the watchdog took the momentous decision to switch to centre assessed grades - the results estimated by schools.\n\nThis biggest U-turn of the summer was made public the next day and the education secretary told students he was \"incredibly sorry\".\n\nSally Collier, who has talked of her admiration for Edith Cavell, the nurse executed during the First World War, later stepped down as chief regulator and has made no comment since.\n\nAt the Department for Education, it was the senior civil servant, Jonathan Slater, who lost his job, with accusations that he had been \"scapegoated\". The blame game had begun almost immediately. Ofqual's argument has been they knew the risks of the iceberg ahead, but they had warned ministers and been told not to change direction.\n\nThe politicians in turn say they had heard the iceberg warnings, but Ofqual had assured them it would be safe. \"The finger of blame is pointed at everyone else,\" says heads' leader Mr Barton.\n\nWhat has baffled school leaders is why, with almost five months between the cancellation of exams and the issuing of calculated grades, there wasn't a more thorough attempt to test the reliability of results in advance, including with real schools. Ofqual's defence to all of this, according to Mr Halfon, could be summed up as: \"Not me, guv.\"\n\nThere are also questions about the delays for results for BTec students - and MP Shabana Mahmood said it was disgraceful how they had been \"left languishing at the back of the queue\". There is another uncomfortable truth from the U-turn, which Barnaby Lenon said will have created a \"different kind of injustice\". Schools which were over-generous in their predictions will have got better grades than those which were more painstaking.\n\nThings eventually turned out well for Grace\n\nMr Conway, leader of Notre Dame's academy trust where Grace was at school, said his staff had put a \"huge effort\" into making sure every estimated grade was accurate and evidence based - and carried out their own moderation process to guard against grade inflation. But there are persistent rumours of other exam centres which have ended up with implausibly high grades for many of their students.\n\nPupils could have unfairly been \"bumped off\" university places as a result, said Mr Lenon. When Mr Williamson faces the select committee this week he is likely to argue that no-one wanted to cancel exams, but the pandemic forced them to find an alternative - and when there were problems his department took swift action.\n\n\"It was not a decision that was taken lightly. It was taken only after serious discussions with a number of parties, including, in particular, the exam regulator, Ofqual,\" he told MPs this week. \"We have had to respond, often at great speed, to find the best way forward, given what we knew about the virus at the time.\"\n\nOther education ministers around the UK faced similar problems and eventually came up with similar answers, said Mr Williamson.\n\nAnd Grace got her place back at Oxford. \"I just couldn't believe it. It's been a dream of mine for so long. \"I wish I could have woken up to an acceptance - but I appreciate it now even more. \"It was a flawed system,\" she said. \"And they could have been kinder, especially after everything over the summer.\"", "Police in Paris say they've detained more than 200 people, after the \"yellow vest\" movement attempted to revive its anti-government protests.\n\nIn 2018 and 2019 demonstrations by the movement sometimes brought parts of France to a standstill.", "Wales was taking a more phased approach to reopening, but all four UK nations are now carrying out roughly the same levels of treatment\n\nDentists are \"firefighting\" to deal with a \"huge backlog\" and will not catch up until 2021, the Welsh general practitioners committee chairman said.\n\nTom Bysouth also warned many of Wales' 500 surgeries were facing the threat of redundancies or even closure.\n\nHe said untreated fillings could make teeth irreparable with signs of mouth cancer not being picked up.\n\nThe British Dental Association called for support, saying if practices fail, patients will have \"nowhere to go\".\n\n\"It will take a long time to catch up. Effectively, if we were acting in normal circumstances, it would take at least another six months,\" Mr Bysouth said.\n\n\"We're prioritising the more urgent care - but as an example, I took four people off our fillings list yesterday, and put three on.\n\n\"If it stays the same, it won't be in 2020 we catch up, but 2021. We are chasing the tail.\"\n\nMr Bysouth works at dental practices in Llandeilo and Llandovery, Carmarthenshire\n\nMr Bysouth is also concerned that, with people not having routine check-ups, signs of mouth cancer may be missed and fillings will get worse, making teeth irreparable.\n\n\"Before lockdown, a typical practice with three dentists would see around 60 to 80 people a day, but that dramatically reduced over lockdown in order to comply with social distancing measures,\" he said.\n\nSome had been seeing as few as 10 a day when they reopened because of Welsh Government rules around ventilating surgeries.\n\nBut new guidelines that came into effect in August meant a new patient can now be seen every 20 minutes not every hour, greatly increasing the number.\n\nWith laboratories not having the same level of orders for items such as crowns and bridges, Mr Bysouth also believes there could be a knock-on effect with these struggling\n\nMr Bysouth estimates there are about 500 practices in Wales, the vast majority of which carry out a mixture of NHS and private work.\n\nHowever, with government financial support only available for NHS work, he believed those that did less of it were in a \"precarious\" position.\n\nHe said: \"There is a risk some may have to close, let staff go or reduce their hours. Like any business model, it needs to be viable. They are as vulnerable as any business.\n\n\"People already face a 90-minute round trip in parts of Wales and 15% of practices are taking on new patients. And this was pre-Covid.\"\n\nRoutine dental appointments have been cancelled with only urgent work carried out\n\nMaxine Bullock, from Llantrisant, is hoping to finally have teeth out in October after waiting in \"horrendous\" pain for more than six months.\n\n\"My appointment was due three days after lockdown. I now need three teeth out not two... and for the last three months its been terrible,\" she said.\n\n\"Every time I ring, it goes to the end of the next month.\"\n\nSue O'Connor, from Welshpool, has been waiting since last October to have a wisdom tooth removed, but lockdown has caused even more delay.\n\n\"The tooth they were trying to save is now broken with half missing,\" she said.\n\nThere have been calls for government to support private dental practices in the same way support is offered to other businesses\n\nMelanie Goodridge, from Fishguard, said: \"I have a broken tooth and it's sharp and cutting my tongue and I can't eat and can just about swallow. They told me to call back in three weeks.\"\n\nThe BDA estimates during lockdown patients seen on the NHS fell by as much as 98% and with practices paid for each one treated, for many this makes it \"impossible to stay afloat\" without help.\n\n\"NHS practices have been offered support,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"But most practices are mixed - doing both private and NHS work. There's been no meaningful help for private practice.\n\n\"If these practices fail, their patients have nowhere to go.\"\n\nThe BDA called for rates holidays for private dentists, the same enjoyed by other businesses, and said the end of the furlough scheme would be a \"a major challenge\" for them as they are operate at \"a fraction of capacity\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had created the most generous support package in the UK to help businesses, but added: \"It is clear the UK government needs to step up and provide additional funding to help businesses through this pandemic.\"\n\nThe UK Treasury said its furlough and self-employment support schemes had protected dental jobs, and added that firms would get a £1,000 bonus for each member of staff retained.", "Daily coronavirus cases in Scotland have hit a four-month high, the latest Scottish government statistics show.\n\nA total of 221 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since 8 May, when there were 225 positive tests.\n\nHowever there were far fewer tests being carried out at that stage of the pandemic, meaning many people with the virus did not appear in the statistics.\n\nThe latest figures also show there were no more confirmed Covid deaths.\n\nIt comes as tougher coronavirus restrictions are imposed on people in North and South Lanarkshire.\n\nThey are not allowed to meet other households in their homes, or visit other peoples' homes.\n\nSimilar measures are already in place in Glasgow, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThe daily statistics also show that 106 of the positive tests were recorded in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area.\n\nIn the NHS Lanarkshire area there were 48 new cases, and there were 35 in Lothian.\n\nThere was at least one positive case in each of the mainland health board areas.\n\nOn Twitter, the first minister urged people to follow public health advice.\n\n\"More than ever we must remember that what we do as individuals just now affects the wellbeing of everyone. Let's look after each other,\" she added.\n\nAnd Prof Jason Leitch, Scotland's national clinical director, admitted that 221 positive cases was a \"big number compared to what we have got used to\".\n\n\"As we've opened up it's inevitable the virus has found new ways of getting from household to household - and that's all it wants to do; it wants to find new people to infect,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"You've seen us take fairly harsh interventions and restrictions to some areas - that won't work instantly. It will need days, weeks, even a number of weeks, to show in the numbers.\n\n\"It's not good news, but it's what we expected. The virus doesn't work in 24 hour cycles - it works in two to three week cycles.\"\n\nProf Leitch acknowledged that many people may be starting to feel \"lockdown fatigue\" more than six months into the crisis.\n\nBut we can't \"simply wish [coronavirus] away\", he added.\n\nThe increase in cases in recent weeks has led to a change in the rules when it comes to groups meeting.\n\nUntil now, eight people from three households had been allowed to meet indoors in Scotland, and up to 15 from five households outdoors.\n\nBut from Monday, this will change to six people from two households and will apply both indoors and outdoors in Scotland - including in homes, gardens, pubs and restaurants.\n\nOn Saturday, Scotland's contact tracing app, Protect Scotland, had been downloaded 800,000 times.\n\nThe app, which was launched earlier in the week, uses Bluetooth technology to alert users if they have been in prolonged close contact with someone who has since tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nAn Oxford University study claimed that even with an uptake of just 15%, a contact tracing app can drive down infections by about 8% and deaths by about 6% - if it is part of a manual track and trace strategy.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said it was a \"big milestone\", adding that it amounted to approximately 20% of the adult population.\n\n\"We know it will make a difference at that level\". she said, \"but the more who use it, the bigger that difference will be\".\n\nShe urged Scots to encourage their friends and family members to download the app.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier is in London this week for Brexit talks\n\nWhen it comes to Brexit, all negotiations are inter-linked: EU-UK trade talks, the process to implement their divorce deal, negotiations on fishing rights and Brussels' deliberation on UK financial service.\n\nWhat happens in one area very much affects progress in the others. You cannot separate them entirely.\n\nWhich is why this week, as the war of words and wills between Brussels and Downing Street raged over the government's threat to throw a grenade at key parts of the divorce deal, everyone's thoughts turned immediately to the trade talks between the two sides.\n\nIn fact, they limp on. Negotiations are set to resume in Brussels on Monday. This, despite the EU ending the week by threatening Downing Street with legal action unless it rowed back on its threats to the Withdrawal Agreement by the end of the month.\n\nThe government insists it will not budge. So it is significant that the EU stopped short of threatening to press the nuclear button - shutting down trade talks altogether.\n\nWhy is that, when we know the EU is furious?\n\nFirst of all, Brussels still wants a deal with the UK, if at all possible, this autumn.\n\nSecondly, the sense in Brussels is that the government is trying to provoke the EU into abandoning the trade negotiations.\n\n\"We're not going to give them that satisfaction,\" a high-level EU diplomat told me. \"We refuse to be manipulated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK vs EU: Johnson and Michel Barnier set out competing visions on trade\n\nSo, despite bitter arguments over legislation on the one hand, and a huge list of outstanding issues still to be ironed out in bilateral trade talks; despite time and trust running out on both sides; neither the EU nor the UK seem to want to be the first ones to walk out the door.\n\nIt is still possible, of course, that the government's bill is stopped in the House of Lords or even beforehand by rebel MPs.\n\nIt is possible for the EU and UK to iron out their differences over the divorce deal and in trade talks. Concessions can always be \"dressed-up\" to look like victories, after all.\n\nIt has been done before. Remember last autumn? Finding agreement on the divorce deal seemed nigh on impossible - until it was not and a deal was signed.\n\nBut, right now that feels like a long shot. The chatter on both sides of the Channel is that \"no deal\" is becoming more likely by the day.", "Prosecutors said the woman used a circular saw to cut off her hand (file photo)\n\nA Slovenian woman has been found guilty of deliberately sawing off her own hand as part of an insurance scam.\n\nA court in the capital Ljubljana found that Julija Adlesic, 22, had taken out five insurance policies in the year before her injury. She had claimed it happened as she cut branches.\n\nAdlesic stood to gain more than €1m (£900,000, $1.16m) in payouts.\n\nShe now faces two years in prison, while her boyfriend has been given a three-year sentence.\n\nAdlesic and a number of relatives were arrested in 2019 after she arrived in hospital with her hand cut off above the wrist.\n\nThe court found that she and her boyfriend had intentionally left the severed hand behind rather than bringing it with them to ensure the disability was permanent. However, authorities recovered it in time to sew it back on.\n\nProsecutors said the woman's boyfriend had also made internet searches about artificial hands in the days beforehand.\n\nProsecutors said this was proof that the injury was intentional.\n\nAdlesic's boyfriend's father was also given a one-year suspended sentence.\n\nThroughout the trial, Adlesic had denied intentionally cutting off her hand.\n\nHad the fraudulent claim been successful, the couple would have received more than half a million euros as a lump sum, with the rest paid in monthly instalments.", "US President Donald Trump and his political rival Joe Biden have been marking the 19th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.\n\nAlmost 3,000 people died when four hijacked airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and - after passengers fought back - the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.\n\nBoth Mr Trump and Mr Biden visited the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville on Friday, but at different times.\n\nRead more: US commemorates 19th anniversary of 9/11", "Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nIn a Zoom call with around 250 of them, he said the party must not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nThe EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.\n\nAnd a Tory MP has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would affect trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Parliament has threatened to scupper any UK-EU trade deal if the bill becomes UK law.\n\nThe two sides have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf it became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks.\n\nBut the government has rejected this demand, arguing the measures in the bill are needed to protect the integrity of the UK and the peace process in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn his Zoom call with MPs on Friday, the prime minister did not take questions and a poor signal meant the video and audio connections were lost for several minutes.\n\nHe called for \"overwhelming support\" for the bill, describing it as \"absolutely vital\" to \"prevent a foreign or international body from having the power to break up our country\".\n\nMr Johnson added that he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\".\n\nBut he said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nBBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young said Tory MPs were \"looking for a sign of compromise\" from Mr Johnson, as they \"simply can't believe the government is prepared to break international law\", but the prime minister \"dug his heels in\".\n\nIn a column in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson accused the EU of reinterpreting the Withdrawal Agreement to \"destroy the economic and territorial integrity of the UK\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK, to cut it off,\" he said.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call.\n\nHe is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAt around the same time as the prime minister was speaking, the European Parliament announced it would \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the withdrawal agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted parts of the bill, which would go against a treaty signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nThere is unease over this within the Conservative Party, with former leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major urging Mr Johnson to think again.", "Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nIn a Zoom call with about 250 of them, he said the party must not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nThe EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.\n\nAnd a Tory MP has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would affect trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Parliament has threatened to scupper any UK-EU trade deal if the bill becomes UK law.\n\nThe two sides have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf it became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks.\n\nBut the government has rejected this demand, arguing the measures in the bill are needed to protect the integrity of the UK and the peace process in Northern Ireland.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted parts of the bill, which would go against the Withdrawal Agreement signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nIn his Zoom call with MPs on Friday, the prime minister did not take questions and a poor signal meant the video and audio connections were lost for several minutes.\n\nHe called for \"overwhelming support\" for the bill, describing it as \"absolutely vital\" to \"prevent a foreign or international body from having the power to break up our country\".\n\nMr Johnson added that he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\".\n\nBut he said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove told BBC Breakfast he believed the government had the support of Tory MPs - and those in other parties - to pass the controversial bill, but added \"we are reaching a crunch moment\".\n\nBBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young said Tory MPs had been \"looking for a sign of compromise\" from Mr Johnson, because they \"simply can't believe the government is prepared to break international law\", but the prime minister \"dug his heels in\".\n\nIn a column in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson defended the government's plans to override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nHe accused the EU of adopting an \"extreme\" interpretation of the Northern Ireland Protocol to impose \"a full-scale trade border down the Irish Sea\" that could stop the transport of food from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK, to cut it off,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"What we can't have... is the EU disrupting or putting at threat the integrity of the UK\"\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be \"irrational\" not to allow the transportation of food in such a way, which would happen if the UK was not granted third-country listing. Such a listing is needed for the export of food.\n\nThe PM said it had become clear that there might be a \"serious misunderstanding\" between the UK and EU over the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nHe said the UK must be protected from what he called a \"disaster\" of the EU being able to \"carve up our country\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\nMr Gove said the attorney general had said the government was acting within the rule of law - and that it was important to have an \"insurance policy\".\n\nHe insisted the government was being \"proportionate and generous\" in its approach to the EU talks.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call.\n\nHe is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAt about the same time as the prime minister was speaking, the European Parliament announced it would \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nThere is unease over this within the Conservative Party, with former leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major urging Mr Johnson to think again.", "Iran has executed a wrestler accused of murder, defying international appeals for him to be spared.\n\nNavid Afkari, 27, was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018.\n\nHe said he had been tortured into making a confession.\n\nHuman rights organisation Amnesty International described Afkari's execution as a \"travesty of justice\".\n\nIn a leaked recording released by the group, Afkari says: \"If I am executed, I want you to know that an innocent person, even though he tried and fought with all his strength to be heard, was executed.\"\n\nAfkari was executed by hanging in the southern city of Shiraz, according to state media.\n\nHis lawyer said his client had been prevented from seeing his family before his death, as required under Iranian law.\n\n\"Were you in such a hurry to carry out the sentence that you deprived Navid of a last visit?\" Hassan Younesi said on Twitter.\n\nThere had been many calls to stop the execution, including from a union representing 85,000 athletes worldwide.\n\nThe World Players Association said he had been \"unjustly targeted\" for taking part in the protests, and called for Iran's expulsion from world sport if it went ahead with the execution.\n\nUS President Donald Trump also appealed for mercy, saying the wrestler's \"sole act was an anti-government demonstration on the streets\".\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) called his execution \"very sad news\" and said their thoughts were with his family and friends.\n\n\"It is deeply upsetting that the pleas of athletes from around the world and all the behind-the-scenes work of the IOC... did not achieve our goal,\" their statement said.\n\nAfkari's brothers Vahid and Habib were sentenced to 54 and 27 years in prison in the same case, according to human rights activists in Iran.\n\nIn an audio recording leaked from the prison where he was being held, Afkari had said he had been tortured. His mother said her sons were forced to testify against each other.\n\nHis lawyer had said on Twitter that, contrary to Iranian news reports, there was no video of the moment of the security guard's killing. He added that footage used as evidence in the case was taken an hour before the crime took place.\n\nThe Iranian authorities have denied accusations of torture.\n\nAfkari was a national champion in wrestling, a sport that has a long history and is hugely popular in Iran.\n\nIn 2018, protesters in cities across Iran took to the streets over economic hardship and political repression.", "The man in his 20s was being questioned at a police station in south London\n\nA man has been arrested after an explosive device was posted to a residential property.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a suspicious package at an address in Cricklewood, north London, at about 09:10 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe package was found to be a small improvised explosive device.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to cause an explosion, or making or keeping explosives with intent to endanger life or property.\n\nThe man in his 20s was detained at an address in Cambridge and taken into custody by counter-terrorism police.\n\nThe Met Police said two addresses were being searched in Cambridge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Public health officials have warned of \"worrying signs\" of infection among the elderly, as an official measure indicated the UK's epidemic is growing again.\n\nThe R number was raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March.\n\nAny number above one indicates the number of infections is increasing.\n\nThe number of new daily confirmed UK cases of the virus rose to 3,539 on Friday - an increase of more than 600 on the previous day.\n\nThe virus is still at much lower levels across the UK than at the peak in April, but a study of thousands of people in England found cases doubling every seven to eight days.\n\nIt found a marked rise in infections in the north and among young people.\n\nYvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said although younger people made up the greatest share of new cases, \"we're now starting to see worrying signs of infections occurring in the elderly, who are at far higher risk of getting seriously ill\".\n\nA PHE report says there has been \"a particularly steep increase\" in positive test results in the over-85s and, in the north-west of England, a rise in people from that age group being admitted to hospital.\n\nHowever, though cases are rising, the number of patients in hospital remains largely flat at 863.\n\nOf those, 78 are on ventilators, according to the latest government figures.\n\nMs Doyle warned people to follow social distancing rules, wash their hands regularly and wear a face covering in enclosed spaces.\n\nMeanwhile, Birmingham will become the latest area to bring in new restrictions after a spike in cases.\n\nHowever, lockdown restrictions will be eased further in Leicester on Tuesday to bring rules for businesses in the city more in line with the majority of England, the Department of Health said.\n\nThe city has been subject to tighter Covid-19 restrictions since 29 June after a rise in cases.\n\nAcross the UK, new laws on how many people can socialise are being introduced from Monday in an attempt to hold back the rise in infections.\n\nThe \"rule of six\" will restrict indoor and outdoor gatherings in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice warned there was a \"real risk\" some people would treat this weekend as a \"party weekend\" before the new restrictions come in.\n\nJohn Apter, national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said that would be \"incredibly irresponsible\" at a time of increasing cases and officers would \"make no apology\" for fining people where appropriate.\n\nThe rise in the R (reproduction) number - which describes how many others each infected person passes the virus on to - is one of several measures indicating the virus is spreading more widely in the UK.\n\nIf the R number is higher than one - as now - the numbers infected are growing, with higher numbers indicating that cases are multiplying more quickly.\n\nThree other large studies have also indicated a widespread resurgence of coronavirus across the UK population.\n\nThe UK is entering a new stage of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSince lockdown, we have been deciding how to react to falling cases. But now the R number has gone above the crucial level of 1 for the first time since March and is backed up by reams of data showing cases are growing again.\n\nThis is not just contained to hotspots like Bolton - one government adviser told me the rise was widespread across the country.\n\nThey said today was a \"wake-up call\" for the nation. There are already some signs that the number of people being admitted to hospital is starting to rise.\n\nBut this is not a repeat of the build-up to lockdown. Cases are at a much lower level and they are growing more slowly.\n\nPre-lockdown, the R number was around three and cases were doubling every three to four days. It is around half that now.\n\nCoronavirus is going to be a major challenge until we have a vaccine.\n\nSo the defining question as we head into a potentially difficult winter is how to balance keeping the virus in check with getting on with our lives.\n\nThe REACT study of more than 150,000 volunteers in England, one of the three new sources of data on community levels, found \"accelerating transmission\" at the end of August and start of September.\n\nIt said levels of infection were rising across England but particularly in the north east, north west and Yorkshire.\n\nAnd there were increases in positive cases in all age groups up to the age of 65, with highest rates of growth in 18-24 year olds.\n\nProf Paul Elliott, director of the study at Imperial College London, said the data clearly showed \"a concerning trend in coronavirus infections\" where cases are growing quickly across England and \"no longer concentrated in key workers\".\n\nHe said there was evidence of \"an epidemic in the community\" which was not the result of more people being tested.\n\nThe second set of data, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates there were 39,700 new cases of the virus in England during the first week in September - 11,000 more than the previous week.\n\nThe ONS bases its figures on thousands of swab tests carried out in households, whether people have symptoms or not.\n\nIt estimated no increase in cases for the same week in Wales, but First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced people must now wear face masks in shops in response to rising case numbers in recent days.\n\nKatherine Kent, from the ONS infection survey, said the results suggested \"an increase in Covid-19 infections in England during recent weeks, with higher infection rates among 17-34 year olds\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned that the average number of cases in Scotland has been \"more than trebling every three weeks\" with some areas of particular concern, including Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nAnd the third set of figures, from the Covid symptom study app, which tracks the health of nearly four million people in the UK, also suggests a growth in new cases since the end of August - the first time since mid-June there has been a significant rise in numbers.\n\nProf James Naismith, from the University of Oxford, said younger people would also have been affected to the same extent in January if testing had been available.\n\n\"We know that medical treatment and scientific advances have improved significantly, thus even with infection rates as bad as March and April, there will be many fewer deaths.\n\n\"The more people wash their hands and practise social distancing - especially by and around the vulnerable - the lower the number of deaths and illness we will see,\" he said.", "Three hours before the death, police attended the same location following a noise complaint and reports a smoke alarm had been activated\n\nA man has been stabbed to death at a flat in London, with another arrested on suspicion of murder following a stand-off with police.\n\nThe victim, believed to be in his 60s, was found with multiple stab wounds in Priestley House, Wembley, at about 10:00 BST.\n\nPolice said while paramedics attempted to save him, a man, aged 45, barricaded himself into a nearby address.\n\nAfter negotiations, a Taser was deployed and he was arrested.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the victim and suspect were known to each other.\n\nThree hours before the death, police had attended the same location following a noise complaint and reports a smoke alarm had been activated.\n\nThe Met said a man inside the property was spoken to and officers left.\n\nDue to the previous police attendance, the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed.\n\nThe victim was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A motion of no confidence in the Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has been withdrawn.\n\nMr Leonard had been expected to face a vote at a meeting of the party's governing body on Saturday.\n\nThe motion was submitted after four Labour MSPs called for his resignation last week, citing poor election results and polling under his command.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Mr Leonard said it was time to end \"internal plotting\".\n\nAnd he called for \"unity not division\" within the party.\n\n\"It's time for Scottish Labour to stand together and to stand with the Scottish people at a time when risks caused by pandemic are rising again and when the economy is on the edge of a deep recession with jobs and livelihoods in peril,\" he said.\n\n\"There must be an end to the internal plotting and we must unite to hold the Scottish government to account and to offer a real alternative.\n\n\"I firmly believe that I am the best person to lead us into next year's elections with a plan for jobs and real economic and social transformation which I know is shared by Keir Starmer.\n\n\"I have listened to the concerns expressed about me, I will treat those with respect and humility, and I will fight with every ounce of my being to improve the fortunes of the party in the run up to next year's election.\"\n\nThe motion was withdrawn after being discussed at the the party's Scottish Executive Committee (SEC).\n\nThe committee is made up of elected representatives as well as trade union officials and representatives of the party's grassroots membership.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard was a close ally of former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nMr Leonard, who was a close ally of former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, still enjoys the support of many on the left of the party.\n\nBut his critics point to the party's dismal opinion poll ratings as proof that change is needed.\n\nOpinion polls suggest Scottish Labour is trailing a distant third behind the SNP and Scottish Conservatives ahead of the election next May.\n\nScottish Labour is currently the third largest in the Scottish Parliament, behind the SNP and Conservatives, and lost all but one of its MPs in last year's general election.", "Four men aged 19 to 23 have been arrested in southern Italy in connection with the rape of two British girls, police say.\n\nPolice said the girls called officers at 03:30 on Tuesday to say they were attacked just after midnight.\n\nThe alleged incident happened in Marconia di Pisticci, in the Basilicata region, during a party in a villa. The girls were taken to hospital.\n\nThere was \"extreme brutality and cruelty\" in the attack, officers said.\n\nFour other men are also being investigated by officers in connection with the incident.\n\nPolice said the girls say they were initially approached by two of the men under investigation, whom they did not know.\n\nThey were then approached by other men at the party who \"took advantage\" of the fact the girls had been drinking, the statement said.", "The Challenger 2 tank has not been upgraded since 1998\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has quashed speculation that the Army will mothball all its tanks.\n\nLast month, the Times reported military chiefs were considering the idea, under plans to modernise the armed forces.\n\nBut Mr Wallace told the BBC \"the idea that tanks won't be there for the Army, upgraded and modernised, is wrong\".\n\nHowever, he admitted a government review would mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment to invest in cyber, space and other new technologies.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Middle East, Mr Wallace said there would be a shift to forward-deploy British military forces around the world to protect UK interests and its allies.\n\nMr Wallace said a joint squadron of RAF and Qatar Typhoon jets would be based in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.\n\nHe announced a £23.8m investment in a UK logistics hub in the Port of Duqm to support more British army training in Oman, and which could be used to base the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.\n\nHe also confirmed that RAF jets would continue to target the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with 23 strikes against extremist targets since March 2020.\n\nLast month, the Times reported on plans to mothball the Army's ageing 227 Challenger tanks as part of the government's integrated defence and security review - described as the most important defence review since the end of the Cold War.\n\nMr Wallace confirmed the review would mean \"letting go of some equipment that isn't serving any purpose or overmatched by adversaries\".\n\nHe said that would mean investing in new equipment for the RAF, Royal Navy and the Army. But he signalled that any cuts would not be as dramatic as some have reported.\n\nThat still leaves open the possibility of a reduction in the number of tanks. But Mr Wallace said that getting rid of all of them was not going to happen.\n\n\"We're going to make sure we have an armed forces fit for the 21st Century and meets our obligations to Nato and elsewhere…\n\n\"We are not scrapping all the British army's tanks and we will make sure the ones we maintain are up to date, lethal and defendable.\"\n\nMr Wallace said Britain also needed to meet the threat of long-range artillery and drones, which have recently been used by Russia against Ukraine to destroy its heavy armour.\n\nBen Wallace said his first duty was to make sure he delivered up-to-date equipment\n\nThe new port facilities at Duqm will triple the size of the existing UK base in Oman. They will also be used for British army training in Oman.\n\nThere's been speculation that the Army could switch its training for tanks from Canada to the Gulf state.\n\nWhile in Qatar, Mr Wallace also visited the US-led coalition headquarters co-ordinating the air campaign against the group calling itself the Islamic State.\n\nDespite IS losing most of its territory in Iraq and Syria, Mr Wallace said the threat was \"not going to go away\".", "The temple would have been a \"major landmark in the region\", according to archaeologist Will Bowden\n\nA dig has revealed \"one of the largest\" temple buildings in Roman Britain.\n\nThe 2nd Century temple site at Caistor St Edmund, near Norwich, has been known about since 1957, but its true scale has only just emerged.\n\nIt was built by the Iceni tribe, best known for their leader Boudicca who rebelled against the Romans in AD61.\n\nArchaeologist Prof Will Bowden said its size, 20m by 20m (65ft by 65ft), showed \"how important this cult was to the Iceni\".\n\nThe depth of the foundations indicates a substantial masonry building up to 15m (49ft) high\n\nThe community archaeology group Caistor Roman Project spent three weeks at the temple site in 2019, working in partnership with the University of Nottingham.\n\nProf Bowden, the project director, said the post-excavation process had since been completed and this \"confirmed that we were looking at a building that was exceptional\".\n\nHe said it was \"one of the largest of its type in Roman Britain\" which \"indicates not only the importance with which the site was regarded but also that the Iceni had the resources to construct major public buildings should they choose to\".\n\nIt has remained unknown which gods were worshipped there. Evidence of the worship of Roman gods has been found but the Iceni could have also dedicated the temple to a local deity, as happened at Bath.\n\nThe 2nd Century building, which was built on the site of an earlier Romano-Celtic temple, was surrounded by a precinct with two gates\n\nBoudicca led her Iceni tribe in a revolt against the Romans between AD60 and AD61\n\nCaistor was the site of Venta Icenorum, the smallest Roman regional capital in Britain.\n\nIts forum - the main public building - was less than a quarter of the size of Verulamium, now known as St Albans.\n\nHistorians saw its small scale as a sign of the Iceni's impoverishment after Queen Boudicca led the Iceni tribe against the Romans.\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.", "Toots Hibbert had reportedly been tested for coronavirus in the last two weeks\n\nJamaican reggae pioneer Frederick Nathaniel \"Toots\" Hibbert has died at the age of 77.\n\nThe legendary musician fronted the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals from the early 1960s.\n\nHibbert \"passed away peacefully\" in Kingston, Jamaica surrounded by his family, the group announced on Friday.\n\nAs yet it is unknown how Hibbert died, although he had been tested for coronavirus in the last two weeks and was put into intensive care.\n\nHibbert is credited with popularising reggae music and even naming the genre - his 1968 single \"Do the Reggay\" is the first song to use the term.\n\nOther popular tracks include Pressure Drop, Sweet and Dandy, and 54-46 That's My Number.\n\nIn a statement, the band and Hibbert's family thanked medical staff \"for their care and diligence\". He is survived by his wife and seven of his eight children.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Toots & The Maytals This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Toots & The Maytals\n\nHis death comes just weeks before the release of Got to Be Tough, the band's first full-length album in more than a decade.\n\nDescribed as \"the world's greatest living reggae singer\" in a Rolling Stone profile last month, his vocal style has been compared to Otis Redding. The magazine lists him as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time.\n\nTributes poured in for the legendary musician on social media.\n\nUK actor and comedian Sir Lenny Henry said he was \"so sorry\" to hear of his death.\n\n\"His music was a constant in our house growing up,\" he tweeted. \"His voice was powerful and adaptable to funk, soul, country, AND reggae. Rest in power.\"\n\nReggae and pop group UB40 said Hibbert's music \"influenced and inspired us to love reggae music from an early age\", while UK artist Ghostpoet wrote: \"Another legend returns to the earth. What an impact he made in his time here.\"\n\nAnd Ziggy Marley - son of reggae icon Bob Marley - wrote on Twitter that Hibbert was \"a father figure to me\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ziggy Marley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNaomi Osaka demonstrated her growing maturity to fight back against Victoria Azarenka in a compelling US Open final and claim her third Grand Slam title.\n\nJapanese fourth seed Osaka, 22, won 1-6 6-3 6-3 for her second US Open title.\n\nOsaka was overwhelmed in the first set and in danger of trailing 3-0 in the second but then won 10 of the next 12 games to seize the momentum.\n\nThe Belarusian, 31, in her first major final since 2013, was broken for 5-3 in the decider before Osaka served out.\n\nOsaka shrieked with joy as she took her second match point, then calmly lay on the court and stared at the New York sky as she contemplated her latest achievement.\n\nOsaka's level raised considerably as Azarenka was unable to maintain the intensity she showed in a one-sided opening set.\n\nThe fightback ensured Osaka, who won the 2018 US Open and 2019 Australian Open, maintained her record of winning every Grand Slam final she has played in.\n\n\"I don't want to play you in any more finals, I didn't really enjoy that, it was a really tough match for me,\" Osaka jokingly told Azarenka.\n\nShe added: \"It was really inspiring for me because I used to watch you play here when I was younger. I learned a lot, so thank you.\"\n• None Re-live how Osaka won her second US Open title\n• None 'I've tried to mature' - Osaka on how coronavirus break helped her win US Open\n\nAnother US Open title for Osaka - but a contrasting occasion\n\nOsaka's maiden victory at Flushing Meadows two years ago came in straight sets against Serena Williams in a hostile environment following the American's infamous argument with umpire Carlos Ramos.\n\nIt left Osaka in tears as she stood on the podium waiting to collect her first Grand Slam trophy.\n\nThis second success could not have been more different.\n\nHere she had to fight back from a set down against an inspired Azarenka - and navigate a tricky decider which could have swung either way - on an Arthur Ashe Stadium left virtually empty because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd even in what were still strange circumstances, Osaka could this time enjoy the moment with a beaming smile as she lifted the prize in the company of her team and rapper boyfriend Cordae - even if she had to take the trophy from the table herself rather than be presented with it because of social distancing rules.\n\nOsaka looked a little lost as Azarenka overwhelmed her in a fast start, hitting 13 unforced errors and struggling to cope with the Belarusian's proactive play and controlled aggression.\n\nDraping a towel over her head at changeovers was a sign of Osaka's concerns. Her attempts to collect her thoughts and regain her composure did not initially work, however.\n\nAnother wayward forehand prompted a frustrated Osaka to throw her racquet to the floor in disgust.\n\nEventually, though, the mental resilience which she says she has developed over recent months came to the fore.\n\n\"I just thought it would be embarrassing to lose this under an hour,\" said Osaka, who will rise to third in the world after her win.\n\nThat resulted in a major momentum shift in her favour as Azarenka threatened to move 3-0 ahead in the second set.\n\nA rasping forehand by Osaka at 40-30 proved pivotal, not only in the game, but ultimately in the whole match as she seized control to level.\n\nThe former world number one maintained that level in the decider to earn a 4-1 lead, but was unable to convert one of four break points to move 5-1 ahead.\n\nThat might have proved costly when Azarenka immediately put the set back on serve, only for Osaka to battle back again by winning what proved to be the final two games.\n\nNot only has Osaka impressed on court during the Cincinnati Masters-US Open bubble in the past month, she has also won many admirers for her activism in the fight against racism and police brutality in the United States.\n\nA few days before the start of the US Open, Osaka pulled out of her Western and Southern Open semi-final in protest at the shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by police in Wisconsin.\n\nBefore her US Open first-round match, she wore a face mask with the name of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was shot dead by a policeman in March.\n\nOsaka, who has Japanese and Haitian parents and was brought up in the United States, said she had seven masks with seven different names.\n\nHer target was to reveal all of them by reaching Saturday's final and that provided her with extra motivation to win the title, according to her coach Wim Fissette.\n\n\"I felt the point was to make people start talking,\" Osaka said after her victory.\n\n\"I've been inside the bubble and not sure what's going on in the outside world. The more retweets it gets, the more people talk about it.\"\n\nAzarenka wins hearts but falls short of another Slam\n\nFormer world number one Azarenka was aiming to complete a remarkable renaissance by landing her first Grand Slam title since defending her Australian Open crown in 2013.\n\nFew had predicted she would compete for the sport's biggest prizes again after a turbulent past few years.\n\nAzarenka took time away from the sport to give birth in December 2016 and had her comeback stalled by a lengthy custody battle over son Leo.\n\nLast week she admitted she had thought about quitting when the WTA Tour was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe had won only one match in the previous year going into last month's restart, but came back from the enforced break reinvigorated and possessing a fresh perspective on life.\n\nThat enabled her to win a first WTA title in four years when Osaka pulled out of their scheduled Western & Southern Open final with a hamstring injury - and she continued her form in the Grand Slam.\n\nUltimately though, she could not become the fourth mother to win a major title as Osaka consigned her to a third defeat in a US Open final.\n\nWhen Osaka won the title two years ago, boos rang around the Arthur Ashe Stadium as Serena Williams had been docked a game.\n\nThis time virtual silence greeted her triumph - but again she had to do it the hard way.\n\nAzarenka played an almost flawless first set, and it was only when four games from defeat that Osaka found her range and some serious power.\n\nThe 22-year-old has taken some knocks over the past 18 months as she came to terms with life as one of the world's highest profile athletes.\n\nA first-round defeat at last year's Wimbledon was perhaps the hardest to take - but look at her now.\n\nNot only is she playing with supreme confidence once again, but is also able to use her influence to promote social justice in a very assured and unassuming way.\n• None Comedians try to make sense of 2020\n• None Go behind the scenes with West Ham Women", "Bernadette Walker, 17, has been missing since 21 July\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the disappearance of a teenage girl.\n\nBernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough on 21 July by her parents after she had not been seen for three days.\n\nPolice have been carrying out inquiries and searches but declared a murder investigation even though a body has not been found.\n\nA man in his 50s from Peterborough is being questioned by police.\n\nBernadette Walker was reported missing by her parents\n\nDet Ch Insp Jerry Waite said: \"Whilst we hope we do find Bernadette alive and well, there is every possibility this may not be the case therefore my team and I will do everything possible to find out what has happened to her and bring any offenders to justice.\"\n\nPolice urged anyone with information on her whereabouts to get in touch.\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 speed limit will be cut to 60mph in areas with higher levels of nitrogen dioxide\n\nThe speed limit will be cut on parts of four motorways before October in a trial to reduce pollution, Highways England has said.\n\nIt will be reduced from 70mph to 60mph in areas that have seen higher than recommended levels of nitrogen dioxide.\n\nThe trial will take place on stretches of nearly five miles.\n\nIt will be on M6 junctions 6 to 7 by Witton, M1 junctions 33 to 34 by Rotherham, M602 junctions 1 to 3 by Eccles and M5 1 to 2 by Oldbury.\n\nNitrogen dioxide (NO2) released from car exhausts is a serious air pollutant and indirectly contributes to the warming of the planet.\n\nThe impact of the new 60mph limit will be reviewed in a year's time\n\nIvan Le Fevre, head of environment at Highways England said: \"Ultimately the air quality challenge will be solved 'at the tailpipe' by vehicle manufacturers and changes in vehicle use.\n\n\"Until this happens we will continue our extensive programme of pioneering research and solutions.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport said the trial was among a number of measures to improve air quality.\n\nAs part of a plan to bring down NO2 levels, the government aims to end the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans before 2040.\n\nIt has been consulting on bringing this forward to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible, as well as looking at including hybrids for the first time.\n\nThe consultation's outcome will be announced at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police urged people to let them know about any planned, unlicensed events\n\nA woman has been arrested after more than 300 people attended a silent disco in an industrial unit.\n\nThe unlicensed music event took place at Twyford Industrial Estate in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on 30 August.\n\nPolice had been made aware a small gathering for a wedding party with social distancing would be held.\n\nA 50-year-old woman was arrested in London on suspicion of money laundering and breaking licensing rules.\n\nCh Insp Stuart Orton said: \"In the current climate with Covid circulating ever more virulently in the community, and the latest legislative changes regarding the permitted size of gatherings, it is imperative that the public abide by social distancing regulations.\n\n\"Breaches will be dealt with robustly and to the full extent of the law.\"\n\nHe said police were made aware of a gathering at the unit but were told it would be a small gathering for a wedding party and that social distancing measures would be in place.\n\nA closure order was granted, banning anyone from entering the industrial unit for three months.\n\nHertfordshire Police was seeking to freeze funds believed to have been made from the event, which it said included a specialised sound system and the unlawful sale of alcohol.\n\nThe force appealed for people to come forward with information about planned unlicensed events.\n\nSocial gatherings of more than six people will be illegal in England from Monday - with some exemptions - following a steep rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nIt will be enforced through a £100 fine if people fail to comply, doubling on each offence up to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nAt present, the guidance says two households of any size are allowed to meet indoors or outdoors, or up to six people from different households outdoors. Until now the police have had no powers to stop gatherings unless they exceeded 30.\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.", "Sir Terence Conran, the British designer who revolutionised retail and decor, has died at the age of 88.\n\nBest known as the founder of Habitat, he brought modern style and simplicity to UK homes in the 1960s and later helped found the Design Museum.\n\n\"He was a visionary who enjoyed an extraordinary life and career that revolutionised the way we live in Britain,\" said a family statement.\n\n\"He was adored by his family and friends and we will miss him dearly.\"\n\nSir Terence at the launch of the Swinging London exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in 2019\n\nThe statement added: \"It gives us great comfort to know that many of you will mourn with us but we ask that you celebrate Terence's extraordinary legacy and contribution to the country he loved so dearly.\"\n\nHe \"promoted the best of British design, culture and the arts around the world\", with \"a very simple belief that good design improves the quality of people's lives\".\n\nSir Terence started his career in the late 1940s, but became a household name as one of the key designers of the swinging '60s.\n\nHis empire would go on to span restaurants, architecture and household retail brands including Mothercare, but it was for his accessible and fashionable furniture, interiors and homeware that he remains best-known.\n\nPictured in the Terence Conran Suite at Boundary in Shoreditch in 2009\n\nHe pioneered flat-pack furniture years before Ikea arrived on British shores, helping to lower the prices of his cutting-edge designs in his bid to \"democratise good design\".\n\nDesign Museum director Tim Marlow led the tributes, saying it was \"a privilege and an inspiration to know him\".\n\nIn a statement, Marlow wrote: \"Terence Conran was instrumental in the re-designing of post-war Britain and his legacy is huge.\n\n\"He is revered by generations of designers, from Mary Quant and David Mellor to Thomas Heatherwick and Jonny Ive.\n\n\"He changed the way we lived and shopped and ate. He also created a great institution - the Design Museum - of which he was justifiably proud and with which he remained fully engaged right to the end of his extraordinary life.\"\n\nDesigner and architect George Clarke, gardener and broadcaster Monty Don, and restaurant critic Marina O'Loughlin were among others paying tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Clarke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Monty Don This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Marina O'Loughlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter studying textile design and setting up his own furniture studio, Conran joined an architectural firm in 1950 and worked on the subsequent year's Festival of Britain.\n\nAs the '50s went on, his ambitious and wide-ranging approach to design and business became clear. A furniture workshop, a French-inspired restaurant and a coffee shop eventually led him to form the Conran Design Group. The company also designed interiors and retail spaces, including a shop for pioneering '60s fashion designer Quant.\n\nConran opened the first Habitat store on the Fulham Road in 1964, selling taste-making and trend-setting furniture, art, home and cookery products to a burgeoning young clientele who wanted to break from drab post-war austerity.\n\n\"It is hard to overstate how uninteresting London was then,\" he later said. \"You could go along a terrace of houses, and every living room you looked in was the exactly the same, with the same extremely dreary furniture.\"\n\nConran was heavily influenced by continental European styles, and is credited with introducing duvets to Britain.\n\nHabitat rapidly expanded across the UK, and he went on to take over Mothercare and British Home Stores, as well as running other ventures, such as his extensive and influential restaurant business - including Bibendum and Quaglino's - and The Conran Shop. He also wrote numerous books about design and food.\n\n\"The restaurants, hotels and bars we have designed or operated, the shops, the interiors, the buildings, the products and furniture or the books I have written - design is the one thing that connects them all and they add up to what I call a style of life,\" he said.\n\nHe was married four times, including to Shirley Conran, who helped launch Conran Design before becoming the author of self-help books like Superwoman and the racy bestseller Lace.\n\nTheir sons Jasper and Sebastian Conran both became designers, while his other three children - Tom, Sophie and Ned - by his third wife, food writer Caroline, have forged successful careers in the creative sector, notably in food writing and as restaurateurs.", "The charity hopes to reopen Tedworth House in Wiltshire as a recovery centre for wounded, injured and sick service veterans\n\nMilitary charity Help for Heroes says 142 staff roles are at risk, as its income has dropped by nearly a third during the pandemic.\n\nThe charity, which supports wounded veterans and their families, says there are likely to be about 80 redundancies.\n\nIt relies on donations for 97% of its funding, but its fundraisers have been cancelled or postponed since March.\n\nCharity chief Melanie Waters said: \"These tough decisions have been made to protect the future of the charity.\"\n\nThree Help for Heroes recovery centres - in Yorkshire, Devon and Essex - will remain closed indefinitely as Help for Heroes focuses on face-to-face community and online-based support.\n\nThe charity said demand for its services rose by 33% during May and June - compared to the same period last year - as the consequences of the national lockdown impacted on veterans' mental health.\n\nRequests for help with physical conditions also increased by nearly a third over the same period.\n\nMeanwhile, the charity - which furloughed 130 staff at the start of the pandemic - said it anticipates funding will remain down by around a third for the foreseeable future, as the economy struggles to recover.\n\nMs Waters said a major restructure was the only way the charity could continue with its work.\n\n\"In 2007, we made a promise on behalf of the nation to provide lifetime support to wounded veterans, and their families, and we are striving to keep that promise,\" she said in a statement on their website.\n\n\"The crisis has had a devastating impact on the whole UK charity sector, with lasting consequences, and it has hit us hard.\"\n\nThe charity said it was working closely with the Ministry of Defence \"to provide core recovery activities for wounded, injured or sick service personnel\" and hoped to reopen its Tedworth House recovery centre in Wiltshire, with social distancing measures in place - as well as their community office in Wales.\n\nLast year, the charity - which was set up in 2007 by former Army Captain Bryn Parry and wife Emma - raised around £27m.\n\n\"We remain absolutely committed to our wounded and their families and will continue fighting for, and changing the lives of, those we support for as long as they need it,\" said Ms Waters.\n• None BBC apologises to Help for Heroes", "Artwork: D-Orbit's carrier platform has cameras that could also look for nearby space debris\n\nNew approaches to tracking satellites and debris in orbit are to get a boost from the UK Space Agency.\n\nUKSA is giving over £1m to seven firms to help advance novel sensor technologies and the smart algorithms needed to interpret their data.\n\nFinding better ways to surveil objects moving overhead has become a high priority issue.\n\nWith more and more satellites being launched, there's growing concern about the potential for collisions.\n\nA big worry is the burgeoning population of redundant hardware and junk in orbit - some 900,000 objects larger than 1cm by some counts, and all of it capable of doing immense damage to, or even destroying, an operational spacecraft in a high-velocity encounter.\n\nThe projects being supported by UKSA come from a mix of start-ups and more established companies.\n\nThe overriding goal is to improve ways to spot, characterise and track objects.\n\nUltimately, this is information which could be fed into the automated traffic management systems of the future that will keep functioning satellites out of harm's way.\n\nDeimos is developing technologies to track space objects from the UK\n\n\"We've known for a long while that the space environment is getting more difficult, more cluttered,\" said Jacob Geer from UKSA. \"Space surveillance and tracking is one of the key things we can do to keep safe those satellites we rely on now, and to make sure certain orbits don't become inaccessible for future generations because there's too much debris in them.\n\n\"We had 26 proposals come to us and I think we've selected a good cross-section of ideas in the seven companies we're supporting,\" he told BBC News.\n\nWhile a lot of these projects are still at the lab stage, D-Orbit's work is dedicated to pushing the capability of some of its hardware already in space.\n\nThe company recently launched a vehicle to carry and deploy a clutch of small satellites. This vehicle uses cameras to photograph its surroundings and to map the stars for the purposes of navigation.\n\nD-Orbit has the idea of using the cameras' imagery to also identify passing junk.\n\n\"One of the challenges in using star trackers is filtering out objects that are not supposed to be there - obviously, because you're trying to compare what you can see against a star catalogue,\" explained D-Orbit's Simon Reid. \"And, of course, it's those extra objects which in principal are the things that are potentially debris.\"\n\nThe funding announcement also coincides with the signing of a new partnership agreement between the Ministry of Defence and UKSA to work together on space domain awareness.\n\nBoth have valuable assets and interests in orbit that need protecting. And for the UK taxpayer, this investment was recently deepened with the purchase out of bankruptcy of the OneWeb satellite broadband company.\n\nThe UK government is now the part owner of one of the biggest spacecraft networks in the sky. OneWeb has so far launched 74 satellites in its communications constellation, with plans to put up thousands more.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Millions of pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth present a significant threat to UK satellite systems which provide the vital services that we all take for granted - from mobile communications to weather forecasting.\n\n\"By developing new AI and sensor technology, the seven pioneering space projects we are backing today will significantly strengthen the UK's capabilities to monitor these hazardous space objects, helping to create new jobs and protect the services we rely on in our everyday lives.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The self-driving Volvo hit a pedestrian at 39mph, despite the presence of a safety driver\n\nThe back-up driver of an Uber self-driving car that killed a pedestrian has been charged with negligent homicide.\n\nElaine Herzberg, aged 49, was hit by the car as she wheeled a bicycle across the road in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018.\n\nInvestigators said the car's safety driver, Rafael Vasquez, had been streaming an episode of the television show The Voice at the time.\n\nMs Vasquez pleaded not guilty, and was released to await trial.\n\nUber will not face criminal charges, after a decision last year that there was \"no basis for criminal liability\" for the corporation.\n\nThe accident was the first death on record involving a self-driving car, and resulted in Uber ending its testing of the technology in Arizona.\n\nLengthy investigations by police and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that human error was mostly to blame for the crash.\n\nMs Vasquez was in the driver's seat, and had the ability to take over control of the vehicle in an emergency.\n\nDash-cam footage released by police showed Ms Vasquez looking down, away from the road, for several seconds immediately before the crash, while the car was travelling at 39mph (63km/h).\n\nPolice say that although her first name was listed on her driver's licence as Rafael, Ms Vasquez identifies as a woman and goes by Rafaela.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRecords from the streaming service Hulu also seemed to show that her device had been streaming a television show at the time.\n\nA police report from June 2018 labelled the fatal collision as \"entirely avoidable\" if the driver had been watching the road.\n\nThe NTSB, meanwhile, identified the probable cause of the accident as failure of the operator to monitor their surroundings, and the automated system, \"because she was visually distracted throughout the trip by her personal cell phone\".\n\nNTSB vice chairman Bruce Landsberg wrote in the report: \"On this trip, the safety driver spent 34% of the time looking at her cell phone while streaming a TV show.\"\n\nMs Vasquez was charged on 27 August, and made her first appearance in court on 15 September. The trial is now set for February next year.\n\nIn May 2018, when Elaine Herzberg was killed, confidence in autonomous vehicle technology was at an all-time high.\n\nEveryone from Elon Musk to the British Chancellor Philip Hammond was telling us that robo-taxis and other autonomous vehicles would be on the roads within a couple of years, cutting congestion and delivering a big boost to road safety.\n\nBut the accident in Arizona punctured that confidence.\n\nIt showed that however smart the machine learning in the autonomous systems, mixing robots with humans as cars made the journey towards full autonomy was going to prove a real challenge.\n\nNot only did Uber have to halt its testing programme for a while, but rivals such as Google's Waymo became notably more cautious in their trials. Only today it is being reported that the Chinese tech giant Baidu is pushing back the full rollout of its robo-taxis until 2025, partly because of confusion about regulations.\n\nAs long as \"self-driving\" cars still need a human safety driver behind the wheel, there will be confusion about whose fault it is when something goes wrong - but going fully autonomous is such a huge leap that even the boldest tech firm is likely to be very cautious about going first.\n\nDespite the decision not to levy criminal charges against Uber itself, the company did not escape criticism.\n\nThe NTSB report said that Uber's \"inadequate safety risk assessment procedures\" and \"ineffective oversight of vehicle operators\" were contributing factors. It accused the company of having an \"inadequate safety culture\".\n\nThe vehicle's automatic systems failed to identify Ms Herzberg and her bicycle as an imminent collision danger in the way they were supposed to, the NTSB found.\n\nDays before the crash, an employee had warned his superiors that the vehicles were unsafe, were routinely in accidents, and raised concerns about the training of operators.\n\nFollowing the crash, authorities in Arizona suspended Uber's ability to test self-driving cars on the state's public roads, and Uber ended its tests in the state. It received permission to carry out tests in the state of California earlier this year.", "It's been a busy day in Westminster... but it is time for us to bring this page to a close.\n\nWith the resignation of Lord Keen breaking as we go, there is sure to be more coming out of SW1 tonight.\n\nSo follow us on Twitter @BBCPolitics and keen an eye on our pages of the BBC News website for more updates.\n\nSee you again next week for more PMQs action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's only the beginning of getting full justice\": Breonna Taylor's mother reacts to the settlement\n\nOfficials in Louisville, Kentucky have agreed to pay $12m (£9.3m) to the family of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed in her home by police.\n\nTaylor was 26 when she was shot at least five times and killed on 13 March during a mistaken drugs raid.\n\nHer name has featured prominently in anti-racism protests in recent months.\n\nLonita Baker, a lawyer for Taylor's family, called the settlement just one \"layer\" in the effort to seek justice, and praised new police reforms.\n\n\"Justice for Breonna is multi-layered,\" said Ms Baker at a press conference on Tuesday alongside Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.\n\nShe called the agreement \"tremendous, but only a portion\" of what the family hopes for, including the arrest of the officers involved in her death.\n\n\"Today what we did here was to do what we could do to bring a little bit of police reform and it's just a start,\" continued Ms Baker.\n\n\"But we finished the first mile in the marathon and we've got a lot more miles to go to until we achieve and cross that finish line.\"\n\nThe settlement includes a series of police reforms in the city, including a requirement that all search warrants be approved by a senior officer and giving a housing credit to officers who move to low-income neighbourhoods they patrol in the city.\n\nIn a short statement, Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer called for criminal charges against the officers and asked people to continue to say her daughter's name publicly in advocacy for police reforms.\n\nThe settlement is the largest financial sum paid in a police misconduct case in the city's history, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"\n\nTaylor's killing was propelled into the spotlight once again with the death George Floyd, an African-American man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for minutes during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May.\n\nShortly after midnight on 13 March, three officers entered Taylor's apartment by executing a no-knock search warrant - a court document that authorises police to enter a home without warning.\n\nTaylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were reportedly asleep as the commotion began.\n\nThe officers exchanged fire with Mr Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911 in the belief that the drug raid was a burglary. The officers - who fired more than 25 bullets - said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded.\n\nTaylor, a decorated emergency medical technician, was 26 when she died.\n\nDuring the exchange, Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot eight times and later died.\n\nNo drugs were found on the property.\n\nThe lawsuit filed by Taylor's family accuses the officers of battery, wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence. It also says the officers were not looking for her or her partner, but for an unrelated suspect who did not live in the complex.\n\nHer family has also accused police of leading the raid as a plot to gentrify her neighbourhood. The city's mayor dismissed the allegation as \"outrageous\" and \"without foundation or supporting facts\".\n\nOne of the officers involved in the raid, Brett Hankison, was fired in June. The other two - Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove - were placed on administrative leave.\n\nThe city's police chief was also fired in June after a separate police shooting.\n\nA grand jury could soon decide whether criminal charges should be filed against any of the officers.\n\nUntil Freedom, a social justice organisation that has held rallies for Taylor, released a statement saying: \"No amount of money will bring back Breonna Taylor.\"\n\n\"True justice is not served with cash settlements,\" the group added. \"We need those involved in her murder to be arrested and charged. We need accountability. We need justice.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Louisville's city council voted unanimously in favour of banning no-knock warrants. Similar legislation that would ban the warrants nationwide was introduced in the US Congress.", "A second Welsh local lockdown is to start in Rhondda Cynon Taff on Thursday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced.\n\n\"We need to introduce local restrictions in the area to control and ultimately to reduce the spread of the virus and protect people's health,\" he told a press conference.\n\nThe lockdown will start at 18:00 BST and has been prompted by a rise in cases to 82.1 infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe restrictions will be similar to those brought in in Caerphilly, meaning people can only leave to go to work if they cannot work from home, to access education, health care, food and essentials or for legal obligations.\n\nHowever, unlike Caerphilly, pubs and restaurants have been told to close at 23:00.\n\nMr Gething said pubs were a \"factor in transmission in RCT [Rhondda Cynon Taff] in a way that we didn't have evidence for within Caerphilly\".", "England's education secretary has defended the Covid-19 testing system for schools.\n\nGavin Williamson insisted schools were being prioritised, highlighting that they can now order tests from the NHS directly.\n\nEarlier, unions and head teachers warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson of their \"deep sense of foreboding\" about further delays in the testing system, which has seen many teachers and pupils unable to access a Covid-19 test since the new school year began\n\nMr Williamson told the education select committee direct access to the test-kit ordering system for schools came into effect on Wednesday morning, two weeks after the start of term.\n\nHe described the direct supply line for schools as \"unique\".\n\nHe said he had met Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace in England, to emphasise the importance and priority of schools and ensure testing is always available to them.\n\nBut he cautioned that only people with coronavirus symptoms should be tested, not the whole \"cohort\" who are sent home.\n\nGeneral Secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, Dr Patrick Roach, said \"schools are unable to cope with a situation that is becoming increasingly out of control\".", "Lego will start replacing plastic packaging with paper bags from 2021 as the toy brick maker aims to become more sustainable.\n\nLego said it had been prompted by letters from children asking it to remove the single-use plastic bags.\n\nIt said it would be investing up to $400m (£310m) over three years to improve its sustainability efforts.\n\nLego bricks themselves are made of plastic, although the company is exploring alternative materials.\n\n\"We have received many letters from children about the environment asking us to remove single-use plastic packaging,\" Lego Group chief executive Niels B Christiansen said.\n\n\"We have been exploring alternatives for some time and the passion and ideas from children inspired us to begin to make the change,\" he added.\n\nFrom next year the toy company will start introducing recyclable paper bags, certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, to package its loose bricks.\n\nThis is part of Lego's ambition to make all its packaging sustainable by the end of 2025.\n\n\"Children liked the paper bags being trialled in 2021 as they were environmentally friendly and easy to open,\" Mr Christiansen added.\n\nPressure has been growing on retailers to reduce their use of plastic bags and packaging. However it is not always straightforward to ensure alternatives aren't more carbon intensive to produce, transport and recycle.\n\nLego said its investment would also go into educational programmes and efforts to make the company more sustainable in other areas.\n\nIn 2015, the Danish firm set a target to make its products from sustainable materials by 2030. As part of this pledge it will expand the use of bio-bricks, such as those using sugar cane as a component.\n\nEarlier this month Lego said sales and profits had risen in the first half of this year as consumers bought more of their products during lockdowns to restrict the spread of coronavirus. It said families bought bigger and more complicated Lego sets to keep themselves busy.\n\nThe toy maker plans still plans to open 120 new Lego stores around the world this year despite the pandemic which saw most bricks-and-mortar shops closed for extended periods.", "England's education secretary has defended the Covid-19 testing system for schools, saying they can now order tests from the NHS directly.\n\nGavin Williamson said schools were being prioritised, amid claims by head teachers of problems accessing tests.\n\nHe stressed pupils sent home due to a Covid-19 case at their school should only seek tests if they have symptoms.\n\nHead teachers have written to the prime minister about their fears of further delays as virus cases rise.\n\nIn their letter, teaching unions also called for easier access to public health advice to deal with Coronavirus cases in schools.\n\nThe heads of the Association of School and College Leaders and the National Association of Head Teachers warned Boris Johnson of \"a deep sense of foreboding\" about further delays in the system and called on the government to step up.\n\nSome schools in England had close their doors just after reopening, while others have told whole year groups or classes, which form \"bubbles\", to self-isolate for two weeks following confirmed cases.\n\nMr Williamson told the education select committee direct access to the test-kit ordering system for schools came into effect on Wednesday morning, two weeks after the start of this term.\n\nHe told MPs: \"We have always been conscious that, with children coming back into school, there was going to be a situation where people would need more access to testing.\n\n\"This was why we have ensured these deliveries of testing kits,\" he said, and why \"just this morning we have opened up the ordering system for schools\".\n\n\"The support that we are putting towards education - this is something quite unique - that schools can be able to pull that supply directly from the NHS.\"\n\nSome teachers are teaching from home via video link\n\nHe had met Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace in England, to emphasize the importance and priority of schools and ensure testing is always available to them, he said.\n\nHe said only people with coronavirus symptoms should be tested, not the whole \"cohort\" who are sent home.\n\nRobert Halfon, committee chairman, asked Mr Williamson if he could \"guarantee\" pupils and teachers who needed Covid-19 tests would be able to get them locally within 48 hours in the event of an outbreak.\n\nMr Williamson did not respond to that question but said schools were in a unique position to be able to have testing kits on site.\n\nEach school and college was given 10 home-testing kits at the start of term and schools can order more kits online from today, the minister added.\n\nA spokesman for the Northern Power House - an organisation seeking to boost industry and education in north of England - said problems were particularly difficult in parts of the north west with higher virus rates.\n\nAnd these areas have have high levels of economic deprivation, she said.\n\n\"Poorer pupils already lag behind their classmates and they are falling further and further behind when schools close, as they are less likely to have access to at-home support or technology.\n\n\"These children have been effectively hit by a triple-whammy of long-term disadvantage, school closures and now testing chaos.\n\n\"With challenges getting testing already wreaking havoc on our education system, it is also the lack of consistency in direction from the Department for Education and public health authorities which is frustrating school leaders when faced with decisions on whether to send home whole 'bubbles' or not.\n\n\"Without urgent steps from the government to address these issues, it will be the most vulnerable children who will pay the highest price.\"\n\nGeneral secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, Dr Patrick Roach, suggested the system was not working.\n\nHe said: \"Areas where additional local restrictions have been introduced, due to the increase in the R (reproduction) number, are now unable to cope with demand for tests.\n\n\"Teachers, support staff and children and young people are unable to access tests where they have Covid-19 symptoms. Employers are struggling to deal with the implications and consequences.\"\n\nLocal authorities across the country - including in the North West of England - are struggling to cope with demand, he added.\n\nHe highlighted the situation in Bury, where hundreds of pupils are self-isolating, and Salford, where the council has been inundated with requests for tests from schools.\n\nDr Roach said: \"Schools appear to be seeking to do their utmost to carry on.\n\n\"However, we have reports that schools are unable to cope with a situation that is becoming increasingly out of control.\"", "Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic.\n\n\"The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind,\" the Caribbean island nation's government said.\n\nIt aims to complete the process in time for the 55th anniversary of independence from Britain, in November 2021.\n\nA speech written by Prime Minister Mia Mottley said Barbadians wanted a Barbadian head of state.\n\n\"This is the ultimate statement of confidence in who we are and what we are capable of achieving,\" the speech read.\n\nBuckingham Palace said that it was a matter for the government and people of Barbados.\n\nA source at Buckingham Palace said that the idea \"was not out of the blue\" and \"has been mooted and publicly talked about many times\", BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said.\n\nThe statement was part of the Throne Speech, which outlines the government's policies and programmes ahead of the new session of parliament.\n\nWhile it is read out by the governor-general, it is written by the country's prime minister.\n\nThe speech also quoted a warning from Errol Barrow, Barbados's first prime minister after it gained independence, who said that the country should not \"loiter on colonial premises\".\n\nThe speech was written by Prime Minister Mia Mottley\n\nHis is not the only voice in Barbados that has been suggesting a move away from the monarchy. A constitutional review commission recommended republican status for Barbados in 1998.\n\nAnd Ms Mottley's predecessor in officer, Freundel Stuart, also argued for a \"move from a monarchical system to a republican form of government in the very near future\".\n\nBarbados would not be the first former British colony in the Caribbean to become a republic. Guyana took that step in 1970, less than four years after gaining independence from Britain. Trinidad and Tobago followed suit in 1976 and Dominica in 1978.\n\nAll three stayed within the Commonwealth, a loose association of former British colonies and current dependencies, along with some countries that have no historical ties to Britain.\n\nIt is actually quite unusual for a country to remove the Queen as its head of state. The last to do so was Mauritius in 1992. Other Caribbean countries like Dominica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago became republics in the 1970s.\n\nMany of the 15 countries that are currently part of the Queen's realm seem to value the relationship it provides with her and the United Kingdom.\n\nOf course, some have talked for years of slipping the royal anchor and establishing their own heads of state. But other political objectives often get in the way.\n\nCertainly this is not the first time that politicians in Barbados have declared their intention to become a republic.\n\nThe question is whether this decision will be matched by others. Jamaica has in the past suggested that this is a route it might follow.\n\nWhat is significant is that the prime minister of Barbados cast the decision as \"leaving our colonial past behind\".\n\nIn the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, it will be interesting to see if this sparks wider political pressure on other Caribbean governments to go the same way.\n\nAnd if this happens, and the removal of the Queen as head of state is placed on a par with, say, the removal of a statue of a slave trader, then that could pose difficult questions for both the British royal family and the Commonwealth.", "Sunderland Council said its cases were three times higher than the national rate\n\nSunderland, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Newcastle have been added to Public Health England's Coronavirus watchlist.\n\nSunderland Council said there were 244 new cases in seven days; 75 cases per 100,000 people which is three times higher than the national rate.\n\nCouncil leader Graeme Miller said there would be \"enhanced support\" rather than restrictions.\n\nA local lockdown was \"close\" if there was not a \"rapid and drastic reduction in the number of cases\", he said.\n\n\"The virus is spreading across Sunderland and we need to work together to stop it.\"\n\nAreas on the \"enhanced support\" watchlist are given additional resources by the government, such as greater levels of testing.\n\nGateshead said cases had more than trebled in the past seven days with 113 new ones in the first week of September, equating to about 55 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nNewcastle City Council said there had been 145 new cases in the past seven days, equating to 48 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe authority's director of public health, Eugene Milne, said almost 60% of people in the city who tested positive in the past two weeks were from the 18 to 30 age group.\n\nEnhanced support is the second of three tiers on the watchlist, with the highest level resulting in government intervention in a bid to help slow the spread of the virus.\n\nMiddlesbrough and Hartlepool are on the lowest tier as areas of \"concern\".\n\nGateshead's director of public health has warned the town could see direct government intervention in one or two weeks if cases keep rising.\n\nAlice Wiseman said the borough doesn't \"have much time, we have to move fast\".\n\n\"Unless we can get a hold on this there will be more restrictions on people's lives.\"\n\nBusiness owners in Gateshead like Julie Oxley fear a potential second lockdown\n\nLow Fell businesswoman Julie Oxley said another lockdown would \"kill\" the economy.\n\n\"We just survived one lockdown, if there is another lockdown how on earth are we supposed to pay the bills that still have to be paid?\" she said.\n\nMaureen Bowe said it would force her to close her hair salon.\n\n\"If people stick to common sense things like wearing masks, washing their hands and social distancing it would be fine,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe testing system is struggling with enormous demand, and in the next few days we expect to hear how those with the greatest need will be prioritised. NHS and care home staff and patients will be first in line. Frustration in some areas is clearly growing - in Bolton, for example, a \"high volume of patients\" turned up to accident and emergency asking for a test on Tuesday. Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said time was running out to fix things. Three families tell us why they've been left in limbo by testing delays, and we fact-check three government claims about how well the system is coping.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to people trying to get tests at a centre in Oldham\n\nThe head of the Unite union has warned the \"redundancy floodgates\" could open if the Treasury fails to continue its job retention programme in some form. The furlough scheme is due to end on 31 October, and Unite says without \"a clear and urgent sign\" from the government that it's responding to calls to extend it, employers will feel they have no choice but to issue redundancy notices very soon. Radio 1 Newsbeat has spoken to some young people about how they've coped with redundancy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC that people 'want to be in work' rather than on furlough\n\nFigures just published show the UK's inflation rate fell sharply to 0.2% in August from 1% in July as the effect of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme pushed down restaurant prices. The initiative offered diners 50% off food on certain weekdays and proved hugely popular. The cut in VAT from 20% to 5% in the hospitality sector also contributed. Why does the inflation rate matter? Let us explain.\n\nThe Bank of England aims to keep inflation around 2% - a little bit encourages people to spend their money sooner rather than later\n\nDonald Trump has insisted that far from downplaying the risk of coronavirus, he in fact, \"up-played\" it \"in many ways\". The president hit back after it emerged he told journalist Bob Woodward earlier this year that he \"wanted to always play it down... because I don't want to create a panic\". Mr Trump also repeated his suggestion that a vaccine could be ready \"within weeks\" despite scepticism from US health experts. He was speaking at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania - a key battleground state in November's presidential election.\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\nTwo surgeons have created a device to protect doctors at high risk of catching coronavirus. Ajith George and Chris Coulson wanted to help medics carrying out nasendoscopy procedures - where a small flexible tube fitted with a camera is inserted into the nose. That often makes patients cough, splutter and sneeze, increasing the chances of passing on infection. They were prompted to act after the death of ear, nose and throat surgeon Amged El-Hawrani with Covid-19 in March.\n\nFour thousand of the SNAP devices will be provided to NHS hospitals for free\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, as India surpasses five million confirmed cases, the relentlessly rising case numbers are causing another emergency - in mental health. Many patients are at risk of suffering from PTSD, but the country lacks the infrastructure to treat them.\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 is fear in India as Covid-19 cases continue to surge\n\nIn India, relentlessly rising case numbers are causing another emergency - serious mental health problems among Covid-19 patients, writes the BBC's Vikas Pandey.\n\nRajesh Tiwari, 42, has developed a serious phobia of any screen which is bigger than his mobile phone. He thinks big screens, especially TV sets and computer monitors, are giant creatures who can attack him.\n\nMr Tiwari began experiencing hallucinations after a long stay in an intensive care unit. In early June he had tested positive for coronavirus and he was admitted to a private hospital as his condition worsened. Five days later he was put on a ventilator.\n\nMr Tiwari recovered after nearly three weeks in the hospital. But he soon realised that his recovery was not complete.\n\n\"I am better now because I sought treatment, but the first few weeks after my discharge from the hospital were very difficult,\" he said in an interview.\n\nMany cities have been struggling to cope with the rise in cases\n\nMr Tiwari's family was elated to bring him home, but after a while they realised that everything was not right with him. One day, he screamed at the TV set and attempted to smash it. The family had to stop watching TV and nobody was allowed to use laptops at home. Mr Tiwari said he was struggling to forget the images of monitors constantly beeping and flashing numbers in the ICU.\n\nAmit Sharma and his family had a similar experience. Mr Sharma, 49, spent 18 days in the ICU and saw people die every day. Young and old, men and women - all kinds of Covid-19 patients were dying around him.\n\n\"One day, two patients around me died and their bodies were there for several hours,\" he said. \"I just can't get those images out of my head. I still fear Covid might kill me.\"\n\nMr Sharma is struggling to forget the traumatic experience. He became very quiet at home after his recovery, his uncle said. \"And whenever he talked, it was always about the patients he had seen dying in the Covid ward,\" he said.\n\nICU is most of India's hospitals have been flooded with Covid patients\n\nMany recovering coronavirus patients in India are experiencing mental health distress, said Dr Vasant Mundra, a senior psychiatrist at Mumbai's PD Hinduja hospital, particularly those who were on a ventilator or spent a long time in an ICU.\n\n\"The brain is already exhausted by the time you get to the hospital. And then the mayhem of the Covid wards overwhelms your senses,\" Dr Mundra said.\n\nCovid-19 patients are not allowed to meet family and they don't get to see the faces of their doctors and nurses, who are wearing protective masks at all times. That was disrupting patients' ability to form trust with their doctor, said Dr A Fathahudeen, the head of the critical care department at Ernakulam Medical College in southern India, in turn disrupting their recovery.\n\nRecovery from coronavirus can be a lonely experience, and doctors say when a patient experiences life threatening events as well the chance of post traumatic stress drastically increases. Symptoms include depression, anxiety, flashbacks, and hallucinations, Dr Mundra said.\n\nAnd yet, mental health issues associated with coronavirus patients are not getting enough attention, doctors warn. There are few mentions in government press conferences or in the media. Prominent mental health expert Dr Soumitra Pathare said he was not surprised.\n\n\"What you are seeing during the pandemic is a reflection of India's poor investment in mental health facilities,\" he said.\n\nIndia lacks facilities and experts to treat mental health patients, and the situation is worse in smaller towns where people are often not able even to recognise symptoms.\n\nMillions of people in India have lost their jobs during the pandemic\n\nMuch of India's mental health treatment infrastructure is concentrated in cities, leaving 80%-90% of the population with little or no access to mental health specialists, said Dr Pathare - adding that the gap is becoming clearer during the pandemic. If the government failed to recognise and address the problem soon India would be facing a \"mental health pandemic\", he said.\n\nA good starting point would be making people more aware of symptoms, Dr Pathare said. And the next step would be to improve mental health facilities, especially in smaller towns. \"I am aware it won't happen overnight, but we have to start somewhere,\" he said.\n\nDoctors are working in special Covid-19 wards across the country\n\nKamna Chhibber, the head of the mental health department at Fortis hospital in Delhi, said she had witnessed a sharp rise in the number of people reaching out for help during the pandemic. A long lockdown, uncertainty over the future, and the need to be constantly alert had made people more anxious, and more people were coming to the hospital to talk generally about anxiety and depression, Ms Chhibber said.\n\nThe problem was becoming \"more serious with each passing day\", she said.\n\nDoctors are now urging for mental health to be addressed as part of post-Covid treatment protocols. Each hospital needed to do something, said Dr Fathahudeen, or \"we may save people from Covid but lose them to depression and PTSD\".\n\nThe names of the patients have been changed to protect their identities.", "The baby was taken to hospital but died a short time later, police said\n\nTwo people have been arrested after a 12-day-old baby died after being attacked by a dog in Doncaster.\n\nEmergency services were called to Welfare Road, Woodlands, at about 15:30 on Sunday after reports of a dog attacking a child, police said.\n\nThe baby had been bitten by a dog causing serious injuries, South Yorkshire Police added.\n\nA 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nThey have both been bailed while inquiries take place, the force said.\n\nThe newborn was taken to hospital but died a short time later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Test centres in Bolton have seen long queues as people try to get tested\n\nMore than 100 people turned up at an A&E asking for Covid-19 tests, sparking a plea from a hospital trust for anyone who was not seriously ill to stay away.\n\nBolton NHS Trust said dozens of people went to Royal Bolton Hospital because they could not get into test centres.\n\nThe trust says it shows NHS Test and Trace is \"failing\" but the government insists it is \"working\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said police and firefighters could soon be used as contact tracers.\n\nIt would provide more \"rigour\" to the national system, he said.\n\nBolton had the highest infection rate in England with 204 cases per 100,000 people recorded in the week to 13 September.\n\nThe total number of cases rose from 437 up until 6 September to 587 a week later.\n\nThe government said people who were not eligible were requesting tests\n\nThe trust's medical director Dr Francis Andrews, said people should only go to hospital if they were \"extremely unwell or referred by your GP\".\n\n\"We are extremely busy in our emergency department as a result of this increase,\" he said.\n\n\"Only attend this department if you have experienced a life-threatening accident or illness and need urgent medical attention.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan made a similar plea to stay away from A&E.\n\n\"We are receiving a high volume of patients coming to A&E requesting a COVID-19 test,\" it said in a post on its Facebook page.\n\nAnd Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool has urged parents not to bring children to its emergency department for a Covid-19 test after a \"big increase\" in people asking for tests there.\n\nBolton NHS Trust Chairwoman Prof Donna Hall said the government's approach was \"failing\".\n\nProf Hall said the situation now was different to the one in March when they had extra staff drafted in and were not expected to continue with planned operations.\n\n\"This failure of the test-and-trace system is placing huge pressure on the NHS and social care,\" she said.\n\n\"We had 100 people in our accident and emergency unit.\n\n\"We've now got 30 people who are Covid-positive and we've got five people in our high-dependency unit so this virus is not going away.\n\nShe said she felt there had been a lack of a cohesive strategy for both the containment of the virus and for the test and trace system.\n\nLancashire's director of public health said the system was at \"breaking point\" and was \"compromising our ability to stop the transmission\".\n\nTeacher Simon Foster says the testing system was an \"absolute mess\"\n\nTeacher Simon Foster said he developed a cough overnight and, because of his job teaching children with special needs - many of whom have diabetes - he needs to be tested .\n\n\"I have tried all day to book an appointment and I still don't have one,\" he said. \"It's an absolute mess.\"\n\n\"It keeps saying there was nothing available [and] there were no tests they could send by post either.\"\n\n\"I hope it is just a cough.... I can't go back to work until I get tested.\"\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi said it was \"beyond frustrating\", adding: \"The issue is lab capacity.\n\n\"We have our own community testing sites and were doing about 200 tests a day - [on Tuesday] we did 1,639 tests. We can't go on like this.\"\n\nBolton Council said a test centre had been due to open on Saturday at the Last Drop Village Hotel, in response to the growing number of cases, but was delayed when \"an external business\" failed to turn up.\n\nA spokesman said although the delay had been \"out of our hands\", the authority was \"working with the government and their partners to find out what has happened\".\n\nMr Burnham said 46% of named contacts were not being traced in Greater Manchester.\n\nHe said 100 police community support officers (PCSOs) and 100 fire officers would set up a unit to help contact people not being reached.\n\n\"It can't be the case going forwards that we fail to fix test, trace and isolate and just introduce blanket restrictions. I don't think people will accept that,\" he said.\n\n\"We think more rigour in contact tracing, quality contact with people and support to self isolate would help improve the system.\"\n\nPowers to bring in \"targeted\" restrictions, like changing a specific pub or supermarket's opening hours, were also being sought, Deputy Mayor Bev Hughes added.\n\nSteve Rumbelow, the chief executive at nearby Rochdale Council, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service there had been a \"noticeable change\" in people's behaviour across Greater Manchester and the testing system was in \"meltdown\".\n\nHe said it was \"largely\" because people were unable to get tested.\n\n\"It's not massive numbers, I don't want to over-egg it, but [it] indicates that people are starting to get concerned,\" he said.\n\n\"Test and trace is pretty much in meltdown.\n\n\"It's a major concern, and the way tests are being rationed is just not sustainable for containing the virus effectively going forward.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said NHS Test and Trace was \"working\", adding the system was \"processing a million tests a week, but we are seeing significant demand for tests, including from people who do not have symptoms and are not otherwise eligible\".\n\nHe said anyone with an appointment would not be turned away, and new booking slots and home testing kits were being made available daily.\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\nAre you in Bolton? Have you tried to get tested? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The testing system is facing an \"enormous challenge\" after a \"sharp rise\" in those seeking a Covid-19 test, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nWhen asked about reports of people struggling to get tested, Mr Hancock said it would take a \"matter of weeks\" to resolve the issues.\n\nHe said No 10 would update its testing policy shortly to prioritise the most urgent cases.\n\nTest slots have been limited due to bottlenecks in lab processing of swabs.\n\nThe rise in demand for tests had led to local shortages, with Labour saying no tests were available in virus \"hotspots\" over the weekend.\n\nHospital bosses have also warned that a lack of tests for NHS workers is putting services at risk.\n\nPeople have told the BBC of their frustration at being turned away from a walk-in test centre in Oldham, Greater Manchester.\n\nA woman attending the walk-in centre said staff told her that labs were struggling to turn tests around.\n\nBBC Health editor Hugh Pym said: \"There seem to be enough testing sites, but there are bottlenecks in the labs for processing the swabs taken. That's why they're limiting the amount of slots for the public, just when more people want to get tested.\"\n\nOne Cabinet minister told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg this was a \"classic government problem\" where demand for a public service outstrips supply.\n\nThe minister, she said, was confident that \"underneath the noise\", the majority of people were getting the service they needed, when they needed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to people trying to get tests at a centre in Oldham\n\nOn Saturday, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the BBC that the government was working to boost testing capacity through investment in new testing centres and so-called lighthouse labs.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is hopeful that a backlog in test results will be resolved shortly, after \"constructive\" talks with Mr Hancock.\n\nThe UK government announced 3,105 new lab-confirmed cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of positive tests to 374,228. Another 27 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the overall death toll to 41,664.\n\nThe number of patients in mechanical ventilation beds across the UK has passed 100 for the first time in nearly two months. There were 106 patients on ventilation in the UK on Monday - the first time the figure has been over 100 since 24 July.\n\nUK-wide figures for today are yet to be published but there were 101 patients on ventilation in England alone on Tuesday.\n\nAround 220,000 tests are processed each day, according to government figures released last week, with a testing capacity of more than 350,000 - which includes swab tests and antibody tests. The aim is to increase that to 500,000 a day by the end of October.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Hancock said there were \"operational challenges\" with testing which the government was \"working hard\" to fix.\n\nHe said throughout the pandemic they had prioritised testing according to need.\n\nMr Hancock said the \"top priority is and always has been acute clinical care\", followed by social care, where the government is sending \"over 100,000 tests a day\" due to the virus risks in care homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We're working around the clock to make sure everyone who needs a test can get a test\"\n\nConservative chairman of the Health and Social Care Committee Jeremy Hunt was among the MPs to question Mr Hancock on testing, saying a number of his constituents had to travel for tests, while one key worker had to wait a week for her results.\n\n\"A week ago today, the secretary of state told the Health Select Committee that he expected to have this problem solved in two weeks,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\n\"Is the secretary of state, given the efforts that his department is making, still confident that in a week's time we will have this problem solved?\"\n\n\"I think that we will be able to solve this problem in a matter of weeks,\" Mr Hancock replied.\n\nHe said demand was \"high\" but \"record capacity\" was being delivered, with plans to ensure tests are prioritised for those that need them most.\n\nDespite the health secretary's promises, there will be no easy solution to the shortages of tests.\n\nAll the expectations are that cases will go up. People are circulating more as society reopens and we are entering the period when respiratory viruses thrive.\n\nAs cases go up so will demands on the testing system. Even with the promise of more testing capacity in the coming weeks, the chances of shortages continuing remains a distinct possibility.\n\nA new lab is due to open later this month which will be able to carry out 50,000 tests a day. But this could easily be swallowed up.\n\nWhat it means is that testing will have to be prioritised where it is needed most. That will be in care homes, hospitals and among key workers, as well as where there are local outbreaks. The government's surveillance programme run by the Office for National Statistics will also be protected.\n\nBut this is not unique to the UK. Other countries are facing similar pressures. In fact, the UK is testing more people per head of population than Spain, France and Germany.\n\nIt promises to be a difficult winter across Europe.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Mr Hancock was \"losing control of this virus\".\n\nHe said that after schools and offices reopened, extra demand on the system was \"inevitable\". He questioned why Mr Hancock did not use the summer \"to significantly expand\" NHS lab capacity and \"fix\" contact tracing.\n\nResponding, Mr Hancock said it was \"inevitable\" that demand would rise with a free service, adding the \"challenge\" was to ensure tests are prioritised for those who most need them.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast the government was \"surging capacity\" where it was needed.\n\nShe said there is \"much more work\" to be done with Public Health England (PHE) and local public health bodies; and that No 10 would continue to work with PHE to \"surge where there is demand\" in hotspots.\n\nMs Patel also said England's new rule of six meant families should not stop in the street to talk to friends.", "Universities and colleges are facing a wave of cyber-attacks\n\nUniversities and colleges are being warned by the UK's cyber-security agency that rising numbers of cyber-attacks are threatening to disrupt the start of term.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre has issued an alert after a recent spike in attacks on educational institutions.\n\nThese have been \"ransomware\" incidents which block access to computer systems.\n\nPaul Chichester, the NCSC's director of operations, says such attacks are \"reprehensible\".\n\nThe return to school, college and university, already facing problems with Covid-19, now faces an increased risk from cyber-attacks, which the security agency says could \"de-rail their preparations for the new term\".\n\nThe cyber-security body, part of the GCHQ intelligence agency, says attacks can have a \"devastating impact\" and take weeks or months to put right.\n\nNewcastle University and Northumbria have both been targeted by cyber-attacks this month, and a group of further education colleges in Yorkshire and a higher education college in Lancashire faced attacks last month.\n\nThe warning from the NCSC follows a spate of ransomware attacks against academic institutions - in which malicious software or \"malware\" is used to lock out users from their own computer systems, paralysing online services, websites and phone networks.\n\nThe security agency says this is often followed by a ransom note demanding payment for the recovery of this frozen or stolen data - sometimes with the added threat of publicly releasing sensitive information.\n\nUniversities have frequently been targets of cyber-attacks - with up to a thousand attacks per year in the UK.\n\nAttacks can be attempts to obtain valuable research information that is commercially and politically sensitive. Universities also hold much personal data about students, staff and, in some cases, former students who might have made donations.\n\nEarlier this summer more than 20 universities and charities in the UK, US and Canada were caught up in a ransomware cyber-attack involving a cloud computing supplier, Blackbaud.\n\nA Freedom of Information inquiry in July, carried out by the TopLine Comms digital public relations company, found 35 UK universities, out of 105 responses, had faced ransomware attacks over the past decade. There were 25 which had not had attacks - and a further 43 which declined to answer.\n\nThe warning from the NCSC highlights the vulnerability of online systems for remote working, as increased numbers of staff are working from home.\n\n\"Phishing\" attacks, where people are tricked into clicking on a malicious link such as in an email, also remains a common pathway for such ransomware attempts, says the advice.\n\nMr Chichester of the NCSC says: \"The criminal targeting of the education sector, particularly at such a challenging time, is utterly reprehensible.\"\n\n\"I would strongly urge all academic institutions to take heed of our alert.\"\n\nUniversities UK says data security has had to become a priority for higher education - and that \"protections are in place to manage threats as much as possible\".\n\nThe universities body also says it is working with the NCSC to produce \"robust guidance on cyber-security\" which will be released later this academic year.", "No government wants scenes like this.\n\nFamilies in Oldham, where there has been particular concern about the spread of coronavirus, are boiling over with frustration that they can't access tests.\n\nNot least a government that promised the public its testing system would be better than any other country's in the world.\n\nNot least a government that believes a properly functioning testing system is vital to keeping kids back in school and climbing out of recession as quickly as possible.\n\nNot least a government that knows testing is a crucial way to monitor and control the virus that saw such a terrible loss of life in the grim spring that we have all just lived through.\n\nThe system was scrambled together in a matter of months.\n\nThere seem to be problems with capacity in labs.\n\nHuge numbers of people are now getting tested.\n\nDemand has soared, with children going back to school, and ministers having initially encouraged people to come forward.\n\nThe government has been trying to move testing capacity around to areas where its most needed, promising now to deliver 100,000 tests a day to care homes, where people are particularly vulnerable.\n\nBut with varying statistics, it can be hard to work out exactly what is going on.\n\nThere is a mountain of anecdotal evidence of real frustration with the system, but this is what we know for sure.\n\nOne Cabinet minister told me yesterday it's a \"classic government problem\" where demand for a public service outstrips supply.\n\nThat minister was confident that \"underneath the noise\" the majority of people are getting the service they need and when they need it.\n\nBut in the House of Commons today you couldn't help but bump into MPs from all parties full of complaints from constituents about a lack of access.\n\nClaims from Jacob Rees Mogg today, that the system is a \"national success\" don't exactly scream empathy with people stuck in the system.\n\nAnd after a painful few months for many people in all sorts of ways, public patience is not elastic.\n\nThe prime minister last week even promised by early next year there could be 10 million tests a day.\n\nBut overpromising and underdelivering is not a reputation any government desires.", "Coughs and fevers increase every winter, which will lead to high demand for coronavirus tests\n\nIf most people with a cough or fever request a coronavirus test this winter, there won't be enough tests every day for five months, a study estimates.\n\nBased on normal levels of coughs and fever alone - which are common symptoms of flu and cold - demand will peak in December.\n\nThe researchers say current UK testing capacity should be \"immediately scaled up to meet this high predicted demand\".\n\nA new lab will increase the number of tests processed, officials say.\n\nCombined with new technology and new tests, the government plans to reach 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\nBut the capacity of the system is currently much less (about 244,000) and demand has risen, resulting in people being sent hundreds of miles for tests or not being able to order home test kits.\n\nThe study, which has not yet been published or evaluated, estimated the number of people with a cough or fever last winter in England and predicted the impact of those people requesting Covid-19 tests this winter.\n\nCoronavirus swab tests are offered to people with one of three symptoms - a new, continuous cough; a high temperature; or loss of smell or taste.\n\nBut fever and cough are also common symptoms of other respiratory viruses which are at high levels every winter.\n\nThe research team, from University College London, Lancaster University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, predicted that coughs and fevers would jump from about 155,000 cases a day in August to:\n\nAnd if 80% of people with coughs or fevers requested a test, daily demand for UK testing would exceed current capacity for five months straight, from October to February.\n\nIn December, demand would be highest with about 147,000 tests needing to be processed each day over and above the number that labs are able to process.\n\nEven if 60% of people with a cough or fever requested a test, the system would exceed capacity in December and January, the study predicted.\n\nIf only 40% got tested, current capacity could manage to cope with demand.\n\nDr Rob Aldridge, study author from the Institute of Health Informatics at UCL, said there was a danger that more vulnerable people from poorer areas would be most affected by a lack of testing.\n\n\"We want everyone with symptoms to get a test so we have to make it easy and rapid.\n\n\"Without increased capacity, we won't be able to identify clusters of cases and won't know when action is required,\" he added.\n\nThe results are based on nearly 900 adults and children keeping track of their symptoms in a diary which was kept for six months.\n\nOut of a total of 585 episodes of cough or fever, there were 431 coughs, 57 fevers, and 97 episodes of both cough and fever symptoms.\n\nThe study said the government's ambition to increase swab testing capacity to 500,000 tests per day \"must be a priority\".\n\nOtherwise, the researchers said, UK testing capacity \"could be overwhelmed, leading to failure of the NHS Test and Trace service and an inability to control the further spread of Covid-19\",", "Richard Morris's family said they were \"devastated by his loss\"\n\nThe family of a British high commissioner found dead in a Hampshire forest have said they are \"devastated by his loss\".\n\nRichard Morris, from Bentley, was last seen running in Alton in the county on 6 May.\n\nHampshire Constabulary has formally identified a body found in Alice Holt Forest on 31 August as Mr Morris.\n\nIn a statement relatives described him as \"a loving and loyal husband, father, son and brother\".\n\nThey went on to say he was \"described as funny, kind and smart by his diplomatic colleagues\" and had worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) \"with professionalism and integrity for nearly 30 years\".\n\n\"His empathy and kindness to those around him earned him respect wherever he went, evidenced by the messages of love, friendship and support we have received from all over the world,\" they said.\n\nPolice said 50 officers and volunteers took part in initial searches of Alice Holt Forest\n\nFather-of-three Mr Morris, originally from Worcestershire, was the UK ambassador to Nepal for four years until 2019.\n\nBefore his disappearance he was appointed British High Commissioner to Fiji.\n\nMr Morris had also worked as head of the Pacific department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), consul general in Sydney as well as director general of trade and investment in Australasia.\n\nPolice previously said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The region's leaders say people must self-isolate while waiting for test results\n\nThere are \"deep concerns\" among local authority leaders about the growing number of coronavirus cases in the north-east of England.\n\nThe leaders of seven councils have issued a statement urging people to help avoid a \"devastating\" lockdown.\n\nThey say average daily cases have doubled in just over a week and are averaging about 80 per day.\n\nGateshead, South Tyneside and Middlesbrough are currently among the top 20 areas in England for cases.\n\nThe statement has been issued by the leaders of Newcastle, South Tyneside, Gateshead, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Durham County and Sunderland councils along with the North of Tyne Mayor.\n\nThey are particularly concerned about cases among young adults and say in the seven days up to 5 September, almost 66% of cases were people under the age of 30.\n\nTheir statement says: \"We all have to do our bit and to play our part if we are to prevent a potential second wave.\n\n\"The impact that would have on our health service and the possibility of an economically-damaging lockdown would be devastating.\n\n\"We ask that individuals protect themselves to protect others and to protect our region, as well as call on all businesses to make sure their premises and operations are Covid-secure.\"\n\nThey are urging people who have symptoms or are asked to take a test to self-isolate until they have the results.\n\n\"We have seen cases where individuals with symptoms have had a test, then gone out and infected others before getting their results - reckless and selfish behaviour,\" the statement says.\n\nA \"significant minority\" also believed it was acceptable to have house parties, hold events with unregulated crowds and ignore the rules they said.\n\nUp to 300 people who attended a charity football match on the border of Sunderland and Durham on 30 August have been told to self-isolate after 28 people tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe statement said: \"What we do know is infection rates are rising quickly. We cannot allow it to get out of control.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Thanks for following our live coverage of the Welsh Government's press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nToday, another 240,000 people will be preparing for restrictions to their daily lives, as a local lockdown begins in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 18:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe measures mean no one will be allowed to enter or leave the area without reasonable excuse, while pubs and bars will have to close at 23:00 BST every night from tomorrow.\n\nThe restrictions will be reviewed in two weeks' time.\n\nWhat we also learned today:\n• There have been no new deaths with coronavirus in Wales for the 15th day running, but there have been 199 new cases\n• A number of pubs and bars have been closed in Rhondda Cynon Taf after breaching coronavirus regulations\n• Up to five extra mobile testing centres will be deployed this week to cope with local hot spots\n• There will be an extra 5,000 NHS beds - half in field hospitals - to cope with winter pressures, and any second wave of coronavirus\n• Health Minister Vaughan Gething decided not to include his own mother in his so-called bubble, due to the risk he posed to her as he meets so many people\n\nWe'll keep you updated on the coronavirus situation in Wales via the BBC Wales News website and social media channels.", "Tredomen is among the testing centres that have seen long queues\n\nThere are fears of a shortage of coronavirus tests as people rush to get symptoms checked in Caerphilly county, GPs have said.\n\nThe county is being placed in lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, following a spike in cases.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the queues at the pop-up test centre in the town were \"horrific\".\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said testing had picked up the levels of community transmission.\n\nBut he acknowledged a UK-wide testing programme was facing challenges in coping with demand.\n\nChief executive of Caerphilly council, Christina Harrhy, urged people to only get tested if they were showing symptoms.\n\nDr David Bailey, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales and a GP in Caerphilly, said: \"The queues at the pop-up centre in Caerphilly yesterday were horrific, although we understand people were all getting tested.\n\n\"The capacity seems to be struggling across the UK, and people being sent across the country is hardly helpful with keeping people local and staying socially distanced.\"\n\nCaerphilly county has had more new cases in the past week - 98 - than anywhere else in Wales and more than the area has seen since the end of April.\n\nCommunity testing started in the county at the weekend, a total of 450 people were tested and 19 were positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn Bridgend county, people spoke of trying to book a test at a drive-through centre or a mobile unit via a UK online system, but being told their nearest available slot was at Bristol Airport, more than 60 miles away.\n\nWhile Andy, from Caerphilly, said he was unable to get a test for his two sons after they developed a cough.\n\n\"My partner took them down to the testing site at the leisure centre, but there was a three-hour queue. That was at 8am.\n\n\"She was told to go up to the new centre up in Penallta. She made her way up there, and there were already hundreds of cars.\n\n\"She was waiting in the queue and she was told at that point that if she didn't have ID for the children they couldn't be tested - how are you going to have ID for children with you?\"\n\nShehzad Malik was offered a test for his mother miles away after she developed a chest infection\n\nShehzad Malik, from Cardiff, also had problems while trying to get a test for his parents.\n\nHe said his mother was advised to get a test by her GP after developing a chest infection, but after hours of struggling with the system, was offered a test more than an hour's drive west of Cardiff.\n\nHe said: \"Yesterday I tried several times to book a drive-through test at my nearest test centre but to no avail.\n\n\"Once I had found the correct link I filled in the relevant information and each time I tried submitting the information online the page would not load to offer me a test.\n\n\"I kept trying online to get an appointment, almost every half hour from 2pm to 10pm, and the site kept crashing.\n\n\"Eventually, at about 22:15, I was able to upload all the information and was offered a Covid test in Carmarthen, 55 miles from my home in Cardiff.\"\n\nPeople will not be able to leave Caerphilly borough without good reason\n\nIn Gwynedd, GPs spoke of patients being sent miles to get tested after being concerned about symptoms, including shortness of breath, persistent coughs, and high temperatures.\n\nDr Huw Gwilym, who was on call at the Waunfawr surgery, said: \"There are examples of patients in Waunfawr being offered tests in Telford [125 miles], Oswestry [67 miles] and Aberystwyth [70 miles],\" he said.\n\n\"We are very concerned about the situation because it is unfair to ask people with Covid-19 symptoms, who are ill and should self-isolate, to travel for hours by car to get a test. We didn't expect such problems months into the pandemic.\"\n\nDr Eilir Hughes said people were requesting home tests but being told there were non avalaible\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP in Nefyn, Gwynedd, said he was concerned people were being \"put off\" going to get tested due to being asked to travel miles from their homes.\n\n\"There are several reports that people are being offered a test in Manchester [125 miles] or Aberystwyth [75 miles] whilst they live here on the Llŷn Peninsula,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is the nearest TTP testing centre is Llandudno [55 miles] which in itself is too far. People then request home tests and they are told they've ran out of stock.\n\nMr Gething said there were \"challenges\" about the way the UK-wide Lighthouse testing labs were running \"and its ability to cope with demand\".\n\nIn the most recent week for which figures are available 9,904 tests were processed in NHS Wales labs, while 26,067 were sent to Lighthouse labs.\n\nHe said: \"These are issues that my team have been raising through official levels. And I'm hoping to speak to other health ministers across the UK within the next day or two if possible - we sought a meeting today with colleagues in Northern Ireland as well - to be able to run through what is actually happening.\n\n\"None of us want to see people being asked to travel large distances which for some people won't be possible.\"\n\nMr Gething said mobile testing in Caerphilly had seen a large number of people attending.\n\nThat allowed the Welsh Government \"to pick up the levels of community transmission from people outside the clusters we've already been able to identify\", he said.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have raised this issue with the UK government, which runs the Lighthouse Lab testing system and we expect these issues to be resolved quickly to ensure people in Wales who have suspected coronavirus symptoms can receive a test as close to home as possible.\n\n\"We have recently announced £32m to increase capacity to process tests at laboratories in Wales, which includes extending our regional labs to 24-hour operation and six new 'hot labs' at hospitals across Wales. This investment will increase our testing resilience ahead of the winter.\"", "Sexual and violent offenders will serve at least two-thirds of jail terms, rather than half, as part of changes to the criminal justice system in England and Wales.\n\nAn overhaul of sentencing laws has been announced by the Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.\n\nWhole-life orders will also be extended to 18 to 20-year-olds convicted of terrorism causing mass loss of life.\n\nMr Buckland said it marked the end of \"complex and confusing\" laws.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Buckland said the measures would \"keep offenders who pose a risk to the public off our streets for longer\".\n\nHe said they would \"help restore public confidence that robust sentences are executed in a way that better reflects the gravity of the crimes committed\".\n\nMr Buckland also said protecting the public meant \"finding new ways to break cycles of crime, to prevent a revolving door of short custodial sentences that we know offer little rehabilitative value\".\n\nMore help is being promised for those with mental health issues, addictions and neurodiverse conditions such as autism.\n\nIt comes after the criminal justice system ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThere are steep backlogs and delays for victims and defendants, who are facing trial dates years ahead.\n\nAmong the new interventions proposed in a White Paper published on Wednesday are:\n\nAnd offenders sentenced to between four and seven years in prison for serious crimes such as rape and manslaughter will no longer be automatically considered for release halfway through their jail terms.\n\nHowever, one charity boss warned that \"increasing the prison population through longer sentences will only add more pressure to this already stretched system\".\n\nCampbell Robb, chief executive of social justice charity Nacro, said the UK needed a system that \"gives victims justice, reduces re-offending and creates a safer UK for everyone - senselessly banging people up for longer will not deliver this.\"\n\nWhile tougher sentences are among the measures proposed, changes to criminal records to reduce the time offenders have to declare past crimes to employers are also included.\n\nA focus on supporting ex-offenders will see custodial sentences become \"spent\" after 12 months without reoffending, with convictions of up to four years no longer disclosed after a further four crime-free years.\n\nSentences of more than four years will not automatically be disclosed to employers after a further seven-year period of rehabilitation is completed.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy welcomed the changes but sought assurance that new sentencing rules would not be applied \"gratuitously\".\n\n\"It would be wrong to abandon the general presumption in criminal law that when you're younger there is more opportunity for redemption and to turn your life around,\" he said.\n\nFor the past few days, the government has been trailing its White Paper with a series of eye-catching announcements promising tougher sentences for terrorists, violent offenders and motorists who kill.\n\nMany of the plans are likely to command broad public support while measures to relax criminal records disclosure rules have the potential to make a real difference to ex-offenders struggling to find work.\n\nBut the timing of the proposals is somewhat odd, as the government grapples with the biggest crisis the criminal justice system has faced in decades.\n\nProblems caused by the coronavirus have meant that a huge backlog of trials across England and Wales has got even bigger.\n\nThe sentencing changes, if they go ahead, won't help the tens of thousands of victims, witnesses and defendants caught up in the backlog who now face the prospect of waiting up to two years for their day in court.\n\nThe announcement of reforms to sentencing comes after lawyers warned hundreds of thousands of people may have to wait until 2022 for justice, due to delays in the Crown Courts.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, the backlog of Crown Court cases has risen by 6,000 to 43,000.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards a range of measures, including more Nightingale courts.\n\nAnd Mr Buckland has told the BBC he would \"use every tool in the book\" to clear the case backlog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, he said the situation in Magistrates' Courts was \"encouraging - with the number of cases being dealt with exceeding the number coming into the system\".\n\nAnd he said the Crown Courts had been \"unique\" compared to other countries, as it \"kept going\" throughout the pandemic.\n\nBut, he added: \"I am bearing down daily on my team in the Courts and Tribunals Service to make sure that they have got the resources they need to make the buildings safe and that judges and listing officers are doing everything they can to get those cases listed so we can achieve swift justice.\"\n\nMeanwhile detection rates for crimes remain low, having fallen from one-in-seven crime reports leading to a charge in 2015 to around one-in-14 last year.", "The Dáil (Irish parliament) was initially adjourned but it resumed business on Tuesday evening\n\nIrish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has tested negative for Covid-19 after reporting feeling unwell.\n\nMembers of the Irish cabinet were told to restrict their movements after the country's health minister made the report on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nInitially it was announced that the cabinet would have to self-isolate and the Dáil (Irish parliament) would be adjourned indefinitely.\n\nHowever, the Dáil resumed business on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe restrictions on the cabinet have now been lifted.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that the decision for the cabinet to restrict their movements came from \"an abundance of caution\".\n\nMinister for Climate Action, Communication Networks and Transport, Eamon Ryan, had already been isolating, as a member of his household awaits a test for Covid-19.\n\nOn Tuesday, three more deaths were reported in the Republic and 357 cases of the virus have been confirmed.\n\nEarlier, the Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Feargháil (Irish parliament speaker) told the Dáil shortly after 17:00 local time that after \"very serious information arising out of events today the Cabinet must now self-isolate\".\n\nHowever, the Dáil later reconvened after 20:00 - the Ceann Comhairle explained that he had been advised at the time that the parliament should be adjourned and then recalled by the taoiseach.\n\nMr Donnelly was present at a press conference on Tuesday morning when the Irish government unveiled a five-stage plan on living with Covid-19.\n\nThe plan outlined stricter rules for Dublin over the next few weeks because of the increase in infections in the city.\n\nPubs that do not serve food can reopen on 21 September, except in Dublin where they must stay closed\n\nFrom midnight on Tuesday, household visits in the city will be limited to six people from one other household.\n\nElsewhere, the limit will remain at six visitors from up to three households.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said it is designed to provide a roadmap on how to live with Covid-19 for the next six months.\n\nHe said level five is the most restrictive and similar to what happened during the lockdown in March.\n\nHe said the country is currently at level two but because of the situation Dublin there were special modifications for the capital.\n\nHealth Minister Stephen Donnelly (right) was present at a press conference for a new Covid-19 plan on Tuesday morning\n\nTánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar told the news conference that virus cases have increased tenfold in Dublin over the last two months.\n\nMr Martin also told the news conference that Ireland would sign up for the European Commission's travel plan.\n\nThat plan has yet to be unveiled but is known to include countries on green, amber and red lists.\n\nHe indicated that crowds of 200 people will be allowed attend sporting events where the capacity of a stadium is 5,000.", "The new Wylfa power station would have been built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nPlans for a £15-£20bn nuclear power plant in Wales have been scrapped.\n\nWork on the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey was suspended in January last year because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK government.\n\nHitachi has now confirmed it is withdrawing from the project, after Isle of Anglesey council said it had received the news on Tuesday.\n\nIt would have created up to 9,000 jobs during construction.\n\nHitachi said it made the decision given 20 months had passed since the project had paused \"and the investment environment has become increasingly severe due to the impact of Covid-19\".\n\nMinister for Economy and North Wales Ken Skates said: \"The news from Hitachi today is deeply disappointing.\n\n\"There has been a tremendous effort by Horizon Nuclear Power, Ynys Mon Council, the North Wales region and all our partners to bring this important project forward. Now is the time to continue with this strong partnership and build upon those efforts.\n\n\"We must not lose sight that Wylfa remains one the best sites in the UK for new nuclear development.\"\n\nWork on Wylfa was due to start this year\n\nHitachi said it would coordinate with the UK government and other bodies over handling the planned construction sites and other matters.\n\nDeveloper Horizon's chief executive Duncan Hawthorne said: \"I understand this announcement will be disappointing for our many supporters who had hoped to see our project through to completion and I would personally like to thank you for your support throughout our time on this project.\n\n\"Nuclear power has a critical role to play in helping tackle our energy needs, meeting our climate change targets and levelling up the economy through green growth and job creation.\"\n\nHitachi is also scrapping its project at Oldbury on Severn in Gloucestershire despite describing both sites as \"highly desirable\" for new nuclear plants.\n\nMr Hawthorne said: \"We will do our utmost to facilitate the prospects for development which will bring the major local, national and environmental benefits that nuclear can uniquely deliver as we push to transition to a net zero carbon economy by 2050.\"\n\nThe UK government said it remained committed to nuclear power and recognised the announcement was \"very disappointing news\" for the people of north Wales.\n\n\"Nuclear power will play a key role in the UK's future energy mix as we transition to a low-carbon economy, including through our investments in small and advanced modular reactors,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"That's why we previously offered a significant package of potential support to this project that went well beyond what any government has been willing to consider in the past.\n\n\"This included taking a one third equity stake, providing all of the required debt financing to complete construction, and providing generous financial support through our Contract for Difference scheme.\"\n\nThe UK government said it remains willing to discuss a replacement for the original Wylfa plant, which shut in 2015 after 44 years of service, with viable companies.\n\nThere has been a long campaign against a new nuclear station\n\nAnglesey council was told on Tuesday that Hitachi was withdrawing, and council leader Llinos Medi said: \"This is very disappointing, particularly at such a difficult time economically.\"\n\nHowever campaigners against the project have welcomed Hitachi's move claiming a new nuclear power station would have \"endangered lives on Anglesey and beyond\".\n\nThe People Against Wylfa B action group said: \"It would have ruined the environment over an area which is 10 times greater than the current site.\"\n\nIt called on Hitachi to \"ensure that no nuclear scheme will happen on the site in the future\" and return the site to its \"former state, for community benefit\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two police officers committed gross misconduct by posting \"offensive and inappropriate\" TikTok videos while in uniform, a misconduct panel has found.\n\nPCs Amy Taylor and April Cooper of Cambridgeshire Police posted clips of themselves \"shouting offensive language\" in a police car and dancing inappropriately in a police station.\n\nThe officers told the hearing the videos were \"to boost morale\".\n\nBoth officers were given final written warnings.\n\nChief Constable Nick Dean said: \"There is no doubt in my mind that the clips have damaged the reputation of this constabulary.\"\n\nThey were reported by a member of the public who had seen the videos and felt they were \"unprofessional\".\n\nIn one video both officers were in uniform \"dancing in an inappropriate way utilising fire marshal tabards\".\n\nIn another video clip PC Cooper was seen in uniform shouting \"coronavirus\" down a phone with the caption \"when calling in sick at work and they ask what's up\".\n\nMr Dean said in his ruling: \"This clip was made in the height of a pandemic which is still ongoing yet you appear to be insensitive to the many thousands who have suffered and the vital role that emergency services and other agencies played in this outbreak, and continue to do so.\n\n\"This clearly shows a lack of respect and sensitivity to those that were suffering or indeed their families and friends.\n\n\"The respect shown to your colleagues in behaving this way demonstrates a lack of respect for them and a lack of self-control by you both.\n\n\"It cannot be said that this was a momentary lapse of concentration.\"\n\nThe hearing was told the reach of the videos on social media had been extensive before they were taken down.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is no need for British Airways to lay off cabin crew and then rehire them on inferior terms, boss Alex Cruz has said.\n\nUnions and MPs had accused the airline of following a \"fire and rehire\" policy, which saw some employees facing pay cuts of up to 50%.\n\nBut Mr Cruz told MPs \"there will be no need to issue new contracts\", subject to staff approval.\n\nBA reached the outline of a jobs agreement with union Unite last week.\n\nThe pair have been in a bitter dispute over BA's plans to shed up to 13,000 jobs and cut pay, amid a collapse in demand for air travel.\n\nSpeaking to the Transport Select Committee, Mr Cruz said it was a matter of \"regret\" that it took 73 days for BA's non-pilot unions to sit down and negotiate.\n\nBut Labour MP Sam Tarry responded: \"I would argue that if you hadn't put a metaphorical gun to their head then that might not have happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Cruz said the airline would now follow the \"standard methodology\" of union agreements and make amendments to existing contracts.\n\nDetails are still being worked out and ballots of some staff are yet to be held.\n\nLong-serving cabin crew members face a 15% pay reduction, while hoping to retain many of the allowances which constitute a significant part of their overall pay.\n\n\"We have reached agreements in a majority of areas,\" Mr Cruz said.\n\n\"We very much hope that the result of the ballots will be to accept those ballots.\"\n\nIn relation to whether or not BA will have to make 13,000 staff redundant, Mr Cruz said that the company didn't \"need to get to that number\".\n\nHowever, a large number of long-serving cabin crew have taken voluntary redundancy and many staff felt that the terms being offered at the time meant that was their only choice.\n\nMr Cruz told MPs that the pandemic had \"devastated our business... and we're still fighting for our own survival\".\n\nLast week the airline flew about 187,000 passengers - about 25%-30% of its normal flight schedule.\n\n\"Everyone is facing decisions we never wanted to face,\" Mr Cruz said.\n\nHe said he had taken a 33% pay cut during the pandemic, reducing his salary from the £805,000 he earned in 2019.\n\nBut he refused to comment on an £833,000 bonus paid to the outgoing boss of BA's parent company, Willie Walsh.\n\nIAG faced a backlash from shareholders over that payment to Mr Walsh who left the company last week.", "The outbreak is linked to a charity match at Burnside Working Men's Club\n\nUp to 300 people who attended a charity football match are being told to self-isolate after 28 people tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe event at Burnside Working Men's Club (WMC), in Fencehouses on the border of Sunderland and Durham, took place on 30 August.\n\nAnyone who attended must self-isolate for 14 days from then.\n\nBurnside WMC said \"if we knew at the time what we know now\" then the match \"would never have gone ahead\".\n\nIn a statement it wished everyone affected a \"speedy recovery\" and admitted safety precautions on the day \"were not strict enough\".\n\nDurham County Council has been working with Sunderland City Council and Public Health England to manage the response.\n\nDurham's director of public health Amanda Healy said contact tracing was being carried out to find anyone who had been in close contact with someone who tested positive.\n\nShe added: \"However, we are also asking anyone who was at the charity event on Sunday 30 August to immediately self-isolate up until midnight on the 13th, unless they're contacted individually by NHS Test and Trace with further advice.\n\n\"We are also asking people in the community who have already had a test which has come back negative to self-isolate for 14 days from the 30th because it can take up to 14 days for symptoms to appear.\n\n\"This is essential if we are to stop the spread of the virus in this community as quickly as possible.\"\n\nBurnside WMC's statement said: \"It is with deep regret and sadness that our charity football match has caused a significant rise in positive Covid-19 cases and tests in the DH4/DH5 area.\n\n\"It was a football match planned with the aim to raise money for an incredible charity group that is close to the club's heart.\n\n\"I would hope that people understand that if we knew at the time what we know now, this football match would never have gone ahead.\"\n\nOn Saturday another football match was called off in neighbouring South Tyneside, which has been added to England's watchlist as an \"area of concern\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "The Unite union has called on the government to say it will extend its furlough scheme or face \"redundancy floodgates\" opening in the UK.\n\nMany workers can expect a \"miserable Christmas\" without targeted support for employers, the union warned.\n\nThe government's furlough programme will end on 31 October.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the government had \"not hesitated to act in creative and effective ways to support jobs and we will continue to do so\".\n\nWednesday marks 45 days before the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which is the same amount of time employers must give for notice of redundancy.\n\nThe call comes amid growing evidence that the winding down of the scheme is leading to more plans for job cuts.\n\nThe number of firms that notified the government in June about plans to cut 20 or more jobs was five times higher than in the same month last year, figures obtained by the BBC show.\n\nA Freedom of Information request shows that in June, 1,778 firms said they were intending to cut more than 139,000 jobs in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nIn total, nine million people have been furloughed for at least one three-week period since March,\n\nHowever, about 695,000 UK workers have gone from the payrolls of UK companies since then and it is feared that more will follow if the government stops paying to safeguard jobs.\n\nUnite said that without \"a clear and urgent sign\" from the government that it was responding to calls to extend the scheme, it feared that \"employers facing short-term struggles will issue redundancy notices\".\n\nThe government has been urged by MPs, business groups, unions and political opponents to continue the furlough programme, in which workers placed on leave receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThe scheme, which has cost more than £35bn, was initially funded by the government, but firms started to contribute to wages in September after the scheme began to wind down.\n\nLast week, the Treasury Select Committee said the government should consider a targeted extension of the scheme.\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey said a signal from the government would \"put a floor under struggling employers who are working hard to stabilise in the face of immense challenges\".\n\n\"With our competitor nations announcing the extension or modification of their jobs retention schemes, we ask that your government recognises the need for UK businesses and workers to receive similar support,\" Mr McCluskey wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nA spokeswoman said Unite wanted to see support for sectors including manufacturing, aviation infrastructure, aerospace and hospitality.\n\nThe government has repeatedly rebuffed the calls for an extension to the scheme, saying that it has served its purpose in cushioning the economy during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said his priority is to find new ways to protect jobs.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"The furlough scheme has done what it was designed to do - save jobs and help people back into employment.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government had made \"unprecedented interventions\", including firms being given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still employed in January, business rates holidays, VAT cuts and the Kickstart scheme, which gives young people jobs experience.", "Save the Children said around 60 British children are trapped in Syria\n\nThe UK has rescued a British child from Syria as part of efforts to return unaccompanied minors stranded amid the fallout of the Islamic State conflict.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said repatriating the child was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nHe said each case of orphans or unaccompanied children trapped in Syria was assessed \"carefully\".\n\nSave the Children said some 60 British children were in Syrian refugee camps, many aged under five.\n\nMany of the younger children are born in Syria to British parents and have never lived in the UK.\n\nThe recent repatriation was first reported by Sky News, which said a team left the Middle Eastern country with the child on Tuesday.\n\nMr Raab said on Twitter: \"Pleased we have been able to bring home a British child from Syria. As I have said previously, we assess each case carefully.\n\n\"Safely facilitating the return of orphans or unaccompanied British children, where possible, is the right thing to do.\"\n\nSave the Children said many of the children fled areas controlled by IS and have endured \"dire conditions\" in camps - adding that Covid-19 was now present in both camps where the charity works.\n\n\"It's hard to contain the disease in a place where social distancing is not possible,\" Save the Children's Sonia Khush told BBC News, calling it \"a recipe for unfolding disaster\".\n\nThe process of repatriation takes many months, Ms Khush said - although the charity is not directly involved in the negotiations, only in helping prepare the child for resettlement in the UK.\n\nShe said they tried to focus on the \"positive\" elements of repatriation - the opportunity to live more comfortably, go to school, enjoy typical childhood experiences \"like riding a bike, for example\".\n\n\"But the children do have fears,\" said Ms Khush. \"They have been through so much in their short lives already.\"\n\nOften children have been repeatedly displaced as fighting escalates across the country.\n\n\"They have a lot of questions about what's going to happen to them - and it's quite difficult to take them away from what, for them, is a home,\" she explained.\n\n\"It's difficult too for the children left behind. They have been each other's family.\"", "The Fitness+ service can be viewed on an iPhone, iPad or via an Apple TV set-top box\n\nApple has unveiled a new personalised workout subscription service alongside new smartwatches and tablet computers.\n\nFitness+ collects health data gathered by an Apple Watch and then displays it alongside workout videos shown on a larger display.\n\nThe platform will compete with existing fitness apps on iOS from Peloton, Les Mills and Fiit.\n\nIt also poses a challenge to Fitbit, whose wearables benefit from their own health-coaching subscription service.\n\nAs many had forecast, Apple decided to hold back details of its next iPhones for a separate event.\n\nThe iPhone 12 was not unveiled but may have snuck in an appearance in a shot of Apple's labs\n\nLike some of its rivals, Fitness+ also allows competitive users to see how their own efforts compare with others who have completed the same fitness routine previously.\n\n\"Health-tracking continues to be a major focus for Apple, and its new Fitness+ service signals its intent to generate more revenue from its products in this area,\" commented Leo Gebbie from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\nFitness+ will initially launch in six countries including the US and UK before the end of 2020.\n\nIt will cost £10 per month or £80 per year as a standalone service, which can be shared among members of the same family.\n\nFitness+ features cycling, dance, treadmill and yoga routines among others\n\nAlternatively, it can be purchased alongside other Apple services - including iCloud storage, Arcade video games and Apple Music - for about £30 per month - as part of the top tier of a bundle of services called Apple One.\n\nOther mixes of services can be subscribed to for lower fees.\n\n\"Support for 10 different workouts with and without equipment, and the fact it is being sold at a family price will make Fitness+ very attractive,\" said Carolina Milanesi from the Silicon Valley-based consultancy Creative Strategies.\n\n\"And I don't think bundling it with the other services is anti-competitive, as you are seeing other services do the same thing - for example Disney's Hulu TV service in the US with Spotify.\"\n\nSpotify, however, has suggested the bundles are another example of Apple abusing its \"dominant position\" and has called on regulators to intervene.\n\nChief executive Tim Cook introduced the virtual event from Apple's headquarters in California\n\nBut one personal trainer said he did not see the new service as competition for one-on-one sessions with an online coach.\n\n\"The real results come from support, accountability and understanding human behaviour, and being able to tailor a fitness regime to an individual so that it is sustainable,\" Sam Wake told the BBC.\n\nApple unveiled two new ranges of smartwatches: the high-end Series 6 Watch and lower-priced Watch SE.\n\nThe Series 6 introduces a blood-oxygen sensor to help manage conditions that affect the heart and lungs.\n\nIt measures SpO2 levels, which indicate how much oxygen is being carried by the user's red blood cells from the lungs to other parts of their body.\n\nApple suggested this could potentially act as means to detect the early onset of respiratory problems, although its small print says the feature is \"not intended for medical use\".\n\nSamsung, Huawei and Fitbit already sell smartwatches that provide the same facility. However, their ability to offer it has depended on the approval of local health regulators.\n\nApple has published a list of where it will offer the feature, confirming it includes the UK and most other countries.\n\nThe SE model lacks the new sensor, uses a slower processor and does not have an \"always-on\" display, but otherwise offers most of the features found in the more expensive model.\n\nThe new smartwatches can be customised with a cartoon-like character resembling the owner\n\nThese include sleep-tracking and a new facility targeted at children called Family Set-up. It can be set to trigger automatic location notifications to a child's parents when the wearer visits familiar places like their grandparents or school.\n\nIt also makes it possible to assign a unique phone number to a Watch, rather than using one that already belongs to an iPhone.\n\n\"A logical use would be for a parent to give a child a cellular-enabled Apple Watch so they can remain in contact,\" commented Mr Gebbie.\n\n\"We expect to see hand-me-down Watches used in this scenario, rather than a device bought specifically for this purpose.\"\n\nThe Series 6 range starts at £379 and SE at £269.\n\nApple's new iPad Air is the first product from the firm to be based on a new chip-manufacturing process that promises more processing power and better energy efficiency thanks to the fact that transistors can be packed together more densely than before.\n\nApple typically launches its new chips inside its iPhone before its iPads, but this year the release of its new handsets have been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe company suggested the A14 processor would make it easier to edit 4K videos and do motion-tracking of real-world objects for augmented reality apps.\n\nThe machine has a fingerprint sensor built into one of its side buttons to reduce the size of the bezels, and also introduces a USB-C port, which until now had been limited to the more costly iPad Pro range.\n\nThe new iPad Air also has a slightly larger screen than before - 10.9in (27.7cm) - but it costs £100 more, starting at £579.\n\nThe firm also unveiled a new lower-priced basic iPad that uses the older A12 chip. It starts at £329, which is £20 less than before.\n\nDemand for tablets across the wider tech industry has risen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as consumers increasingly used them for entertainment, home schooling and remote working.\n\nShipments in the April-to-July quarter were up 19% on the same period in 2019, according to research firm IDC, with Samsung, Amazon and Huawei among those making even bigger gains.\n\nAccording to IDC's figures, Apple's iPads remain the market leader, but only saw a 2% annual gain.\n\n\"Apple kept its volume but its rivals made strides via the opportunistic sale of cheaper devices,\" commented IDC's Marta Pinto.\n\nApple also announced that iOS 14 - the latest version of its mobile operating system - would be released on Wednesday,\n\nThis came as a surprise to many developers, who thought they had more time to submit corresponding new versions of their products to Apple's App Store.", "Junior civil servants asked to work on Brexit policy that they fear might break the law, have been advised to inform their managers, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe email advice - from senior civil servants in a major government department - sets out what staff should do if they are asked to work on a policy which might be \"inappropriate\".\n\nIt follows the publication of the Internal Market Bill, which ministers accept contains provisions which would break international law as agreed between the UK and EU,\n\nOne departmental e-mail is explicit that it is being sent following \"the government's announcement that it would break international law\"- the e-mail advises officials that if they should feel uncomfortable about what they are being asked to do, they must raise it with their superiors.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis last week confirmed to the House of Commons that should the full provisions of the bill be enacted, it would break the commitments the government made as part of the treaty it signed with the EU and therefore, would run counter to international law \"in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nHowever, civil servants' conduct is governed by the civil service code, which makes clear that civil servants must \"comply with the law and uphold the administration of justice\".\n\nThis has led to some disquiet within elements of the service that they may be asked to enact policies which run counter to their own code of behaviour.\n\nThe emails seen by Newsnight encourage staff to reacquaint themselves with the code and says that if they are concerned they are \"being asked to do something inappropriate by a fellow civil servant or a minister you should raise it with your line manager immediately\".\n\nIt is a very unusual move for senior civil servants to advise their colleagues to potentially refuse ministerial instruction.\n\nIt potentially raises the prospect of renewed tension between ministers and the service as the Brexit process continues.", "One rocket hit a shopfront in the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod, wounding two men\n\nThere has been a fresh round of violence between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel, after a ceremony in Washington at which Israel and two Gulf Arab states normalised their relations.\n\nMilitants fired two rockets into Israel on Tuesday night. One hit the coastal city of Ashdod, wounding two men.\n\nAnother barrage of 13 rockets was launched before dawn on Wednesday.\n\nIn retaliation, the Israeli military bombed sites in Gaza it said belonged to the Palestinian group Hamas.\n\n\"I'm not surprised that the Palestinian terrorists fired at Israel precisely during this historic ceremony,\" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters before leaving Washington.\n\n\"They want to turn back the peace. In that, they will not succeed,\" he added.\n\n\"We will strike at all those who raise a hand to harm us, and we will reach out to all those who extend the hand of peace to us.\"\n\nThe Israeli military said it struck Hamas targets in Gaza in response to the rockets\n\nHamas, which controls Gaza, warned Israel that it would \"pay the price for any aggression against our people or resistance sites and the response will be direct\".\n\n\"We will increase and expand our response to the extent that the occupation [Israel] persists in its aggression,\" it added.\n\nThe flare-up started while Mr Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were on the White House lawn, signing historic normalisation agreements brokered by US President Donald Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (September 2020) Donald Trump on Israel-UAE-Bahrain deals: 'We mark the dawn of a new Middle East'\n\nMr Trump said the deals would \"serve as the foundation for a comprehensive peace across the entire region\".\n\n\"After decades of division and conflict we mark the dawn of a new Middle East,\" he declared.\n\nBut the move has deeply angered Palestinians, who accuse the Arab countries of reneging on a promise not to embrace ties with Israel until Palestinian statehood is achieved.\n\nPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned that \"peace, security and stability will not be achieved in the region until the Israeli occupation ends\".\n\nBefore the UAE and Bahrain, the only other Arab countries in the Middle East to recognise Israel officially were Egypt and Jordan, who signed peace treaties in 1978 and 1994 respectively.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That's my car... submerged\": Video shows flooded streets in Pensacola, Florida\n\nTropical Storm Sally has left more than half a million Americans without power as its torrential rains and storm surges lashed the US Gulf coast.\n\nSally weakened after it made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, but the slow-moving storm continues to batter Florida and Alabama.\n\nOne person was killed and hundreds were rescued from flooded areas.\n\nPensacola, in Florida, was badly hit, with a loose barge bringing down part of the Bay Bridge.\n\n\"Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding continues over portions of the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama,\" the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.\n\nThe wind ripped the roof off this house in Perdido Key, Florida\n\nThe storm has brought \"four months of rain in four hours\" to the city, Pensacola fire chief Ginny Cranor told CNN.\n\nOne person died and another was missing in the town of Orange Beach, Alabama, the mayor said without giving further details.\n\nSally made landfall at Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 04:45 local time on Wednesday, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph (169 km/h).\n\nAccording to the NHC, Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph. The NHC says a Category 2 storm's \"extremely dangerous winds\" usually cause damage to homes and shallowly rooted trees.\n\nThe storm later become a tropical depression with winds decreasing to 35mph, but it has been the torrents of rainfall and high storm surges that have caused most damage.\n\nAs the storm moved north from the coast, some 550,000 residents in affected areas were left in the dark on Wednesday night, according to local reports.\n\nSally is one of several storms in the Atlantic Ocean, with officials running out of letters to name the hurricanes as they near the end of their annual alphabetic list.\n\nRainfall is being measured in feet rather than inches in some places, but 18in (45cm) has been recorded across many areas.\n\nFlooding to a depth of 5ft hit central Pensacola. The storm surge was the third worst ever to hit the city. Police there told people not to go out to look at the damage, saying: \"It's slowing our progress down. Please stay at home!\"\n\nAlthough the winds did not have the devastating power of the deadly Hurricane Laura, which struck last month, they still ripped boats from moorings and sent one barge careering into the under-construction Bay Bridge. They were certainly high enough to topple high-sided vehicles.\n\nOne of the barges that broke free in Pensacola, Florida\n\nAnother barge got loose and headed for the Escambia Bay Bridge but luckily ran ashore.\n\nThe sheriff of Escambia County said it had not been expecting the devastation wrought by Sally.\n\nOverturned vehicle in Mobile, Alabama. Many roads there were hit by falling trees\n\nCavin Hollyhand, 50, who lives in Mobile, Alabama, told Reuters: \"The rain is what stands out with this one: It's unreal.\"\n\nThere remains \"a danger of life-threatening inundation\" on the Florida-Alabama border, the NHC said.\n\nAlabama Governor Kay Ivey said many areas around Mobile were seeing historic flood levels and urged people to heed warnings.\n\nThe pier at Gulf State Park in Alabama suffered significant damage.\n\nGulf Shores in Alabama hosted Sally's landfall and its torrential rain\n\nThe latest on power cuts from the poweroutage.us website lists some 290,000 customers without electricity in Alabama and 253,000 more in Florida.\n\nAs well as pylons being brought down, many trees were uprooted.\n\nRain appeared to fall sideways in Alabama, which led to submerged roads as the storm inched ashore. Other areas along the coast were also affected, with beaches and highways swamped in Mississippi and low-lying properties in Louisiana covered by the rising waters.\n\nAlabama, Florida and Mississippi all declared states of emergency ahead of the storm.\n\nJohn De Block, at the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, told the New York Times that Sally was drifting \"at the speed of a child in a candy shop\".\n\nSally's pace may be linked to climate change, according to experts. A 2018 study in Nature magazine found that the speed at which hurricanes and tropical storms move over an area had decreased by 10% between 1949 and 2016, a drop that was linked to an increase in total rainfall.\n\n\"Sally has a characteristic that isn't often seen, and that's a slow forward speed and that's going to exacerbate the flooding,\" NHC deputy director Ed Rappaport told the Associated Press.\n\nIn addition to Sally, there are four other tropical cyclones - Paulette, Rene, Teddy and Vicky - swirling in the Atlantic Ocean basin.\n\nIf only one more storm is officially named - Wilfred has already been chosen - meteorologists will run out of preselected names for the rest of the year and so will begin naming new storms after the Greek alphabet.\n\nHave you been affected by Hurricane Sally? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The U-turn in this summer's exams in England became unavoidable, as numbers challenging grades would have overwhelmed the appeals system, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nFacing questions from MPs over the exams fiasco, he defended the principle of using calculated grades, but said too many \"inconsistencies\" emerged.\n\nMr Williamson also denied making the exams watchdog take down its guidance.\n\nHe also told MPs schools would be able to order more Covid-19 testing kits.\n\nWith head teachers warning that schools might have to send home pupils because of delays with testing, Mr Williamson said he had met Baroness Harding, head of the test and trace system, to emphasise that testing for schools had to be a \"priority\".\n\nSchools can now order replacement testing kits, he said, after they were sent an initial batch of 10 per school.\n\nBut he would not commit to a \"48-hour guarantee\" for turning around test results, as suggested by Education Select Committee chairman Robert Halfon.\n\nThe education secretary was giving evidence to MPs about the chaos surrounding this summer's A-level, GCSE and vocational exams.\n\nMr Williamson said that when the decision to cancel exams was taken in March, there was a need for \"certainty\" - and it was not feasible to plan for conventional exams, which might later have to be scrapped.\n\nHe stood by the decision to use calculated grades instead - saying they were fairer for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - but said the problems and errors emerged when results were issued.\n\nGavin Williamson told MPs that he did not give instructions to Ofqual to remove appeals guidance\n\n\"The reality was there were too many inconsistencies in terms of the grades. That was one of the real challenges - and that lead to a lack of public confidence in the awarded grades,\" he told MPs.\n\nThere had been confusion over a decision to allow appeals to be made over mock test results - with the exam regulator Ofqual publishing rules for how this would work and then taking them down the same day.\n\nMr Williamson denied that he had ordered this - saying that he had wanted changes, but it had not been his decision to remove the guidance.\n\nThe volume of appeals that would have been expected from allowing the use of mock test results was such that the appeals system would not have been able to cope, he told MPs.\n\n\"What became increasingly clear,\" he said, \"was that an appeals system now, no matter how robust, no matter how wide, how open was not going to be sufficient to address the number of youngsters applying\".\n\nAnd in response, in a major U-turn, results were then switched to the \"centre assessment grades\" submitted by schools, with mock tests being ditched for appeals.\n\n\"Pupils, teachers, parents and taxpayers deserve better answers than this,\" he said. The responses to the committee did not really explain \"what went wrong with the grading process this summer\", said Mr Barton.\n\nThere were protests calling for a U-turn after the original grades were issued\n\nDavid Blunkett, a former Labour education secretary, said later that in the end the \"buck stops with the education secretary\".\n\nQuestioned on blurred lines of responsibility and accountability between ministers and Ofqual, the education secretary emphasised that Ofqual was not subject to his oversight.\n\n\"Ofqual is most clearly very independent,\" he said.\n\nHe also refused to be drawn into questions over whether Ofqual \"got it wrong\" in their approach to awarding exams, instead offering praise for Sally Collier, the chief regulator, who resigned following the exams crisis.\n\nIn terms of recognising early warnings that there could be problems with the algorithm system - Mr Williamson said the Department for Education did not get any detailed view of results until the week they were published.\n\nBut he also suggested he would not be able to share with MPs a briefing about the exams given to officials at 10 Downing Street a week before results were published.\n\nAsked whether Ofqual's reputation had been badly damaged, he said: \"What we both failed to recognise was the fact that we weren't in peace time.\n\n\"But we were in a very different situation in terms of the global pandemic.\"\n\nAnd the education secretary refused to be drawn into questions about whether his most senior civil servant had resigned due to providing unsatisfactory advice.\n\nAsked about next year's exams, Mr Williamson said it was \"vital and so important that we get the exams series up and running for 2021\".\n\n\"I have repeatedly told Parliament that we are going ahead with exams next year,\" he said.\n\nHis department was planning for a potentially different approach that could see \"extra capacity within schools and a wider use of public buildings for exam sectors\", he added.", "Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.\n\nThe Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.\n\nAccording to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year.\n\nThe appointment has been approved by a Whitehall watchdog despite it raising concerns of a \"perceived risk\" that it may give the firm an unfair advantage.\n\nThe Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) said Mr Grayling had reassured them he would not be advising the company on its commercial maritime activities or risks and opportunities associated with Brexit.\n\nThe watchdog said the role would be limited to advising the firm, which also operates London Thamesport, on its environmental strategy and its engagement with local enterprise bodies.\n\nIt said the MP must comply with these and other conditions, including a ban on him lobbying ministers on behalf of the company or giving advice on UK government tenders, until July 2021, two years after he left the cabinet.\n\nMr Grayling stepped down as transport secretary when Boris Johnson became PM in July 2019, having served under his predecessor Theresa May for three years.\n\nMPs are allowed to take on second jobs - and while some have argued that representing constituents should be a full-time occupation, others say working in \"the real world\" keeps members of Parliament grounded in reality.\n\nFor ex-members of the government, however, taking on paid work is slightly trickier - particularly if they have only recently given up their ministerial red boxes.\n\nThere are rules on appointments set by the government, with compliance overseen by ACOBA.\n\nFormer ministers and ex-senior civil servants are are expected to seek advice from the watchdog and follow its advice if they want to start a job less than two years after leaving government.\n\nHowever although the watchdog has the power to put information about appointments into the public domain, it has no formal enforcement powers.\n\nIn 2017, a committee of MPs described ACOBA as \"a toothless regulator\".\n\nAnd in the same year, Labour's then shadow cabinet office minister Jon Trickett said it was \"populated with establishment figures\".\n\nCritics of Mr Grayling say he made a series of poor decisions during his time in the job, including awarding a contract to a group of ferry operators to provide extra capacity after the UK left the EU - one of which had never sailed a vessel.\n\nThe contracts, which Mr Grayling described as an insurance policy, were later cancelled. The National Audit Office estimated that the costs incurred to the taxpayer could be as high as £56.6m.\n\nMr Johnson sought to install the MP for Epsom and Ewell as chair of the powerful Commons Intelligence and Security Committee in July.\n\nBut MPs on the committee voted to back his colleague Julian Lewis instead. Mr Grayling has since quit the committee.", "Almost two million people in north-east England are expected to face restrictions as coronavirus cases rise.\n\nNorthumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham council areas are in discussions to get the measures.\n\nThese may include pubs closing earlier and restrictions on households mixing.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Sun: \"The only way to make sure the country is able to enjoy Christmas is to be tough now.\"\n\nHe previously said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to avoid another nationwide lockdown.\n\nThe PM also told the newspaper the government is promising £546m as part of a plan to help protect care homes from coronavirus this winter.\n\nA full announcement detailing the new measures for the North East is expected later on Thursday.\n\n\"The number of cases has been rising rapidly in many parts of the country, but in particular in the North East, and so a decision has been made to impose further restrictions there,\" Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick told ITV's Peston programme on Wednesday.\n\n\"And a full announcement will be made tomorrow and so people living in that part of the country should watch out for that. And the measures will come into play at midnight on Thursday evening.\"\n\nMPs from the area met with Health Minister Nadine Dorries on Wednesday evening.\n\nBBC Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt said a Labour MP told him measures would include pubs closing at 22:00 BST, no mixing with other households and public transport only for essential travel.\n\nNewcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said the temporary measures would mainly be a restriction on social gatherings.\n\n\"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas: in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports,\" he said.\n\n\"So [council leaders] have put together a series of requests to government for additional restrictions around these areas for a fixed period of time to try to prevent a damaging full lockdown.\"\n\nThe council leaders had also requested additional funding for policing to enforce the measures, as well as additional local testing facilities, Mr Forbes added.\n\n\"All of the testing facilities in our region are more or less at full capacity every day - we're hearing stories of people being sent 200 miles to get a test and that's not acceptable.\n\n\"That's why we've asked as council leaders for more resources immediately, because we need to make sure anyone with symptoms gets an immediate test and gets the result back straight away.\"\n\nGateshead is among the areas due to face tougher local restrictions\n\nThe North East has seen a resurgence of coronavirus in recent weeks and four boroughs were last week placed on the government's watchlist for areas needing \"enhanced support\".\n\nOn Monday, councils in the seven areas of Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead, County Durham and Sunderland called for new restrictions.\n\nBBC analysis of the government's figures shows that, as of Wednesday, Bolton had the highest rate in England at 204.1 per 100,000 people in the week to 13 September.\n\nSunderland's rate was 82.1 per 100,000 people, South Tyneside was 93.4, Gateshead was 81.7, Newcastle was 64.1, North Tyneside was 46.7, with County Durham at 37.4 and Northumberland at 25.7.\n\nIn total there were 1,106 new cases in a seven-day period.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We constantly monitor infection rates across the country and keep all measures under review in consultation with local leaders.\n\n\"Any changes to local restrictions will be announced in the usual way.\"\n\nOther parts of the UK, including Birmingham and Greater Manchester, are already subject to increased measures.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun on Thursday, Mr Johnson compared the graph showing UK virus cases to the humps on a camel's back, saying the aim is to \"stop the surge\" in cases and \"flatten the second hump\".\n\nHe said he did not want to lock down sections of the economy, but that the government \"will be looking at\" requiring pubs to close early.\n\nOn Wednesday, the prime minister told a committee of MPs a second national lockdown would be potentially \"disastrous\" for the UK.\n\nHe admitted there was not enough testing capacity - amid widespread reports of difficulties obtaining them - and said new nationwide restrictions such as the \"rule of six\" were necessary to \"defeat\" the disease.\n\nCoronavirus cases across the UK increased by 3,991, taking the total to 378,219, according to figures from the government.\n\nWhile parts of north-west England have consistently had the highest rates of new infections for some time now, areas of the North East have also been reporting big increases.\n\nIn the week to 30 August Sunderland had 24 cases. Two weeks later it was 228.\n\nThe rise in South Tyneside was also very large, up from 70 cases in the last week of August to 141 in the week to 13 September.\n\nParts of the region are recording rates they haven't seen since May, when the country was still subject to most of the full lockdown measures.\n\nTesting capacity has increased since then but there have been shortages due to the recent surge in demand.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in one of the areas where restrictions are being reintroduced? How will you be affected? Do you have any questions? 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. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "The widespread introduction of Covid marshals to towns and cities in England is \"unlikely\" and \"almost impossible\", some local authorities have said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson suggested the marshals would enforce rules about social distancing, gathering in groups and wearing masks.\n\nBut a lack of detail has been criticised by council and health officials.\n\nLocal authorities \"are best placed to determine the model of deployment and responsibilities of marshals in their areas\" and \"further details will be set out in due course\", a government spokesman said.\n\nBut Bob Cook, leader of Stockton Council, said the announcement had \"caused a lot of confusion\".\n\n\"We've had no answers to any of these questions. It's a very strange way of doing things,\" Mr Cook said.\n\n\"Things would be a lot clearer if the government would actually talk to local councils before making such announcements.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said marshals could also be volunteers or current members of council staff.\n\nA Cheshire East spokesman said any new responsibilities would \"have to be fully funded by Whitehall\", while Southend's public safety councillor, Martin Terry, said: \"We can't do things out of thin air. The government has to put money on the table.\"\n\nNewcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes complained authorities were given just days to hire and train the marshals \"with no extra funding or resources to help\" and accused the government of \"serial incompetence\".\n\nSpokespeople for Lewisham, North Yorkshire and Swindon councils have also said they need more information about what marshals are actually expected to do, what powers they will have, how they will be paid for.\n\nThe prime minister has also been criticised for the manner of the announcement.\n\nLewisham Council's cabinet member for finance, Amanda DeRyk, said she learned about the plans on the radio.\n\n\"You're like, hang on a minute, that's the first we've heard,\" she said.\n\n\"There's this sort of policy of decision making by sensational announcement. I heard that on [Radio 4's] the Today Programme\".\n\nThe Local Government Association said: \"Even if marshals were rolled out in great numbers, they will not have enforcement powers so it is important that residents do not expect councils to be able to act when they cannot\" and \"any new responsibilities for councils in this area will have to be fully funded\".\n\nA few areas of the country - including Leeds and Cornwall - have already introduced marshals to give \"friendly help and guidance\".\n• None Who are the Covid marshals and do they have any powers?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Burns decided to move out of his family home at the start of school term\n\nA father with an immunodeficiency disease has decided to stop all physical contact with his family due to his children returning to school.\n\nRichard Burns, from Bangor, County Down, is in the \"extremely vulnerable category\" due to his medical condition.\n\nHe said he made the decision \"for his own safety\" and so that his daughters could continue their education.\n\nRichard has been told by his immunologist if he were to contract Covid-19 it could be fatal.\n\nHis body is incapable of producing B cells, which are responsible for generating antibodies to help fight off infections.\n\nThe condition, which he has had since birth, means he is required to infuse blood plasma to \"top up\" his immune system every three weeks.\n\nHe said: \"For me, it's really serious. I developed bronchitis when I was younger and because of that I've developed serious lung problems.\"\n\nRichard now keeps in contact with his pregnant wife, Patricia, and two children, Eleanor and Rosa, virtually\n\nThe Department of Education (DoE) advises that pupils with vulnerable family members can have an individual risk-assessment conducted \"in conjunction with parents, health professionals and school leaders\".\n\nThey said these should be \"developed and implemented on a setting-by-setting basis\".\n\nA risk assessment can provide a graded number-based system on the \"likelihood\", \"severity\" and \"risk\" that someone is likely to be exposed to coronavirus with certain safety measures in place.\n\nHowever, Richard said the risk assessment that was carried out at his daughter's school \"did not reassure him for his own safety\" and described it as \"just a lot of numbers on a page\".\n\n\"This is my life we are talking about, I need to take every precaution possible,\" Richard said.\n\nRichard said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being there for his four-year-old daughter Rosa's very first day of primary school\n\nFor many parents, seeing their children return to school brought back some semblance of normality. However, for Richard it was quite the opposite.\n\nDespite shielding officially ending on 1 August, Richard took the decision to continue shielding with his family.\n\nBut at the start of school term he decided to move out of his family home and into his mother's house in Millisle, County Down.\n\nHe now lives in a closed-off area in the house, he has limited contact with his mother and they maintain a constant social-distance.\n\nRichard now keeps in contact with his pregnant wife, Patricia, and two children, Eleanor and Rosa, entirely virtually with extended family helping out during his physical absence.\n\n\"We don't want the girls to be disadvantaged,\" said Richard. \"They've already lost so much schooling already, but the only option we felt as a family was for me to move out.\n\n\"It's impossible to completely eliminate the risk, but it is so important that everything is done to at least minimise it.\n\n\"I just don't understand how that could be the case when schools have reopened with full classes of pupils and with them being in there full-time.\n\n\"I wouldn't have moved out if there was a mixture of online learning from home and reduced class sizes which had initially been suggested - I could've accepted that.\"\n\nThe Department of Education (DoE) has said pupils or children of parents in the vulnerable category \"can attend their education setting\".\n\nNorth Down MP Stephen Farry has said \"parents are bouncing back between schools and GPs to get situations addressed\"\n\nMP for North Down Stephen Farry has called on the executive to give more clarity to parents and schools.\n\n\"It is very concerning the lengths that my constituent feels compelled to go to protect his family,\" Mr Farry told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Education guidance exists in a vacuum, and parents are bouncing back between schools and GPs to get situations addressed.\"\n\nThe DoE told BBC News NI the Department of Health had issued guidance for people deemed most vulnerable.\n\nAccording to latest public health advice, those considered vulnerable are encouraged to \"stay at home as much as possible\".\n\nWhen going outside and socialising, they are advised to be \"particularly careful to adhere to social distancing guidelines and other guidance\".\n\nThe DoE also said that officials were currently \"working to prepare new guidance, which will include updated advice on risk-assessments.\"", "A second national lockdown would be likely to have \"disastrous\" financial consequences for the UK, the prime minister has said.\n\nAppearing at a committee of MPs, Boris Johnson said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another nationwide lockdown.\n\nThis was why new restrictions - such as the \"rule of six\" - were necessary to \"defeat\" the disease, he said.\n\nThe PM also admitted there was not enough testing capacity.\n\nEarlier, he blamed a \"colossal spike\" in demand for ongoing problems in accessing tests and results being delayed.\n\nOn Wednesday, coronavirus cases in the UK increased by 3,991, taking the total to 378,219, according to figures from the government.\n\nA further 20 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19. This brings the UK death total by this criterion to 41,684.\n\nAmid the increase in coronavirus cases, Mr Johnson was asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether the UK could afford another national lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I don't want a second national lockdown - I think it would be completely wrong for this country and we are going to do everything in our power to prevent it.\n\n\"And can we afford it? I very much doubt that the financial consequences would be anything but disastrous, but we have to make sure that we defeat the disease by the means that we have set out.\n\n\"So when I see people arguing against the rule of six or saying that the government is coming in too hard on individual liberties and so on - I totally understand that and I sympathise with that, but we must, must defeat this disease.\"\n\nFrom Monday, new rules came into force, restricting indoor and outdoor gatherings in England and Scotland, and indoor groups in Wales.\n\nA second national lockdown is extremely unlikely for two reasons.\n\nFirstly, it is hugely damaging - to the economy, to education and to wider health for reasons other than Covid.\n\nYou only need to look at the latest figures for falling cancer referrals, the hours spent out of school and the rising unemployment to see the cost of the UK's spring lockdown.\n\nSecondly, the government and its medical advisers have a much better grasp of the virus.\n\nCurrent infection rates and hospitalisations remain much lower than they were in the spring and, despite the problems with testing, there is pretty rich data on exactly where the virus is and how quickly it is spreading.\n\nEven if things get worse, officials are quite confident the NHS will cope.\n\nBut that does not mean there won't be further restrictions - or that it won't be a very difficult winter with a high number of deaths.\n\nThe ban of gatherings of more than six people could be just the first step.\n\nThere is also talk of curfews, forcing hospitality venues to close at 22:00 BST.\n\nThis tactic was used in Belgium to curb the rise in cases, and has been deployed to tackle the outbreak in Bolton.\n\nAt this stage, it is unlikely this will be used nationally.\n\nInstead, expect it to be an option for virus hotspots, along with banning visits to other people's housing which has been used in the North West and West Yorkshire.\n\nShielding could, though, be re-introduced across the country at some point, along with bans on visits to care homes, in an attempt to protect the most vulnerable groups.\n\nMr Johnson also admitted there was not enough coronavirus testing capacity amid reports of people struggling to get tests and results being delayed.\n\nHe told the committee: \"We don't have enough testing capacity now because, in an ideal world, I would like to test absolutely everybody that wants a test immediately.\"\n\nHe promised there would be capacity for 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\nBut he urged people without symptoms to stay away from testing centres - although he acknowledged why they may want to find out if they had Covid-19.\n\n\"What has happened is demand has massively accelerated just in the last couple of weeks,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, who stood in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions, said Mr Johnson had \"time and again\" made pledges on testing, but \"then breaks those promises\".\n\n\"They've had six months to get this right and yet the prime minister still can't deliver on his promises,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner stood in for Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions\n\nMPs at the liaison committee also asked the prime minister about his aim of having a \"pregnancy-style test\" in place within months, which would have a role in fulfilling his \"Operation Moonshot\" ambition for mass testing.\n\nThe government has said it £500m has been set aside to invest in its mass testing plans.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I am going to be cautious and say that I can't sit here today and say that we have such a 'pregnancy-style test'... today.\n\n\"It is right for government to invest in such a project.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Sir Bernard Jenkin told Mr Johnson musicians, singers and performers had \"fallen through the cracks of the support schemes available\".\n\nMr Johnson said the best way to help the sector was to \"get these businesses going again and to get the theatres lit again, by having the virus down and having a testing regime that allows us to do that\".\n\nHe also said an inquiry into the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic would \"look at everything that has gone wrong and gone right\".\n\nBut he said it would not be a \"good use of official time at the moment\" and declined to indicate when the inquiry could begin.\n\nEarlier, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said plans to put the NHS top of the list for coronavirus tests will be published in the coming days,.\n\nPeople in care homes would also be a priority, while schools could be considered, Mr Buckland said.\n\nResolving delays with testing was \"the number one issue\", he added.", "Georgina Callander was \"one in many millions\", said her mother\n\nThe mother of a teenager killed in the arena bomb has spoken of \"unbearable pain\" and told a public inquiry she wished it was \"me not her\" who died.\n\nGeorgina Callander's mother Lesley filmed a \"pen portrait\" tribute to her daughter which was played to the court.\n\nMs Callander said she wanted to go to the hearing but \"could not bear\" to go to Manchester after the attack in which 22 people died in May 2017.\n\nShe added she had been left \"numb, weak and in emotional and physical pain\".\n\nThe portraits give each family the chance to present an insight into the lives of those who died.\n\nThe bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people\n\nGeorgina, from Tarleton, Lancashire was \"one in many millions\", her mother told the inquiry into the terror attack at Manchester Magistrates' Court, which is now in its second week.\n\nMs Callander spoke of her \"unbearable pain\" as she relived holding Georgina in her arms during her last moments, saying it had been a \"daily living nightmare\" since her \"senseless, pointless murder\".\n\n\"That night has done everything to destroy every single living cell in my body.\n\n\"I find it excruciatingly hard to live without Georgina.\"\n\nShe added: \"I wish it would have been me and not her.\"\n\nGeorgina's older brothers Daniel and Harry also paid tribute, with the former saying she was \"like a ray of sunshine on the darkest of days\".\n\nMarcin, 42, and Angelika Klis, 39, pictured on the evening of the 22 May 2017 before the bombing\n\nThe children of Marcin and Angelika Klis presented a \"pen portrait\" of their parents.\n\nThe couple's daughters Aleksandra and Patrycja said they \"were so in love as if they were teenagers without a care in the world\".\n\nIn a statement read out by their legal representative, they told the inquiry how they had not \"just lost our parents but we have lost our best friends and protectors\".\n\n\"They did everything in their power to ensure we had everything we wanted and more. They would always put our needs before their own.\"\n\nThe couple, from York, \"were soulmates and they didn't want to be without each other\", their daughters said.\n\n\"Mum and Dad's love was incredibly strong. Something we should all aspire for in life.\"\n\nThe husband of Lisa Lees, 43, from Oldham, told the inquiry how his wife started her own business using massage to help terminally ill children.\n\n\"Lisa was a true angel, caring and beautiful, both inside and out,\" he said.\n\nThe mother-of-two was \"the heart and soul of our family\" who \"had so much more to give in life\", the inquiry heard.\n\nHer daughter India paid tribute to her mum, who had also trained and qualified as a teacher, saying she \"was the most beautiful, selfless and positive person I knew\".\n\nWhile her mother Elaine Hunter said: \"She used to laugh all the time and all her friends would say what an infectious laugh she had, she really did light up a room when she walked in.\"\n\nLisa Lees, 43, was described as \"beautiful, both inside and out\"\n\nThe inquiry comes more than three years after the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert that left hundreds more injured.\n\nThe inquiry was due to start in June, but was delayed by the trial of Salman Abedi's brother Hashem, who was jailed for at least 55 years for 22 murders on 20 August.\n\nThe commemorative hearings are expected to conclude on 23 September.\n\nThe inquiry was set up to examine the background to the attack and the response of the emergency services.\n\nIts chairman Sir John Saunders will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new freight management system will not be ready when the EU transition period ends, an industry body has warned.\n\nThe Smart Freight system, which is seen as vital for preventing delays after the Brexit transition on 1 January, will only be in a beta - or test - version.\n\nBut the government insists it will be a fully operational digital service.\n\nIt has reassured industry that the system will be operational by December.\n\nThe Smart Freight system ensures that trucks are carrying the correct documentation before they travel to ports.\n\nThe new system is designed to reduce delays at ports, and to better manage traffic into Dover and queues of lorries building up along the M2 and M20 motorways in Kent.\n\nTruck drivers could face a fine if they arrive at ports without the proper documentation, but the government insists this will be a last resort, and unnecessary if they follow the rules.\n\nLogistics UK, which represents freight businesses, said it was informed by government officials on Monday that a beta - or test - version would be available in December, but would not be fully operational until April.\n\nIn a statement, the Director of Policy at Logistics UK Elizabeth de Jong said it was unacceptable and a \"massive blow to UK businesses and the economy\".\n\nBut the government now says \"beta\" is a standard labelling practice for a digital service that is fully operational.", "Sony has matched the price of the forthcoming flagship PlayStation 5 to that of Microsoft's Xbox Series X.\n\nLast time round, the PS4 significantly undercut the Xbox One at launch.\n\nSony also confirmed the PS5's \"digital edition\" - which does not have a disc drive - would cost about 40% more than the low-end Xbox Series S.\n\nBoth PS5 consoles are set to be released on 19 November in the UK, and 12 November in the US, Japan and Australia.\n\nThat puts them slightly later than Microsoft's 10 November launch date.\n\nMarvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be one of the PS5's exclusive titles\n\nSony was the clear leader in the previous generation of the so-called console wars.\n\nThe various PlayStation 4 consoles outsold the Xbox One range by a factor of more than two to one.\n\nBut the £449/$500/€500 cost of the Japanese firm's new top-end machine and £360/$400/€400 price of the digital edition means it may be a closer battle this time, at least to begin with.\n\nSome industry-watchers believe Microsoft's combination of a £250 price for the XBox Series S and the value offered by the Xbox Game Pass subscription service could give the US firm an advantage.\n\nMicrosoft offers members its first-party blockbuster games at launch in its games library, unlike Sony's existing PlayStation Now services, which is limited to older major releases.\n\nSony's decision to price some of its first PS5 releases at £70 - including the \"ultimate edition\" of a new Spider-Man game, and Demon's Souls - represents a rise, and will also have to be taken into consideration.\n\nIt showed off a new subscription service called the PlayStation Plus Collection for the PS5.\n\nPS5 owners will be able to play the PS4's God of War and are being promised a sequel of their own\n\nBut it appeared to focus on the PS4's greatest hits - including Last of Us Remastered, God of War and Bloodborne - rather than any of the PS5's forthcoming releases.\n\n\"Microsoft has a really appealing offering with the Xbox Series S pricing at just £250, and Sony doesn't really have an answer to that for people who just want the cheapest possible entry point to next-generation gaming,\" video games journalist Laura Dale told the BBC.\n\n\"However, people who want to play any of Sony's first-party franchises are unlikely to be swayed to Xbox just because it's cheaper.\"\n\nOne key difference between the two companies' strategies is that the Xbox Series S delivers lower-resolution graphics than the Series X because it has less powerful components, while Sony has opted only to remove the Blu-ray drive from its entry-level machine.\n\nOn that basis, its marketers may still argue it provides a better-value way to experience the full power of what next-generation games can deliver.\n\nThe trailer for the new Final Fantasy game said it would only be released on the PS5 and PCs\n\nEven so, it is likely Sony will instead focus its appeal on the draw of its \"console exclusive\" titles.\n\nTo that end, during its latest virtual event it showed trailers and gameplay for:\n\nSony also teased its forthcoming God of War sequel Ragnarok, which it said would be released next year, but only showed off an animated logo.\n\n\"It is possible that PS5 will have launched three console-exclusive titles before Xbox Series X manages to launch its first - Halo Infinite, with no date in 2021 specified as of yet,\" said Louise Shorthouse, a games analyst at Omdia.\n\n\"Consumers also tend to stick with the same console brands across generations, so Sony is in an incredibly strong position.\"\n\nMany of the games on show had been previewed at an earlier event in June.\n\nHogwarts Legacy is an open-world game set more than 100 years before Harry Potter was born\n\nBut there was also a first look at the much anticipated Harry Potter spin-off Hogwarts Legacy. The role-playing game will be a cross-platform release in 2021.\n\n\"The two higher-spec consoles are close to each other in terms of specification - the Xbox has more storage, but the PS5's is slightly faster,\" said Nicky Danino, a gaming expert at the University of Central Lancashire.\n\n\"But there are still reasons why people will pick a specific console. What platform your friends play on, for example, is highly influential.\"\n\nIt looks like Sony is almost trolling arch-rival Microsoft by matching the PS5's price to that of the Xbox Series X.\n\nThe gambit will have surprised many industry observers.\n\nXbox felt forced to reveal its prices last week following a leak. And this seemed to gift PlayStation a second-mover advantage.\n\nBut when I spoke to PlayStation's chief executive Jim Ryan, he was adamant that the PS5's price points had been set since the beginning of the year. Likewise, he said, today's announcement had been in his diary for some time.\n\nOn paper the Xbox Series X is the more powerful machine.\n\nBut PlayStation has a solid line-up of platform-exclusive titles.\n\nAnd the delay to Halo Infinite - after fans complained that footage shown earlier in the year was underwhelming - has been a big blow to Microsoft's original launch plans.\n\nBut is the PS5 fighting the last generation's console war?\n\nXbox has a compelling offer with its Game Pass Ultimate subscription service. So even if Xbox doesn't sell as many physical consoles as PlayStation, it may still prove to be at least as profitable.\n\nWhen I questioned Mr Ryan about the possibility of a similar service, he said PlayStation was about big blockbuster games that cost a lot to make, so a similar subscription service model would not make financial sense.\n\nWe will find out whether he sticks to that strategy in 2021 or beyond once supply meets demand.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two people have been critically injured in the crash\n\nFive people have been injured after a multi-vehicle crash involving a bus and several cars.\n\nMore than 70 homes lost power after the crash affected a power cable in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nFirefighters worked to free people trapped at Trebanog Road in Porth at about 09:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nTwo people, a man and a woman who were in separate vehicles, are in a critical condition in hospital, according to South Wales Police.\n\nThe force said the other casualties, including the driver of the coach, needed hospital treatment but their injuries were not thought to be serious.\n\nThe crash involved a bus, a van, a large goods vehicle and several cars.\n\nFive people were injured, with three taken to hospital\n\nA trail of damage was left following the crash\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it took three people to hospital - two to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, and one to Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Pontyclun.\n\nThree people were freed from the wreckage while a further two managed to get out themselves.\n\nWestern Power is also at the scene dealing with the power cuts in the area.\n\nThe road is expected to stay shut \"for some time\" and South Wales Police asked people to avoid the area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twenty-nine German police officers have been suspended for sharing pictures of Adolf Hitler and depictions of refugees in gas chambers on their phones.\n\nThe officers also used far-right chatrooms where swastikas and other Nazi symbols were shared, officials in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) said.\n\nNRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul said it was a \"disgrace for NRW police\".\n\nIt follows several other incidences of far-right extremism among the German security services.\n\nMore than 200 police officers were involved in raids on 34 police stations and private homes linked to 11 main suspects. The officers are said to have shared more than 100 neo-Nazi images in WhatsApp groups.\n\nSome of the suspects face charges of spreading Nazi propaganda and hate speech. Others are accused of not reporting their colleagues' actions.\n\n\"This is the worst and most repulsive kind of hate-baiting,\" Mr Reul said, adding that he expected the investigation to find more chats with offensive content.\n\n\"I'm appalled and ashamed,\" said Frank Richter, the police chief in the city of Essen where most of the suspects were based. \"It is hard to find words.\"\n\nMr Reul has now launched an investigation into the extent of extremism among the state's police.\n\n\"Right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis have absolutely no place in the North Rhine-Westphalia police, our police,\" he said, and the authorities had to show a \"crystal clear political profile\" that rejected the far right.\n\nGermany's police and security services have faced accusations that they are not doing enough to root out extremists within their ranks.\n\nIn July prosecutors said they had arrested a former police officer and his wife who are suspected of sending threats to well-known figures of immigrant background, including several ethnically Turkish lawmakers.\n\nThe emails were signed \"NSU 2.0\", a reference to the \"National Socialist Underground\" neo-Nazi gang, which committed 10 racist murders between 2000 and 2007.\n\nThe scandal has already seen the Hesse state police chief Udo Münch resign after it emerged that police computers were used to find out details of a left-wing politician who later received one of the threatening emails.\n\nMeanwhile, in June, Germany's defence minister ordered the partial dissolution of the elite KSK commando force after growing criticism over right-wing extremism in its ranks.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nGlenn Maxwell and Alex Carey's record-breaking 212-run partnership steered Australia to a thrilling one-day series victory over England at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nChasing 303, Maxwell hit a blistering 108 from 90 balls and Carey a more measured 106 as a belligerent partnership rescued Australia from 73-5.\n\nMaxwell fell with 15 balls remaining and Carey holed out at the end of the 49th over to leave Australia needing 10 runs from the final six balls.\n\nHowever, Mitchell Starc pummelled the first ball from Adil Rashid for six, and a swept boundary ensured Australia sneaked over the line with two balls remaining.\n\nThe defeat ended England's five-year unbeaten run in home ODI series, as well as being their first series loss of the summer.\n\nJonny Bairstow had earlier made 112 to help England recover from losing two wickets to the first two deliveries of the innings and post 302-7.\n\nEngland could have dismissed Carey for nine had Jofra Archer not overstepped when the Australia wicketkeeper was caught at third man off a ballooning top edge.\n\nCarey went on to make England pay - hitting his first ODI century, with he and Maxwell surpassing Brad Haddin and Mike Hussey's stand of 165 against West Indies in 2006 to compile Australia's highest sixth-wicket partnership in ODIs.\n\nThis was the end of a long summer for England, but a welcome win for Australia, who were whitewashed on their last limited-overs visit in 2018.\n• None Morgan rues missed chances in Australia defeat but reflects on 'amazing' summer\n\nWhen a furious Marnus Labuschagne was run out at 73-5, Australia looked to be out of the contest, but Maxwell picked the perfect moment to play the definitive innings for his country that he has long threatened.\n\nMaxwell, who is known as 'The Big Show', divides opinion in Australia but there are few players as watchable as he is when on song.\n\nA half-century came up from 48 balls; the next over, Rashid was smashed so hard and so high over the short leg-side boundary the ball rattled off the glass of the enormous Point building.\n\nCarey was the less flashy part of the partnership. He used an angled bat to guide the ball around the field, bringing up his fifth ODI half-century with a fine clip through mid-wicket off Chris Woakes.\n\nThe two ran superbly, putting the England fielders under pressure, and the pace bowlers seemed to lose their lines, with eight wides not helping their cause.\n\nAustralia were 222-5 with 10 overs remaining but both players hit out, Maxwell reaching just his second ODI hundred with another leg-side six, before Carey flashed a single off Woakes to reach three figures for the first time.\n\nMemories of their second ODI collapse may have lingered when Maxwell and Carey fell with the finish line in sight, but this time Australia claimed the win and, with it, the series.\n\nThe world champions will be left to rue missed chances.\n\nAs well as Archer's no ball, England were not up to their usual standard in the field, with two dropped catches and several scruffy dives allowing Maxwell and Carey to rotate the strike.\n\nEngland had this game in their grasp. Woakes continued an excellent all-round performance by having opposition captain Aaron Finch trapped lbw and seeing Marcus Stoinis slap a slower ball to Eoin Morgan at mid-wicket inside the first 10 overs.\n\nWhen Joe Root chipped in with his part-time off-spin to bowl a beleaguered David Warner and have Mitchell Marsh caught behind, everything was going right for the hosts.\n\nBut with Root bowling an over or two more than necessary, and Maxwell dismantling Rashid with the short boundaries, England allowed the pair to get their eye in.\n\nEngland found themselves 0-2 after just two balls in a disastrous start on a fresh pitch.\n\nJason Roy sliced Starc's first ball to Maxwell at backward point before Root was lbw to a pacy inswinger, but Bairstow marshalled a fine recovery.\n\nSupported first by Eoin Morgan and then Sam Billings, Bairstow found the aggression that worked so well in the World Cup. He was strong on the pull shot against the pace bowlers and, as the pitch slowed, he adapted well, taking singles where they were available.\n\nHe brought up his 10th ODI century with a towering six off Pat Cummins before Billings joined in the attack, lofting Starc into the car park as he reached his half-century.\n\nLeg-spinner Adam Zampa once again impressed for Australia, forcing errors out of Morgan and Jos Buttler as they were caught at mid-off and cover respectively, before Billings top-edged a reverse sweep to end a 114-run stand.\n\nWhen Bairstow was bowled by a Cummins slower ball, England's tail could have subsided, but Woakes was at his best. His half-century came up from just 38 balls and included an astonishing reverse scoop off Josh Hazlewood.\n\nIt was a good total on a decent pitch, but Maxwell and Carey's brilliance left England just short.\n\n'The cricket this summer has been remarkable'\n\nEx-England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special: \"What we've witnessed in the last few months in terms of drama has been remarkable. When you think the players have been locked up in cricket grounds, they have produced so many dramatic moments.\n\n\"I think that's a big moment for Australia. From where they were on Sunday, if they'd lost that game, and it looked like they would going into the last over, I don't know how Justin Langer would have picked them up. I don't know what he could have said. They deserved to win.\"\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"Alex Carey and Glenn Maxwell played outstandingly well. It's always an interesting challenge, one that the bowlers are always up for. The bowlers never gave up.\n\n\"Sometimes when you're beaten by the better side you've just got to put your hand up and today was one of those games.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"It was an incredible game of cricket, action aplenty.\n\n\"Yeah, we thought we were in trouble, absolutely. Maxi is in the team to do a specific role, to try to swing the momentum. He dragged it back. That partnership was fantastic. I'm really proud of both of them.\n\n\"I don't think there are many bowlers in the world who can hang with him when he's having one of those days.\"", "People requiring A&E will be urged to book an appointment through NHS 111 under a trial in parts of England.\n\nThe aim is to direct patients to the most clinically-appropriate service and to help reduce pressure on emergency departments as staff battle winter pressures, such as coronavirus and flu.\n\nThe pilots are live in Cornwall, Portsmouth, Hampshire and Blackpool and have just begun in Warrington.\n\nIf they are successful, they could be rolled out to all trusts in December.\n\nHowever, people with a life-threatening condition should still call 999.\n\nUnder the new changes, patients will still be able to seek help at A&E without an appointment, but officials say they are likely to end up waiting longer than those who have gone through 111.\n\nMore NHS 111 call handlers are being brought in to take on the additional workload, alongside extra clinicians, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nA campaign called Help Us Help You will launch later in the year to urge people to use the new service.\n\nThe government has also pledged an extra £150m of funding to expand and upgrade 25 more A&Es to reduce overcrowding and improve infection control ahead of winter. This was in addition to the £300m announced for a number of trusts to upgrade their facilities, it said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"During the peak of the pandemic we saw millions of people using NHS 111 to get the best possible advice on Covid-19, and other urgent NHS services.\n\n\"These pilots will build on this and test whether we can deliver quicker access to the right care, provide a better service for the public and ensure our dedicated NHS staff aren't overwhelmed.\"\n\nThis trial scheme, which seems likely to be adopted at hospitals across England, will see big changes to what people are familiar with at A&E.\n\nPeople who are not seriously ill will be actively discouraged from arriving at emergency departments without an appointment.\n\nThey won't be turned away, but they have been warned there could be even longer waits than before.\n\nOn the other hand, those who have called NHS 111 first and been directed to A&E will get a confirmed time to see an appropriate clinician.\n\nThey could just as easily be directed to an urgent treatment centre or a mental health professional.\n\nThere's the understandable aim of cutting unnecessary visits, so reducing overcrowding in waiting areas at a time when hospitals want to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.\n\nBut for the plan to work, a big public information campaign is required and people will need to have confidence they can get through quickly to an NHS 111 call handler when they need to.\n\nData from the Department for Health and Social Care suggests there are 14.4 million A&E attendances in England that have not gone through NHS 111, a GP or via an ambulance.\n\nIt said 2.1 million attendances do not result in admission or treatment.\n\nChris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, said trusts will welcome the funding, as it will \"enable them to provide better care for their patients this winter\", adding that the 111 proposals were the \"right approach\".\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said the 111 scheme could have advantages for many older people, including avoiding waiting in crowded A&Es.\n\n\"However, it is important to stress that older people who have difficulty using the phone will not be turned away if they go straight to A&E as before,\" she said.\n\nThe government also announced a consultation on new targets for waiting times in A&E is being launched as ministers prepare to scrap the current four-hour target.\n\nDr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: \"Expansion of NHS 111 will help patients to be seen more quickly by the service most appropriate to their needs.\n\n\"We are pleased to have reached the consultation phase of how A&E performance is measured with a focus on the safe, timely care of the very sickest patients, and look forward to the publication of the proposals.\"", "Southend Council urged people only to turn up at the facility on Short Street if they had an appointment.\n\nCouncil leader Ian Gilbert said he was \"concerned\" at the queues.\n\n\"Please only book a test if you have coronavirus symptoms.\n\n\"If you book or turn up for a test without symptoms, you are taking testing capacity away from those people who really need it.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Kim Kardashian West and dozens of other celebrities have announced they will freeze their social media accounts to protest against the spread of \"hate, propaganda and misinformation\".\n\n\"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact,\" Kardashian West wrote in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nThe move is part of the #StopHateforProfit campaign which was organised by civil rights activists.\n\nThe celebrities will freeze their accounts for 24 hours on Wednesday.\n\n\"I can't sit by and stay silent while these platforms continue to allow the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation - created by groups to sow division and split America apart,\" Kardashian West said.\n\n\"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy,\" she added.\n\nOther celebrities that have agreed to take part in the boycott include actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as singer Katy Perry.\n\n\"I can't sit idly by while these platforms turn a blind eye to groups and posts spreading hateful disinformation,\" Perry wrote on Instagram.\n\nActor Ashton Kutcher, who has millions of followers and is also joining the boycott, said \"these tools were not built to spread hate [and] violence\".\n\nKaty Perry and Orlando Bloom have also joined the boycott\n\nThe organisers of the #StopHateforProfit campaign, which was launched in June, accuse Facebook and Instagram of not doing enough to stop hate speech and disinformation.\n\nThe group has focused on Facebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp and last year attracted advertising revenue of almost $70bn (£56.7bn).\n\nThousands of businesses and major civil rights groups - including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Anti-Defamation League (AD) - have signed up to the campaign.\n\n\"We are quickly approaching one of the most consequential elections in American history,\" the group said in a statement. \"Facebook's unchecked and vague 'changes' are falling dangerously short of what is necessary to protect our democracy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC's Simon Jack that Facebook would 'take down' coronavirus misinformation\n\nIn June, Facebook said it would label potentially harmful or misleading posts left up for their news value.\n\nFounder Mark Zuckerberg also said the social media company would ban advertising containing claims \"that people of a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status\" are a threat to others.\n\n\"The 2020 elections were already shaping up to be heated,\" he wrote in a statement. \"During this moment, Facebook will take extra precautions to help everyone stay safe [and] stay informed.\"\n\nBut the #StopHateforProfit campaign called for more to be done, and more than 90 companies subsequently paused advertising in support of its efforts.\n\nAs a result of the boycott, shares in Facebook fell dramatically and US media reported that $7.2bn had been knocked off Mr Zuckerberg's personal net worth.\n\nRegulators and policy-makers around the world are concerned about the growth of hate speech, not just on Facebook but on all social media platforms, with many countries launching enquiries into how the tech firms are dealing with the issue.", "Brenda Silverman was one of the first patients to be treated as part of Moorfields' \"cataract drive\"\n\nOne of the world's largest eye hospitals is quadrupling its number of cataract operations, in an attempt to tackle the backlog caused by Covid-19.\n\nMoorfields Eye Hospital, in London, is aiming to perform nearly 1,000 cataract removals in six days\n\nWaiting lists for all planned procedures in England are at record levels after many services were paused.\n\nOver two million people have waited over 18 weeks for surgery, the highest number since records began in 2007.\n\nIn July, NHS trusts in England were told they should get back to about 80% of last year's levels of in-patient procedures by the end of September.\n\nCataracts are cloudy patches on the lens that cause loss of sight.\n\nAnd surgery to replace the affected lens with an artificial one is the most commonly performed operation in the UK.\n\nIt usually takes about 20-40 minutes under local anaesthetic.\n\nAnd Moorfields aims to have patients in and out within 90 minutes.\n\nOne of more than 100 patients being operated on at the specialist hospital in a single day, Brenda Silverman, 77, had to isolate for three days, and take a coronavirus test, before her surgery could go ahead.\n\nBefore the operation, she said: \"I haven't been seeing so well.\n\n\"The glare and the blinding at night is awful.\"\n\nAnd afterwards, she said: \"Everything is in focus.\n\n\"There's nothing I can't see.\n\n\"Everything is bright and cheerful.\"\n\nCataract service director Vincenzo Maurino said Moorfields had had to rethink \"almost everything to make this possible\".\n\n\"Doing four times more what we were doing will ensure our waiting list, which has gone up to four months, will come down significantly,\" he said.\n\n\"Also, we don't know what the future has ahead so we want to learn from this experience, repeat it or find other ways or be adaptable.\"\n\nThe \"cataract drive\" will use eight operating theatres, including those at Moorfields's private facility.\n\nAnd 80 St John Ambulance volunteers will assist with pre-operative assessments and accompanying patients.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"Elective surgery has already rebounded from around a third of its usual rate during the peak of Covid to well over two-thirds in August, with further increases since then.\n\n\"Staff are working hard to ensure that clinics, diagnostic facilities and theatres are as safe as possible.\n\n\"So if you or a loved one have worrying symptoms, please don't put off seeing your GP.\n\n\"And if you're then asked to attend a hospital appointment, please do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a surge in reports of so-called revenge porn this year, with campaigners saying the problem has been exacerbated by lockdown.\n\nAround 2,050 reports were made to a government-funded helpline, a 22% rise from last year.\n\nAs cases have remained high despite coronavirus restrictions easing, those that run the service fear this is \"the new normal\".\n\nSharing pornography without consent is illegal in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Bullock talks about how her ex-boyfriend shared naked pictures of her\n\nRecent research by domestic violence charity Refuge found that one in seven young women has received threats that intimate photos will be shared without their consent.\n\nThere have been more cases of non-consensual pornography reported to a dedicated UK helpline so far this year than in all of 2019.\n\nAround two-thirds of cases reported to the helpline involve women.\n\nHelpline manager Sophie Mortimer said the sustained rise is evidence of behaviour triggered by the lockdown, and greater awareness of the crime and support.\n\nThe helpline is run by the charity South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL), part of the UK Safer Internet Centre.\n\nThe charity has helped remove 22,515 images this year - 94% of those reported by victims.\n\nDavid Wright, director of the UK Safer Internet Centre, said: \"The lockdown produced an extreme set of circumstances which are bringing a lot of problems.\n\n\"What we are seeing here, however, suggests something more long-term has happened which could mean we will be busier than ever before. It's worrying to think this could be the new normal.\"\n\nResearch by domestic violence charity Women's Aid found that more than 60% of survivors living with their abuser reported that the abuse they experienced got worse during the pandemic.\n\nCampaign and policy manager Lucy Hadley said: \"Disclosing private sexual images - or threatening to do so - is a common form of abuse, and is particularly harming young women.\"\n\n\"Image based forms of abuse - such as so-called revenge porn - must be taken just as seriously as abuse in 'real life',\" she added.\n\nFolami Prehaye's former partner posted explicit pictures of her online in 2014.\n\nHe was given a six-month suspended sentence for harassment and distributing indecent images.\n\nMiss Prehaye founded the website Victims of Internet Crime: Speak Out! to provide ongoing emotional support for victims of these kinds of offences.\n\nShe said: \"There is no wonder that there has been an increase of cases during lockdown as more and more people have been forced to build relationships online.\n\n\"The problem has always been there, its just that lockdown made it more apparent, and an easier place for predatory sexual exploitation.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse or violence, the following organisations may be able to help.", "Carbon dioxide emissions from plug-in hybrid cars are as much as two-and-a-half times higher than official tests suggest, according to new research.\n\nPlug-in hybrid vehicles are powered by an electric motor using a battery that is recharged by being plugged in or via an on-board petrol or diesel engine.\n\nThey account for 3% of new car sales.\n\nBut analysis from pressure groups Transport and Environment and Greenpeace suggest they emit an average of 120g of CO2 per km.\n\nThat compares with the 44g per km in official \"lab\" tests\n\nPlug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are sold as a low-carbon alternative to traditional vehicles and conventional hybrids - which cannot be recharged from an external source - and are proving increasingly popular.\n\nThe new research is published as the government considers whether to bring forward a proposed ban on the sale of new petrol, diesel and conventional hybrid cars from 2035 to 2030.\n\nThe BBC understands one suggestion is that plug-in hybrids should be given a stay of execution, with new sales allowed to continue until 2035.\n\nThat's because they can offer a 20- to 40-mile range as a purely electric vehicle and are therefore potentially significantly less polluting than other vehicles.\n\nBut this new analysis from Transport and Environment and Greenpeace suggests they don't offer anything like the carbon dioxide savings claimed for them by manufacturers.\n\nThe official tests indicate that plug-in hybrids emit an average of 44g per km of CO2. These tests are conducted on a circuit and see vehicles driven in a way that regulators consider \"normal\".\n\nThe real figure, however, according to the report, is more like 120g per km.\n\nThe pressure groups have analysed what they say is \"real-world\" data on fuel efficiency collected from some 20,000 plug-in hybrid drivers around Europe.\n\nThese are drivers who have chosen to record their mileage and fuel consumption for surveys or who drive company or leased vehicles whose fuel efficiency is recorded.\n\nAccording to this data-set the lifetime emissions of a plug-in hybrid average around 28 tonnes of CO2.\n\nBy comparison, the average petrol or diesel car is estimated to emit between 39 and 41 tonnes of CO2 from fuel during its lifetime, a conventional hybrid would typically emit more like 33 tonnes.\n\nAccording to these figures a plug-in hybrid would only deliver an emissions reduction of about a third on a typical petrol or diesel car - far less than the official estimates.\n\nThe motor industry acknowledges that lab tests don't always reflect real-world use but criticised the report, saying it uses emissions data from a test that is two years old.\n\n\"PHEVs provide a flexibility few other technologies can yet match with extended range for longer, out-of-town journeys and battery power in urban areas, reducing emissions and improving city air quality,\" Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders told the BBC.\n\nHe says he expects the range and performance will continue to improve, making them an \"essential stepping stone to a fully electric vehicle\".\n\nGreenpeace meanwhile describes PHEVs as \"the car industry's wolf in sheep's clothing\".\n\n\"They may seem a much more environmentally friendly choice,\" says Rebecca Newsom, the pressure group's head of politics, \"but false claims of lower emissions are a ploy by car manufacturers to go on producing SUVs and petrol and diesel engines.\"\n\nTransport and Environment's analysis says a key problem with plug-in hybrids is that so many owners rarely actually charge their cars, meaning they rely on the petrol or diesel engine.\n\nAnother is that many plug-in hybrid models include design features that automatically turn on the petrol/diesel engine at start-up on a cold day, or will kick in that engine if driver accelerates hard.\n\nThe latter mode means that the car's emissions will depend a lot on the driver's behaviour.\n\n\"If you always charge the battery and tend to do lots of short journeys, they will have very low emissions,\" says Nick Molden, who runs Emissions Analytics, a company that specialises in vehicle emissions evaluation.\n\n\"If you never charge the battery and drive very aggressively then they can have significantly higher emissions than the equivalent petrol or diesel model,\" he continues.", "A significant drop in the number of child sexual abuse cases reported to police during lockdown masks the true extent of what's happened to vulnerable children, police chiefs say.\n\nNational Police Chiefs Council data shows reports in England and Wales fell by 25% between April and August, compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nBut officers told BBC Newsnight this does not represent the true picture.\n\nAnd senior officers are warning child protection referrals will now rise.\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey said he suspected the 25% fall was \"a false and misleading picture\" of what children may have experienced during those months.\n\n\"Those children that would have been exposed to those adverse experiences during lockdown, it is only going to emerge when they spend time within the safe environment of a school, in contact with their teachers, who are very, very good and adept at identifying those signs - the indicators that something is not right within that child's life,\" he said.\n\nSupt Chris Truscott, of South Wales Police, agreed there were limited opportunities during lockdown for vulnerable children to disclose harmful behaviour, which would start to come to light only now schools were back.\n\nHe too expected an increase in referrals officers would have had no way of identifying during lockdown.\n\n\"If they were vulnerable before the pandemic, then the likelihood is that vulnerability will have increased over that period of time,\" Supt Truscott said.\n\n\"So I think what we are likely to see is that trickle effect turning more into a river type effect where all of that six months of lockdown experiences which children perhaps have been through [are] aired.\"\n\nSupt Truscott is the national police lead on Early Action Together, a multi-agency programme in Wales that aims to stop those with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - such as living with domestic abuse, divorce, a parent with addictions or in prison, and physical or sexual abuse - entering the criminal justice system.\n\nAt Pencoed Comprehensive, in Bridgend, assistant head teacher Rob Green said staff training in how pupils' behaviour could indicate traumatic experiences outside school had helped vulnerable children progress.\n\nExclusions are down by almost 60% and attendance has risen.\n\nBut Mr Greene added: \"Because of what has happened and the changes families have had, maybe losing jobs, some families that now have to make do and go without because of the economic climate we are in, the pressure within the family will increase.\n\n\"So I do think we will have a lot more support we will need to put in place and we will be supporting our pupils as best we can.\"\n\nIn England, meanwhile, those responsible for child protection are concerned there is not yet the same integrated approach.\n\nMr Bailey, who heads the Norfolk force, said England had \"some work to do\" putting in place the right joined-up policy.\n\n\"It needs to be the golden core that is woven through the fabric of everything that we do, be it in the police service, be it in the Ministry of Justice, be it in the Department for Education, the Department for Health,\" he said.\n\n\"We all have a responsibility to ensure that future generations of children have the opportunity to succeed and to thrive.\n\n\"And if we get this right, and the golden core of safeguarding and caring for children and nurturing children, so they can optimise all the things that are going for them, then actually we will take a significant step forward.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said it had invested funds to support vulnerable children.\n\nAnd its advice for schools was clear: \"Continue to identify and report any incidences of abuse or harm.\"\n\n\"We are placing social workers in schools to help spot the signs of abuse and neglect more quickly and work with teachers to support children at risk,\" it added.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays, catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The incident happened in the Santander Triathalon last weekend\n\nA Spanish athlete is being applauded on social media after he sacrificed a top tier win in the 2020 Santander Triathlon to give it to a competitor who took a wrong turn on the course.\n\nBritish athlete James Teagle was on course to win third place in the competition in Spain last weekend when he made a mistake metres from the finish.\n\nDiego Méntrida overtook him but noticed the error and stopped to allow Teagle to cross first.\n\n\"He deserved it,\" Méntrida said later.\n\nThe race took place on 13 September but footage from the race has spread on social media in the past day, as many congratulate 21-year-old Méntrida for his show of sportsmanship.\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 diegomentrida 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\nOn Friday Méntrida was awarded honorary third place by the organisers and the same €300 (£274) prize money as Teagle, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.\n\n\"This is something my parents and my club taught me since I was a child. In my view it should be a normal thing to do,\" Méntrida wrote on Instagram on Saturday where he thanked followers for applauding him.\n\nTeagle's wrong turn happened less than 100m from the end of the race when he mistakenly ran towards spectators in a fenced area.\n\n\"He didn't notice the signs or they were misaligned,\" Méntrida told Eurosport after the race.\n\nMéntrida had been behind Teagle and overtook him to continue on the final stretch - but then slowed his pace to allow his competitor to catch up.\n\nTeagle shook hands with Méntrida in gratitude and stepped over the finishing line.\n\n\"When I saw that he had missed the route, I just stopped. James deserved this medal,\" Méntrida told Eurosport, adding that he would do the same a second time.\n\nThe race winner Javier Gomez Noya described his gesture as \"the best in history\".\n\nFootballer Adrián San Miguel said on Twitter that it demonstrated \"the real values of sport\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adrián San Miguel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anneliese Dodds says the government should be “focussed on job, job, jobs” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds has accused the government of mismanaging billions of pounds spent in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn a speech to party members on Monday, she accused ministers of a \"cavalier\" approach to public spending during the crisis.\n\nBut she called for firms in struggling sectors to get extra support to retain workers, or provide training.\n\nMs Dodds called for a change in approach to managing the economic downturn during a speech to Labour's online conference, which ends on Tuesday.\n\nShe unveiled proposals for a jobs recovery scheme targeted at sectors that have been closed or on reduced capacity because of social distancing rules.\n\nThe party's annual four-day gathering looks a lot different this year.\n\nThe event, rebranded as Labour Connected, is taking place entirely online rather than in a conference venue.\n\nAs a result, there will be no scenes of packed halls and delegates hoping to speak waving items of clothing and other props to try and get themselves noticed.\n\nPolicy won't be decided on the floor of the conference but there are members' discussions and policy panels - on issues such as the future of work, communities, support for young people and the green economy.\n\nThere is the usual packed fringe programme and there will also be speeches, which will be streamed online.\n\nAs well as Anneliese Dodds, we'll also be hearing later on Monday from shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds. Each speaker is expected to use Labour's recently unveiled New Leadership slogan as their backdrop.\n\nYou'll have to wait to hear more about leader Sir Keir Starmer's keynote speech on Tuesday, although - unlike his address to the TUC last week when he was self-isolating - he won't be speaking from his own home.\n\nIn a bid to stem job losses, she also called for £3bn in funding to be brought forward to retrain the unemployed or those at risk of losing their jobs.\n\nShe urged ministers to provide additional support to viable but indebted firms due to start repaying government loans from next spring.\n\nAnd she vowed to \"restore trust\" with the private sector, adding that she understands the \"critical role business plays in creating jobs\".\n\n\"Recover jobs, retrain workers and rebuild business. Three steps to a better, more secure future,\" she said.\n\n\"This is an ambitious Labour vision - where security and fairness aren't just aspirations, but where they are a reality for families and communities across our country.\"\n\nLabour has called for the furlough scheme to be extended in sectors such as hospitality.\n\nIn her first conference speech since being appointed shadow chancellor in April, Ms Dodds also accused the Conservatives of mismanaging public funds in response to the crisis.\n\nShe pointed to actions, including the recall of unused testing kits and a decision not to use 50m face masks bought for the NHS, as examples of waste.\n\nShe also unveiled party analysis which claims the government's job retention bonus scheme will hand £2.6bn to firms who would have retained staff anyway.\n\n\"You're only as cavalier with public money as our current chancellor, if you don't know the value of it,\" she said.\n\n\"As chancellor, I would ensure that public money was always spent wisely. Targeted where it's needed most. Not splurged where it isn't.\"\n\nLabour has previously called for the scheme, which will pay firms £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough and employed until January, to be reviewed.\n\nThe CBI said it agreed that a more targeted approach was needed but it could not be overly bureaucratic as firms needed \"simple and quick\" solutions.\n\n\"Labour clearly recognise the unrelenting pressure firms are facing,\" the employer group's chief economist Rain Newton-Smith said.\n\n\"All parties agree that saving good jobs today is far better than picking up the pieces tomorrow. That needs bold action as the UK heads into a challenging autumn.\"\n\nFor the government, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said Labour was offering nothing more than former leader Jeremy Corbyn's \"recycled economic plans\".\n\nHe said they would hold the UK back and \"hinder our recovery from coronavirus\".\n\n\"This Conservative government is getting on with delivering its plan for jobs - creating, supporting and protecting employment across every corner of our country,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles says millions of people are desperate for more action, rather than words\n\nThe Prince of Wales has warned the climate crisis will \"dwarf\" the impact of coronavirus.\n\nIn a recorded message, to be played at the virtual opening of Climate Week on Monday, Prince Charles said \"swift and immediate action\" was needed.\n\nThe prince said Covid-19 provided a \"window of opportunity\" to reset the economy for a more \"sustainable and inclusive future\".\n\nHe added that the pandemic was \"a wake-up call we cannot ignore\".\n\nIn his message, recorded from Birkhall in the grounds of Balmoral, Prince Charles said: \"Without swift and immediate action, at an unprecedented pace and scale, we will miss the window of opportunity to 'reset' for... a more sustainable and inclusive future.\"\n\n\"[The environmental] crisis has been with us for far too many years - decried, denigrated and denied,\" he said.\n\n\"It is now rapidly becoming a comprehensive catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nHis comments come as a new poll suggests there is growing concern among citizens all over the world about climate change, although there are big differences about the level of urgency required to tackle the issue.\n\nCharles, 71, tested positive for coronavirus in March after displaying mild symptoms.\n\nHe has been championing environmental causes for decades and has previously called for members of the Commonwealth to work together to tackle climate change.\n\nIn January, he urged business and political leaders to embrace a sustainable future at the Davos summit, where he also met teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.\n\nThe global lockdown led to a dramatic drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants but a study last month suggested this would have a \"negligible\" impact on rising temperatures.\n\nThe analysis suggested that by 2030, global temperatures would only be 0.01C lower than expected.\n\nBut the researchers, led by the University of Leeds, stressed that a green recovery could significantly alter the long term outlook and keep the world from exceeding 1.5C of warming by the middle of this century.", "The cancelled M4 plans have been a bone of contention between UK and Welsh ministers\n\nThe UK government has published plans for a new law to give it more powers to spend in Wales.\n\nUnder the draft legislation powers currently resting at EU level would be transferred to UK ministers, giving them the ability to spend on economic development and infrastructure, for example.\n\nThis has sparked a political row, with Welsh ministers accusing their UK counterparts of \"stealing powers\" from them. UK ministers say they are simply using the legislation to replace current EU funding programmes.\n\nThe move also raises some questions:\n\nDoes this mean the UK government could build the M4 relief road?\n\nUK ministers have long been in favour of building a new road to cut congestion on the motorway south of Newport, and were frustrated when First Minister Mark Drakeford cancelled the scheme last year because of its £1.6bn cost and its impact on the environment.\n\nIt is tempting to believe this bill would give the UK government the ability to send in the bulldozers and build the 14-mile relief road, but it's not that simple.\n\nA planning inspector said the case for a relief road was \"compelling\"\n\nYes, UK ministers would be giving themselves infrastructure powers - but they would still also need the support of Welsh Government which controls big road projects to build the motorway.\n\nUnder the current administration in Cardiff that would be unlikely.\n\nIt would, however, give them the power to fund it - the same goes for other large infrastructure projects.\n\nAs most planning in Wales is devolved, it operates nationally through the Welsh Government and locally through councils.\n\nHow much does the UK government say its wants to spend in Wales?\n\nThis is still unclear - the UK government has not given a figure.\n\nThis bill does not set out exactly what UK government funds will replace EU ones - we're told that's coming in the autumn.\n\nPreviously, Wales had been eligible for £375m a year from EU funds.\n\nThe Conservatives manifesto at the 2019 general election committed them to matching EU funds for each of the four nations \"at a minimum\".\n\nUltimate political authority still resides with the UK Parliament at Westminster\n\nDoes this mean the Welsh Government can't spend on things such as culture, sport and economic development anymore?\n\nNo - it still will be able to.\n\nBut the reason Welsh ministers have accused the UK government of \"stealing powers\" is because the legislation would also give the UK government the power to spend on these areas, which it hasn't been able to since devolution in 1999.\n\nThe Welsh Government had also managed the EU cash the bill is replacing, in conjunction with the European Union.\n\nUK ministers, however, claim they aren't taking any powers away but are just replacing EU programmes.\n\nDoes that mean the Welsh Government will get less money from the UK government?\n\nA spokesperson for No.10 said UK government spending in these areas wouldn't come from Wales' block grant.\n\nThat's the money the Welsh Government gets from the UK Treasury to spend on devolved areas including health, education and economic development.\n\nBut the spokesperson said spending powers would be \"discussed\" at the UK government's next spending review.\n\nMost of the money Welsh ministers have to spend comes from the UK Treasury\n\nCan the Welsh Government stop this going ahead?\n\nThis proposed law has faced opposition from devolved governments.\n\nThe UK Parliament is sovereign - which means Westminster can pass laws for all parts of the UK, including if it involves things usually controlled from Cardiff or Edinburgh.\n\nBut it the UK Parliament will not normally make laws in this way without the consent of the Welsh and Scottish parliaments, and Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nYet this convention, known as the Sewel convention, isn't legally binding - and the UK government has ignored it occasionally in the past.\n\nA bill is a draft law. It doesn't become law until it's been voted through the House of Commons with a majority.\n\nIt will go through a number of debates - and possibly be amended - before it gets to its final stage to become law.\n\nHowever, the current UK government has a large majority in the House of Commons - meaning unless some of their own MPs rebel it is easier for them to pass new laws.", "Holiday camp operator Butlin's has yet to tell 1,000 furloughed workers what their future is when the government's wage subsidy scheme ends next month.\n\nA document sent to staff and seen by the BBC suggests employees either take paid holiday if they have any remaining or unpaid leave if not.\n\nButlin's is currently operating at 50% capacity and is heading into the winter months when income falls significantly.\n\nIt said no decision had been made about workers on the government scheme.\n\nThe company said: \"Since we reopened Butlin's we've worked hard to bring back as many of our team as possible whilst ensuring we're safe and secure.\n\n\"There has been no decision made regarding our team who are still furloughed.\"\n\nButlin's - whose workers are known for their distinctive red jackets - has 6,000 employees in total. It is part of the privately-owned Bourne Leisure Group which also operates Haven caravan sites and Warner Leisure Hotels with a total workforce of 15,000.\n\nBefore the government's Job Retention Scheme was announced, Bourne Leisure warned that 10,000 jobs would be at risk without government help.\n\nBourne Leisure has since secured hundreds of millions of pounds in government support in the form of loans, furlough payments and deferred VAT and business rates since the pandemic struck.\n\nBourne Leisure paid out over £60m in 2019 to the three families that own the firm - the Harris, Cook and Allen families - reportedly taking the total paid out in dividends to £600m over the last 15 years.\n\nA staff member told the BBC \"I can't believe a great British holiday brand, owned by muliti-millionaires wants staff to take unpaid leave after furlough\".\n\nIt is just one example of the uncertainty facing millions of employees still having a dwindling proportion of their wages paid by the government as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme winds down before its planned withdrawal on 31 October.\n\nAs the date approaches, businesses will have to consult with staff on how many of them they intend to make redundant.\n\nMenzies Aviation which provides services at Luton Airport this week informed 176 workers - half its workforce - that their jobs were at risk when furlough ends.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has ruled out extending the furlough scheme\n\nHowever, union sources told the BBC they had been surprised that there had not been more notifications given that companies with over 100 employees, who intend to make over 100 people redundant are obliged to consult with staff 45 days before termination.\n\nUnions, business groups and politicians across the political divide have been lobbying the government to find a replacement for the furlough scheme that all acknowledge has saved millions from unemployment.\n\nSo far the government has ruled out any extension but Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he is \"open to creative ideas\".\n\nAdditional support may yet be forthcoming for regions hit by additional and increasingly widespread lockdown measures. It is thought future schemes will focus more on retraining and creating new jobs rather than returning those still on furlough to the jobs many think they still have but in reality do not.", "People reported queues for attractions, gridlocked traffic and little social distancing in Blackpool on Saturday\n\nVisitors have flocked to Blackpool despite police warning against having a \"last blast\" in the resort before tighter restrictions come into force.\n\nPeople reported queues for attractions, heavy traffic, little social distancing and few people wearing masks indoors.\n\nLancashire will be subject to tighter restrictions from Tuesday after significant increases in Covid-19 cases, but Blackpool is exempt.\n\nPolice had said they were preparing for large crowds over the weekend.\n\nGem Concannon, 36, from Northwich, Cheshire, said she had visited the resort on Saturday with her family.\n\nShe said: \"It was heaving, hardly anyone was wearing masks or social distancing. It was shocking.\n\n\"I've never seen it that busy before.\"\n\nPolice had said they were preparing for large crowds in Blackpool over the weekend\n\nOn Friday, Lancashire Police deputy chief constable Terry Woods appealed for people not to have one \"last blast\" before the restrictions come into place.\n\nHe said: \"Going to Blackpool this weekend if you're not from [there] and mingling in any large crowds - that wouldn't be looking after your family.\n\n\"Make sensible decisions to protect yourselves, going to Blackpool in mass numbers is quite the opposite of protecting yourselves.\"\n\nBlackpool's director of public health Dr Arif Rajpura said: \"It is absolutely critical that residents and businesses adhere to the new 'rule of six' restrictions and follow all Covid guidelines around social distancing and wearing of face coverings.\n\n\"The same advice goes to those visiting our resort. The only way to stop the spread of the virus is to respect the rules which are there for a reason.\"\n\nThe new restrictions across other parts of Lancashire ban households from meeting each other at home or in private gardens.\n\nPubs and restaurants must also shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nInfection rates in Blackpool are lower than in some parts of the county but the area has seen an increase in positive cases.\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 New Covid-19 rules for North West and Midlands", "Sir Keir Starmer says Labour and the unions must \"stand together\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been warned against \"watering down\" the \"radical policies\" he promised during his campaign to become Labour leader.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union told the BBC he must not \"cede any ground\" to the Conservatives and fight for \"root-and-branch\" reform of society.\n\nGeneral Secretary Matt Wrack added that he had not \"heard Keir make that case\" since becoming Labour leader in April.\n\nSir Keir has urged the party and unions to \"stand together like never before\".\n\nLabour's four-day annual conference, the first under his leadership, began on Saturday.\n\nRenamed Labour Connected, it is taking place online and will not feature votes, but the party's major figures will still give speeches and take part in discussions.\n\nIn his campaign to become leader, Sir Keir set out 10 pledges.\n\nAmong these was putting a \"Green New Deal at the heart of everything we do\", including a Clean Air Act to tackle pollution at a local level, and demanding \"international action\" on \"climate rights\".\n\nSir Keir also pledged to work \"shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to stand up for working people, tackle insecure work and low pay\".\n\nHe said a Labour government under him would repeal the Conservatives' 2016 Trade Union Act, which makes industrial action more difficult.\n\nThe FBU wants Sir Keir Starmer to follow through on plans to reverse curbs on industrial action\n\nMr Wrack, whose FBU is one of the more left-leaning of the 12 Labour-affiliated trade unions, said: \"Our present crisis has only made the case for that platform more urgent, but we haven't yet heard Keir make that case in opposition.\"\n\nHe said the Labour leader should promote the Socialist Green New Deal, agreed at last year's party conference.\n\nIt calls for net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, bringing the energy sector into public ownership and the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the environment sector, on union-negotiated rates of pay.\n\nMr Wrack said: \"We look forward to seeing Keir making [the Socialist Green New deal] his own. But that can't mean any watering down of the radical policies we fought for.\n\n\"We don't want to see Labour cede any ground to the Tories, full stop - not least on the greatest issue of our time.\"\n\nMr Wrack called Labour Connected \"a chance for Keir and the shadow cabinet to prove to members that there will be no retreat on the policy pledges he was elected on\".\n\n\"Swapping to paper straws isn't going to save our planet,\" the FBU leader said. \"Nothing short of a root-and-branch transformation of our society and economic system will save our planet from the brink of destruction.\"\n\nHe added that rebuilding the economy after the pandemic \"should be seen as an opportunity to tackle the climate crisis as well\".\n\nThe FBU backed Rebecca Long-Bailey in the Labour leadership contest\n\nThe FBU split from Labour in 2004 following a dispute with Tony Blair's government over pay. It re-affiliated in 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn became leader.\n\nThe union backed Rebecca Long-Bailey, another on the left of the party, against Sir Keir in the leadership contest earlier this year.\n\nShe was sacked from the shadow cabinet in June after she re-tweeted an article Sir Keir said \"contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories\".\n\nIn a separate development, Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, the UK's second-biggest union, has promised to review its financial support for Labour.\n\nAddressing the TUC Congress earlier this week, Sir Keir continued to promote a unifying message when he said: \"Labour and the trade union movement need to stand together like never before, to show the British people that we've got their back and their future too.\n\n\"We'll fight to protect jobs, incomes and working conditions at this time of national crisis, and show that there is a better, fairer society to come. That is our mission.\"\n\nLast week, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC that Sir Keir had made a \"really strong start\" as Labour leader.\n\nThe party has been contacted for a response to Mr Wrack's comments.", "Alexander III reigned 1249-86 and was from the House of Dunkeld - the same Scottish royal family that included Macbeth, who reigned 1040-57\n\nA Scottish medieval coin turned into jewellery has been declared treasure after being \"lost\" and then found hundreds of miles away in England.\n\nThe silver coin featuring the head of Alexander III of Scotland dates from 1280-6 and was discovered in Long Stratton, Norfolk in August 2019.\n\nThe penny was worn as either a pendant or brooch by someone who was religious, coin expert Dr Adrian Marsden said.\n\nHe added that the coin \"had travelled some way\".\n\nDr Marsden, a numismatist at Norfolk Historic Environment Service, said it \"must have been eventually lost\" in the county until it was rediscovered last year by a metal detectorist in a field.\n\nThe exact location of the find is not being disclosed.\n\nThe historian said the item would have been worn as a religious symbol as the side with the cross was the one intended for display, rather than the head side of the coin.\n\n\"There is also settings for gems [which were no longer present] which represent the five wounds of Christ, so it is symbolic and adds to the religious dimension,\" he said.\n\nDr Marsden believed the owner \"would have been relatively well-off\" as the penny was the equivalent of half a day's wage at the time.\n\n\"It would have been a bit of a luxury and the owner would have some social status,\" he said.\n\n\"The coin was probably equivalent to £20 in today's money.\"\n\nThe Norwich Castle Museum hopes to acquire the coin and add it to a collection of similar items.\n\nIt was declared treasure at an inquest at Norfolk Coroner's Court earlier this month.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion, please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTadej Pogacar is set to win the Tour de France ahead of strong favourite Primoz Roglic in one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history.\n\nPogacar, 21, will be confirmed as the youngest winner for 111 years at the end of Sunday's largely processional stage to Paris.\n\nThe UAE-Team Emirates rider overhauled a 57-second deficit to Roglic, who was thought to be a far stronger rider on stage 20's time trial to La Planche des Belles Filles.\n\nIt will be a first Grand Tour victory for Slovenian Pogacar, who took the yellow jersey from compatriot Roglic after he had held it for 13 days.\n\nPogacar is now 59 seconds ahead of Roglic at the end of a day of drama reminiscent of the 1989 Tour, when Greg LeMond unexpectedly overhauled Laurent Fignon in a final-day time trial to win by eight seconds.\n\nRichie Porte of Trek-Segafredo will be on the podium in Paris for the first time, taking third, three minutes and 30 seconds down.\n\nPogacar won the stage, one minute 21 seconds ahead of Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team-mate Tom Dumoulin. Porte climbed to third overall after finishing in third place on the stage.\n\nBritain's Adam Yates of Mitchelton-Scott will finish ninth in the general classification, 9mins 25secs behind the winner.\n\nRoglic has looked imperious throughout the three-week race thanks to support from his powerful team, featuring some of the sport's best riders, including Dumoulin, Wout van Aert and Sepp Kuss.\n\nThe 36km stage from Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles was a challenging course that finished, unusually for time trial, with a category 1 climb. Roglic, 30, was considered a far better time triallist than Pogacar, and began the stage strongly.\n\nBut Roglic hit trouble at the changeover from super-fast specialist time-trial bikes to a more conventional road machine before the climb, struggling to clip into his pedals, wobbling when being pushed away and never seeming to find his typical rhythm.\n\nRoglic, who claimed his first Grand Tour victory at last year's Vuelta a Espana, looked desperate as he crossed the line, his helmet pushed upwards and slightly lop-sided, knowing already he had lost the race.\n\nDesperation turned to confusion and dejection as he sat on the ground in his full yellow skinsuit, trying to comprehend how he had committed one of modern cycling's biggest chokes.\n\nAnd as Pogacar sat down for his post-race TV interview, Roglic interrupted it to embrace his countryman.\n\n\"I just didn't push enough,\" said Roglic. \"It was like that. I was more and more without the power I needed but I gave it all until the end.\n\n\"We'll see what happens next. I can be happy with the racing we showed here so let's take positive things out of it.\"\n\nFrom a distant second, Pogacar takes it all\n\nRoglic had been favourite to win the 107th edition of cycling's greatest race, alongside defending champion Egan Bernal of Ineos Grenadiers.\n\nHowever, Bernal abandoned the race before stage 17 following a disastrous climb up the Grand Colombier on stage 15, where he cracked and lost more than seven minutes to Roglic.\n\nIt was one of the biggest downturns in form for a defending champion in recent history, and put an end to Ineos' record of winning every Tour since 2015, four of which were as Team Sky.\n\nIneos looked set to have something to celebrate as they tried to seal the polka dot King of the Mountains jersey through their second protected rider Richard Carapaz.\n\nBut despite 2019 Giro d'Italia winner Carapaz's attempts to deliberately ride a slow first section before blasting up the mountain, Pogacar's epic performance eclipsed him and he took the jersey.\n\nIt is the second of three jerseys Pogacar will claim at this year's race - he will also pick up the young riders' white jersey.\n\nIn total Pogacar picks up prize money of 500,000 euros (£458,270) for the yellow jersey, 25,000 euros (£22,900) for the King of the Mountains award, and a further 20,000 euros (£18,300) for being the best placed young rider.\n\n\"I'm really proud of the team,\" Pogacar said. \"They did such a big effort. We were dreaming of the yellow jersey from the start. Amazing.\n\n\"It was not just me today, we needed the whole team for the recon. I knew every corner and knew exactly where to accelerate. Congrats to all my team.\n\n\"I didn't hear anything on the radio in the final five kilometres because the fans were too loud so I just went full gas.\n\n\"My dream was just to be on the Tour de France and now I've won it. It's unbelievable.\"", "The financial secrets of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and celebrities has been exposed in another huge leak of financial documents.\n\nDubbed the Pandora Papers it features almost 12 million files from companies providing offshore services in tax havens around the world.\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has organised the biggest ever global investigation, spanning 117 countries and involving more than 600 journalists. In the UK the investigation has been led by BBC Panorama and the Guardian.\n\nThe files are the latest in a series of whistleblower-led investigations that have rocked the world of finance in recent years.\n\nSo let's round up the other major leaks of the past decade.\n\nIn September 2020 the FinCEN Files exposed the failure of major global banks to stop money laundering and financial crime. They also revealed how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files included more than 2,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs), filed by financial institutions to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, or FinCEN, a part of the US Treasury Department. They also include 17,641 records obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and other sources.\n\nThey were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the ICIJ and 400 journalists around the world, including BBC Panorama, which led the investigation in the UK.\n\nA huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which revealed the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nWho leaked the data? The BBC does not know the identity of the source. The 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the ICIJ. Panorama led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries.\n\nA confidential settlement was later reached between the BBC, the Guardian and Appleby over the reporting of the leaked documents, which Appleby said were taken by hackers. The Guardian and BBC said the reports were in the public interest but did not give more detail about the settlement.\n\nUntil Pandora this leak was seen as the daddy of them all in data size. If you thought the Wikileaks dump of sensitive diplomatic cables in 2010 was a big deal, this carried 1,500 times more data.\n\nSüddeutsche Zeitung's \"brothers\". Despite surnames that sound exactly the same, these two leading lights of the Panama Papers investigation, Frederik Obermaier (L) and Bastian Obermayer, are not related\n\nThe Panama Papers came about after an anonymous source contacted reporters at German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2015 and supplied encrypted documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. It sells anonymous offshore companies that help the owners hide their business dealings.\n\nOverwhelmed by the scale of the dump, which eventually grew to 2.6 terabytes of data, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called in the ICIJ, which led to the involvement of about 100 other partner news organisations, including the BBC's Panorama.\n\nAfter more than a year of scrutiny, the ICIJ and its partners jointly published the Panama Papers on 3 April 2016, with the database of documents going online a month later.\n\nWho was named? Where do we start? A few of the news partners focused on how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin shuffled cash around the globe. Not that the Russians cared much. The prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan came to far stickier ends, the former quitting and the latter being thrown out of office by the Supreme Court. Overall the financial dealings of a dozen current and former world leaders, more than 120 politicians and public officials and countless billionaires, celebrities and sports stars were exposed.\n\nWho leaked the data? John Doe. Yes, we know. It's not a real name. In US crime series it is mostly used to label anonymous victims but Mr (or Ms) Doe's manifesto, released a month after publication, reveals a self-styled revolutionary. The real identity is still unknown.\n\nFive months after the Panama Papers, the ICIJ published revelations from the Bahamas corporate registry. The 38GB cache revealed the offshore activities of \"prime ministers, ministers, princes and convicted felons\", it said. Former EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes admitted an \"oversight\" in failing to disclose her interest in an offshore company.\n\nThis ICIJ investigation, involving hundreds of journalists from 45 countries, including BBC Panorama, went public in February 2015.\n\nIt focused on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse), a subsidiary of the banking giant, and so lifted the lid on dealings in a country where banking secrecy is taken for granted.\n\nThe leaked files covered accounts up to the year 2007, linked with more than 100,000 individuals and legal entities from more than 200 countries.\n\nThe ICIJ said the subsidiary had served \"those close to discredited regimes\" and \"clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations\".\n\nHSBC admitted that the \"compliance culture and standards of due diligence\" at the subsidiary at the time were \"lower than they are today\".\n\nWho was named? The ICIJ said HSBC had profited from \"arms dealers, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws\".\n\nIt also cited those close to the regimes of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian President Ben Ali and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.\n\nWho leaked the data? Actually, we know this one. The ICIJ investigation was based on data originally leaked by the French-Italian software engineer and whistleblower Hervé Falciani, though the ICIJ got it later from another source. From 2008 onwards he passed information on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) to French authorities, who in turn passed them to other relevant governments. Mr Falciani was indicted in Switzerland. He was held in detention in Spain but was later released and now lives in France.\n\nOr LuxLeaks for short. Another extensive ICIJ investigation, which revealed its findings in November 2014.\n\nIt centred on how professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers helped multinational companies gain hundreds of favourable tax rulings in Luxembourg between 2002 and 2010.\n\nThe ICIJ said multinationals had saved billions by channelling money through Luxembourg, sometimes at tax rates of less than 1%. One address in Luxembourg was home to more than 1,600 companies, it said.\n\nThe leak of documents was first exposed in 2012 after a joint investigation between Panorama and France2 which lifted the lid on the tax agreements of UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and media company Northern & Shell.\n\nWho was named? Pepsi, IKEA, AIG and Deutsche Bank were among those named.\n\nA second tranche of leaked documents said the Walt Disney Co and Skype had funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars in profits through Luxembourg subsidiaries. They and the other firms denied any wrongdoing.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker had been PM of Luxembourg when it enacted many of its tax avoidance rules. He had been appointed president of the European Commission just a few days before the leak came out. He said he had not encouraged avoidance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Claude Juncker says he is \"politically responsible for what happened\"\n\nEurosceptics went to town and pushed a censure motion against him and his commission. It was rejected. But the EU did investigate, and by 2016 had proposed a yet-to-be realised common tax scheme for the EU.\n\nWho leaked the data? Frenchman Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee, was the main man, saying he had acted in the public interest. Another PwC employee, Raphael Halet, helped him.\n\nThe pair, along with journalist Edouard Perrin, were all charged in Luxembourg after a PwC complaint. A first verdict was later revisited, watering down sentences, with Deltour given a six-month suspended jail term which was later quashed. Halet received a small fine and Mr Perrin was acquitted.\n\nThis was about a tenth of the size of the Panama Papers but was seen as the biggest exposé of international tax fraud ever when the ICIJ and its news partners went public in November 2012 and April 2013.\n\nSome 2.5 million files revealed the names of more than 120,000 companies and trusts in hideaways such as the British Virgin Islands and the Cook Islands.\n\nBBC Panorama exposed a flourishing tax evasion industry in the UK in an undercover investigation based on the files.\n\nWho was named? The usual suspects. A mix of politicians, government officials and their families, with the Russians notable, but also those in China, Azerbaijan, Canada, Thailand, Mongolia and Pakistan. The Philippines - in the form of the family of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos - get a dishonourable mention. To be fair, the ICIJ does point out that the leaks are not necessarily evidence of illegal actions.\n\nWho leaked the data? The ICIJ cites \"two financial service providers, a private bank in Jersey and the Bahamas corporate registry\" as the sources, but says nothing more other than it was \"data obtained\".\n\nThe Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents and files exposing the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC and has led to one of the biggest ever global investigations.\n\nMore than 600 journalists from 117 countries have looked at the hidden fortunes of some of the most powerful people on the planet. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nPandora Papers coverage: follow reaction on Twitter using #PandoraPapers, in the BBC News app, or watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Australia looks set to record its lowest daily coronavirus increase for three months, with just 18 new cases reported so far.\n\nThe state of Victoria - the epicentre of the country's Covid-19 outbreak - recorded 14 new infections to Sunday morning, down from 21 the day before.\n\nNew South Wales and Queensland reported two cases each. The remaining states are yet to report their figures, but rarely record any new cases.\n\nFigures were last this low on 23 June.\n\nVictoria's Premier Daniel Andrews said the numbers were \"cause for great optimism\". His state, which has accounted for 75% of Australia's 26,900 cases and 90% of its 849 deaths, has been under lockdown since early July.\n\nMelbourne, the capital of Victoria, has been under tighter restrictions than other areas, including a curfew and stay-at-home orders. Anti-lockdown protests in the city have become a regular sight.\n\nOn Sunday, demonstrators gathered in the central business district, according to local media. Saturday's protest, in a park, saw protesters being dispersed by police on horseback.\n\nProtests have become a regular sight in Melbourne\n\nHowever, Mr Andrews has defended the state's strict lockdown, pointing to rising cases in Europe.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking to see all of those communities have given - all the sacrifice they've made - and now they've got cases running perhaps more wildly than their first wave,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"Some of these nations as well, I see a bit of commentary around the place about how... death rates in second waves are lower. That's not what the data's saying. That's not what the data in Europe is saying. You've got to see it off.\"\n\nMelbourne has started to ease its restrictions, saying it will lift the curfew and exercise limits on 26 October if there are fewer than five new cases per day.", "A British businessman, formerly of MI6, is under investigation for allegedly selling information to undercover spies from China, a Whitehall official says.\n\nFraser Cameron, who runs the EU-Asia Centre think tank, is suspected of passing sensitive information about the EU to two spies allegedly posing as Brussels-based journalists.\n\nHe is alleged to have exchanged the information for thousands of Euros.\n\nBut Mr Cameron told The Times the allegations were \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe businessman, who worked for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service from 1976 to 1991, says he has no access to any \"secret or confidential information\".\n\nMr Cameron, who has also worked for the Foreign Office and European Commission, told Politico that the allegations \"are without foundation\", saying he has \"a wide range of Chinese contacts as part of my duties with the EU-Asia Centre and some of them may have a double function\".\n\nA senior Whitehall official, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the investigation had been a long-running joint inquiry between British and Belgian intelligence and claimed that a breakthrough had come in recent months.\n\nHe said this was a great example of how closely British intelligence worked with its European partners.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says there have been growing fears about the extent of covert Chinese intelligence-gathering in Europe, including over sensitive negotiations between the EU and Britain over Brexit.\n\nBelgium's state security service is quoted by the Financial Times as saying Mr Cameron's alleged actions posed \"a clear threat towards the European institutions\" based in the Belgian capital.\n\nThe investigation is reportedly being run by Belgium's federal prosecutors.", "Huge banners bearing the portrait of Janusz Walus can often be seen draped around football stadiums in Poland calling for the freedom of a man serving a life sentence in South Africa for the 1993 murder of prominent anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani.\n\nMany feared that Hani's killing could provoke a racial war, coming at a crucial point in talks for the white minority to hand over power, which eventually happened when Nelson Mandela became president the following year after the country's first all-race elections.\n\nIt is unclear how Walus became a symbol for young Polish nationalists and fascists but about 10 years ago, he started receiving letters from supporters in Poland, journalist Cezary Lazarewicz, who interviewed Walus for his book, told the BBC.\n\n\"They wrote to him that they admired him because he tried to stop communism in South Africa, that he is the great hope of the white race,\" he said.\n\nIn pictures and videos posted online some of the football fans in the stands are carrying scarves with the hashtag #StayStrongBrother printed on them.\n\nIt's inspired by a song dedicated to him which includes the lyrics: \"A few men could ever take the step you did, to enter the path of glory and victory\".\n\n\"The fans are not calling on Walus' release on humanitarian grounds, but they are glorifying what he did and the ideology,\" Dr Rafal Pankowski, from Never Again association, an anti-racist group, told the BBC.\n\nThe song, which is sung in English, is \"a good example of the internationalisation of contemporary white nationalism,\" he adds.\n\nWalus, an immigrant from Poland who had acquired South African citizenship, and his co-defendant Clive Derby-Lewis, were sentenced to death shortly after Hani's killing, but the sentence was commuted to life sentence after South Africa abolished the death penalty.\n\nThey both appealed for amnesty during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1997, with Walus saying that he was driven by political, anti-communist motives to kill Hani, who was then the secretary-general of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and also a leading figure in the armed wing of the African National Congress. The two parties were close allies in the fight against apartheid.\n\nDerby-Lewis, who provided the gun used to kill Hani, died in 2016, a year after he was granted parole for health reasons.\n\nWalus, who is serving his life sentence at a maximum security prison in Pretoria, continues to find fame online.\n\nEven more shockingly, the range of merchandise supporting him and celebrating him as a \"political prisoner\" has been sold on a South African-owned online market website.\n\nThe BBC confirmed that scarves, a T-shirt, and a sticker bearing the name and image of Janusz Walus had been put up for sale on OLX's Polish website. These items have since been removed.\n\nScarves from several football clubs were among those removed from OLX\n\nOLX is owned by technology-investment company Prosus, a subsidiary of South African-based global tech giant Naspers.\n\nThe Never Again association reported the sale of the Walus items and other \"racist\" items to OLX.\n\n\"Promoting fascism or racial hatred is prohibited by the Polish law but the implementation of the law is notoriously weak,\" Dr Pankowski said.\n\nThis T-shirt was put up for sale on the OLX platform\n\nOLX Poland's regulations also prohibit selling items containing \"content inciting hatred based on national, ethnic, racial, religious differences or due to non-denominational status\".\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Naspers said that \"right-wing elements in Poland have violated the terms of use of the OLX Poland platform. Although they only managed to do so to a very limited extent, any content that incites violence, racism, or discrimination is abhorrent and contrary to the values and beliefs of our organisation\".\n\n\"Our systems use technology automatically to identify and remove listings that violate OLX's policies,\" spokesperson Shamiela Letsoalo said.\n\nThe Walus items were not listed under his name and so the system missed them, the statement said, adding that they were \"swiftly removed\" after the team was notified.\n\nBut this isn't enough for SACP spokesman Alex Mashilo, who told the BBC that Naspers had \"to take action, more than what they said out of convenience\".\n\nHe added that the party would \"consider this matter further and decide the next steps to adopt\".\n\nOne explanation for the rise in visibility of Walus' cause is a series of court and government decisions which led to the quashing of a 2016 decision to release him on parole.\n\nHani's family and the SACP had opposed the move even after South African authorities stripped Walus of his citizenship in 2017, clearing the way for him to be deported to Poland if he was freed from prison.\n\nIn March, the justice ministry finally ruled out his release.\n\nWalus is \"unrepentant except for his pretences to be seen to be complying with parole eligibility,\" Mr Mashilo said.\n\n\"The uncorrectable assassin who almost plunged South Africa into a civil war with far-reaching implications must not be released on parole. As things stand, there has been no full disclosure of the truth and all the circumstances surrounding Hani's assassination,\" Mr Mashilo added.\n\nHe said questions remained about the gun used to kill Hani.\n\n\"The murder weapon that the man pulled the trigger of was taken from military armoury. Who took it, whose hands did it go through... to [get to] its destination, Walus, and his assassination of Hani?\" he asked.\n\nSupporters of the ruling ANC party have also been opposed to freeing Walus on parole\n\nThe last time most South Africans saw Walus was during the TRC sessions, answering questions about Hani's murder.\n\nAt some point during the hearings he locked his head in a slightly titled position and shot a blank but searing stare across the room - it's a look like this which can be seen on display in scarves and banners in Polish football stadiums.\n\nLast year an audio message from Walus was uploaded to YouTube and Facebook, in which he thanked his fans for raising legal fees and buying sports equipment.\n\nWalus told Polish journalist Lazarewicz he believes black people and white people should live separately\n\nWhen Lazarewicz visited Walus two years ago for an interview, he found a man who, 25 years after his incarceration, was unrelenting in his convictions.\n\n\"Four years ago Walus met in prison with Hani's daughter - Lindiwe. He told her [that] when he lost his father [in 1997] then he understood that Chris Hani was not only a communist, but he was also a father and husband,\" Lazarewicz said.\n\n\"Walus told me that he was very sorry for killing Lindiwe's father. But he never regretted [killing a] communist leader. He told me, in 1993, there was a war in South Africa and he felt like a soldier... he still believes in the system of racial segregation and that whites and blacks should live apart,\" he added.\n\nThis could explain why Walus has become an icon of white supremacist groups.\n\nSo even as his supporters call for his freedom in football games in Poland, it's their shared allegiance to a racist ideology that will block any chance of parole and confine him to prison for the rest of his life.", "The letter was intercepted by law enforcement before it reached the White House, officials said\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of sending a package containing ricin poison to US President Donald Trump, according to US immigration officials.\n\nThe unnamed woman was found at a border crossing in Buffalo, New York, as she tried to enter the US from Canada, and was reportedly carrying a gun.\n\nThe letter containing the deadly poison is believed to have come from Canada, according to investigators there.\n\nThe letter was discovered last week before it could reach the White House.\n\nRicin, a poison found naturally in castor beans, has been used in other attempted attacks against the White House in recent years.\n\nThe Trump administration is yet to comment on the reports.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service are investigating the package, which was discovered at a processing facility for mail sent to the White House.\n\n\"At this time, there is no known threat to public safety,\" the FBI told CNN on Saturday.\n\nThe suspect may have also sent ricin to five addresses in Texas, including a jail and a sheriff's office, according to police.\n\nThe presence of ricin was confirmed after several tests by the FBI, authorities said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Saturday it was working with the FBI to investigate the \"suspicious letter sent to the White House\".\n\nA spokesman for the Mission, Texas, police department told the Associated Press on Monday an envelope was in the care of local officials and no one had been hurt.\n\nAnother Texas Sheriff, Eddie Guerra in Hidalgo County, also confirmed envelopes with ricin were posted to staff there, but reported no injuries.\n\nThe RCMP division in Quebec is leading a search of a residence in the Montreal suburb of St-Hubert, which authorities said on Monday is linked to the suspect.\n\nTheir chemicals and explosives team is on site, along with local police and fire units.\n\nThe suspect is due to appear in court on Tuesday in Buffalo.\n\nRicin is a lethal substance that, if swallowed, inhaled or injected, can cause nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding and ultimately organ failure.\n\nNo known antidote exists for ricin. If a person is exposed to ricin, death can take place within 36 to 72 hours, depending on the dose received, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nCastor seeds, which are used to make the deadly ricin poison\n\nThe CDC said the poison - which has been used in terror plots - can be manufactured into a weapon in the form of a powder, mist or pellet.\n\nThe White House and other federal buildings have been the target of ricin packages in the past.\n\nIn 2014, a Mississippi man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending letters dusted with ricin to former President Barack Obama and other officials.\n\nFour years later, in 2018, a former Navy veteran was charged with sending toxic letters to the Pentagon and White House.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham have re-signed Wales forward Gareth Bale from Spanish champions Real Madrid on a season-long loan.\n\nBale, 31, left Spurs for a then world record £85m in 2013 and went on to score more than 100 goals and win four Champions Leagues with Real.\n\n\"It's nice to be back. It's such a special club to me. It's where I made my name,\" said Bale.\n\n\"Hopefully, now I can get some match fitness, get under way and really help the team and, hopefully, win trophies.\"\n\nSpurs said Bale has signed for them with a knee injury sustained playing for Wales earlier this month and they \"anticipate that he will be match fit after October's international break\".\n\nThat would mean the forward missing their next five games, with the club's first outing following the international break at home to West Ham on 17 October.\n\nBale originally joined Tottenham as a 17-year-old from Southampton in 2007 for an initial payment of £5m.\n\n\"I always thought when I did leave that I would love to come back,\" he added.\n\n\"I feel like it is a good fit. It's a good time for me. I'm hungry and motivated. I want to do well for the team and can't wait to get started.\"\n\nAt Real, Bale has also won two La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey, three Uefa Super Cups and three Club World Cups.\n\n\"I think by going to Madrid, winning trophies and going far with the national team I feel like I have that kind of winning mentality, how to win trophies,\" he said.\n\n\"You don't realise it until you're there and in those situations, in finals, how to kind of deal with the situation, the nerves, the pressure, and I think that all goes with experience.\n\n\"Hopefully I can bring that to the dressing room, bring a bit more belief to everybody that we can win a trophy, and the target is to do that this season, to be fighting on every front possible. I want to bring that mentality here, back to Tottenham.\"\n\nBale remains the most expensive British player in history, as well as the top-scoring British player in La Liga - with 80 goals and 40 assists in 171 league appearances, averaging a goal or assist every 104 minutes.\n\nHowever, a run of injuries, indifferent form and a deteriorating relationship with manager Zinedine Zidane had seen Bale become a marginal figure.\n• None The Premier League stars who have returned to former clubs\n\nFrom the world's most expensive signing to a player on the fringes\n\nReal eclipsed the £80m they paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 to take Bale to the Bernabeu, with the forward signing an initial £300,000-a-week, six-year contract.\n\nHe extended his stay with a new six-year deal in 2016, reported to be worth £600,000 a week - and £150m over its duration - in salaries and bonuses.\n\nThe Welshman was hugely successful in his first few seasons at Real, scoring in the 2014 and 2018 Champions League finals, as well as the 2014 Copa del Rey final.\n\nBBC Sport readers voted Bale as the best British export of the Premier League era earlier this year, his 42% share comfortably eclipsing former England, Manchester United and Real Madrid winger David Beckham's 29%.\n\nBut, frustrated by a lack of playing time, Bale came close to a move to China last year before Real blocked it.\n\nAfter celebrating Wales' qualification for Euro 2020 with a banner reading \"Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that Order\" in November, he received a backlash in Spain and was jeered by Real fans in his first game back for the club.\n\nHis relationship with Zidane deteriorated to the extent Bale asked not to travel with the squad for the Champions League last-16 second-leg tie against Manchester City in August because he knew he had no chance of being involved.\n\nHe started just one match when the 2019-20 La Liga season resumed following the coronavirus shutdown and played only 100 minutes as Real won a first league title since 2017, and was conspicuously on the fringes of the team's celebrations.\n\nBale joins manager Jose Mourinho's other signings of this transfer window, joining goalkeeper Joe Hart, defender Matt Doherty, midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and left-back Sergio Reguilon at the club.\n\nTottenham, Champions League finalists in 2019, were beaten 1-0 at home by Everton in their first match of the 2020-21 campaign on Sunday.\n\nThey finished sixth in the English top flight last season to qualify for the Europa League, seven points adrift of Chelsea in the final Champions League position.\n\nMourinho, beginning his first full campaign with Spurs after succeeding Mauricio Pochettino in December, tried to sign Bale when Real Madrid boss but the player arrived the season after the Portuguese's departure.\n• None All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur's Amazon documentary reviewed\n\nOpposition will be scared of Bale 'wow' factor - analysis\n\nGareth Bale has that \"wow\" factor, something only a few very special players in the world have got.\n\nWhen they play, they have a different aura and a presence on the pitch that affects everyone - even before they kick a ball.\n\nSo, Bale will not just have a positive effect on his new Tottenham team-mates and give them a massive confidence boost, he will change the way opposition players feel about facing Spurs.\n\nThey will be worried when they see his name on the teamsheet and then, when they face him on the pitch, I can tell you now they will drop off five yards because they will be scared of him - whoever they are.\n\nMore on the deal\n\nThe indications are that Tottenham will pay 40% of Bale's salary, which is in excess of £600,000 a week.\n\nThis figure may involve bonuses, so the actual payment may be less than £260,000 a week, but it will still place Bale above even Harry Kane, who signed a £200,000-a-week deal in 2018.\n\nHowever, coming less than six months after chairman Daniel Levy put staff on furlough, and less than four months after Tottenham took out a £175m loan from the Bank of England - which it expressly says will not be used to buy players and is more likely to help pay loans for their £1bn stadium - it still raises questions about the deal.\n\nAn astute operator with a keen business brain, Levy can presumably justify the move on two grounds.\n\nFirst, the impact Bale could have on Mourinho's squad, leading to success on the field and therefore more money off it. Secondly, Bale is a global star and will have a major commercial impact.\n\nBale's arrival puts question marks over the short-term futures of two midfielders: Dele Alli, replaced at half-time during Sunday's home defeat by Everton, and Tanguy Ndombele, a £63m club record signing last summer.\n• None In 146 Premier League games for Tottenham Bale scored 42 times. In his last season at Tottenham in 2012-2013, Bale was involved in 37 goals in all competitions for the club (26 goals, 11 assists) - only Robin van Persie (39) and Juan Mata (49) were involved in more for a Premier League club that season.\n• Nine came outside the box ; the most by any player in a single season in the competition's history.\n• None Bale is one of four Premier League players to win the PFA Players' Player of the Year on two occasions, after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. He was also only the second Premier League player (along with Ronaldo) to win both this award alongside the Young Player of the Year award in the same season.\n• None Bale is one of seven players to score at least twice in a single Champions League final, and the only British player to do so.\n• None Since he joined Madrid in the summer of 2013, only Ronaldo (318) and Karim Benzema (235) have been involved in more competitive goals\n• None Over the past three seasons, Gareth Bale has seen his attempted dribbles drop to three or less per 90 minutes, compared to a high of 6.2 when at Tottenham and 5.8 in his first season at Real Madrid.\n\nHow is Bale's departure viewed in Madrid?\n\nThe view in Madrid is... finally, he's gone.\n\nWhether it's fair or not (and the man himself appears to be way past caring), that will be the immediate reaction of most Real Madrid fans to the news of Gareth Bale's departure.\n\nIn their minds, Bale's undeniably significant role in an impressive haul of silverware - including some genuinely sensational moments of match-winning brilliance - has been overshadowed by his startling lack of contribution in the past two years, during which time his attitude towards the club veered between disinterested apathy and hostile mockery.\n\nIn time, the acrimony of his past couple of years will be forgotten and a more generous perception will emerge, and it is already widely acknowledged that Bale was an undoubted success during his first five years in Spain.\n\nBut it can't be denied that he became an expensive burden by the end, and few fans will be sorry to see him leave.\n\nMost expensive transfers of all time\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "Pupils are back in schools but they face safety measures against the spread of Covid-19\n\nAround one in 20 children in England are out of school due to issues linked to the pandemic and lockdown, the Children's Commissioner has suggested.\n\nAnne Longfield stressed the number of schools who have sent pupils home due to a Covid-19 case was very small.\n\nThere were many others, she said, with special needs or emotional problems, who had not yet returned from lockdown.\n\nBut getting Covid tests to schools quickly was a test the government could not afford to fail, she added.\n\nSome eight million children attend England's schools and colleges, so 5% is about 400,000 pupils.\n\nMs Longfield told BBC News that the number of children back in school was good, thanks to the heroic efforts of teachers and school staff.\n\nAnd the number of schools forced to close due to an outbreak, or having to send pupils or class groups home, was very small, she said.\n\nThis is despite numerous reports of schools sending children home.\n\nShe urged parents and schools to \"hold their nerve\".\n\nHowever, quoting official figures, she added: \"We know that 10% of children are away from the classroom, not necessarily with Coronavirus,\n\n\"We think 5% of children are out of the classroom on average on a regular day - outside of the pandemic.\n\n\"But there will be children with SEND [Special Educational Needs and Disabilities], and there will be children, often troubled teens, who haven't been in school over this period of time who will need extra help to get them back into school.\"\n\n\"We also know there are a lot of the children that aren't in school don't have symptoms themselves, but are in year groups with children who might.\"\n\nShe stressed: \"So there needs to be extra clarity from the government in terms of who does need to not be in school if there are symptoms.\n\n\"Also teachers need that help from public health officials locally, to be able to make those really difficult decisions, and really difficult risk assessments of how they can keep their schools going.\n\n\"This is a test for government that they cannot afford not to pass,\" she said.\n\nThere was a danger that the goodwill of parents and teachers that had seen a successful return to school would be lost by the lack of access to testing, she warned.\n\n\"A lot of problems come because teachers are showing symptoms and therefore need to be tested and this affects the schools, especially small ones, because there comes a point when you can't run a school because there aren't enough staff.\"\n\nTeachers and schools needed to be prioritised for testing along with health care professionals, she said.\n\nShe warned that the situation with suspected Covid cases would worsen when children get the usual rounds of seasonal colds and flu.\n\n\"That's going to be really difficult for teachers to be able to manage if they don't have the test and don't have the back-up they need to make those really difficult decisions.\"\n\nHer comments come after a snapshot survey of heads, mainly in primary schools in England, painted a worrying picture of schools struggling to get tests for pupils or staff.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers survey, which had 736 responses from its 30,000 members, suggested that, where a suspected Covid case had hit a school, the system of public health support was not working well.\n\nOf those who replied, 82% had children not attending because they could not get a test, while 87% had children not attending while waiting for results.\n\nThis compared to 14% with confirmed cases of Covid-19.\n\nNAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"Tests for Covid-19 need to be readily available for everyone so that pupils and staff who get negative results can get back into school quickly.\n\n\"But we are hearing the same thing repeatedly from our members across the country. Chaos is being caused by the inability of staff and families to successfully get tested when they display symptoms.\n\n\"This means schools are struggling with staffing, have children missing school, and ultimately that children's education is being needlessly disrupted.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said 99.9% of schools were open with the vast majority of pupils attending.\n\n\"Where staff or children have symptoms of Covid-19, testing capacity is the highest it has ever been, and we are working to provide further priority access for teachers.\n\n\"Schools only need to identify close contacts and ask them to self-isolate if and when a case is confirmed from a positive test result.\n\n\"Close contacts of confirmed cases must follow the full 14 day self-isolation period and should only seek a test if they have symptoms.\"", "The woman fell from the car between Clacket Lane Services and Junction 6 of the M25\n\nA woman fell out of a moving car on the M25 while leaning out of the window to film a video for Snapchat.\n\nShe fell from the car into a \"live lane\" between junction six and the Clacket Lane Services at 01:30 BST, Surrey Police traffic officers tweeted.\n\nThe woman was not badly hurt but police said it was lucky \"she wasn't seriously injured or killed\".\n\nShe was treated at the scene by paramedics. No arrests have been made, police added.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, the Roads Policing Unit said: \"The front seat passenger was hanging out the car whilst filming a Snapchat video along the M25. She then fell out the car and into a live lane.\n\n\"It is only by luck she wasn't seriously injured or killed. #nowords\"\n\nSurrey officers tweeted the woman involved was lucky not to have been killed or injured\n\nA force spokesman said: \"Officers were called to the M25 between junction six and Clacket Lane Services shortly after 01:30 BST this morning following reports of a female falling out of a moving vehicle.\n\n\"The woman was treated by paramedics at the scene and her injuries were not life-threatening or life-changing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician had been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.\n\nHe is best known for his performances on the Black Sabbath frontman's critically-acclaimed debut album, Blizzard of Ozz, and was also the drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep.\n\nOsbourne wrote on Facebook: \"It's been 39 years since I've seen Lee but he lives for ever on the records he played on for me.\"\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 Ozzy Osbourne This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a tribute posted on the band's Twitter page, fellow Uriah Heep member Mick Box wrote: \"Lee was one of the kindest men on earth, as well as being a brother he was an incredible drummer, singer and song writer!\n\n\"He had a passion for life bar none and was much loved by the fans, as well as anyone who crossed his path! Rock in peace my friend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Uriah Heep This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Bournemouth in 1947, Kerslake joined Uriah Heep in 1971.\n\nIn the early 1980s he recorded Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman with Ozzy Osbourne.\n\nLee Kerslake (second left) was a drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep\n\nIn 2004, alongside bassist Robert Daisley, Kerslake lost a US Supreme Court appeal to claim royalties for their work on the two albums.\n\nIn December 2018 Kerslake revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer but the same month joined Uriah Heep on stage for a performance in London.", "The Mumbles Coastguard Cliff Rescue Team had reports of a car that had gone over the embankment\n\nA woman and her six-year-old daughter have been injured and taken to hospital after they were hit by a vehicle on a footpath near a beach.\n\nThe young girl and her 35-year-old mother were hit by a car in Bracelet Bay car park in Mumbles, Swansea.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a car had gone over an embankment and on to the path.\n\nPolice initially said the woman was seriously hurt but later confirmed her injuries were \"not life changing or life threatening\".\n\nThe 84 year-old driver of the car was not injured.\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\nBoth the injured woman and the girl were taken by ambulance to Morriston Hospital in Swansea and police said the young girl had suffered \"minor injuries\".\n\nThe air ambulance, coastguard and fire crews also attended the scene and The Mumbles Coastguard Cliff Rescue Team said on Twitter it had been \"to assist with a car that had gone over the embankment\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday morning. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nThe government has said it will introduce a new legal duty requiring people in England to self-isolate if they test positive for coronavirus, or are traced as a close contact. From 28 September, those who refuse an order to self-isolate could be fined up to £10,000. The new measures also include a one-off support payment of £500 for those on lower incomes. The PM is still considering tightening restrictions further after a surge in cases across the UK - another 4,422 cases were recorded on Saturday.\n\nLesley Anderson had been due to fly from Glasgow to London to celebrate her birthday, but disruption caused by the pandemic meant her British Airways flights were cancelled. She says a voucher was issued \"automatically\" after she selected \"cancel and refund flight\". BA has said there is \"no way\" that vouchers can be issued without customers requesting them. You can read the full story here from Ms Anderson, who is the latest person to accuse the airline of misleading its customers.\n\nThousands of devices which can track where a person has been and who they have interacted with are being distributed in Singapore. The small Bluetooth device is meant for those who do not own smartphones and cannot use a contact tracing app. Authorities say the token helps vulnerable groups to feel safer when out and about.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Covid tracing tokens being issued in Singapore\n\nCoronavirus has robbed politicos of the chance to mingle in their hundreds at party conferences this autumn. Instead, Conservatives, Labourites and Liberal Democrats will have to watch their leaders speak via Zoom. The parties insist the events will be as vibrant and interesting as possible, but, as Labour's gets under way this weekend, what are the big things to look out for and how much has changed?\n\nTwenty photos capturing life during lockdown have been selected as part of a competition to feature on a video with reggae band UB40. The winning image was of a deserted dual carriageway by Jack Crook. See more of the top entries.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIn winter, a blocked or runny nose, a sore throat and a cough are common, so how do you know if you have Covid-19? Check your symptoms here.\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.", "American Bryson DeChambeau produced a wonderful final-round display to win the US Open by six shots and claim the first major title of his career.\n\nThe 27-year-old was the only player to break par at the notoriously difficult Winged Foot, in New York.\n\nRenowned for his big-hitting approach, the world number nine showed maturity and composure to card an impressive three-under 67 to win on six under par.\n\nMatthew Wolff faded on the back nine, shooting 75 to finish second at level.\n\nSouth Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who finished third at two over, and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy were the only non-Americans to place inside the top 10.\n\nWorld number four McIlroy ended joint eighth at six over after a final-day 75 that included two double bogeys, while England's Lee Westwood was a stroke further back.\n\nDeChambeau dedicated the win to his parents, who he said had \"given up so much for me\".\n\nHe began the day two behind 21-year-old overnight leader Wolff and was the only player to shoot an under par round on Sunday.\n\nDeChambeau was firmly in control by the time they hit the final stretch after playing the front nine in 33 shots - two under par - and he then had one birdie and eight pars in his final nine holes.\n\nWolff, who was hoping to become the first debutant to win the championship since Francis Ouimet in 1907, dropped four shots on the run-in as the pressure built.\n\nDeChambeau becomes only the second player to win the men's US Open at Winged Foot with a score under par, joining 1984 champion Fuzzy Zoeller.\n\n\"It's just an honour, it has been a lot of hard work,\" he said\n\n\"At nine, that was when I first thought this could be a reality. I made an eagle, I had shocked myself to do that, and I thought 'I can do it'.\n\n\"Then I said 'no, you have to focus on each and every hole'. Throughout the back nine I kept saying 'no, you still have three, four, five holes to go', whatever it was.\n\n\"I had to keep focused and make sure I executed each shot the best I could do.\"\n• None How DeChambeau bulked up in major hunt\n\nDeChambeau's unique methods have divided opinion since he turned professional in 2016. Fans find them innovative, critics call them irritating.\n\nThe former physics student's experiments have seen him dubbed 'The Scientist', tinkering with oversized grips, cutting all his clubs to the same length and most recently piling on more than 40lbs in the past year.\n\nThat helped turn him into the longest average driver on the PGA Tour last season and he said in the build-up to the US Open he would look to overpower the difficult West Course at Winged Foot.\n\nDeChambeau claims to have been fuelling his muscle growth with a 3,000-3,500 calorie daily diet that packs in 400g of protein, and his length off the tee has helped fuel the debate around whether tournament balls should be introduced.\n\nBut for all the tinkering, chuntering and pursuit of power, the American showed great composure and an air of calmness to execute his game plan on a superb final day at Mamaroneck.\n\nThe obsessive DeChambeau, who makes extensive calculations before each shot, was at the practice range under the floodlights on Saturday night after only hitting three fairways during a third-round 70, and the work paid off.\n\nHe wiped out Wolff's two-shot lead within four holes. Wolff bogeyed the par-three third before DeChambeau rolled in his opening birdie of the day at the fourth.\n\nWhen Wolff dropped another shot at five, DeChambeau was the sole leader.\n\nBoth then bogeyed the eighth to give the rest of the field a sniff, only to card a pair of eagles on the par-five ninth to turn it into a two-horse race.\n\nIt soon became a DeChambeau procession.\n\nA frustrated Wolff, who carded a superb 65 on Saturday to lead on five under, fell away with bogeys at 10 and 14, before a double bogey at 16 ended any slim hopes he held of victory in only his second major appearance.\n\n\"I battled hard. Things just didn't go my way,\" said Wolff. \"But first US Open, second place is something to be proud of.\"\n\nDeChambeau, who finished tied fourth with Wolff at last month's US PGA Championship, rolled in another birdie at 11 and proceeded to complete a bogey-free back nine.\n\nIt meant, as he headed to the 18th tee with a six-shot lead, there would be none of the drama that accompanied the last US Open to be staged at Winged Foot, when Geoff Ogilvy won by one stroke at five over after Phil Mickelson and Colin Montgomerie double-bogeyed the last.\n\nInstead, DeChambeau was able to look into the camera and send love to his family as he walked up the final fairway, before rolling in a par putt and throwing his arms in the air in delight.\n\nHe becomes just the third player after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods to win an NCAA individual title, the US Amateur title and a US Open.\n\n\"There were times that I went to school without any lunch money, and we had to make baloney sandwiches and didn't have anything to eat,\" DeChambeau added.\n\n\"We had some very, very difficult times, but every single day they always wanted the best for me, and they always gave me the opportunity to go golf, go practise, and go get better.\n\n\"This one's for my parents, it's for my whole team. All the work, all the blood, sweat, and tears we put into it, it just means the world to me.\"\n\nMcIlroy's hopes over on the first\n\nFour-time major champion McIlroy said he felt he had a chance if he was within six shots heading into the final day.\n\nThat was the gap to leader Wolff when he teed off on Sunday, but his hopes of winning a second US Open title and first major in six years quickly unravelled with a double bogey at the first.\n\nMcIlroy's tee shot found the fairway and he was on the green in two, only to four-putt from 90 feet after his first attempt failed to get over a ridge in the putting surface and rolled back towards him.\n\nThe 31-year-old added two more bogeys before clawing shots back at the ninth and 11th but a bogey on the 15th and a second double bogey at the 16th saw him fade again.\n\nMcIlroy's was not the only drama on the first, as Harris English, who started the day at level par, lost his ball in the rough to the left of the opening fairway and had to return to the tee.\n\nClub members had been employed as spotters throughout the week, but despite their efforts and those of English and playing partner Xander Schauffele, the ball could not be found within the three-minute time limit.\n\nEnglish recovered to finish in fourth place at three over with Schauffele, one of the favourites before the tournament, a stroke further back.\n\nWorld number one Dustin Johnson, who came into the week with two wins and two second-placed finishes in his past four events, carded a final-round 70 to climb into a tie for sixth on five over par.\n• None Delicious recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank\n• None How well do you know your coffee?", "Singapore is distributing tens of thousands of devices that can track who a person has interacted with.\n\nThe small bluetooth device is meant for those who do not own smartphones and cannot use a contact tracing app that was previously rolled out by the Singapore government.\n\nWhile there are some concerns over about data protection, authorities say the token helps vulnerable groups to feel safer when out and about.\n\nFor instance, the token helps elderly people keep a precise record of their whereabouts.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended new lockdown guidelines which could see some people in England fined £10,000 if they fail to self-isolate.\n\nHe also urged the public to report people they see breaking the rule of six, which states no more than six people should be gathered inside, adding that he would call the police on a neighbour ignoring that.\n\nAnd if people don't follow the rules, Mr Hancock said he would not rule out \"more stringent enforcement\".\n\nThe prime minister is understood to be considering a ban on households mixing, and reducing opening hours for pubs.\n\nA further 4,422 new Covid-19 cases and 27 deaths were reported in the UK on Saturday.", "UK firms have voluntarily returned more than £215m to the government in furlough scheme payments they did not need or took in error.\n\nAccording to HMRC figures, some 80,433 employers have returned cash they were given to help cover workers' salaries.\n\nThe money returned is a tiny part of the £35.4bn claimed under the scheme up until 16 August, the latest date for which statistics are available.\n\nOfficials believe £3.5bn may have been paid out in error or to fraudsters.\n\nHMRC said it welcomed employers who have voluntarily returned grants.\n\nUnder the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) - or furlough scheme - workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first this was all paid for by the government, but firms are now having to make a contribution to wages as well.\n\nAs of 15 September, companies and other bodies had returned £215,756,121 in grants, according to data obtained by the PA news agency through a freedom of information request.\n\nSome of the money was returned, while other firms simply claimed smaller payouts the next time they were given furlough cash.\n\nHMRC said: \"HMRC welcomes those employers who have voluntarily returned CJRS grants to HMRC because they no longer need the grant, or have realised they've made errors and followed our guidance on putting things right.\"\n\nThe CJRS was launched in April to support businesses that could not operate, or had to cut staffing levels, during lockdown. But companies have been urged to repay the taxpayer cash they receive if they feel they can afford to do so.\n\nHousebuilders Redrow, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey have both returned all the furlough money they have claimed. So too have Games Workshop, distribution giant Bunzl and the Spectator magazine.\n\nOthers such as Primark and John Lewis have said they will not claim money under the Jobs Retention Bonus, which pays firms £1,000 for every employee they bring back from furlough and keep employed until the end of January.\n\nThe government has rejected calls to extend the furlough scheme when it ends on 31 October, despite warnings that it could trigger a wave of job cuts.\n\nHMRC said: \"To tackle the impact the pandemic had on people's jobs, businesses and livelihoods, the government introduced one of the most generous and comprehensive packages of support in the world, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\n\"So far, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has helped 1.2 million employers across the UK furlough 9.6 million jobs, protecting people's livelihoods.\"\n• None Rightmove and Compass say no to job retention bonus", "British Airways told Lesley Anderson she had accepted vouchers even after she submitted this screenshot of its website\n\nA British Airways passenger was refused a refund for a cancelled flight even after she sent screenshots of the airline's website showing the option of a voucher was not mentioned.\n\nLesley Anderson says a voucher was issued \"automatically\" after she selected \"Cancel and refund flight\".\n\nShe is the latest person to accuse the airline of misleading its customers.\n\nBritish Airways has said there is \"no way\" that vouchers can be issued without customers requesting them.\n\nMs Anderson, from Irvine in Ayrshire, had been due to fly from Glasgow to London to celebrate her birthday, but disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic meant her flights were cancelled.\n\nAn email from BA included a link that took her to the \"Manage my booking\" section of its website, where she was presented with two main options: to rebook the cancelled flights \"free of charge\" or to get a \"full refund\" by cancelling the entire booking.\n\n\"I obviously chose the 'Cancel and refund flights' option,\" she says, \"which then took me to the British Airways webpage that said, 'Thanks for completing your travel voucher application.' I was a bit gobsmacked.\"\n\n\"I definitely did not fill in any information about my name, my flights. I did not click submit, nothing like that at all. It just took me straight to that page and it issued me automatically with a voucher.\"\n\nEven though Ms Anderson sent screenshots of the webpage showing that vouchers were not listed as an option and said she always wanted her money back, BA staff told her she had accepted vouchers and they could not be exchanged for cash.\n\nUnder EU law, when a flight is cancelled, passengers are entitled to their money back within seven days, although airlines can offer to rebook flights or issue vouchers for future travel, if that is what a customer prefers.\n\nIn Lesley's case, BA says that she filled in an application form and it is not possible for its online system to issue vouchers without that happening.\n\nBut numerous passengers have contacted Radio 4's consumer programme, You & Yours, with similar tales of receiving vouchers which they did not want.\n\nThe airline has said it will \"always provide a refund if a customer is eligible\".\n\n\"Since March, we have provided more than 2.1 million customers with cash refunds and more than 1.6 million with vouchers,\" BA said in a statement.\n\n\"Customers can request vouchers via our call centre, or by filling in details on an online vouchers form, and in each case, they are asked to confirm this before it is submitted.\"", "Merthyr Tydfil's council leader claims some have \"lost their discipline\" over social distancing\n\nThe Welsh Government may have to consider stricter enforcement if people continue to break Covid-19 rules, according a minister.\n\nEluned Morgan said they would need to \"look at the evidence as to who is breaking the rules\".\n\nShe also said Welsh ministers had not had a chance to discuss a change of policy on fines in England.\n\nThe UK government is introducing £10,000 fines for people who fail to self-isolate.\n\nIts new measures also include a one-off £500 support payment for those on lower incomes.\n\nInternational Relations Minister Ms Morgan told BBC Politics Wales: \"We need people to follow the rules and we need to make sure there is carrot as well as stick.\n\n\"We want to know a bit more about the carrot.\n\n\"They're saying that people will have £500 to help them to stay home.\n\n\"If that's the case, we want to know whether that money will be coming to Wales as well,\" she added.\n\nQueue outside an opticians in Merthyr Tydfil\n\nThe Welsh Government said they already had the powers to potentially introduce a system to fine people up to £1,000 if they do not self-isolate.\n\n\"Whether or not this is made a legal obligation, it is crucial that anyone with symptoms of coronavirus stays at home to prevent the onward spread of this infectious disease - this includes while waiting for the results of a test,\" they said in a statement.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil council leader Kevin O'Neill claimed on Saturday that some people in the area had \"lost their discipline\".\n\nRates in Merthyr Tydfil over the past week have overtaken neighbouring Rhondda Cynon Taf, which was placed in a local lockdown on Thursday.\n\nWales' deputy chief medical officer Dr Chris Jones said there was evidence \"people have become a little less concerned about the risk that the virus poses and are taking more risks in their everyday lives\".\n\n\"The crucial thing is that when somebody has symptoms, they isolate themselves from contact with others,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme.\n\n\"And that's quite a tough thing to do.\"\n\nHe also said there was a lot of variation in the rate of transmission of the virus across Wales, with hotspots in the south.\n\nIn light of the differing picture across the country, he said taking Wales-wide \"measures may be disproportionate for people in areas where the virus is less troublesome\".\n\nMost of Wales' Covid-19 tests are processed at UK-wide lighthouse labs, which are struggling to deal with a backlog of tests.\n\nLaboratories in Swansea, Cardiff and Rhyl are testing suspected Covid-19 samples around the clock\n\nThe Welsh Government has pledged more tests would be available next week that will be processed by the Welsh NHS.\n\nAsked when the Welsh Government became aware of testing problems at Lighthouse labs, Ms Morgan said: \"We clearly became aware when people were unable to get their tests.\n\n\"There's been considerable pressure from the Welsh Government constantly asking the health minister in England what they're doing, how they can improve the situation and we've had to pick up the slack.\"\n\nPressed on whether the Welsh Government had been too slow to shift the processing of the tests from the lighthouse labs to Welsh NHS labs, the minister said: \"We have been nimble and we have tried to change things.\n\n\"We've moved to 24-hour processing at the three labs in Wales; one in Swansea, one in Cardiff and one in Rhyl.\n\n\"We've tried to shift the mobile analysis that's happening from the Lighthouse Labs to Public Health Wales and we're making sure that we're increasing the number of mobile units as well,\" she added.", "The legislation would give the UK government powers to spend cash on infrastructure in Wales\n\nPlans for a new law giving the UK government more powers to spend in Wales have been published.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill would transfer powers from the EU to the UK government to spend on areas such as economic development, infrastructure and sport.\n\nThe Welsh Government accused its UK counterpart of \"stealing powers\" from devolved governments.\n\nBut UK ministers said the law would allow them to replace existing EU funding programmes.\n\nFrom next year, powers which had been held by the EU will be transferred to the governments around the UK.\n\nThe UK government says the draft law is aimed at ensuring trade within the United Kingdom can continue \"unhindered\" under these new arrangements.\n\nMuch attention has been focused on the fact that the legislation could override key elements of UK ministers' Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nIn addition, the legislation will give ministers in Whitehall powers to spend money to replace EU funding programmes on areas that would otherwise be devolved to the Welsh Government.\n\nThe new spending powers include infrastructure, economic development, culture, sport, and support for educational, training and exchange opportunities.\n\nA senior UK government cabinet minister insisted the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19 and support businesses and communities right across the UK\".\n\nMichael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said: \"These new spending powers will mean that these decisions will now be made in the UK, focus on UK priorities and be accountable to the UK Parliament and people of the UK.\"\n\nMichael Gove said the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"vital\" that seamless trade continued between the four nations, and that \"investment must continue to flow unhindered\".\n\nBut the Welsh Government Minister for European Transition Jeremy Miles said the powers would \"sacrifice the future of the union by stealing powers from devolved administrations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the bill \"provides ammunition to those people who would favour the breakup of the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"I'm in favour of a UK Common Market and I'm in favour of a UK-wide state aid regime, but the proposals in the white paper are absolutely not the right way to go about it,\" he told Sky News.\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"This bill is the single biggest assault on devolution since its creation.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC later on Wednesday, Mr Hart said he found it \"pretty strange\" that Labour Welsh ministers and Plaid Cymru objected to UK government plans to spend money in Wales.\n\n\"Seems to me they're more anxious about protecting their little political clique in Cardiff than they are actually doing something about economies we tried to recover from Covid and move on from Brexit,\" he said.\n\nWales has been eligible for £375m a year from EU funds with the management shared between the EU and the Welsh Government.", "John Turner's tenure as prime minister is the second shortest in Canada's history\n\nFormer Canadian Prime Minister John Turner, who was in office for just 79 days and led his Liberal Party to a huge defeat in 1984, has died aged 91.\n\nA lawyer by training, he served as justice and then finance minister from 1968-1975. He resigned after arguments with party leader Pierre Trudeau.\n\nTurner resumed his legal work and nine years later won the party leadership.\n\nHe called an election and then presided over what observers say was one of the worst campaigns in Canadian history.\n\nHis gaffes combined with growing public fatigue with the Liberals, who had been in power for 20 of the previous 21 years, resulted in his party falling from 135 seats in the 282-member House of Commons to just 40.\n\nThe Conservatives, under the leadership of Brian Mulroney, swept to power with 211 seats.\n\nDespite the result, Turner hung onto his post. In the 1988 election, Turner was a strong opponent of a proposed free trade agreement with the US but lost again to Mr Mulroney, but not as badly.\n\nHe resigned as a Liberal leader in 1990.\n\nAs justice minister, he defended reforms to Canada's Criminal Code that paved the way for LGBTQ rights and legal abortions. But in the finance ministry he faced economic pressures due to the global oil crisis.\n\nHis 79-day tenure as prime minister is the second shortest in the country's history.\n\nTurner died at home in Toronto on Friday night, Marc Kealey, a former aide speaking on behalf of his relatives told the Montreal Gazette. He is survived by his wife Geills and four children.", "The tourist attraction closed in the coronavirus lockdown\n\nA tourist attraction in Somerset is to close for the foreseeable future with the loss of 40 jobs, its parent company has said.\n\nLongleat Enterprises said Cheddar Caves and Gorge would not reopen this year and it \"could not seeing that changing in 2021\".\n\n\"The effect of the pandemic on our operations has been profound,\" it said.\n\nThe staff, all based at Cheddar, will now be entering into a formal redundancy process.\n\nOther businesses that neighbour the attraction remain open.\n\nCheddar Caves and Gorge features a series of caves, a museum and cafe and also offers rock climbing activities in the gorge itself.\n\nLongleat Enterprises says it hopes to reopen in a \"bigger, better way\"\n\nThe company, which also runs Longleat Safari Park, said the decision had been made in part because of the \"trajectory of the virus in 2021 and associated guidance and rules\".\n\n\"With great regret amid the ongoing uncertainty and long timescales involved we have to consider making redundancies, which will affect the vast majority of our staff working at Cheddar,\" it added.\n\nHR director Simon Askew said they hoped to \"reopen, in a way which is bigger and better than before\" at some point in the future.\n\n\"This would not be the end of Cheddar as a wonderful attraction, but it would mean we have to close the gates, for some time,\" he said.\n\n\"As you will appreciate, our primary focus, at this time, is ensuring that we deal with our staff who are impacted in a way which is as fair as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For some of those sunning themselves in London's St James's Park on Saturday afternoon, discussions ongoing just yards away at Downing Street on the tightening of national restrictions in England are at once both \"worrying\" and \"inevitable\".\n\nCouples and friends meeting for picnics and catch-ups told BBC News conflicting and confusing advice on what they can and cannot do during the pandemic runs alongside a general feeling of resignation over the prospect of national measures being tightened.\n\nRuth and Chris Parker, from Wigan but on a week's holiday after working non-stop since March, think the difference between social distancing in the north and south of England has been \"stark\".\n\n\"We were queuing for a pub in Putney last night and we had to just leave it,\" Chris, 48, says.\n\n\"There was no social distancing at all,\" Ruth, 49, adds. \"We ended up in Wagamamas, which was pretty well organised.\"\n\nThe couple say they think there has been a change in attitudes in the North West since a marked rise in coronavirus cases led to tighter local restrictions.\n\nWigan is one of the few areas in Greater Manchester to see local restrictions on households and movement lifted.\n\n\"People are now taking it pretty seriously there,\" says Chris, who conducted much of his work as a church minister virtually during the first lockdown.\n\n\"We do seem a bit better at social distancing,\" Ruth, a former music teacher, adds.\n\nA second lockdown has them worried, but Chris believes \"if it has to happen, it has to happen\".\n\n\"I think a national two-week lockdown is coming but not quite the full lockdown we had.\"\n\nRuth and Chris Parker described a \"stark\" difference in social distancing between the north and south of England\n\n\"It's not ideal,\" is Tom Duncan's view as he enjoys a meal deal with his partner Aisha.\n\nThe 21-year-old finance workers say they do not want to see another full lockdown with just a few permitted reasons for leaving home.\n\n\"Closing pubs and bars early seems fine,\" Tom says, \"But not being unable to see anyone again.\"\n\n\"It's going to have to happen as people don't care - people don't see it as a threat,\" Aisha adds.\n\n\"You can see when people have had a drink they don't socially distance.\"\n\nThe pair say they are now able to go back to their offices if they book a slot - but working from home has its advantages.\n\nIt also means a second lockdown \"doesn't really affect us,\" Aisha says. \"There's pros and cons to it.\"\n\nFinance workers Tom and Aisha said closing pubs and bars seemed reasonable but not a return to full restrictions on daily life\n\nNicola Evans, 24, who works for an engineering firm, says a second lockdown might not be the worst thing if it helps protect vulnerable people.\n\n\"I feel like, why not? If it's keeping people safe,\" she says.\n\n\"It's the way it is. Though I'd rather be able to see people.\n\n\"I'm working from home so it doesn't really affect me - as long as I'm able to get out of the house during the day.\n\n\"I've not gone back to the office yet, it keeps being postponed.\"\n\nBut for her friend Emmelia Georgio, 24, from Cyprus, the prospect of a second lockdown would throw a spanner into the final year of her Masters in dance movement psychotherapy.\n\n\"This year is already going to be very different,\" she says of her studies.\n\n\"It's a mix of online and in-person learning now, but I worry what would happen in a second lockdown.\n\n\"If there is a second lockdown it's hard to see how it is managed.\"\n\n\"We still have to pay fees and rent - and you think, 'what's the point in paying' if a lockdown happens,\" she adds.\n\nEmmelia, left, said a second lockdown would heavily impact her studies but Nicola said it would be worth it to keep people safe\n\nThere is little doubt about what will happen next for Antonia Brown and Ioanna Gkoutna - a second lockdown is \"inevitable\".\n\nIoanna, 21, arrived a week ago from her native Greece to begin a Masters at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"Compared to home, nobody here is taking things seriously,\" she says. \"I was really surprised when I came here. You're in Tescos, say, and so many people are not wearing masks and nobody is challenging them. The staff are not wearing masks.\"\n\nIoanna - from a part of Greece not covered by quarantine rules - thinks enforcement is crucial to any future lockdown.\n\n\"In Greece there is lots of enforcement of the rules,\" she says. \"I myself phoned the police when a man refused to wear a mask at the beach - if I did that here, what would even happen?\"\n\nAntonia, 22, from London, says \"London needs to wake up\" to the coronavirus once more.\n\n\"We're now talking about locking down harder but they had the audacity to say 'get back to work'.\"\n\nIoanna, left, said she felt lockdown was better enforced in her native Greece and Antonia said London needed to \"wake up\"\n\n\"We're running before we can walk,\" she adds.\n\n\"They're telling us to get out and spend money, and now the rates are going back up.\"\n\n\"Unless they enforce it, it won't make a difference,\" Ioanna adds, \"I've been [in the UK] for a week and haven't seen the police once.\"\n\nJust as Ioanna finishes speaking, a police officer passes on a bicycle taking a keen interest in those gathered for picnics in the park.\n\n\"Well, he's here now I guess.\"", "As climate change becomes a focus of the US election, energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming. In June, Minnesota's Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, among others, for launching a \"campaign of deception\" which deliberately tried to undermine the science supporting global warming. So what's behind these claims? And what links them to how the tobacco industry tried to dismiss the harms of smoking decades earlier?\n\nTo understand what's happening today, we need to go back nearly 40 years.\n\nMarty Hoffert leaned closer to his computer screen. He couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. It was 1981, and he was working in an area of science considered niche.\n\n\"We were just a group of geeks with some great computers,\" he says now, recalling that moment.\n\nBut his findings were alarming.\n\n\"I created a model that showed the Earth would be warming very significantly. And the warming would introduce climatic changes that would be unprecedented in human history. That blew my mind.\"\n\nA climate change protester outside the New York State Supreme Court during the ExxonMobil trial in October, 2019\n\nMarty Hoffert was one of the first scientists to create a model which predicted the effects of man-made climate change. And he did so while working for Exxon, one of the world's largest oil companies, which would later merge with another, Mobil.\n\nAt the time Exxon was spending millions of dollars on ground-breaking research. It wanted to lead the charge as scientists grappled with the emerging understanding that the warming planet could cause the climate to change in ways that could make life pretty difficult for humans.\n\nHoffert shared his predictions with his managers, showing them what might happen if we continued burning fossil fuels in our cars, trucks and planes.\n\nBut he noticed a clash between Exxon's own findings, and public statements made by company bosses, such as the then chief executive Lee Raymond, who said that \"currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate\".\n\n\"They were saying things that were contradicting their own world-class research groups,\" said Hoffert.\n\nAngry, he left Exxon, and went on to become a leading academic in the field.\n\n\"What they did was immoral. They spread doubt about the dangers of climate change when their own researchers were confirming how serious a threat it was.\"\n\nSo what changed? The record-breaking hot summer of 1988 was key. Big news in America, it gave extra weight to warnings from Nasa scientist Dr Jim Hansen that \"the greenhouse effect has been detected, and is changing our climate now\".\n\nPolitical leaders took notice. Then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher acknowledged the great new global threat: \"The environmental challenge which confronts the whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world.\"\n\nIn 1989, Exxon's strategy chief Duane Levine drew up a confidential presentation for the company's board, one of thousands of documents in the company's archive which were later donated to The University of Texas at Austin.\n\nLevine's presentation is an important document, often cited by researchers investigating Exxon's record on climate change science.\n\n\"We're starting to hear the inevitable call for action,\" it said, which risked what it called \"irreversible and costly draconian steps\".\n\n\"More rational responses will require efforts to extend the science and increase emphasis on costs and political realities.\"\n\nHow they made us doubt everything investigates how some of the world's most powerful interests made us doubt the connection between smoking and cancer, and how the same tactics were used to make us doubt climate change.\n\nListen to the podcast from BBC Radio 4 here\n\nKert Davies has scoured through Exxon's archive. He used to work as a research director at the environmental pressure group Greenpeace, where he looked into corporate opposition to climate change. This inspired him to set up The Climate Investigations Centre. He explains why this Exxon presentation mattered:\n\n\"They are worried the public will take this on, and enact radical changes in the way we use energy and affect their business, that's the bottom line.\"\n\nHe says this fear can also be seen in another document from the archive that sets out the so-called \"Exxon position\", which was to \"emphasise the uncertainty\" regarding climate change.\n\nResearchers argue this was just the start of a decades-long campaign to shape public opinion and to spread doubt about climate change.\n\nIn June 2020, the General Attorney of Minnesota Keith Ellison sued ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and Koch Industries for misleading the public over climate change. The lawsuit claims that \"previously unknown internal documents confirm that the defendant well understood the devastating effects that their products would cause to the climate\".\n\nIt says that despite this knowledge, the industry \"engaged in a public-relations campaign that was not only false, but also highly effective,\" which served to \"deliberately [undermine] the science\" of climate change.\n\nThe accusations against Exxon and others - which the company has called \"baseless and without merit\" - build on years of painstaking research by people like Kert Davies and Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and co-author of Merchants of Doubt.\n\n\"Rather than accept the scientific evidence, they made the decision to fight the facts,\" she said.\n\nBut this isn't just about Exxon's past actions. In the same year as the Levine presentation, 1989, many energy companies and fossil fuel dependent industries came together to form the Global Climate Coalition, which aggressively lobbied US politicians and media.\n\nThen in 1991, the trade body that represents electrical companies in the US, the Edison Electric Institute, created a campaign called the Information Council for the Environment (ICE) which aimed to \"Reposition global warming as theory (not fact)\". Some details of the campaign were leaked to the New York Times.\n\n\"They ran advertising campaigns designed to undermine public support, cherry picking the data to say, 'Well if the world is warming up, why is Kentucky getting colder?' They asked rhetorical questions designed to create confusion, to create doubt,\" argued Naomi Oreskes.\n\nThe ICE campaign identified two groups which would be most susceptible to its messaging. The first was \"older, lesser educated males from larger households who are not typically information seekers\".\n\nThe second group was \"younger, low-income women,\" who could be targeted with bespoke adverts which would liken those who talked about climate change to a hysterical doom-saying cartoon chicken.\n\nThe Edison Electric Institute didn't respond to questions about ICE, but told the BBC that its members are \"leading a clean energy transformation, and are united in their commitment to get the energy they provide as clean as they can, as fast as they can\".\n\nBut back in the 1990 there were many campaigns like this.\n\n\"Unless 'climate change' becomes a non-issue,\" says another, leaked to the New York Times in 1997, \"there may be no moment when we can declare victory\".\n\nTo achieve victory, the industry planned to \"identify, recruit and train a team of five independent scientists to participate in media outreach\".\n\nThis important tactic assumed the public would be suspicious if oil industry executives dismissed climate change, but might trust the views of seemingly independent scientists.\n\nThese would be put forward to take part in debates on TV, potentially confusing a general audience who would see opposing scientists in white coats arguing about complex technical details without knowing who to believe.\n\nThe problem was, sometimes these \"white coats\" weren't truly independent. Some climate sceptic researchers were taking money from the oil industry.\n\nDrexel University emeritus professor Bob Brulle studied the funding for the climate change \"counter movement\". He identified 91 institutions which he says either denied or downplayed the risks of climate change, including the Cato Institute and the now-defunct George C Marshall Institute.\n\nHe found that between 2003 and 2007, ExxonMobil gave $7.2m (£5.6m) to such bodies, while between 2008 and 2010, the American Petroleum Institute trade body (API) donated just under $4m (£3m).\n\nIn its 2007 Corporate Citizenship Report, ExxonMobil said it would stop funding such groups in 2008.\n\nOf course many researchers would argue such money didn't influence their climate contrarian work. It seems some may have been motivated by something else.\n\nMost of the organisations opposing or denying climate change science were right-wing think tanks, who tended to be passionately anti-regulation.\n\nThese groups made convenient allies for the oil industry, as they would argue against action on climate change on ideological grounds.\n\nJerry Taylor spent 23 years with the Cato Institute - one of those right wing think tanks - latterly as vice president. Before he left in 2014, he would regularly appear on TV and radio, insisting that the science of climate change was uncertain and there was no need to act. Now, he realises his arguments were based on a misinterpretation of the science, and he regrets the impact he's had on the debate.\n\n\"For 25 years, climate sceptics like me made it a core matter of ideological identity that if you believe in climate change, then you are by definition a socialist. That is what climate sceptics have done.\"\n\nThe BBC asked the Cato Institute about its work on climate change, but it did not respond.\n\nThis ideological divide has had far-reaching consequences. Polls conducted in May 2020 showed that just 22% of Americans who vote Republican believed climate change is man-made, compared with 72% of Democrats.\n\nUnfortunately many of the \"expert scientists\" quoted by journalists to try to offer balance in their coverage of climate change were - like Jerry Taylor - making arguments based on their beliefs rather than relevant research.\n\n\"Usually these people have some scientific credentials, but they're not actually experts in climate science,\" says Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes.\n\nShe began digging into the background of leading climate sceptics, including Fred Seitz, a nuclear physicist and former president of the US National Academy of Sciences. She found he was deeply anti-communist, believing any government intervention in the marketplace \"would put us on the slippery slope to socialism\".\n\nShe also discovered that he had been active in the debates around smoking in the 1980s.\n\n\"That was a Eureka moment. We realised this was not a scientific debate. A person with expertise about climate change would in no way be an expert about oncology or public health or cardiovascular disease, or any of the key issues associated with tobacco.\n\n\"The fact that the same people were arguing in both cases was a clue that something fishy was going on. That's what led us to discover this pattern of disinformation that gets systemically used again and again.\"\n\nNaomi Oreskes spent years going through the tobacco archive at the University of California at San Francisco. It contains more than 14 million documents that were made available thanks to litigation against US tobacco firms.\n\nA strikingly familiar story emerged. Decades before the energy industry tried to undermine the case for climate change, tobacco companies had used the same techniques to challenge the emerging links between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s.\n\nThe story began at Christmas 1953. In New York's luxurious Plaza Hotel, the heads of the tobacco companies met to discuss a new threat to their business model.\n\nDetails of the night's anxious conversations were recorded in a document written by public relations guru John Hill from Hill and Knowlton.\n\nWidely read mass-market magazines like Readers Digest and Time Life had begun publishing articles about the association between smoking and lung cancer. And researchers like those who had found that lab mice painted with cigarette tar got cancer were attracting increasing attention.\n\nAs John Hill wrote in the 1953 document, \"salesmen in the industry are frantically alarmed, and the decline in tobacco stocks on the stock exchange market has caused grave concern\".\n\nHill recommended fighting science with science. \"We do not believe the industry should indulge in any flashy or spectacular ballyhoo. There is no public relations [medicine] known to us at least, which will cure the ills of the industry.\"\n\nAs a later document by tobacco company Brown and Williamson summarised the approach: \"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public.\"\n\nNaomi Oreskes says this understanding of the power of doubt is vital.\n\n\"They realise they can't win this battle by making a false claim that sooner or later would be exposed. But if they can create doubt, that would be sufficient - because if people are confused about the issue, there's a good chance they'll just keep smoking.\"\n\nHill advised setting up the \"Tobacco Industry Research Committee\" to promote \"the existence of weighty scientific views which hold there is no proof that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer\".\n\nAs in the climate change debate decades later, \"Project Whitecoat\" would pit scientist against scientist.\n\nAccording to Oreskes, the project targeted those who were already doing research into other causes of cancer or lung conditions - such as asbestos - which the tobacco industry could fund.\n\n\"The purpose of these programmes was not to advance scientific understanding, it was to create enough confusion that the American people would doubt the existing scientific evidence.\"\n\nJournalists were one of the tobacco industry's main targets. The Tobacco Industry Research Committee held meetings in its offices in the Empire State Building for major newspaper editors. It even persuaded one of the most famous broadcast journalists of the time, Edward R Murrow, to interview its experts.\n\nThe eventual edition of Murrow's celebrated television programme \"See It Now\" - broadcast in 1955 -shows Project Whitecoat in action, with tobacco industry funded scientists set against independent researchers.\n\nBut as would happen later with climate change, it was difficult for the audience at home to form an opinion when opposing scientists contradicted each other. Even Murrow ended up on the fence. \"We have no credentials for reaching conclusions on this subject,\" he said.\n\nIf doubt was the industry's true product, then it appeared to be a roaring success.\n\nFor decades, none of the legal challenges launched against the tobacco companies themselves succeeded.\n\nThis was partly due to the effectiveness of Project Whitecoat, as an internal memo from tobacco firm RJ Reynolds in May 1979 concludes: \"Due to favourable scientific testimony, no plaintiff has ever collected a penny from any tobacco company in lawsuits claiming that smoking causes lung cancer or cardiovascular illness - even though 117 such cases have been brought since 1954.\"\n\nBut pressure on the tobacco companies continued to mount. In 1997, the industry paid $350m (£272m) to settle a class action brought by flight attendants who had developed lung cancer and other illnesses which they argued were caused by second-hand cigarette smoke from passengers.\n\nThis settlement paved the way to a landmark ruling in 2006, when Judge Gladys Kessler found US tobacco companies guilty of fraudulently misrepresenting the health risks associated with smoking.\n\nJudge Kessler detailed how the industry \"marketed and sold their lethal products with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs\".\n\nFlight attendant Norma Broin was the lead plaintiff in the passive smoking class action after developing lung cancer, despite being a non-smoker\n\nThe tobacco companies may have eventually lost their battle to hide the harms of smoking, but the blueprint drawn up by John Hill and his colleagues proved to be very effective.\n\n\"What he wrote is the same memo we have seen in multiple industries subsequently,\" says David Michaels, professor of public health at George Washington University, and author of The Triumph of Doubt, which details how the pesticides, plastics and sugar industries have also used these tactics.\n\n\"We called it 'the tobacco playbook', because the tobacco industry was so successful.\n\n\"They made a product that killed millions of people across the world, and the science has been very strong [about that] for many years, but through this campaign to manufacture uncertainty, they were able to delay first, formal recognition of the terrible impact of tobacco, and then delay regulation and defeat litigation for decades, with obviously terrible consequences.\"\n\nWe asked Hill and Knowlton about its work for the tobacco companies, but it did not respond.\n\nIn a statement, ExxonMobil told the BBC that \"allegations about the company's climate research are inaccurate and deliberately misleading\".\n\n\"For more than 40 years, we have supported development of climate science in partnership with governments and academic institutions. That work continues today in an open and transparent way.\n\n\"Deliberately cherry-picked statements attributed to a small number of employees wrongly suggest definitive conclusions were reached decades ago.\"\n\nExxonMobil added that it recently won the court case brought by the New York Attorney General which had accused the company of fraudulently accounting for the costs of climate change regulation.\n\nBut academics like David Michaels fear the use of uncertainty in the past to confuse the public and undermine science has contributed to a dangerous erosion of trust in facts and experts across the globe today, far beyond climate science or the dangers of tobacco.\n\nHe cites public attitudes to modern issues like the safety of 5G, vaccinations - and coronavirus.\n\n\"By cynically manipulating and distorting scientific evidence, the manufacturers of doubt have seeded in much of the public a cynicism about science, making it far more difficult to convince people that science provides useful - in some cases, vitally important - information.\n\n\"There is no question that this distrust of science and scientists is making it more difficult to stem the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIt seems the legacy of \"the tobacco playbook\" lives on.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWestminster Abbey has held a memorial service marking 80 years since the Battle of Britain, in the venue's first major event since lockdown.\n\nThe battle, fought entirely in the air, was a dramatic turning point in World War Two.\n\nThe abbey has held a service of thanksgiving on Battle of Britain Sunday every year since 1944.\n\nA flypast took place after the service, with a Hurricane and three Spitfires flying over central London.\n\nThis year's memorial service had significantly lower attendance and social distancing in place.\n\nFewer than 100 guests attended the service, which usually attracts about 2,000 people.\n\nThey included Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who gave a reading at the service, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Stirrup, representing the Prince of Wales.\n\nChief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston, also gave a reading.\n\nGuests wore masks - but those giving readings were allowed to remove them before doing so.\n\nEach chair was placed two metres apart to allow social distancing, with protective plastic screens separating the north and south transepts of the abbey.\n\nThe prime minister removed his mask before giving a reading\n\nIn his address, Chaplain in Chief the Venerable Air Vice Marshal John Ellis, honoured NHS staff and key workers in the \"fight against an invisible army\", drawing comparisons between the Battle of Britain and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Once again there have been sacrifices made, often quiet, often humble, unnoticed by many.\n\n\"Although starkly different events, each of them has two things that are so important for our humanity - service and value. We have seen the selfless giving to a greater cause.\"\n\nA statement from the organisers said the service on Sunday morning was \"reduced in stature but not in spirit\".\n\nThe last major service to take place at the venue was the Commonwealth Day service held on 9 March, two weeks before the UK went into lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe service, which remembered the 1,497 pilots and aircrew who died, was led by the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Dr David Hoyle.\n\nAlthough the battle took place between July and October in 1940, 15 September is Battle of Britain Day - the date of a decisive victory by the RAF.\n\nThe RAF defended the skies over southern England, as Hitler's Luftwaffe flew daily attacks ahead of a planned invasion.\n\nSome 1,120 Luftwaffe aircraft were sent to attack London, but were repelled by 630 RAF fighters - and two days later Hitler postponed his plans to invade Britain.\n\nCommemorations have been limited this year due to coronavirus restrictions, but a variety of tributes took place across the UK, including special exhibitions from the Imperial War Museum.", "Police launched a homicide investigation after the death near Bangor's Waverley Hotel\n\nA 20-year-old man has died after he was injured in a \"disturbance\" near a hotel on Saturday night.\n\nPolice said they launched a \"homicide\" inquiry when the local man died after the incident near the Waverley Hotel, Bangor, Gwynedd.\n\nA local man is in custody after being arrested in the area of the hotel on Station Road, at about 22:30 BST.\n\nThe victim was treated by paramedics but died in hospital. The coroner has been informed.\n\nNorth Wales Police are appealing for witnesses and the force said: \"Our thoughts remain with the family who are being supported by specially trained officers.\"\n\nStaff from the hotel, which is opposite Bangor train station, were \"commended\" for helping the victim and they sent \"their condolences to the family who sadly lost their son\".", "Vladimir Putin and Arkady Rotenberg have been friends since childhood\n\nOne of Vladimir Putin's closest friends may have used Barclays Bank in London to launder money and dodge sanctions, leaked documents suggest.\n\nBillionaire Arkady Rotenberg has known the Russian president since childhood.\n\nFinancial restrictions, or sanctions, were imposed on Mr Rotenberg by the US and the EU in 2014, which means Western banks could face serious consequences for doing business with him.\n\nBarclays says it met all its legal and regulatory duties.\n\nA leak of confidential files - banks' \"suspicious activity reports\" - reveal how companies believed to be controlled by Mr Rotenberg kept the secret accounts.\n\nThe documents, known as the FinCEN Files, have been seen by the BBC's Panorama programme.\n\nIn March 2014 the US hit Russia with economic sanctions following the annexation of Crimea in Ukraine.\n\nThe Treasury Department designated Mr Rotenberg, 68, and his brother Boris, 63, \"members of the Russian leadership's inner circle\".\n\nThe pair had sparred and trained in the same judo gym as Putin when they were young.\n\nThe businessman and Russian president attending judo training in Sochi last year\n\nIn recent years, Arkady Rotenberg's companies built roads, a gas pipeline and a power station through contracts awarded by the Russian state.\n\nThe US Treasury said the brothers \"provided support to Putin's pet projects\" and \"made billions of dollars in contracts for Gazprom and the Sochi Winter Olympics awarded to them by Putin\".\n\nIn 2018, the US added Arkady Rotenberg's son Igor to its list of sanctioned individuals.\n\nThe aim of the sanctions is to cut off named people from the entire Western financial system.\n\nYet the Rotenbergs appear to have continued moving cash through the UK and US.\n\nIn 2008, Barclays opened an account for a company called Advantage Alliance.\n\nThe leaked documents show the company moved £60m between 2012 and 2016. Many of the transactions occurred after the Rotenberg brothers had been sanctioned.\n\nIn July this year, an investigation by the US Senate accused the Rotenbergs of using secretive purchases of expensive art to evade sanctions - one of the companies involved in the scheme was Advantage Alliance.\n\nUS investigators concluded there was strong evidence that Advantage Alliance was owned by Arkady Rotenberg, and that the company had used its Barclays account in London to buy millions of dollars of art for him.\n\nA report noted how \"secrecy, anonymity, and a lack of regulation create an environment ripe for laundering money and evading sanctions\". Auction houses in the US and UK \"failed to ask basic questions\" about the buyers of the art.\n\nDespite the sanctions, Arkady appears to have paid $7.5m to acquire the René Magritte painting La Poitrine.\n\nIn 17 June 2014 a company linked to Arkady sent the cash from Moscow to Alliance's Barclays account in London. The following day Barclays sent the cash to the seller in New York.\n\nIn April 2016, Barclays began an internal investigation of multiple accounts it suspected of being linked to the Rotenbergs.\n\nSix months later, the bank closed Advantage's account after becoming concerned that it was being used to move suspect funds.\n\nBut the leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs) show that other Barclays accounts with suspected links to the Rotenbergs remained open until 2017.\n\nOne such company was Ayrton Development Limited.\n\nAccording to the files, Barclays were suspicious of Ayrton's activities and concluded that \"[Arkady] Rotenberg is the true owner of Ayrton\".\n\nBarclays did not comment when asked by Panorama about how many accounts it suspects were owned by the Rotenbergs.\n\nA spokesperson for Barclays said: \"We believe that we have complied with all our legal and regulatory obligations including in relation to US sanctions.\"\n\n\"Given the filing of a SAR is not itself evidence of any actual wrongdoing, we would only terminate a client relationship after careful and objective investigation and analysis of the evidence, balancing potential financial crime suspicions with the risk of 'de-banking' an innocent customer.\"\n\nThe FinCen Files is a leak of secret documents which reveal how major banks have allowed dirty money around the world. They also show how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 400 journalists around the world. Panorama has led research for the BBC.\n\nFinCEN Files: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #FinCENfiles; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"FinCEN Files\" Watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: 'Government is losing control of where the virus is'\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to apologise for a \"near collapse\" in the government's coronavirus test and trace system.\n\nThe Labour leader told the BBC ministers had \"lost control of where the virus is\", making the need for further restrictions \"more likely\".\n\nHe added that \"fixing testing\" should be the \"number one priority\".\n\nThe health secretary said extra resources were being put towards speeding up test results.\n\nMatt Hancock blamed a spike in those without symptoms seeking tests for an increase in demand, but said this had fallen in the last week or so.\n\nBut he admitted the proportion of test results being turned around within the government's 24-hour target period \"clearly needs to go up\".\n\nSir Keir's call for an apology over testing comes as the government introduces fines of up to £10,000 for people who fail to self-isolate after being ordered to do so.\n\nA new legal duty in England will require people to self-isolate if they test positive for the virus, or are traced as a close contact, from 28 September.\n\nThe UK government hopes the new fines will be replicated in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which have powers to set their own coronavirus rules.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Sir Keir said Labour would support \"whatever measure\" ministers take to suppress virus cases.\n\nBut he added: \"If I were the prime minister, I would apologise for the fact we're in this situation with testing.\n\n\"Throughout the summer, we were saying 'prepare for the autumn'. Instead, we had the exams fiasco.\n\n\"I would make fixing testing the number one priority, and reinstate the daily press conferences so we know what's going on.\"\n\nAsked whether problems with testing made a second nationwide lockdown more likely, Sir Keir said: \"I don't think a lockdown is inevitable.\n\n\"But I do think it's now more likely because of the near collapse of testing\".\n\nThe warning comes after the head of England's test and trace system said earlier this week that demand for tests was \"significantly outstripping\" supply.\n\nBaroness Harding told MPs the return of children to school classrooms meant test demand in England among under-17s had doubled.\n\n\"I don't think anybody was expecting to see the really sizable increase in demand that has happened over the last few weeks,\" she said.\n\nAlso speaking to Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said: \"Thankfully, the demand has come down a bit this week.\"\n\nHe said the government had been \"clearer and more stringent\" about prioritising tests for \"people who need them, who have symptoms\".\n\nAhead of the expected publication of a list of which people will be put at the front of the queue for tests, he said: \"We need to be clear about that prioritisation.\"\n\n\"We also need to build that [testing] capacity,\" he added.\n\nSchoolchildren around the UK have been returning to classrooms over the past few weeks\n\nMeanwhile Sir Keir has also called for children to be prioritised for testing, adding there was a \"desperate\" need for increased testing to keep schools open.\n\nHe said children should be put in the \"same position\" as key workers, with tests available within 24 hours and results reported within a further day.\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, he said sending pupils and whole year groups home whilst children await test results could prevent a \"meaningful return\" to classrooms.\n\nHe added that this would require a total testing capacity bigger than the 500,000 target currently promised by the government by the end of next month.\n\nSir Keir's interview comes as he prepares to address Labour members next week during the party's online conference, which began on Saturday.\n\nRenamed Labour Connected, the four-day event replaces the party's traditional party conference in Liverpool, which has been cancelled due to the pandemic.\n\nSir Keir said the event would give the party an opportunity for \"changing and refocusing on winning the next election\".\n\nBut ahead of the event, he has been warned against \"watering down\" the \"radical policies\" of his leadership campaign by the head of the Labour-affiliated Fire Brigades Union.", "Alexei Navalny was flown to Berlin for treatment in August after falling ill\n\nThe German government's announcement on Wednesday that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been poisoned by a sophisticated nerve agent known as a Novichok makes this case even more serious than it already was.\n\nMost importantly, it will increase suspicions that, despite its denials, the Russian state was behind his poisoning.\n\nNovichok - meaning \"newcomer\" in Russian - applies to a group of synthetically produced nerve agents originally developed by the Soviet Union in a laboratory in Uzbekistan before the USSR disintegrated in 1991.\n\nWestern intelligence agencies believe that Novichok has since been refined into a hard-to-detect assassination weapon in covert techniques practised by operatives of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, including being smeared on to door handles.\n\nNovichok can be deployed in both liquid and solid forms.\n\nTwo of those operatives were widely believed to have poisoned the Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018 using Novichok. A local Wiltshire resident, Dawn Sturgess, subsequently died after handling the contents of the discarded perfume bottle used to disguise the nerve agent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the trail of Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who UK police believe carried out a nerve agent attack in Salisbury in March 2018\n\nWestern governments reacted forcefully to this failed assassination attempt on British soil. In a co-ordinated move, 20 countries expelled more than a hundred Russian diplomats and spies, dealing a huge blow to Moscow's intelligence-gathering networks in the West.\n\nEven covert agents in deep cover inside Britain, whom Moscow believed were operating undetected by MI5, the security service, were ordered to leave.\n\nThis was all in marked contrast to the mild British government response - since criticised - to the poisoning of former KGB officer and defector Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. After the agonising death in a London hospital by radioactive Polonium poisoning of this former Russian colonel, branded as a traitor by the Kremlin, an investigation dragged on for years while the two Russian suspects remained at large in Russia.\n\nCritics believe the lack of a forceful response by the West encouraged hardliners in the Kremlin to sanction the targeting abroad of those considered traitors to the Russian state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: 'Putin is the tsar of corruption'\n\nToday, Alexei Navalny has no shortage of enemies. As a vigorous campaigner against corruption, he has amassed millions of young followers but also angered those people whose nefarious activities have been exposed in his popular videos. There are plenty of people both in government and in business circles who would like to see him removed from the public sphere.\n\nBut Novichok, unlike naturally occurring toxins that can be refined from natural products found in the countryside, is not something casually cooked up by amateurs. It is a military-grade chemical weapon that tends to point the finger of suspicion towards the Russian state.\n\nAlthough Mr Navalny appeared to be poisoned on Russian soil, rather than in a Nato member country, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said \"there were now very serious questions which only the Russian government could and must answer\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab echoed that comment, saying that the Russian government had a clear case to answer about what happened to Mr Navalny. He said Britain would now work closely with Germany and other allies to show there were consequences for using banned chemical weapons. In Washington, the White House National Security Council issued a statement saying it would work with allies to hold those in Russia accountable.\n\nThe former British Army officer and chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, has been warning for years that the unchecked use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians alike in populated areas by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria sends a dangerous signal.\n\nHow governments now react to this latest use of a Novichok nerve agent against a public political figure will be influenced in part by the findings of the global chemical watchdog, the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW.\n\nThe chairman of Britain's Parliamentary Defence Committee, Tobias Ellwood MP, tweeted: \"Russia/Novichok - again. A test for the West on how we collectively respond.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Earnshaw (left) and Gaukroger took part in the \"frenzied and senseless\" attack\n\nA factory supervisor died after being stabbed more than 100 times by two youths wielding a samurai sword, a court has heard.\n\nRobert Wilson, 53, was attacked after he asked the pair to leave the car park of a factory in Huddersfield on 16 January, Leeds Crown Court was told.\n\nEarnshaw was jailed for a minimum of 22 years and Gaukroger was ordered to serve 16 years and eight months.\n\nMr Justice Lavender said both youths had been heavily intoxicated at the time they had carried out the \"frenzied and senseless attack\".\n\nRobert Wilson was brutally attacked outside the factory where he worked\n\nHe said Mr Wilson had done them \"no wrong\".\n\nPeter Makepeace QC, prosecuting, earlier told the court the youths had been seen in the factory car park and Mr Wilson, from Birstall, and two other colleagues went to move them on.\n\nAt one point Mr Wilson put his phone to his ear to talk to the remote security firm, and Earnshaw started shouting at him, claiming he was being filmed.\n\nHe then pulled a samurai sword from his trousers and pursued Mr Wilson as and he and his colleagues tried to get away.\n\nAudio of the attack, caught on Mr Wilson's phone by the security company, was played in which Gaukroger, who was 15 at the time, demanded the sword at one point saying: \"Pass me the shank, pass me the shank.\"\n\nEarnshaw inflicted multiple blows and kicks to Mr Wilson before he passed the weapon to Gaukroger who then also inflicted a number of severe blows.\n\nA samurai sword was used to inflict more than 100 injuries on Mr Wilson\n\nMr Wilson died at the scene, despite efforts by police and paramedics to save him.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed \"at least 100 sharp force injuries to the body\" in the region of the head, neck and upper body.\n\nMr Wilson's wife, Elaine, said in her impact statement that her husband's death had been \"soul-destroying\".\n\nMrs Wilson told the defendants: \"I want you to know you have taken the life of a much respected and admired man.\"\n\nShe said to receive a letter from one of them saying it was \"the worst night of my life\" and \"I'm sorry\" had sickened her.\n\n\"It has shocked me to realise I have such hate,\" she added.\n\nMr Wilson's colleague, John Badejo, was also injured in the attack. Earnshaw admitted wounding with intent and was jailed for nine years to run concurrently with his murder sentence.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Rogers with a model of the Lloyds building in 1995\n\nRichard Rogers, one of the world's most successful and influential architects, has stepped down from his firm after more than 40 years.\n\nLord Rogers, 87, designed landmark buildings including the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Millennium Dome in London and the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff.\n\nHe is one of a handful of architects credited with shaping modern cities.\n\nHe has retired from Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, which he founded as the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1977.\n\nThe Pompidou Centre and other buildings were controversial when they opened\n\nInside the Lloyds building in London, which opened in 1986\n\nHe has won most of architecture's major honours, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2007 and the Stirling Prize twice. He was knighted in 1991.\n\nHe came to prominence in the 1970s and 80s with two buildings that were controversial at the time for putting amenities like lifts and air conditioning ducts on the outside - the Pompidou, which he designed with Renzo Piano, and the Lloyds building in London.\n\nHis critics have included Prince Charles, who has spoken about his dislike of Lord Rogers' designs on several occasions.\n\nBut that did not prevent the architect from going to strength to strength around the world. His other creations included the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and Terminal 4 of Madrid's Barajas Airport.\n\nThe Millennium Dome is now the O2 Arena\n\nThe piazza as a public meeting place is often central to his ideas. \"The concept that cities contain places where people can exchange ideas and meet others - that's the most exciting thing,\" he told the BBC World Service in 2013.\n\nMore recently, he built 3 World Trade Center in New York, an 80-storey skyscraper on the site of the former Twin Towers.\n\nBut he has said his favourite project was one of his first, and the most personal - the modernist house he designed for his parents in Wimbledon in the late 1960s.\n\nLord Rogers was behind the design for Heathrow Terminal 5\n\nHe also advised on urban planning in cities including London and Barcelona. He chaired the influential Urban Task Force on the state of the UK's cities from 1998-2001.\n\nHis company will now be led by partners Ivan Harbour and Graham Stirk, and under its constitution will drop Rogers' name within the next two years, according to Building Design.\n\nRogers Stirk Harbour & Partners gives 20% of its profits to charity - around £500,000 a year, according to its website.\n• None Changing the City: An Audience with Richard Rogers", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAndy Murray staged a stunning comeback against Yoshihito Nishioka in the US Open first round on his long-awaited return to Grand Slam singles tennis.\n\nThe 33-year-old came from two sets and a break down against the Japanese to win 4-6 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.\n\nThe Briton, whose last major singles match was at the 2019 Australian Open before career-saving hip surgery, started flat and dispirited.\n\nBut he found his fight and saved a match point to set up an epic win.\n\nThe Scot, who eventually claimed victory in four hours 39 minutes, will face Canadian 15th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second round.\n• None Re-live the action from day two of the US Open\n\nMurray finds his voice and his spirit\n\nPlaying in an empty and quiet Arthur Ashe Stadium - a far cry from the noisy stage where Murray won his maiden Grand Slam title in 2012 - his early despondence was all the more noticeable.\n\nIn his BBC radio commentary David Law said \"Andy Murray does not look like Andy Murray\", such was his manner, as he quietly trudged around with shoulders slumped as he was outplayed.\n\nDuring the first two sets Murray barely berated himself for his five double faults and 30 unforced errors, seeming almost resigned to his fate before his energy levels - and his voice - began to rise towards the end of the third set.\n\nAnd that was when Andy Murray began to look exactly like Andy Murray.\n\nA roar greeted the blistering forehand that gave him two set points in the third-set tie-break and then he let it all out with a trademark \"come on!\" when Nishioka netted a backhand on the second.\n\nThe character that took him to three Grand Slam titles and the world number one ranking before his body so cruelly let him down shone through as he saved a match point with a crosscourt backhand at 6-5 in the fourth.\n\nIt would be nearly an hour later until he himself carved out his own match point, needing to recover from a break down in the fifth game of the fifth - which he did with a sumptuous backhand lob in the very next game - to stay on track.\n\nWhen Nishioka sent a backhand out on match point, Murray completed his 10th career comeback from two sets down and answered any lingering questions about whether he could still be competitive on the biggest stage.\n\nOn his last Grand Slam singles appearance in January 2019, Murray had broken down in tears when he said he feared he might have to retire because of a hip injury.\n\nBut he went on to have surgery later that month and just five months later was back in action, playing doubles and winning the Queen's title with Feliciano Lopez.\n\nHe played doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon that year and then made his singles return on the tour in August 2019.\n\nHe skipped last year's US Open to focus on his singles return and was then ruled out of January's Australian Open with a pelvic injury. Further chances to return to the Grand Slam singles stage were then lost because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe has been ticking off the 'since surgery' milestones ever since - a first singles title (October), a first win over a top-10 player (last week) and now he has crossed off three more.\n\nNot only his first Grand Slam singles match, but also a first win in one, and a first five-setter.\n\n\"I'm tired. My toes are the worst part I think,\" said Murray, who had treatment on his toes at the start of the fifth set. \"The big toes on both sides are pretty beat up. I did alright physically.\n\n\"At the beginning of the match I was apprehensive about playing a long match because I hadn't played one in a while.\n\n\"I was sort of pacing myself. Once I got two sets down I had to start putting the after-burners on and managed to get through.\"\n\nHe is the first player to return to singles after a hip re-surfacing operation, where the femur head is capped with metal and put into an artificial socket.\n\nHe will now find out how his new body copes with the recovery from a five-set thriller at a Grand Slam.\n\nAnd he knows exactly what he needs.\n\n\"They have an ice bath in the locker room and they said it was for emergencies,\" Murray said.\n\n\"For me this is an emergency right now. I'll ask and see if they'll allow me to use the ice bath. If not I'll try to get back to the hotel as quickly as I can.\n\n\"That's by far the most tennis I've played since the Aussie Open in 2019.\"\n\nInterestingly, there were echoes of that last Australian Open match in this one - then, he was on the wrong end of an almost identical scoreline when he lost 6-4 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-7 (4-7) 6-2 to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.\n• None British number ones Konta and Evans into second round\n\nMurray made a cagey start - pacing himself like a marathon runner, just in case the match went the distance.\n\nAnd when he then lost his way completely at the start of the second set, his Grand Slam return was in danger of turning rapidly flat.\n\nBut with an audience made up entirely of star players, who were watching on from their suites in the Arthur Ashe Stadium, Murray gradually inched his way back into the match.\n\nHis toes took a pounding, but his hip held up, and after an ice bath on site he could start to imagine doing it all again on Thursday.", "England is under pressure to reconsider quarantine rules for Greece after Scotland and Wales introduced new measures over concerns about rising coronavirus cases.\n\nFrom tomorrow anyone from Scotland who travels to Greece will need to self-isolate on their return.\n\nWelsh passengers arriving back from the island of Zakynthos will have to do the same.\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nNo announcement on travel rules for Greece or for Portugal is expected today.\n\nTravel announcements usually take place on a Thursday or Friday, Transport correspondent Tom Burridge says.\n\nOur correspondent says the UK government's rules \"has been a messy affair\".\n\n\"The picture has been complicated further by the fact that the quarantine is a public health policy and so the Welsh and Scottish Governments can diverge from Westminster and classify countries differently,\" he says.\n\n\"Now the Welsh government is bringing in testing on arrival for passengers too.\n\n\"That's awkward for the UK government because, for months, the aviation sector has been asking ministers to give their backing to testing at airports so people who test negative wouldn't have to quarantine for the full 14 days.\"", "[L-R] Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, HRVY and Jacqui Smith will all hit the dancefloor\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has been confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThe 2020 series will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe contestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nThe BBC also confirmed they will be able to rehearse, perform and go home to their family each night - following government guidelines.\n\nJacqui Smith was confirmed as the final celebrity dancer on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe former Labour politician became the UK's first female home secretary in 2007 - under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - and has since worked as a political broadcaster.\n\n\"I was speechless with excitement at being asked to join Strictly - and that's very rare for me,\" said Smith.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, I got a bronze medal for Scottish Highland Dancing and it feels about time to return to dancing.\"\n\n\"I couldn't be in better hands with the Strictly team and I'm going to throw myself into the challenge. Watch out!\" she added.\n\nSmith is now the chair of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Children's Trust. She also has a podast, called For the Many, that she presents with broadcaster Iain Dale.\n\nHRVY has a social media following of more than 10 million\n\nHRVY was revealed as a contestant on the Kiss breakfast show and said he was \"so thankful to be taking part\".\n\nThe pop singer, whose real name is Harvey Leigh Cantwell, has more than a billion combined streams to his name.\n\nHe has a social media following of more than 10 million and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to fame after uploading his music videos to Facebook. He has since sold out UK and European tours and his debut album will be out later this year.\n\n\"Being on Strictly is going to be such an amazing experience and I'm so thankful to be taking part this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I think my mum is more excited that she'll be able to see me every Saturday night now!\"\n\nMaisie Smith is an actress and singer is best known for playing Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders.\n\n\"Get me in those sequins,\" she said, reacting to the news of her announcement.\n\n\"I can't wait to dive into the Strictly fancy dress box this winter!\"\n\nBefore storming into Albert Square as Bianca's daughter, Tiffany, Smith made her acting debut in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl - alongside Scarlett Johansson and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHer role in the long-running BBC soap saw her scoop the award for best dramatic performance from a young actress, at the 2009 British Soap Awards.\n\nJamie Laing returns to the show this year, after having to pull out of last year's series before it began due to an injury.\n\nHe became a household name in 2011 on the Channel 4 reality show, Made in Chelsea, and this year launched his own podcast, 6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer, alongside Spencer Matthews.\n\nHe also founded the sweets brand, Candy Kittens, in 2012.\n\n\"Here we go again, hopefully this time I can last long enough so my mum can see me dance,\" said Laing.\n\nHe added: \"The reason I'm doing it, is to make my mum proud but all I did last year was make her even more disappointed. Let's change that this year, can't wait!!\"\n\nJJ Chalmers' career as a Royal Marine Commando was cut short after he suffered life-changing injuries following an IED explosion in Afghanistan.\n\nThe blast crushed an eye socket, burst his eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, blew off two fingers on his left hand and left holes in his legs.\n\nAfter years of rehabilitation, including more than 30 operations, he went on to compete in the 2014 Invictus Games where he captained the Trike Cycling team and took home three medals.\n\nHe later embarked on a career in broadcasting, presenting coverage of the Rio Paralympics and anchoring BBC One's coverage of the Invictus Games.\n\nComparing Strictly to his military experience, he told ITV's Lorraine: \"I'm always looking for a challenge, I'm always looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone.\"\n\nDespite his injuries, Chalmers said he wanted to be treated like \"any other contestant\" and didn't want any \"special treatment\".\n\n\"Whoever I partner with they've got their work cut out,\" he added.\n\nBill Bailey is an comedian, actor and musician is known for appearances on TV shows like QI, Black Books and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.\n\n\"In these strange times we're living through, it feels right to do something different and take on a new challenge,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I haven't been to stage school and learnt to dance. I haven't lived for the dance... I'm not really Lord of the Dance. I'm caretaker of the dance,\" he joked. \"It's going to be quite a challenge but then that's what this is about, taking on a new skill.\"\n\nBailey, 55, made his name on the stand-up circuit before becoming a regular panel show guest, TV and film actor, documentary presenter, and host of the BBC sketch show Is It Bill Bailey?\n\nHe is also a classically-trained musician and has published a guide to British birds. On Wednesday, in a review of his first live gig for six months, The Daily Telegraph said he \"remains one of the funniest, most brilliantly original comedians in the UK\".\n\nClara Amfo, who hosts BBC Radio 1's late morning slot, aid she \"couldn't wait to fully embrace\" the experience of Strictly.\n\nIn recent years, Amfo has presented coverage of Glastonbury, the Brit Awards, Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Bafta TV Awards and The Proms.\n\n\"As we know this year has been a real challenge and escapism through dancing is something I know we all enjoy,\" she said.\n\n\"So to be taught by a pro and live a fantasy is something that I can't wait to fully embrace, see you on the dancefloor!\"\n\nRanvir Singh is Good Morning Britain's political editor and occasional host, and also appears on other ITV programmes including Loose Women, Tonight and Eat, Shop, Save. She is about to start co-hosting a new Sunday morning show, All Around Britain.\n\nSingh said she felt \"complete terror\" at the idea of taking part, likening it to \"embarking on a rollercoaster\".\n\nShe previously worked as a producer and reporter for the BBC for 12 years, and presented BBC North West Tonight.\n\nSingh said: \"The initial feeling of being confirmed for Strictly is one of complete terror - feels like embarking on a rollercoaster, where you really want to do it but you are equally scared.\n\n\"Hopefully after the first dance I will feel exhilarated rather than sick!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAward-winning actress and presenter Caroline Quentin is known for a range of acting roles, including Maddie in Jonathan Creek and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.\n\nShe has also starred in Kiss Me Kate, Life Begins and Life of Riley.\n\nHowever, arguably her most famous role was playing Dorothy in the hit 90s sitcom Men Behaving Badly.\n\nShe recently presented the documentary series Extraordinary Homes for BBC Two.\n\nQuentin said she was \"thrilled and terrified in equal measure to be taking part\" in this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe played as a cornerback/safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.\n\nBell then played for the Houston Texans, where he was named a recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, one of the league's highest honours. He finished his professional career with the New York Giants.\n\nBell now co-hosts The Jason & Osi Podcast with another former NFL star, Osi Umenyiora, and the pair appear as pundits on the NFL Show on the BBC.\n\n\"Strictly is the epitome of British television and this year, more than ever, I'm so proud and humbled to be participating,\" he said.\n\n\"Strictly was the first show I ever watched when I moved to the UK and I'm a massive fan. My six-year-old daughter never got the chance to see me run out on the field at an NFL game but she is very excited about me taking to the dance floor. I hope I can do her proud.\"\n\nSinger and actor Max George shot to fame as a member of boy band The Wanted.\n\nHis former bandmate, Jay McGuiness, previously won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.\n\nGeorge said he was \"buzzing to be on Strictly this year\", joking: \"I'm not really one for the dance floor, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Jay McGuiness set The Wanted's bar so low.\"\n\nThe Wanted had two number one singles in the UK - All Time Low and Glad You Came - with the latter reaching the top three in the US Billboard chart.\n\nAfter The Wanted took a break, Max moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and starred in the sixth season of Glee as Clint. He recently returned to music as a solo artist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Cheap steroids can save the lives of patients who are critically ill with Covid-19, studies show.\n\nThe findings confirm the results of an earlier trial, which has already led to steroids being used widely for Covid patients in intensive care.\n\nThe new results, published in JAMA, show eight lives would be saved for every 100 patients treated.\n\nThe researchers said the findings were impressive, but stressed steroids were not a coronavirus cure.\n\nIn June, the UK's Recovery trial found the first drug - a steroid called dexamethasone - that could save the lives of people with severe Covid.\n\nThe latest study brings together all clinical trials involving steroids on coronavirus patients around the world.\n\nIt confirms dexamethasone works and that another steroid, hydrocortisone, is equally effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was part of the Recovery trial\n\n\"At the beginning of the year, at times it felt almost hopeless knowing that we had no specific treatments,\" said Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"It was a very worrying time, yet less than six months later we've found clear, reliable evidence in high quality clinical trials of how we can tackle this devastating disease.\"\n\nThe studies were on only the sickest hospital patients. Most people recover having only experienced mild symptoms.\n\nSteroids calm down inflammation and the immune system, which is why they are already used in conditions like arthritis and asthma, as well as in some severe infections.\n\nThe drugs are not thought to be helpful in the early stages of a coronavirus infection - when symptoms include a cough, fever or a sudden loss of taste or smell.\n\nBut as the disease develops, the immune system can go into overdrive, damaging the lungs and other organs.\n\nIt is this stage of Covid that steroids are thought to help with.\n\n\"At the point at which you reach for an oxygen cylinder for a patient with Covid, you probably should be reaching for the prescription for corticosteroids,\" said Prof Martin Landray, from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"These results are instantly useable; they are widely available, cheap, well-understood drugs that reduce mortality.\"\n\nDoctors are already using dexamethasone after the results earlier in the year, but the hope is that having the choice of different drugs will increase access to the treatment around the world.\n\nThe drugs can either be swallowed as tablets or given via intravenous drip.\n\nThe research so far has focused on low doses of steroids. There is no evidence that higher doses would be more effective.\n\nNew guidelines for doctors are expected to be released by the World Health Organization.\n\nIn the UK, NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said: \"Just as we did with dexamethasone, the NHS will now take immediate action to ensure that patients who could benefit from treatment with hydrocortisone do so, adding a further weapon in the armoury in the worldwide fight against Covid-19.\"", "The first minister has reintroduced restrictions on visiting other households in the Glasgow area after an increase in coronavirus cases.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the local lockdown measures will apply to people living in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThey will be in place for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.", "Pubs in the Glasgow area will not need to close as part of the new restrictions\n\nScotland's deputy first minister has defended a decision to keep pubs open in greater Glasgow despite new limits on social contact.\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households were reintroduced in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas on Tuesday.\n\nJohn Swinney said a rise in Covid cases was driven by household contacts and not the hospitality sector.\n\nThe new rules affect more than 800,000 people in Glasgow City, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nA further 86 new coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area were confirmed on Wednesday - accounting for more than half of the total for the whole of Scotland, which was 156.\n\nMr Swinney told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that it was important to take \"early action\" in the three areas to avoid having to take \"more significant action\" later which could affect the economy and schools.\n\nHe explained: \"It's necessary because we feel we have to nip this particular problem in the bud in the west of Scotland.\n\n\"Across the whole of the country the number of positive cases per 100,000 is 9.2. In West Dunbartonshire it's 32.6, in Glasgow it's 21.8 and in East Renfrewshire it's 18.8 - so we've got sizeably different position in these three local authority areas.\"\n\nThese figures compare to a rate of 67.8 in Pendle, Lancashire, which was top of Public Health England's watchlist in its latest surveillance report.\n\nThe weekly rate of 32.6 in West Dunbartonshire is similar to the rates in Salford and Bury in Greater Manchester, which sit in the top third of the watchlist.\n\nThe restrictions are different to ones introduced in Aberdeen in August, which included a five-mile travel limit for leisure and holidays, as well as the closure of pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe contrast has been criticised by Douglas Lumsden, the co-leader of Aberdeen City Council and Conservative group leader.\n\nIn a series of tweets, he said: I hope that @NicolaSturgeon will explain to businesses in Aberdeen that were forced to close, why Glasgow businesses are not being forced to close.\n\n\"Aberdeen was locked down for 3 weeks, no hospitality, no travel, no visiting. Glasgow lockdown = no visiting.\"\n\nHe added: \"Glasgow lockdown. No household gatherings so meet your pals in the pub instead.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Douglas Lumsden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire people are being told not to host people from other households in their own homes or visit another person's home.\n\nThe restrictions came into effect from midnight. They will last for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.\n\nPeople living in those areas should also not visit someone else's home, no matter where it is.\n\nMr Swinney said he understood Mr Lumsden's frustration, but said the councillor should be \"careful with some of his language\".\n\n\"The problem in Aberdeen stemmed from the hospitality sector, so we had to focus on the hospitality sector,\" he said.\n\n\"Here in Glasgow, we don't have evidence of that taking its course, so it would be inappropriate and disproportionate to take that action.\n\n\"We have got evidence from the contact tracing that has been undertaken on an extensive basis that this is predominantly emanating from household contacts.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government needed to get on top of the rise in cases before it led to a more \"widespread problem\" in the west of Scotland and the whole country.\n\nAnnouncing the restrictions on Tuesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, said they should be a \"wake-up call\" for the whole country to stick to government guidelines on preventing the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe first minister added that Covid-19 continued to be a dangerous and potentially deadly virus which was spreading in the Glasgow area \"primarily as a result of household gatherings\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her salon visit was a \"setup\" and they her an apology.\n\nThe most powerful elected US Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, has visited a hair salon in San Francisco, breaking rules that only allow service outdoors, in order to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMs Pelosi was also seen with a face mask around her neck rather than over her mouth. She has criticised President Donald Trump for not wearing a mask.\n\nA spokesman said she did not realise she was breaking her home city's rules.\n\nMr Trump said she was being \"decimated\" after lecturing everyone else.\n\nThousands of California businesses have shut as part of measures to fight coronavirus.\n\nSecurity camera footage from eSalon SF shows Nancy Pelosi without a mask on\n\nThe footage obtained by Fox News showed the House of Representatives speaker inside the premises of eSalon SF on Monday.\n\nA stylist, who was wearing a mask, was shown following her.\n\nMrs Pelosi - who always wears masks in public - often admonishes Republicans to \"listen to the science\" on the pandemic.\n\nDefending her visit, spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement: \"This business offered for the Speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business.\"\n\n\"The Speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.\"\n\nMrs Pelosi has herself previously cited US Centers for Disease Control guidelines recommending that Americans wear face masks in public, especially when physical distancing measures are difficult.\n\nAfter Monday's appointment, the House speaker appeared on MSNBC with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.\n\nShe told the network that Mr Trump had \"slapped science right in the face\" last week by allowing an audience of mainly mask-less invitees on the White House lawn to watch his speech to the Republican convention.\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 salon owner, Erica Kious, told Fox News she rents chairs to a stylist, who notified her that Mrs Pelosi's assistant had called, saying her boss wanted to come in for a wash and blow dry.\n\nMs Kious told the cable network: \"It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can't work.\"\n\nMore than 5,000 businesses in the San Francisco Bay area alone have closed since March, over 2,000 of them permanently, during the pandemic, according to a recent study of Yelp data.\n\nOutdoor haircuts were allowed in California from Tuesday, under new rules announced by the mayor, but indoor salons remain shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They want to throw God's wonderful breathing system out'\n\nThey tweeted: \"Speaker Pelosi has pushed policies that would keep our economy closed and our small businesses shut down.\n\n\"But for herself? A salon visit whenever she pleases.\"\n\nThe House speaker has previously said Republicans could help create the conditions to safely reopen if they would only \"listen to the scientists\".\n\nMrs Pelosi has also repeatedly criticised Mr Trump's decision to largely spurn face coverings, calling him a \"coward\" and saying: \"Real men wear masks.\"\n\nThe US president reminded the speaker of her statements, vowing to win the House in elections in November.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd he praised the salon owner for \"turning her in\".\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak has infected more than six million people in the US, while some 185,000 deaths have been recorded.", "In a normal year, more than a million UK tourists visit Portugal's Algarve coast\n\nMinisters are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe country has recorded more than 20 cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nNormally when a country surpasses that mark the UK government imposes 14 days of self-isolation on returning travellers.\n\nMinisters are expected to reach a decision on the measures by Thursday.\n\nThey will also have to decide whether the UK as a whole should follow Scotland, which has made a decision to add Greece to its own quarantine list, effective from 04:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nIt is the first of the four UK nations - each of which can add or remove countries to their own list - to make a decision on Greece, following several reports of people in the UK testing positive after holidaying on the island of Zante.\n\nWales, which says at least 16 people tested positive following a flight from the Greek island last week, says it has told passengers arriving on a plane at Cardiff Airport on Tuesday evening to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, some travel industry leaders have suggested quarantine rules should only apply to people returning from specific regions where case numbers are high, such as resort islands - rather than having whole countries blacklisted.\n\nIt has been less than two weeks since Portugal came off the quarantine list and was put back on the UK's safe travel list, following a sustained period of falling cases in the country that put it below the \"20 per 100,000\" mark that satisfied the UK.\n\nBut now holidaymakers are scrambling to return from the country amid fears the country is again about to be taken off the list, based on the latest data.\n\nEasyJet has sold out all of its flights from Faro - which serves the Algarve - to airports in Britain for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nAnd British Airways is selling seats on a flight from Faro to Heathrow on Thursday for £554, while the same journey can be made seven days later for just £139.\n\nThousands of people have travelled from the UK to Portugal since the country was added to the UK's quarantine exemption list on 22 August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tui boss Andrew Flintham says the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\"\n\nPortugal has recorded 21.1 virus cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nThe UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country's infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,000, over seven days.\n\nOver the past month, so-called travel corridors - which allow people to travel without having to self-isolate on their return - have been scrapped between England and at least 18 countries and territories.\n\nMinisters have said this cautious approach prevents coronavirus cases being imported.\n\nAndrew Flintham, head of Tui UK, has said the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\" - meaning quarantine measures would apply to people returning from regions over whole countries.\n\nHe said there were fewer cases in the popular Algarve, where most tourists are, than elsewhere in Portugal.\n\nUsing the example of Leicester, the first area in the UK to be placed under local lockdown, Mr Flintham told the BBC: \"In the UK we have a slightly different policy in the fact that we don't lock down the whole UK when the Leicester rate goes up.\n\n\"Can we apply the same kind of principle to almost allow us to operate to those places where the rates are low or are within those thresholds?\n\n\"We don't want to put anybody in danger but clearly it is not the same everywhere in a country,\" he added.\n\nIt is not the first time Tui has urged the government against slapping blanket quarantines on whole countries. Mr Flintham previously called for \"regionalised\" policy after quarantine measures were imposed on Spain in July.\n\nThe travel industry had hoped that the quarantine rules could be eased for the Balearic and Canary Islands, as data suggested there were lower rates of infection there than in mainland Spain.\n\nElsewhere, the boss of British Airways' parent firm, Willie Walsh, has accused the government of using \"arbitrary statistics to effectively ban 160 countries and in the process destroying the economy\".\n\nThe \"ever-changing\" quarantine requirements meant \"the UK has officially hung up the 'closed' sign\", he said, writing in the Times.\n\nLast week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and a number of others on the UK's quarantine list.\n\nUK tourists have spent thousands of pounds on new flights and ferries, and endured long drives in a race to get home before quarantine measures kick in.\n\nThe government has not commented on whether requirements for arrivals from Portugal will change again.\n\nAs soon as Portugal came off the quarantine list less than two weeks ago, John Cushing and his 12-year-old daughter Georgie headed straight out to the Algarve where he has a villa.\n\nNow the quarantine rules look set to change, he's facing a quandary.\n\n\"It's very precarious at the moment,\" says the 61-year-old company director.\n\n\"My daughter and I won't be able to leave the house when we get back to the UK on Saturday and there's a risk of being fined because I won't be able to send her back to school on Monday.\n\n\"She's in tears because she wants to go back to school but Ryanair is charging £1,000 to get back before the possible cut-off point.\n\n\"It's a very difficult decision to make [to pay for the early flight home] and I'm not really enjoying myself here now.\"\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal, making up the largest number of overseas tourists to the country.\n\nMost head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nOver May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nThe government has warned that stricter measures will be put in place in mid-September as pupils return to school and some workers return to offices.\n\nAs of 31 August, the UK recorded 24 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the past fortnight while Portugal recorded 35.7, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "With grumblings on the Tory benches about the government’s recent performance Boris Johnson needed a good PMQs to mark the return to parliament.\n\nHis political opponents – perhaps unsurprisingly – criticised the number of policy U-turns in recent months.\n\nWhile ministers have repeatedly said they’re responding to changing science as the pandemic progresses, the speed and frequency of policy shifts is the crux of concern among some Conservative backbenchers.\n\nKeir Starmer returned to what some supporters have called a ‘forensic’ style of questioning in pushing the prime minister for detail on the exam results crisis.\n\nBoris Johnson responded with a wide-ranging attack on the Labour leader which led to a tetchy exchange.\n\nBut with another shift in policy – this time on local lockdowns in Trafford and Bolton – taking place as the prime minister was at the dispatch box, it seems unlikely his performance was enough to silence critics - including those within his own party.", "The BBC has reversed its decision not to have Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory sung at The Last Night of the Proms.\n\nThe U-turn follows fierce criticism sparked by reports that the lyrics were being dropped due to associations with colonialism and slavery.\n\nLast week, the BBC said the decision to perform orchestral-only versions was prompted by Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nHowever, a \"select\" group of singers will now perform the songs after all.\n\n\"The pandemic means a different Proms this year and one of the consequences, under Covid-19 restrictions, is we are not able to bring together massed voices,\" the BBC said in a new statement.\n\n\"For that reason we took the artistic decision not to sing Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory in the Hall.\"\n\nBut, the statement added, the BBC had been \"looking hard at what else might be possible\" and had found \"a solution\".\n\nThe socially-distanced BBC Singers took part in the First Night of the Proms\n\n\"Both pieces will now include a select group of BBC Singers. This means the words will be sung in the Hall, and as we have always made clear, audiences will be free to sing along at home.\"\n\nAt The First Night of the Proms, 18 socially-distanced members of the BBC Singers performed in the Royal Albert Hall's otherwise empty stalls, with the orchestra on stage.\n\nThe BBC's original decision to play instrumental versions on the Last Night on 12 September prompted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to intervene.\n\n\"I cannot believe... that the BBC is saying that they will not sing the words of Land of Hope And Glory or Rule Britannia! as they traditionally do at the end of The Last Night of The Proms,\" he told reporters last week.\n\n\"I think it's time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general bout of self-recrimination and wetness.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"Confident forward-looking nations don't erase their history, they add to it.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, a Number 10 spokesman said the prime minister \"welcomes the decision\" to backtrack.\n\nSpeaking to Conservative MPs, Mr Johnson said: \"I do think this country is going through an orgy of national embarrassment about some of the things that other people around the world love most about us.\n\n\"People love our traditions and our history with all its imperfections. It's crazy for us to go around trying to censor it. It's absolutely absurd and I think we should speak out loud and proud for the UK and our history.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oliver Dowden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right decision\", but added: \"Enjoying patriotic songs does not and should not be a barrier to examining our past and learning lessons from it.\"\n\nLast week, the BBC said the move to drop the lyrics was down to the fact fewer performers could appear on stage because of social distancing rules. The songs would be performed as usual next year, the corporation pledged.\n\nOutgoing director general Tony Hall defended the \"creative conclusion\" that was reached, but admitted the question of dropping songs had been discussed. Lord Hall handed over to new director general Tim Davie on Tuesday.\n\nThose arguing that songs like Land of Hope and Glory shouldn't be performed included Chi-chi Nwanoku, who runs the Chineke! Orchestra, which performed at the Proms in 2017 and 2019.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We find it offensive. For any conscious black person who is aware of their history, the empire and colonialism, for example, they will struggle to enjoy the patriotic jingoism of these songs.\"\n\nBroadcaster and choirmaster Gareth Malone also suggested the anthems were outdated, tweeting: \"It's time for Rule Britannia! to go.\"", "House prices continued their post-lockdown recovery in August, notching up their highest monthly rise in more than 16 years, says the Nationwide.\n\n\"House prices have now reversed the losses recorded in May and June and are at a new all-time high,\" said its chief economist, Robert Gardner.\n\nPrices rose by 2% last month, it said, taking the average price to £224,123.\n\nHowever, forecasters expect a drop in prices again when the economic impact of the virus is felt on jobs.\n\nThis is likely to coincide with the easing of pent-up demand from lockdown, which is part of the reason for the latest rise in prices.\n\nThe Nationwide said the recovery in housing market activity had been \"unexpectedly rapid\".\n\nIt said the increase in August was the highest since February 2004, when house prices rose by 2.7%. As a result, annual house price growth accelerated to 3.7%, from 1.5% in July.\n\nRival mortgage lender, the Halifax, had already suggested a similar rise in prices over the summer.\n\nThe recent increase in prices has been the result of a range of factors, including demand carried over from lockdown or brought forward owing to the temporary suspension of stamp duty for some homes in England and Northern Ireland. In addition, the number of sales is still comparatively low, making prices more volatile.\n\nFirst-time buyers will not welcome any rise in prices, and many will struggle with securing a mortgage as lenders tighten their criteria for offering a loan.\n\nAnyone unable to offer a relatively large deposit and whose job is a risk amid the economic effects of the virus is likely to find it harder to get a home loan than before the outbreak.\n\n\"This rebound reflects a number of factors. Pent-up demand is coming through, where decisions taken to move before lockdown are progressing,\" said Mr Gardner.\n\nHe added that \"behavioural shifts\" could be boosting activity, with people reassessing their housing needs after life in lockdown.\n\n\"These trends look set to continue in the near term, further boosted by the recently announced stamp duty holiday, which will serve to bring some activity forward.\n\n\"However, most forecasters expect labour market conditions to weaken significantly in the quarters ahead as a result of the after-effects of the pandemic and as government support schemes wind down.\n\n\"If this comes to pass, it would likely dampen housing activity once again in the quarters ahead.\"\n\nThe government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility, has predicted house price falls, particularly next year.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation think tank has warned that these predicted price falls could lead to some existing owners becoming trapped by negative equity - when the property is worth less than the mortgage secured on it.\n\nMarket commentators said the short-term boom in the market had been surprising, but many do not expect it to last.\n\nLucy Pendleton, director of estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"Buyers emboldened by the stamp duty holiday have been engaged in a pitched battle for property, delivering a barnstorming recovery for the market.\n\n\"A stunning proportion of properties are now going for asking price or more, and offers are flooding in. It's like lockdown was a bad dream.\"\n\nBut Andrew Montlake, managing director of mortgage broker Coreco, said: \"Two words: reality check. As strong as the property market is right now, it will not last.\n\n\"Demand is understandably strong after lockdown and the added bonus of the stamp duty holiday, but unemployment is rising by the day and the economic outlook is highly uncertain as the furlough scheme ends.\n\n\"In the final months of the year we will start to see a reversal in the current rate of house price growth.\"\n\nThe figures were published as the UK's biggest housebuilder, Barratt, said its pre-tax profit fell 46% to £491.8m in the year to the end of June.\n\nIt completed 5,252 fewer homes than the previous year, a drop of 29%, as building sites were forced to close for weeks during the pandemic. However, it said forward sales were more positive.", "Enhanced Covid-19 measures have been lifted in Burnley and Hyndburn\n\nLockdown measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 have been eased in parts of Lancashire.\n\nPeople living in Burnley and Hyndburn can now socialise indoors in groups of up to two households.\n\nTightened measures were imposed at the end of July amid a rise in cases.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it would continue to work with local leaders to \"keep all local restrictions under constant consideration\".\n\nCouncillor Miles Parkinson OBE, leader of Hyndburn Borough Council, previously welcomed the news the enhanced restrictions were to be lifted but warned that residents must not become complacent.\n\nLeader of Burnley Council, Charlie Briggs, also called on residents to remain vigilant, adding \"I know it has been tough but your sacrifice has paid off\".\n\nHyndburn recorded a rate of just under 25 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 29 August.\n\nWhile that was up on the week before, it is still lower than two weeks earlier, when it recorded over 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nBurnley's rate is 28 per 100,000, up from 25 per 100,000 but still down on two weeks before, when it was about 48 per 100,000.\n\nBoth areas are still well above the overall rate for England, which stands at about 12 cases per 100,000 people in a week, which is why public health chiefs are urging caution.\n\nThe measures have also been lifted in Stockport, parts of Bradford, excluding Bradford city and Keighley town, parts of Calderdale, excluding Halifax, and parts of Kirklees, excluding Dewsbury and Batley.\n\nAccording to government rules, people living in these areas can now:\n\nBut the government has made a U-turn on its decision to ease measures in Trafford and Bolton following a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Ruben Bousquet had eaten the popcorn at the same cinema before, the inquest heard\n\nA 14-year-old boy died after suffering an allergic reaction to popcorn he ate at a cinema, a coroner has ruled.\n\nRuben Bousquet was with his parents at the Odeon in Greenwich, south east London, on 18 April 2019, when he became unwell.\n\nHe was \"exquisitely sensitive to food allergies\" including cow's milk, raw egg and soya, the inquest heard.\n\nCoroner Andrew Harris said the popcorn had been cross-contaminated with milk, triggering Ruben's fatal reaction.\n\nOn the evening Ruben fell ill his family rushed home to get his EpiPen, which he had left behind, but they were too late, the inquest heard.\n\nSouthwark Coroner's Court was told Ruben had regularly visited the same IMAX cinema and had eaten the same brand of sweet popcorn before.\n\nMr Harris said the cinema's food supplier Thomas Tucker Ltd had failed to carry out risk assessments when changing factory locations.\n\nRuben Bousquet was watching a film with his parents at Odeon cinema in Greenwich when he suffered his attack\n\nIn September 2019 the company went into administration after the Food Standards Agency launched an allergy alert when it was revealed the firm's popcorn products may have contained undeclared milk.\n\nOdeon \"terminated\" its contract with Thomas Tucker Ltd in the same month, the court heard.\n\nIn his ruling, Mr Harris said he could not be sure whether the cross-contamination happened in the production process or at the kiosk where it was bought.\n\nRuben's mum, Judith Bousquet, said the family were \"disappointed\" the coroner was unable to determine when the popcorn had been contaminated.\n\nMr Harris said: \"He ate some sweet unpackaged popcorn purchased from a cinema in Greenwich and began to feel unwell.\n\n\"He was driven home to access his emergency treatment for anaphylaxis and became distressed about 15 minutes after consumption, about three minutes from home.\n\n\"Ruben then collapsed and was given adrenaline injections twice and effective CPR.\"\n\nRuben was taken to Evelina Children's Hospital and found to \"have irretrievable brain damage\".\n\nMr Harris gave Ruben's cause of death as \"an acute anaphylaxis to cow's milk allergen from cross contamination of popcorn\".\n\nHe added: \"The popcorn manufactured and was free from milk protein but had become cross contaminated at some stage.\n\n\"Ruben was under the impression it was free of allergens and had he asked staff then that is what they would have believed too.\"\n\nMr Harris said he will decide whether to make a report to prevent future deaths later this month.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Mrs Bousquet said: \"To not put food labels as an advisory for the public to make a choice would seem to put profit before consumers.\n\n\"Ruben was in that 1% bracket of being affected - are they waiting for another death to make any changes?\"\n\nOdeon said: \"The popcorn ordered from our supplier, Thomas Tucker Ltd, was specified as 'allergen-free'.\n\n\"Once we were informed in June 2019 that certain popcorn samples sourced from this supplier tested positive for milk proteins, we immediately opened an investigation and introduced additional allergen advice to all of our cinemas.\n\n\"We have confidence in the robust procedures we have in place concerning food safety and the sourcing of products, and our teams use careful processes to protect popcorn and all other products from cross contamination in our cinemas.\"\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.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by a knifeman who had been released from jail on licence\n\nA catalogue of failings have been found in the way people convicted of terror-related offences are monitored by the authorities in England and Wales.\n\nAn independent review found \"gaps\" in the powers used to check up on such offenders.\n\nAnd it highlighted an \"unreliable\" flow of information about their behaviour, such as remarks \"glorifying\" terrorism.\n\nThe review was launched after convicted terrorist Usman Khan killed two people in an attack in London in November.\n\nKhan had been on licence from prison when he fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nJustice Minister Chris Philp said the government was legislating to require terrorism offenders to take lie detector tests - a measure the report endorses - and said other proposals were being considered.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, who conducted the review, said the authorities tended to \"over-focus\" on the impact of restrictions on offenders when they were let out - rather than considering the \"overall risk\" they posed.\n\nHe said meetings involving different public protection agencies, such as the police, the prison service and probation officers, were \"dominated by information exchange rather than active management\", with a single case taking two hours to discuss.\n\nMr Hall criticised a risk assessment tool used by the Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales, which he said \"seriously minimised\" the severity of terrorism offences and \"accepted the offender's characterisation (and in some cases denials)\" of their crimes.\n\n\"It was suggested to me that one possible reason was that [the risk assessment tool] is often completed by a prison psychologist, in a therapeutic context in which the offender's 'buy-in' to the process is deemed to be particularly important,\" he said.\n\nAmong other problems the report found a \"significant gap\" in the authorities' ability to monitor the risk of terrorism posed by \"dangerous\" offenders convicted of non-terror related offences.\n\nIt also said opportunities to reduce the risk offenders posed was \"lost\" because of an \"unreliable\" flow of information about their behaviour in prison, such as comments \"glorifying\" terrorism, overheard by jail staff.\n\nMr Hall added that there was a \"surprisingly limited\" circle of knowledge about terrorism offenders in the community, with police borough commanders in London \"not always aware\" of the identity of such individuals in their area.\n\nHe called for a \"cultural shift\" so that information was shared more widely.\n\nThe report, which makes 45 recommendations, was completed in May - three months after a second attack involving a released terrorism prisoner.\n\nSudesh Amman, had recently been freed from prison when he stabbed two people on Streatham High Road, in south London in February.", "The valuation of US tech giant Apple has continued to surge, surpassing the entire value of all the members of the UK's top share index.\n\nApple's shares rose 4% on Tuesday, valuing it at $2.3 trillion (£1.7tn), compared to the £1.5tn value of all the companies in the FTSE 100.\n\nApple shares fell back on Wednesday, but remained ahead of the London index at the close of trading on Wednesday.\n\nIt is just two weeks since Apple became the first US firm to be valued at $2tn.\n\nInvestors have been snapping up US tech stocks as demand for tech goods has surged amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMore people are relying on technology to work and shop from home, and Apple has been one of the major beneficiaries.\n\nThe iPhone-maker has seen its share price more than double since March, when panic about the coronavirus pandemic swept the world's stock markets.\n\nDemand for Apple's shares was also said to be boosted on Tuesday by company's decision to divide its shares, swapping four new ones for every old one investors held. The move is expected to make it easier for individuals to invest.\n\nBy contrast, market-watchers said London-listed companies, which include lockdown-hit oil companies and banks, have performed sluggishly compared to the runaway share prices of big US-listed tech firms.\n\n\"The FTSE 100 is a dinosaur, full of rather lumbering old-world stocks with precious little growth to offer,\" said Neil Wilson, chief market analyst for Markets.com. He added that it is also \"a very good proxy for the global economy, which we know is on its knees\".\n\nWith the exception of Ocado, \"there is no tech to speak of, which is where the real money has been made this year,\" he added.\n\n\"Whilst the US has Zoom, we have BT and Vodafone. The US boasts Netflix and Amazon - the FTSE can muster ITV and Sainsbury's.\"\n\nThe FTSE 100 is trading at 5,972 points, down 22% from its 2020 high of 7,675 in January.\n\nBy contrast, the Nasdaq index in the US, which includes many large tech companies, hit a fresh record on Tuesday. It has almost doubled since the collapse in share prices in the immediate aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nSome investors have warned that that all markets - including those trading in stocks, bonds and commodities - are overvalued at the moment.\n\nStimulus from central banks to support struggling economies - including quantitative easing and historic low interest rates - have buoyed the value of many companies and assets.\n\nIn another sign of booming tech valuations, Tesla's 12% stock gain propelled founder Elon Musk's personal fortune to $115bn this week, briefly making him the third-richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg. He temporarily overtook Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.", "Sci-fi blockbuster Tenet has given a welcome shot in the arm to the UK and Ireland's cinemas, taking £5.33 million in its first week on release.\n\nChristopher Nolan's sci-fi spy thriller is the first major studio release since cinemas began reopening in July.\n\nTenet opened in more than 600 UK and Irish cinemas last week having had its launch delayed several times.\n\nThe Showcase cinema chain said its ticket sales increased by 75% ahead of the film's eagerly anticipated release.\n\nTenet also performed well internationally, taking $53.6m (£40m) from sites in the Middle East, Europe and South Korea.\n\nThe film, a time-bending action drama set in numerous countries, will open in the US, Russia and China later this week.\n\nWarner Bros chairman Toby Emmerich said the studio \"couldn't be more pleased\" by the film's \"fantastic start\".\n\nHe said British film-maker Nolan had \"once again delivered an event-worthy motion picture that demands to be seen on the big screen\".\n\nFace masks are currently mandatory in UK and Irish cinemas, which are operating at a reduced capacity due to social distancing guidelines.\n\nTakings have been modest since they began reopening in July, with only one other title making more than £1m over that period.\n\nThat film was the Russell Crowe road rage thriller Unhinged, whose takings now stand at £1.2m after five weeks on release.\n\nTenet's closest official competitor over the weekend was Onward, which opened in cinemas before the coronavirus lockdown in March.\n\nThe fantastical Pixar animation made £185,028 last weekend, bringing its overall takings since release to £6.65m.\n\nTechnically, though, it was outperformed by The New Mutants, which had a weekend of previews ahead of its release on Friday.\n\nThe X-Men spin-off made £222,000 from those preview screenings, according to figures posted by the Box Office Mojo website.\n\nTenet's box office performance will be keenly scrutinised by rival studios as they prepare to unveil their own Covid-affected product.\n\nThat includes James Bond film No Time to Die, which is due to open in November having had its earlier release date in April put back.\n\nA new trailer for the film, which will see Daniel Craig make his final appearance as secret agent 007, will be released on Thursday.\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. Keir Starmer says Boris Johnson must extend the job retention scheme as it was “desperately needed”.\n\nBoris Johnson was accused of \"governing in hindsight\" over a series of U-turns, as he appeared before MPs at PMQs for the first time since July.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed the prime minister was \"making it up as he goes along\".\n\nAnd he said even Mr Johnson's own MPs had \"run out of patience\" after what he claimed was 12 U-turns over the summer.\n\nThe PM hit back by calling Sir Keir \"captain hindsight\" over the exam results debacle.\n\nHe accused the Labour leader of \"leaping on a bandwagon, opposing a policy that he supported two weeks ago\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford claimed Mr Johnson had made eight U-turns this year - and he called for a ninth to extend the government's job retention scheme, which ends next month, echoing a call made by Sir Keir.\n\nThe PM insisted \"indefinite furlough\" was not the answer to help the economy through the pandemic.\n\nWith grumblings on the Tory benches about the government's recent performance Boris Johnson needed a good PMQs to mark the return to parliament.\n\nHis political opponents - perhaps unsurprisingly - criticised the number of policy U-turns in recent months.\n\nWhile ministers have repeatedly said they're responding to changing science as the pandemic progresses, the speed and frequency of policy shifts is the crux of concern among some Conservative backbenchers.\n\nKeir Starmer returned to what some supporters have called a \"forensic\" style of questioning in pushing the prime minister for detail on the exam results crisis.\n\nBoris Johnson responded with a wide-ranging attack on the Labour leader which led to a tetchy exchange.\n\nBut with another shift in policy - this time on local lockdowns in Trafford and Bolton - taking place as the prime minister was at the dispatch box, it seems unlikely his performance was enough to silence critics - including those within his own party.\n\nIn heated exchanges, Sir Keir told the PM: \"This has been a wasted summer. The government should have spent it preparing for the autumn and winter.\n\n\"Instead, they have lurched from crisis to crisis, U-turn to U-turn.\"\n\nHe accused the government of \"serial incompetence\", and asked: \"Will the prime minister take responsibility and finally get a grip?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford calls on the government to “change tack for a ninth time” and extend the job retention scheme.\n\nMr Johnson hit back by citing a series of alleged U-turns made by Sir Keir in the past and - in a reference to his predecessor as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - accusing him of supporting \"an IRA-condoning politician who wanted to get out of Nato\".\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsey Hoyle intervened to warn the prime minster \"to answer the questions that have been put\" to him.\n\nA clearly angry Sir Keir said: \"As Director of Public Prosecutions, I prosecuted serious terrorists for five years, working with the intelligence and security forces and with the police in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I ask the prime minister to have the decency to withdraw that comment.\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Labour sources said they would not be taking the matter further, but added that the PM had supported a peerage for former Brexit Party MEP, Claire Fox, who had once been a member of a far left party which defended an IRA attack,", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"swift and decisive action\" had been needed\n\nParts of Greater Manchester will not have lockdown restrictions eased as planned following a government U-turn.\n\nMeasures in Bolton and Trafford were due to be eased overnight after a fall in cases earlier in August.\n\nBut they will \"now remain under existing restrictions\" following \"a significant change in the level of infection rates over the last few days\", the government announced.\n\nThe region's mayor Andy Burnham said the U-turn had been \"complete chaos\".\n\nThe boroughs had been due to allow people from different households to meet indoors and businesses to offer close contact services such as facials, but that has now been halted.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said the decision was made \"in collaboration with local leaders after reviewing the latest data\" which showed infection rates had more than trebled in Bolton in under a week and doubled in Trafford since the last review.\n\n\"We have always been clear we will take swift and decisive action where needed to contain outbreaks,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the U-turn as \"utterly chaotic\" and it gave people \"no confidence in the government's approach\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Mr Burnham compared the government's weekly announcements on local coronavirus restrictions as \"like waiting for the white smoke out of the Vatican\".\n\n\"It's not working, it's confusing people, it's causing anger and resentment,\" he added.\n\n\"In my view, it's local councils that need to be in the driving seat here, working then in consultation with the government.\"\n\nTrafford's Labour council leader Andrew Western tweeted: \"We should never have been put in this mess in the first place; this has massively damaged public confidence in measures.\"\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\nBolton Council leader David Greenhalgh said it would have been \"irresponsible not to recognise the unpredicted spike we have seen in Bolton\".\n\nHe said he recognised \"many people will be extremely frustrated and annoyed by this decision\" but the borough had recorded the second highest increase in positive cases in the country.\n\nA Covid-19 spike in Bolton and Trafford prompted council bosses to ask for restrictions to remain in place a day before they were due to be lifted.\n\nBolton currently has one of the highest rates of new virus cases per 100,000 residents in England.\n\nChris Green, Conservative MP for Bolton West, had argued that restrictions should be eased in his constituency.\n\nBut, following the U-turn, he said the government had based its decision on recent data which he hadn't seen.\n\nHe has since tweeted to say he was \"disappointed at how this important decision has been communicated because of the impact this will have on people's lives\".\n\nLockdown restrictions were eased on Wednesday in Stockport, Burnley, Hyndburn, parts of Bradford, excluding Bradford city and Keighley town, parts of Calderdale, excluding Halifax, and parts of Kirklees, excluding Dewsbury and Batley.\n\nAccording to government rules, people living in these areas can now:\n\nMeasures were imposed at the end of July amid a rise in cases.\n\nStockport has joined Wigan in being allowed to have two households socialise indoors.\n\nBut in Bolton, Trafford, Manchester, Salford, Rochdale, Bury and Tameside it is still banned. In Oldham people are advised not to meet up with other households outdoors as well.\n\nThe rise in cases in Trafford and Bolton shows how quickly the situation with coronavirus can change.\n\nOn Friday the government announced it was easing the localised lockdown restrictions in parts of Greater Manchester from Wednesday - a decision it has now reversed in those two areas.\n\nPointing to data for the week to 20 August, it said \"cases in Bolton and Stockport fell from 25.6 (per 100,000 residents) to 18.9, and 23 to 15.1 respectively, and Trafford fell from 27.1 to 17.8.\"\n\nYet even then, there was concern that the rate was rising. The Labour leader of Trafford Council, Andrew Western, said the more recent data had shown a \"slight increase\".\n\nBy Tuesday, the spike in Bolton had also become apparent and council leaders in both areas were calling for the easing of restrictions to not go ahead.\n\nAccording to data released on Tuesday evening, Trafford's rate for the week to 29 August was more than 35 cases per 100,000.\n\nIn Bolton it was 59 cases per 100,000, driven in particular by high numbers of cases on 27, 28 and 29 August.\n\nCatalina Sastra, who runs the Party and Play, funhouse in Bolton was planning to re-open next week but said the changes were confusing.\n\n\"We're teetering on the edge... we are due to open with an online booking system, temperature reading, we've had all the screens put up... but it's just if it's on or if it's off\", she said.\n\n\"It's a bit like playing hokey-cokey. Are we in or are we out?\"\n\nBolton has had its highest seven-day rate since late May\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Erick Morillo, the internationally-recognised DJ best known for the track I Like To Move It, has been found dead in Miami, local police have said.\n\nHis death comes less than a month after his arrest for sexually assaulting a female DJ after working a gig together.\n\nPolice said the 49-year old was found dead in his Miami Beach home, but have released few details as the investigation begins.\n\nHe released his 1994 hit I Like To Move It using the name Reel 2 Real.\n\nIt became a retro hit again after a remix was featured in the 2005 animated film Madagascar.\n\nMorillo had denied the sexual assault charge, but turned himself in after a rape kit identified him as the suspect, according to WPLG-TV in Florida.\n\nHe had been scheduled for a court hearing on Friday, the station reported.", "Travellers re-entering the UK from Greece currently do not have to quarantine\n\nQuarantine restrictions will be imposed on people travelling from Greece to Scotland, the Scottish government has announced.\n\nThey will be required to isolate for 14 days if they arrive in Scotland after 04:00 on Thursday.\n\nMinisters said they have taken the move due to a \"significant rise\" in cases of Covid-19 being brought into Scotland from people who have been to Greece.\n\nIt has been linked to travellers returning from the Greek islands.\n\nAs a result, the country has been been removed from the \"travel corridor\" exemption list on public health grounds.\n\nThe prevalence of Covid-19 in Greece is currently about 20 per 100,000, but a number of cases of the virus in Scotland have been traced back to travel from Greece.\n\nThey include a passenger who flew to Glasgow from Zante on 23 August.\n\nThe deputy first minister, John Swinney, told Good Morning Scotland that there had been \"an increased number of cases coming in from Greece as a consequence of international travel\".\n\nHe said: \"We judge, based on the evidence available to us, there is a necessity to apply that quarantine restriction and that's to essentially protect us here in Scotland from a spread of the virus as a consequence of importation from other countries.\"\n\nAsked why the restriction covered the whole of Greece when media reports suggested there was a particular problem with some islands, Mr Swinney said: \"The whole process of travel can generate some of the cases that are taking their course\".\n\nSo he said it was \"proportionate\" and designed to \"give us as much protection as possible here domestically to avoid a rise in cases and that's what we're trying to avoid at all possible costs\".\n\nHe added that it was important to take proportionate and targeted action where it was possible to do so.\n\nTravellers returning to the UK from the Greek island of Zante have tested positive for coronavirus\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said: \"There is a compelling public health risk around importation of the virus, especially given the number of imported cases linked to the Greek islands.\n\n\"The flow of travel between Scotland and Greece, and the behaviour we have seen from some of those travellers, means that on public health grounds there is a strong case - supported by public health directors - to remove Greece from the exemption list.\"\n\nGreece's Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis said the restrictions were \"a bit harsh\".\n\nHe said every country had a right to protect its citizens, but that Greece was \"well below\" the 20 cases per 100,000 threshold that the UK nations use as a guide for imposing quarantine restrictions on returning travellers.\n\nMr Theoharis added: \"We have put in place a comprehensive set of protocols and measures... We take targeted measures where we see concentration.\"\n\nHe added that Greece conducted the fifth most tests in Europe.\n\n\"We feel that we have taken every possible precaution\", he added.\n\nPeople travelling to Scotland from these countries are subject quarantine restrictions.\n\nHolidaymakers have tested positive for coronavirus after flights to the UK from Zante\n\nTravellers arriving home to Wales from Zante are also being asked to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there were six clusters of cases, amounting to 30 infections, linked to flights from the Greek island.\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are considering re-imposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country's infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,000, over seven days.\n\nBut each of the four nations can add or remove countries to their own list.\n\nMike Tibbert, vice president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association, said he is \"extremely concerned\" about the workload being placed on its members by the changing quarantine rules.\n\n\"The removal of Greece in this ongoing hokey-cokey of countries which are 'in or out' means it's impossible for Scots to plan or reorganise a holiday which they have already paid for. And equally impossible for our members to run a business,\" he said.", "The information commissioner said it was \"astonishing\" these protections were not already built in to websites\n\nApps, social media platforms and online games that are specifically targeted at children will now have to put privacy at the heart of their design.\n\nA code of practice outlining how children's data should be protected has come into force and firms have 12 months to comply with the new rules.\n\nIf they do not, they could face huge fines imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office.\n\nSome questioned whether the code would bring about real change.\n\nInformation commissioner Elizabeth Denham said it was an important step towards protecting children online.\n\n\"A generation from now we will all be astonished that there was ever a time when there wasn't specific regulation to protect kids online. It will be as normal as putting on a seatbelt.\n\n\"This code makes clear that kids are not like adults online, and their data needs greater protections.\"\n\nShe said the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recognised that it could be difficult for smaller businesses to comply with the code and would offer \"help and support\" over the coming year.\n\nAmong the tenets of the code are:\n\nOthers who must conform to the code include educational websites, streaming services that use, analyse and profile children's data and the makers of connected toys.\n\nThe ICO has the power to fine firms up to 4% of their global turnover if they breach data protection guidelines. The organisation has previously said it will take more severe action when it sees harm to children.\n\nIn September last year, YouTube was fined $170m (£139m) for collecting data on children under 13 without the consent of their parents, following a US investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.\n\nThe scope of protections needed for children online was huge and the ICO might not be up to the job, said one digital rights campaigner, Jen Persson.\n\n\"The code is well-intentioned, and if enforced, may bring about some more focused change in the approach of some apps and platforms to stop collecting excessive data from children for example, and start to meet the requirements of core data protection law in place for over 20 years.\n\n\"The key risks are that since the ICO has not enforced to date on behalf of children in its current remit of concrete data protection law, that it may be seen as not having the capability to enforce those new things in the code that go beyond that and are subjective, such as the best interests of the child, or that outstrip the ICO technical knowledge and capacity.\"\n\nAndy Burrows, head of child safety online policy at the NSPCC, said he hoped the code would force a rethink on the content provided to children.\n\n\"Tech firms have a year to prepare for this transformative code that will force them to take online harms seriously, so there can be no more excuses for putting children at risk.\n\n\"For the first time, high-risk social networks will have a legal duty to assess their sites for sexual abuse risks and no longer serve up harmful self-harm and suicide content to children.\"\n• None New safety code for kids' online toys and apps", "Nicola Adams won gold medals at the Olympics in 2012 and 2016\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\n\"It's definitely time to move on and be more diverse, and this is a brilliant step in the right direction.\" Her dance partner has not yet been revealed.\n\nAdams said she didn't mind who she's paired up with, but added: \"I'd only be wanting somebody who's maybe a little bit on the short side because I'm a little bit small.\"\n\nShe told Breakfast: \"It will be nice for the LGBT community to be able to see there are same-sex couples on the show as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAsked whether the idea to have a female partner came from her or the show's producers, she explained: \"I asked the show about it. They wanted to know if I wanted to be on the show and I said, 'Yeah, I'll do it, but I want to dance with another female dance partner.'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Strictly Come Dancing professionals Johannes and Graziano dance together\n\nStrictly has previously featured two male professionals dancing together in a one-off routine, when Johannes Radebe and Graziano di Prima performed to Emeli Sande's Shine last year.\n\nSome applauded the show for the routine, but the BBC received 189 complaints from viewers who found it offensive.\n\nAdams will be the first celebrity to be part of a same-sex couple in the BBC One show's 16-year history.\n\nSinger Will Young, who took part in Strictly in 2016, welcomed the news. \"I think it's fantastic, as long as it's done in the right way and it's not done in a sensationalised way, in a sort of cursory way, which I'm sure it won't be,\" he told Breakfast.\n\nThose applauding the move on Twitter included 2018 Strictly champion Stacey Dooley, fellow former contestant Dr Ranj Singh, and ice skater Matt Evers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier this year, Evers was part of the first same-sex couple on ITV's Dancing On Ice, along with pop star Ian Watkins - better known as H from Steps.\n\nIn July, there were reports that Westlife star Mark Feehily would be part of a same-sex pairing on Strictly this year. So far, six celebrities have been confirmed.\n\nAdams will join Clara Amfo, Max George, Ranvir Singh, Caroline Quentin and Jason Bell on the dancefloor.\n\n\"I can't dance at all, so this is going to be a totally new challenge for me,\" Adams said. \"The only thing I've been doing is TikToks, and that's about as far as my dancing goes.\"\n\nThe 18th series of Strictly will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An emergency airlift to Berlin from Omsk was organised for Mr Navalny\n\nSeveral prominent critics of Kremlin policies - ex-spies, journalists and politicians - have been poisoned in the past two decades.\n\nIn the UK, two Russian ex-secret service agents were targeted: Alexander Litvinenko fatally with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, and Sergei Skripal with the toxic nerve agent Novichok in 2018. The Kremlin denied any involvement.\n\nAlexei Navalny, who has been physically attacked before, appears to be the latest victim. Yet much remains unclear.\n\nMysterious poisonings involving Russians often remain mysterious - a distinct advantage for assassins, compared with say an old-fashioned shooting in the street.\n\nProf Mark Galeotti, a Russia expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC that \"poison has two characteristics: subtlety and theatricality\".\n\n\"It's so subtle that you can deny it, or make it harder to prove. And it takes time to work, there's all kinds of agony, and the poisoner can deny it with a sly wink, so everyone gets the hint.\"\n\nAlexei Navalny is Russia's best-known anti-corruption campaigner and opposition activist. His slick, hard-hitting videos on social media have drawn many millions of views, and made him a thorn in the side of the Kremlin.\n\nFor years Mr Navalny has rallied his supporters across Russia\n\nA victim poisoned before a long flight can be stuck in the air long enough for the assassin to make an easy getaway. Mr Navalny, 44, fell acutely ill on a flight from Tomsk in Siberia on 20 August - so ill that it had to be diverted to Omsk.\n\nRussian investigative reporter and Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead in 2006, claimed to have been poisoned on a flight to the North Caucasus in 2004, when she felt sick and fainted.\n\nSimilarly, a slow-acting poison - polonium-210 - killed Litvinenko excruciatingly and it was weeks before the rare toxin was identified. As an alpha-particle emitter its radiation was not detected by a Geiger counter.\n\nThe two alleged Russian killers - state agents, according to the subsequent UK inquiry - had plenty of time to fly home unsuspected.\n\nMr Navalny has accumulated many enemies in Russia, not just among supporters of President Vladimir Putin, whose United Russia party he labels \"the party of crooks and thieves\". Mr Putin was a secret service officer in the Soviet KGB before becoming president in 2000.\n\nMr Galeotti says that in this case \"the Russian state seems to have been caught off-balance, which implies it wasn't a centrally planned operation\". \"This suggests it was the act of a powerful Russian, but not necessarily the state.\"\n\nNow fighting for his life in Berlin's Charité hospital, Mr Navalny is in an induced coma, being treated for \"poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors\".\n\nThe hospital says the specific toxin remains unknown - tests are being done to identify it. But the poison's effect - inhibition of the enzyme cholinesterase in the body - \"was confirmed by multiple tests in independent laboratories\".\n\nThat is the effect of military nerve agents, such as sarin, VX or the even more toxic Novichok. They interfere with the brain's chemical signals to the muscles, causing spasms, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and collapse.\n\nMr Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh suspects that poison was slipped into the cup of black tea he drank at a Tomsk airport cafe. He had not eaten anything before the flight, she says.\n\nThat ominously echoes the case of Litvinenko, who drank poisoned tea in a London hotel.\n\nA prominent anti-Putin activist based in the US, Vladimir Kara-Murza, says he suffered similar symptoms to Mr Navalny's in 2015 and 2017. His alleged poisoning remains a mystery.\n\nPoison, he told the BBC, \"is becoming sort of a favoured tool of Russian security services\" and \"a sadistic tool\".\n\n\"It is excruciating to go through this... I had to learn to walk again after the first poisoning and coma.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vladimir Kara-Murza on the dangers to President Putin's critics\n\nWhen the plane landed in Omsk on 20 August medics rushed Mr Navalny into intensive care already comatose, and put him on a ventilator.\n\nMr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the Berlin doctors' diagnosis of poisoning is not yet conclusive, so it is too early to launch an official investigation. Earlier he said the Kremlin wished Mr Navalny well, when permission was granted to fly him to Berlin.\n\nThere is speculation that the delay in Omsk, before Mr Navalny's transfer to Berlin, could have helped erase traces of the poison.\n\nThe Omsk doctors have also been criticised for suggesting that the problem was a \"low blood sugar level\" and apparently failing to spot nerve agent symptoms.\n\nDr Konstantin Balonov, a US-based anaesthesiologist, told BBC Russian that that failure was \"strange, to say the least\". Moscow toxicologists also consulted the Omsk doctors and \"they must have concluded that it was a toxin from that [chemical] group\".\n\nThere are suspicions of a cover-up, as unidentified police were quickly on the scene, blocking access. The doctors insisted that no poison was detected in Mr Navalny's urine.\n\nIt has emerged that atropine - an antidote to nerve agent - was administered in Omsk.\n\nBut Mikhail Fremderman, previously an intensive care specialist in St Petersburg, said that \"in poisoning cases such as this, atropine must be given intravenously, for a long period\". That may not have happened in Omsk, he told BBC Russian, adding that the medical data has not been released.\n\nProf Alastair Hay, a leading British toxicologist and chemical weapons expert, says this type of nerve agent is at the \"extremely toxic\" end of a broad spectrum of organophosphates.\n\nThat large group of possible poisons makes the agent already hard to identify. Some much milder organophosphates are used in insecticide and in medical therapies.\n\n\"It only requires a small dose to kill someone, which can be effectively disguised in a drink,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Work carried out at Porton Down is normally highly classified\n\nThere are yet more advantages, from the assassin's point of view. \"A simple blood test doesn't tell you what the agent is - you need a more sophisticated test, very expensive equipment. Many hospital labs don't have that expertise,\" Prof Hay said.\n\nIn the UK, that capability is restricted to Porton Down, a high-security chemical and biological research centre.\n\nThe UK and Russia are among 190 signatories to the global Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans chemical weapons use and research, beyond small quantities allowed for developing antidotes and protective equipment.\n\nAfter the Cold War Russia destroyed its vast chemical weapons stockpile - about 40,000 tonnes - under international supervision, Prof Hay noted.\n\nA biopsy on Georgi Markov revealed this tiny pellet, believed to have contained ricin\n\nExotic chemicals were also used in some Cold War \"hits\" - for example the notorious umbrella killing of Bulgarian anti-communist journalist Georgi Markov in London in 1978. At the time Bulgaria was an ally of the Soviet Union.\n\nThe suspected poison was ricin, released from a tiny pellet found in the autopsy. The killer had stabbed it straight into Markov's bloodstream with the umbrella - a far more potent delivery method than if he had swallowed it.", "Policing protests and spitting incidents during the pandemic have contributed to a rise in assaults\n\nA survey of more than 40,000 police officers in England and Wales found that almost four in ten said they had been assaulted in the last year.\n\nThe research by the College of Policing also found 88% of officers said they had been assaulted during their career.\n\nThree-quarters of police officers said they wanted to carry Taser stun guns every day.\n\nBut police chiefs are investigating racial disparities in Taser use.\n\nNational Police Chiefs Council head Martin Hewitt, who commissioned the research, said he was shocked by the scale of the assaults and that a third of officers said they were unhappy with the personal safety training they received.\n\nPolice chiefs are calling for a new offence of targeting police officers with a vehicle, as well as for spitting and hate crimes to be considered as aggravating factors when suspects are brought to court.\n\nCoughing and spitting incidents during the pandemic, protests and illegal raves have driven a rise in attacks in recent months, with provisional data showing attacks up 24% year-on-year in the four weeks to 7 June.\n\nIn 2018-19, there were 31,000 assaults on officers - equivalent to 328 assaults per 1,000 constables, up from 284 per 1,000 the previous year.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the increase in assaults on officers was \"simply unacceptable\", adding that the government was consulting on doubling the maximum sentence for assaulting an emergency worker to two years.\n\nChe Donald, vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers and the majority of the public were \"appalled by the atrocious levels of violence colleagues have faced recently\" and police chiefs must take \"swift action\".\n\nThe report found that 87% believed all frontline officers should have the option to deploy with Tasers. Three-quarters of police officers said that they personally wanted to carry a Taser.\n\nAt the moment, only around 17,000 of the 123,000 police officers in England and Wales are trained to carry the stun guns.\n\nThis major study of violence and policing reveals worrying disparities in the preparation given to officers - with some on the frontline receiving just a quarter of the training of colleagues elsewhere in England and Wales.\n\nBut one of today's studies from the College of Policing reveals an apparent racial disparity in how officers themselves use force.\n\nThe study of more than 45,000 incidents across 16 forces looked for patterns in when officers resort to force - including Tasers - when detaining suspects.\n\nIt found that the odds of officers drawing equipment or weapons, but not using them, was higher when the suspect was identified as black.\n\nThe research also found that white suspects were in fact more likely to end up injured. The upshot is that the data doesn't answer all the questions about the apparent racial disparities - as it also indicates that other factors may be influencing decisions to use force, such as mental illness.\n\nChiefs have ordered more research into this very complex area - because they don't know why these disparities exist - and therefore it's not clear how to minimise them.\n\nKent Chief Constable Alan Pughsley, the NPCC lead on officer safety, said that Tasers are \"fallible\" and officers should not be \"over-reliant\" on them.\n\nAlmost all officers said they thought Tasers were \"very effective\" or \"fairly effective\" but research into the use of the weapons found that although drawing a Taser may act as a deterrent, assaults and injuries were no more or less likely when they were carried.\n\nFigures show Tasers and other \"less lethal\" weapons are more likely to be used against black people, and the NPCC is commissioning research to find out why.\n\nThe College of Policing report also said:", "\"I have changed since then,\" said Byrne\n\nTalking Heads frontman David Byrne has apologised for a video in which he impersonates people of colour using black and brownface.\n\nThe promotional video for 1984's concert film Stop Making Sense, sees the star interviewing himself, while playing several different reporters.\n\nAfter the clip resurfaced on social media, Byrne issued a statement expressing his regret and dismay.\n\n\"I acknowledge it was a major mistake in judgement,\" he wrote.\n\nAdmitting that the sketch showed \"a real lack of understanding\", he added: \"It's like looking in a mirror and seeing someone else - you're not, or were not, the person you thought you were.\"\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\nByrne joins a number of performers and comedians who have been forced to acknowledge blackface performances in recent months, as protests over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and, more recently, the shooting of Jacob Blake, led to broader calls for accountability.\n\nAnt and Dec said they were \"sincerely sorry\" for impersonating people of colour on past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway, and US chat show host Jimmy Kimmel apologised for his \"thoughtless\" portrayals of black stars like Snoop Dogg, Oprah Winfrey and basketball player Karl Malone.\n\nComedian Tina Fey withdrew four episodes of her show 30 Rock which portrayed characters in blackface, adding in a letter that she was sorry \"for the pain they have caused\".\n\nMatt Lucas and David Walliams also issued a statement about the sketch show Little Britain, saying: \"we regret that we played characters of other races\".\n\nByrne said his apology came after a journalist highlighted the existence of the Stop Making Sense sketch.\n\n\"We have huge blind spots about ourselves- well, I certainly do,\" he said. \"I'd like to think I am beyond making mistakes like this, but clearly at the time I was not.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"One hopes that folks have the grace and understanding to allow that someone like me, anyone really, can grow and change, and that the past can be examined with honesty and accountability.\"\n\nReferencing the closing line of his Tony Award-winning stage show American Utopia - \"I need to change too\" - he added, \"I believe I have changed since then.\"\n\nThe TV adaptation of American Utopia, directed by Spike Lee, premieres at the virtual Toronto Film Festival later this month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households have been reintroduced in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe new rules affect more than 800,000 people in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThey are being told not to host people from other households in their own homes or visit another person's home.\n\nThe restrictions came into effect from midnight. They will last for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that 135 of the 314 new cases in Scotland over the past two days had been in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nShe said Covid-19 continued to be a dangerous and potentially deadly virus.\n\n\"It is spreading again, particularly in these three local authority areas, and we believe that, in these areas, it is spreading primarily as a result of household gatherings,\" she said.\n\nThe restrictions affect 633,120 people living in Glasgow, 95,530 in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nPeople living in those areas should also not visit someone else's home, no matter where it is.\n\nThe only exception is for those in extended households, who can continue to meet indoors.\n\nOnly essential indoor visits will be allowed in hospitals and care homes.\n\nPeople from different households can continue to meet outdoors as long as they follow the guidance, and outdoor visits to care homes are still permitted.\n\n\"I think this should be a wake-up call, not just for people in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire,\" said the first minister.\n\n\"It should be a wake-up call for all of us to stick to the guidelines and stop this virus spreading any further or any faster.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the reopening of schools had not been responsible for what had happened.\n\nShe said a \"very small number\" of school-age children had tested positive for the virus, and that this had mostly been driven by community transmission.\n\n\"Part of the reason that we have to take tough action, where necessary, to minimise community transmission is to stop that becoming a problem for schools,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the preventative action was designed to keep schools open and businesses operating.\n\nMs Sturgeon had raised concerns earlier in the day after the latest daily figures showed that 66 of the 154 new cases recorded in Scotland had been in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nThat compared with an average of eight cases a day in the same area in the first two weeks of August.\n\nThe daily incidence rate of Covid-19 is now almost 33 new cases per 100,000 people in West Dunbartonshire, 22 in Glasgow and almost 19 in East Renfrewshire. The rate for the rest of Scotland is just over 10.\n\nThe local lockdown which was imposed in Aberdeen last month had been triggered by a rate of 14 cases per 100,000 population.\n\nDonald Macaskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, said the announcement was a bitter blow to care homes in the three affected local authority areas.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"Unfortunately it is the selfish behaviour and attitude of a few, who have put themselves first, which have meant that some of our most vulnerable citizens have been prevented from meeting their families.\n\n\"I am extremely disappointed that there will be hundreds of families not able to visit each other indoors in the next week or so.\"", "Richard Leonard's leadership has been criticised by some sections of the party since he took over from Kezia Dugdale three years ago\n\nFour Scottish Labour MSPs have called on the party's leader, Richard Leonard, to quit ahead of next year's Scottish Parliament election.\n\nJames Kelly resigned as the party's justice spokesman, saying he had no confidence in Mr Leonard's leadership.\n\nSocial security spokesman Mark Griffin has also quit, with backbenchers Jenny Marra and Daniel Johnson adding their voices to calls for Mr Leonard to go.\n\nMr Leonard has vowed to lead the party into the election.\n\nHe accused the MSPs of waging an \"internal war\" against him, and said he would be fighting the election on a platform of \"building a National Care Service, establishing a quality Jobs Guarantee scheme and reviving Scotland's economy with a Green New Deal\".\n\nMr Leonard added: \"If any party representative thinks an internal faction fight is more important than this agenda, then they will have to answer to party members and the voters whom we serve\".\n\nHe took over the leadership from Kezia Dugdale in 2017 - but there have been concerns about his performance from some senior party figures ever since.\n\nOpinion polls suggest Scottish Labour is trailing a distant third behind the SNP and Scottish Conservatives ahead of the election next May.\n\nThe party slumped to fifth in last year's European elections after winning just 9.3% of the votes - down from 26% in the previous election in 2014.\n\nJenny Marra said Mr Leonard's leadership had been tied to that of Mr Corbyn, and it was now time for him to go\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Kelly said that Mr Leonard's personal polling ratings were particularly low - even among the party's own supporters.\n\nHe added: \"Such poor ratings would produce a catastrophic result from which the party would struggle to recover.\n\n\"I have no confidence in your ability to shape the party's message, strategy and organisation. I know that this is a view shared by other parliamentarians, party members and indeed many members of the public.\n\n\"It is clear that after nearly three years in charge you are not able to take the party forward. I firmly and sincerely believe that it is in the best interests of the party that you stand down as leader.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis views were echoed by Ms Marra, who told The Times that the party risked \"catastrophe\" if it did not change course.\n\nShe described Mr Leonard, who was seen as being a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, as being \"utterly committed to the party, the cause and is liked by everyone\".\n\nBut she added: \"Richard is a stalwart of our party but he cannot lead us. That's the unavoidable truth and change is our best hope.\n\n\"Richard's leadership was tied from the start to the disaster of Jeremy Corbyn's project. It remains so in the public's view and they simply will not give the party a hearing as things stand.\n\n\"We need new energy, a new approach and to turn a new page.\"\n\nJames Kelly has resigned as the party's justice spokesman over Mr Leonard's leadership\n\nA third MSP, Daniel Johnson, tweeted his support for Ms Marra and Mr Kelly - saying: \"It is time to recognise the situation we are in and for Richard to step down.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he had attempted to raise his concerns and make constructive suggestions but claimed that these had gone unheeded, and there had been no change in approach or performance.\n\nHe added: \"Continuing like this will be disastrous for our party and is why I no longer have confidence in Richard Leonard's leadership.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Griffin said polls suggested that fewer than half of the voting public knows who Mr Leonard is - and that most of those who do, including a majority of Scottish Labour voters, have a negative opinion of him.\n\nHe added: \"We cannot hope to improve when any criticism, public or private, is dismissed as factional\".\n\nHowever, Mr Leonard was backed by Scottish Labour MSP Neil Findlay, who is also on the left of the party.\n\nMr Findlay tweeted that the colleagues who were calling for Mr Leonard's head were \"pathetic\" and guilty of \"treachery with a snarl\".\n\nThis is an attempt to topple the Scottish Labour leader - and it may not be over yet.\n\nBefore he quit as the party's justice spokesman, James Kelly privately approached Richard Leonard to ask him to stand down.\n\nI am told he did so on behalf of a sizeable group of Labour MSPs, certainly more than the four who have now spoken out publicly.\n\nWhat's less clear is if any of them would be prepared to challenge him to a formal leadership contest.\n\nMr Leonard has told the BBC he intends to lead the party into the 2021 Holyrood election and has questioned the suitability of his critics to stand in that contest.\n\nThe party has yet to make its list selections and it's understood Mr Leonard favours a gender balanced system that may squeeze out some existing MSPs.\n\nMr Kelly insists his concern is not for himself but for the future of the Scottish Labour party, which has lost ground in elections and opinion polls while Richard Leonard has been in charge.", "Harry and Meghan at the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in March\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reached a deal with streaming giant Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\n\"Our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope,\" said Prince Harry and wife Meghan.\n\n\"As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us,\" they continued.\n\nNetflix chief Ted Sarandos said he was \"incredibly proud\" the royal couple had made the company \"their creative home\".\n\nThe multi-year deal will encompass documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows and children's programming.\n\nIt comes six months on from the couple stepping down from royal life and moving to California to live away from the media spotlight.\n\n\"Our lives, both independent of each other, and as a couple have allowed us to understand the power of the human spirit: of courage, resilience, and the need for connection,\" said the couple in a statement.\n\n\"Through our work with diverse communities and their environments, to shining a light on people and causes around the world, our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry can currently be seen in Paralympics documentary Rising Phoenix\n\n\"As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us, as is powerful storytelling through a truthful and relatable lens.\"\n\nThe pair said they were \"pleased to work with Netflix, saying its \"unprecedented reach\" would \"help us share impactful content that unlocks action\".\n\nSarandos said Netflix was \"excited about telling stories\" with the couple \"that can help build resilience and increase understanding for audiences everywhere\".\n\nAccording to Deadline, projects already in development include \"an innovative nature docu-series and an animated series that celebrates inspiring women\".\n\nThe royal couple will make their shows for Netflix under the banner of an as yet unnamed production company.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex can currently be seen on the streaming service in Rising Phoenix, a documentary about the Paralympic Games.\n\nMeghan previously partnered with Disney to narrate Elephant, a documentary about the species for its Disneynature outlet.\n\nThis week's announcement follows the recent publication of Finding Freedom, a book about the couple's life in the Royal Family.\n\nA spokesman for the Sussexes said they had not been interviewed for the book, which describes a culture of increasing tension between the Sussexes and other family members.\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. Ignition: This solid rocket booster will be used for missions to the Moon\n\nEngineers have fired a booster rocket that will help send Americans back to the Moon in 2024.\n\nAt 20:05 BST (15:05 EDT) the booster, which was secured to the ground, expelled an immense column of flame for two minutes.\n\nTwo of these booster types will form part of Nasa's huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the biggest launcher built since the Saturn V in the 1960s.\n\nWednesday's rocket firing was carried out at a test site in Promontory, Utah.\n\nThe facility is operated by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman.\n\nThe huge Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) provide most of the thrust in the first two minutes of the SLS's ride to space.\n\nThe test was designed to investigate the performance and manufacturing quality of the booster's rocket motor. It will also help teams evaluate potential new materials, processes, and improvements for the boosters beyond the first landing on the Moon in 2024.\n\nMeasuring 54m (177ft) long and 4m (12ft) wide, the SLS booster is the largest and most powerful solid propellant booster ever built.\n\nTwo SRBs sit on either side of the SLS core stage\n\nIt burns around six tonnes of propellant every second, generating more thrust than 14 four-engine jumbo commercial airliners.\n\nCharles Precourt, vice president, propulsion systems at Northrop Grumman and a former Nasa astronaut, said: \"It's important to me to ensure we have what is necessary to establish a presence on the Moon and then go on to Mars.\n\n\"Testing our rocket boosters is how we can help ensure astronauts can explore space safely.\"\n\nThe SLS consists of a huge core stage with four engines at its base. Two SRBs are attached on each side of the core and provide 75% of the thrust during the first two minutes of the ascent to space.\n\nBoth the core and boosters are derived from technology used in the space shuttle, which was retired in 2011.\n\nAble to produce a total thrust of more than eight million pounds, the SLS will supply the power necessary to launch crewed missions to the Moon, and eventually - it is hoped - Mars.\n\nNasa plans to launch the giant rocket on its maiden flight next year. This mission, called Artemis 1, will see an unpiloted Orion capsule sent on a loop around the Moon.\n\nTeams at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center are already assembling the solid rocket boosters for this mission.\n\nFor Artemis 2, four astronauts will travel around the Moon in 2023, followed a year later by the first crewed landing since 1972.\n\nMeanwhile, engineers in Mississippi have resumed their \"Green Run\" testing of the massive SLS core stage, after operations were paused in response to the threat from tropical storms Marco and Laura.\n\nThe B-2 test stand at Nasa's Stennis Space Center, where the SLS core stage is being put through its paces\n\nThe Green Run consists of eight tests, four of which have been completed since the core stage arrived at Nasa's Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis in January. The fifth, which has just started, will aim to check out rocket controls and hydraulics.\n\nNasa's head of human spaceflight Kathy Lueders said she hoped the programme could stay on track for a \"hot fire\" test in October.\n\nDuring the hot fire, all four of the powerful RS-25 engines at the base of the core stage are fired for about eight minutes - the time it takes for the SLS to get from the ground to orbit.", "Influencers and advertisers should be forced to declare digitally altered photos on social media, the body representing UK girl guides has said.\n\nThe Girlguiding charity has backed a proposed law by a backbench MP that would force social media users and advertisers to label images where bodies or faces have been edited.\n\nThe bill is designed to address unrealistic portrayals of beauty in the media and online.\n\nCritics have said it is unenforceable.\n\nThe Girlguiding Advocate panel, whose members are aged 14 to 25, welcomed the proposals.\n\nThe panel cited its own research which suggests around half of young women aged between 11 and 21 regularly use apps or filters to make photos of themselves look better online.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Do you retouch your selfies?\n\n\"The 'perfect' images girls are encountering in their daily lives are having a devastating impact on self-esteem and confidence,\" said 15-year-old panel member Alice.\n\n\"These enhanced images create a false society where how girls look is perceived to be the most important aspect about them.\"\n\nDr Luke Evans MP, a Tory member of the Health and Social Care Committee and a GP, was inspired to introduce the bill after seeing first-hand the effects of these images on people's mental health.\n\n\"We know how damaging this is, as you're warping people's perspective of reality, whether that's slimming down for women or bulking up for men,\" he added.\n\nThe law would require advertisers, broadcasters or publishers to display a warning label when bodies or faces are digitally altered.\n\nSimilar legislation already exists in France. There, any commercial image that has been enhanced must feature a label of \"edited photograph\", or companies face a fine.\n\nThe stock images agency Getty has also banned retouched images from its commercial category.\n\nDr Evans has met the Advertising Standards Agency - which has previously banned some airbrushed advertisements - and hopes to have talks with social media firms soon.\n\nHe said he would like to see rule-breakers apologise and issue a correction, or be fined.\n\nTechnology reporter Cristina Criddle edited this photo on a free app in under 10 minutes to illustrate extreme editing\n\nSome have said this would be difficult to enforce on social media, as it would rely on users policing themselves or others reporting them.\n\n\"While some pictures look obviously edited, there are still fine tweaks anyone can make, which can be hard to identify,\" commented Unsah Malik, author of Slashed: The Ultimate Social Media and Influencer Marketing Guide.\n\n\"This begs the question to what extent the new rules will be put in place, and how much we can trust influencers to tell the truth.\n\n\"This then leaves us in the same position of setting unrealistic beauty standards.\"\n\nUnsah Malik said it was hard to identify subtle editing\n\nNick Ede, a brand expert, said there should be flexibility in the rules.\n\n\"If you are specifically using a product that you are promoting, and don't declare that you have manipulated an image, that is false advertising - for example, a face cream and you've smoothed out your skin,\" he explained. \"But if you are posting generic images that are part of your brand, then I don't think you should have to have any kind of accountability.\n\n\"Treating people like they are a packet of cigarettes with what basically is a government health warning is just ridiculous.\"\n\nDr Evans accepts that his recommendations would be hard to enforce.\n\n\"Just because it's difficult in principle, doesn't mean we should not do it,\" he responded. \"Social media companies have a role to play, allowing people to see what is true reality.\n\n\"These influencers have large audiences and need to be transparent - labelling content is not a huge ask.\"\n\nRahi Chadda says people should be free to edit their own images\n\nInfluencers have spoken out against the proposals, saying it puts too much pressure on them.\n\nOne model with more than 700,000 followers said people can follow at their own discretion.\n\n\"It is an individual's choice how they wish to represent themselves through social media,\" Rahi Chadda added.\n\n\"It impacts their own mental health also. If by editing the photos they feel more confident, then that's a personal choice which shouldn't be judged.\n\n\"Transparency is something which influencers are working toward at their own pace.\"\n\nThe Ten Minute Rule Bill will be heard in Parliament on 15 September. If it passes, it can be incorporated into existing legislation or debated in the House of Commons.", "Seesha Dack was last seen on Sunday evening\n\nPolice searching for a 15-year-old girl who has been missing for two nights have found a body.\n\nSeesha Dack left her North Shields home at 17:00 BST on Sunday to meet friends, but did not return home, sparking a major search operation.\n\nA body has been found in the Tanners' Bank area of North Shields.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place but police said they believe the body to be that of Ms Dack and her family has been informed.\n\nThere is not at this stage thought to be any third party involvement and a report will be prepared for the coroner.\n\nTanners' Bank has been sealed off with a police cordon\n\nSupt Barrie Joisce, of Northumbria Police, said: \"This is an extremely sad conclusion to an extensive investigation.\n\n\"Specialist officers are currently supporting Seesha's family during this incredibly difficult time and our thoughts are with them.\n\n\"We will continue to carry out inquiries to establish the circumstances around the death but at this stage we do not believe there to be any third party involvement.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The seven member boyband has made history with their new track 'Dynamite'\n\nIn a year where much of the world has been brought to standstill, BTS stands out. Unable to perform live and show off their electric choreography on some of the biggest stages across the world, they took a fresh approach: disco.\n\nNot only has it proved to be a success, their single Dynamite has broken records and they've become the first all-Korean pop act to top the Billboard 100 singles chart.\n\nRM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook told me how their fans - and a hit single of course - had helped them through the recent uncertainty.\n\nThey didn't manage to answer all of my questions, including the one most fans ask- when are they going to do their mandatory military service in South Korea. But judging by their tweets, they have been overwhelmed and even in tears at the success of their single. Even the South Korean President, Moon Jae-in tweeted to call it a \"splendid feat.\"\n\nBTS keep in contact with their fans - or \"ARMY\" - on social media. It's a constant conversation with a stream of pictures and videos. This year, more than any other, it seems that may have proved invaluable connection for both the band and their followers.\n\nCongratulations on the success of Dynamite. How does it feel to rise through the world charts including in the UK?\n\nRM: We are so humbled to achieve all these incredible feats, including the Official Singles Chart. A big thank you to our ARMY! \"Dynamite\" was created in the hopes of bringing some vibrant energy that the world needs right now. We are extremely happy to see people around the world enjoying it.\n\nJung Kook: Thank you ARMY for being so awesome!\n\nYou said that \"due to Covid-19, people in the world have been going through tough times and you wanted to share some positive energy with your fans\". Do you feel the final product has achieved that goal?\n\nRM: We would dare say that it has, to some extent! The only thing we want for them is to forget everything and just rock their head and move their body to the beat.\n\nOne of the real joys of BTS is seeing you perform live. I can speak from experience that it is electric. How are you coping without those live performances?\n\nSuga: Our world tour plans had to be altered due to COVID-19 and honestly we felt dispirited. We missed the stage and our fans. In order to alleviate this sense of frustration, we planned an online concert in June.\n\nEven though we couldn't see each other in person, our fans' heartfelt support from all around the world reached us. This made us realise that there are various ways to support and comfort each other even such times.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. K-pop sensation BTS speak to BBC, backstage at the O2 Arena\n\nDid you enjoy the disco element to the track?\n\nJ-hope: Because we are not the disco generation, I did my research by watching videos and tried to embody that vibe as much as possible. It was really fun and had me hooked. Haven't you been hooked as well?\n\nHow difficult has this year been for you as a band?\n\nJimin: It's been a tough year for everyone, and we're not an exception either. We were unable to do many things that we had planned. And as artists who need to connect with people on stage, this was most disheartening. But we are finding ways to cope with this situation, and \"Dynamite\" was one way for us to do that.\n\nCan we talk a bit about your donation to Black Lives Matter. Why did you decide to donate the money? And what was your reaction when you saw your fans had matched the donation?\n\nRM: We think our Twitter message speaks for itself. We stand against racial discrimination and condemn violence, and all have the right to be respected. We were really thankful to know that the fans were also with us.\n\nWhy after all these years did you decide to release a song in English?\n\nV: We all loved this song when we first heard it. It felt fresh, different from what we've done so far. In a musical aspect, we thought that singing in English will best fit the song. So there was a unanimous consent amongst us to do it in English.\n\nWhat message do you have for fans who are struggling around the world?\n\nJin: I'm not sure if this can be of any help, but I want to tell you to cheer up and stay strong no matter how hard life is now. Let's try to find together our small joys in the midst of this. Also, listen to Dynamite that will make your time at home more fun!\n\nThe seven member boyband has made history with their new track 'Dynamite'", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has blamed a \"mutant algorithm\" for this summer's exam results fiasco.\n\n\"I am afraid your grades were almost derailed by a mutant algorithm and I know how stressful that must have been,\" he told pupils at a school.\n\nAn algorithm - a maths calculation - was initially used to determine A-level and GCSE results this year but it was scrapped after problems emerged.\n\nThe top civil servant at the Department for Education has also now been sacked.\n\nJonathan Slater was due to stand down next year, but will now leave the department by next week.\n\nMr Johnson made his comments about the algorithm during a visit to a secondary school in Coalville, Leicestershire, on Wednesday.\n\nThe National Education Union (NEU) called Mr Johnson's comments \"brazen\" and accused him of trying to \"idly shrug away a disaster that his own government created\".\n\nThe prime minister had previously defended the controversial exam results as a \"robust set of grades\". His government later made a U-turn following anger over the algorithm and decided to use predicted grades from teachers instead.\n\nSpeaking to pupils earlier, Mr Johnson empathised with the problems young people had faced with their exam grades but said he was \"very, very glad that it has finally been sorted out\".\n\nResults for this year's exams were caught up in confusion\n\nThe prime minister said education was the \"great liberator\" and the biggest risk for young people was not Covid-19 - but was \"continuing to be out of school\".\n\nMr Johnson told pupils they needed to be in school to think about ideas and questions - such as \"Is Harry Potter sexist? The answer is no, by the way.\"\n\nBut the remarks on exam problems angered the biggest teachers' union, who saw it as evading responsibility.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the NEU, said parents and teachers would be \"horrified to see the leader of this country treat his own exams fiasco like some minor passing fad\".\n\n\"It is certain to put a long-lasting dent in the government's reputation on education.\"\n\nThe exam chaos has also led to the Boris Johnson removing the most senior civil servant at the Department for Education, permanent secretary Jonathan Slater.\n\nA statement said \"the prime minister has concluded that there is a need for fresh official leadership\" at the department.\n\nThe role as the department's most senior civil servant will be taken on in an interim basis by Susan Acland-Hood.\n\nIt follows the resignation of Sally Collier as head of the Ofqual exam watchdog for England.\n\nSo what does the departure of Jonathan Slater mean - and why does it matter?\n\nFor his union, the FDA - and for Labour - it is straightforwardly a sign that, when things go wrong, the buck now firmly stops with the officials and not government ministers.\n\nAngry Conservative MPs were being privately reassured that \"heads would roll\" after the exams controversy - and both a senior civil servant, and the head of Ofqual, have now departed while Gavin Williamson and his education ministers remain in post.\n\nBut something of a pattern is emerging.\n\nIn February the most senior official at the Home Office resigned - and took the government to court claiming there had been a \"vicious and orchestrated campaign\" against him.\n\nOther senior civil servants have made less of a fuss but have nonetheless left their jobs: the most senior Whitehall mandarin - Sir Mark Sedwill - recently moved; the head of the Foreign Office announced an earlier than expected departure; and it was announced last month that the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice would be leaving, too.\n\nCabinet office minister Michael Gove has talked about reforming the civil service - in a speech in June, he said government departments recruited in their own image and their assumptions were \"inescapably metropolitan\". So a strategic rethink and an increased turnover of senior Whitehall personnel are probably not entirely unrelated.\n\nBut what might worry senior civil servants more is that they might be sacrificed for short term news management, rather than as the result of a strategic master plan.\n\nAnd there is a risk this, in turn, might affect the quality of those who apply for senior civil service roles.\n\nBoth departures followed the high-profile problems caused by replacement grades for A-levels, GCSEs and vocational qualifications for exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis focused on an \"algorithm\" which was accused of producing unfair results - which after a U-turn was replaced by teachers' estimated grades.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said: \"It is abundantly clear that things have not gone well at the Department for Education and Ofqual, culminating in the debacle over this year's GCSE and A-level grades.\n\n\"But it is pretty unsavoury that civil servants appear to be carrying the can while ministers remain unscathed.\"\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Kate Green said: \"Parents will be looking on in dismay at a government in complete chaos just a matter of days before children will return to schools.\"", "Dominic Raab and his top civil servant Philip Barton arrive at their new department\n\nThe UK government remains committed to spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid, Dominic Raab has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary dismissed as \"tittle tattle\" reports that the £15bn aid budget could be cut to pay for more defence and intelligence spending.\n\nPress reports suggest Chancellor Rishi Sunak will cut aid spending to help pay off rising debts in his Autumn budget.\n\nBut Mr Raab said the 0.7% target was a manifesto commitment that was written into law.\n\nHis promise came as the newly-merged Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office began work, with a pledge to protect \"the world's poorest\" from coronavirus and famine.\n\nThe new department is opening after No 10 decided to combine the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the Department for International Development (DfID).\n\nAsked if the 0.7% target would survive the merger, Mr Raab said: \"Oh, absolutely.\"\n\nHe added that the development expertise the UK has got will be \"the beating heart of this new department\".\n\nThe government is carrying out a review of defence and security policy, that is due to report back in November, and is also gearing up for the comprehensive spending review, which will set departmental budgets for the next few years.\n\nAccording to The Times, Rishi Sunak is arguing that the Ministry of Defence's plans for advanced cyber weaponry and AI-enabled drones must be paid for out of the aid budget.\n\nMr Raab said: \"Well, there is loads of tittle tattle, rather colourful, in the media and I am not going to prejudice the comprehensive spending review.\"\n\nHe added that the government was committed to helping the poorest around the world and \"making sure we link up aid with our wider foreign policy goals\".\n\nThe UK is one of the few countries to meet the UN's 0.7% aid target\n\nMr Raab has announced a £119m fund to tackle coronavirus and famine to mark the launch of the new, merged department.\n\nThe money will be targeted in Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Somalia, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan and West Africa's Sahel region - all places where the outbreak has worsened conditions for people already struggling with extreme hunger, wars and/or climate change.\n\nThe foreign secretary also confirmed he would be appointing Nick Dyer - a director general at DfID - as the UK's first special envoy for famine prevention and humanitarian affairs.\n\nThe abolition of the Department for International Development may have been driven by political pressure from within the Conservative Party.\n\nBut the government argues that its merger with the Foreign Office will mean better, more joined-up policy.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said that by combining its diplomatic strength with its expertise in foreign aid, Britain could not only tackle global challenges, but also protect its interests.\n\nCritics fear the new Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office could mean the government weakens its commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.\n\nBut Downing Street insisted there'd been no change to that policy.\n\nThe two departments have a history of being merged and split up again, and the move to bring them together has long been mooted in Conservative circles.\n\nTory MP Harriet Baldwin - who held joint roles across the FCO and DfID - said it was \"really important to combine them\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"[The move] will really increase the impact of our diplomatic clout, as well as our development expertise across the world.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Hilary Benn, who was the international development secretary under Tony Blair, said he thought the merger was a \"mistake\" and questioned Mr Johnson's understanding of the department.\n\nHe told Today: \"The proof will be in how this new department develops and unfolds, but I think it will lead to less respect for what we are doing.\"\n\nBoris Johnson announced the merger in June, telling MPs it would ensure aid spending better reflected UK aims and that it was a \"long overdue reform\".\n\nHe said UK aid spending had \"been treated as some giant cashpoint in the sky that arrives without any reference to UK interests\".\n\nBut the PM pledged DfID's budget - which at £15bn last year dwarfed the £2.4bn spent by the Foreign Office - would be maintained\n\nMr Johnson's decision was criticised by three previous prime ministers - Conservative David Cameron, and Labour's Gordon Brown and Mr Blair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson announced the merger to the Commons in June\n\nMr Cameron said it would mean \"less expertise, less voice for development at the top table and ultimately less respect for the UK overseas\".\n\nThe Commons International Development Committee also called the move \"impulsive\", saying the world's poorest \"will pay the greatest price\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to reinstate DfID if he were to win the next general election, saying the merger was \"the tactics of pure distraction\".", "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\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nHundreds of thousands of people in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas are waking up to the return of some lockdown measures. Following a rise in virus cases, they're being told not to mix with people from other households inside homes. Meanwhile, local restrictions affecting more than a million people in parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire have been eased - despite strong opposition from two councils, Bolton and Trafford.\n\nThe UK government and the devolved administrations will hold urgent discussions later about introducing new quarantine measures for travellers. Scotland and Wales have already set out different rules for people arriving from Greece - and travel firm Tui has cancelled all holidays to a party resort on the island of Zante. Ministers are also concerned about a rise in cases in Portugal, less than two weeks after travel to the country was opened up.\n\nTui said it was forced to act because customers were failing to observe virus safety measures\n\nCovid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, which says it represents 1,600 families who've lost loved ones to coronavirus, have accused Boris Johnson of being \"heartless\" after he declined to meet them. The prime minister had said he would \"of course\" meet anyone in their position, but days later wrote to them saying he was \"unable\" to do so. They've made that letter public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice is calling for an independent, judge-led, statutory public inquiry\n\nA £2bn scheme launches today with the aim of helping young people struggling during the pandemic into work. The Kickstart initiative will offer \"a future of opportunity and hope\", according to the Treasury. Firms are being encouraged to sign up as soon as possible, and in return, the government will pay them £1,500 to help set up support and training. Read more on the sectors hiring at the moment.\n\nTesco has confirmed it plans to take part in Kickstart\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, as many of the pupils going back to class today are required to don face coverings, we've pulled together all the rules around when you need to mask up, in schools and beyond.\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.", "Insp Rob Taylor, who leads the rural crime team, said all of the animals were in a \"terrible condition\"\n\nHundreds of animals kept in \"harrowing conditions\" have been rescued from land in Gwynedd.\n\nMore than 91 horses, 122 geese, ducks and chickens and three rabbits were removed from land in the Pwllheli area on Tuesday, North Wales Police said.\n\nTwo horses had to be put down, and a woman was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.\n\nRob Taylor, from North Wales Rural Crime Team, described it as an \"appalling day\".\n\nSgt Rob Taylor said the conditions were \"terrible\"\n\nOne of the horses destroyed had suffered a broken leg when it was a foal, which had not been properly treated, leaving it lame for the whole of its adult life, police said. Another was blind.\n\nThe \"large scale cruelty case\" was a joint operation between the RSPCA and North Wales Police.\n\nMr Taylor said all the animals rescued were in a \"terrible condition\" but were now being cared for elsewhere.\n\n\"A truly harrowing day for all of the team and a case will be taken against the person responsible,\" he said.\n\n\"All cruelty is horrendous, but this rates on a high scale because of the numbers of animals involved.\"\n\nThe woman arrested has been released on police bail pending further investigation.\n\nDead horses under covers could be seen in photos taken by police at the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Carwyn Jones was first minister from 2009 to 2018 and is still a member of the Senedd for Bridgend\n\nEx-first minister of Wales Carwyn Jones has revealed he came close to stepping down from the job earlier than he did due to the strain on his family.\n\nHe said that he thought about walking away from the role when his daughter was going through a \"difficult time\".\n\nMr Jones said that being away so much made him question if \"she needed a dad who is at home more\".\n\nDiscussing his book, \"Not Just Politics\", he also warns Wales could become independent by accident.\n\nMr Jones, first minister from 2009 to 2018, said that one occasion stood out \"when my daughter was going through a difficult time, as sometimes adopted children do\".\n\n\"She found things very difficult,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\n\"At that point I did start to think does she need a dad who is at home more?\n\n\"But she came through it, she's a great kid.\"\n\nCarwyn Jones became first minister in December 2009, after Rhodri Morgan stepped down\n\nMr Jones also talked about his wife Lisa's diagnosis with leukaemia in the 1990s and how they did not allow the illness to get in the way of their plans for the future.\n\n\"Very fortunately Lisa recovered. She had a bone marrow transplant from her brother, within a year she was pretty much back to normal and was strong, and she's a very brave person,\" he said.\n\n\"Life carried on and it was important that life carried on. When Lisa was ill a lot of people who were diagnosed didn't make it.\n\n\"Lisa was one of the fortunate ones, and 25 years on there has been no recurrence at all of the illness.\n\n\"I think it's important that when you get cancer you carry on. That you don't let it get in the way of your life and carry on with your plans.\"\n\nCarl Sargeant was found dead days after Carwyn Jones sacked him amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour\n\nMr Jones admitted that the death of the sacked Welsh Government minister Carl Sargeant would be one event that \"inevitably leaves a mark on you\".\n\nMr Sargeant was found dead at his home days after the then-first minister dismissed him in November 2017, after being accused of inappropriate conduct towards women.\n\nFive months later, Mr Jones announced he would be stepping down as first minister, saying he had been through the \"darkest of times\".\n\nIn the book Mr Jones reveals that following Mr Sargeant's death he was clinically depressed, he received counselling and was prescribed with antidepressants.\n\nBut Mr Jones doesn't believe this should have been made public at the time.\n\n\"I don't think it's appropriate when you have a grieving family to start talking about yourself and the challenges that you face. I think people would see that as a bit of a distraction to be fair,\" he said.\n\n\"I would never have felt comfortable with talking about what I was going through when there is a family that had gone through much worse.\n\n\"These things are not appropriate. There comes a time to discuss these things but it wasn't then.\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joined Carwyn Jones on the 2017 general election campaign trail in Cardiff\n\nAnother theme that Mr Jones tackles in the book is the future of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"I've never accepted that it's a choice between the status quo and independence,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there is another way, a kind of federation, where you've got four equal nations who opt into that federation.\"\n\nMr Jones believes that there is a great appetite for constitutional change in the Labour Party.\n\n\"I think (Labour leader) Keir Starmer gets it. I'm not saying his view will be exactly the same as mine in terms of parliamentary sovereignty, it may be a different model,\" he added.\n\nMr Jones also warns that Wales could become independent by accident.\n\n\"You have to bear in mind that if Scotland can leave the UK, Wales can leave the UK, so can England,\" he said.\n\n\"And you see Scotland leaving, that might well start to create a drive for English nationalism, independence for England.\n\n\"There are lots of forces that seem unlikely and ridiculous, and would have seemed so years ago, which now are not as ridiculous as they might be. These are the things we have to deal with.\"", "Clusters of coronavirus cases have been linked to the Greek island of Zakynthos, also known as Zante\n\nMinisters are facing pressure to decide whether tourists returning to England from Greece should quarantine, after Scotland and Wales introduced their own measures.\n\nScotland has said travellers arriving from Greece must quarantine for 14 days after 04:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nAnd Wales has asked arrivals from the Greek island Zakynthos to quarantine.\n\nIt comes as travel company Tui cancelled all holidays to a resort on the Greek island after virus clusters.\n\nThe firm said it would no longer be offering trips to the resort of Laganas, on Zakynthos, from Thursday because of customers failing to follow coronavirus safety measures.\n\nSix clusters of cases have been linked to flights from the island - also known as Zante.\n\nGreece has insisted it is doing \"everything in our power\" to keep UK holidaymakers safe.\n\nThe country's tourism minister, Haris Theoharis, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're taking specific targeted measures where we see specific concentrations of cases. Measures that have been successful and have been working in the past few days.\"\n\nNumbers in bars and restaurants on Zakynthos are being limited to reduce the spread of the virus\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there were six clusters of cases, amounting to more than 30 infections, linked to flights from the Greek island in the past week - including two flights which landed in England.\n\nHe called for an \"early meeting with the UK government and devolved nations\" to discuss changing the rules.\n\nHis comments came shortly after the Scottish government announced its own decision.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases from Greece is a significant risk to public health.\"\n\nStruggling to keep up? You're not alone! The UK government's travel quarantine has been a messy affair.\n\nThere was real chaos when restrictions were re-imposed on arrivals from Spain at the height of a busy summer weekend.\n\nAfter that, ministers tried to bring in a more structured approach by reviewing each country's infection rate throughout each week and announcing any changes on Thursdays or Fridays.\n\nHowever the picture has been complicated further by the fact that the quarantine is a public health policy and so the Welsh and Scottish Governments can diverge from Westminster and classify countries differently.\n\nNow the Welsh government is bringing in testing on arrival for passengers too.\n\nThat's awkward for the UK government because, for months, the aviation sector has been asking ministers to give their backing to testing at airports so people who test negative wouldn't have to quarantine for the full 14 days.\n\nAviation bosses are frustrated about the delay over any announcement on that.\n\nAnd all the twists and turns over quarantine makes life for any foreign travel business incredibly hard.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's biggest tour operator Tui is suspending its holidays in the resort of Laganas on Zakynthos.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of Tui UK and Ireland, said anyone who had booked to go the resort after 3 September would be refunded for the cancellation, but that trips to all other resorts on Zakynthos would continue as normal.\n\nHe said: \"The health and safety of our colleagues and customers is our primary concern and recent cases show that some customers are not following social distancing and Covid safety measures.\n\n\"It is therefore the right thing to do to protect and reduce a now identified potential risk to others by no longer offering holidays to this specific resort.\"\n\nNearly 200 people faced self-isolation after at least 16 passengers on a Tui flight from Zakynthos to Cardiff Airport tested positive for the virus. Some people claimed passengers were not following Covid-19 rules.\n\nWhen a country surpasses 20 cases per 100,000 people in the past week, the UK government normally imposes 14 days of self-isolation on returning travellers.\n\nThere were 14.3 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in Greece in the seven days to 1 September, up from 14.1 a week earlier. But several cases of the virus in Scotland have been traced back to Greece, including a passenger on a Tui flight from Zante to Glasgow on 23 August.\n\nTui said customers due to travel to Greece from Scotland would be able to amend or cancel their holiday in light of the quarantine announcement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tui boss Andrew Flintham says the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\"\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nIt has been less than two weeks since a travel corridor was established between Portugal and the UK, following a sustained period of falling cases in the country that put it below 20 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nBut in the seven days up to 1 September, the seven-day rate has increased from 14.2 to 22.7.\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal, making up the largest number of overseas tourists to the country.\n\nOver May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nThe government has not commented on whether requirements for arrivals from Portugal will change again.\n\nLast week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and other destinations on the UK's quarantine list.", "A BBC team has filmed riot police attacking and forcibly arresting university students in the capital of Belarus.\n\nThe students in Minsk were marking the start of the country's academic year with marches against Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years.\n\nProtests against his rule have continued across Belarus since the 9 August presidential election, which was widely regarded as rigged and rejected by the EU and US as neither free nor fair.\n\nMr Lukashenko has insisted he has the support of millions of Belarusians.\n\nThe BBC's Jonah Fisher was in Minsk when the attacks happened.\n\nRead more: Students held as protests mark new term in Belarus", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThree Paris St-Germain players have tested positive for coronavirus, the Ligue 1 club said on Wednesday.\n\nThe French champions, who lost in the Champions League final last month, have not revealed the players involved.\n\n\"All of the players and coaching staff will continue to undergo tests in the coming days,\" a club statement said.\n\nThe French league is already under way but PSG are due to start their title defence at Racing Lens on 10 September after being given an extended break.\n\nThe opening game of the Ligue 1 season between Marseille and Saint-Etienne had to be postponed last month after four home players tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe French league told clubs last week its protocol for dealing with coronavirus meant more than three positive cases at a club was likely to lead to a postponement.\n\nThe 2019-20 campaign was curtailed in April because of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Paris St-Germain, 12 points clear at the top, awarded the title.", "Bolton has had its highest seven-day rate since late May\n\nA Covid spike in Bolton and Trafford has prompted council bosses to ask for restrictions to remain in place, a day before they were due to be lifted.\n\nTighter rules were introduced in July in Greater Manchester and parts of Yorkshire after concerns the virus was being spread between households.\n\nBolton currently has one of the highest rates of new virus cases per 100,000 residents in England.\n\nIts council said it had made the decision \"with a heavy heart\".\n\nOn Friday, the government said measures banning people from different households from meeting indoors or private gardens would be lifted in Bolton, Stockport, Trafford, Burnley, Hyndburn and parts of Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees.\n\nBut Bolton Council said the \"unforeseen spike\" in the local infection rate means restrictions should remain in place \"until further notice\".\n\nBolton has recorded 170 new cases in the week to 29 August, up from 53 the week before, meaning it has one of the highest rates in England at 59 new cases per 100,000 residents.\n\nThe rate in Trafford has risen from 19.4 to 35.4, with 84 new cases.\n\nTighter Covid-19 rules were introduced in Greater Manchester in July\n\nThe decision would also mean certain businesses, including those offering close-contact services, will not reopen as planned.\n\nBolton council leader David Greenhalgh said: \"It is with a heavy heart that [we] have come to this decision and this will be incredibly disappointing for both residents and business owners.\n\n\"We urged the government to lift Bolton out of the additional restrictions at a time when infection rates were low. This was the right decision at the time.\n\n\"However, there has been a sudden and unforeseeable rise in the number of coronavirus cases in Bolton.\n\n\"We have always been led by the data, which means we have no choice but to act quickly to keep everyone safe.\"\n\nThe council said new cases in Bolton were spread across the borough and not limited to a single area, community or place of work.\n\nInfections between different households appear to be the main cause of the spike, with people aged 18-49 representing the overwhelming majority of new cases, it said.\n\nMeanwhile, Trafford recorded its highest seven-day infection rate since the end of July when the additional restrictions were imposed.\n\nCouncil leader Andrew Western had previously argued lifting restrictions there would be \"premature\" and the government had ignored the advice of local public health officials.\n\nIn a letter to the health secretary, he accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" over the easing of lockdown measures in the borough.\n\nHe said Trafford has a \"significantly\" higher rate of cases than other Greater Manchester boroughs who are not due to see restrictions relaxed.\n\nMr Western has called for an \"urgent update\", saying \"the people of Trafford deserve better\".\n\nGreater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), which is made up of the 10 Greater Manchester councils and mayor Andy Burnham, has called on the government to agree on an exit strategy from the local restrictions on household gatherings.\n\n\"It is clear that more targeted, hyper-local door-to-door action is more effective than broad geographical restrictions,\" said a GMCA spokesperson.\n\n\"As soon as practically and safely possible, we want to see the whole of Greater Manchester coming back into line with the rest of country but with funding to provide enhanced local interventions where they are needed.\n\n\"However, before that is in place, it is accepted that the restrictions will need to continue in eight boroughs in the short term.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "An artist's impression of the last moments before the merger of two black holes\n\nImagine the energy of eight Suns released in an instant.\n\nThis is the gravitational \"shockwave\" that spread out from the biggest merger yet observed between two black holes.\n\nThe signal from this event travelled for some seven billion years to reach Earth but was still sufficiently strong to rattle laser detectors in the US and Italy in May last year.\n\nResearchers say the colliding black holes produced a single entity with a mass 142 times that of our Sun.\n\nThis is noteworthy. Science has long traced the presence of black holes on the sky that are quite a bit smaller or even very much larger. But this new observation inaugurates a novel class of so-called intermediate-sized black holes in the range of 100-1,000 Sun (or solar) masses.\n\nThe analysis is the latest to come out of the international LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, which operates three super-sensitive gravitational wave-detection systems in America and Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe collaboration's laser interferometer instruments \"listen\" for the vibrations in space-time that are generated by truly cataclysmic cosmic events - and on 21 May, 2019, they were all triggered by a sharp signal lasting just one-tenth of a second.\n\nComputer algorithms determined the source to be the end-stage moments of two in-spiralling black holes - one with a mass 66 times that of our Sun, and the other with 85 solar masses.\n\nThe distance to the merger was calculated to be the equivalent of 150 billion trillion km.\n\n\"It's astounding, really,\" said Prof Nelson Christensen from the Côte d'Azur Observatory in France. \"This signal propagated for seven billion years. So this event happened 'just before halftime' for the Universe, and now it's mechanically moved our detectors here on Earth,\" he explained to BBC News.\n\nThe European VIRGO laser lab is based in Italy's province of Pisa\n\nThe involvement of an 85-solar-mass object in the collision has made collaboration scientists sit up because their understanding of how black holes form from the death of a star can't really account for something on this scale.\n\nStars, when they exhaust their nuclear fuel, will experience an explosive core collapse to produce a black hole - if they're sufficiently big. But the physics that's assumed to operate inside stars suggests the production of black holes in the particular mass range between 65 and 120 solar masses is impossible. Dying stars that might yield such entities actually tear themselves apart and leave nothing behind.\n\nIf the science is correct on this point then the most likely explanation for the existence of an 85-solar-mass object is that it was itself the result of an even earlier black hole union.\n\nAnd that, believes Prof Martin Hendry, from Glasgow University, UK, has implications for how the Universe evolved.\n\n\"We're talking here about a hierarchy of mergers, a possible pathway to make bigger and bigger black holes,\" he said. \"So, who knows? This 142-solar-mass black hole may have gone on to have merged with other very massive black holes - as part of a build-up process that goes all the way to those supermassive black holes we think are at the heart of galaxies.\"\n\nThe discovery suggests there is a hierarchy of mergers that lead to ever bigger black holes\n\nThe LIGO-VIRGO collaboration is reporting the 21 May, 2019, event (catalogued as GW190521) in two scholarly papers.\n\nOne is in the journal Physical Review Letters and describes the discovery. The second can be found in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and discusses the signal's physical properties and scientific implications.\n\nGW190521 is one of over 50 gravitational wave triggers presently being investigated at the laser laboratories.\n\nThe pace of research has increased rapidly since the collaboration made its first, Nobel-Prize-winning detection of gravitational waves in 2015.\n\n\"We are increasing the sensitivity of the detectors and, yes, we could end up making more than one detection a day. We will have a rain of black holes! But this is beautiful because we will learn so much more about them,\" Prof Alessandra Buonanno, director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, told BBC News.\n\nThe laser labs are constantly being upgraded to improve their sensitivity\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Extinction Rebellion said it planned to \"peacefully disrupt\" Parliament with 10 days of demonstrations\n\nAt least 90 people have been arrested at climate change protests causing disruption across England.\n\nExtinction Rebellion organised action in London and Manchester to urge the government to prepare for a \"climate crisis\".\n\nCampaigners were arrested after they sat in the middle of the road next to Parliament Square to stop traffic.\n\nIn Manchester, protesters have been urged to \"reconsider their actions\" following a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Met said the protests could result in \"serious disruption\" to businesses and commuters\n\nExtinction Rebellion said it planned to \"peacefully disrupt the UK Parliament in London\" with 10 days of demonstrations until MPs backed the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.\n\nOther planned events in the capital include a \"carnival of corruption\", which is due to take place outside the Treasury, and a \"walk of shame\" near the Bank of England.\n\nProtester Karen Wildin, a 56-year-old tutor from Leicester, said: \"I'm here today because I have serious concerns about the future of the planet - we need to put this above anything else.\n\n\"Never mind Covid, never mind A-levels, this is the biggest crisis facing us and we need to raise the message as loudly as possible.\n\n\"Not a lot has been done on this issue, everyone needs to hear the message.\"\n\nEvents across England were timed for the return of MPs from the summer holiday\n\nSarah Lunnon, a member of Extinction Rebellion, said: \"The failure to act on this issue will have a catastrophic impact on the future of us and the generations to come.\n\n\"We want to occupy Parliament Square to make our voices heard. Of course we're in the middle of a pandemic but we're balancing the risk, this is the biggest issue facing us.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Tuesday's gathering could only take place off the main roads at Parliament Square Gardens between 08:00 BST and 19:00. Boats, vehicles, trailers or other structures were banned from the procession.\n\nThe same rules apply for Wednesday's demonstrations.\n\nThe Met said as of 18:00 Tuesday a total of 90 people had been arrested on suspicion of public order offences.\n\nFootage posted online by Extinction Rebellion appeared to show John Lynes, a demonstrator in his 90s, being led away by police near Parliament Square while walking with a stick.\n\nMr Lynes, from St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, has joined previous protests organised by the group.\n\nProtesters gathered in Westminster to urge the government to prepare for a \"climate crisis\"\n\nMet Commander Jane Connors said: \"The reason we have implemented these conditions is that we know these protests may result in serious disruption to local businesses, commuters and our communities and residents, which I will not tolerate.\"\n\nLast year, more than 1,700 arrests were made during Extinction Rebellion's 10-day Autumn Uprising.\n\nIn Manchester, a march is planned through the city and Oxford Street has been closed as part of five days of action.\n\nCity council deputy leader Nigel Murphy said planned demonstrations \"cannot adhere\" to social distancing rules.\n\nThe city has increased restrictions due to a recent rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nMr Murphy said while the council respected \"the right to peaceful protest\" this should \"not be at the expense of local people\".\n\nHe said: \"We are in the midst of a global public health crisis and we would ask demonstrators to seriously reconsider their actions at the current time.\n\n\"Manchester is currently under increased restrictions to limit the spread of the virus because the number of cases has been rising. Gatherings larger than six should only take place if everyone is exclusively from two households or support bubbles.\"\n\nHe said the city had one of the \"most ambitious carbon targets in the UK\" and was \"working to become zero carbon by 2038\".\n\nA Titanic-themed demonstration was also held in in Southend-on-Sea where protesters said much of Essex would be underwater by 2050\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 government “cannot carry on doing exactly what we did this year forever”, says the chancellor\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has reassured recently-elected Tory MPs there will not be a \"horror show of tax rises with no end in sight\", as the government deals with the costs of coronavirus.\n\nHe urged the 2019 Conservative intake to show trust to overcome the \"short-term challenges\" the party faces.\n\nSome MPs have expressed fears U-turns are hurting the government's standing.\n\nMr Sunak accidentally revealed the wording of his statement while holding his notes outside 11 Downing Street.\n\nThe Conservative Party, which won an 80-seat majority at December's general election, has seen its opinion poll lead over Labour cut in recent weeks.\n\nThis has led to concerns among some MPs who won seats in traditional Labour heartlands in the Midlands and northern England, known previously as its \"red wall\".\n\nAn unnamed \"red wall\" Conservative told the Press Association MPs in these areas, and others in marginal seats, were \"jittery\" following a series of U-turns on subjects including exam results, the wearing of face coverings and school meal funding. They described the situation as a \"megadisaster\".\n\nAnd Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, warned against \"own goals\", saying: \"We may have a big majority but that still doesn't mean to say that we shouldn't be as competent as possible as a government.\"\n\nA photographer picked up the words in Rishi Sunak's statement\n\nIt was reported at the weekend that substantial corporation tax rises and capital gains tax changes are being considered by the Treasury to deal with the enormous costs of coronavirus. But the government dismissed this as \"speculation\".\n\nThe wording of Mr Sunak's statement, read out during a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday with Tory MPs first elected in 2019, which the prime minister also attended, was revealed when a photographer noticed the chancellor holding a script sheet while leaving 11 Downing Street.\n\nIt read: \"We will need to do some difficult things, but I promise you, if we trust one another we will be able to overcome the short-term challenges.\"\n\nReferring to the reports that there could be tax increases to pay for costs incurred during the pandemic, including the furlough scheme, it added: \"Now this doesn't mean a horror show of tax rises with no end in sight.\"\n\nIt continued: \"But it does mean treating the British people with respect, being honest with them about the challenges we face and showing them how we plan to correct our public finances and give our country the dynamic, low-tax economy we all want to see.\"\n\nWith more MPs back at Westminster, the prime minister and his chancellor took the opportunity to reassure restless Tory backbenchers about the government's strategy.\n\nHow to pay for the huge package of interventions to deal with the pandemic and its effects is at the forefront of Rishi Sunak's mind ahead of the Budget later this autumn.\n\nBorrowing has ballooned and the prime minister has already promised there will be no return to austerity.\n\nBut there is nervousness among Tory MPs about rumours of tax rises and about the government's decision-making and messaging more broadly.\n\nMr Sunak told his Conservative colleagues that ministers needed to show people the plan for correcting public finances. He faces difficult choices while devising it.\n\nGovernment sources denied the revelation of the chancellor's words in this way was \"embarrassing\", adding that they would have become a matter of public record anyway.\n\nDiscussing the coronavirus crisis, Boris Johnson told the MPs: \"I know it's been tough. I've got to warn you, it's about to get tougher. The waters are about to get choppier. But we are going to deal with it.\"\n\nThe prime minister later addressed a meeting of all backbench Conservative MPs, with the 1922 Committee getting together for the first time since Parliament's summer recess.\n\nOne MP present said he had been \"full of beans\", while a minister added that both the day's meetings had been about \"calming the troops\".", "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.", "Laura Foster explains how the Novichok nerve agent works and what to do if you think you've been exposed to it.", "Torsten Müller-Ötvös said business was back to \"far more normal\" levels\n\nThe boss of carmaker Rolls-Royce has said global demand for luxury vehicles is rebounding despite the pandemic.\n\nBoss Torsten Müller-Ötvös told the BBC that markets in Asia, Europe and the US were now \"more or less back to normal\".\n\nMr Müller-Ötvös was speaking at the launch of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost, the company's latest model, which is expected to retail at around £250,000.\n\nHe said sales for the first half of 2020 were down 30%, but now \"times are starting to become better and better\".\n\nMr Müller-Ötvös described the launch of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost, a complete redesign of the most successful car in the firm's history, as a \"seminal moment\".\n\nAt the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Rolls-Royce shut down production for a couple of weeks, while dealerships around the world followed suit.\n\nThe slump in sales came after a bumper year in 2019, which Mr Müller-Ötvös described as \"the best-ever year in the 116-year history of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars\".\n\n\"But of course, then Covid happened,\" he added.\n\nSince then, the firm had seen an \"upward trend\", he said. \"Business is coming back to what I would call far more normal.\"\n\nThe Rolls-Royce boss rejected suggestions that the carmaker was overly dependent on one region for its sales, saying it was \"well balanced worldwide\".\n\nAlthough the US was its biggest market and China was important, there was also strong demand in countries such as the UK, which accounted for 10% of its sales, he said.", "It's more than 160 days since schools sent home pupils at the beginning of the lockdown. No-one at the time, in those bewildering March days, could have known when children would return.\n\nThe leaves that were starting to appear on the trees when children hurried home are now about to turn brown. It's been a long and strange summer.\n\nExams were cancelled and there were replacement results. And then those results were cancelled too. There was constant confusion over whether or not pupils were going back to school.\n\nHome-schooling didn't always really happen and rites of passage such as leaving events had to be called off. There were more u-turns than a handwriting text book.\n\nMany pupils will not have been to school since they were brought home in March\n\nBut children are now going back full-time for the new school year. The \"new normal\" became a lockdown cliche, but going back to school in September is a rare case of the old normal.\n\nSo what's it going to be like for these returning pupils? What should parents be saying to them? Are they going to be able to get back to learning after months of lie-ins and Netflix?\n\n\"I think there's a real need to recognise the physical, mental and emotional impact of going back,\" says leading educational psychologist, Daniel O'Hare.\n\nChildren are likely to be \"drained\" by the sudden \"overload\" of being in school after being cocooned at home for so long, says Dr O'Hare, joint chair-elect of the British Psychological Society's education and child psychology division.\n\n\"It will be very new to go back into that full-on setting with 30 children in a class,\" he says.\n\nWhat makes it more complicated, says Dr O'Hare, is that the lockdown has been experienced by families in such different ways.\n\nSchool dinners will be back on the menu as the new term starts\n\nFor some children, there will have been worries about their families catching the virus, or facing pressures over money, insecure jobs and lack of space.\n\n\"But on the other hand, there will be a population of children who have experienced lockdown as very positive,\" says Dr O'Hare.\n\nThey will not have had the stresses of school and they might have enjoyed spending more time together with their parents.\n\nThe lockdown saw a temporary reinvention of family life, with those parents working from home seeing more of their children than would ever usually be possible. When this finishes, children and perhaps also their parents could miss this closeness.\n\nSchools have been getting their safety plans ready for when pupils return\n\nDr O'Hare says it would be a misunderstanding to think this follows socio-economic lines, with middle class families having had a better time during the lockdown.\n\n\"We have spoken to children from disadvantaged families and they said that they really enjoyed spending so much time with mum and they loved playing games and that it was better than before,\" he said.\n\n\"You know there's a real mix of stories coming from children about going back to school.\"\n\nIt means many different, contradictory responses which schools will have to address.\n\nSome researchers have warned of increased mental health worries while at the same time others have said teenagers' anxiety levels have gone down during the pandemic.\n\n\"Children have missed school and all of the social benefits that it brings,\" says Dr O'Hare, who works with the local education authority in Gloucestershire and at the University of Bristol.\n\nFor children who have \"challenging home circumstances\", he says there might be a relief at being back at school.\n\nBut uncertainty also creates stress and the new school year could look very different.\n\nWhat will it be like getting up for school after months of lie-ins and without a routine?\n\nDr O'Hare says parents can help to reduce anxiety by letting children know what changes to expect - how they will be in separate \"bubbles\", the one-way systems, the transport arrangements, the changes to timetables and the hand washing.\n\nAnother educational psychologist, Will Shield, based at the University of Exeter, says children should be told that it's \"absolutely ok to be concerned\" about going back and to talk about any particular worries.\n\n\"It is important that teachers and parents let pupils know it is perfectly normal to be concerned about being away from home or worried about learning they may have missed, alongside feeling excited and happy about returning to school,\" said Dr Shield.\n\nDr O'Hare says research shows children might be frightened of catching coronavirus and putting their family at risk.\n\nHand washing is going to be an important part of the new school routine\n\nFriendship groups could have changed and there might be anxiety about falling behind with school work after so much missed time, he says,\n\nThe children's charity Barnardos has published research suggesting that 4% of children might try to refuse to return to school at all.\n\nA survey for Netmums suggested a fifth of parents were still worried about the safety of going back to school, while a YouGov poll suggested about one in six parents was \"seriously considering\" keeping their children out of school.\n\nBut Dr O'Hare says not to predict or expect problems, because the biggest reaction might be about seeing friends again.\n\nThere was a first wave of school returns for primary pupils in June\n\n\"The conversation can also be positive. What are they looking forward to? Who are they looking forward to seeing? I think it's about trying to promote that sense of excitement,\" he says.\n\nHe recommends \"watchful waiting - just being aware of the different reactions that children can have\" and keeping talking to them about how they feel about going back.\n\n\"Because some children might seem fine and it's not until three or four weeks later that they have a massive outburst.\"\n\nAfter a year without precedent, it seems appropriate the advice is not to make any assumptions about what happens next.", "Small children were among those arriving in Dover after crossing the English Channel\n\nMore than 400 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats - a record for a single day.\n\nBorder Force has intercepted 416 people, including young children, on board 28 boats, the Home Office has confirmed.\n\nSome of the migrants were carrying children too young to walk.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier on Wednesday said the UK had become \"a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way\".\n\nMore than 100 migrants arrived in Dover after being picked up by Border Force and RNLI vessels\n\nA further 53 people were rescued by French authorities after getting into difficulties before reaching British waters.\n\nSome 145 people had crossed the Channel in 18 small boats on Tuesday.\n\nRough seas brought on by Storm Francis made crossings impossible at the end of August, but conditions have improved in the first two days of September.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I have a great deal of sympathy with those who are desperate as to put their children in dinghies or in children's paddling pools and try to cross the channel.\n\n\"But I have to say what they're doing is falling prey to criminal gangs and they are breaking the law.\"\n\nHe added: \"It also undermines the legitimate claims of others who seek asylum in this country.\n\n\"We will address the rigidities in our laws that make this country, I'm afraid, a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way.\"\n\nOne group landed at Shakespeare Beach in Dover\n\nMore than 1,468 migrants made the crossing by small boat in August despite a vow from Home Secretary Priti Patel to make the dangerous route \"unviable\".\n\nThe Home Office does not provide information on how many children are making the crossing on small boats.\n\nHome Office minister Chris Philp told the Commons on Wednesday the government was attempting to return 1,000 people who had arrived in the UK, having \"previously claimed asylum in European countries, and under the regulations legally should be returned there\".\n\nMore than 7,400 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since January 2019.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'My son can only go to nursery for two hours a day'\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live has been putting questions from listeners to experts on this morning's Your Call programme. Sarah in Cardiff got in touch about the issue juggling work around reduced nursery hours - her three-year-old's nursery hours have been reduced to just two hours a day. \"I'm able to work flexibly but his hours have been cut to 09:10 until 11:10, so that they can manage the amount of children going in, and if you work then that is nigh on impossible. “I have a lot of parents saying to me that they don't know how they're going to cope with it and wraparound care. They've got unsympathetic employers.\" Anne Longfield, England's children's commissioner, said: \"School hours have never fitted with office hours and as school hours start being more flexible it makes it more difficult. \"We may all think because schools are opening that it is going to be much easier now for parents to be able to work, but it isn't always going to be the case.\" \"Employers really need to support their workers,” she added. Click here to listen back to the special Your Call programme on BBC Sounds.", "This week marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of the Second World War, when Japan signed its deed of unconditional surrender. It ended six years of global conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 80 million people and changed the lives of hundreds of millions of others.\n\nThis week some of our colleagues at BBC News are relating their own families’ experiences in contributing to the people’s war effort. 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